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Report claims AMD has hired a bank to look at selling assets, such as its patent portfolio
on Tuesday created a stir in the semiconductor side of the New York Stock Exchange when it published a report citing three sources as saying that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (
), the world's second largest graphics processing unit and x86 chipmaker, hired JPMorgan Chase & Comp. (
) to "explore options" including "a sale".
I. Will AMD Sell Its Patents?
"Sources" Say it Might
The publication cited AMD's struggles to achieve mobile market share as a key driver of the probe. An
unwillingness to pursue mobile options
is viewed as a key factor behind AMD's decision to
force Dirk Meyer out of the company's chief executive spot
in Jan. 2011.
did clarify that its sources suggested AMD may merely look to sell a significant part of its patent portfolio and that a sale of the entire company was unlikely.
JPMorgan refused to comment on the rumor. But an AMD spokesperson Drew Prairie directly denied it, stating, "[AMD is] not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time. AMD's board and management believe that the strategy the company is currently pursuing to drive long-term growth by leveraging AMD's highly-differentiated technology assets is the right approach to enhance shareholder value."
AMD vigorously denies rumors that it is pursuing a sale. [Image Source: AP]
That's a pretty direct denial, although the adjective "actively" could give AMD some wiggle room if it is informally probing such possibilities in secret.
AMD has posted three losses in the last year -- $157M USD (Q3 2012), $590M USD (Q1 2012), and
. AMD did post a small profit in Q2 2012 -- $37M USD.
II. Change is in Store for AMD, One Way or Another
News of a potential sale of some of AMD's assets is not the only surprising news to emerge regarding AMD in recent weeks. The chipmaker announced two weeks ago that in 2014 it would be releasing 64-bit Opteron server chips, and potentially consumer chips
based on ARM
Holdings plc's (LON:ARM) proprietary reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, a rival to x86.
The switch to
ARM's Cortex-A5x series intellectual property (IP) cores
could save AMD on engineering overhead. Versus the company's current monolithic complex instruction set computer (CISC) x86 cores, which are designed entirely in house, AMD's will only have to tweak, improve, and otherwise performance tune the IP-cores from ARM.
AMD has not announced plans to discontinue development of monolithic x86 cores, but given the high costs and AMD's continual struggles with profit, it would not be surprising to see AMD make that move once it jumps on the ARM train. For now, AMD's greatest market success is leveraging its GPU product in
CPU+GPU "accelerated processing units" (APUs)
, which have been scoring many laptop design wins.
The chipmaker is also gaining ground on rival Intel Corp. (
) in the server market. While Intel's products do win on lightly threaded loads, AMD's latest
Opteron 6400 series
) cores beat out Intel's offerings in heavily threaded loads. When you factor in AMD's cheaper prices, the company's server line is appearing very attractive to large clients; particularly those who actively run virtualized data centers or perform parallel computing.
Despite losses, AMD is gaining ground in the server market. [Image Source: Reuters]
world's most powerful computer
is indeed powered by AMD's Opteron 6200 Series chips.
"Intel is investing heavily (think gazillions of dollars and bazillions of engineering man hours) in resources to create an Intel host controllers spec in order to speed time to market of the USB 3.0 technology." -- Intel blogger Nick Knupffer
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"Provide Parking!"?
The simple solution to the death of the high street touted by Internet bores* but barely mentioned by "TV retail Expert, Mary Portas", in her recent report is free parking. Portas focuses instead on silly "use-category" legislation and other red-tape, while suggesting the high street must adapt to an environment where Online becomes the dominant channel, perhaps by allowing retail to retreat to a "core" town-centre, allowing shops to be converted into homes on the edge of the CBD.
I have had many arguments online, but none more heated, vicious and personal than when trying to get car-owners to admit to the externalities caused by car ownership. Any attempt to make the motorist pay for these externalities (most of which, such as congestion, only affect other motorists), is seen as an evil attack by shadowy forces in the "war on the motorist" or a "nudge" and therefore an anathema to the "Libertarian". It isn't a nudge, but just an attempt to get a market solution (something libertarians are supposed to support) to the problem of insufficient capacity on the roads. Motorists just can't accept that even as expensive as it is now, the Car is ridiculously heavilly subsidised, and few if any externalites are charged at anything like their true cost. By far the most obvious and pressing is the issue of town-centre parking.
Why don't councils simply provide more parking spaces? Well land is costly, and motorists are unwilling to move more than about 200m (in practice it's often more like 50m) from their car. In fact, they want to park directly outside the shop, and they don't want to pay for it. Yet parking spaces are extraordinarily expensive: several tens of thousands per space at ground level, more above ground, and hundreds of thousands per space below. Put the demand for free parking another way: motorists want to enjoy exclusive access to a piece of town-centre land with hugely expensive, single use, physically ugly infrastructure, for "free". Of course, by "free" motorists mean they expect the retailer to pay for the pleasure of the motorists' custom by providing these facilities out of their profit margin.
This is why councils are keen on Park & Ride. Land is cheap on the edge of town and a shuttle bus is cheap to provide. Generally speaking, given the amount of time spent circulating to find a space, most motorists would be better off driving to a park and ride and taking the bus. The problem is motorists hate being more than 200m from their car. Time spent looking for a space is ignored. Time spent on the bus isn't (perhaps with good reason). Even if successful in the search for a space, you're still imposing costs on others. The externality of parking outside a shop is to be found in the prevention of someone else doing so, and in the increased congestion as that person then circulates to find another parking space.
I wonder whether a variable pricing solution has any merit. Basically parking spaces should be costed on the number of free spaces in the immediate environs. If there are lots of spaces free on the street, or on that section of car-park, the price falls. If there are few free spaces, if you want to park at the supermarket's front door, or take the last bay on a street for example, you pay much more. Set the algorithm, and let the punters decide. I would always park where it was cheapest. This could also be viewed as an efficient fat-tax as the obese always fight hardest for the most convenient spots for them to waddle fatly towards their doughnut emporium.
This is, of course a "nudge" and therefore unacceptable. Only providing what the motorist wants, free of charge (they pay "road tax" don't you know?) is acceptable. Of course a retailer, who has to pay rents on the shop and rates for all that "free" parking, passes it back onto the customer in the form of higher ticket prices on the goods he sells. In response the motorist enjoys shopping as a leisure activity, browses the goods, has a coffee, and then goes home and buys whatever it was he was looking for, online. Thus the Motorists' demand for free parking is contributing to the coming dominance of online retail.
The other reason that councils don't provide unlimited free parking is that were they to do so, life would be made unbearable by congestion, as everyone wants to use the facilities at the same time. Roads have limited capacity and cannot get the people who want to park to and from their spots sufficiently smoothly. There's a balance between road capacity and parking provision - there's no point increasing parking capacity beyond that of the roads to sustain it. That capacity is limited by pinch-points, which in urban areas are often medieval centres with narrow streets. no-one is suggesting turning Cambridge into Milton Keynes are they?
Larger big-box stores will continue to carry the cost of high-street locations, but accept they will be mere show-rooms for delivery or eventual online order. The Greengrocer, butcher & fishmonger were killed by the supermarket, who provide the same service, cheaper and more conveniently. The town-centre shop is going to be (broadly) killed by the website. Just as there are a few butchers, greengrocers and fishmongers left, catering to a niche of foodies who demand extremely high quality and value the personal touch, it seems likely that the retail industry will be dominated by out-of-town for those who demand to drive, relegating the High-Street to specialist shops, many of which will operate significant online businesses. Here, e-bay is the shopkeeper's friend, and the catchement area of the shop is expanded by the Internet. Ultimately, the High street will become a leisure and social destination dominated by specialist shops with wide catchement areas, often locaed in clusters, coffee, alcohol, food, and possibly entertainment and culture rather than retail. It will be up to imaginative town councils to find a way to keep the whole thing alive. Portas is right. Cutting the red-tape, expanding markets, and altering use rules to make them more flexible is a better solution than concreting over more of the countryside, or building more multi-storey car-parks.
Research suggests that retailers consistently over-estimate the importance of motorists and parking to their turnover, and underestimate the importance of users of other forms of transport. In particular, Motorists don't spend any more than other customers, but they prevent users of other forms of transport getting to the shop, which could generate higher traffic. The fact you can park a dozen bicycles outside a shop more than makes up for any lost revenue due to "anti-motorist" policies such as pedestrianisation or shared-space schemes. Users of public transport, Cyclists and pedestrians can also enjoy a drink with their retail-therapy, motorists can't.
The fact is the demise of Town-Centres as retail dominated spaces is absolutely inevitable unless people can be persuaded to get more than 200m from their car. If you value the high-street, as most people claim to do, you have to use it, and pay to park your car. (Or take a bicycle). Me? I'm not fussed. I like the Internet and never saw shopping as a leisure activity. I find 'poundland' which appears to be replacing Woolworths on in every town-centre depressing, but that's a mere statement of taste. Meh.
*I am aware of the crashing hypocrisy.

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Margins - Fragile ExistenceThis is a late 2013 collaborative project between Dan Crossley (Facture/Fluid Audio) and Craig Tattersall (The Boats). Once again, this is an amazing product from Facture in which the packaging/art is as central to the release as the music. The music itself is decent, but not remarkable. It largely combines field recordings and tape loops to create a fractured but ambient atmosphere. The Crossley nature prints that accompany the release are absolutely beautiful, however, and are worth checking out on the Fluid Audio site regardless of how you feel about Tattersall. Sound samples: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/12/no-re-press-07-2/Images samples: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/12/fragile-existence/
Through a first listen I'd say the voices also remind me of what would happen if the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica were somehow reprogrammed to be peaceful and they all joined a hippy love cult- and I mean that in the best way possible.
Forrest: Good points. But, given that fans can be discriminating with respect to what they choose to buy, I assume everything balances out in the end.
Tord Gustavsen Quartet- The Well; great, minimal, slow jazz.
Speaking of Keith Jarrett, I love The Koln Concert.
Been on a Rush revisit these last few days...
QuoteBeen on a Rush revisit these last few days...I haven't followed them throughout their career, but I was a big fan of their early work. Lifeson's solo work on 'Hemispheres' (in particular) was totally unique.
I saw them during their "Permanent Waves" tour way back in 1980. I remember being really impressed with Neil Peart's drumming--a perpetual motion machine.Forrest


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How-To: Remove 05 Duratec alternator from above
OK, when I my alternator died, I read that everyone had to invite a friend over to help them lever the motor out of the way so the alternator would come out. Well, I have a problem, I don't have any friends. Really, even beer doesn't help- they just puke, or hate me anyway. I have to go it alone. So maybe you know someone in a similar situation, or maybe you are in a similar situation. Maybe you just don't want to buy any beer for your freeloading cheap ass friends who would only have to pull back on a pry bar for a few minutes while you do all the work. Regardless, here's how to go it alone.
E8 torx female socket.
Flex head ratchet
3/8 and 1/4 ratchet
Stubby ratchets
15, 13, 10, 8, 7 mm sockets and some in wrenches.
Jack stand
Wheel chocks
Stuff like that
This is mostly a picture story, and most of it is fairly self explanatory.
A daunting task indeed. Oh well, remove the negative cable and get started.
You'll have to remove the coolant reservoir, power steering reservoir and it's bracket, the noise suppressor and it's bracket, the purge valve and it's bracket, and remove all the bolts in the upper exhaust heat shield.
Yes the purge valve lines are just like the fuel lines- press the clip on it's flat side until it clicks and pull it off.
The purge valve is held on by a simple clip on the back side.
That's all the bolts that hold the upper exhaust heat shield and the 2 that hold the purge valve/fuel line bracket. Yes, it's 8 bolts on the heat shield. 2 long ones (the rusted 2) at the top, 3 in the center, and 3 at the bottom. If Ford hadn't put this handy small bolt holder up there- I'd probably ditch them completely for how hard this alternator job is. Thank goodness it lasted 140k miles!!
Removing this helps free up the fuel line so it's not so hard to move back. You'll also have to remove the serpentine belt cover after jacking the vehicle- there are 2 bolts- one under the headlight, and one in the center.
If you're not a complete goof, you'll draw out your serpentine belt routing before you remove it. Yeah, I know, manuals- right. Some have them, some don't, but even if you do- this might keep you from having to look at it later.
If you're having trouble removing the serpentine belt, then you're probably not holding your mouth right. I found it was easiest to use a 15mm open end of a wrench to rotate the bolt on the tensioner to the right while sliding the belt off the water pump pulley.
Well, I guess it's time to start removing the alternator.... mmmmm flex ratchet= fewer hand cuts.
To remove the alternator, you're going to want to remove the vent from the back of the alternator. You won't be able to remove the nut on the hot wire any other way. On my alternator, there is one 13mm bolt that holds the whole vent assembly to the alternator- although it's 2 parts. I was unable to separate the two parts while it was in the vehicle. It might help getting access to the bolt by removing the upper alternator stud completely with the E8 torx socket, and the lower bolt so that you can tilt the alternator forward like this.
To remove the stud you'll need that E8 torx socket I mentioned in the tools list. That's really the reason I wrote the tools list, and it's the only special tool you'll really need.
This pic is from when I put it back in, but you can see how not having the vent gives you the access you need to the main hot wire bolt, and plug-in connector.
Here's the evil vent, if you look closely you'll see that I broke the clip on one side that connects to the snout. It still connects just fine with only one clip. I had real difficulty removing the snout with just one clip- even out of the vehicle. Now you might be thinking- why the vent? Well electricity and heat go together like celebs and marriage. If you didn't put it back in, then the voltage regulator would probably die off a lot sooner. That's why I broke it apart into 2 pieces. I had to install the back side with the alternator in the vehicle. I wasn't able to put it in there with it on.
OK so now the evil vent is gone, remove the alternator from the remaining stud. Push the exhaust shield out of the way, and pull the alternator out just like this.
I know, it doesn't look like it but there is just enough room there. Maybe later models have a heat shield that is easier to remove- I don't know. Mine is like the one that ST's have, the manifold is tubular not cast, and honestly I don't know how to remove the heat shield without removing the mani-cat also.
There you have it- the impossible alternator removal from the top without schmoozing buddies with no beer money.
Be sure to clean your main hot contact points on the alternator and the wire before re-installing. I was torn about putting blue thread lock or anti-seize on the upper stud. The studs aren't zinc galvanized, so the steel will bite (actually galvanize) into the aluminum, so that means anti-seize. Yet, you don't want it tight or it will get stuck- so that's thread lock. I settled on anti-seize and about 20 ft-lbs which is more than it had on it when I removed it.I'll update the thread if that doesn't last as long as the alternator. Now you could use a little AS on the bottom threads, and BTL on the top few.
If you don't like that, get some friends (and beer).
(yeah I know the vc is leaking, that and the o2 are next week- my back hurts I'm old and I want to fart now)
That is a great write-up. I wish I lived closer to you as I would of shared my case of beer with you. I have an 06 ZX4 is this the same configuration as your 05? Thanks again for taking the time to do this for everyones benefit.[thumb][ffrocks]
That's pretty much the same way I got mine out the top except I didn't have to disconnect that valve , I had enough slack in the lines that once I got it off the firewall it would move far enough out of the way .
Question,is this the original battery or first replacement? I'm just trying to see if it's possible to avoid this job if i just buy a new battery every 5 years whether it needs it or not.
I wish I'd taken a pic of removing/installing the stud. That's probably the most important thing to doing it this way. I guess it's because I had to get under the car to slide the alternator on, so I forgot.
Excellent write up! Thank-you. I agree, I wish I lived closer. Maybe I would learn how to fix things on my car myself.
Thanks - very useful. I'll be using your info to replace the alternator on my 04 ZTS which has the same engine bay setup as yours. Never would have thought of the E8 Torx socket and I wonder why they design odd bolts like that into the car - to annoy home mechanics?
Times have changed from the cars of yesterday. It's almost like they build the cars around the motors.
It's not easy working on a car yourself anymore.
There are check engine lights that you need special equipment to diagnose.
Special tools for one thing or another.
Mechanics have to take classes to learn the latest technology.
Or buy a new piece of equipment, to even keep up with the cars newer technology.
A lot of us don't have the time or especially the resources to work on our own cars.
I remember my old Maverick. Changing a water pump, and fan belts, or replacing a set of shocks was a simple Saturday afternoon job.
I look under the hood of my Focus, and you need to be Houdini to work on it.
I envy and respect you guys that have the knowledge and resources to do a lot of wrenching yourself.
But for some of us, unfortunately. Its not so simple.
i know this is a (kinda) old thread,,, BEST ONE I'VE FOUND THO !! (so far),, but i did NOT buy the torx female socket,,, a 1/4" socket fit right on mine, and the studs came out fairly easy. the BIGGEST problem i am having is getting the heat shield far enough out of the way. (well, that and the stupid quick-locks for the fuel and purge lines).,, it looks like you only have your shield only "pushed" over,,, same as i have mine, but still not enough room.
I used this yesterday on my '05 focus worked great took a sawzaw to my heat shield kept the upper half though an bolted right back on the little [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)] wrapped all the way under my manifold. Its like pinch welded pieced together. But yeah 1/4 inch shallow socket on the studs an when reinstalling them I used anti seize. Great write up bro.!!
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I personally would sh!t skittles if this was accurate. Draftteck has analysts that plug in each team's needs and the rest of the work is done by computers. It's got some pretty ridiculous picks (understatement), but still fun to look at I guess. Here's how it has the Giants.
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I know there have been posts about "where to get 1/8" hardware cloth", but I don't recall seeing this source.
I'm making screened bottom boards with trays and checked Ace Hardware for 8x8 hardware cloth. They were very nice (as they always are) and said it came in a 200 ft' roll at $2.50 per foot.
I know some Beek suppliers sell it, but the shipping costs were much more than the cloth.
I got on Amazon.com and ordered a roll 10 feet by 3 feet from their supplier, "Polstein's Home and Beyond". It was 10 days from order to receipt. The cost was $13.22 for the cloth and $10.18 for shipping. Actually comes in pretty close to $2.50 per foot, but I only had to buy 10 Feet.
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RIC's Tahrike Carter to Play in All-Star Game March 23
Tahrike Carter
Rhode Island College senior guard Tahrike Carter has been chosen to participate in the 2013 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Reese's Division III College All-Star game.
The game will be played on Saturday (Mar. 23) at 3:30 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va., in conjunction with the NCAA Div. III Men's Championship Elite 8 basketball playoff game.
Carter, who's from Brooklyn, NY, also has been named to the First Team All-Northeast Region by D3Hoops.com for his performance this season, becoming the first player in Rhode Island College basketball history to earn this honor.
In addition, Carter was also one of four Rhode Island College men's basketball players to earn All-Little East honors earlier this season. He was named the 2013 Little East Conference Player of the Year, the Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-Little East and to the league's All-Defensive Team. He became the first player in league history to earn Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors in the same season. He also joins former RIC standout Bobby Bailey as the only other player to win Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors in the same season.
Carter was the only member of the Anchormen to start in all 30 games this season. The senior averaged 10.7 points, a team-high 6.6 rebounds, a team-leading 3.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game, while ranking among the top in the Little East Conference in assists (2nd), assist/turnover ratio (3rd), steals (5th), rebounds (6th) and minutes played (7th).
Carter reached double figures in scoring 20 times and finished the season with three double-doubles. He totaled a career-high 22 points against Eastern Connecticut on Dec. 8 and hauled in a career-high 11 rebounds on two occasions. Carter handed out a career-high 10 assists on two occasions and also swiped a season-high four steals on two occasions, as well. He is currently the all-time leader in games played (total of 118) in Rhode Island College men's basketball history.
The Anchormen finished the 2012-2013 campaign with a 26-4 overall record and a 13-1 mark in Little East Conference play to win the league's Regular Season Championship. Rhode Island College defeated UMass Dartmouth and Southern Maine to become the first team in conference history to advance to seven straight Little East Conference Tournament Championship games. The Anchormen used their hallmark defensive pressure to outlast Keene State and capture the program's fifth LEC Conference Championship trophy.
After dispatching Hobart, 62-59, in overtime in the First Round of the 2013 NCAA Div. III Men's Basketball Tournament, the Anchormen fell in overtime to Morrisville State in the Second Round, 66-61.


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Front Range (CO) > Thorodin Mountain > Climber's Log
Thorodin Mountain Climber's Log
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|via CMC Route
Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2016
|Great fall day and mellow climb. Just the bees knees.
|Posted Oct 2, 2016 1:40 am
|Nice bushwhack
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2015
|Easy bushwhack following the traditional route. Still some snow on the north slope leading toward Starr Peak.
|Posted Jul 6, 2015 12:15 pm
|Thorodin, Starr, Sheepshead
Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2014
|A fun hike with Peakbug that provided some great views from the summit. The weather was near perfect as well.
|Posted Oct 21, 2014 3:21 pm
|Thorodin, Starr, Sheepshead
Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2014
|Perfect fall day to hike through the woods with rkymtn. Headed to Starr and Sheepshead afterward.
|Posted Oct 19, 2014 8:50 pm
|5.5 climb
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2014
|Sweet 5.5 climb but very short and easy. Not worth it for the long approach though if you just plan to do one climb.
|Posted Aug 9, 2014 3:08 pm
|Lots of snow
Date Climbed: Apr 8, 2013
|With Buster through the snow.
|Posted Apr 8, 2013 5:06 pm
|after work hike
Date Climbed: Oct 17, 2012
|w/jim and josh, cold and windy today, guess winter is on the way.
|Posted Mar 21, 2013 4:31 pm
|Sarah Simon
|From Gap Road with Starr
Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2012
|It was friggin' COLD today. Single digit temps, snowfall, frozen eyelashes, the whole nine yards. Pretty, rocky little mountain. Enjoyed beers and dinner afterward.
|Posted Dec 9, 2012 10:54 pm
|Cold day.
Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2012
|Three of us started from small parking lot on Gap Road, we bushwhacked all the way to the top, it was cold day but luckly no wind. Nice little summit, snowy day, no much of views.
|Posted Dec 9, 2012 9:33 pm
Date Climbed: Jan 30, 2011
|Wanted to head over to Starr, but the pup blew a nail and so we turned back to the car.
|Posted Nov 29, 2011 1:38 pm
|Jeremy Hakes
|With Starr.
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2007
|Good hike.
|Posted Jan 18, 2011 11:40 pm
|Great Day
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2010
|We did a few of the technical routes on Thorodin...a fun rock. Didn't see a soul all day, nice rock, variety of climbing....I'll be back to do more.
|Posted Aug 28, 2010 11:04 pm
|Thorodin - Starr - Sheepshead
Date Climbed: May 8, 2010
|Hiked all three peaks from Gap Road in Golden Gate Canyon State Park with my girlfriend Meghan. I carried snowshoes but never put them on. What snow did exist was frozen solid and easy to walk on due to our 7:42am start. There was absolutely no wind at the summit. This was a great hike that provided fantastic views of the entire Front Range. If you want a small sample of the kind of views you get at the summit, visit Panorama Point in Golden Gate Canyon State Park (then imagine being 1300 feet higher).
|Posted May 10, 2010 12:48 am
|Second Buttress Scramble
Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2008
|I scrambled up to the top of the Second Buttress from the east. The views from the top are amazing!
|Posted Oct 31, 2009 5:22 pm
|Brian Kalet
|South Slopes
Date Climbed: Oct 18, 2009
|With Starr, Tremont, 9386 & 9260.
|Posted Oct 19, 2009 11:37 pm
|A favorite hike long ago...
|This mountain was always my favorite hike during my earlier years in Colorado. We bushwhacked from the west and preferred to do most of our climbing on the center buttress. I went up nearby Tremont Mountain with my kids in 1992. Wish we had done Thorodin instead.
|Posted Oct 17, 2009 1:30 am


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Consumer Warning About Unlicensed Contractors
Illegal underground industry taking toll on local economy
A consumer alert about unlicensed contractors and the damage they are doing to our Central Coast economy and possibly to your home or business.
Since the end of 2012, the California Contractors State Licensing Board has been enforcing new laws designed to protect consumers from unlicensed contractors.
"The unlicensed contractors have literally been taking advantage of the market", says Water Fixers of Santa Maria owner Victor Kernes, that is affecting a business like ourselves and many other of our associates in a very, very deep and financial way."
Kernes is one of 300,000 licensed, insured and bonded contractors in California.
He says homeowners and business owners need to know the new laws before they start looking for a contractor.
"Basically if any contractor comes into your home to repair, service or change out any type of equipment, install anything new, make any significant repair you have to now have a six-page "Home Improvement" contract to enter the home", Kernes points out adding there is no longer an exclusion for contractor work that is below $500.
The Contractors State Licensing Board routinely holds sting operations targeting unlicensed contractors.
"Think of it like a doctor, would you hire a doctor without a license?" says Rick Lopes of the CSLB, "not only do those people have to pass a criminal background check and exams to show that they are minimally competent to do the work, there's also protections in place if something were to go wrong that the Contractors Board can work with them to try and get the problems taken care of."
Unlicensed contractors are part of an underground economy estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars yet they pay no taxes, often have no insurance or follow workplace safety laws putting homeowners and business owners who hire them at risk.
"If you have an unlicensed contractor come to your business or to your home to perform work and something goes haywire with the work they have performed, they catch your house on fire, or flood the house, slip and fall on something they have left out inappropriately, a water leak somewhere, you as the homeowner you as the business owner will be liable", Kernes says.
For more information about the CSLB and tips on how to prevent being taken advantage of an unlicensed contractor, go to: http://www.cslb.ca.gov/.
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Special events-Dec. 27
Special Events
Art events
Kaleidoscope, first Saturday of the month for ages 8 and up at 10 a.m., Jaques Art Center; Art classes, first Wednesday of the month, 1-4 p.m. More information or to register call the center at 218-927-2363 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Auditions planned
Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota will be holding auditions for its spring 2013 Concert Series from 5-9 p.m. Jan. 3, 2013, at Lord of Life Lutheran Church. For more information or to schedule an audition, contact Bill Satre, chorale manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com; 820-4558; or www.legacychorale.org.
Creative Writing Boot Camp
The Crossing Arts Alliance presents "Creative Writing Boot Camp," from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 12, 2013, Franklin Arts Center. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $15 and includes all day workshop, lunch and beverages. For more information or to download a registration form, visit www.bluecottageagency.com or call Krista at 828-4717.
Lone Eagle exhibit
Lone Eagle exhibit at the Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site.
Singing opportunities
The St. Francis Community Chorale meets from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursdays; Sestri, a Women's Slavic Choir, meets at 7 p.m. Sundays; Brothers in Harmony, a men's singing group open to teenage and adult men will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Mondays; for more information, call the St. Francis Music Center at 320-632-0637.
Chorus rehearsals
Staples Area Women's Chorus rehearsals, 8-9:30 p.m. Mondays in Staples Motley High School Choir Room.


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Last Modified: Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:21 PM
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Maybe LSU should have stuck with the original plan.
One of the key, momentum-changing plays in Alabama's 38-17 victory came shortly after the Tigers had tied the score at 17-all in the third quarter and thought they had stopped the Tide on the ensuing possession with a fourth-and-2 near midfield.
But the Tide, after calling a timeout, faked the punt, converted it on a 6-yard run by Jarrick Wilson and went to the score the go-ahead touchdown that gave it control of the game.
Alabama coach Nick Saban said he didn't call the time out to go the fake — it was because the Tide was short a man.
LSU had bunched up eight defenders on the line of scrimmage before the timeout, and Saban wasn't going to run the fake against that alignment.
"We had been working on that a lot," Saban said, but added they hadn't practiced it against a bunched defensive front.
But, coming out of the timeout, LSU went with a traditional defense and Saban signaled the fake from the sidelines.
"We didn't want to give them the ball back," he said. "I thought it was important to finish that drive. I think it changed the momentum of the game."
LOPSIDED: Although it was a much better game, the final margin matched the 21-point spread Alabama put on LSU in the 2011 BCS national championship game, a 21-0 Tide win. It was LSU's worst regular-season loss since losing 51-21 at Florida in 2008.
BACK TO BACK ZACH: Zach Mettenberger threw for 241 yards to become the first LSU QB to throw 2,500 yards in back-to-back seasons.
BACK IN ACTION: Three LSU starters who sat out the last game were all back in action Saturday — FB J.C. Copeland, C Elliott Porter and LT La'el Collins.
FINALLY BACK: OLB Tahj Jones of Sulphur, who's been nursing an apparent hamstring injury, made the trip and dressed out for the first time since the Auburn game on Sept. 21.
NEW STARTER: Corey Thompson started at safety in place of Ronald Martin.
A.J. ON TOP: Bama QB A.J. McCarron became the Tide's all-time leader in passing yardage during the 80-yard drive that put the Tide up 17-7 in the second quarter.
ANOTHER BREAK: LSU, which was the lone Football Bowl Subdivision team to play the first nine weeks without a break, will have its second open date in three weeks this week.
SPECIAL GUESTS: Among the VIPs in attendance were New York Yankee scaptain Derek Jeter.
FLIPPING: LSU captains were Metternberger, DT Ego Ferguson, CB Jalen Mills and RB Alfred Blue.
SERIES: Alabama leads the series 48-25-5 and has won three straight. It was the Tide's second victory against LSU in Tuscaloosa this century. The Tigers had won five of their last six trips to Bryant-Denny Stadium before Saturday.
BACK TO HAUNT: Saban, who coached at LSU from 2000-2004, won his third straight against his old team and is 5-3 while at Bama against LSU. Saban is 5-4 all-time against the Tigers, having lost to LSU in the 1995 Independence Bowl while coaching at Michigan State. LSU is 5-5 against former coaches. The only other former coach to face LSU was Paul Dietzel, who lost both times (1966 and 1973) while coaching at South Carolina. Dietzel died last month.
EVEN UP: Les Miles is 5-5 against Alabama and 3-5 since Nick Saban took over the Tide in 2007.
BAD TRIO: LSU lost three regularseason games for the first time since 2009.


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OK, them showing Ashley's winning free skate from last night was unnecessary. They should've shown Armin's SP instead.
OK, them showing Ashley's winning free skate from last night was unnecessary. They should've shown Armin's SP instead.
GORGEOUS skate by Ashley, my sis agrees, though she laughed a little when Ashley did her fabulous spiral, and I asked her why and she said "it looks so robotic", then I explained to her that's the part where Natalie Portman sprouts wings and is my favorite part. I'm just glad my sister says she was good, did she win? and I said "Yes".
Jason brown! I love this kid. I think he's the future of US men's figure skating for sure...once he gets his jumps, P-Chiddy had better watch out.
What is this music, again? I know it, and it's driving me crazy.
Could it be from Avatar?
I agree. Jason Brown is something extremely special.
OMG, they skipped Jonathan and Grant, who were brilliant in the SP, and one of only 4 skaters to get all level 4s on all applicable elements (Jason Brown and Armin are the other two). BOO, NBC, BOO!
Jason Brown had a meltdown after his fall during the choreographed footwork sequence. I am gutted, but hopefully this will be a learning experience and he'll know to shrug off mistakes in the future.
Not with a skate like that. I only saw the last halfish, though.
Also, Adam and Ashley looked cute in the backstage glimpse.
Jason Brown's skating blew me away!! I didn't see falls, I saw what he could do well.
I don't care....I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Jason Brown. And, I love his attitude...he fell on footwork and unraveled a bit, but you could see he was trying and his smile at the end shows that he has spunk and I feel certain he will only grow from this.
Gosh....so much going on in that program. I really love all the split jumps (don't know the different names), and spiral stuff and just great movement.
Bah... They didn't show Grant or Jonathan.
Really enjoyed Jason. Too bad about the couple of falls at the end, but what an innovative skater.
Too much pressure on Jason Brown, especially by the commentators, and fans. Too bad, I thought he was even better than Adam Rippon until he started falling. I'd send him to Jr. Worlds again and see if he can improve upon his 7th place finish from last year. Same goes for Gracie Gold. Too much pressure, and this is the result.
Ahhh, Jason, I thought he seemed a lot more nervous than usual, but the fall on footwork came out of nowhere -- either it was the adrenalin (excitement of competition at Nats) kind of sapping his energy, and then the first fall made him lose his focus. He is usually so rock solid.
Love Jason and both of his programs. Too bad about the falls. Now that was uncharacteristic. Scott gets this one right unlike Agnes.
stilll...great score for Brown given what happened, so, this means at least 6thplace, right? Not bad at all.


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by Mary Moran, ChildFund Senior Program Specialist, Early Childhood Development
Earlier this week, I was at World Bank headquarters for the launch of the new Lancet series on early childhood development as a global concern. These studies follow up on new evidence about the impact of early childhood development programs and the risks young children face in their development. They also highlight what things give children some form of protection even when they live in environments of extreme poverty, face high rates of malnutrition or lack stimulation.
Recent evidence demonstrates significant risk for young children's development when
However, children are protected when
ChildFund's Early Childhood Development programs address these risks and protective features through:
For additional reading, you'll find the article series, on the website of the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (ChildFund is an active member of this group).


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I just caught bees for the first time in one of my swarm traps on Saturday afternoon. (I Just happened to be standing there when the swarm arrived - it was awesome). I was going to remove them right away, but worried they'd abscond, and I really don't have a lot of brood comb to donate to them in order to keep them in a hive. So I elected to leave them there, and added another trap nearby in case other colonies had been interested in the trap.
The traps are frame boxes with 9 narrrow frames - 8 foundationless, and one full of brood comb set against a side wall.
My question:
How long do you leave your traps with new swarms before you move them to a permanent location? And do you feed once you move them?


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"Rethinking Legal Approaches to Terrorism and Mass Atrocity" Symposium March 26
Wayne State University Law School will host the first annual Edward Wise Memorial Endowed Symposium on "Rethinking Legal Approaches to Terrorism and Mass Atrocity" on Monday, March 26, 2007.
Three of the country's leading figures in international criminal law will examine the emerging legal responses to terrorism and mass atrocity. The panelists will consider how we should respond to acts that challenge many traditional assumptions of international law and state policy. Is the proper approach one of law enforcement or war-fighting? What legal status should be accorded terrorists and independent contractors participating in armed conflicts? Should international law rank atrocity crimes?
Kenneth Anderson of Washington College of Law at American University will present "After the Global War on Terror: Counterterrorism Policy in a New Administration." Professor Anderson is an expert in international human rights; war and armed conflict; and terrorism and state terrorism.
Madeline Morris, professor of Law at Duke University, will speak on "The Fifth Column: Terror, Crime, and War." She is currently the advisor to the chief defense counsel for the detainees at Guantanamo in their proceedings before U.S. military commissions.
Professor Steven Ratner of the University of Michigan Law School will discuss "Labeling Mass Atrocity: Does and Should International Criminal Law Rank Evil?" His three books discuss UN peacekeeping; accountability for human rights atrocities; and international legal processes.
Professor Brad R. Roth of Wayne State University Law School will serve as commentator.
The Symposium will be held in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium, 471 W. Palmer Street, Detroit, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public and parking is available in Structure #1 across from the Law School for $3.50. For more information on this event, please contact Robin Dortenzio (313) 577-3934 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Symposium is named in memory of Edward M. Wise, a renowned scholar and professor of criminal law, comparative law, international criminal law, and legal history, who taught at the Law School from 1965 until his untimely death in 2000.


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He is far faster than Dayne but they have the same running style faults............Look you have in Andre Brown one of the best RBs in the NFL........All he has to do is stay healthy.......why worry, and why rush Wilson into a starting assignment he is clearly not ready for.....he is a situational back at this time without the proper technique to be a Starter
Bradshaw was let go because of Brown's emergence, not Wilson's
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
"When I was 15, I could not believe how dumb my father was.....when I was 25, I could not believe how much he had learned in 10 years"
1st to use the phrase "In Reese we trust"
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
And this is why not re-signing Bradshaw absolutely mystifies me........not only was he a killer RB but a clubhouse leader and extremely passionate Giant
more of a problem solver than a problem........yes he had shaky ankles but he is so tough it does not seem to slow him down.....I wish him well at the Colts
What you guys see in Wilson also mystifies me.......his burst through wide open holes are impressive but not very repeatable with our O Line


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I think the FO is taking a long look at players who are habitually injured. Unfortunately, AB was a victim of these cuts, even though the guy tried to play through most of his injuries. Then we have players like Nicks, when injured, seems to really hamper the chemistry on offense. TT goes out every season and leaves a hole in our Defensive secondary. We have issue on the OL with injury prone players that cause us to shuffle people around and kills chemistry. Tuck seems to have nagging injuries every season.
Don't get me wrong, injuries are going to happen. Anybody is subject to getting injured. However, I think the team is looking at folks who are injured every season.


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Piscataqua River Dye Study at Peirce Island Scheduled for December 11
Portsmouth, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New England Regional Laboratory, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Maine Department of Marine Resources and the City of Portsmouth will begin conducting a dye tracing study on Tuesday, December 11. They will be tracking the flow and dispersion of water in the Piscataqua River from the City of Portsmouth wastewater treatment facility on Peirce Island, upstream into the Great Bay area, New Hampshire, as well as downstream in the Piscataqua River through Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine.
Information from this study will be used by DES to determine what areas in the Lower Piscataqua River may be suitable for recreational shellfish harvest and for commercial shellfish aquaculture, while still protecting public health. Rhodamine WT dye will be released early in the morning of December 11 from the Portsmouth wastewater treatment facility on Peirce Island for a period of approximately 12 hours. As a result of the injection, portions of the Piscataqua River may turn reddish in color for a brief time through the communities of Portsmouth, New Castle, Rye, and Kittery; however, the dye is not harmful to people or the ecosystem.
The addition of dye to the treated wastewater effluent is intended to simulate conditions that may result in the rare instance of a treatment breakdown at the facility. Measurements of dye dilution and transport in the river can then be used to identify areas that may be at a higher level of risk for contamination. Similar studies have been conducted previously at the wastewater treatment facilities in Dover, Durham, Exeter, Newmarket, Hampton, Seabrook, Newfields, and Kittery, Maine. For more information about the study, please contact Chris Nash, DES Shellfish Program at 603-568-6741.
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In what appears to have been his final ekiden appearance, 5000 m and 30 km national record holder and former 30 km world record holder Takayuki Matsumiya brought pre-race favorite Team Konica Minolta home to its first New Year Ekiden title since 2008, winning the seven-stage, 100.0 km national corporate men's championship event in 4:51:32 by a margin of over a kilometer. After a relatively slow start Konica Minolta took the lead on the race's longest stage, the 22.0 km Fourth Stage with a stage-second run by captain Tsuyoshi Ugachi, and with stage wins on the remaining three legs its lead was never threatened. Samuel Wanjiru's former team Toyota Kyushu was an unexpected 2nd, its best-ever finish, thanks to three strong middle-stage runs including a Fourth Stage record by Masato Imai and a superbly-timed kick by anchor Takuya Sakai to win a seven-way sprint finish for the remaining podium spots behind Konica. Running without 2011 10000 m world champion Ibrahim Jeilan, Team Honda appeared to take 3rd by a second as anchor Masakazu Fujiwara outleaned Yuki Nakamura of Team Kanebo, but the results were later amended to give 3rd to Kanebo. The next four teams came in within seven seconds. Defending champion Team Nissin Shokuhin and the powerful Team Asahi Kasei were only 9th and 10th as their top men Yuki Sato and Hiroyuki Horibata both faltered.
While the First Stage has tended to be a relatively dull pack race with a sprint finish, 2012's top Japanese man over 10000 m and the half marathon, Chihiro Miyawaki (Team Toyota), came back from injuries to take it out hard. Hard enough to overtake the camera cars and motorcycles and have to put his hand out to avoid being bumped by a car full of photographers on the first corner. The only runner to go with him was 2010's top Japanese man over 10000 m and the half marathon, Tomoya Onishi (Team Asahi Kasei), in his first major run since winning the First Stage at the 2011 New Year Ekiden. In a mirror of the 2007 Hakone Ekiden First Stage where Onishi was the only runner to chase future Olympian Yuki Sato on his way to the course record, Miyawaki and Onishi rapidly opened a lead of more than 30 seconds over the rest of the field which placidly stayed bunched together for most of the stage. Late in the run Miyawaki shook free of Onishi to open a lead of 28 seconds, with Onishi nearly run down by the front end of the advancing pack.
The reliable John Thuo (Kenya/Team Toyota) kept Toyota's lead on the 8.3 km "International Stage," the shortest of the day, just holding off stage winner Patrick Mutunga (Kenya/Team Toyota Boshoku) by two seconds. Behind them there was radical turnover in the field as teams without African runners including Asahi Kasei and Toyota Kyushu faded. Mutunga was very impressive, running with an unusually Japanese-style form as he outran all but Thuo. Two-time world junior 3000 mSC champion Jonathan Ndiku, appearing in the new Hitachi Busuryu uniform after the team's transfer of sponsors this year, was only one second off Mutunga's time of 22:24 to put Hitachi into a good position. One notable blowup came from former Sera H.S. star Charles Ndirangu, who opened his Team JFE Steel debut with a 2:35 km only to fade dramatically and lose eight places.
Just two seconds back from the lead at the start of the 13.6 km Third Stage, Toyota Boshoku's Yoshihiro Yamamoto surprisingly ran down leader Yusuke Takabayashi (Team Toyota), last year's anchor stage winner, to put the Chubu region winners into the lead. Takabayashi was only 31st on the stage, crushing Toyota's hopes of duplicating its 2011 national title. Further back, Takuya Fukatsu (Team Asahi Kasei), Yuya Konishi (Team Toyota Kyushu), Hisanori Kitajima (Team Yasukawa Denki) and others advanced through the field to set up an incredible Fourth Stage.
Toyota Boshoku's Tomohiro Shiiya, a former member of the now-defunct TEPCO team, inherited a slight lead over London Olympics marathon 6th-place Kentaro Nakamoto (Team Yasukawa Denki) and 2:08:24 marathoner Hiroyuki Horibata (Team Asahi Kasei), who in turn had a small lead over World Half Marathon team members Tsuyoshi Ugachi (Team Konica Minolta) and Masato Kihara (Team Kanebo). Further back lay former Hakone Ekiden Fifth Stage star Imai of Toyota Kyushu. Up front Nakamoto made short work of catching Shiiya, while Horibata almost immediately began to show signs of fatigue from Fukuoka less than a month ago. Kihara and Ugachi opened the 22.0 km stage with sub-28 clockings through 10 km. Behind them Imai was going even faster. There was too much action to recount, but the stage eventually shook down to Imai running down Shiiya and Ugachi in a sprint finish. Ugachi handed off a step ahead of Imai, but it was Imai who took the stage best. And the record, breaking Yuki Sato's year-old mark of 1:02:51 by one second. After a great fall season you have to hope Imai has a marathon on the calendar soon.
Although the margin between them grew steadily as the field turned into a strong headwind, Konica Minolta and Toyota Kyushu's positions remained constant at 1st and 2nd all the way to the finish. Tomoya Shirayanagi (Team Toyota Boshoku) lost touch with the lead pair on the 15.8 km Fifth Stage, and Yu Mitsuya (Team Toyota Kyushu) soon followed suit as Konica Minolta rookie Masaki Ito clocked a stage best to get away safely into 1st. Konica's Sixth Stage runner Ryotaro Nitta also ran his stage's best time to bump Konica's lead to over 2 1/2 minutes at the final handoff. London track Olympian Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) and, in his pro debut, Hakone Ekiden superstar Ryuji Kashiwabara (Team Fujitsu) both underperformed, picking up one or two places but not cracking the top three on stage time. Judging from the nonstop ovation to greet him along the course, at least in Kashiwabara's case none of his fans cared.
Being completely unchallenged did not stop Konica anchor Matsumiya from running like a national record holder, extending the team's lead by over a minute and claiming the stage best by 19 seconds. Race announcers first said that Matsumiya is scheduled to run next month's Tokyo Marathon, then suggested that this would be his last New Year Ekiden before retiring. If true on the one hand it is unfortunate as despite being the former 30 km world record holder it took until last spring for him to figure out what he was doing with the marathon. On the other, what better way to see one of the country's greats wrap up his career than with a masterful run to give his team its first national title in five years?
Behind him, a chase group of five solidified, while another group of five gunning for the final two podium spots also came together. As 2010 Tokyo Marathon winner Masakazu Fujiwara (Team Honda) lead the front pack, local Yuya Shiokawa (Team Subaru) and 2011 World Championships marathoner Yoshinori Oda (Team Toyota) broke free of the second chase pack to catch the front pack with 2 km to go and make it a seven-man race for seven podium positions. Virtually all seven took shots at the lead over the last 600 m, but it was the most unknown of them, Toyota Kyushu's Sakai, who emerged the hero to give his unranked team its best-ever placing. Fujiwara appeared to get over the line ahead of Kanebo anchor Nakamura, but judges reversed the placing shortly after the race to give 3rd to Kanebo.
With East Japan teams taking three of the top four and five of the top ten spots it will stand to pick up two more qualifying places for 2014, with the Kyushu and Chubu regions each losing one place for having two teams in the bottom seven. The change in the regional balance is sure to affect the smaller regions in the spring track and fall ekiden season. In the interim, look for many of the top men to run for their home prefectures in three weeks at the National Men's Ekiden. Many will also line up two weeks later at the Marugame International Half Marathon or Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon. For the best, the Tokyo Marathon and Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon await.
2013 New Year Ekiden
National Corporate Men's Ekiden Championships
37 teams, 7 stages, 100.0 km
Maebashi, Gunma, 1/1/13
click here for complete results
Top Stage Perfomances
First Stage (12.3 km)
1. Chihiro Miyawaki (Team Toyota) - 34:48
2. Tomoya Onishi (Team Asahi Kasei) - 35:16
3. Ryo Kiname (Team Mitsubishi Juko Nagasaki) - 35:19
Second Stage (8.3 km)
1. Patrick Mutunga (Kenya/Team Toyota Boshoku) - 22:24
2. Jonathan Ndiku (Kenya/Team Hitachi Butsuryu) - 22:25
3. Edward Waweru (Kenya/Team NTN) - 22:29
Third Stage (13.6 km)
1. Takuya Fukatsu (Team Asahi Kasei) - 38:15
2. Yuya Konishi (Team Toyota Kyushu) - 38:23
3. Hisanori Kitajima (Team Yasukawa Denki) - 38:45
Fourth Stage (22.0 km)
1. Masato Imai (Team Toyota Kyushu) - 1:02:50 - CR
2. Tsuyoshi Ugachi (Team Konica Minolta) - 1:03:20
3. Naoki Okamoto (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 1:03:21
Fifth Stage (15.8 km)
1. Masaki Ito (Team Konica Minolta) - 46:33
2. Yu Mitsuya (Team Toyota Kyushu) - 46:58
3. Hidehito Takamine (Team Fujitsu) - 47:12
Sixth Stage (12.5 km)
1. Ryotaro Nitta (Team Konica Minolta) - 37:31
2. Kazuki Onishi (Team Kanebo) - 37:34
3. Ryosuke Fukuyama (Team Honda) - 37:44
Seventh Stage (15.5 km)
1. Takayuki Matsumiya (Team Konica Minolta) - 46:46
2. Yuya Shiokawa (Team Subaru) - 47:05
3. Yoshinori Oda (Team Toyota) - 47:08
Top Team Results
1. Konica Minolta (East Japan) - 4:51:32
2. Toyota Kyushu (Kyushu) - 4:55:24
3. Kanebo (East Japan) - 4:55:25
4. Honda (East Japan) - 4:55:25
5. Chugoku Denryoku (Chugoku) - 4:55:28
6. Subaru (East Japan) - 4:55:30
7. Toyota Boshoku (Chubu) - 4:55:31
8. Toyota (Chubu) - 4:55:32
9. Nissin Shokuhin (East Japan) - 4:55:54
10. Asahi Kasei (Kyushu) - 4:56:10
------- Teams 31st or lower impact their region's number of qualifying spots for 2014.
31. Kurosaki Harima (Kyushu) - 5:05:22
32. Toenec (Chubu) - 5:05:45
33. Chuo Spring (Chubu) - 5:07:09
34. Nishitetsu (Kyushu) - 5:07:36
35. Shikoku Denryoku (Kansai) - 5:07:55
36. Chudenko (Chugoku) - 5:11:24
37. Omokawa Lumber (Hokuriku) - 5:17:25
(c) 2013 Brett Larner
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|2012-05-27, 22:08
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It doesn't matter if electronics are more expensive than this.? I'm not arguing if it's Blizzard's fault or not in my previous post.
Your analogy:
In any case
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|2012-05-27, 23:32
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Join Date: Jun 2004
In regards to all the compromised accounts, this post sums it up nicely on the situation.
Anyone who works in end user support before will know it all too well when it comes to malware and the ongoing trend of targeting online game account information that has transferable values (steam doesn't cause you can't transfer or sell your games to others).
This isn't just a Blizzard problem however, it's looks exacerbated in comparison to other games because of the volume of users. There's 10 million + users on WoW alone not to mention another 6.5 million Diablo3 players, what's is the chance of having someone in those 16.5 million + user who had their account and pc compromised?
Why is Blizzard pushing users to get an authenticator?
Because it's a waste of manpower and bad for the PR when people have their account compromised. There's many ways to get into someone's computer, I had malware infection before just plugging in a usb drive. I got myself an authenticator because I know there's no 100% chance of me ever being fully secured with my laptop barring total isolation and Diablo 3 is the kind of popular games these malware will target.
And FYI, Blizzard password is not case sensitive which is really stupid. They should have adopted better password security cause people can just brute force the account.
|2012-05-28, 00:05
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
The bigger you are, the bigger the whine.
Although I've always wondered how secure my steam account really is, considering I have a credit card tied to it.
It seems like one keylogger could screw me pretty bad.
I just got like 3 shotted in Inf Act 2. From like the 4th mob pack. Ouch.
Well, back to the gear grind...
|2012-05-28, 00:16
|Link #2084
A Proud Lolicon
I'm pretty sure my password is case sensitive.
|2012-05-28, 00:19
|Link #2085
Well, at this point, pointing fingers at anyone isn't going to help. Note that I never have and never will expect Blizzard to be hack proof, because that's impossible. But hopefully they'll restore people's shit and make it so you can't log in 10k miles away without triggering something.
However, regardless of user error or server error, I have decided to not use the auction house for a while. It's likely the hackers will have put their ill gotten gains up on it for now, and I'd rather not purchase stolen goods.
|2012-05-28, 00:21
|Link #2086
Ass connoisseur
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Age: 30
I've seen hundreds if not thousands of posts saying they've been compromised from posts made today alone. And he's trying to claim the large majority of compromises are from them buying gold from sketchy places? I don't buy that for a minute. Especially considering I'm not part of that large majority, and unless the other people I've seen posting are all liars, then neither are they.
|2012-05-28, 00:31
|Link #2087
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 29
|2012-05-28, 00:32
|Link #2088
A Proud Lolicon
In any case, I'll believe anything that I can see rather than anything people are telling each other on the internet, and so far none of my friends have problem regarding security.
|2012-05-28, 00:35
|Link #2089
Senior Member
I don't have Diablo 3 myself, but out of the 6 people I know who have, and talked to, three have had their accounts compromised. Two work in high level IT and I'd trust to keep their computers very secure. While it is a very small sample size, even a 10% rate of "my account's been hacked!" sounds like it should be outside the realm of probability.
Also regarding the authenticator issue - I've been told that the smartphone-based authenticators don't work against this "Diablo 3 hacking" issue. It's only the physical kinds you can buy that work.
About rollbacks as well - my friend has reported that a user is only allowed two rollbacks in an account's lifetime. Basically, if it happened to you once, pray it doesn't happen twice again.
EDIT: Duo - Apparently passwords are valid whether you use capitals or not. Perhaps battle.net has a cipher which converts all characters to either upper or lower case.
|2012-05-28, 00:35
|Link #2090
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 29
I dunno, unless you're the most popular guy on the planet I would imagine that your friends make up a pretty small sample of Diablo III's 1,000,000+ userbase. I'm sure the people that have been hacked are a minority of all the Diablo III players around, but there's still a higher number of compromised accounts than there should be.
|2012-05-28, 00:38
|Link #2091
Senior Member
EDIT: Accusing someone of "Its your fault, your computer security sucks!" is an accusation which cannot be disproven, so its a handy one to sling around.
|2012-05-28, 01:16
|Link #2094
Bearly Legal
Join Date: Jun 2004
In fact, it's more important to target non-buyers because these are usually the works of 3rd party gold seller. Doesn't make any business sense to target your own customers.
And it's the internet, who knows who is lying and who is telling the truth? But internet crime/scam can be more devious and malicious than we attribute it for.
We can keep our risk low but the chance is always there. Security flaws in external program to cleverly nested code in ads. While we know Blizzard hacking is popular, but i m certain that there's way more malware written to target Asian MMORPG which typically is cashshop driven and carry far more monetary value than your Diablo 3 account ever will.
|2012-05-28, 01:43
|Link #2095
Senior Member
While there is almost no sure way to ensure that one's computer is 100% hack proof, I find it bordering on absurd that if the compromise was on the user end, that it was only the Diablo 3 account, and not Starcraft 2, World of Warcraft, or any other account, even financial details such as Paypal or saved credit card info which was claimed to accessed.
Because hacking to gain control of a video game account is far more monetarily advantageous than compromising a bank account...
I'm not saying its not possible, but for this kind of scale it seems like kind of flimsy that every single one of these people have poor personal security which has not resulted in any financial loss but only video game inventory loss.
|2012-05-28, 01:54
|Link #2096
Bearly Legal
Join Date: Jun 2004
WoW and recently Diablo 3 is targeted for the monetary value inherent in it. Actually there have been cases where people who had their Diablo 3 account compromised and the culprit reactivated their WoW account to strip their assets.
As for paypal and credit cards, i ll have to research it up. My initial guess is that such intrusion are more prolific than game accounts and more likely to draw the enforcement agencies attention.
|2012-05-28, 02:15
|Link #2097
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
I'm this close to soloing Belial (already killed him with friends) I keep dying in the third phase which is stupid because the third phase is the easiest (the only tactic is don't stand in the green stuff)
|2012-05-28, 02:21
|Link #2098
Senior Member
Still, I'm unconvinced that stripping a video game account of items is the most valuable thing a malevolent party would do to a person's computer with the kind of access which was had. I just find it strange how Diablo 3 was the only game worth having people's accounts compromised lately, especially since the auction house doesn't accept real currency yet (from what I hear).
Too many questions for me. For example, be playing WoW for years without incident and suddenly when Diablo 3 comes out, your Diablo 3 account becomes compromised. If it were an account hack, the coincidence of these two events (diablo 3 release and account compromise) as well as this recent burst of "Diablo 3 account hacking" cases seems like it fits too nicely to be a simple "your password sucks/ your computer got hacked," case.
|2012-05-28, 03:46
|Link #2099
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
Easy to halt packs of knockback elites by kiting them to a narrow chokepoint.
In act 2, there's much less areas like that, so I'll be switching of course.
Shield is great for upping Armor as well as giving block %, but I don't have a high enough DPS 1-hander to compensate.
Once I get one of those 800+ DPS weapon, I may switch to using a shield.
Or, I could compensate by stacking more armor and resist.
I'm aiming for 800 resist and 8000 armor or so for Act 2.
Act 3 is... another story. Most monks are struggling in Act 3, and I don't plan to advance in it anytime soon.
Once I beat Act 2, I'll probably set my monk aside for a while.
|2012-05-28, 05:05
|Link #2100
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 29
The point is, I did nothing that would make this hacking "my fault" yet I still got hacked. And the funny thing? I never got hacked on anything other than my blizzard account. Even my bank and paypal accounts were safe. Only my blizzard account has been hacked.
Let me put that in perspective: A hacker managed to get into my game account, but left my banking accounts alone. This leaves us two options:
1: If my computer was what was compromised, apparently my bank accounts have appropriate security measures in place to fend of the kind of attacks made. Which means blizzard's security is worse.
2: The account was compromised on blizzard's side, explaining why my bank accounts were untouched.
Either way, blizzard's security is flawed.
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What I'm Playing - Blood Bowl Legendary Edition
Posted on 17th Feb 2011 at 12:08 by Clive Webster with 18 comments
Despite its occasional eccentricities, I rather liked the original Blood Bowl computer game. The races all had their own characteristics, so every game had different challenges, and the sense of humour and style fitted the world of the ultra-violent American Football game. Best yet, it brought back memories of playing the board game on which it's based. Legendary Edition adds 11 new races to the game, plus new pitches, rules and a Story mode, so I got myself a copy a few weeks ago.


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Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes, an affiliate of Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute, is one of the few national centers that conducts cutting-edge pediatric diabetes research.
Type 1 diabetes results from the loss of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. Doctors and scientists do not yet know the actual cause of type 1 diabetes, but dysregulation of the immune system is thought to perpetuate the disease process. However, knowledge of what factors underlie and trigger type 1 diabetes will lead to the development of effective preventions in those at risk and long-lasting cures in those with established disease.
We know that like cancer and many other diseases, type 1 diabetes is a complex disease. This means it develops from the interaction of multiple genetic and environmental factors that affect of the immune system and the pancreatic beta cells. A central focus of the McGee Center is to harness genetics and genomics tools to better answer questions about type 1 diabetes pathogenesis at both the molecular and cellular levels. These questions include:
The center resides at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and The Medical College of Wisconsin, a unique multidisciplinary and collaborative environment for clinicians, immunologists, molecular biologists and statisticians to make important discoveries for diabetes care, prevention and cure. The Diabetes Program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is one of the largest in the country, serving more than 1,700 children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and their families.
New discoveries that can be translated into clinical practice require participation of patients and their families. Over the past decade, the center's investigators have collected blood samples, genetic material and clinical histories on more than 500 families with diabetes, following many subjects for years. Few centers in the world have gathered such a resource to track the development and onset of diabetes in a previously healthy child.
Inflammation associated with diabetes used to be difficult to detect because investigators lacked sensitive enough tools. Today, a blood test created by researchers in the Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes can detect diabetes as early as seven years before onset — leaving an open window for early intervention. The blood test identifies inflammation associated with type 1 diabetes through a unique genomic fingerprint, a discovery that offers insight into the pathways responsible for type 1 diabetes. The fingerprint will be useful in identifying at-risk children earlier in the disease process and offers hope for earlier treatment.
Human genetic studies have identified many "candidate" genes that may contribute to the development of type 1 diabetes. However, researchers are limited in their ability to directly analyze the function of these genes in humans because of the accessibility of certain cells and tissues in our bodies, so researchers generate novel rodent models to specifically ask if and how these "candidate" genes function in the immune system and pancreatic beta cells.
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|Colorado Springs, Colo.
|High School:
|Rampart High School
|Civil Engineering
JUNIOR (2013): Finished the season with a .284 batting average and tied for the most triples on the team with 3 ... Went 1-2 with two RBI and one hit vs. Seattle on Feb. 16 … went 1-1 with one run and 3B vs. Illinois on Feb. 23 … went 1-1 and one RBI vs. Northern Colorado on Mar. 3 … went 1-1 with two runs and one 2B vs. Michigan State on Mar. 16 ... was 2-3 with a double and a walk on March 28 at Portland in the first game of a doubleheader ... in the second game of a doubleheader at Portland on March 28 went 2-4 with a run scored ... had a triple and a RBI vs. BYU on April 6 ... was 2-5 with a run scored at Pacific on April 9 ... was 3-4 on April 12 vs. USF ... went 2-5 vs. USF on April 14 ... picked up a hit on April 19 vs. San Diego ... started at third base and went 1-3 on April 21 vs. San Diego ... walked twice, stole a base and scored 2 runs vs. UC Davis on April 23 ... was 1-3 with a walk and a 3B at Saint Mary's on April 26 ... 2-5 with a 2B and a run scored at Saint Mary's on April 27 ... 3-4 with a walk, and two runs scored on April 30 at UC Davis ... went 1-4 with 1 run on both May 3 and May 4 vs. Gonzaga ... was 2-4 with 3 runs scored at LMU on May 19.
SOPHOMORE (2012): Went 2-3 with 2 RBI,1 R, and 1 BB vs. San Jose State … went 3-5 with 1 R and 1 SB vs. Brown … had two hits and 2 RBI at USD ... went 3-5 with a run scored vs. Brown ... went 1-3 with 1 RBI at Gonzaga ... went 1-3 with a run and 1 RBI at BYU ... went 3-4 with a run and a RBI vs. LMU.
FRESHMAN (2011): Started 43 games as a freshman, seeing time at catcher, outfielder and DH…hit .244 and was tied for the team-best in triples (1)…posted an on-base percentage of .320… started his first career game on Opening Day at South Carolina Feb. 19…pinch-hit and played catcher at South Carolina (4/20)…amassed eight hits, four RBI and five runs in a four-game series with Albany Feb. 25-27…scored two runs at Stanford Mar. 1…singled and score a run in a three-game series against San Jose State…singled in a mid-week game at Cal (3/8)…registered four hits, a double and a walk in the Jack Gifford Memorial Tournament Mar. 11-13, while making his first career start in the outfield (3/11)…recorded a hit, two RBI and a run in the series opener with Brown on Mar. 26...went a combined 1-5 with two RBI, a hit by pitch and two runs in a doubleheader against Brown (3/27)…singled twice in the series finale against Brown (3/28)…went 1-4 at Stanford on Mar. 22…singled against UC Davis Mar. 30…recorded one hit and two sacrifice bunts in a three-game series against Bakersfield Apr. 1-3…had one hit in a three-game series against LMU (4/8-4/10)…singled in a mid-week game against Cal Poly…singled and scored a run in the series-opener at Saint Mary's…provided two hits, including a double against Saint Mary's on Apr. 17…had three plate appearances against Stanford (4.19)…amassed three hits, a walk, a sacrifice and a run in a three-game series at USF Apr. 21-23…started his first game at catcher since Apr. 12 against Gonzaga (5/1)…provided a single, two runs and a walk in the three-game series at Pepperdine...started at catcher during a mid-week game at UC Davis (5/11)…walked and stole a base in the first game of a three-game series vs. San Diego (5/20)…tallied two hits and scored a run in a start vs. San Diego on May 21…appeared as a pinch-runner in the series finale vs. San Diego…picked up an RBI at Portland in his final start of the season on May 27.
HIGH SCHOOL: Played baseball and football at Rampart High School in Colorado Springs, Colo. for Adam Strah (baseball) … in 2009 helped his team to a 20-3 record with a state semifinal appearance … in 2010 helped team to a 16-5 record … two-time first-team all-area and All-Metro League catcher … two-time all-state honorable mention… recorded a .515 batting average his senior year while posting four HR and 26 RBI … named all-league in football as a wide receiver and safety his senior year.
PERSONAL: Son of Greg and Roshelle Looney … has a younger brother, Brad… his father, Greg, is a U.S. naval officer… uncle, Geoff, played baseball at University of Nevada-Las Vegas… enjoys watching movies, playing volleyball, and running… majoring in Civil Engineering.


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A Germanic traditional celebration of a man's ten year wedding anniversary. His closest friends organize and outing or trip to salute his commitment to his wife and the institution of marriage. The opposite of a stag party, a Zehn Gehen is generally low key and cultural. Common in Germany, Austria as well as parts of Switzerland and Holland.
Similar to the American "Hamilton"
Similar to the American "Hamilton"
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Debaucherous Father-Son Activities
Father's Day is on its way, so what better time to explore how a little father-son time can go horribly, horribly awry very, very quickly (in all the best ways).
The Father-Son relationship: that holiest of male bonds on which all friendships are based and through which generations of invaluable life lessons are passed. Both a mentor-mentee relationship and a strong friendship, we must strike a delicate balance as we draw a line between father and son, allowing each to indulge in his own world of vice without muddying the other's waters.
But somewhere along the way the line blurs, and where does the path lead then? If life experience (and countless buddy comedies) has taught us anything, it's that the path leads through a garden and straight to hell. Not religious hell, but the good hell where men can be men. Where booze, women and cigar smoke overlap in a debased blur of a night that no one fully remembers or wants to. Sometimes those blurry lines simply should not be crossed in the company of kin.
But if rules are made for breaking (and they are), then lines are made for crossing. And if you're going to cross them, you might as well smash them and make a classic night of it. You probably don't need any help achieving this, but just in case…
- First, you need to drink a lot.
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A joint like Brooklyn's Bar4 is a good place to start. Fifteen dollars gets you an unlimited supply of PBR, that classic blue-collar brew, any day of the week. It's quantity over quality on these occasions, so chug. Once you're good and liquored up, move on before you start to pickle.
- You must also engage in some sort of seedy, underground blood sport. Since humans can consent to such activities, find a warehouse where dudes are beating each other to a bloody pulp.
FRIDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN from Scott Cramer on Vimeo.
In New York on a Friday night, put your ear to the pavement and maybe you'll be lucky enough to find your way to Friday Night Throwdown, a potentially mythical Manhattan-based fight club where local boxers go toe-to-toe with, no shit, male models moonlighting in the ring. Maybe not so underground these days, since most major NYC publications have written about it, but Throwdown is nonetheless an exclusive engagement that never sticks to one warehouse location for too long. It's near impossible to tell when or where it'll happen next, but how good does betting on a Marky Mark lookalike beatdown sound right now?
3, 4 & 5. It's important to stay legal, especially when the M.O. is debauchery, so let's hop over to the Czech Republic where we have no idea what's illegal, but we know one thing that isn't: bawdy houses.
The mind might drift to Amsterdam's famous red-light district, but our sources assure us Prague's Club K5 Relax is the most comprehensive pleasure palace of its kind. Where else can a father and son eat like kings one minute, enjoy a dance (private or otherwise) the next, and then seal the deal in any number of themed rooms with lovely Czech ambassadors of their choosing. The website even advertises the opportunity to find a girl with whom you have "that spark." Two words: customer service. And one more: twins?
Restore some of your dignity with a great Father's Day present by checking out our No B.S. Father's Day Gift Guide.


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Cottage with Fireplace and Garden (GC0120)
Size120 m²
Floor No.2
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Indoor fireplace
- Parking available
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Camino Fuente de los Berros, 35310 Santa Brígida, Spain
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|Property ID
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|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The house offers the following services: three bedrooms, a cozy living room with TV, another large lounge with fireplace and stereo, fully equipped kitchen and dining room and a bathroom. Outside there is a terrace where you can enjoy views of the small garden with various fruit trees and vegetables, and a solarium also has a barbecue and patio furniture. Also available: Gas cooker, microwave, toaster and coffee maker. Washing machine, iron and ironing board. Outside barbecue, terrace and sun loungers.
The house is located on the highway that runs from the Watchtower Tafira St. Bridget. As a cultural visit the parish church, rebuilt building early in the century after a fire in 1897 which only the tower survived. Inside you can admire some carvings like the sorrowful or the very old San Antonio. Encompassed within a larger project, covering the entire Guiniguada Ravine (one of the largest and most lush of the island), visit Guiniguada Agricultural Park, near the palm grove next to the market Satautejo and municipal and agricultural. Also in the Agricultural Park Guiniguada environment and the municipal market is the Casa Museo del Vino de Gran Canaria.
The neighborhood of La Atalaya is a place of great interest in it have survived until early last century a native village. Today many houses are kept in caves dug rehabilitated. We highlight its handmade pottery, both inherited from the Aboriginal and unique innovations that preserve ancient techniques. They are worth a visit Locero Center and Casa-Alfar Panchito Eco-museum, both in La Atalaya.
House rulesThe price of accommodation per night will be busy. The price includes the cost of water, electricity, gas, bed linen and towels. The rent shall be a minimum of 7 nights.
All users without exception, must have in order his personal and family documents for either a passport or ID card, according to the nationality of the visitor.
We also offer the possibility to rent a car with different models and prices. Contact us for more information.
Irregularities and / or deficiencies that the customer can find in the rented property must be communicated as soon as possible and during the stay to the owner. This will solve in the near future any defect or failure and even proceed to change the property if so deemed, provided that the reasons given are proven to be true. Any claim made after leaving the property will not be addressed because they lack the most basic criteria that could process the claim.
It is your responsibility to leave the property in the same state it found it, held responsible for all damages and impairments caused by the negligent action. It is also your responsibility at all times conform to the exact number of occupants who made the reservation. Under no circumstances will the maximum number of people booked, this will enable the owner or manager implementation of relevant measures (supplementary charge or eviction).
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 19 AU per guest/night extra
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|On arrangement
|Check-out before
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Reviews of this property
+ It worked fine on the description and photographs. There is a beautiful garden with fruit trees and flowering plants for the home, which also contains a walled patio with barbecue. Evening which lit by a street lamp, so that we in the dark delicately may have a barbecue.
+ The terrace is spacious and offers a beautiful view of the surroundings.
+ The house itself is very cozy and tastefully decorated and well equipped with everything necessary. So plenty of towels were provided and also extra blankets for cooler nights.
+ Also in the kitchen had all the necessary presence and it worked well. Even there were two heaters, which is not always obvious in Spanish homes.
+ When we had a problem, the owner came to fix it immediately.
- The boiler for hot water is a bit on the small side for 4 adults and a new or luxurious shower head would make showering more comfortable.
+ Dit huis voldeed prima aan de beschrijving en de foto's. Er ligt een mooie tuin met fruitbomen en bloeiende planten voor het huis, met daarin ook nog een ommuurde patio met barbecue. 's Avonds is die verlicht door een straatlantaarn, zodat we ook in het donker fijn een barbecue hebben kunnen houden.
+ Het terras is ruim en biedt een prachtig uitzicht op de omgeving.
+ Het huis zelf is erg gezellig en sfeervol ingericht en goed voorzien van al het nodige. Zo waren er ruim voldoende handdoeken aanwezig en ook extra dekens voor de wat koudere nachten.
+ Ook in de keuken was al het nodige aanwezig en het werkte ook. Zelfs waren er 2 kachels, wat in Spaanse huizen niet altijd vanzelfsprekend is.
+ Toen we een probleempje hadden, kwam de eigenaar dit meteen oplossen.
- De boiler voor heet water is wat aan de kleine kant voor 4 volwassenen en een nieuwe of luxere douchekop zou het douchen prettiger maken.
The house, with it's own garden, a small garage and a sun terrace (with barbicue) is a gem. Getting in/out of the garage takes some learning but do-able in a small car. There is street parking about 150m away. The house is large, a very relaxing house with a vally view to the sea from from the terrace. It was a pleasure to stay there. It is on a hill so keeps you fit. There is a small supermarket (but very good) within walking distance. Unlike may proerties, this house has enough space for 6 without being cramped or using temporary beds - it has three good bedrooms, a TV lounge, a large sitting room and a reasonable kitchen - perhaps a bit cramped for 6 in the kitchen, but it works. I have given 4 stars, the only reason not to give five is the hill acces for a car.If you use a big car - then you would need to park 150m away. Conclusion:- It is a lovely house and garden, well worth the effort of climbing the hill, secluded, not overlooked, a real gem.
Reviews for this host's other properties
Beautiful situated after a ruff road. Inconvinient with kitchens location in the house and no heating, very cold!
Not enough heating in the rest of the house. Woods for the fireplace was brought to us the last evening.
Nice poolarea!
Very nice Cotage, terass and garden. Well equipped. Good location. Clean and a lot of space. Also nice to pick fresh oranges for the breakfast juice in the garden.
Sleeping rooms uppstairs and the stairs are a little bit tricky ! One week was not enough.
Everything was okay, except for adress. In advertisment and in message from owners there are two diffirent adresses, and we couldn't find the house at first.
The owner (Antonio) was very pleasant and brought for us some fresh oranges and lemons :)
A sweet little house up in the hills on the island. The owners were lovely - they gave us wood for the fire which was fabulous on winter evenings. Nothing was too much trouble. We had a lovely holiday.
Our family spent one week during christmas at this beautiful place. We arrived late at night. The housekeeper met us at a nearby restaurant and showed us the way to the house and the facilities. The temperature in the saltwater pool was quite low but fortunately we had nice weather during the whole week and it was no mayor problem. The pool is shared by two houses, we were lucky to have it for ourselves since the other house was not occupied during our stay. There are generous facilities in the pool area including fridge, dishwasher, barbecue. The standard in the house is above average, it is well equipped with laundry, TV and so on, comfortable beds and very clean. The house i situated at the end of a road, surrounded by palm trees and cactus, very calm (despite the sound of the barking dogs in the village), far away from the mainstream tourist villages. The nearest supermarket is at Agaete, a 20-25 min ride on a VERY curvy road.
We have just spent a wonderful week in Gran Canaria. Everything was as described and only a short warm contact the owner. Easy as it gets. Those seeking peace and love nature, this is the place. Everything is in place, convenient facilities and a private pool is awesome. I want to keep anything, so a few frogs must not interfere in an adjacent pond and the road to the house is steep and partly not fixed, but the paths are often like that. All in all we were very pleased.
Wir haben gerade eine wundervolle Woche auf Gran Canaria verbracht. Alles war, wie beschrieben und nur ein kurzer herzlicher Kontakt mit dem Vermieter. Problemloser gehts nicht. Wer Ruhe sucht und die Natur liebt, ist hier genau richtig. Alles ist vorhanden, zweckmäßig eingerichtet und ein eigener Pool ist genial. Ich möchte nichts verschweigen, daher dürfen ein paar Frösche in einem benachbarten Weiher nicht stören und der Weg zum Haus ist steil und teilweise nicht befestigt, aber die Wege sind oft so. Alles in allem waren wir sehr zufrieden.
Our fear of being perhaps "too close" at the airport has not been confirmed! The house is very nice, if you like the peace and quiet on the edge of a small town. Ideally situated for excursions in all directions of the island! House, Garden, Terrace: gorgeous to spend relaxing days! The house is more rustic than elegant, we have felt ourselves very well. In the house there is even a folder in Spanish and English with all important addresses / phone numbers as well as various excursions, if one of your own planning yet more tips benötigt.Wir are pleased in any case already to the next stay and can only recommend this villa!
Unsere Befürchtung evtl. "zu nah" am Flughafen zu sein, hat sich nicht bestätigt! Das Haus ist sehr schön gelegen, wenn man die Ruhe und Abgeschiedenheit am Rande einer kleinen Stadt mag. Optimal gelegen, für Ausflüge in alle Richtungen der Insel! Haus, Garten, Terrasse: herrlich, um entspannte Tage zu verleben! Das Haus ist eher rustikal als elegant, wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt. Im Haus gibt es sogar einen Ordner in spanisch und englisch mit allen wichtigen Adressen/Telefonnummern sowie diverse Ausflugstipps, falls man für die eigene Planung noch weitere Tipps benötigt.Wir freuen uns jedenfalls bereits auf den nächsten Aufenthalt und können diese Finca nur empfehlen!
Although the house looks really as nice as on the pictures, but unfortunately there was in both bedrooms Schimmel, who was also very much perceived as smell. Therefore, we have to leave the house early and wanted us another one.
The agency was very accommodating and has provided us after inspection of the mold the amount of the remaining nights.
The washing machine is not available, and some windows do not open and close well. The bathtub does not bid you to swim, which gives it to the floor rust stains, but you can take a shower nevertheless without hesitation.
So we make no recommendation for the house. However, the agency rented other houses on Wimdu and the agency, we still recommend wüden.
In the summer the house is certainly very beautiful, because it is dry, but in winter we can do it because of the humidity and lack of ventilation with significant mold growth really is not recommended.
Das Haus sieht zwar wirklich so schön aus, wie auf auf den Bildern, aber leider gab es in beiden Schlafzimmern Schimmel, der auch sehr stark als Geruch wahrnehmbar war. Daher haben wir das Haus vorzeitig verlassen und uns eine andere Unterkunft gesucht.
Die Agentur war sehr kulant und hat uns nach Besichtigung des Schimmels den Betrag der restlichen Nächte erstattet.
Die Waschmaschine ist nicht nutzbar und einige Fenster lassen sich nicht gut öffnen und schließen. Die Badewanne läd nicht zum Baden ein, das es am Boden Rostflecke gibt, aber duschen kann man dennoch ohne Bedenken.
Also geben wir keine Empfehlung für das Haus. Die Agentur vermietet aber andere Häuser auf Wimdu, und die Agentur wüden wir dennoch empfehlen.
Im Sommer ist das Haus bestimmt sehr schön, da es trockener ist, aber im Winter können wir es aufgrund der Luftfeuchte und mangelnden Lüftung mit deutlicher Schimmelbildung wirklich nicht empfehlen.
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