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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Committed to providing financial education, America Saves Week is an obvious partnership for eCO Credit Union. As part of America Saves Week 2013, scheduled for February 25th through March 2nd, eCO Credit Union is spreading the savings message and urging the community to join in.
Tune in to Wake Up Alabama on CBS 42 each morning to learn tips on how to increase savings from eCO Savings Race coaches, and visit ecosavingsrace.org to read blog updates about the eCO Savings Race participants' progress. Visit any eCO branch to receive a bonus CD rate, and follow eCO on Twitter and Facebook for savings tips throughout the week.
The community is also invited to attend a free Education Seminar focused on planning to save. Make a Plan Workshop: Budgeting 101 will be held at the Homewood Library on February 25th. The session will begin at 6 p.m. and will be facilitated by guest speaker, Doug Horst. Doug has worked for Gateway Financial Freedom for 13 years and has held the position of program director for 10 years. There will also be giveaways, including cash prizes!
"Giving back to the community has always been important to eCO. We feel like partnering in America Saves Week is a great way for us to give back through financial education and awareness," said eCO CEO, Joey Hand.
Join eCO for America Saves Week, and learn practical ways to increase your savings!
About eCO Credit Union and America Saves Week
eCO Credit Union is a not-for-profit, democratically controlled financial cooperative, which exists solely to provide safe, cost-efficient and personal financial services to its members. eCO Credit Union was founded in 1939, and today has over 13,600 members and over $119 million in assets. eCO proudly serves members in Jefferson, Shelby, Cullman, Walker and Blount counties. Additional information about eCO and its line of products and services can be found at www.ecocu.org.
America Saves Week is coordinated by America Saves and the America Savings Education Council. The Week is an annual opportunity for organizations to promote good savings behavior and a chance for individuals to assess their own saving status.


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Samui Paradise Chaweng Beach Resort & Spa
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Price :   3,480 - 18,970 THB
Address : 49 Moo 3 - Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui, Suratthani 84320 Thailand Location : Chaweng Beach
A broad sweep of golden sand warmed by the tropical sun, a turquoise sea dappled with cloud shadows, these are but some of the ingredients, which make Chaweng the most popular beach on Koh Samui. Add to these the luxury of a private villa, set amidst lush tropical gardens, a relaxed atmosphere & gracious quality service and you begin to understand why Samui Paradise Beach Resort & Spa is the perfect choice for a wonderful holiday.
For unsurpassed luxury living, Samui Paradise Chaweng Beach Resort & Spa combines the traditional artistic elements of Thailand's rich culture with the latest in resort and spa facilities. Nestled in the cove of Chaweng Beach on pristine white sands and set amongst lush tropical gardens, elegant, sophisticated villas and suites, all strike a perfect balance between natural beauty and fine living.
Complementing the resort is a stunning swimming pool, uniquely designed to retain the natural beauty of the resort & features 2 Jacuzzi's built around palm trees in the centre of the pool. And for that truly memorable experience indulge yourself at the spa, situated right on the beach front in a lovely southern Thai style sala, offering guests age-long treatments to cleanse body and soul the ideal escapade for those seeking pure pampering.
Room Overview,Samui Paradise Chaweng Beach Resort & Spa
Having recently undergone a major refurbishing, Samui Paradise Beach Resort & Spa is now proud to offer a boutique class of 43, individual, elegant & finely crafted southern Thai style villas and suites, set amongst lush tropical gardens & right on the foreshores of the pristine white sandy beach of Chaweng Bay. All villas and suites are comfortably furnished and tastefully decorated with antique carvings and quality fabrics, complementing the natural surroundings and instilling a feeling of harmony and being at one with nature.
All villas & suites are comfortably appointed with modern facilities & amenities:
- Private Balcony
- Air Conditioning (individual controlled)
- Refrigerator
- Mini Bar
- Coffee & Tea making facilities
- Drinking Water (free 2 litres a day)
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- Satellite TV
- Wireless Internet Access
- IDD Telephone
- Electronic Safe Deposit Box
- Hair Dryer
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- Hot & Cold Shower
- Bathrobes
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- Beach Towels
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- Free Internet services (Broadband ADSL) at lobby only.
- Wireless Internet is available at a charge by hour.
- Generator backup 24 hrs
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- Compulsory ABF for child age 2-12 years old will be charged at THB 190.-
- Baby cot is complimentary for child under 2 years old.
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Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: Texas Fashion Collectionhttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXFC/browse/?sort=added_a&fq=untl_decade:1920-1929&fq=str_location_country:France2011-07-25T17:53:57-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: Texas Fashion CollectionHandbag2010-12-20T11:16:33-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30017/

Large Handbag. Rectangular gilt frame with ball/snap closure set with cabochon green stones. Body of bag formed of red, silver, grey, and black beads in a mosaic/Turkish carpet pattern. Bottom of bag with beaded fringe matching body of bag. Lined in pale peach satin with one pocket and attached small coin purse. Sewn into lining is woven tag "Made In France"; Marked on frame "Made In France".
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Evening coat of black and gold brocade in a large scale tropical motif. The wrap-style coat has a shawl collar of red fox fur with kimono style sleeves trimmed in fox. The coat is fully lined in gold silk velvet.
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Evening dress of orange/tangerine silk chiffon with cut velvet fish scale design in silvery white partly outlined with silver bugle beads. Sleeveless, with round scoop neck, and armholes cut to waist. Straight tubular shape with drop waist, with a swag of pleated self-fabric at left hip, trimmed with five rhinestone medallions. 1" fur trim at hem. Dress has been shortened and fur may have been added at that time. Probably originally 1918-20's style.
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Evening dress of embroidered silk organza with pink silk acetate lining and belt; square neckline; sleeveless with rhinestone embellished velvet straps attached by rhinestone snaps in front and back; velvet trim; three tiers with pink floral embroidery; pink velvet belt embellished with rhinestones and a velvet flower
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Hat of off-white French linen. The soft crown is domed and formed of six segments. Around the base of the crown is a red linen ribbon, threaded through a series of six "belt-loops" spaced around the base of the crown at approximately where the segments join. The slightly stiffened, and quilted in a pattern of concentric circles. The hat is unlined, and has an inner hatband of off-white linen at inside base of crown. Label sewn to inner hatband: "Made in France".
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An attorney for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says the former governor is an honest man who "didn't take a dime."
Fiery defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. said Tuesday that by the end of the case, jurors will know that in their gut. In presenting the opening statement to jurors, he said Blagojevich will take the stand on his own behalf.
Earlier, a federal prosecutor said Blagojevich sought to use his power as governor to get benefits for himself and his inner circle.
Blagojevich has pleaded innocent to trying to sell or trade President Barack Obama's former Senate seat. He also denies that he plotted to turn his power as governor into a moneymaking scheme for himself and insiders.
Federal prosecutors have 500 hours of secretly made FBI wiretap tapes in which they say Blagojevich is plainly heard saying that he wants something in return for the Senate seat. "I want to make money," he says in a telephone discussion of the seat with a lobbyist friend, according to an FBI affidavit. And prosecutors say he refers to it as "golden" thing that he won't give up for nothing.
Prosecutors have also lined up numerous key witnesses, including political insiders such as Blagojevich's former chiefs of staff John Harris and Alonzo "Lon" Monk.
Blagojevich's attorneys have said that the recordings, if played in their entirety, would show he did not try to sell the Senate seat.
The former governor and his brother, Robert, a Nashville, Tenn., businessman, have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired not only to sell or trade the Senate seat but also turn the governor's office into a powerful machine to pressure people for campaign money and payoffs.
They deny charges they used the governor's power over the state pursestrings in an effort to squeeze hefty campaign donations out of a racetrack owner, a highway contractor, a children's hospital executive and even top presidential aide Rahm Emanuel, then an Illinois congressman.
Rod Blagojevich faces 24 counts including racketeering, wire fraud, attempted extortion and bribery. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 415 years in prison and fines totaling $6 million.


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Standard Chartered Just a week after posting a record first-half profit, the emerging-markets focused bank suffered a PR disaster and plummeting share price after allegations that it had funnelled $250bn of business from Iranian clients through its New York branch in contravention of US sanctions. The bank denies the allegations, insisting that 99.9% of transactions were carried out with the approval of regulators, and saying that under $14m of business was affected. Standard Chartered shares have subsequently plunged, as the bank faces the threat of being excluded from New York. The New York State Department of Financial Services accused the bank of leaving the US "vulnerable to terrorists, weapons dealers, drug kingpins and corrupt regimes".
Banking scandals of 2012
The investment banking sector has received its fair share of negative press coverage in 2012 with financial scandals and mishaps. Standard Chartered, which been largely untainted, this week became the latest to attract bad publicity when US authorities accused it of hiding transactions with Iranian clients – although the UK bank has come out fighting. Here we look back at some of the biggest stories in 2012 to have generated unwanted headlines


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The Rights of Man footnote 2
Since writing the above, two other places occur in Mr. Burke's pamphlet in which the name of the Bastille is mentioned, but in the same manner. In the one he introduces it in a sort of obscure question, and asks: "Will any ministers who now serve such a king, with but a decent appearance of respect, cordially obey the orders of those whom but the other day, in his name, they had committed to the Bastille?" In the other the taking it is mentioned as implying criminality in the French guards, who assisted in demolishing it. "They have not," says he, "forgot the taking the king's castles at Paris." This is Mr. Burke, who pretends to write on constitutional freedom.
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Though there haven't been any incidents of students falling to their deaths or serious injury at Penn State Altoona, the concerns about dangerous drinking behaviors and the consequences of those actions are in the minds of university administrators.
Penn State Altoona University Police Chief Mike Lowry said that falls are unlikely on campus, but that campus police are ready for any situation.
"Student safety is a concern no matter the circumstances," he said.
Though balconies or windows might not be an immediate concern, two raucous parties over the past year have highlighted the fact that binge drinking is a concern at all campuses.
More than a dozen students were arrested in April during a party at the Nittany Pointe housing complex that Logan Township police called a "riot." About 800 students were in attendance. Police said that one of the students threw a vodka bottle at a cruiser, and students were throwing beer bottles off balconies.
Not all of those who were arrested were drinking.
In October, eight more people were charged at a second party at Nittany Pointe. Penn State Altoona Chancellor Lori Bechtel-Wherry told the Mirror at that time that she was "disheartened" by the behavior.
But Joy Himmel, director of health and wellness at Penn State Altoona, said the majority of students at the campus do make "good decisions" when it comes to drinking.
She said 60 to 65 percent of students use alcohol or other drugs responsibly. About 20 percent of PSU Altoona students choose to abstain completely, she said, while the remaining students - about 20 percent - engage in high-risk drinking.
"What we try to get across to students is to be responsible and to make good decisions," Himmel said, "and what we know is that most of our students do."
She said that dealing with unsafe drinking is a "tough area in college health," but a number of initiatives at Penn State Altoona have been helpful. The campus established a Health Advisory Board, with subcommittees that focus on alcohol, tobacco and drug use; mental health concerns and sexual assault and violence protection.
The AWARE program is an alcohol intervention program that targets high-risk drinkers and those charged with alcohol offenses, Himmel said, much like a similar program at University Park. She said it's rare for a student to have to go through AWARE twice.
"If we're looking at recidivism, it's a very low percentage of those that come back because they had another offense," she said, "and we do outcome studies with that."
As far as prevention, Penn State Altoona promotes a peer-to-peer strategy, called Friends for Life, which reminds students that the have an obligation to one another. Organizers use T-shirts, bracelets, late night events and other social marketing to promote the program.
"We push that mentality that it's your responsibility to look out for each other and have each other's back," Himmel said.
Bystander training also helps not only students but faculty and staff identify those who might be at risk, she said.
King said that concerns about binge drinking and the dangers involved extend beyond Penn State and its campuses.
"I think there is the culture of high-risk drinking in a student population across the country," he said, with that high-risk drinking culture among a certain percentage of college students there are things that put you at risk for falls, for victimization, for overdose."
Himmel said educators are well aware that there isn't a be all, end all solution for this problem.
"I think we all wish there was some magic bullet," she said. "We just keep educating to lower risk."


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Nick Ciuffo, a Mount Pleasant native picked by the Tampa Bay Rays in the first round of the Major League Draft last June, is No. 12 on Baseball America's list of top Gulf Coast League prospects for the 2013 season. Ciuffo is a catcher who played at Wando High School before transfering to Lexington High School.
BA's ratings of every minor league include 11 other players with Lowcountry or state connections.
Former Clemson outfielder and quarterback Kyle Parker (Rockies) is the No. 13 prospect in the double-A Texas League. Ex-Tigers shortstop Brad Miller (Mariners) is No. 13 in the double-A Southern League.
Former South Carolina outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. (Red Sox) is No. 8 in the triple-A International League. LB Dantzler (Blue Jays), a former Gamecocks first baseman, is No. 19 in the Northwest League.
Miller and Bradley played in the majors this season.
Former Coastal Carolina second baseman Tommy La Stella (Braves) is No. 16 in the double-A Southern League.
Pitcher Rafael De Paula is the lone RiverDogs representative in the low-level Class A South Atlantic League, at No. 16. But three ex-RiverDogs made lists at higher levels: catcher Gary Sanchez No. 7 and outfielder Mason Williams No. 19 in the high-level Class A Florida State League; catcher J.R. Murphy No. 18 in the double-A Eastern League.
Like Ciuffo, shortstop Chris Owings (Diamondbacks) pitcher Taylor Guerrieri (Rays) played for Mount Pleasant-based Diamond Devils travel teams. Owings is the No. 8 prospect in the triple-A Pacific Coast League and Guerrieri the No. 18 prospect in the low-level Class A Midwest League.


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Sahara Marathoners: They're Hot to Trot
A Seven-Day Footrace Across the Blistering Deserts of Morocco Proves a Supreme Test of Endurance—or Madness
It is not true that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. So do mad Frenchmen, Swiss, Japanese, Belgians, Italians and some inhabitants of little old New York. They did it, 170 of them, day in and day out, for a week in the Moroccan Sahara, over a 125-mile course, up hills and down dried-out wadis. They did it carrying their food, clothing and bedding in packs on their backs. They each paid about $1,400 for the privilege. Some of them found dehydration and coma, and some of them found God.
Call it French Foreign Legionnaires' disease; its organizers call it the Marathon des Sables (Marathon of the Sands). It is one of the more outrageous examples of what some have called the "new adventures"—experiences that exist at the intersection of competitive sport, personal daredevilry and masochism, inspired perhaps by the first world's nostalgia for the rigors of the third.
The brochure sent to Lahory Brummell and other interested parties by the race's founder, Patrick Bauer, noted that the event, which has existed since 1986, "has always occupied a special place...in the saga of great African adventure." Written in a sort of New Age Jock Franglais, the brochure continues, "[the race] has successfully surmounted the credibility stage and has been able over the past few years to reveal and affirm its personality."
Luckily, Brummell, like most of those who care about such things and can raise the entrance fee, knew enough about the marathon's personality without trying to figure out the ad copy. The race, over a slightly different route each year, consists of six legs run over seven days, through scenic stretches of Morocco that are difficult for Land-Rovers—and sometimes even for camels. Ever since the death by heatstroke of a well-trained young runner in the marathon's third year, the race has employed a helicopter to transport emergency cases, as well as the services of six physicians.
There is a type of person for whom such conditions are an inescapable lure. "You can't just take a top runner, bring him here and say, 'Go for it,' " says John Lister, a course official. "A lot depends on mentality."
The normally quiet oasis village of Foum Zguid, close by (but unfortunately not in the shadow of) the rugged Atlas Mountains, is abuzz with arriving marathoners and observers. Among the 144 men and 26 women who have answered Des Sables' siren call can be found a butcher, a potter, some soldiers and students, two antique-piano restorers, an insurance broker and a psychiatrist. There is a contingent of policemen from Patrick Bauer's native Troyes, of firemen from Paris, two teams of troubled French adolescents on the rehabilitation trail and a Moroccan who uses a pool cue as a cane.
As the entrants socialize and compare gear, it becomes obvious that there are two schools of thought about the race. The first is expressed in Bauer's brochure, which talks of "surpassing physical and moral limits...and discovery or quest of the absolute." Its adherents include the contestant nostalgic for the years when the race seemed "more a private outing among friends"; last year's women's winner, Marie-Ange Malcuit, 33, who notes "the desert is my best love affair"; and Camille and Thérèse Giacosa, a couple from southern France who proclaim but one ambition: "to finish the race hand in hand with my spouse," and who have brought a container of Lourdes water to bless that effort.
But as the marathon has attracted more press attention, more sponsors and bigger prizes ($8,000 to the winner, $4,800 to the top team), it has also drawn less spiritually oriented contestants. Two-time winner Bernard Gaudin ("a beast of the desert," murmurs a race veteran) is a former 24-hour-run world record holder from Niort, France. His most likely challenger, a 25-year-old Orleans supermarket employee named Hassan Sebtaoui, describes his own motivation simply: "I'm here to win."
And then there is the 10-member U.S. team, which combines the hi-tech with the spiritual. All serious marathoners or ultramarathoners, they are also devotees of New York-based guru Sri Chinmoy. They intend to carry a three-pound "peace torch" through the marathon, as part of its longer trip around the globe.
Tonight the soon-to-be-starving runners carbo-load on chicken tajine and round loaves of Moroccan bread. The Americans sing peace songs and fire up the torch. Then, as the desert cools to 40°F, as the wind whistles and covers all in a fine layer of sand and an insomniac camel makes horrible gargling noises, all attempt to rest for the race.
They're off. The contestants burst out in waves of 40, each wave signaled by an honor guard of 15 white-robed Moroccans firing rifle salutes. Hot on their trail are: three Japanese TV crews, who have paid 200,000 francs for permission to record every detail; the anthropologist from Padua, Italy, studying the impact of the desert on runners; the textile-magnate sponsor of the Italian team; and a psychoanalyst with his patient ("I use the desert as a therapeutic tool," the doctor explains). Plus cooks, doctors, teamakers (for rest stops) and tent raisers. A retinue of 40 vehicles and a helicoptor carry the noncombatants. Two men on camels bring up the rear, poised to collect the fallen. The first day's 15 miles are relatively gentle, a beige blanket of desert dotted with boulders and thorn-bushes. The day's winner is Sebtaoui, followed closely, to no one's surprise, by Gaudin.
The runners rise at 6:00 A.M. and are soon pounding over fossil-strewn fields of rock, then across the endless expanse of a dried lake bed. The temperature climbs to 100°F; vegetation is scarce. Three-quarters of the way through the day's 18-mile leg, Lahory Brummell spots the final bivouac—floating atop shimmering blue water. Her first mirage. But three hours after setting out, she really does finish. The American team eats its vegetarian dinner...and zips its packs smaller. Sebtaoui comes in first; Gaudin follows.
That night, spirits are generally high. Amid terrain that normally hears only wind and whispering sands, two of the doctors serenade the runners with trumpet and saxophone.
For the first time this week, true Lawrence-of-Arabia scenery: Thirty-foot dunes, endless vistas of golden sand, swirls of sand, and maddening dust that sticks and turns to mud when mixed with sweat. Not even the Jeeps can follow here; the runners are ants struggling atop the backs of the dunes. Those contestants wise in desert ways walk up and run down. Fifteen miles later, by day's end, Lahory Brummell is 83rd in the general ranking; sixth among the women. "Are my teeth black?" she asks. "My skin looks like elephant skin. I'm covered in mud." Still, she feels "a deep sense of joy."
DAYS FOUR and FIVE
These are the killers. Past the first level stretch, a cruelly beautiful oasis. And then 21 miles of rocks, gravel and dunes at temperatures as high as 125°F. The top runners set a punishing pace; perhaps too punishing. The recreational athletes, some of whom have never even run a marathon, cross the day's finish line holding one another up, hobbling and sobbing, their feet masses of bloody blisters, their backs scraped raw by their packs. Nor do they all cross that line. Twenty-five miles from the start, the medical team finds Armand Mussard, 39, a cook from Troyes, semiconscious and lapsing into a coma. As the film crews and photographers crowd around, the helicopter airlifts him to the town of Zagora. Tomorrow he will regain his senses and catch a plane back to Paris.
As shocking, in terms of the race's outcome, is the fate of Gaudin. Just past the oasis, he begins vomiting and slows to a walk. Several miles later, two photographers discover him wandering off the trail, on the edge of delirium, his water gone. (Each runner gets nine liters a day.) The lensmen—illegally—give him some of theirs, and he manages to finish the leg. But his time is pathetic; the race appears to belong to the implacable Sebtaoui.
The day's comic relief comes from a couple who have distinguished themselves by their nightly bickering and have now found a way to continue it en route. Flagging a passing Jeep, the man sends a message: "Tell her I'm way ahead and not to bother to try and catch up, she'd need the Concorde." The Jeep roars off to his beloved. "I couldn't care less," she snaps.
In the course of today's run, the contestants come upon a breathtaking vista—the valley of Dra, an almost endless, arid, empty plain encircled by a ridge of mountains only dimly discerned. But few of the runners notice. Even though they were allowed to rest yesterday to recover from their ordeal, they are in no mood for aesthetic contemplation. "It was like running across Death Valley," Brummell will explain. "There was no wind. You think the wind is your enemy until you don't have it. It moves the heat, and otherwise it's a still, dead heat that bakes you. A person could die out here."
Curiously, though the runners have jettisoned all extra weight and most excess sentimentality, the Sri Chinmoy peace torch, all three pounds of it, is still aloft and aglow. Runners from different teams take turns bearing it. Although not everybody in the race subscribes to guruism, the flame has somehow become an informal symbol of their own drive to prevail.
Sebtaoui finishes first again.
One of the Parisian firemen has greeted every morning of the race by crowing like a cock. He crows this morning, but not loudly. The distance to be covered today is only 12 miles across a barren plain of baked earth giving way to an oasis and palm grove outside Zagora. A merciful thing, too, because when the starting signal is given, the runners-filthy, hobbling and stumbling, their clothes torn and encrusted with dust-look more like a phalanx of beggars than athletes.
Hassan Sebtaoui runs the last half-mile accompanied by a swarm of little boys, past the dusty pink houses lining the route. As unflappable in victory as in competition, he allows himself to be doused with celebratory water, and then declares graciously, "It was fabulous—wonderfully organized."
But it is the 159 runners-up who, in the end, make some of Patrick Bauer's boasting about the race and the human spirit seem appropriate. At the finish, the cock-crowing fireman breaks into "Love is a bunch of violets." Yves Pol, a Frenchman now living in New York, crosses the line backward, a desert flower between his teeth. The female winner, Marie-Claude Battistelli, 39, arrives holding hands with two of her competitors, laughing. Many other contestants show up holding hands with the children. And the Giacosas, Lourdes bless 'em, arrive as promised, hand in hand with one another. The Americans arrive with the peace torch held high.
A young man named Alfred Rosales crosses the line. A veteran of last year's race, this time he brought along his surfboard, to see if he could surf down the sides of the dunes. He couldn't. But after all. he says, it's not the speed that counts. "It's the people. The talks are really good when the times are hard, when the runners realize that it's the head and not the muscles that count. People fall apart and you find their true natures. I found myself screaming at rocks. I said to myself, 'Why are you screaming? Nobody's listening.' I discovered that I'm weak in the face of nature. During the hard moments, I'd think, 'Why am I here? The race is terrible. The organizers are rotten.' Then I'd realize I was there to find my limits. The people who come on the race are the people who want to evolve."
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ALOHA BLUES: A Hawaiian man is in the Bay County Jail this morning, brought back from the islands by Michigan State Police troopers from the Bay City post after allegedly fleeing the state to avoid prosecution for 15 felonies stemming from bad checks to mid-Michigan businesses.
State police began a check fraud investigation involving the 53-year-old painting contractor in 2003, while he resided in East Tawas. Once he got wind of the investigation, troopers say, he returned to Hawaii, leaving a trail of no-account checks in Bay, Midland, Kalkaska, Alcona, Isabella and Montmorency counties. Those counties split the cost of extraditing the suspect back to Michigan.
A federal warrant was issued in June against the suspect for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Troopers James Willing and Harry Rice worked with the Honolulu Police Department, who arrested the suspect. On Sept. 30, Rice and Willing traveled to Honolulu to take custody of the suspect. Arraignment is expected as early as today in Bay County District Court.
NO BOMB: The Kroger grocery store at 945 N. Euclid Ave. was closed form about two hours Saturday after a bomb threat came into the store.
A caller that store employees said sounded like a middle-aged white woman disguising her voice told a customer service representative that there was a bomb in the store, said Michigan State Police Trooper Harry Rice. The call came in around 11:15 a.m., and the store was evacuated. A bomb-sniffing dog from the state police post in Bridgeport was unable to locate any explosives, and the store reopened.
The incident remains under investigation.
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Minors in possession
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• Saturday, 10:55 a.m., 3300 block of Hidden Road, Bangor Township.
• Saturday, 3:41 p.m., 900 block of North Euclid Avenue, Bangor Township.
Domestic violence
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Hampton Township Police
Breaking and entering
• Saturday, 2:20 p.m., 600 block of North Knight Road.
• Sunday, 1:29 a.m., 100 block of Tuscola Road.
Domestic violence
• Saturday, 3:50 a.m., 1700 block of Nebobish Avenue.
• Sunday, 9:04 p.m., 1800 block of Central Villa Court.
Vehicle theft
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Larceny from a vehicle
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How to look for records of... Royal Navy commissioned officers
How can I view the records covered in this guide?
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How many are online?
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This is a brief guide to researching Royal Naval records for a commissioned officer. These records are comprehensive and varied, though sometimes complicated. While many records are available at The National Archives, some service records are currently held by the Ministry of Defence.
1. What do I need to know before I start?
Try to find out:
- the name and rank of the person
- a date range to help focus the search
2. What records can I see online?
Service records (1756-1917)
Search Royal Naval Officers' service records on our website (ADM 196) by name for a commissioned officer who entered the Royal Navy between 1756 and 1917. The records for the 18th and early 19th centuries are sparse but for the later period almost all of the available service records are accessible in this online collection.
Naval officers' service record cards and files (c1880-1950s)
Search Naval officers' service record cards and files online (ADM 340/1-150) by name for commissioned officers serving in the Royal Navy between c1880 and the 1950s. To view ADM 340/151-456 visit The National Archives at Kew.
Medal rolls (1793-1972)
Search by name for information about the award of campaign, long service and good conduct medals in the Royal Navy medal rolls (ADM 171) using Ancestry.co.uk (£). These rolls do not usually contain biographical information. Digital microfilm copies of these records are also available to download from our website and browse free of charge.
Index of naval officers who died between 1914 and 1920
Search the card index of naval officers killed 1914-1920 (ADM 242/1-5), including some officers of the Royal Marines and Naval Reserve, and of the Canadian and Australian navies, among the records of maritime deaths on findmypast (£).
3. What records can I find at The National Archives at Kew?
Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Search the Trafalgar ancestors database by name for a British officer who served in the Battle of Trafalgar.
To access these records you will either need to visit us, pay for research (£) or, where you can identify a specific record reference, order a copy (£).
4. What records can I find in other archives and organisations?
Service records (1917-present)
Visit the GOV.UK website for information about how to request a summary of a service record for a Royal Navy officer who joined the service after May 1917 from the Ministry of Defence. These are not available to members of the general public, though next of kin may request access to them.
5. What other resources will help me find information?
Search The National Archives' bookshop to see whether any of the publications below may be available to buy. Alternatively, look in The National Archives' library catalogue to see what is available to consult at Kew.
Bruno Pappalardo, Tracing Your Naval Ancestors (The National Archives, 2003)
Bruno Pappalardo, Royal Navy Lieutenants' Passing Certificates, 1691-1902 (List and Index Society, volumes 289-290)
Consult the published Navy Lists to follow an officer's career.
Search The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy on Ancestry (£).
6. Did you know?
A commissioned officer was someone who became an officer by being awarded a royal commission, usually after passing an examination. These are different from warrant officers.
Service records for officers joining after May 1917 are held by the Ministry of Defence. They are not open to the general public, although next of kin may request access to them.
Records for commissioned officers in the Royal Navy before about 1845 are incomplete and patchy.
If you are looking for mentions of officers in records before 1649, read State papers domestic 1547-1649 for guidance.
Commissioned officers include: Admiral of the fleet, admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant-commander, lieutenant, and sub-lieutenant.
Navy lists contain:
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Hi everyone,
Since I discovered Mark's Clafouti recipe I have been 'needing' dessert every night. If I am having a primal dessert is it cheating, or just part of my daily primal intake?
I feel like I have given in to lack of will-power, but then I try to justify to myself by saying 'well it's primal, so it must be OK'
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The Portal's media-rich online exhibitions feature in-depth contextualization of archival documents. The first exhibition, "Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad" (www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/railroad) by Eric Olmanson is already one of the Portal's most popular features and will be soon joined by exhibitions on the international impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; on diverse meanings of "wilderness"; on "Hazardous Chemicals"; and another on Alfred Wegener's polar expeditions as described in his previously unpublished diaries.
We are now on the outlook for proposals for further exhibitions to be published in the 2013-2014 biennium. Format and size of the exhibitions is flexible, but they should be based upon an existing or expressly created collection of media and documents (20-100 images, video/audio files, primary sources) and include an interpretive, not necessarily linear, hypertext (2000-15000 words), as well as a bibliography and metadata (keywords and spatial/temporal locations).
Proposals for innovative ideas about how to represent the environmental humanities online are more than welcome and applicants are encouraged to submit geographically and/or chronologically comparative projects and joint projects with libraries, archives and museums.
Proposed exhibitions should fit in one of the following general themes:
- Natural Disasters and Cultures of Risk
- Transformation of Landscapes
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- Environmental Ethics, Politics, and Movements
Costs for selected exhibition ideas will be subsidized by the Rachel Carson Center with a grant ranging between 5.000 and 20.000 Euro.
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July 2008 Newsletter
July 9: Everything you need to know about credit
Attendees will receive a copy of the Federal Trade Commission publication (June 2006): Building a Better Credit Report. Available at Building a Better Credit Report
Forward this message to a friend; bring a woman to FPW who has not attended before and receive your choice of a Nolo Press book as a reward. (See list of books at end of newsletter).
August 13: Property Insurance: Protecting your home and vehicles with local insurance agent Jane Larsen.
September 10: Late Savers Retirement Guide
Financial Planning for Women (FPW) is a monthly educational seminar that meets the second Wednesday (except December) at two times: 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Family Life room 118 on the USU campus. Bring your lunch. The same program is repeated in the evening: 7-8:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 493 North 700 East, Logan (at bottom of Old Main Hill). The longer evening time slot allows for more discussion. Programs are free and registration is not required. For further information: (435) 797- 1569; email@example.com; http://www.usu.edu/fpw/
Bring a female friend or colleague with you who is attending FPW for the first time and you will receive a thank you gift. Please speak up at the meeting and let us know.
Reminder: PowerPoint presentations for the past few years are available on the FPW website.
Is the cost of running your vehicle bringing you down? Know any high-schoolers who need to "get with it" financially? Ever wondered how to measure financial success in America? If you said yes, then this month's issue of Idaho's Two Cent Tips is for you. Check it all out here:
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Starting a Household on Solid Ground Financially
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Ways to Cope Financially During and After a Big Change
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Foreclosure Rescue Scams: http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/Advisory/2008-1.html
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued an advisory that provides advice to help prevent borrowers from becoming victims of foreclosure rescue scams. Most foreclosure rescue scams fall within three categories. In lease-back or repurchase scams, the con artist convinces a borrower to sign over their deed in return for a promise to lease back or eventually repurchase the property. Refinance fraud involves a situation where the borrower believes the transaction is a refinance, but in fact, the fraud involves transfer of property ownership to the con artist. Bankruptcy schemes involve repeat bankruptcy filings to get a temporary stay order to delay foreclosure, but can result in damaging the consumers' credit without saving their homes. This consumer advisory outlines what people should watch out for, and provides a list of resources people can use to find qualified sources for help
Children and Money: http://www.extension.org/pages/Financial_Security:_Children_and_Money
The Money Talks Web site for teens and their teachers is now linked with eXtension personal finance resources . Money Talks is the work of the University of California Cooperative Extension and is based on interviews with teens. Along with "Thrive By Five" for parents of pre-school children and "What's Up in Finance" for older teens (young adults) with entrepreneurial aspirations, the Money Talks description and the link to games, fun quizzes, videos, and colorful teen guides will appear when searched with key words: children and money. Money Talks is a multicultural site that provides teens with accurate, non-biased information and financial management hands-on experiences available in English and Spanish. Three modules, "Should I Be Listening?," "Should I Be Banking?," and "Should I Be Charging?" cover 10 financial topics, such as money personality, shopping savvy, saving, car buying, banking, and credit.
How to bullet-proof your nest egg. The Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2008
Pricier gasoline makes hybrids a better deal. The Wall Street Journal. June 12, 2008
The article reports on a comparison by Edmunds.com. Analysis was done with price of gas at $4/gallon but keep in mind that gas prices are likely to climb even higher over the lifetime of your next vehicle purchase. The WSJ also reports that many auto insurance companies offer discounts on premiums if you drive less. Check with your insurance company.
Need help saving for college? Understanding 529 plans (ICI). A 529 plan is a qualified tuition program to help finance qualified higher education expenses. http://www.ici.org/pdf/bro_529_plans.pdf
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Enroll today to become an Aggie Saver at http://www.americasaves.org/utahstate/
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Read The Wall Street Journal Sunday in the Sunday Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret Morning News Business Section or read it online: http://www.wsj.com/sunday
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Smart Money education series for teenagers 14-18 years and their parents.
Wed. July 16, 6:30- 8 p.m. @ USU Charter Credit Union, 198 N. Main, Logan. In downstairs conference room (enter at rear of building). Workshops are free. To register: 753-4080, ext 3400 or email@example.com
July 12 Home Ownership Workshop 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call 435-797-7224 to register.
At: USU Charter Credit Union, 198 North Main, Logan
The USU Family Life Center, 797-7224, 493 N 700 East (bottom of Old Main Hill), provides individual financial counseling. This is the best source for basic money management and getting out of debt. They offer the PowerPay computer debt analysis. Counseling sessions cost $5 for first session with sliding scale charges based on family income and family size for subsequent counseling sessions.
Social Security in Logan: Department of Workforce Services Building located at 180 N 100 W, Logan. 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Books from which to choose if you bring a new participant to FPW:
Your little legal companion: Helpful advice for life's big events
Nolo's essential guide to divorce
Divorce and money: How to make the best financial decisions during divorce
Get it together: Organize your records so your family won't have to
Quick and legal will book
Nolo's simple will book (with CD)
Estate Planning Basics
The Busy family's guide to estate planning: 10 steps to peace of mind (with CD)
Long term care: How to plan and pay for it
Social security, medicare, and government pensions
Work less, live more: The way to semi-retirement
Work less, live more workbook: Get set for semi-retirement (with CD)
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While the Senate, led by Reid, seeks to look beyond Yucca Mountain, the House wants to see the project through, citing the large investments already made.
"Billions of dollars, both public and private, have been invested in developing the storage facility at Yucca Mountain. We can't just abandon this project," U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, said in a statement to The Texas Tribune. "The debate in Washington is more about politics, than practical science and it doesn't look like a solution is coming soon."
In the time it takes Congress to ultimately reach a consensus, turnover in state legislatures could mean that Texas or any other state that might ask host a site will change its mind.
Still, advocates of permanent storage say they will monitor discussions in Texas, hoping the talk will educate more people about a political standoff that's costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars.
"Any interest outside the Beltway is positive," said Everett Redmond, director of nonproliferation and fuel cycle policy at the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington.
With the difficulties in mind, some — Barton included — have suggested permitting one or two centralized facilities to temporarily store the waste while Washington continues to wrangle over the long-term site. Such a plan would not solve the long-term disposal issue, but it would remove responsibility from electric generators and halt the lawsuits against the federal government.
Developing even a temporary site, however, could take as long as 10 years, Redmond said.
Texas lawmakers will also study the feasibility of bringing to the state an interim facility, which would store waste from around the country, according to Straus' instructions.
"I would welcome one of those facilities in Texas, as long as the community welcomes it," Barton said.
Neena Satija contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://www.texastribune.org/2014/02/12/strauss-puts-nuclear-waste-texas-lawmakers-agenda/.


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The Randy Wise Junior Open is being played at Warwick Hills for the first time and the folks from the American Junior Golf Association decided to set up the course similar to the way the PGA Tour did during the Buick Open.
The 75 boys in the field played from the back tees, stretching the layout to 7,102 yards, and many of the hole locations were the same ones used on Friday of Buick Open week. The only differences were slower greens and shorter rough.
Not surprisingly, the scores reflected the difficult conditions as only two players broke par.
Haoyuan Lu of Bradenton, Fla., shot 1-under-par 71 to top the boys leaderboard while Ashley Armstrong of Floosmoor, Ill., posted the same score to lead the 24-player girls field.
Not many of the competitors in the tournament know the course better than Fenton's Tyler Nunn, who has played Warwick Hills a couple of times this summer in practice rounds and during the Flint Junior Golf Association season.
What Nunn encountered Tuesday was nothing like what he saw in his previous visits this year.
"Just because of the length basically," said Nunn, a recent Fenton High graduate. "We played from all the way back so it's definitely longer than most of the other courses I've been playing around here. It plays a lot tougher.
"Some of the pins were easy but some of them weren't. They were right over the edge of bunkers."
A perfect example of how the AJGA set up the course was the par-5 13th. The boys played from the back tee box — which wasn't even used in every Buick Open round — and the hole was cut on the top shelf in the back right corner of the green not far from the pond to the right of the green.
"When I had that putt (on 13), I was on the top part of the green," said Nunn, the FJGA's reigning Mancour Cup champion who was disappointed after shooting 82 to sit in 66th place. "I was so scared I was going to putt it in the water."
Nobody knows Warwick Hills better than Grand Blanc's Bailey Truesdell, who is the only other Flint-area player in the field.
Truesdell will be a junior on Grand Blanc's team next season and the Bobcats have the good fortune of practicing at Warwick Hills every day."The pins were extremely difficult," said Truesdell, who shot 78 and was tied for 41st place. "I heard they were all the Buick Open pins from Friday so they're only going to get more difficult."
While Nunn is playing in his first AJGA event, this is Truesdell's third of the season. He also played in the Randy Wise Junior Open last year, shooting 74-75-76—225 to finish tied for 28th.
"I was hoping for some solid scores," Truesdell said. "I was hoping for another 225 or a little lower. It's pretty special for me because I've always come out to the Buick Open. It's kind of following in their footsteps.
"I like it a lot."
Lu, who will be a junior in high school next year, shot the only sub-par round among the boys after making four birdies to go with one bogey and one double-bogey. He was one shot better than two Michigan players, Patrick Cansfield of Port Huron and Sean Friel of Rochester Hills.
Eight players were tied for fourth at 73. That group included Ypsilanti's Henry Do, the 15-year-old who finished second in the Michigan PGA's Tournament of Champions last week, when he matched the tournament record by firing 10-under-par 62 in the second round on Boyne Mountain's Alpine course.
"Pretty good today" was how Lu described his round. "It was a nice day. My driver was pretty good. It gave me some confidence so I could play well. If you don't just look for the pins and play it to safe places, you can play well."
Armstrong, who will be a senior in high school next fall, has a two-shot lead over Christine Meier of Rochester Hills. Meier was riding a wave of momentum after reaching the championship match of last week's Michigan Women's Amateur, where she lost to Mount Pleasant's Natalie Brehm.
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Last night I did some rural sketching for a change. I went down to the end of the road and sketched the view out over the fields towards the old village. I'd only brought along a few pencils to indicate the colours, so most of the colour detail and variation was added later at home. And since I forgot to bring a camera along the colours are largely from memory.
This is what I ended up with last night:
The evening light is not really present, and the fantastic rainbow sky I'd seen to the East is much too pale here, but my wrist, elbow and shoulder were tired, and I decided I'd let it rest for the time being.
Looking at it today I still thought it needed that contrast and encroaching darkness, besides being generally dissatisfied with the whole thing. Somehow I can't manage working with that much colour, which is why I don't paint - I completely lose the overview of what's going on and the colours take control. The result is this kind of too flat, valueless image, swirling with wanton colours.
Going over the image again today I tried to keep a hold of what I was doing and get some depth and dusk into the image, but with only limited success. I tried to work both on the evening lighted landscape and the rainbow sky, which was clearly a mistake - now one doesn't know where to look. I also tried to blend and dampen the sky with a pale grey colour pencil, which turned out to have little pigment grains in the tip that made fine lines all over the sky. Oh well, it's only a drawing in a sketchbook after all, and I'm definitely no painter.
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apart from finding the sky in the second drawing with too strong colors I don't seem to see anything wrong and I like themReplyDelete
otherwise the trick is to work with only a few colors and make sure you use a bit of them a bit all over so that the whole image might blend but then they might be too atmospheric!!
I think you need to limit the colors that you are working with. That way you will be able to focus on composition, values etc. as well.ReplyDelete
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December 24, 2002, 03:47 PM
Accuracy, reliability, sizing, how it handles etc... All things considered, what is consistantly your favorite out of the box production bolt rifle?
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December 24, 2002, 03:53 PM
Steyr Scout rifle... not in your poll! :p
December 24, 2002, 03:58 PM
CZ. Also not in your poll!
December 24, 2002, 04:21 PM
From what's listed.. Remington 700 in .308 Win. ...;)
December 24, 2002, 05:53 PM
The open sighted British 303 that my Dad left me after he died in 1994. Not an expensive gun but my Dad loved it and he was a heck of a sportsman and hunter.
In other words the 303 for sentimental reasons......
December 24, 2002, 06:05 PM
Would have to go with the 700 from the list.
December 24, 2002, 06:45 PM
Both of my choices ain't in your poll...
My old Winchester 100 and I am currently looking for a Steyr Scout rifle...anyone got one fer sale? :D
December 24, 2002, 06:54 PM
Where's the fill in the blank?
I'd go for CZ also.
December 24, 2002, 06:59 PM
Well of the four I've only ever shot a Win Model 70. I love mine though and it had brought down some deer.
December 24, 2002, 07:27 PM
My Blaser R93, although my Rem700PSS is no slouch either.
Dave Markowitz
December 24, 2002, 08:03 PM
As-issue No.4 MK.I Lee-Enfield. :D
December 24, 2002, 08:08 PM
rem 700
December 24, 2002, 09:15 PM
I had to go with Savage. I love the savage.
JeFF D
December 24, 2002, 09:22 PM
Sako 75.
December 24, 2002, 09:26 PM
First post in the new house! Feels like home all ready...just need some old beer cans in the corner....O.K....there we go.
Gotta go with the 700. My first and second bolt actions...out of the two I own.
December 24, 2002, 09:32 PM
I said Rem 700, because you did not have Barrett M95 in 50BMG. :D
Inspector Callahan
December 24, 2002, 10:03 PM
December 25, 2002, 01:27 AM
REM 700 ADL. No bells or whistles. Just elegant and accurate!
Works for me.
December 25, 2002, 02:04 AM
I didn't see a box for the 98 Mauser. When are these younguns gonna learn where the origin of their favorite Remchester/Ravages came from?
December 25, 2002, 02:07 AM
"I said Rem 700, because you did not have Barrett M95 in 50BMG"
Id have to agree on that, even though its a 99 I shoot
December 25, 2002, 02:07 AM
Yep, Mauser
In all its forms.
Got a $40 Turk that will clover leaf with iron sites at 100 yards (Course, I also have one that shoots 12" groups at 100yds...), Also M39 finns can shoot very nice as well. My first bolt was a Rem 700 in .270 and it was a great shooter right out of the box. So if I have to stick with the poll options, it would have to be that one
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December 25, 2002, 02:08 AM
Kind of limited in my choices. None of the rifles listed are bad but when it came to spending my money I bought a Steyr Scout.
December 25, 2002, 02:15 AM
December 25, 2002, 02:41 AM
I gotta go with the 700
s&w 24
December 25, 2002, 01:13 PM
I still like 1903 sprinfield best
Rick R
December 25, 2002, 01:17 PM
I like my M-77's and the M-70. One Ruger is hyper accurate (77VTR with Douglas 7mm-08 barrel) the other is ultra handy (77RSI in 308). And I've got a 77-22 for cheap playtime:D
December 25, 2002, 02:10 PM
Swedish model 96 Mauser.
December 25, 2002, 03:29 PM
270 Weatherby mag (in a Weatherby rifle, of course!)
Dan Morris
December 25, 2002, 04:27 PM
IMO, the old Pre 64 M70's can't be beat...never had one that wouldn't do moa's...a lil loading shrunk that!
December 26, 2002, 12:27 AM
Remington 700P
December 26, 2002, 12:28 AM
how about the anschutz 54 in .22lr?
December 26, 2002, 08:06 AM
Outright favourite is #4 Mk2 303 Brit closely followed by my CZ 22lr rifles. I really like the Winchester M70 243 but don't have one at present.
December 26, 2002, 08:46 AM
Why, the Mauser, of course. ;)
Of the available choices, though, I checked Ruger, because it has a very Mauseresque look and is available with a Mannlicher-style stock. Yum.
December 26, 2002, 09:43 AM
My favorite rifle!
Win.70 Rebarreled S/S in .223
December 26, 2002, 10:13 AM
I gots to go with the 700 in .308:cool:
Bottom Gun
December 26, 2002, 10:25 AM
Sako and Tikka
December 26, 2002, 10:43 AM
Not in the poll
Browning A-Bolt---------preferably in a Stainless Stalker---but the other variants will do.
December 26, 2002, 12:24 PM
Shoot a Sako 75 or TRG - you'll never go back
December 26, 2002, 12:56 PM
from your list Remmy , but i have to agree with LevelHead
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December 26, 2002, 04:25 PM
A Finn M39 B-barrel. Accurate and tough.
December 26, 2002, 08:36 PM
Got to love those savages there is not a gun that shots any better for less then 4 bills
December 27, 2002, 12:10 AM
Come join us Savage Owners!
December 27, 2002, 12:25 AM
This is my favorite rifle:
(oops. Ddin't work. Back to skul).
December 27, 2002, 01:15 AM
I have shot all of the rifles listed but I only own the Remington 700. The 700 in 30.06 is an awesome gun.
December 27, 2002, 08:37 AM
Without a doubt, Mauser.
December 27, 2002, 09:17 AM
My favorite's not on your list, but what the heck it hasn't stopped anyone else. My favorite is my Hungarian M44. But my M48A is an awful close second.
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December 27, 2002, 09:45 AM
Overall: Vintage british sporting rifles on Mauser actions.
Currently manufactured: Tikka (the new T3 especially!), Sako, Ruger (the MkII mag) and Winchester. All have clean lines, good designs and shoot great.
Surplus: Enfield, Mauser '96, Springfield '03 (and the Schmidt Rubin, of course, although it's a slightly different action type)
Savage is a great rifle ~ but it's butt-ugly. Too bad. It's kind of like a girl who would make the perfect wife if she wasn't so darn bad-looking. You keep trying to convince yourself, but always end up saying "....naaah" every time you see her.
Too bad also because Savage has just solved their gritty-trigger problem by coming out with a retrofittable unit that is adjustable down to 1 lb. Still waiting for a good face-lift, though.
Remington doesn't grab me. Neither does the A-Bolt.
Weatherby needs to lose the caricaturesque monte carlo.
No experience with CZ, although all I have heard is good.
December 27, 2002, 10:09 AM
The one I own. Interarms Mark X, 30-06.
December 27, 2002, 10:18 AM
Dang! I give. How are you guys getting files attached?
December 27, 2002, 12:28 PM
Rem 700
December 27, 2002, 04:33 PM
Remington 700 from the list.
First choice, though, would be the "other" line which you forgot to put on there. That would be my custom built Lawrence "Tommy" Moore .30-06 floated on one of his hand carved stocks.
I have never shot a sweeter bolt gun. Though its set up for the big bore range, it dropped a moose in its tracks a couple years ago (blasphemy! :D )
December 27, 2002, 04:49 PM
98 Mauser:D
May 9, 2008, 01:32 PM
Remington M700, BDL, Varmint Special, 25-06 w/ 15 power Unertl scope. The best I ever owned and there has been a BUNCH!
Snapping Twig
May 9, 2008, 01:58 PM
From your list, the 700, that said, if you said pre 64 model 70, I'd choose that.
My real favorites of what I chose to spend my hard earned dollars?
I own 2 Colt/Sauers. These are really super rifles. If you've never seen or heard of them, google them and you'll be impressed.
Also, in the vein of a pre 64 model 70, I own a Belgian FN Browning which is a Mauser 98. Controlled feed, controlled ejection and a SMOOTH action, not to mention accurate.
May 9, 2008, 04:19 PM
Where are all the savage junkies?? This must be the first time I've seen the 700 beat the savage on a poll.
700P ftw
May 9, 2008, 04:54 PM
Anything built on a DWM 1909 Mauser action.
May 9, 2008, 05:12 PM
i own a winchester model 70 in .270 and have been very happy with it so far. very handy, lightweight, and accurate. it has a black synthetic/rubbery stock on it now but id love to find some nice wood furniture for it.
i have no experience with the others listed but would like to own a remington 700 someday.
May 9, 2008, 05:23 PM
The poll is reminiscent of a Cuban election ballot with one name on it......you don't get to choose your favorite, rather the authors favorite picks.
May 9, 2008, 08:55 PM
not on the list, but i am very pleased with my Vanguard 270 win. solid moa or less rifle. the deer hate it.
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May 10, 2008, 12:00 AM
Mauser K98k or Mosin Nagant 91/30
May 10, 2008, 12:13 AM
Brno 602
May 10, 2008, 12:32 AM
Mannlicher Schoenauer
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May 10, 2008, 01:15 AM
I'm hoping my new Kimber LongMaster Classic in .308 will become my favorite bolt here shortly. I'm scoping it with a Leupold VX-III 6.5-20x40 Long Range, but I'm waiting on the rings. Should prove to be a sweet setup.
May 10, 2008, 01:31 AM
Mauser 98
May 10, 2008, 07:31 AM
The fact that the Rem 700 is a favorite here is discouraging.
May 10, 2008, 09:12 AM
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More than the eyes of the Texas Panhandle were on Amarillo Andy, the prairie dog that lives at Wildcat Bluff Nature Center and predicts whether the Amarillo area will enjoy an early spring or be subjected to six more weeks of winter.
A 5-year-old kindergartner from Arden Road Elementary School stood wide-eyed, waiting for Andy to make an appearance.
"I love prairie dogs," said Dylan Stalter. "I see them all the time."
Mike Boley, executive director of Wildcat Bluff, said he heard from an out-of-town newspaper reporter that the nature center is the only one in Texas that has a local answer to world-famous Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania.
"I think he is (going to see his shadow)," Dylan predicted before the event took place on a bright, sunny day, "because we can see our shadow."
While Amarillo Andy was waiting for his moment in the sun, Dylan asked Boley a question that had been burning on his mind: Do prairie dogs hibernate?
"They go way down in their tunnels when the weather gets bad, but no, they don't hibernate," Boley told the boy.
When Andy popped out of his burrow and scampered over the top, the adults and media in attendance crowded around the prairie dog prognosticator, blocking Dylan's view.
The youngster later got an up-close glimpse of Andy in his cage after he saw his shadow and predicted six weeks more of winter.
"I knew he would," Dylan said.
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Commonwealth Reports on Progress on CHOGM's Mandate
14 December 2010: The Commonwealth Secretariat has released an update on progress in implementing the tasks identified by leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in 2009, including on climate change.
In the update, the Commonwealth Secretariat reports that the parameters of the Secretary-General's Good Offices for the Environment role have been defined, and that a conference will be held in the UK in January 2011 to assist vulnerable States to improve their access to climate change finance. Work on climate change and trade policy in small island developing States (SIDS) and other vulnerable economies has also been developed. In addition, support has been provided to parliamentarians to strengthen their capacity to develop and scrutinize climate change policy frameworks. [Commonwealth Press Release] [The Update]