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Team OTU trains at Fiji Continental Cup Camp
09/06/15 - The Team OTU camp led by Head Coach Peter Clifford from Australia was recently held in Fiji as a part of the Fiji Triathlon Festival. The objective of this camp was to bring together team members in a... |Full Story
Weekend Race Roundup - March 18, 2013
18/03/13 - The triathlon season officially got underway this weekend with the World Cup circuit having kicked off in Mooloolaba on Saturday. But the World Cup was just one of several races to take place, with South... |Full Story
YOG gold medallist Barclay makes strategic move in elite competition
14/07/11 - Youth Olympic champion Aaron Barclay's (NZL) took a big step toward his long-term goal - racing in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games – successfully implementing his strategy of staying in the leader pack in... |Full Story
Youth Olympic champion heads to San Francisco to test himself
05/07/11 - Youth Olympic champion Aaron Barclay (NZL) will once again compete against international elite athletes at the 2011 San Francisco ITU Triathlon Pan American Cup this weekend. The 19 year old's previous... |Full Story
Guatape ready for the ITU Triathlon World Cup
24/06/11 - Guatape, a small town in the region of Antioquia in Colombia, has gained momentum for the ITU Triathlon World Cup to be held in October this year with the successful 2011 Guatape ITU Triathlon Pan... |Full Story
2011 Continental Calendars Update
27/04/11 - Asian Triathlon Confederation The 2011 Sendai Bay ITU Triathlon Asian Cup, slated for 3 July, has been canceled due to the current situation caused by last month's deadly earthquake and tsunami. ... |Full Story
2011 Continental Calendars: Update
01/02/11 - PanAmerican Triathlon Confederation: Two Triathlon Pan American Cup events have been added to the 2011 PATCO Calendar. Both events will be held in the U.S. Click to see more information on the 2011... |Full Story
2011 Continental Calendars: Update
07/01/11 - Details around continental events has been uploaded on triathlon.org. Check the latest information at each continental event calendar. Some important notes include: African Triathlon Union Click here... |Full Story
Whitfield and Groves Canadian Champs
22/08/09 - Lauren Groves and Simon Whitfield are the 2009 Kelowna ITU Triathlon Pan American Premium Cup winners and Canadian National Champions. The two ITU stars used superior race tactics to win the national... |Full Story
Umphenour, Niwata take Hong Kong
17/11/08 - Japan's triple Olympic Kiyomi Niwata and American veteran Joe Umphenour won the OSIM 2008 Hong Kong ITU Triathlon Asian Cup this past weekend. In the elite women's field, Niwata overcame a... |Full Story
Hong Kong Asian Cup this weekend
12/11/08 - Several Olympians are heading to the Hong Kong Disneyland resort this weekend but it's not to see Mickey or visit the magic kingdom. They'll racing for a $25,000 USD prize purse at the OSIM Hong Kong... |Full Story
Groff, Plata conquer San Francisco
10/11/08 - Sarah Groff and Victor Plata are both wishing the 2008 racing season was just starting rather than coming to a close. Both athletes were in prime form to earn wins at the San Francisco Triathlon at... |Full Story
San Francisco Preview
07/11/08 - As the 2008 triathlon season wanes, the action isn't over yet and resumes this weekend in San Francisco. The Pan American Cup goes this Saturday morning on the picturesque Treasure Island banks. A... |Full Story
U.S. Nationals set for Tuscaloosa
06/11/08 - USA Triathlon recently announced that Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will host the 2009 and 2010 Age-Group and Elite National Championships. The 2009 event is scheduled for August 22. Tuscaloosa seems to have... |Full Story
Alanya European Cup results
25/10/08 - In perfect racing conditions in Alanya, Turkey, the final 2008 Premium European Cup took place yesterday. Over one hundred of Europes best and developing athletes took the start line to try and finish... |Full Story
European cup final
13/10/08 - Alanya, Turkey is going to be the fifth Premium European Cup in 2008, the last in this triathlon season. The Turkish tourist paradise organized its first international triathlon event in 1991, giving the... |Full Story
Reed, Ertel U.S. National Champs
22/09/08 - Matt Reed and Julie Ertel each used a strong run leg to pull away from the competition and win USA Triathlon Elite National titles on Saturday, an event that doubled as an ITU Triathlon Pan American... |Full Story
Balkan Championships Preview
19/09/08 - This Saturday Serbia will host the Belgrade ITU Triathlon European Cup, which doubles as the Balkan Championships. A number of Beijing Olympians will toe the start line for the elite women's and... |Full Story
U.S. Elites eye National Champs
18/09/08 - This weekend all six U.S. Olympians will be in Portland, Oregon gunning for the 2008 U.S. Elite National Championship, an event that doubles as an ITU Pan American Cup. The Olympians will likely lead the... |Full Story
German Sweep in Vienna
15/09/08 - Germany claimed a gold sweep at the ITU Triathlon European Cup in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. Rebecca Robisch won her first ITU title, comfortably winning the elite women's race by a 44-second... |Full Story
Frintova, Sysoev prevail in Poland
07/09/08 - Beijing Olympians Vendula Frintova of the Czech Republic and Russian Igor Sysoev returned to the ITU circuit from the Olympics to win today's premium European cup in Poland. In the elite women's... |Full Story
Balkan Championships and European Cup
05/09/08 - Dear triathletes, The Balkan Championships ITU Triathlon European Cup race, which will be held on September 20, 2008 in little town of Kladovo (on the river Danube) 260 km to the south from the capital... |Full Story
Final Beijing Tune-up in Turkey
04/08/08 - This past weekend a number of Olympic athletes were in Egirdir, Turkey for the Egirdir ITU Triathlon European Cup, the final ITU race before the Beijing Olympics. Daniil Sapunov of Kazakhstan looks to be... |Full Story
Zipf, Vodickova win at Holten
29/06/08 - Czech Radka Vodickova took her third ITU victory of 2008 while German Jonathan Zipf won the first of his career at this weekend's Holten ITU Triathlon Premium European Cup. The event is one of the... |Full Story
Weekend Continental Cup Review
23/06/08 - The Hy-Vee ITU Triathlon World Cup is the richest and most lucrative event on the 2008 ITU calendar but it wasn't the only race this past weekend with Continental Cup events in Japan and Germany. On... |Full Story
Welcome to Balatonfüred
19/05/08 - Welcome to Balatonfred on the BeurerTriathlon European Cup and open olympic race! Balatonfred is a popular resort town in Veszprm county, situated on the North shore of Lake Balaton. It is considered to... |Full Story
Gomez, Mueller take Pontevedra
19/04/08 - This past weekend marked the first time that triathlon has come to Galicia, Spain at such a level and it was almost inevitable that hometown hero Javier Gomez would win the race. The ancient city had... |Full Story
Sudrie and Burgos won in Chania
13/04/08 - At the first stage of the ITU Triathlon European Cup series in Chania, Crete, Greece, 62 elite athletes (12 women and 50 men) challenged the spectacular but challenging course. With water temperature at... |Full Story
Gold Coast Review - with TV times
03/03/08 - Emma Moffatt continued her push for Olympic selection on the Australian triathlon team with a win today at the Gold Coast ITU Triathlon Oceania Cup. The win comes off the back of a breakthrough victory at... |Full Story
Excellent Test for Svanebo and Wasle in Petzen-Bleiburg
28/01/08 - Andreas Svanebo and Carina Wasle took the gold in Petzen-Bleiburg. Last Saturday the popular winter resort of Carinthia, Austria hosted the next stop of the winter triathlon season in 2008. The... |Full Story
Petzen-Bleiburg Winter Tri Review
28/01/08 - This past weekend, Petzen/Bleiburg, Austria hosted the ITU Winter Triathlon European Cup, and similar to last years the HSV Triathlon Krnten was organizer of the Krnten ICEMAN Winter Triathlon. The race... |Full Story
Winter Tri from Petzen-Bleiburg, AUT
23/01/08 - The Austrian winter resort at Petzen-Bleiburg is ready for its international winter triathlon debut this weekend on January 26th. "The race is guaranteed. The course for cross-country skiing is prepared... |Full Story
ITU Burabay Asian Cup 2008 .
22/01/08 - This year ITU Burabay Asian Cup will be held on the 6th of July . If you require any additional information about the event please contact us on : firstname.lastname@example.com... |Full Story
Seoul to host ITU Continental Cup
22/01/08 - ITU has announced that Seoul has been awarded a Continental Cup for May 25, 2008; marking the first time an ITU sanctioned international triathlon event will take place in the South Korean capital. ITU... |Full Story
2008 Mekong River ITU Triathlon Asian Cup
19/01/08 - 28 - 30 March 2008 Events: 28 March Aquathlon, 29 March Duathlon Asian Championships, 30 March Triathlon ITU Point race. More details: www.thaitriathlon.org |Full Story
Tucker, Huerta win in Argentina
14/01/08 - Brit Helen Tucker and American Manuel Huerta continue their fine early season form with wins at the La Paz ITU Pan American Cup in Argentina this past weekend. Tucker claimed her second straight victory... |Full Story
2008 ITU season opens in Chile
07/01/08 - The first ITU race of 2008 was a Premium Pan American Cup in Viña del Mar, Chile. The successful race kicked off a highly anticipated and exciting year for triathlon as the sport will make its third... |Full Story
31/12/07 - This past July, 77 of the world's finest triathletes came to Geneva for one of the nation's five Pan American Cups. The streets of Geneva closed down and Seneca Lake was churned to a mighty froth as... |Full Story
Birgit Berg and Ioulian Malishev won in Kedzierzyn Kozle
09/09/07 - Birgit Berg from Netherlands and Ioulian Malishev from Russia claimed the gold medal at the Kedzierzyn Kozle ITU Triathlon Premium European Cup in Poland. Women TOP6 1. BERK BIRGIT(NED)2:03:53 2. DAVIS... |Full Story
Shatnaya wins gold.
15/07/07 - Ekaterina Shatnaya from Kazakhstan have just won the ITU Burabay Asian Cup 2007.She was followed by the athlete from Hong Kong and Tatyana Maltseva from Kazakhstan got bronze. 1.Shatnaya... |Full Story


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#40563 - 09/03/01 11:40 AM Re: salt rising bread
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Dear of troy: I have no doubt that you know how to make it. But you did not say how it got its name. There are many airborne yeasts that will make bread rise.The one that makes salt rising bread has to have a starter with some ingredients that help it, but it further requires some warmth that other yeasts do not, and the saltbox would pick up and hold just the right amount of heat to permit the proper yeast to incubate.
So putting the culture into the salt box gave the bread its name.
#40564 - 09/03/01 12:50 PM Re: salt rising bread
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Registered: 10/17/00
Posts: 5400
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according to Joy of Cooking, yes, the yeast does require more heat than most yeast-- we kept in the oven, where the oven pilot light kept the oven at 78 (f).
But the yeast is also extremely salt tolerant. Joy makes no mention of the starter being stored in a salt box.. we used glass jars. Joy pointed out that salt rising bread was a good way to get yeast when none could be purchased, and thought the bread developed out in the western parts of the US, where salt was a readily available.
but i would be interested to learn more.
i know this borders on being a food thread, but i see this as closer to biology-- since the whole basis of salt rising bread is a salt tolerent strain of yeast, and the idea that you can use high salt to kill off bad bacteria, and leave only the good one.
i am often impressed by how people, common people, used advanced science and chemistry, with no advanced knowledge.
i wonder how well i would do, with out all the technology i depend on._________________________
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#40565 - 09/03/01 02:11 PM Re: salt rising bread
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Registered: 11/13/00
Posts: 3146
Loc: Northamptonshire, England
What you call salt boxes, we in Zild have usually called salt cellars. Interesting, hmmmmm?_________________________
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#40566 - 09/03/01 02:14 PM Re: salt rising bread
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Dear of troy: remember the bread originated in very primitive kitchens where the salt box was the only place with some reaonable control of the incubating temperature.
#40567 - 09/03/01 04:00 PM Re: salt rising bread
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Registered: 11/25/00
Posts: 3439
Loc: New England, USA
What you call salt boxes, we in Zild have usually called salt cellars.
We have salt cellars, too, Max ... I have glass ones and fancy gold ceramic and even a pair in silver ones for the table on special occasions.
Salt cellars also come in pairs that are sometimes made as miniatures of other things -- people sometimes have collections of them -- Considered "collectables" there is everything imaginable from Mickey and Minnie Mouse and other cartoon characters to pairs of Moose to Hansel and Grettel,to bull and cows, to cars, to lobsters and I even saw a pair of frogs once! None more than about four or five inches tall.
The salt holder in these types of salt cellars has larger holes than the pepper shakers, or sometimes there are just more holes in the salt cellars than in the pepper. Makes for a surprise, sometimes, for the uninitiated!
#40568 - 09/03/01 04:44 PM Re: salt rising bread
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Again at lunch I was annoyed by saltcellars having tops clogged by moisture, and this is a very dry place. They ought to make saltcellars with plastic caps to keep moisture out. I used to have some that had a very small rubber stopper in bottom that was opened by pressing a button on top. At least once a month I have to put salt on a plate and give it a short burst in the microwave to dry it while cap was washed and dried.
You didn't say how big the Zild saltcellars are, but the salt boxes had to be big enough to hold at least ten pounds of salt, to have room for a couple cups of yeast culture, and hold enough heat to do the job.
#40569 - 09/03/01 05:27 PM Re: clogged salt cellars
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Posts: 3439
Loc: New England, USA
I was annoyed by saltcellars having tops clogged by moisture, and this is a very dry place.
To prevent that in humid weather, put some grains of rice in the salt. Real rice not the "minute" kind. The grains of rice are too big to get through the small holes that let salt sprinkle through.
#40570 - 09/03/01 06:05 PM Re: clogged salt cellars
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Dear wow: putting the rice in with the salt will keep the salt in the bottom part drier, but the trouble is at the holes in the cap, where traces of salt pick up moisture even in this very dry place. We haven't had rain for over a month, and it may be a couple more months before we have any. If the cap were not metal, the salt cellars could be zapped in microwave once a week. But it is tricky putting any metal into the microwave. Leaving twistems on, and dishes with metallic glazes makes fireworks. The other thing is that putting something with very little moisture into microwave and giving more than a very short burst can hurt the microwave. I just had an idea. If the salt cellars had plastic caps with knobs on the inside that would just fit into the holes of the shaker, that would solve the problem. I don't like the metal caps. Inevitably you are ingesting cap metal corroded by the salt. Yuk. But I have to be careful not to criticise my daughter's table ware. Even my buying new ones that suit me would be implied criticism. And I could not hope to find ones pretty enough to please her.
#40571 - 09/04/01 12:23 AM Re: salt rising bread
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Posts: 1289
I'm not sure about the usage of "salt cellar". I think a couple of you are confusing them with salt shakers. A salt shaker is what the word denotes -- a container, small in size if intended to be put on the table, but larger if used by the cook by the stove, closed, with holes in the top from which you shake out the salt. A salt cellar is like a little box with an open top, glass, ceramic, silver, etc. or a combination (my great aunt had a beautiful pair in ruby red cut glass in silver holders). They were about 2 inches square and not quite as deep, holding maybe an eighth of a cup of salt, and, as noted were a pair (cellars seem to come usually in pairs). You get the salt out of a salt cellar with a tiny round spoon holding less than a quarter teaspoon, which is placed in the salt when the salt cellar goes on the table.
And BTW, I have known about salt rising bread for years, from Beard on Bread the best source I know of on bread, by the late James Beard.
#40572 - 09/04/01 03:11 AM Re: clogged salt cellars
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It is easy. Long ago, I moved over to salt grinders with sea salt to go with the black pepper grinder that I use all the time (much better than that horrid pre-ground white pepper that you were supposed to use in cruet sets. Just keep the antique stuff for display.
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i half-heartedly tried to re-lactate for a couple of months and finally gave up when LO turned 6 mos... long story. i was also struggling with mild to moderate PPD.
anyway... my LO is sooooo addicted to his pacifier that he wakes up like every 30 minutes throughout the entire night crying for it. i keep around 6 pacifiers in one corner of his crib for the night-long ordeal. so, out of sheer desperation for sleep, i wondered... has anyone ever been able to transition a baby from a pacifier over to the breast for comfort only? i think i might get more sleep that way... or maybe not? i don't know. i'm just desperate and soooo sleep deprived at this point.
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CHARLESTON – Student artists and musicians from across the state, including Jackson, Tyler and Wood counties, will be featured Friday at the West Virginia Department of Education's seventh annual Arts Alive! program celebrating artistic achievement by public school children.
Arts Alive includes for the first time an artistic creation by preschool children as part of a yearlong Celebration of West Virginia Universal Pre-K. The event will include performances by the All-State Chorus and the Arts Alive Dance Ensemble, both of which include students from across the state.
In addition, artwork by Samantha Shimer, a senior at Parkersburg South High School, was chosen as the Arts Alive! logo this year. Shimer's work represents theater, music, visual arts and dance together.
"I wanted to wrap them all together," she said.
The logo was chosen from among dozens of submissions from around the state. It will be used on all Arts Alive! printed materials, including posters and other promotional materials, the concert program and the official T-shirt.
Shimer also designed Parkersburg South's S.P.O.T. night T-shirt logo. Another of her designs was chosen as the state representative for the National Youth Art Month display.
Shimer said art teacher Jim Smith pushes students to enter numerous contests.
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Visual art created by students at Ravenswood High School, Ripley Middle School, Ripley High School, Tyler Consolidated Middle School, Tyler Consolidated High School and Parkersburg South will be displayed.
The lobby showcase begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by the main performance at 7 p.m. Friday at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences in Charleston. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are available from the Clay Center at 304-561-3500.
"We know that students learn best when they are able to connect different subjects and integrate their learning," said state Superintendent of Schools Jim Phares. "Well-taught arts courses are where creativity, flexibility, innovation, understanding and empathy are consistently required. These are skills that are transferable to many other disciplines."
A 2012 study of students in West Virginia found that those with an arts-rich high school experience scored higher in mathematics and reading/ language arts. This finding generally held true even for students of lower socioeconomic status or with disabilities.
"Years of research show that an education that includes the arts is closely linked to almost everything that we demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity," Phares said.


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It's early in the evening and some old school friends just called unexpectedly. They'll be at your house in 90 minutes and you want to make a quick meal with what you have in the house. Where do you find an easy to make recipe using the ingredients you've got to hand (chicken pieces, onions, potatoes, cream, wine, and seasonings)? You open your browser, go to Google, and search for a recipe with these ingredients and you're given nearly 600,000 pages. Well, that's not a lot of help. It might take you an hour to find a good recipe among all those sites.
There must be a better way to search just the sites that you'd normally use for recipes and return a smaller set of results that are more likely to help you get a meal on the table. This is where a Google Custom Search Engine can help you.
A custom search engine (CSE) tells Google which sites to search and which to avoid when dealing with a search query. This makes it much easier to get specific, guided answers to questions about a specific subject area. If you create a CSE you can use your expertise in a subject to control where Google looks for information about that topic. And you may even make some money in the process, because the custom search engine returns AdSense advertisements with each set of results. If you have an AdSense account, then the revenue from those advertisements can go to you. Don't get too excited, you'll probably get less than a few dollars a month from AdSense unless your search engine gets really successful.
You can tune this list of sites over time, adding and removing sites from the list. This makes it easy to improve the results based on the queries entered by people who are using your custom search engine.
Here's an example of a custom search engine for Bermuda. The editor of this CSE has chosen 80 sites that are worth searching to produce results about Bermuda that help him and others. So, if I love scuba diving and I search on this site for the term "scuba tours," I get results that are about scuba tours in Bermuda. If I used the normal Google search page, I'd get over 2 million results and I'd spend much more time looking for Bermuda-related scuba touring information.
A properly built CSE returns search results intended for specific audiences or areas of interest. It's important to get the search engine name and description right so people don't get frustrated when trying to use it. And then the rest of the work is deciding where to search. Later, you can organize the results into categories to help fine tune the results, but that's an optional step you can skip when you're starting out. It may sound like a lot of work, but you can actually create a new custom search engine in minutes. You'll see how in the next section. Later, I'll show you how to tune the CSE interface, site selection, and results.
I'm going to create a custom search engine for recipes. Along the way I'll show you the type of information you'll need to make your own CSE. Before you get going, you need a Google account. If you don't have one, go to the Google create account page.
The first step in creating your custom search engine is to visit the Google CSE home page. Here we'll complete a two-step process: entering the setup data and then trying out the engine. After that, our CSE is ready for use. There are restrictions on what you can do with a custom search engine, these are given on Google's CSE Terms of Service page.
Before you start, you need some basic information. Don't worry if you're not sure how to complete some of the details, you can easily change any of the CSE settings after you've created your engine.
This is one of the most important parts of creating the search engine. Here you control which how much of each site is included in results by how you enter its URL. I'll use the site http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/ as an example.
|URL specified for CSE
|What's Included
|The whole about.com domain
|All pages in about.com
|All of about.com's Homecooking site
|Many pages
|Recipes part of the site
|Recipes pages
|Only this page.
|One page
Unless you're creating the custom search engine for a non-profit, university, or government agency you have to display advertisements on the results pages. And, of course, you must agree to those Terms of Service.
The completed first page looks something like the following.
Figure 1. Initial CSE page
When you click the Next button, you're taken to the Try it Out page. Here you can test whether your engine produces results that you like. Don't set your expectations too high for this page, because you'll come back and further tune them later. I'll try the query for pie crust and see what I get back.
Figure 2. Pie crust query
These results are appropriate and they all come from the right site. I check the box to get a confirmation email and press Finish.
Note: this confirmation email has lots of useful pointers for management of your engine, so it's worth requesting it. If you forgot to click this box or you delete the email message, don't worry. Log on to Google and click on the My Search Engines link.
I've placed this search engine online with all of its data so you can see how it works and what has been specified to Google. You can find my site for the search engine at http://recipeclues.com/. And the Google homepage for the Simple Recipes search engine is here.
Now we can start to customize the search engine in a number of useful ways. First, I'll show you how to add more sites to the list that Google uses for results.
You can add more sites to your search engine in a number of ways. If you've already got a list of sites in mind, you can just go to the My Search Engines page and click on the control panel link for your search engine. Then, click on the Sites tab and you have a form that allows you to add and remove sites and check whether you've already got a site defined in your search engine.
Figure 3. Sites tab
If you've only got a small number of sites, this interface is just about usable. One challenge is that it only allows you to work with 20 of the sites that you've specified at a time. Initially, that may work. But once you have a custom search engine that's using more than about 40 sites, you'll find this interface very tiring to use.
When you click on the Add Sites button, you'll get a popup dialog that allows you to enter individual sites.
Figure 4. Enter individual sites
On this form, the final option lets you dynamically extract links from a page and add them to your search engine. It's useful when the page you're pointing at is a blogroll or a list of linked sites. This has been recently added to the CSE control interface and is not currently available in the bulk input approach.
I'll use the bulk site form to quickly input several additional recipe sites I want added to my engine.
Figure 5. Bulk site form
Note how I've used the wildcard option. In the case of the BBC site, all the recipes start with the same substring, with URLs like http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/swiftsuppers_vegpasta.shtml. I can put the * right after the first part of the URL, it doesn't need to be separated from the rest by a slash mark.
If you'd like to add sites to your engine as you come across them, then you can install the Google Marker bookmarklet in your browser. This is added as a button to your browser (IE or Firefox). Once in place, you simply click on it when you're at a site you'd like to add to your engine. You'll see the following simple dialog box. Fill it out and press Save to add the site to your engine.
Figure 6. Google Marker
When you're starting out, these form based approaches for maintaining your search engine work. But as you add sites, you'll find it hard to work with multiple sites quickly and add various properties to the sites as you input them. Next we'll look at using XML to specify the sites used in the CSE.
Before getting into the details here, I need to issue a warning. When you make changes to your search engine using XML files, you may accidentally break your working engine. So, please make sure to keep original versions of the XML files in a safe place in case you need to restore them.
You can specify all the settings for your custom search engine in XML format. The easiest way to get going with this is to look at the current settings for your engine in XML form.
Go to the Control Panel for your custom search engine and click on the Advanced tab. Here you can download two different types of information. The Context information defines the global settings for the engine. These are the settings that you entered when first creating the engine and things like whether volunteers are allowed or what colors to use when displaying results. The Annotations information is the heart of your search engine. It's has all the information about which pages and sites to include in the results and how these are treated.
First, let's get the current context information for the engine by clicking on the last Download in XML Format button on this tab. This doesn't really download anywhere, it just displays the current context information in another browser window or tab. You can then use your browser to actually save the XML to a file on your system.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CustomSearchEngine version="1.0" volunteers="true"
keywords="homecooking "easy to prepare" "simple cooking""
Title="Simple Recipes Search Engine"
Description="Easy-to-prepare recipes for home cooks. If you want to have a meal ready in 60 minutes, look here for good recipes that you can use immediately."
language="en" visible="true">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw" mode="FILTER"/>
<Label name="_cse_exclude_rlplbd3nkfw" mode="ELIMINATE"/>
<LookAndFeel nonprofit="false"/>
Initially, the most important values are those in the
<BackgroundLabels> section of the XML. When using XML later to change the sites included in your engine, you'll need the name values that are in the
<Label> nodes in this section.
Now we download the data (annotations) in this engine by clicking on the Download in XML button that's in the Annotations section. You can also just visit this Download URL to get the same information. Again, you can save the result browser window to a file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Annotation about="www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/swiftsuppers*">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw"/>
<Annotation about="www.karenscountrykitchen.com/*">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw"/>
<Annotation about="www.recipeswizard.com/*">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw"/>
<Annotation about="www.dmoz.org/Home/Cooking/*">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw"/>
If you have more than one custom search engine in Google, the annotations download will contain the annotations for all of your search engines. They'll be mixed in together based on the latest sites added to either engine.
This is why the label names from the context information are so important. Every
<Annotation> node in a specific search engine will have either the FILTER or ELIMINATE mode name value in its
<Label> node.
You could select the appropriate nodes for a given engine in a text editor, but if there are more than about 50 nodes it gets tiring really quickly. The easiest way to extract the nodes you want is to use XSLT and XPath to transform the downloaded annotations into just those for the search engine you're working on.
I've created an XSLT file to do this transform based on the name values for this search engine. You can modify it to use the name values for your own search engine.
Now that you have the context and annotation files on your system, there are several ways in which you can refine your search engine. First I'll show you how to personalize your engine by changing the colors on the resulting page.
I made the changes shown below to the downloaded context file. These set the color of the background of the results pages, the border that goes around Google advertisements, and the title at the top of each search result returned.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CustomSearchEngine version="1.0" volunteers="true"
keywords="homecooking "easy to prepare" "simple cooking""
Title="Simple Recipes Search Engine"
Description="Easy-to-prepare recipes for home cooks. If you want to have a meal ready in 60 minutes, look here for good recipes that you can use immediately."
language="en" visible="true">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw" mode="FILTER"/>
<Label name="_cse_exclude_rlplbd3nkfw" mode="ELIMINATE"/>
<LookAndFeel nonprofit="false">
<Colors background="#FEFAFF"
border="#000033" title="#993300" />
I can then go back to the Advanced tab in the control panel for my search engine and upload this new file (remembering to first save a copy of the original file). Immediately after the upload has completed, I can use the Preview tab to see what the changes look like.
Here are the various color parameters that can be set and what they change on the search engine results page.
|Defines color for
|Background for the results page
|Border drawn around advertisements and above results
|Title of the URL above each search result
|Text shown for each search result
|Non-working URL shown below each search result
|Title URL after it has been visited
|Other information beside URL. Cached or refinement labels
By making changes to the annotations file you really control the heart of your search engine. As well as defining more sites to include, you can also specify categories for each site and given them a higher or lower priority.
Google calls the categories Refinements. These appear at the top of the results page and are used to focus in on a set of the total results. For the Diabetes Search Engine the results page has several of these including symptoms, complications, and research.
Figure 7. Refinements
You can see that each result is displayed with a set of labels indicating how it was categorized. And by clicking on one of the label hyperlinks, the results for sites with that label only are returned.
To create a refinement, you must first modify the context file to specify the label names that will appear on the results page.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CustomSearchEngine version="1.0" volunteers="true" ...>
<FacetItem Title="Lunch">
<Label name="lunch" mode="BOOST" Rewrite="" IgnoreBackgroundLabels="false" weight="0.7"/>
<FacetItem Title="Dinner">
<Label name="dinner" mode="FILTER" Rewrite="" IgnoreBackgroundLabels="false"/>
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw" mode="FILTER"/>
<Label name="_cse_exclude_rlplbd3nkfw" mode="ELIMINATE"/>
I've defined two different labels that can be assigned to each site in the search engine. When the Lunch hyperlink is clicked, all sites with this label assigned have their priority boosted so they appear closer to the top of the search results. In this case, unlabeled sites can also appear in the results. We could boost by a larger amount (up to 1) to emphasize them even more.
When the Dinner one is chosen, only sites that are labeled with the Dinner refinement will appear in the results. All others, including unlabelled sites, will not be shown.
Now that we have some refinements, I can change the annotations file to assign these labels to the sites that I want. Each site is already defined in an
<Annotation> node, and I simply add new
<Label> nodes for each refinement that I want to assign.
<Annotation about="www.absoluterecipes.com/*">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw"/>
<Label name="lunch"/>
<Label name="dinner"/>
<Annotation about="www.allfood.com/mmeal.cfm*">
<Label name="_cse_rlplbd3nkfw"/>
<Label name="dinner"/>
Once I've completed these changes I can load my new annotations file up to my search engine. Don't forget to backup the original annotations first!
If you'd like to know more about these files, Google has pages documenting both the context file format and the annotations file format.
This article is intended to provide you with enough of an introduction to Google Custom Search Engines that you can create one of your own. This will give you a chance to use your expertise in a specific area to assist people who are looking for answers or help in that area. The detail on the advanced topics will also allow you to customize the data your engine returns and how it's presented to people.
Google's CSE FAQ answers some common questions about CSEs.
CSE Documentation will help you figure out some of the more difficult parts of customization.
The Google Custom Search blog will keep you updated on new facilities and changes.
You can get help from other CSE users in the Google Custom Search Help groups
Google has some featured CSE examples that may inspire you.
Bernard Farrell is a software architect focusing on user experience issues. He has over 30 years experience in software design and development including user interfaces for early workstations. He created the diabetes search engine and write a blog about diabetes technology.
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It was now nearly 9 in the evening. If they were going to get Lincoln on a train that night, they had barely two hours in which to act.
Finally, at 10:15, Pinkerton, by now waiting at the Continental, got word that Lincoln had retired for the evening. Judd dashed off a note asking the president-elect to come to his room: "so soon as convenient on private business of importance." At last, Lincoln himself ducked through the doorway. Lincoln "at once recollected me," Pinkerton said, from the days when both men had given service to the Illinois Central Railroad, Lincoln as a lawyer representing the railroad and Pinkerton as a detective overseeing security. The president-elect had a kind word of greeting for his old acquaintance. "Lincoln liked Pinkerton," Judd observed, and "had the utmost confidence in him as a gentleman—and a man of sagacity."
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Lincoln rose from his chair. "I cannot go tonight," he said firmly. "I have promised to raise the flag over Independence Hall tomorrow morning, and to visit the legislature at Harrisburg in the afternoon—beyond that I have no engagements. Any plan that may be adopted that will enable me to fulfill these promises I will accede to, and you can inform me what is concluded upon tomorrow." With these words, Lincoln turned and left the room.
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Just after 8 a.m., Pinkerton met again with Judd at the Continental. The detective remained secretive about the details of his plan, but it was understood that the broad strokes would remain the same: Lincoln would pass through Baltimore ahead of schedule.
The Lincoln Special pulled away from the West Philadelphia depot at 9:30 that morning, bound for Harrisburg. The detective himself stayed behind in Philadelphia to complete his arrangements. As the train neared Harrisburg, Judd told Lincoln that the matter was "so important that I felt that it should be communicated to the other gentlemen of the party." Lincoln concurred. "I reckon they will laugh at us, Judd," he said, "but you had better get them together." Pinkerton would have been horrified at this development, but Judd was resolved to notify Lincoln's inner circle before they sat down to dinner.
Arriving in Harrisburg at 1:30 p.m., and making his way to the Jones House hotel with his host, Gov. Andrew Curtin, Lincoln also decided to bring Curtin into his confidence. He told the governor that "a conspiracy had been discovered to assassinate him in Baltimore on his way through that city the next day." Curtin, a Republican who had forged a close alliance with Lincoln during the presidential campaign, pledged his full cooperation. He reported that Lincoln "seemed pained and surprised that a design to take his life existed." Nevertheless, he remained "very calm, and neither in his conversation or manner exhibited alarm or fear."
At 5 that evening, Lincoln dined at the Jones House with Curtin and several other prominent Pennsylvanians. At about 5:45, Judd stepped into the room and tapped the president-elect on the shoulder. Lincoln now rose and excused himself, pleading fatigue for the benefit of any onlookers. Taking Governor Curtin by the arm, Lincoln strolled from the room.


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A teen in Washington state is on the mend after swallowing a grill brush bristle during a family barbecue.
Tristan Beck, 16, told Seattle TV station KING he knew something was wrong a few days after the family's weekend dinner.
"I just remember being in school on Wednesday and just feeling like I was being stabbed in the stomach," he said from his hospital bed. "I was falling asleep in class and just not feeling good."
Turns out, the small wire brush bristle that ended up in his food perforated his intestines, requiring surgery.
Tristan's family urged people to check their grill brushes and replace them often.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put out a special warning for barbecuers to check for loose metal brush bristles here.


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December 8, 2011 —
ORANGE COUNTY, NY — And so it begins, that zany, intense time when the rock rules in gyms across the region in the din of deafening cheers and chants. The subject, for those of you who haven't gleaned it yet, is high school basketball, second to none in the frenzy it engenders on a near-nightly basis.
Indeed, those long-quiet hounds of the hardwood have now returned and will be with us through mid-March, when the final buzzer sounds in the last Federation Game, a week after the NYSPHSAA state championships at Glens Falls. What ends there begins here, as teams begin tournament play as a preamble to the daunting league and sectional games that will determine local and regional victors.
This past week, a trio of basketball tournaments featured the debut of the 2011-12 versions of teams from Sullivan West, Fallsburg, Liberty and Eldred. Fallsburg's boys lost their opener to the Walton Warriors 51-49 but came back to edge Sullivan West 61-57 in the consolation game. The Westies lost 55-35 to Unatego in the opener and looked to the subsequent Chester Tournament to record their first win of the season, one that would match their win total for 2010-11. They got that with a 50-34 win over Chapel Field in the Sixth Annual Chester Hambletonian Classic. E.J. Franskevicz was the leading scorer with 12. The Bulldogs advance to play Fallsburg on December 10. Class B Sullivan West and Class C Fallsburg will then part ways for the remainder of this season. Fallsburg handily disposed of league rival Chester in the opening round by the score of 61-37. Braiden DeGraw led the charge with 27 points, while Michael Robinson poured in 15. Earlier in the day in girls action, Eldred defeated Sullivan West 32-22 in the opener and Chester thumped Fallsburg 42-23 in the nightcap. That sets up a consolation game between Fallsburg and Sullivan West on December 10, while Chester will host Eldred in the title clash. Fallsburg was coming off a 1-1 stint at the Walton Tourney, which they finished with a resounding 53-33 win over Downsville, in which senior Sheryl Pinder led all scorers with 32 points that included eight three-pointers. Pinder struggled against Chester though and only netted seven. The game counted as a league match up, since Chapel Field didn't field a girls team this season and Fallsburg agreed to make this game Chester's home game of their regular season two-game series.
Meanwhile over at S.S Seward, the Spartan Invitational Tournament was revealing some great basketball as James I. O'Neill profited on missed late free throws by the then-winning Spartans to ice a dramatic 55-54 win in the first semifinal. Millbrook thrashed Liberty 58-31 in the other semifinal. That set up a consolation game tilt between Seward and Liberty, which the Spartans won by the score of 55-39, paced by Kevin Smith's 19 and Anthony Bailey's 18 points. Class C Millbrook won the championship game as it defeated Class B O'Neill.
Liberty's 0-2 start to the season was not what first-year coach Mike Salvia had hoped for but an upcoming two-week hiatus before the Indians play Port Jervis will give the team time to resolve issues with its zone offense and rebounding. Eddie Byrd was named to the All-Tournament team. He scored 19 against Millbrook and 14 against Seward. Liberty's girls (1-1) defeated S.S. Seward 28-23 in the opening round but lost to Goshen in the title game. Hardwood action resumes on December 9 and 10 as Monticello looks to defend its two-year run as champions of the Hawley Tip Off Tournament at Wallenpaupack. They'll have to do it without the seniors who carried last year's team all the way to the Section 9 Class A semifinals where they lost a heartbreaker to Cornwall. The Tri-Valley boys will host Deposit for their season opener on December 10 while Sullivan West's boys (1-2) and girls (0-1), Fallsburg's boys (2-1) and girls (1-2), along with Eldred girls (1-0) test their mettle in the final games of the Chester tourney. Indoor track will get underway with a relay meet at West Point on December 9. The season's first developmental meet will be held at Sullivan County Community College on December 12.
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There have been a string of alcohol-related deaths in the La Crosse community over recent years, many of them University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students.
UW-L Wellness Coordinator Jason Bertrand will be the first to say there's a serious problem. He's in charge of educating students about responsible drinking behavior.
He said sometimes he just can't help but worry.
"Yeah, I do. I worry a lot of times. I worry about our river drownings. I worry about certain students that I meet with," said Bertrand.
He gets particularly worried when he looks at the results of surveys UW-L students take about their drinking behavior.
"I wouldn't say they're getting better, I'd say they're kind of staying very similar to what they've been in the past years. Actually, the data that I just got from a different survey that was done at the university was pretty alarming in terms of binge drinking," said Bertrand.
That's a concern the university is addressing as soon as students step on campus.
When freshmen register for classes, they're all required to come to an event where the university can have a frank, realistic discussion with them about alcohol.
UW-L sophomore Kyle Malin said what he learned in that program still sticks with him.
"Knowing what you're going to do, maybe knowing how you're going to get home later, things like that, sometimes people don't always think about that and then kind of get into trouble later on," said Malin.
Molly Kroseberg is a student leader in her dorm, where she helped organize an event this year educating residents about the dangers of risky drinking behavior.
"Definitely in the first year, I think they're the most effective because they may not realize how quickly things can happen," said Kroseberg.
Although the surveys show students' risky alcohol use isn't getting better, Bertrand said he has hope the message of responsible drinking behavior will eventually get through.
"There's really a chance to change the culture in this community, as well as at this institution. I think you're able to see that slowly happen," said Bertrand.
Bertrand also does in-class presentations about responsible drinking behavior, as well as one-on-one interventions with students whose drinking is getting them into trouble.
He said Residence Life spends $10,000-$20,000 a year on fun alcohol-free events for students on weekends.
One of the areas Bertrand said he'd like to see the university expand is peer education.
He said research shows hearing from other students about their own experiences has proven to be an effective strategy.


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Guide to Using Swaddling Wraps
When it comes to swaddling a baby in comfort and supreme softness, it doesn't get any better than the swaddling blankets by Aden and Anais. Every swaddling blanket, each hooded bath towel and baby sleeping bag from Aden and Anais is crafted from soft, breathable muslin fabric for air flow and ultimate comfort. Our popular swaddle blankets by Aden & Anais are firm favorites of many cemebrity Mum's including Julia Roberts, Gwen Stefani and Jamie Oliver just to name a few. Swaddling a newborn baby in the breathable softness of muslin is the best way to safely swaddle the baby - swaddling baby in anything else simply cannot compare. Whether you seek the ideal swaddling blankets, amazingly soft baby hooded towels and baby washcloths, or you want a baby sleeping bag, you've come to the right place. The Aden and Anais muslin products are made with the safety, softness and breathability you need. Aden and Anais was formed by Australian mothers who moved to the United States and found that the swaddling blankets made of the muslin fabric they wanted were too small for their babies, Aden and Anais. Further, every swaddling blanket that was large enough was made with fabric other than the muslin cloth that is so readily available for swaddling a baby in Australia. So they began making their own, adding baby hooded towel designs, baby sleeping bags and muslin security blankets to their soft muslin creations. Before long, they were being asked, "where did you get that great swaddling blanket?" by doctors, friends and mothers out and about who all wanted these muslin swaddling baby items for their own babies. Hence, the company "Aden and Anais" was born. Whether you're swaddling a newborn, seeking a baby hooded towel or you want a baby sleeping bag and security blanket, you've discovered the Internet's favourite place for the safety, softness and breathable weave of muslin fabric in the form of items you need for your baby.
What is Baby Swaddling?Swaddling, or wrapping your baby in a blanket, can help him feel warm, secure and comfortable as he adjusts to his new environment. Many midwives advocate this practice and it is now often taught to new parents in hospital. Research has suggested that swaddling can help to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in young babies. Further research concluded that swaddled babies who use a swaddling blanket are not easily disturbed as they experience a deeper sleep than those simply placed under sheets or blankets.Why Baby Swaddle?A baby often has trouble sleeping because he's easily startled by a loud noise or his own muscle movements wake him up (called 'moro' or 'startle' reflex). If your baby has a startle reflex you can wrap him up in swaddling blanket to recreate the secure environment the baby enjoyed in the womb. You can also prevent a baby having startle or moro reflexes by wrapping your baby up in a swaddle blanket which will restrict movement of their arms and legs and creates pressure against their skin making for a more peaceful nights sleep. Some babies can feel uncomfortable for no apparent reason and a baby swaddling blanket can help to keep the baby calm and comfortable. Baby swaddling also helps keep a baby on their back as well as getting rid of unnecessary sheets which can cause SIDS.Baby swaddling with a baby swaddle blanket can help reduce the amount of Colic which is crying more than three hours a day, three days a week for more than three weeks. Colick is known for keeping a newborn baby awake at night.How to Swaddle a Baby?See our Guide to SwaddlingTo swaddle a baby, we recommend that you purchase a swaddling blanket which is perfect for the job. Lush Baby have a fantastic selection of muslin swaddling blankets by Aden and Anais.Why use a Swaddling Blanket?Using a swadling blanket will help keep a baby on their back and eliminate loose sheets and bedding which has been known to cause SIDS. A swaddling blanket can provide an environment very similar to what the baby experienced in the mother's womb. This in turn will keep the baby calm and comfortable and help to stop crying. Swaddle blankets will also stop a baby being able to scratch their face. A swaddle blanket keeps a baby in a good position while the baby is breastfeeding. Using a swaddle wrap will maintain your baby's body temperature. Not to mention, you can get many beautiful swaddle designs for your baby.
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On June 24, 2000, Scott entered into an intensive community-based pre-service training program. This program included 110 hours of training stressing teaching methodology and an introduction to the Ghanaian education system. Scott taught in a community school where he was observed and critiqued by experienced Ghanaian and American teachers. In addition to teacher training, he received 70 hours of language training in Krobo, 40 hours of cross-cultural education, and 25 hours of tropical health instructions. Scott stayed with a host family throughout the eight weeks in order to enhance cross-cultural understanding.
After successfully completing training requirements, Scott was assigned to teach at Krobo Girls Secondary School (KGSS) in the Eastern Region. KGSS is a Presbyterian school and Science Resource Center with three grade levels for General Arts, Science, and Vocational Arts students. Scott taught Elective Chemistry (equivalent of grade 11) and team-taught two levels of Integrated Science (equivalent of grade 10-11). Scott's responsibilities as an active member of staff included serving as teacher-on-duty, supervising field trips, facilitating student forums, and advising on various committees (security, entertainment, Diamond Jubilee pageant).
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In addition to his educational activities, Scott took time to appreciate many customs of the dominant group in his community. he photodocumented many significant cultural festivals for the Krobo people (puberty and agricultural rites) as well as the production steps for beadmaking in Ghana. While taking time to study them, Scott realized the importance of beads to the local economy and in history for his community. Scott has since enjoyed expounding on this subject to students, art volunteers, and visitors to the local bead markets. Scott is currently working to open the local bead market to the U.S. trade market in the future.
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a man and his dog
When Trevor Thomas and his black Lab, Tennille, finished hiking the Long Trail earlier this month, they crossed off another long distance hike on their to-do list. Thomas, 35, and Tennille averaged 10 miles a day hiking through rainstorms, climbing cliffs and rickety ladders, no small accomplishment for the average person.
But Thomas is not an average person. Thomas completed the 270-mile hike without benefit of eyesight.
About eight years ago, Thomas was finishing law school and looking forward to working as an lawyer in North Carolina. He spent his weekends skiing, skydiving and mountain biking, an athlete to the extreme.
That all came to an end when he started to lose his eyesight because of an autoimmune disease. A year later, Thomas could no longer do the things he loved.
It was the most difficult thing Ive experienced, Thomas said. At the time, he questioned his fate and felt as if he would never regain his love for adrenalin and independence.
Thats when a friend suggested hiking, something that was difficult without sight, but not impossible.
Thomas started hiking, something he had never been interested in before going blind.
I found it to be too tame when I could see, Thomas said. Losing my sight made it more of a challenge, and I liked that.
Thomas spent the first several years in his newfound darkness solo hiking with the assistance of a GPS system on his phone and the descriptive voices of other hikers.
Sometimes, I would sit by the trail for hours, just waiting for someone to come along and describe in great detail the next 10 miles of the trail, Thomas said. That tactic would not have worked well on the Long Trail, where he and Tennille went days without seeing a soul. He didnt need to rely on other people, however, because two years ago, he got Tennille from a guide dog company out west.
She sees for me but thinks on her own, Thomas said of his constant companion. The process of getting her was not easy. Guide dogs are trained from birth and nearly 60 percent of them fail to have the cognitive skills to be a successful working dog. Each dog must bond with their person or the deal is off.
People have told me that they can see the bond we have by the way she looks at me, Thomas said. Tennille knows how tall Thomas is, and warns him if there is a branch in the way of his head when theyre hiking.
I dont know how she does it, but she is right most of the time.
The four-legged hiker lets Thomas know when there is a trail intersection, water source, directional signs or obstacle in the way. She will physically lead him to them, or climb on a fallen log to let him know its there. She leads him to the Starbucks down the road from his house, or to his favorite Gatorade in an aisle of the grocery store.
She just knows, said Thomas, who cant go from his office to the kitchen without her trailing close behind.
Between a voice-activated GPS system and his canine guide, Thomas has hiked dozens of long-distance trails throughout the country.
Its simply incredible to see him with his dog, completing these hikes that are difficult for people who can see, said Vermont search-and-rescue coordinator Neil Van Dyke. Van Dyke met the duo when they came into Stowe from the trail to find a post office.
Its not unusual to assist hikers on this rough trail, Van Dyke said. But Thomas was not one of them.
Only 140 people complete the entire trail each year, said Green Mountain Club director of land and facilities Peter Antos-Ketchan.
Its doable, but challenging. Some places are very technical and isolated, Antos-Ketchan said.
Thomas said he no longer owns a suit and cant imagine being anything but the professional hiker and motivational speaker he is.
I didnt used to believe that everything happened for a reason, Thomas said. But now I do. I didnt find this job or this dog, they both found me.
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Sandpoint businesses pleased with byway
Downtown Sandpoint businesses are getting a breath of fresh air. The Sand Creek Byway has been open for four months and while some were cynical about the project at first, business owners are now giving it rave reviews.
The view out of Robin Campbell's store, Great Stuff, is very different these days.
"It is so much more relaxed and people are enjoying walking and crossing the street without thinking they will get hit," said Campbell.
"Locals feel a lot more comfortable coming downtown, there's more parking and it's a neater place," said Timothy Frazier, who owns Cedar Street Bistro.
The downtown business association, which includes around 430 businesses, took a survey in August right after the byway opened. The results showcased thrilled business owners.
"A lot of people said the vehicle traffic had definitely decreased but the walking traffic had increased," said Marcy Timblin with the business association.
It seems contrary to initial concerns that the byway would take people away from the waterfront town.
While it turned out to be a good summer for local businesses, not everything is pinned on the new road. Frazier says Sandpoint is becoming more popular nationally, while Campbell said it's too early to tell how the byway will impact sales.
"I didn't notice any real difference in August, September. There are so many other variables. People say it's an election year, the weather. It's hard to tell," Campbell said.
But the byway does do one thing; advertise the destination spot as people drive through. One store owner told KXLY a client was driving on the byway when she saw Sandpoint. She liked what she saw and turned around to come visit.
For those who believe in the city, no matter what surrounds it, they know if you love it you will find a way to them.
"I've always believed that Sandpoint has well established it self as a destination. I think people who want to come here will come here anyway," said Campbell.
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Shipping Up to Boston
The song that signals Jonathan Papelbon's entrance into a game at Fenway Park can also be applied to what I did the other day. I did not fly up to Boston like I normally do. Nor did I literally "ship" up to Boston (though I thinkthat we all wish that we were 'on a boat'). In fact, I drove up to Boston.
Anyone who is remotely familiar with a map of the continental United States can tell you that it is not a short drive. We trekked through some serious torrential downpours. I'm pretty sure that the storms came down form DC and Atlanta. I only say that because I know that those games were delayed Thursday night because of rain. We basically spent 28 straight hours in the car making stops for food, and rest stops to take a quick nap.
As far as the agenda goes for the week, I'm pretty excited. On Monday and Tuesday, I will be going down to Pawtuket to see some PawSox games. The thing is, I won't just be getting there two hours early for autographs this time. I'll be getting two hours early because Dan Hoard and Steve Hyder, a radio broadcaster and a beat writer for the PawSox, have agreed to let me interview them. I look forward to interviewing them about their careers as well as what they see as far as the future goes.
I think a lot of people disregard minor league baseball because it is seemingly insignificant and it is full of raw, not-yet-perfected talent.. Admittedly, I used to be that way too. But once you go to a few Spring Training games, and you see the kind of work these guys do, and the mentality that they approach the game with, you really being to appreciate that aspect of the game.
Plus, as you watch it, you have to realize that you might be looking at the next Josh Beckett, the next Jonathan Papelbon or the next Dustin Pedroia. Maybe it's just because I'm the "future blog of the Red Sox" that I'm interested in the "future of the Red Sox" because I want to know who I'll be writing about (hopefully), but I think that these guys are the real deal.
So even though the Sox cooled down a bit during the middle of May and towards the end, they are begining to turn it around thanks to Terry Francona's brilliance when it comes to the everyday lineup. Plus the fact that the starting rotation is starting to come together.
Slowly but surely, Big Papi is starting to come out of his funk. I think that the most impressive part of this entire situation is the perpetual support that he is receiving from Red Sox fans. I know that there is a lot of "underground" criticism, which there should be, but every time he comes up to the plate, I hear cheers. Only in Boston. When Mark Teixeira got off to his terrible start in April, he was getting booed in New York.
It's not like Boston is the paragon of mercy though. I hear vicious complaints about Julio Lugo everyday. So why aren't fans becoming hostile towards Papi? Personally, I think it's because we can never forget what he did for us in 2004. If it wasn't for him, I honestly believe that we would not have broken the curse. His formidable bat, and his clutch hitting was such an essential part. We cannot just abandon our love for him after what he did for urs.
Anyway, I'm starting to like this lineup. It's weird not seeing Ellsbury at the top because he seems like the prototypical leadoff guy: consistent bat, speed, run scorer. The problem was the lack of that at the bottom of the order, which was why we weren't scoring runs. And while I'm generally a supporter of the Youkilis-Drew punch, I enjoy Bay hitting in the four hole.
I've talked about Bay being Mr. Dependable and the new Mr. Clutch-Hitter, but it's not like he just came out of no where. His numbers were quite comparable during his Pittsburgh years, it's just that Pittsburgh doesn't get the kind of media attention that it deserves. I know that they just aren't that good, and that they just traded away Nate McLouth, but they deserve attention. They've got that young, raw talent that I like. Maybe I'll start calling it future talent.
I am also thrilled that Josh Beckett and Jon Lester are starting to have consistently solid outings. They both flirted with no-hitters quite recently (in fact, Lester was flirting with a perfect game). I'm done with flirting though, it's time to court that perfect game! Lester's ERA and record is not truly indicative of how his year has been, though. Like I've said, it's just been that one annoying inning that has ruined the first part of his season.
Recently, Lester has been having the kind of outings that everyone said that he was going to have. I think our little talk really paid off: he is concentrating on making each and every pitch. And have you seen the number of strikeouts that he has been racking up? 12 K's in 6 innings and then 11 in 7 I believe was the last one. And Josh Beckett has just been dominant his past few starts. It is all coming together now. All we have to do is get Dice-K away from these mediocre outings. I have no complaints about Wakefield– only praise for his durability. As for Brad Penny, what can I say? The guy has a winning record. I don't like him very much because I think he only has decent outings, if that, and he just gets very lucky with the run support.
I think that covers what I haven't been covering as often, and I am sorry for my lack of presence. I think you'll like the next few entries though. My friend will be guest blogging and writing a "Top Ten Reasons Never to Watch or Go To a Baseball Game with Elizabeth'. I will also be blogging about the PawSox game and the Yankee vs Red Sox game I will be attending on Thursday night.
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Welcome to Boston Elizabeth! I hope you enjoy your stay in my town and I look forward to meeting you on Wednesday! Enjoy the PawSox games! And sadly – the rain is on it's way to Boston.
just gotta give it time before pittsburgh explodes onto the national map and contends for world series appearances….at least thats BS that our GM is feeding us.
I hope you'll have the best time in Boston! Have fun with Julia on Wednesday🙂 Can't wait for the guest blogger as well.
hey! interesting/random: i saw you at the pawsox game last night (monday night). i go to a lot of sox and paw sox games, and i know that starting pitchers are always hanging out in the stands so i generally give a glance in that direction- glad that you got a chance to speak with Michael Bowden. he's great. personable and driven, among other things. it's just funny that i stumbled across your twitter account this morning (i tend to search a few prospect names on a regular basis especially in light of trade-rumor season), which lead to your blog. have a blast in boston… i'm going to follow you on twitter- i'm wiffleballhero.
Wow, that is so cool! I know you'll have a great time in Boston, that's great that you get to interview those guys. Looking forward to the guest blogger!
Hope you had fun! And I am looking forward to your friend's post :O) People who are casual fans hate going with me…I never get out of my seat and don't want to do anything but watch & take photos…maybe I am just boring by nature ;O) Ha!!
Well, I am just like Jenn at games, and my husband doesn't talk during the game either. People probably think we're mad at each other! Looking forward to reading all about your trip – have a great time!
Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
Have fun in Boston with Julia! At least things seem to be going very well for your Red Sox right now. I'm looking forward to reading your friend's post🙂
I hope you're having a great time out there!! Too bad you didn't take a boat, then you could climb buoys. Glad to hear that Big Papi is starting to come back!
Hey, Elizabeth …
Have a great time in Boston, and say hello to Julia and your other fellow Red Sox fans for me !!!
Well, "congratulations" for the two Red Sox victories in the first two games of this series … You arrived in town at the right time [for a Red Sox fan], just as Red Sox Nation is celebrating Boston's move back into first place in the AL East … Yes, 7-0 is a very impressive record [so far] for the Red Sox vs. the Yankees this season; but, I expect CC Sabathia to deliver an outstanding pitching performance in the final game of the series, which will lead the Yankees back into a tie in the East !!! … Josh Beckett was brilliant in Game #1; the Sox held on for a solid victory in Game #2, so a "tip of the cap" for those wins !!! … But, there still are many games yet to be played this year, and the "race for first place" will go down to the wire with both the Yankees and Red Sox battling it out for number one in the East !!! … It will be a fun pennant race !!!
Take care, Elizabeth … and, enjoy the game tonight !!!
I look forward to your interviews, and "posts" about your New England trip !!!
— Jimmy 27NYY Curran, "BY&L"
— http://baseballtheyankeesandlife.mlblogs.com/
Have fun at the Pawsox game. I think we will see Papi hitting third again some times soon and Lester will put himself in the Cy Young talks in about three weeks.