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It's official. Tim Cahill will play for Australia in June.
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As expected, Red Bulls midfielder Tim Cahill on Thursday was selected to the Australian National team for three vital World Cup qualifiers.
Cahill was among 26 players called into camp.
His call-up puts into jeopardy his participation in the Red Bulls' June 1 home game against the Vancouver Whitecaps.
The Aussies (1-1-3, six points), who are in third place in Asian Group B, visit first-place Japan (4-1-1, 13), which is on the verge of clinching a World Cup berth, on June 4. They host second-place Jordan (2-3-1, seven) in a vital encounter on June 11 and welcome fifth- and last-place Iraq (1-2-2, five) on June 18.
No decision has been made on whether Cahill will be allowed to join the team, but Red Bulls head coach Mike Petke said on Tuesday that he would not stand in the way of the veteran midfielder missing that match. The Red Bulls host the Columbus Crew on Sunday.
Petke said on Tuesday that he was "90 percent sure," that Cahill won't be with the Red Bulls.
"I wouldn't put a 100 percent on it," he added during his weekly conference call with the team's media. "There are two qualifiers coming up, the first one being aright after that game, on the other side of the world. And it's a qualifier that will decide Australia's fate for the World Cup. So obviously, it's a very important match."
The two top teams in each group will qualify for Brazil 2014. The best third-place side will meet the fifth-place team from South America in a special home-and-home playoff in November.
Those three June games would close out Australia's qualifying schedule in Asia.
Cahill, who has scored 27 times in 61 international matches, has been a vital component in the Red Bulls's road to the Eastern Conference lead with a 7-4-3 record and 24 points. He has played several positions, played extremely well on both sides of the ball while being a team leader. He also has scored four goals in the past five matches, including the game-winner a minute into stoppage time in the 1-0 home victory over the LA Galaxy on Sunday.
"All that Tim has done for us, played through pain for us and it has been huge for us, it would be very selfish of me to -- it's not just me making the final decision, it's collaborative -- from my opinion, it would be selfish of us to say, 'You must be at that game,' and to risk him for this huge match coming up. Having said that, I wouldn't put 100 percent on it that he's not going to be there."
Petke would make the decision along with sporting director Andy Roxburgh and possibly other members of the club's front office.
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Im going to start selling off some of my non pc stuff on ebay. at what price do you guys add insurance when mailing cards? Any other advice is greatly appreciated.:)!
Only do insurance on expensive stuff ($200+)
$40 to 50, depending on how I feel.
Just remember insurance is for you, not the buyer--so it's whatever you are comfortable with being out if something goes wrong. The buyer is covered by Paypal.
thanks for your responses. In general do you guys have better success selling on ebay or on blowout forums?
ive had much more success here. selling on ebay takes forever in my opinion.
Yeah but eBay is more exposure. Blowout forums are good because you know what people collect and no eBay fees
with ebay is it just standard shipping or usps first class?
i see people listing all these different shipping services. economy, expidited, standard, ettc. that is confusing. Does it even matter?
[QUOTE=HinkleHammer;3915297]i see people listing all these different shipping services. economy, expidited, standard, ettc. that is confusing. Does it even matter?[/QUOTE]
I dont think people really know how to list the shipping. Usually all those things above mean USPS first class mail. You can ship however you want to though. Just make sure that you use delivery confirmation on every sale (if you print via paypal its very cheap for delivery confirmation). If you sell an item over $250 you also must add signature confirmation on top of delivery confirmation in order to be covered. Also in response to your question on insurance, you can insure whatever you want to. I personally insure anything over $75 that I sell but again its up to you what kind of risk you want to take. As mentioned above insurance covers the buyer, not the seller. You also cannot post in auctions that the buyer has the option to purchase insurance. You can build insurance into the price of the postage if you want and state that in your auction, but you cant offer it as an option to the buyer.
[QUOTE=HinkleHammer;3914099]Im going to start selling off some of my non pc stuff on ebay. at what price do you guys add insurance when mailing cards? Any other advice is greatly appreciated.:)![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MikeWilliamsFan;3914183]Only do insurance on expensive stuff ($200+)[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=monkeymcgee;3914210]$40 to 50, depending on how I feel.
Just remember insurance is for you, not the buyer--so it's whatever you are comfortable with being out if something goes wrong. The buyer is covered by Paypal.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=HinkleHammer;3915173]thanks for your responses. In general do you guys have better success selling on ebay or on blowout forums?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=HinkleHammer;3915287]with ebay is it just standard shipping or usps first class?[/QUOTE]
to answer a few questions from here:
I only insure over $100 sales or if I feel like something shady might happen. You can insure for how ever much you want, but usps will only pay out what the item sold for, not what you put or what a book value might be. So no reason to spend the extra mula for insurance that doesn't mean squat anyway. And it is to cover you, not the buyer. Ebay offers USPS and Shipcover when you print labels through them. I don't know anything about shipcover though.
I actually prefer selling on COMC (checkoutmycards) over ebay and here. Selling/trading on here has gone a little down hill lately and there may be more lowballers here than anywhere else. I rarely sell on here anymore. Ebay has it's ups and downs and I use it for an in between selling location before sending stuff to comc.com.
I only use usps first class (or priority depending on weight/& size) which will cost you $1.64 for up to a 3oz package and that includes delivery confirmation, then it goes up in small increments until you hit 13oz which then it upgrades to priority. order some free boxes and flat rate bubble mailers from usps.com. You'd be amazed at what you can fit in those mailers, and sometimes regular priority will be cheaper than flat rate. I always compare pricing before paying. I roll my shipping into my asking prices, since you get better exposure on ebay w/free shipping and you get charged fees on the sales price and the shipping cost which sux, but people took advantage and sold items for low prices, but with high shipping to avoid paying fees.
I noticed that paypal shipping doesn't always offer the same shipping options as ebay or usps so that is also something to look for.
I prefer BIN/BO auctions and you get 50 free a month as well as free listings until 12/31 for any amount on sports cards.
no matter where you sell just make sure to do the right thing and don't let too many lowballers get to you and you will always run into a dingleberry who wants to take advantage of you lack of selling history or knowledge.
There are a couple of really good threads here about shipping so you should take a look at those first.
so as a seller you will encounter answers like as to why someone retracted a bid/offer for a false reason "cannot contact seller":
"Because theres only 3 options to chose from. One of them is not " seller takes to long to respond". I sent the offer less than 5 minutes of the item being listed. Almost 24 hrs later no response. To me 48 hr pending offer is to much time and I have other offers and items I am buying. Offers are sent to the my ebay page and to sellers email. 24 hrs is more than enough time to decide on a offer. Just my opionon."
In case anyone wants more details, offer was made 5 min after I listed, and his offer was low anyway, then I did get in a second offer for $20 more that I was waiting on, got the retraction less than 24 hours after initial offer. offer made 12/28 11:50am Offer retracted 12/29 8:50am
dude is a big seller/buyer but I have no problem giving him the block and call out. I love how people on ebay think that they cannot follow ebays policies.
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In an essay on sacred law in ancient Athens (The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 67), Robert Parker assesses the scope and limits of freedom of speech and religion.
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We don't have no schtinking registration.........
I live in Michigan, Wayne County and I have never paid for a safety inspection (registration).
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When Mom passed a couple of years back and I went to transfer dad's (he passed a number of years back) to me, the person at the window made a comment about how much I had saved because I had my CPL, so that makes it sound more like a fee for the card and not the Notarization.
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
Registration? Safety check? What is that? I'm not about to allow registration of my firearms into my state
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So as a citizen living in a free state with a few or more hand guns, does this mean if I where to move to MI I would have to get all my hand guns "safety inspected" ? It seems the answer would be yes. Or is something they make you do when or just after you purchase a hand gun? Hmmmm cross MI off of my possible move to locations.
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WHAT?!!! You mean we don't have to register our guns?
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Every gun sale requires registration and cost you money!
When you fill out the required BATFE paper work, there is then a record of your name and the make and serial number of your gun. The store where you bought that gun has to pay the clerk for his time spent on this sleazy, backdoor registration process, and pay to keep those records for years and years. That cost is passed along to you, the buyer, hidden in the purchase price.
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Nope,wouldn't do it because it's not the law.
Ya MI sucks for a lot of this stuff. One bonus is that we have the largest number of states with reciprocity. :)
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This nonsense was started a very long time ago as a racist method to stop blacks from being able to buy a hand gun.
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
So it only makes sense that if you live in a state that has handgun registration you are going to have to pay for it.
Missouri doesn't require handgun registration and last year we got rid of the need to obtain a, "permit to acquire" from your local sheriff. All that is required to purchase a handgun is to walk into your favorite gun dealer, pick out the one you want, fill out the paper work, have the fed background check run, give them your money and take you gun home.


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Capture the Flag Feedback
Ok so I just jumped in to try it out... love the concept because it is a challenge, but as the flag carrier, you need to have some more defense available.
You are already at a disadvantage because you can't run but holly molly if your team is out numbered you have no chance at all...
Love the bonus flag idea as well.
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That's the entire point of CTF. Your limited for a reason, it means your team has to protect you. Which is where all the strategy comes from. They have special flag moves and I think that's good enough.
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I'd love to "one hitter quitter" someone with the flag haha. I wonder if grapple would be annoying if it "disarmed" you from the flag...
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Ahh yes CTF an objective game mode. I LOVE IT. It is now my favorite gamemode. Here are my quick thoughts. The flag carrier is perfectly fine to me. I view it as you are the flag carrier. Get the enemy flag and get the hell out of their. You shouldnt need extra defensive capabilities if you know how to shake and bake or avoid enemy confrontation. Heck i have even had flag on flag battles lol. I guess i just like captureing and defending things. We do need a cancel for the flag animation. I havent loss a game yet. I play strictly objective while my teammates either help or just do what they do. I believe in my last game i captured all 5 points for the team. It should be more competative when people get use to the new game mode i guess.
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I think Capture the Flag is great. I think the flag bearer can protect themselves pretty well. I was able to escape 3 people trying to bum rush me.
When I can find a full match it is very fun.
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CTF is great, but when its 3 vs 4, its almost impossible to win, or even capture one flag.
Btw, what's the point of favor in CTF, just letting players know how well they did (such as favor from kills)?


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I am not planning on dumping Window7 for Windows8 any time soon.
Will keep it as long as Microsoft supports it!
Best OS since XP.
AGREE Windows 7 is about as good as it gets and is really enjoyable. :) :)
I'd like to have one of those MS Win Pro Tablets (NOT RT) to go along with my BIG Build Custom Machines HOWEVER am afraid after reading that the little Windows Tablet PCs will be Cost and Function Prohibitive.
$1000 bucks ????
WOW; too much for Pensioner gadget !!!! (LOL)
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I love Windows 7 after several machines on XP, including this Dell XPS desktop capable of 64 bits. I skipped from XP to 7 on it, and couldn't be happier, and seeing what 8 brings to the table(t), I'm not going there. Long live Windows 7!!
Not going to switch to Windows 8 Pro for even $40 dollar low, low price ????
Think I'll purchase all I can get. (LOL) (LOL)
For the XP hold out Folks:
Builder MBs ain't gonna have XP drivers next go around just like OEM machines don't have them now.
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Bored with the old. In with the new. My Windows 8 is humming right along.
Hmmmm, wonder if the $40 upgrade will upgrade from the RC.
I liked Vista but W7 is invisible in use unless someone reminds me...like now. ;)
RC to W8 upgrade will work, but only personal data will be save. W7 to W8 (and from Vista SP1) will bring everything over. Programs, data, and settings. XP and RC the same, just data.
MS is pushing real hard to make W8 the king so to speak. Everything will upgrade to W8 Pro basically. The tale would be if s/w vendors move to Metro. To me, Metro looks 'flat', doesn't 'pop' and colors appear muted? I've already seen some app that have that appearance.
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Win8 is interesting but not ready for prime time on a PC. Maybe it will be a success on the mobile devices - although Android is making giant steps forward.
Guys, it isn't the OS, it is the APPS....
If the OS runs the program you want or enables you to do what you want, then that is the OS you need.
Be it a game, like Angry Birds for instance, a DVD creator (yes, each OS has one, but some work better than others, or you own one), or an in-house built app, that will determine your choice of OS.
I don't know of anyone that buys an OS to just run it? Can't do anything with an OS, other than what is built-in. Want only e-mail, browsing, enter a document, they all do that... it is the 'extra' needs that determine what you use.
Thinking of e-mail, even the platform could determine your choice of because you have to enter data to respond to e-mails. Tablet's just don't cut it with on-screen keyboards. Ultra-books might, but the keyboard could be 'small'. Same for Netbooks. Laptops and Desktops are far better for this task for instance.
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Irv, I have met many people that didn't know 3rd party apps even existed. They ran their comps "out of the box" so to speak.
LH, exactly, they got what was on the h/w they bought which would do the job for them. It wasn't the OS, although, depending on user knowledge it might be. Otherwise they got what the salesman or friend told them would do the job. They didn't go out and look for W7 lets say and then discovered it would do the job for them.
If one doesn't have in mind a need for a specific tool/app, then anything would do, no? However I can't imagine anyone buying something without a need? Would you buy a computer 'just to have one'?
I'd assume for most of those people WebTV would suffice, except I don't think you can print or save data with it, but you can do e-mail and surf with it.
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Bad Generator Connection Fried the Transformer in my Honeywell L7224u1002.
First post, and my title should probably read bad generator connection fried my Aquastat!
I am having a bad week! I fried the original aquastat and burner control for my oil burner earlier this week with a junk craiglist generator that had a nuetral problem.
I got a new generator, 6 days and counting with no power, and my friend installed a new Aquastat, a universal Honeywell L7224u1002.
The furnace was operating great again.
Fast forward to this morning. The 4 prong twist lock backed out of the generator outlet slightly. I think this lead to one contact, probably the nuetral, not being full seated.
I knew instantly I had an issue when I walked in the house and the lights weren't working.
Turned the generator off, it was only like this for a minute or two. Find that the plug is loose, reseat the plug.
All lights and fridge work.... check the boiler, burnt electric smell. No read out on the aquastat digital readout. The transformer that is inside of the aquastat shows signs of overheating.
The unit is fused, but the fuse didn't blow. I think the transformer fried itself!
So now I am again without hot water and out another 170 bucks or so for a new control!!!
Is it possible to take the circuit board out, desolder the transformer, and replace?
Never tried it myself.
PS, I fixed your thread title.
Any thoughts?
I am still going to buy another brandnew Aquastat to use fulltime, but with as sensitive as these things are it would be great to get this first one working as a backup so I don't end up with no heat in the middle of the winter. :no:
I'd get a standard mechanical one instead.
Can you suggest one? The boiler is a Columbia Emerald EM-100. Hydronic heat with two zones.
The original aquastat was not solid state with digital controls.
It originally had an L8124... the plumbing supply people are the one that said that was out of production, and a L7224u1002 would work well.
Is the R8124 similar to the original L8124? I can find L8124's on google but not the other way around. :jester:
Sorry, I mistyped. L8124 is what I should have typed.
L8124s are still available. Many places stopped carrying it. I get mmine from an HVAC supply house Called Sid Harveys.
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Jenny McCarthy may be single, but she?s certainly not throwing herself a pity party. The 40-year-old mom, who calls herself a ?serial relationship-er? after a string of failed romances, opens up in this week?s?In Touch?about focusing on her son, Evan, 10, her new gig as the host of VH1?s?The Jenny McCarthy Show?(airing Fridays at 10:30 p.m.), and saying no to the dating game for the first time in forever.
?I went from one guy to the next. I had them lined up!? the former?Playboy?centerfold tells?In Touch?of her love life ? she?was married to Evan?s father, John Asher, for six years before her five-year-relationship with Jim Carrey began.??Now I?m enjoying being single. I?ve been waiting my whole life for my own talk show, so now I have to make sure I have enough time with my son, too. Love is low on the totem pole!?
Jenny is even surprised at her newfound single-and-fabulous-at-40 outlook on life. ?In my twenties, I was searching for my ?ever after.? For the first time in my life, I feel so happy that I?m not searching for anything,??she says.
And although she admits she?s ?not putting anything specific out there? in terms of the type of guy she goes for, Jenny concedes that all rules would be suspended for a certain Hollywood A-lister. ?If someone wanted to set me up with Bradley Cooper, I would say, ?F–k all the bull—t I just said!?? she tells?In Touch?with a laugh.
For more from Jenny on her love life, pick up this week?s?issue of?In Touch, on newsstands now
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Each summer, in the mountain town of Agros, 64 Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot youth spend a week living together, playing basketball, and building new friendships at the PeacePlayers-Cyprus Basketball Camp. Since the end of an inter-ethnic war in 1974, Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus have been physically separated by a UN-administered "Green Zone" stretching from one side of the island to the other. Most youth have no opportunities to interact with children from the other community, instead relying on propaganda and misinformation that spread fear and hate. By spending an entire week learning and playing together, these young people made tremendous progress in breaking down stereotypes and building real friendships. "We came here knowing little of each other and we have in these few days gained tremendous experiences, new friendships and a strong belief we can make things happen!" said a young female participant.
A highlight of the camp was former NBA player and Brooklyn Nets Assistant Coach, Doug Overton, and WNBA champion and beach volleyball athlete, Kelly Schumacher. Each day, PeacePlayers staff and the guest coaches led the participants through a host of special activities that included basketball skills training and competitive matches as well as film making, trivia games, conflict resolution seminars and other team building exercises. During an interview for a local Cyprus television news program Doug said, "It's been great, this is my second time here and I brought my family with me. PeacePlayers is a wonderful cause and a wonderful program. I've learned so much about Cyprus and the history between both communities."
This year the camp also featured young coaches in training from PeacePlayers-Cyprus' Leadership Development Program (LDP). The LDP is made up of thirty 15-18 year-olds who are graduates of the youth programs and receive additional training to become coaches and community leaders themselves. After spending the past year developing their communication and leadership skills both on and off the court, 8 LDP participants were chosen to be assistant coaches for the camp. Each of the young leaders took on great responsibilities both on and off the court, learning what it takes to become good leaders and role models. While working with the LDP girl's team, Kelly Schumacher said, "You cannot tell who is who on the court, they are all playing together and building strong ties day by day. I am proud to see them learn and grow so fast and I am also happy to be one coach they will keep in the memory from this experience."
During the camp participants also attended conflict resolution sessions lead by two very well-known Cypriots working within the field of Peacebuilding, Nicos Anastasiou, founder of Cyprus Friendship Program, and Alexis Lyras, Professor of Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University. Nicos led participants through an activity that allowed them to explore their community's stereotypes, as well as how they have changed their own personal perceptions through their new friendships, while Professor Lyras helped the participants realize that it is within their power to utilize the positive power of sport to create peace.
On the last day of camp Ambassador John Koenig from the US Embassy spent the afternoon with the campers, witnessing firsthand the impact that basketball can have on the lives of children. Ambassador Koenig was so impressed that he pledged he would do his best to support this initiative during the upcoming year, despite the dire cutbacks been made at the Embassy.
The "PeacePlayers Basketball Camp" was supported by the US Embassy's Bicommunal Support Program, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and the Brooklyn Nets.


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In honor of the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son, George Alexander Louis, PPI would like to congratulate the couple and re-share a blog post from March 2011, when we announced that Prince William and Catherine Middleton had selected PPI-NI as a beneficiary of the Royal Wedding Charitable Gift Fund:
BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton have set up a charitable gift fund for those who may very generously wish to donate to charity to help the couple celebrate their April wedding. Having been touched by the goodwill shown them since the announcement of their engagement, Prince William and Miss Middleton have asked that anyone who might wish to give them a wedding gift consider giving instead to a charitable fund.
PeacePlayers International – Northern Ireland (PPI-NI) is one of the 26 charities that have been personally chosen by Prince William and Miss Middleton in both the UK and abroad. The donations will be held in a specifically designated account by the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry and grants will be distributed in partnership with the benefiting charities to ensure maximum impact.
During their recent visit to Belfast, Prince William and Miss Middleton met representatives of the charity.
"It is a great honour for PeacePlayers International – Northern Ireland to have been selected by Prince William and Miss Middleton," said Trevor Ringland, PPI-NI Board Chairman. "We are flattered that both the work of PPI-NI and the role of sport in conflict transformation are being recognized in such a highly visible manner. We are very proud of the fact that PPI-NI participants are given the opportunity to develop lasting friendships with children from the other community by competing on integrated teams. These children represent the building blocks of peace for our future."
About PeacePlayers International – Northern Ireland: PPI-NI is a cross-community charity that uses the game of basketball to unite young people from the Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist and Catholic/Republican/Nationalist communities in Belfast and select surrounding areas. Basketball, unlike traditional sports, is not affiliated with either community, and therefore provides a neutral space to address the cultural divide. By competing together on integrated teams, children from these historically divided communities can discover common ground and forge new friendships. The contact element of PPI-NI's programmes is further enhanced through age-appropriate community relations and team-building activities that aim to bridge divides, change perceptions, and empower children to impart positive change in their communities. Since 2002, PPI-NI has worked with thousands of young people to successfully challenge sectarianism and promote mutual respect in the communities that suffer most from the legacy of conflict.


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Date of Stay: July, 2010
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After the all important shop off we stopped off for a quick pint in a nice bar in the main part of town, and then headed off all ready for the stampede. Im not really sure what I had expected from the Calgary Stampede - lots of cowboys and crazy country and western things did spring to mind, but thats not what I got!
The Calgary Stampede advertises itself as "the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", if you look up the word 'hyperbole' in the dictionary Im sure you will find an explanation that reads "Canadians"
The Stampede was basically just a lot of rides and sideshows. We did manage to see some Chuck wagon races, not as exciting as that may sound and lots of horses. We dont think we saw a single genuine cowboy, however met many other travellers! One lad was trying to impress and told us he came from "very far away" - the answer to that was Australia! I was overwhelmed as you can imagine!
We spent a day and a half at the Stampede and did manage to have lots of fun, no doubt more to do with the beer gardens than anything else! Tracey will be very dissapointed to know that although the Stampede is very like a smaller Sydney Royal Easter Show they didnt really have showbags and only sold about 5 different ones so I didnt pick one up.
We managed to get ourselves into a pub/concert tent on Wednesday night called "Nashville North", had to line up a bit to get in but I convinced myself I could deal with Country and Western music to get into the spirit. The band that we saw ended up being a Queen coverband! It was after several hours in this tent that we decided we could speak Cowboy and told everyone "yeehaw", somehow I dont think anyone else was as amused as us - though we do have a lot of photos of us and random smiling strangers.
Carmis final comment on the Stampede? "I Love Beer". well said young lady, well said.


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CMA at Boerum House & Home - Explore with WEE Arts
Saturday, July 26, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT)
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Join the Children's Museum of the Arts for a hands-on art making workshop at Boerum House & Home. Experiment with play dough and dot markers, work on a collaborative canvas, and play with big blocks! Work with CMA Teaching Artists during a morning of art-filled exploration with developmentally appropriate materials for the youngest artists, ages five and under. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to engage in the workshop with their children, have a beverage, and shop around the store.
The Children's Museum of the Arts is a nonprofit arts facility that introduces children and their caregivers to the transformative power of the arts through hands-on art making. Learm more about CMA at www.cmany.org.
For more information about Boerum House & Home, please visit www.theboerum.com.
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Boerum House & Home
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT)
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The first was rather brilliant - a tree that has literally grabbed a bit of the wall it's growing next to.
And the second - not so brilliant, was Sammy limbo dancing under a traffic barrier to retrieve and eat a biscuit before getting stuck. We had to dismantle the barrier to get him out.


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As the Obama administration winds down its troop surge in Afghanistan, it's adopted a new political strategy for ending the war. And that new strategy represents a tacit concession that the best the surge could accomplish was rescuing Afghanistan from from the brink of total failure.
What was the surge for, anyway? In one sense, as explained by President Obama, it was merely designed to stop the Afghanistan war from deteriorating. But Obama's generals promised that it would do more — that it would whup the Taliban into suing for peace. And in the broadest sense of all, it would contribute to the Obama team's ultimate objective for the region: to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" al-Qaida.
Judged in the narrowest sense, then, the surge worked. Afghanistan is no longer spiraling into greater violence. But it's failed to accomplish anything beyond that.
The Obama administration, as the Washington Post reports, is pursuing a new strategy to end the war, called "Fight, Talk, Build," in Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's phrase. In essence, it means the U.S. will no longer outsource negotiations with insurgents to the Afghan government, and it hinges on getting the Pakistanis to bring its insurgent proxies to the table.
The problem is that the Obama team and the U.S. military still don't know how to connect "Fight" to "Talk." Under this new strategy, the connection isn't any battlefield setbacks for the Taliban that bring them in from the cold, as the war's last two commanders predicted. It's a diplomatic effort, distinct from the surge, to persuade the Pakistanis to make the insurgents talk peace.
And that points to perhaps the central irony of the Afghanistan surge. Al-Qaida itself has indeed been degraded. But not because of the surge, since al-Qaida largely isn't in Afghanistan anymore. It's because of the raging drone war next door and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. And those efforts may have pissed the Pakistanis off so much that peace talks to end the Afghanistan war are in trouble.
Clinton and other top-level officials saw that Pakistani intransigence last month. They visited Islamabad to press the Pakistani leadership to rein in the buck-wild Haqqani Network and commit the insurgents to an Afghanistan peace process. But the Pakistanis blew Team Obama off. Not only do the Haqqanis — Pakistan's hedge against Indian influence in Afghanistan — party in major Pakistani cities, but the deputy commander of the war confessed last week that Pakistani troops help rocket U.S. forces along the border.
The insurgents don't seem particularly interested in talking. They've instead pulled off audacious recent attacks in the heart of the Afghan capitol. Last year, the U.S. was fooled by an insurgent impostor, revealing that it doesn't even know to whom it can talk.
To understand how things reached this point, it's helpful to reach back to 2009, when Obama crafted his "Af-Pak" strategy. In March 2009, he announced that his national-security team would now treat both Afghanistan and Pakistan as components of a unitary strategy. The goal of that strategy was ultimately to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Obama said.
There was an unresolved tension at the heart of that strategy. Al-Qaida was in Pakistan; but the war was in Afghanistan — and it was deteriorating. Obama's new commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said he needed tens of thousands more troops to turn the war's fortunes around and bring it to a successful conclusion.
Obama said yes to everything. He gave McChrystal his troops while upping the drone war in Pakistan to degrade al-Qaida, the main goal of the whole enterprise. In announcing the surge in December 2009, Obama set the bar low for what it would achieve. It would merely "break the Taliban's momentum," he said at West Point.
Almost immediately, McChrystal raised those expectations. Peace talks, McChrystal said, were "the inevitable outcome" of the surge. "[I]t is my job to help set conditions where people in the right positions can have options on the way forward," McChrystal told the Financial Times in January 2010.
McChrystal's successor, David Petraeus, periodically boasted to reporters that negotiations were right around the corner. "There are very high-level Taliban leaders who have sought to reach out to the highest levels of the Afghan government and, indeed, have done that," Petraeus said in September 2010. "This is how you end these kinds of insurgencies."
Judged by Obama's standards, and not his commanders', the surge has done its job. The Pentagon's last report on Afghanistan, released Friday, found violence is down for the first time in five years — although recent United Nations reports reach the opposite conclusion. Achieving that took a massive amount of effort, including 5800 air strikes in a single year and the destruction of entire emptied villages along the Argandab River. McChrystal, Petraeus and all their troops can take pride in these accomplishments.
But McChrystal and Petraeus' broader predictions about an "inevitable" peace deal, however, haven't panned out. And that's it for the surge. Troops have already started coming home. By next September, all 33,000 surge forces will be out, leaving behind "only" 68,000 troops, who will cede primary combat duties — whatever that really means — to their Afghan counterparts in 2014. Whatever fight remains on the ground, including in Afghanistan's volatile eastern provinces, it won't match the combat power of the past two years, and will rely on air power to make up the difference.
So when Clinton says that "under the circumstances, we must [fight and talk] at the same time," there will in fact be less fighting. Nothing necessarily stops either the U.S. or the Taliban from talking while they fight. But the surge drawdown gives the Taliban a reasonable expectation that they can wait the U.S. out, so it makes little sense for them to come to the bargaining table. Only the Taliban's Pakistani sponsors can provide additional inducements for the Taliban to negotiate, and they've yet to apply any such pressure.
And that's where it actually gets worse. The Pakistanis have seen fit to quietly cooperate with the drone war, which (along with some well-timed special operations raids) has exceeded expectations, battering al-Qaida to the point where Obama officials predict that al-Qaida is just a few commanders away from irrelevance. But it's come at a price — a price the Afghanistan war pays. The shock of the unilateral Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden has made the Pakistanis vastly less likely to help the U.S. in Afghanistan. Pakistan won't invade its tribal areas to crush insurgent safe havens, and it stiff-armed Clinton on bringing Afghanistan's insurgents to the peace table.
One can almost hear Vice President Joe Biden grinding his teeth. During internal deliberations about the surge in 2009, Biden argued the real center of the Afghanistan war was in Pakistan, and so rather than send 33,000 troops to fight in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. should up the drone war (he won on that) and focus diplomatically on bringing Pakistan to the table.
Now the surge is ending, and the last strategy standing looks a lot like Biden's. Only this time, what's successful in Pakistan appears to be, at best, irrelevant to the surge in Afghanistan — and, at worst, detrimental to the U.S. effort to bring the Afghanistan war to a soft landing.
The realest talk of all: after a decade, there may not be a better strategy left for the Obama administration to pursue than "Fight, Talk, Build." Tens of billions of aid dollars to both the Afghanistan and Pakistan governments for a decade haven't purchased reliable allies in either country. The silver lining is that terrorism has indeed become a diminishing threat to U.S. security. But if the best the U.S. can do in Afghanistan is attempt negotiations with its enemies while preparing Afghan forces for its departure, that's a tacit eulogy for a misguided surge.
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TEDxCERN@UCL Simulcast
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Friday, 3 May 2013 from 12:30 to 21:00 (BST)
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CERN will be hosting a TEDx event, with the theme 'Multiplying Dimensions', on 3 May 2013. Even though the TEDxCERN main stage will be in Geneva, we would like to share these ideas through webcast session hosted by nobel prize winner George Smoot.
TEDxCERN has an impressive list of speakers, including UCL's Hiranya Peiris on the Early Universe. Other speakers include: George Church, who will talk about the recent breakthroughs using DNA; Lee Cronin on Networking Chemistry; Chris Lintott (formerly of UCL Astrophysics) on Citizen Science; Marc Abrahams on Improbable Research; Ian Foster, on Big Data; Londa Schiebinger, on Gendered Innovation; Maya Tolstoy, on Ocean Floor/Tidal Triggering; John Searle, on Consciousness; Eliezer Rabinovici and Zehra Sayers, on SESAME and Collaboration; and Brittany Wenger, 2012 Google Science Fair (High School) Grand Prize Winner on Research and Inspiration.
The UCL Institute for Origins and Department of Physics and Astronomy are hosting a "simulcast". Join us to watch the talks live from CERN on a high-quality webcast, and discuss the subjects with UCL researchers. Your hosts will be Nikos Konstantinidis and Ofer Lahav.
There will be three sessions, with a coffee break and a drinks reception:
- 12:30 to 14:30: Introduction and CERN webcast (Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre)
- 14:30 to 15:00: Coffee break
- 15:00 to 16:45: CERN webcast
- 16:45 to 17:15: Drinks reception (Physics Building)
- 17:15 to 19:00: CERN webcast and Drinks reception
- Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre: CERN webcast continues
- Physics Building: reception continues, with additional screen showing CERN webcast
Details of the programme of talks can be found on the TEDxCERN web site. Contact Ben Waugh if you have questions.
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