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Centurion is a 20 line, 5 reel slot game. There are multiple bonus games and reel modifiers.
Centurion is a 20 line, 5 reel slot game. There are multiple bonus games and reel modifiers.(Back to top)
Spin the reels to try to achieve 2, 3, 4 or 5 of a kind reel wins, or a bonus feature.
Centurion has 20 win lines.
Select the 'Total Bet' button to increase or decrease the size of your bet.
All games are always played with 20 win lines.
Select 'Spin' to start your game.
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Reel game line wins must match 2, 3, 4 or 5 reel symbols on a win line.
Line wins must occur on adjacent reels beginning with the leftmost reel.
A line win can occur on any or all of the lines.
Bonus feature wins are awarded for 3, 4 or 5 BONUS symbols appearing anywhere in view. There are four bonus games available to the player.
Any wild symbols landing in view during the reel game substitute for all symbols except BONUS symbols.
A Centurion may appear in the bottom right corner of the reels to award a reel modifier. This may either award 'Super Bonus Reels', 'Reelus Maximus', 5 of a kind wins or a Big Win. The Centurion may not always award a reel modifier.
Your winnings will be credited to your account immediately.
You will lose your bet amount if you lose the game.
There is an Auto Play function in the game that will start each spin automatically for a selected amount of spins or until a bonus.
Select your desired number of spins by selecting the 'Autoplay' button and choosing an amount of spins or until bonus. Once the number of plays has been selected they will start automatically. If you wish to cancel this during your Autoplay then simply select the 'Stop' button which will appear where the 'Autoplay' button was previously.(Back to top)
This increases the speed of a game by speeding up the reel spins.
When the Bonus is triggered you are presented with a feature wheel. The player must spin the wheel to select a feature. Note: The outcome of this wheel is not necessarily that shown by the odds displayed. The bonus games available on the wheel depend on the amount of BONUS symbols that initially landed on the reels. Three Bonus symbols anywhere in view will display Prizes on Parade, Road to Rome, Wild Power Spins and Caesars Free Spins on the wheel. Four Bonus symbols anywhere in view displays Road to Rome, Wild Power Spins and Caesars Free Spins on the wheel. Five Bonus symbols anywhere in view displays Road to Rome and Wild Power Spins on the wheel. Removing lesser features when a higher number of bonus symbols appear on the reels, increases the chances of a better bonus.
This bonus game features three shields. Each shield contains a number of prizes as well as an arrow and at least one collect. The player must select the 'STOP' button to stop the dapple. Landing on a prize will add that to the running total in the top left corner. Landing on an arrow will progress to the next shield. Landing on a collect will end the feature with all culminated prizes. 'Collects' appear with a prize so the player will be awarded that prize and then leave the feature. All prizes are multiplied by the total bet.
Upon achieving the free spins feature, the player is presented with two wheels. The player must spin each wheel to choose an amount of free spins to play and a multiplier for each win within free spins. The screen will then change to reveal the free spins screen. The number of spins remaining is shown below the reels. All winnings will be multiplied by the multiplier that was previously chosen on the wheel.
The player is presented with a game board with a Centurion figure at the top. The objective of the feature is to roll the dice and move the Centurion around the board, accumulating prizes along the way. The player must select [ROLL] to roll the dice. The number of rolls remaining is displayed on the 'Roll' button. Extra Rolls will be awarded if the Centurion lands on a square with dice on it. This will award two extra rolls. Once a prize or extra rolls have been awarded, that square will turn into an arrow. If the player lands on the arrow, they will advance one square forward. The player has the opportunity to win big prizes by advancing to Rome. This can be done either by successfully navigating the Centurion to the end of the board or by landing on the 'Go to Rome' square in the middle. Upon advancing to Rome, a number of large prizes become available. A dapple will select one of these prizes at random to add to the running total for this feature. All prizes are multiplied by the total bet.
This feature will award the player three 'Wild Power Spins'. During the first spin, the Centurion will drop down and place three wilds vertically down the 2nd reel. Any wins at this point will be added to the running total. During the second spin, the Centurion will drop down and place three wilds vertically down the 3rd reel. This will then add any more winnings to the running total. During the 3rd and final spin, the Centurion will drop down and place wilds on the 4th reel. Once the wins for the third spin have accumulated, the feature will end.(Back to top)
Reel modifiers are awarded when the Centurion blows his trumpet in the bottom right corner of the reel screen. There are four possible reel modifiers that occur randomly during a normal spin.
A Colossal symbol will take up position anywhere on the reels. This will represent one symbol across 3 x 3 symbol positions on the reels.
An increased amount of Bonus symbols will appear for one spin, significantly increasing the chance of a bonus game entry.
A big win is assured when the Centurion announces a 'Big Win'. This will ensure a large win composed of the high paying 'Centurion' symbol.
This will ensure at least one '5 of a kind' reel win will appear on the reels.(Back to top)
The top prize is a maximum of 500 times the player's total bet, unless a bonus game is won.(Back to top)
Due to the nature of the communications medium for the game, the player may experience interruptions, delays or termination to the game play cycle.
In the event of an unexpected interruption/termination of a real play game, the game will recover to the last known state.
If for example, the game was started but not fully completed due to closure of the browser or connectivity problems, this will not affect the final result of the game after the game has recovered, and any winnings will be correctly paid to your account balance, and will be exactly according to the winning or losing result produced prior to the game being prematurely terminated.(Back to top)
Wins from multiple pay lines and from bonus awards are added to determine the total win on a given spin.
3, 4 or 5 WILD symbols on any pay line will substitute for the Centurion logo symbols, unless a higher or equal win is available.
The bonus games will play out automatically, after a time out period.
Please note: The Maximum Payout in any one spin is £250,000 or currency equivalent. Malfunction voids all pays and plays
RTP is 95.00%.
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Following Jim's promotion to co-manager on the last episode of The Office, sort of arch rival (and unofficial assistant to the regional manager) Dwight is not too pleased. He reaches his breaking point with Halpert and looks to the rest of the office for allies. Elsewhere on the next episode, David Wallace goes to Scranton to announce the bad news that not everyone will get a raise this year. Finally, Pam, after being frustrated that there are people who are willing to drive to Niagara Falls for the wedding, would like cash instead of wedding gifts.
Tonight's episode of The Office - "The Promotion" - of course, is the buildup to next week's one-hour special ep that features Jim and Pam's wedding, when the Office crew travels to Niagara Falls for the special day.
On the last episode of the NBC comedy, Michael was frazzled the whole twenty minutes or so because Jim had a closed-door meeting with David. He tried all he can to find out what the meeting was all about, including at one point being sneaked into the meeting in a cheese cart made by Andy (Ed Helms). When the jig was up, David revealed that they were discussing ideas on how to make things work since the torrent of work after the Buffalo branch closed. Afraid for his own job, Michael told David that Jim was a slacker. All worked out in the end, and Jim was promoted to co-manager at Scranton.
Elsewhere on the episode, Dwight and Toby tried investigating to find out if Darryl's comp claim had basis - which somehow involved Toby shouting obscenities to Darryl's sister who, to be fair, kind of really resembled him big time.
As for Pam, she revealed that she intentionally picked Niagara Falls to discourage people from The Office to go. Unfortunately, Michael allowed people to take the Friday and Monday of their wedding off so people can go.

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Dare to rub noses with the polar bears? Or do you prefer to stand eye to eye with the Humboldt penguins in their fantastic enclosure? Spy on the unique, white lions from an exciting observation point and wander through the Bear Forest, where brown bears and wolves live side by side. Walk around as the orangutans swing above you or act like an animal yourself in RavotAapia, Europe's largest covered jungle playground.
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Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's core or central business district (CBD), often in a geographical or commercial sense. The term is not generally used in British English, whose speakers instead use the term city centre.
The term "downtown" is thought to have been coined in New York City, where it was in use by the 1830s to refer to the original town at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan.[2] As the town of New York grew into a city, the only direction it could grow on the island was toward the north, proceeding upriver from the original settlement, the "up" and "down" terminology coming from the customary map design in which up was north and down was south).[2] Thus, anything north of the original town became known as "uptown" (Upper Manhattan), and was generally a residential area, while the original town – which was also New York's only major center of business at the time – became known as "downtown" (Lower Manhattan).[2]
During the late 19th century, the term was gradually adopted by cities across the United States and Canada to refer to the historical core of the city, which was most often the same as the commercial heart of the city. "Uptown" also spread, but to a much lesser extent. In both cases, though, the directionality of both words was lost, so that a Bostonian might refer to going "downtown", even though it was north of where they were.[3]
Downtown lay to the south in Detroit, but to the north in Cleveland, to the east in St. Louis, and to the west in Pittsburgh. In Boston, a resident pointed out in 1880, downtown was in the center of the city. Uptown was north of downtown in Cincinnati, but south of downtown in New Orleans and San Francisco.[3]
Notably, "downtown" was not included in dictionaries as late as the 1880s.[4] But by the early 1900s, "downtown" was clearly established as the proper term in American English for a city's central business district, although the word was virtually unknown in England and Western Europe, where expressions such as "city centre", "le centre de ville", "el centro" and "das zentrum" are used. Even as late as early part of the 20th century, English travel writers felt it necessary to explain to their readers what "downtown" meant [4]
Although American downtowns lacked legally-defined boundaries, and were often parts of several of the wards that most cities used as their basic functional district, locating the downtown was not difficult, as it was the place where all the street railways and elevated railways converged, and – at least in most places – where the railroad terminals were. It was the location of the great department stores and hotels, as well as the theatres, clubs, cabarets, and dance halls, and where skyscrapers were built once that technology was perfected. It was also frequently, at first, the only part of a city that was electrified. It was also the place where street congestion was the worst, a problem for which a solution was never really found.[5]
But most of all, downtown was the place where the city did its business. Inside its small precincts, sometimes as small as several hundred acres, the majority of the trading, selling, and purchasing – retail and wholesale – in the entire area would take place. There were hubs of business in other places around the city and its environs, but the downtown area was the chief one, truly the central business district. And as more and more business was done downtown, those who had their homes their were gradually pushed out, selling their property and moving to quieter residential areas uptown.[6]
The skyscraper would become the hallmark of the downtown area. Prior to the invention of the elevator – and later the high-speed elevator – buildings were limited in height to about six stories, which was the a de facto limit set by the amount of stairs it was assumed that people would climb, but with the elevator, that limit was shattered, and buildings began to be constructed up to about sixteen stories. What limited them then was the thickness of the masonry needed at the base to hold the weight of the building above it. As the buildings got taller, the thickness of the masonry and the space needed for elevators did not allow for sufficient rentable space to make the building profitable. What shattered that restriction was the invention of first the iron- and then the steel frame building, in which the building's load was carried by an internal metal frame skeleton, which the masonry – and later glass – simply hung off of without carrying any weight.[7]
Although first used in Chicago, the steel-framed skyscraper caught on most quickly in New York City in the 1880s, and from there spread to most other American cities in the 1890s and 1900s. The apparent lack of a height limitation of this type of building set off a fervent debate over whether their height should be restricted by law, with proponents and opponents of height limits bringing out numerous arguments in favor of their position. The question of height limits also had a profound implication for the nature of downtown itself: would it continue to be a concentrated core, or as it grew, would height limits force it to spread out into a larger area.[7] In the short run, the proponents of height limits were successful in their efforts. By the 1910s, most of the largest and medium-sized cities had height limits in effect, with New York – despite several concerted efforts to enact them, Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis being notable holdouts.[8]
Ultimately, though, it would not be height limits per se that restricted skyscrapers, but comprehensive zoning laws which would set up separate requirements for different parts of a city, and would regulate not only height, but also a building's volume, the percentage of the lot used, and the amount of light the building blocked, and would also encourage setbacks to reduce a building's bulk by allowing additional height per foot of setback – the exact amount depending on what zone the building was in. New York City was the first to do this, with the 1916 Zoning Resolution, which was prompted in good part by the construction of the Equitable Building in 1915, a 40-story building with straight sides and no setbacks, which raised fears of the downtown area become a maze of dark streets which never saw the sun. What was worse, at least to real estate interests, the building dumped 1.2 million square feet (111,000 m2) of office space on what was a sluggish real estate market. To many in the real estate industry, the zoning law was an example of a "reasonable restriction."[9] Once New York had passed its law, other cities followed, although proposed zoning measures did meet stiff resistance in some places, often because of the inclusion of overly restrictive height limits, and sometimes because the entire concept of zoning was seen as undemocratic and bordering on socialism.[10] Eventually, a model law, the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act of 1922 was drawn up for the guidance of cities wishing to enact zoning regulations, which are now part of virtually every American city.
Central business district[edit]
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the downtown area was the business district of the American city, but beginning around the 1920s and 1930s, as cities continued to grow in size and population, rival business districts began to appear outside of downtown in outlyng districts. This was the time when the term "central business district" began to appear as more-or-less synonymous with the downtown area. The phrase acknowledged the existence of other business districts in the city, but allocated to downtown the primacy of being "central", not only geographically, in many cities, by also in importance. And in many cases, the downtown area or central business district, itself began to grow, such as in Manhattan where the business district lower Manhattan and the newer one in midtown began to grow towards each other,[Notes 1] or in Chicago, where downtown expanded from the Loop across the Chicago River to Michigan Avenue. In fact, the instability of downtown was a cause for concern for business and real estate interests, as the business district refused to stay where it had been, and shifted its location in response to numerous factors, although it generally stayed fairly compact – in the early 1930s even the largest took up less than 2% of the city's space, and most were significantly smaller – and remained the primary business district of the city.[11]
Real estate interests were particularly concerned about the tendency of downtown to move because the downtown area had by far the highest land values in each city. One commentator said that if Chicago's land values were shown as height on a relief map, the Loop would be equivalent to the peaks of the Himalayas compared to the rest of the city. In 1926. Chicago's central business district, which took up less than 1% of the city, had 20% of the city's land value. The same relationship was true in St. Louis in the mid-20s (20%) and Los Angeles in the early 1930s (17%). So when a downtown area started to shift its location, some property owners were bound to lose a great deal of money, while others would stand to gain.[12]
One way in which downtown changed from the late 19th century to the early part of the 20th century was that industrial concerns began to leave downtown and move to the periphery of the city, which meant that downtown's businesses were chiefly part of the burgeoning service sector. Brand new firms followed the older ones, and never came to downtown, settling at the edges of the city or the urban area. Industrial districts developed in these areas, which were sometimes specifically zoned for manufacturing. There, land was considerably cheaper than downtown, property taxes were lower, transportation of supplies and finished products was much easier without the constant congestion emblematic of downtown, and with the improvement of the telephone system, the industrial firms could still keep in touch with the companies they did business with elsewhere. As a result of this migration, manufacturing was no longer a significant part of the downtown mix of businesses.[13]
Another sector which began to move away from downtown even before the turn of the 20th century were the great cultural institutions: museums, symphony halls, main libraries and so on. Not only was the high cost of land downtown a factor, but these institutions wanted larger plots of land than were available there, so that their buildings could themselves be easily perceived as works of art. Organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New-York Historical Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the City of New York, all in Manhattan, moved out of downtown, as did the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Public Library, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Detroit Public Library and the Detroit Institute of Art, and most of the cultural institutions in Pittsburgh. Public reaction to these moves was mixed, with some bemoaning the loss of a counterbalance to the overall materialism of downtown, while others, particularly those involved in real estate, looked positively on the availability of the land which the cultural institutions left behind.[14]
The loss of the major cultural institutions left downtown as a place primarily dedicated to business, but the loss of another sector, retail shopping, defined the type of business that was done there. The great retail outlets like the department stores had always had the tendency to move closer to the residential districts, to make it easier for their customers to get to them, but after 1920 they started to congregate in secondary business districts on the periphery of the city. The growth of chain stores such as J. C. Penney, F. W. Woolworth, Kresge and W. T. Grant, contributed to the increased importance of the outlying shopping districts, which began outselling those retail stores which had remained in the central business district, and provoked those stores to open branches in the secondary districts in attempt to go to where there customers were instead of having them come downtown to them.[15]
Entertainment venues also contributed to the decentralization of commerce which affected the importance and influence of downtown and the central business district. Theaters, vaudeville houses, dance halls and night clubs had been primarily located in downtown, with nickelodeons spread throughout the city. When film became the dominant medium, and exhibitors started to build movie theaters to show them in, they at first built those venues downtown as well, but, as in retail shopping, chain exhibitors such as Loews began to construct them in locations convenient to the mass audience they were seeking; again, it was a matter of bringing their product to where the people were. By the late 1920sa, movie houses outside of downtown far outnumbered those in the central district. Not all the movie theaters in the periphery were palaces, but some were, and the net affect was that downtown was no longer the entertainment center of the city.[16]
With the loss of manufacturing, the major cultural institutions, much of the retail shopping in the city, and its loss of status as the entertainment center, the nature of downtown had changed considerably. It was still the location of banks, stocks and commodity exchanges, law and accounting firms, the headquarters of the major industrial concerns and public utilities, insurance companies, and advertising agencies, and in its confines continued to be built new and taller skyscrapers housing offices, hotels and even department stores, but it was still steadily losing ground as decentralization took its toll. Its daytime population was not keeping pace with the population growth of the city around it, and property values, while continuing to rise, were not rising as fast as those in the secondary business districts. Downtown was still the central business district, and was still the most important area for doing business and commerce, but it was no longer as dominant as it once was.[17]
Cause and effect[edit]
The causes of decentralization, which decreased the importance of downtown in the life of American cities, has been ascribed to many factors, including each city's normal growth patterns; advances in technology like the telephone, which made it easier for business-to-business intercourse to take place over a distance, thus lessening the need for a centralized commercial core; the rise of the private automobile, which allowed shoppers to go to peripheral business districts more easily; a strong increase in streetcar fares; and the continuing problem of congestion in the narrow streets of the downtown area.[18]
As much as people disagreed about what caused decentralization, they were even less in agreement about how decentralization would affect the central business district, with opinions varying all the way from the belief that it would diminish downtown sufficiently that it would eventually consist of only offices and the headquarters of corporate giants, to the belief that decentralization would lead to the (perhaps deserved) death of downtown entirely as unnecessary, a victim on its untameable traffic congestion. In between were those who saw a diminishment of the area's influence, but not sufficiently enough to prevent it from remaining the "Sun" that the outlying business districts revolved around. Others doubted whether decentralization had as strong an impact as it was credited with. Positions were taken that downtown was a natural part of the evolution of a city, or the unnatural result of a de facto conspiracy by merchants and property owners, so the question of what decentralization would do to downtown became bound up with the question about the area's legitimacy.[19]
Decentralization also increased the incidences of rivalry between downtown and burgeoning business districts. In Los Angeles, for instance, downtown and Wilshire Boulevard battled for dominance, and in Cincinnati the rivalry was between the old downtown centered around Fountain Square and the one on Canal Street. The diminishment of downtown by decentralization caused these battles to be between areas that were now more relatively equal.[20]
The typical American downtown has certain unique characteristics. During the postwar economic boom in the 1950s, the residential population of most downtowns crashed. This has been attributed to reasons such as slum clearance, construction of the Interstate Highway System, and white flight from urban cores to rapidly expanding suburbs.[21] Due to well-intended but ineptly executed urban revitalization projects, downtowns eventually came to be dominated by high-rise office buildings in which commuters from the suburbs filled white-collar jobs, while the remaining residential populations sank further into unemployment, poverty, and homelessness.[22] By the 1990s, many office-oriented businesses began to abandon the tired old downtowns for the suburbs, resulting in what are now known as "edge cities". One textbook, in explaining why edge cities are so popular, stated:
The big central city comes with dirt, crime, subways, stress, congestion, high taxes, and poor public schools. Edge cities are not immune to all of these problems (especially congestion) but for now they largely avoid most of them.[23]
Since then, between 2000 and 2010, downtown areas grew rapidly in population. In U.S. metro areas with at least five million people, the population within two miles of the city hall grew twice as fast as the overall population in the metro area.[24][25]
Relative geography[edit]
The terms downtown and uptown can refer to cardinal directions, for example, in Manhattan, where downtown is also a relative geographical term. Anything south of where the speaker is currently standing, in most places, is said to be downtown. Anything north of the speaker is uptown. In the common New York City phrase "We're going to take the subway downtown", downtown refers to traveling in the geographic direction of south. A person standing on 121st Street and walking ten blocks south could also be said to have walked ten blocks downtown. The term uptown is used to refer to the cardinal direction north. Such concepts derive from Manhattan's elongated shape, running roughly north/south and nowhere more than 2 mi (3.2 km) wide. As such, transportation on the island travels in the uptown/downtown directions. The other boroughs are wider, and "downtown" there refers to Lower Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, or some more local business district. Mercantile efforts to promote the South Bronx as "Downtown Bronx" have met with little success.[26]
In some North American cities, downtown is the formal name of the neighborhood in which the city's central business district is located. Most major North American cities are located on major bodies of water, like oceans, lakes, and rivers. As cities expanded, people built further away from the water and their historical cores, often uphill. Thus the central business district of a North American city, or the historical core of the city, is often located "down", in altitude, relative to the remainder of the city. Many cities use the Manhattan model and continue to use downtown, midtown, and uptown both as informal relative geographical terms and as formal names for distinct districts. However, the city of Philadelphia uses the designation Center City, not downtown, due to the business district's central location, as well as Philadelphia's age and circumstances; "Center City" corresponds to the City of Philadelphia prior to its amalgamation with Philadelphia County in 1854, leaving it without a unique name, unlike the former boroughs surrounding it; the center of the city is also where Philadelphia City Hall is located within the city's original plat. New Orleans uses the term Central Business District (or CBD) for their downtown due to the historical French Quarter district taking up what would usually be considered the city's historical downtown district, and another area of the city south of the CBD being referred to as "downtown".
Major downtowns[edit]
United States[edit]
- Downtown Calgary
- Downtown Edmonton
- Downtown Halifax
- Downtown Montreal
- Downtown Ottawa
- Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge (Quebec City)
- Downtown St. John's
- Downtown Toronto
- Downtown Vancouver
- Downtown Victoria
- Downtown Winnipeg
In popular culture[edit]
- Numerous songs have been written about or called "Downtown", but perhaps the best known is the 1964 song written by Tony Hatch and first recorded by Petula Clark. Clark's "Downtown" was an international hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 in UK Singles Chart. Both Hatch and Clark are English.
- "Downtown" is also a description given beginning in the 1970s to many different styles of art and performing arts connected to artists and venues in downtown Manhattan, to differentiate them from mainstream arts. Styles such as minimalist music, modern and postmodern dance, performance art, Off-Off Broadway theater and the various styles of downtown music were included in this broad categorization. "Downtown" art tends to be avant-garde and individualistic in nature.
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Informational notes
- ^ The movement of the two districts towards each other was stopped at first by the difficulty of building very tall buildings in the area between them, because the bedrock of Manhattan schist was so deep there, and later by zoning regulations. In effect then, contemporary Manhattan has two "central business districts", the one in Lower Manhattan, usually referred to as the Financial District, and the one in midtown, usually called Midtown Manhattan. "Downtown", therefore, is now primarily a direction, but can also be said to encompass most of Manhattan below Central Park, even though this includes residential neighborhoods such as the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, the Flatiron District – located around one of the city's very first "skyscrapers", the 22-story Flatiron Building, and Gramercy Park.
- ^ Historically, the term "downtown" in New Orleans referred to a different part of the city, and excluded the Central Business District. This usage has faded in recent decades.
- ^ "Marketbeat United States CBD Office Report 2Q11" (PDF). Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 8, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
- ^ a b c Fogelson, p.10.
- ^ a b Fogelson, p.11.
- ^ a b Fogelson, p.12.
- ^ Fogelson, pp.13, 188, 191
- ^ Fogelson, pp.13-20
- ^ a b Fogelson, pp.114-38
- ^ Fogelson, pp.151-52
- ^ Fogelson, pp.160-66
- ^ Fogelson, pp.166-172
- ^ Fogelson, pp.181-88
- ^ Fogelson, pp.185, 193
- ^ Fogelson, pp.194-95
- ^ Fogelson, pp.195-97
- ^ Fogelson, pp.197-99
- ^ Fogelson, p.200
- ^ Fogelson, pp.198, 200-01
- ^ Fogelson, p.201
- ^ Fogelson, pp.201-06; 216-17
- ^ Fogelson, pp.209-213
- ^ Ford, Larry (2003) America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 pp.242-243. ISBN 0801871638
- ^ Frieden, Bernard J. & Sagalyn, Lynne B. (1989) Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. pp.287-290. ISBN 0262061287
- ^ McDonald, John F. & McMillen, Daniel P. (2007) Urban Economics and Real Estate: Theory and Policy Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. p.160
- ^ Staff (September 27, 2012) "Populations Increasing in Many Downtowns, Census Bureau Reports" (press release) United States Census Bureau
- ^ Kneebone, Elizabeth & Raphael, Steven (May 26, 2011) "City and Suburban Crime Trends in Metropolitan America" Brookings Institution
- ^ Feuer, Alan (June 23, 2008) "Washing 'South' Out of Bronx Mouths; Hoping That 'Downtown Bronx' Will Sound More Uptown" The New York Times
- Fogelson, Robert M. (2003) Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09062-5
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Downtowns.
- The dictionary definition of downtown at Wiktionary


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The Best Backpacking Sleeping Bag Review
What is the best 3-season sleeping bag for backpacking? We chose bags rated between 20-35 degrees F and felt each of the bags offered unique characteristics that different users might find valuable. We've evaluated all-around performance, weight, packed size, comfort, value, and solid blends of the aforementioned traits. We tested the latest round of bags in the backpacking paradise of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, with extended trips on the John Muir trail and throughout the Washington Coast and Cascade Mountains. Overnight temperatures ranged from 12-65F. Each bag endured a series of tests that measured its performance in a variety of metrics. Keep reading to find out which bags came out on top!
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Best Overall Sleeping Bag While Backpacking
Western Mountaineering MegaLite
If we could only have one sleeping bag for backpacking and 3-season camping, it would be the Western Mountaineering MegaLite. The MegaLite was among the lightest and most compressible sleeping bags in our review (and on the market); weighing in at half the weight of several bags we tested, it still offers roomy enough dimensions to be comfortable for car camping or for side and tummy sleepers to enjoy on extended outings. The materials are top notch and felt the best against our skin among any bag in we tested. The icing on the cake is Western Mountaineering is a small California-based company that manufactures all of its sleeping bags and garments in the USA. Plain and simple, the MegaLite is a pretty rad bag. From single overnights to the John Muir Trail, this contender is among the most versatile bags in our review, thanks to its weight and dimensions. It's worth noting that its only two ounces heavier than our top pick for light and fast long-distance trips, but offers a full-length zipper, as well as more internal space.
Spacious and comfortable cut
Extremely light weight
Among the most compressible bags in our review
Made in the USA
Extremely versatile
Best feeling fabric in our review
Included stuff sack is a little big and doesn't compress it as small as it otherwise could be
Best Bang for the Buck
Marmot Hydrogen
The Marmot Hydrogen wins our overall "best value" award, as it offers a superb balance of quality, low weight, packability, and performance versus cost. The Hydrogen isn't the best price pointed bag, as the $150 Kelty Cosmic Down wins in that category. However, for a little more than $300, the the Marmot Hydrogen is a stand-out sleeping bag, offering several of the same materials, specs, and high quality 800+ down-fill that our other award winners, such as the Western Mountaineering MegaLite ($470) and Sea to Summit Spark III ($440) offer. The Hydrogen is also quite comparable in weight and packed size, but is $100 less.
One of the lighter and most compact sleeping bags in our review
Super high-quality bag for the price
Great hood design
Second short zipper is great for venting and getting into the bag
Average warmth
Average cut
Best Buy for Budget Backpackers
Kelty Cosmic Down 20
The affordable, yet reasonably lightweight and compressible Kelty Cosmic Down 20 takes our Best Buy Award. While hardly an overall top performer, this is the best down bag we've ever seen by a significant margin, especially for its $150 price. Cold sleepers and backpackers who frequently extend their three-season trips into lower temperatures will want something warmer, but everyone else on a budget should consider the Cosmic Down 20 (and pocket the several hundred dollar savings). This bag is far more durable and compressible than its similarly priced synthetic insulated counterparts and offers beginning or budget-conscious backpackers an exceptional value. If you are backpacking in warm summer conditions and want to shave a few more ounces, check out the Kelty Cosmic Down 40.
Great value bag
Hard to find a less expensive 600+ fill down bag
Lighter and more compact than most bags in its price range
Heaviest traditionally designed down bag we tested
Not as warm as other 20 degree bags
Roomy cut is amost too roomy
Top Pick for Cold Sleepers or Colder-Than-Average 3-Season Use
Western Mountaineering UltraLite
The Western Mountaineering UltraLite is an extremely warm bag that was by far the warmest in our review, while remaining among the lightest and most compressible. This award winner might just be a little too warm for most people to use for 3-season backpacking, but for cold sleepers or colder than average conditions, the Western Mountaineering UltraLite is tough to beat.
Warmest bag in our review
Very lightweight
Lightest bag by far with its temperature rating (and even lighter than several 30F bags)
Great no-catch zipper design
Excellent compressed size
Very warm for mid-summer
Weak velcro closure for draft collar
Slightly on the tight side dimensionally
Top Pick for Wet Conditions
Mountain Hardwear Hyperlamina Spark 35
The Mountain Hardwear HyperLamina Spark 35 is our top pick for the best bag in wet conditions. During our water saturating testing, the Spark 35, like other synthetic-fill bags, dried in roughly 20% of the time as treated water-resistant down, making it a much more ideal bag for wet conditions. However, what truly sets the Spark 35 apart from most other synthetic bags is how incredibly small it packs down and how lightweight it is (1 l b 12 ozs). It's lighter and more compressible than several down bags we tested and it even offers roomier than average dimensions. All of our testers loved its half-length center zipper that still allowed plenty of ventilation on warm nights; it was also just plain easier to use. If you're looking for a synthetic bag, a company that respects ethical animal rights, or you have allergies to down and want one of the highest performing synthetic bags out there, the Spark is your bag.
Incredibly small packed size that was even smaller than several down models
One of the lighest synthetic bags out there
Center half-zipper is awesome
Cozy feeling interior fabric
Synthetic insulation isn't super long lasting
A little on the colder side of 35° bags
Top Pick for Light and Fast Backpacking and Mountaineering
Sea to Summit Spark III
If you're on a trip where weight and space are your number one priority, but you need something more significant than an ultralight quilt, the Sea to Summit Spark III is hard to beat. This one pound 6 ounce bag is plenty warm enough for nearly any 3-season backpacking trip or summer alpine climbing trip (and it carries a legit OutdoorGearLab tested rating for 25 F). The Spark III packs down the smallest of any bag in our review, easily fitting into the corner of your pack; it won't remind you it's there until you crawl in for a well-deserved good night's sleep. The Spark Sp III is a high quality, super light-weight, traditional mummy style sleeping bag. It is smartly styled with the lightest 10D shell fabric in our review, 850+ Ultra Dry Down, and a mere 1/3 length side zip keep the weight to an absolute minimum.
Lightest weight and smallest packed size of any sleeping bag we tested
Interior fabric feels great against your skin
Enough shoulder room to wear at least a light puffy on colder nights
Is a true 25F bag that felt warmer than some 20F bags we tested
Tighter interior dimensions might feel a little cramped for some people
A little on the expensive side
Top Pick for Most Comfort
Nemo Salsa 30
The Nemo Salsa 30 wins our OutdoorGearLab Top Pick Award for being the most comfortable sleeping bag for backpacking. While the Sierra Designs Backcountry Bed 600 3-Season was a strong contender and it remains a cool and unique option, our review-team's real world testing and side-by-side comparisons determined that the Salsa was the winner. Our tummy and side sleepers just plain liked the Salsa's stretchy stitching and spacious "spoon" shaped design better. That, coupled with the Salsa weight (2lbs 1 oz, compared to the Backcountry Bed's 3lbs 1 oz), spells out true comfort. While it isn't the lightest bag we've ever tested, it remains respectable, especially considering its spacious cut. It still packs down roughly a third smaller than the Backcountry Bed 600.
One of the most comfortable bags in our review
Best bag for side and tummy sleepers
Great price for a down bag
Above average packability
Average weight
Included stuff sack is too big and didn't do a good job at compressing the bag
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The Sleeping Bag: Your Most Important Insulating Layer
Your sleeping bag is likely the most important insulating layer that is carried on any wilderness excursion. Sleeping bags provide a better warmth-to-weight ratio than anything else in your pack. Investing in a quality sleeping bag that is suited to your needs will help you get a more comfortable night's sleep, save weight and space in your pack, and keep you warm when the temperatures start to drop. Sleeping bags are also the bed of choice for car campers, travelers, and couch surfers. This review focuses primarily on sleeping bags intended for backpacking. However, several of the bags proved to be well-suited for car camping, summer-time mountaineering, and late spring ski-touring. They tagged along on several road trips throughout our testing too.
We updated our existing review to include several new, innovative, and popular models and styles and compared them to previous award winners.
Choosing the Right Bag
We considered over 100 bags and took many painstaking hours to select the ones included in our review; in the end, we picked bags that we liked for different reasons. Our review includes a wide range of 3-season backpacking oriented sleeping bags from incredibly light and compact down bags, to some high performance synthetic bags, to a handful of bags with unique designs that offer exceptional comfort. We've also included a few budget-friendly down sleeping bags and reliable synthetic sleeping bags.
First, carefully consider the most common application of your sleeping bag. Yes, these are all backpacking oriented bags rated from 20-35F, but some bags are more versatile regarding where and when you use them, while others are best suited for specific conditions or trip objectives; some will also offer particular advantages when used under the right circumstances. If on a budget, try to avoid skimping on quality; look for a bag that balances warmth, weight, and versatility. If possible, consider two bags, a lower-priced sleeping bag for car camping/campground camping and a lightweight bag for backpacking and mountaineering.
You don't necessarily need to buy a 20F bag for a future trip that you might go on one day. Instead, buy a bag for the type of trip you most frequently go on. For the occasional colder trip, just plan to wear more layers. This will save you from carrying a bunch of necessary weight over time and it means you wont overheat on a majority of your trips.
Important Considerations
To figure out what characteristics you should be prioritizing, you should reflect on what types of trips you enjoy and the types of conditions you are most likely to encounter. Do you frequently backpack in wet conditions on say, coastal hikes? Where a quick drying synthetic bag is best? Or do you embark on long-distance journeys where weight and pack space are at a premium? Are you someone who simply hates sleeping on their back or wants a little more leg room?
Criteria For Evaluation
We rated each bag on its warmth, weight, packed size, features, and versatility.
Check out the chart below to see where each bag landed on the Overall Performance metric.
Warmth is basically equal to the amount of loft in a bag, measured as the thickness of the insulation between you and the external environment. With the exception of very loose bags, more volume of insulation (not necessarily weight) basically equals more warmth.
Fit is the next most important factor in determining warmth. Bags that are too tight or too short won't allow the insulation to loft properly and as result, will feel colder where you are pressed against certain areas. Similarly, a bag that's too large will have drafty dead air spaces that make the bag thermally inefficient, even though it may have enough loft for the conditions.
Some bags tested here, such as the Western Mountaineering UltraLite and the Sea to Summit Spark Spark III have tighter interior dimensions, resulting in slimmer cuts; even most broad shouldered folks can at least wear a lightweight jacket while sleeping inside those bags. The rest of the bags we reviewed are wider and nearly everyone could wear a mid-weight jacket or more to boost insulation on colder nights. It's worth noting that Western Mountaineering sleeping bags are available in multiple lengths and widths, which is a huge advantage because you can get a bag that fits your body well. Look at the foot, hip, and shoulder circumference to compare dimensions for unisex bags. We've included these measurements in the specification tables found in each review when available from the manufacturers.
The backpacking sleeping bags that we found to be the warmest (for their respective temperature rating) were the high-quality down bags from Western Mountaineering, the Western Mountaineering MegaLite and the Western Mountaineering Ultralite. Both of these bags have 850+ fill power down and plenty of it; 13 and 16 ounces respectively. The MegaLite is a 30F bag and is roomier than the Ultralite, which is a 20F model. The least warmest bag in this review is the lightweight Mountain Hardwear HyperLamina Spark 35. The thinner insulation offers less protection from the elements and the lack of a draft tube allows more cold air inside the bag, leaving the sleeper less toasty than in the other bags. That said, we think the Hyperlamina Spark 35 will be fine for sleepers at 40F and above.
It's worth noting that warmth is also heavily influenced by conductive heat loss to the ground. Choosing an appropriate sleeping pad is important, especially in colder conditions or when sleeping on snow. Our Best Sleeping Pad Review will point you in the right direction for a warm, comfortable pad. Choosing the right backpacking tent or ultralight shelter for your trip will also influence the perceived warmth of a sleeping bag. OutdoorGearLab also has an excellent Backpacking Tent Review and Ultralight Backpacking Shelter Review, where you can finish out your research on the best sleeping/shelter kit for your next trip.
The sleeping bags in the review were tested in single wall tents, under tarps and mids, and under the open sky during open bivies above tree-line. See the Buying Advice on how standardized testing has helped (or hurt!) companies decisions on what temperature rating to give a sleeping bag.
Weight is a function of insulation type and amount, shell material, and features. In general, heavier bags use either synthetic insulation or lower fill-power down (500-700). Many of the highest performing bags we tested here use the best down (800-850+ fill-power) and very lightweight, expensive shell fabrics. A bag's cut and its overall dimensions also play a major factor in the weight of a bag as described above, and its features, or lack thereof.
At 1 pound 6 ounces the Sea to Summit Spark III is the lightest down bag we tested. It's no surprise the Spark III features high quality 850+ fill-power down, sports the tightest cut, lightest 10D shell fabric, and the shortest (1/3 length) zipper. What is amazing is the Western Mountaineering MegaLite is only 2 ounces heavier (1 lb 8 oz) but offers a full-length zipper, comparable warmth, and much more spacious (but still efficient) dimensions.
The Marmot Hydrogen was also among the lightest bags in our review (also 1 lb 8 oz), but wasn't quite as roomy as the MegaLite (it does cost $120 less). Among 20°F options, the Western Mountaineering UltraLite was pretty unbeatable; it was warmer than most 20° bags, yet also among the lightest (1 lb 13 oz). While both scored a 10 out of 10 for warmth, the Ultralite was not quite as warm as the reasonable priced REI Igneo, which was a 1 lb 13 ounce 25° option.
Among synthetic bags, our testers were very impressed with the Mountain Hardwear Hyperlamina Spark 35. While not super warm for its temperature rating, at 1 lb 13 ozs it was an exceptionally light synthetic option - and was lighter than several 30°F down bags.
Comfort is a pretty subjective category that depends primarily on fit, sleeping style, and internal fabric. Increasing the size of the bag's internal dimensions (to a point) generally provides most perceptions of what people would consider a more comfort bag, as the user has slightly more room to move around within a bag. This becomes even more important as users sleep on their side, tummy, and/or with their knee slightly out to the side - which is a common position for backpackers who like to sleep on their stomachs. Obviously the disadvantage of just making the bag bigger is that the company needs to add more material and insulation to maintain the same warmth; this often comes with a weight and packability penalty.
In addition to space for sprawling and thrashing, our ratings focus on a bag's features that will contribute to or detract from comfort. Insulation type influences comfort; all of our testers agreed that sleeping in a high-quality down bag is like floating on a super light cloud, while zipping into a synthetic bag is fine but .well, less heavenly.
The Sierra Designs Backcountry Bed 3-season and the Nemo Salsa 30 were the most comfortable bags in our review, with the Western Mountaineering MegaLite being a very close second. What makes the MegaLite special is it's significantly lighter and more packable than the two aforementioned bags, but nearly as comfortable. The Nemo Salsa 30 was our side and tummy sleepers favorite bag because we were able to sleep in those positions the most comfortably when compared to any bag in our review. We were also able to have our knees extended nearly straight out to the side while sleeping. What we also really liked about the Salsa 30, when compared to the Backcountry Bed, is that it was still a reasonable weight (2 lbs 1 oz) and a respectable packed volume that we would still consider bringing on a week-long backpacking trip.
The Sierra Backcountry Bed remains a pretty cool and very uniquely designed bag that offers the most "bed-like" feel of any bag we've ever tested. It features no zippers, toggles or Velcro flaps of any kind and instead offers a large "U"-shaped opening, that is covered by a down flap that acts (and feels) like a quilt. This not only helps regulate temperature extremely well, but also offers unmatched freedom of movement in the users upper extremities. While we thought this bag was awesome, it is the heaviest and least packable bag in our review, which is why it lost out on our Top pick award for the best Backpacking Bag for Comfort. While the Sierra Designs Backcountry Bed offers a mega comfort-oriented design, its lower dimensions were average and not as spacious as the MegaLite or Salsa 30. It also did not offer as nice feeling of an internal fabric.
It's worth noting that it is important to consider total comfort throughout the course of a trip, not just when you're inside your sleeping bag at night. A bag that's slightly more comfortable to sleep in may be far heavier and bulkier, and therefore less comfortable to carry. If you spend more time carrying the bag than you do inside of it, we suggest prioritizing weight and bulk (comfort while in your pack) over comfort while sleeping.
Features and Design
We assessed the quality of each of the bag's features and attempted to quantify how well they contributed to the overall performance of the bag. This variable encompasses shell fabric, zippers, draft tubes, neck baffles, and stash pockets. Traditional bags with snag-free zippers, easy-to-use hood adjustments, and hoods that don't come undone at night scored higher in this category, such as the Marmot Hydrogen and the Western Mountaineering Ultralite and MegaLite.
In most cases, more features or more complicated features can reduce performance. They add weight, complexity, cost, and the possibility of failing faster. The potential benefit a given feature has on warmth, comfort, or convenience is rarely offset by its drawbacks. Take stash pockets on sleeping bags, for example. It can be helpful to keep your watch with an alarm in the pocket, but it can be hard to hear the alarm through the down; if you roll in your sleep, waking up on your watch isn't exactly comfortable. In general, when it comes to features, smart design scored well and generally, less is more.
Three-season models are meant to be used in a wide range of conditions. They must function on warm summer nights at lower elevations, as well as when the temperatures drop below freezing near treeline in the fall. Versatility across environments, elevations, and seasons is an important consideration when assessing a bag's performance and value.
Some of the bags tested here, such as the Western Mountaineering Ultralight and MegaLite have continuous horizontal baffles that allow you to shift down from the top to the bottom of the bag, increasing comfort in warm conditions and warmth in cold conditions. We find these lightweight bags to be the most versatile in our test.
Other features that increase a bag's versatility is the ability to vent on warmer nights, meaning a longer zipper offers more versatility than a 1/3 length one. A little extra shoulder room to facilitate adding one (or more) layers can be nice on those colder adventures.
The Sierra Designs Backcountry Bed 600 3-Season has no zipper to roll onto and incorporates a quilt that enables you to sleep more like you would with a comforter at home. The quilt can be tucked into the bag when temperatures near the bag's comfort limit and is left outside the bag for warm nights and sleeping on your stomach.
Packed Size
Check out the chart below to see where each sleeping bag ranked in our Packed Size metric.
Packed size is a function of down fill-power, shell and insulation fabrics, and features. Higher quality down, lighter fabrics, and simple features create the most compressible bags. Obviously a more compressible bag is the better option, as it either gives us more room in our packs, or lets us take a smaller, lighter weight pack for a given objective. The most compressible bag in our review is the Sea to Summit Spark III which was slightly (10-15%) smaller than the Western Mountaineering MegaLite and Marmot Hydrogen.
Important Accessories
Unfortunately, very few bags come with decent quality stuff sacks and many bags come with downright terrible stuff sacks. An exception is the Mountain Hardwear Hyperlamina Spark 35; in general, to maximize the compressability of your bag, we highly recommend purchasing one separately. See our Best Sleeping Bag Stuff Sack Article for our recommendations for specific applications.
Other Sleeping Bag Reviews
We also offer an Ultralight Sleeping Bag Review, which compares hoodless options, weighing only 19 ounces or less. If you're looking for a lightweight bag that will primarily be used for overnight trips where weight is a concern, we highly encourage you to consider one of the models found in the Ultralight Bag Review.
Lastly, we offer a general Camping Sleeping Bag Review that compares large and luxurious rectangular bags that are too heavy to carry backpacking. These offer much more comfort than any model tested here and cost as little as forty dollars!!
If you are a woman and are looking for a new sleeping bag, check out The Best Women's Sleeping Bag Review to learn more about the merits of buying a women's specific bag.
— Ian Nicholson
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The Universal Audio Apollo 8 QUAD Thunderbolt Audio Interface is a professional 18 x 24 interface featuring state-of-the-art next generation A/D and D/A converters, four high-quality microphone preamps with Unison technology, and a powerful onboard UAD-2 QUAD Core DSP, allowing ultra-low latency digital signal processing with UAD plug-ins such as the included Realtime Analog Classics Plus plug-in suite.
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- Depth, Including Knob & Jack Protrusions: 13.5''
- Shipping Box (Width x Depth x Height): 24'' x 17'' x 8''
- Shipping Weight (with box & accessories): 18 pounds (8.2 kg)
- Weight (bare unit): 9.1 pounds (4.1 kg)
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Book DescriptionThe fascinating, insightful and often moving correspondence between Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill extends from their early days of innocent courtship in 1908 to Winston Churchill's death in 1965. The letters serve not only as a chronicle of their personal achievements and tragedies over the years, but also as a political and social history. In their own words, Winston and Clementine recount some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century: the sinking of the Titanic, the abdication of King Edward VIII, the downfall of governments, the Depression, and two world wars. Here are harrowing first-hand accounts from the battlefields of 1915, reflections on political triumphs and upsets, as well as domestic minutiae, foreign travel, revelations of social scandals and, above all, words of mutual support and encouragement that span the career of one of Britain's most revered statesmen. Speaking for Themselves is not only an important historical document, it is a love story and an intimate, charming and often surprising insight into one of the century's most successful marriages. Mary Soames is perfectly placed to select and comment upon this vast collection of letters. And in her introduction and notes she complements the letters with explanatory notes, biographical details and her own personal recollections.
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Bitch, get the bags packed, we are leaving the country!
Do they still want crusty old soldiers
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a lot of us old boys are jumping ship
For the love of god, don't move to Adelaide.
WARNING!! there is a CHURCH on every corner not a Pub. And it closes down at 1700 Hours Friday night for the weekend.
I thought we were full. Why am I always the last to find these things out?!
Come to Queensland, we've got more stuff that will kill ya but you'll die enjoying the view!
Apart from the overload of Churches, I don't see a problem with this.
Everyone whinges about Germany being closed down on a Sunday, but I love it.
I don't remember Paderborn being closed on a Sunday. Swimming, sunbathing and talent spotting in the Lido during the day (summer only)beers in the Porticus followed by a nice sing song in Paddy Murphy's - mmmmmmmmmmmmm!
How can you be full?
Your country's fecking massive!
They can lure me anytime they like!!!
Maybe we could give them a hand by reinstating the old policy of HMP Australia?
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family all live there...mind you i live in germany....
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