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Date of Stay: July, 2007
We stayed in the field area which was not bad. We were supposed to stay in the upper woods in a "pull thru" site. I could not fit my 27 ft. trailer and use my awning. They did let me move. Good pool and lots of activities for kids. Bathrooms and showers were very dirty and smelled horrible, but we did not have to use them. We would return for a weekend stay but not longer then that.
Date of Stay: July, 2007
Where do I begin. This campground is run down and the dirtiest I have seen in the fifteen plus years camping. Even my 11 and 9 year old son's commented on how bad the bathrooms were. The seasonals are dirty and rundown. Every activity had a charge. Do not judge the campground by the web site, totally different. The entrance/exit for the campground is POORLY designed. I had trouble getting in with a twenty seven foot trailer. Very little rules and LOTS of intoxicated people! The camp store was very expensive for food type items. (1/2 gallon of milk was over four dollars)! Many of the seasonal people have dogs and would leave them tied up outside to bark all day. We will not return.
Date of Stay: June, 2007
Great Park! No activities for children but one of the best places if you like to bike. Very quiet .
Date of Stay: August, 2006
Very clean campground. The lake is great for swimming and the beach area is raked every morning. My only complaint is they charge extra for kids and there are NO activities during the week for them. The only activities are on the weekend, even during summer vacation.
Date of Stay: July, 2006
Very large and clean campground. Sites varied in size. They have 5 in ground pools, 3 for kids. The staff is awesome! I had trouble with my vehicle upon arrival. They located a Ford dealer for me and printed out directions. They even let me use some tools from their work shed. The camp store has everything and there is an on-sight laundry facility. Security is strict with children on bicycles and they stated "you should not ride faster then someone is walking." I thought that was a little extreme. I did see many speeding golf carts, and traffic inside the campground was faster than I have ever seen. Speed limit is 5 mph. Vehicles and carts consistently 20 mph +. Activities were "ok" My kids were happy with the pools and lake. We had a great time and will return next year.


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Metro Imaging Achieves Meaningful Use with Digital Writing from Anoto and NextGen Healthcare
Anoto, the world leader in digital writing technology, and NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC today announced that Metro Imaging has deployed their joint solution, NextPenacross its five locations throughout St. Louis to increase practice efficiencies and achieve meaningful use.
Metro Imaging is a full-service imaging center, providing "open" non-claustrophobic MRI, computed tomography, ultrasonography, digital mammography, bone density, fluoroscopy and digital radiography. They have five locations in the greater St. Louis area, with offices in South County, West County, North County, St. Peters and Richmond Heights. The organization conducts upwards of 100,000 exams per year and uses more than 1,000 new patient forms per day for both health history and consent.
Metro Imaging partnered with GBS the largest NextGen Healthcare reseller in the country. With more than a decade of experience implementing and supporting NextGen solutions, GBS worked closely with Metro Imaging to get the solution up and running. GBS was onsite and key throughout the process to deploy NextPen across all five locations. Their experience and time spent on the development and training side of the project resulted in a trouble-free implementation process for Metro Imaging.
By leveraging a digital writing solution, Metro Imaging can immediately import relevant structured data directly into their NextGen Ambulatory EHR, resulting in increased practice efficiency and improved flexibility to handle high patient volumes and expedited administrative tasks that ultimately deliver better patient care.

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The man who brutally killed Chinese grandmother Yan Ping Yang during a home invasion has been jailed for at least 20 years.
Ah You, 30, was found guilty of murdering Mrs Yang in April. She died in hospital on June 14, 2008, three days after he battered her frail body with punches and kicks and stomped on her chest that knocked her unconscious.
During the assault Ah You dragged the 80-year-old by the hair and tried to bundle her into a wardrobe. He pushed a cordless telephone handset into her mouth, punched her in the face, attempted to strangle her and banged her head against the wardrobe door.
At the High Court at Auckland today Justice Edwin Wylie ordered Ah You spend life in jail and imposed a minimum non-parole period of 20 years.
"You murdered an elderly and defenceless woman in her own home all for the relatively paltry sum of $2000."
He said the crime was "brutal and callous" and that Ah You was looking money to fund his drug and gambling habits.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery said the callousness of the crime called for a higher minimum non-parole period than 17 years, seeking a minimum term of 21 years.
He said Mrs Yang was a frail woman and Ah You a "fit young man" who didn't need to inflict the injuries he did to get away. He said the level of cruelty shown and the multiple injuries inflicted were "particularly concerning".
Mrs Yang's granddaughter Lily Zsu told the court her family had been left "deeply traumatised and scarred" by her murder. She said she would feel the hurt, sorrow and pain of her death for many years.
Ms Zsu said in Chinese culture the oldest family member was he head of the house and deeply respected and that her murder had changed the family forever.
A jury in the High Court at Auckland took just over two hours to find him guilty after a week-long trial.
After the verdict, the Herald revealed Ah You had already committed four serious assaults by the time he became a murderer, one of them occurring only a fortnight before the murder.
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A chance at a good life erased by a gun; Charging documents and a witness account reveal the chilling details
"There is a good life here. Please, come out here man; Seattle has a lot to offer."
Those were the words 42-year-old Jonathan "Jamie" Vause used to encourage his friend, shooting victim Michael Travis Hood, to move from a crime-ridden "ghetto" in Jacksonville, Florida to Seattle in August of 2011.
The urging came shortly after Hood lost his best friend in an "assassination" shooting death in August. Vause said Hood was in need of change, and since the move, things had been going well – opening his first bank account and finding steady employment at Charlie's Produce.
"He came out here to get away from that and then lost his life as a result," Vause said. "He was so pumped on his success and he had it all taken away from him."
On Saturday night, Jan. 21, Hood was shot four times in the chest, allegedly by 63-year-old (or possibly 67, his arrest papers have two birth dates) Lovett James Chambers (aka Cidrick Mann), a West Seattle resident and longtime patron of the Feedback Lounge at the Morgan Street Junction. The shooting occurred just north of Feedback on California Ave.
Vause was with Hood that night and frantically drove him to Mt. St. Vincent, assuming it was a hospital (it is actually a tiered residence for seniors and rehabilitation center). St. Vincent staff called 911 and paramedics arrived in an attempt to save the victim's life, but the injuries were too dire: he died early Sunday morning.
Two versions arise
In the charging documents released Wednesday, Jan. 25, prosecutors charge Chambers with first degree murder. They intend to show the shooting was premeditated. They have sided with the testimony of Vause, who told authorities and the Herald they were followed out of the bar by Chambers. He said no words were exchanged between the alleged shooter and victim inside the bar. According to court documents, witness accounts are consistent with that version.
After being arrested Chambers was interviewed by detectives and, according to court documents, he said the two men (Vause and victim Hood) had followed him to his vehicle as they made racial slurs (they are white and Chambers is black). He said he got into his blue BMW and grabbed his handgun from under the passenger seat, fearing the men would attack him. Detectives asked "how the shooting could have occurred where Vause's vehicle had been parked, approximately 50-75 feet to the north … (and) Chambers said he could not remember what happened after he retrieved his gun."
Chamber's version is in stark contrast to Vause's. Vause and Hood normally went out for an occasional beer at the Rocksport Bar and Grill, but on Saturday their usual was too packed to find a table so they decided to check out the Feedback Lounge - a first time visit for both men, Vause said.
They walked to the rear area of the bar, played a game of pinball, ordered a few Manny's Ales and an order of wings.
Vause said the only person he noticed that night was defendant Chambers as he walked past their booth on the way to the bathroom. He said he thought Chambers may have been an employee, unaware of the Feedback layout and assuming the hall to the bathroom was the entry to the kitchen.
"I don't know why I noticed him, but something alerted my sixth sense." He told detectives he didn't think victim Hood even noticed Chambers.
According to charging documents, the men left the bar around 9:30 and Vause noticed Chambers standing just outside the front door as they exited.
"I remember seeing the same black gentleman to our right where I would have considered a security or doorman to be located," he said.
No words were exchanged as Hood and Vause made their way northbound back to Vause's red Ford Ranger, parked in front of the Morgan Street Park. As they walked between Feedback and Beveridge Place, Vause said Hood turned west and started walking away from the truck.
"Where are you going, the truck is over here?" Vause said, according to charging documents. Hood changed his route and followed Vause to the truck. Getting to the vehicle first, Vause said he entered the driver's side and reached over to unlock the passenger door for Hood.
That was when he noticed Chambers appear behind Hood and the men exchanged words, although he could not hear the conversation.
"As far as I could tell there was no friction because Travis (Hood) turned his back to (Chambers)."
According to charging documents, Vause told police Chambers allegedly walked directly towards Hood and got within two feet of him. Vause had a shovel in his truck bed to dig out from the recent snow storm, and he said Hood spun around, grabbed the shovel and held it up in a "batter's" stance, stating, "What do you want to do now?"
Hood yelled, "Oh my God, he's got a gun!," as he tried to get into the truck, according to charging documents.
"The man (Chambers) jumped back about seven to eight feet and pulled the pistol out and just started blasting," Vause alleged. "He shot him, boom, boom, boom."
Vause said he immediately dove out the driver's side and hid behind the truck bed.
"I peeked back up immediately, he looked me dead in the eyes, put his weapon back in his jacket and just so calm, I'm talking like an 80's-style pimp strut, he just casually strutted away like it was nothing," Vause said.
According to court records, police interviewed two witnesses who saw a black male fitting Chamber's description "pull out a handgun and shoot the white male three to four times." They did not hear or see an argument and watched the defendant walk to his vehicle – a blue BMW M3 – get into the driver's seat and text someone before leaving the scene.
"When he looked at me and put that weapon away in his jacket I said, 'Jesus just saved me,' I don't know why that man didn't point that gun at me and blow my head off."
Struggling to save a friend
"I jumped in the truck and pulled Travis over and I was thinking, 'This crazy bastard is going to come kill me," he said.
The shovel had fallen back into the truck and Hood, his upper body slumped into the truck cabin, was unable to move his legs, still dangling outside the truck, Vause said.
Vause was able to push the shovel away and pull his mortally wounded friend inside.
"I took off, I made a U-turn, and hauled butt down to the first five-way intersection before the Junction, took a right and went up and over the hill to Fauntleroy, through oncoming traffic," Vause said.
Vause recalled his last conversation with his friend.
"I yelled, 'Travis are you OK, are you OK?' and he said, I'm probably going to die this time man, I'm gonna die."
"No your not Travis, things are going too good this time, stay with me, stay with me!"
He saw Hood was starting to lose consciousness.
"I said, 'Travis, what the (expletive) was that man! What the (expletive) was that!'"
"I got to pray man, I got to pray," Hood replied.
"He just started praying and that's all he did from then on, he wouldn't talk to me."
Vause drove to St. Vincent's and ran inside:
"Oh my God, my friends been shot three times, please come help me! Please come help me!"
Vause said an on-duty nurse explained St. Vincent's was not a hospital, but quickly called 911.
Hours later, Michael Travis Hood lost his life.
Arresting Chambers
According to court documents, police swiftly identified Chambers, his vehicle and Gatewood neighborhood address. They went to his house, arrested him and took him in for questioning. A .45 caliber pistol, matching the caliber of shell casings found at the murder scene, was found inside the home next to BMW car keys.
Chambers' wife was also brought in for questioning. According to the charging documents, she told detectives here husband seemed calm when he arrived home and poured himself a glass of wine. He asked her about the movie she was watching.
If convicted, Chambers' faces a minimum of 25 to 31.6 years in prison (with one count of first degree murder with a deadly weapon enhancement), according to prosecutors. A background check by detectives shows a long rap sheet starting in the 1960s.
According to the court, his criminal history includes a robbery conviction in 1961, grand larceny in '62, robbery and kidnapping in '66, resisting public officers in '72, extortion and bank robbery in'82. He has prior arrests for kidnapping for ransom and/or rape in '65, armed robbery and felon in possession of a firearm in '73, robbery in '74, extortion in '76 and bank robbery in 1980.
Prosecutors state Chambers has used many aliases during his life, "including Cidrick Mann and at least nine variations of the name 'Lovett James Chambers."
A regular at the Feedback Lounge who knows Chambers told the Herald, "The whole thing is incredibly sad. He got along great with everyone … he just seemed like a regular, all-around good guy who knows everyone around Seattle and goes to the popular bars … I just can't understand what he was thinking."
According to prosecutors, "Chambers remains in jail with bail set at $5 million. Arraignment is scheduled for February 8 at 8:30 a.m. in courtroom 1201 at the King County Courthouse."
Remembering Travis
Bryan Corbitt, Hood's cousin from Florida, commented to the Herald:
"My cousin Travis Hood left Jacksonville after our good friend Mark (Ramp) Lee was shot in his front yard in a home invasion/robbery attempt. Travis also lost his two brothers violently one of which was also shot. Travis went to Seattle, Washington to get a fresh start and get away from all the bad memories … Travis was one of my best friends in the world and was always there for me when I needed him. I remember Travis kneeling down next to my Mother's bed holding her hand praying for her when she was sick. He was one of the best friends anyone could hope to have and he will be deeply missed. My prayers go out to his daughter and his mother Brenda who has already suffered so much. I hope that everyone will join me in my prayers for his family. "Travis, I will miss you."
According to Vause, Hood was trying to secure a steady income to help support his daughter who is still in Florida.
An outsider battling the public's perception
After the shooting, Vause took to a local media outlet's online comment section to explain what happened that night. He said he has been frustrated by attacks on his story, the character of Hood and himself, and the defense of Chambers - a man well-known to many in West Seattle.
"Now I have to carry that horrid few moments in my mind for the rest of my life," Vause said. "And as for Travis, he really got cheated the worst."
"I cannot wait to get in the courtroom and tell the judge and jury (what happened). I've seen my faith in God is going to be Travis' and my salvation because if we have to depend on all of you (those questioning his story) we would, I guess, both be dead. You could all say, 'See our local rapist bank robber had been attacked and he killed those two punks.'"
"I know it's an open and shut case of first degree murder," he said.
In the aftermath
Vause and Hood's friends have set up a bank account, The Travis Hood Memorial Fund (donations can be made at any US Bank), to assist Hood's 12 year old daughter and mother as well as a PayPal account and a Facebook page that they intend to use as a clearinghouse for information on the case going forward.
"Right now it's hard to find any joy but I can tell you I went into celebration mode as soon as I heard the prosecutors were charging him with first degree murder," said Vause.
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Manchester United and Arsenal to squabble over Real Madrid star Raul Albiol
MANCHESTER UNITED and Arsenal are set to battle for Real Madrid defender Raul Albiol in January.
Arsenal will also compete for the versatile Spain international, with unsettled Bacary Sagna likely to move on from the Emirates soon.
United are currently facing a defensive crisis, with skipper Nemanja Vidic joining Phil Jones and Chris Smalling on the sidelines this week.
And with doubts persisting over Rio Ferdinand's long-term fitness - as well as Vidic's flirtation with a summer move to Barcelona - Sir Alex Ferguson is keen to bring a defensive recruit to Old Trafford.
Albiol is also an attractive proposition for his ability to fill in at right-back, with Fergie unsure over Rafael's long-term suitability for the role.
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Behind The Scenes: Being A Sports Agent
Page 3 of 3Leigh Steinberg found out the hard way that even your closest colleagues will screw you over if the price is right. In November of 2002, a Los Angeles jury awarded Steinberg approximately $44.7 million in a case against his former partner David Dunn. The court ruled that Dunn "breached a contract and engaged in unfair business practices" when he started his own firm and took 50 clients from Steinberg.
A similar case happened in 2003 when the firm Octagon was sued by agent Andrew Joel. Joel claimed that Octagon's rep Andre Colona stole his client — Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick — and launched a $41 million dollar lawsuit in retaliation.
Prior to the Octagon case, a New York jury awarded agent Eric Fleisher $4.6 million in his suit against former employee Andy Miller. Fleisher had taken Miller to court claiming that his old subordinate stole several clients, including basketball star Kevin Garnett, when he left the firm.
the business of sportsRepresenting athletes can be a great job for people looking for a very high income. However, to pull down those big bucks, a person has to be a fighter and a workaholic. Agents spend their entire lives fighting to land superstar athletes and to hold onto them. So if you're positive that being a sports agent is your calling, be prepared to move everything else, including family time, hobbies, and other pursuits, to the back seat.
Question: Who was the first athlete to create a personal "advisory committee," which included agents, marketing executives and other business experts?
Answer: Basketball player Yao Ming
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|I've been the victim of a mankad before, and despite this being with no prior warning, and at the time being extremely cheesed off, when the umpire (one of my own team) gave me out, I was happy to accept that and walk off!!! What followed was a full on argument between both teams and eventually I was walking back out to carry on batting, despite my mind being totally gone by then, I was telling myself to make them pay, only to be clean bowled straight through bat and pad the very next delivery!!!
In hindsight I wish we'd just stuck with the mankad, at least then I would've had a decent tale to tell when I got back to the club and having a drink and a chat with all the other teams
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""We are closing all the shops in Bethlehem today because we are standing with all the prisoners.""
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The Debian destro work fine but i can't find iptables :
root@raspberrypi:~# iptables -L
FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
iptables v1.4.8: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
It looks like netfilter & co hasn't been compiled in the kernel.
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Caiman, 1980
Carl Andre
American, 1935
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5.1 x 1228 x 5.1 cm assembled; blocks: 5.1 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm each
Purchased 1985
National Gallery of Canada (no. 28767.1-80)
The caiman is a crocodile-like animal that inhabits bodies of fresh water in Central and South America. Some species are reclusive and timid, spending much of their day hiding in burrows. Carl Andre makes reference to these traits by placing his sculpture along the junction of the wall and floor, its grey modular units visible only upon close scrutiny. Part of our pleasure in Andre's "Caiman" comes from discovering its discreet presence.
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Popular property highlights
Cambria hotel & suites is located 2.7 mi (4.4 km) from East Towne Mall and within a 10-minute drive of Madison Area Technical College. This 3-star hotel has 121 guestrooms and offers conveniences like a restaurant, an indoor pool, and free in-room WiFi. In central Madison, the hotel is also close to Token Creek Park.
This hotel is home to a bistro and a bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café. Start your day off with full breakfast, available for a fee.
Cambria hotel & suites's 121 air-conditioned rooms provide sofa beds, microwaves, and refrigerators. Guests can expect free WiFi and plasma TVs with cable channels and DVD players. Pillowtop beds grant a restful night's sleep and bathrooms offer hair dryers. Coffee makers, free local calls, and ironing boards are also available.
Guests staying at Cambria hotel & suites enjoy an indoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub. You can take advantage of free parking, along with a free airport shuttle at scheduled times. The front desk is staffed 24/7 to help secure valuables, and answer any questions about the accommodations. Additional amenities include free WiFi in public areas, conference space, and a business center.
Property features
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
- Free airport shuttle
Cambria hotel & suites
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Cambria hotel & suites provides a spa tub and a fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a business center. Event facilities measuring 1000 square feet (90 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests at scheduled times. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Cambria hotel & suites is a smoke-free property.
- Conference space size (feet) - 1000
- Conference space size (meters) - 90
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Number of floors - 6
- Total number of rooms - 121
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
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- Television in common areas
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Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
Cambria hotel & suites offers 121 air-conditioned accommodations with DVD players and coffee/tea makers. Beds feature pillowtop mattresses. Plasma televisions come with cable channels. Refrigerators and microwaves are provided.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks along with free local calls (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include hair dryers and irons/ironing boards.
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Room service (limited hours)
- DVD player
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free local calls
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- Microwave
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Where to Eat
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Reflect - This bistro serves breakfast and dinner.
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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No defense: The Land Rover DC100 concept from last year's Frankfurt motor show will not be the basis for the next Defender.
24 October 2012
By HAITHAM RAZAGUI
LAND ROVER design director Gerry McGovern has revealed the next-generation Defender will bear little resemblance to the DC100 concept that emerged at the Frankfurt motor show last year.
He said the new Defender will spawn a whole family of variants ranging from small and affordable to expensive and luxurious but would not confirm the widely-expected 2015 launch date.
"I can categorically say it will not look like DC100," he told Australian media on the eve of the Sydney motor show last week.
"We did say at the time (of reveal) DC100 was one of several designs that were being explored (and) we have done more work since."
Mr McGovern said public reaction to the DC100 since its world debut at last year's Frankfurt motor show had been overwhelmingly positive.
He promised the final product will be even better than the concept while retaining "certain characteristics" and being a worthy successor to the iconic Defender.
"When we researched (reaction to the DC100), 90 per cent was very favourable towards the design, eight per cent indifferent and two per cent wanted to kill me apparently but I'll get over that," he joked.
From top: Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern; current Land Rover Defender."That isn't the reason why we've changed it, we've just evolved – I think we've got a design now which is absolutely smack on where it needs to be and it's really exciting."
Mr McGovern said Land Rover was mindful of "falling into the retro trap", but despite the move to modernity he confirmed the next Defender will keep elements of its roots while being "absolutely relevant for its time".
"These Defenders have to be premium but durable," he said.
As reported, Mr McGovern explained that Land Rover products will be divided into families of luxury (Range Rover), versatility (Discovery) and dual-purpose (Defender).
This means there will potentially be several iterations of the new-age mud-plugger from small and affordable entry-level versions to luxurious premium variants.
"There could be a (Jeep Wrangler type vehicle) but there could also be a very expensive Defender as well," he said.
"I would encourage you not to think of Defender as one vehicle, it is potentially reconfigurable, which is really exciting and you could take it right up there (premium) or right down there in terms of a very affordable cost-space.
"I can see an opportunity for a version of a very small Defender that is aimed at a very youthful market – clearly it has to have capability … but Defender has to have what I call extreme capability."
Jaguar Land Rover global director of group sales operations, Phil Popham, said the company will reveal "something" relating to the next-generation Defender "way before we launch it".
He also told GoAuto there was scope for the existing Defender to live on beside the new model in some markets, but that no decision had yet been made.
Replacing an icon like the Defender is no easy task, but the current model's age-old design falls foul of safety and emissions laws in some of Land Rover's 174 global markets, forcing it to withdraw the model and limiting sales to around 20,000 units per year.
The DC100 concept mixed modern Land Rover design themes from the Discovery and Freelander with traditional Defender design cues like the shape of its roof, wrap-around rear-quarter windows, upright door mirrors, rear-mounted spare wheel and flat-topped front wings.
An open-top DC100 Sport was also shown at Frankfurt and the concepts were reconfigured around several themes for subsequent motor shows around the world.
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Hamel sliced his ball at the ninth, and after waiting for a few minutes patiently, Esther
came to help him look for it. He was standing down on the sands, a little apart from the
two caddies who were beating out various tufts of long grass.
"Where did it go?" she asked.
"I have no idea," he admitted.
"Why don't you help look for it?"
"Searching for balls," he insisted, "is a caddy's occupation. Both the caddies are now
busy. Let us sit down here. These sand hummocks are delightful. It is perfectly sheltered,
and the sun is in our faces. Golf is an overrated pastime. Let us sit and watch that little
streak of blue find its way up between the white posts."
She hesitated for a moment.
"We shall lose our place."
"There is no one behind."
She sank on to the little knoll of sand to which he had pointed, with a resigned sigh.
"You really are a queer person," she declared. "You have been playing golf this morning
as though your very life depended upon it. You have scarcely missed a shot or spoken a
word. And now, all of a sudden, you want to sit on a sand hummock and watch the tide."
"I have been silent," he told her, "because I have been thinking."
"That may be truthful," she remarked, "but you wouldn't call it polite, would you?"
"The subject of my thoughts is my excuse. I have been thinking of you."
For a single moment her eyes seemed to have caught something of that sympathetic light
with which he was regarding her. Then she looked away.
"Was it my mashie shots you were worrying about?" she asked.
"It was not," he replied simply. "It was you - you yourself."
She laughed, not altogether naturally.
"How flattering!" she murmured. "By-the-by, you are rather a downright person, aren't
you, Mr. Hamel?"
"So much so," he admitted, "that I am going to tell you one or two things now. I am going
to be very frank indeed."
She sat suddenly quite still. Her face was turned from him, but for the first time since he
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Siegmeister studied theory and composition at Columbia University, which he entered at 15 and graduated from three years later in 1927; he also privately studied counterpoint with Wallingford Riegger. As did seemingly most American composers born in the first half of the twentieth century, Siegmeister made a pilgrimage to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger (1927 - 1932); he also studied conducting at Juilliard from 1935 to 1938.
He was ever a joiner, participating in the Composers Collective of New York (in which he wrote songs under the name L.E. Swift), helping found the American Composers Alliance in 1937 and the American Ballad Singers in 1939, the latter of which he conducted in folk songs until the mid-'40s. Siegmeister's social conscience led him to write songs on inequality and injustice and to lead choruses at the Pierre Degeyter Club, named for the composer of the Internationale. He also organized a Carnegie Hall concert called Composers and Musicians for Peace in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. In a more establishment mode, he was vice president of the American Music Center from 1960 - 1965; helped found the Council of Creative Artists, Libraries, and Museums in 1970 and the Black Music Colloquium in 1980; and spent a long time on the ASCAP board of directors beginning in 1977.
Siegmeister composed prolifically in every genre from solo piano to opera (drawing stories from Shakespeare, Sean O'Casey, and Bernard Malamud) and Broadway musicals. His major turn toward modernism coincided with his immersion in professorial life; he had briefly taught at Brooklyn College, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Minnesota in the 1930s and '40s, and finally gained a long-term position (1949 - 1976) at Hofstra University. Yet he never entirely forsook populist elements; much of his music after 1970 broke into ragtime climaxes (notably the piano concerto), and American style suffuses his cantatas I Have a Dream (1967, for Martin Luther King Jr.) and Cantata for FDR (1981). Furthermore, Siegmeister's embrace of dissonance and complexity was no cynical maneuver to obtain promotion and tenure; those elements were apparent as early as 1933 in his vocal piece "The Strange Funeral in Braddock." ~ James Reel, Rovi
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Searching the word "professionalize" in Google images leads to some pretty abstract, random stuff: mountains, schoolchildren, businessy-looking people in suits, even cats. Professionalization can often feel like a vague, abstract task–one that you're unsure how to go about doing, but one that seems expected of you.
As in, MAPH expects it of you. A large part of MAPH's work in developing better thinkers, writers, and humanists is helping students conquer the professional world–or at least, helping students look astutely at application materials, get a handle on job markets, and think about how the humanities work both within and outside of the academy.
Luckily, your journey into professionalism in MAPH doesn't have to be confusing and daunting. In MAPH land, professionalization means developing your skills, experience, and connections, and being able to write and talk about those things in compelling and interesting ways.
1. You are thinking of working after MAPH.
It takes an average of 3-6 months to get a job, sometimes longer depending on the industry. If you do the math, that means ideally you'll start applying for jobs in Winter Quarter (you know, 2 months from now). Unfortunately, Winter Quarter is the busiest time of the MAPH year–3 classes, a thesis, IT'S SO COLD OUTSIDE. Getting your resume in shape now cannot possibly be a bad idea.
2. You are thinking of doing a PhD after MAPH.
Great! What are you doing to do between MAPH and your PhD? What if you want to take more than one year off? What are you going to do after your PhD? How are you going to set yourself up to survive a truly rough academic job market? What if you want to have a really interesting job to supplement your meager PhD stipend? Answer: start professionalizing now.
3. You have no idea what you want to do after MAPH.
Better to come up with a back up plan which involves making money (terrifying thought: your student loans will start being due in a year) until you do have a plan. Besides, the more research you do now, the more people that you meet, the better sense you'll have of what you do want to do, whether it's a career or another degree.
(Totally lost about what to do after MAPH? Conveniently, we have many alumni profiles on AfterMAPH! You can also come talk to your mentors.)
1. Attend events. There are lots.
- Talk with CHF's Matti Bunzel about work in the humanities on October 16 at 2 pm. (I'm super pumped about this!)
- November is Masters Student Month, rife with events to help you be a young, savvy professional. You'll be able to find updates at the Graduate Student Affairs website.
- November 6 at 5:30 pm, MAPH will host its Alumni Night, a series of panels featuring various careers and degrees after MAPH.
- GradUCon is January 24, 2014. Put it on your calendar now. It's a day-long professionalization extravaganza put on by Graduate Student Affairs, including resume help, networking, job panels, and as always, food and drink.
2. Make connections.
Whether that's going on informational interviews (most formal) or chatting with MAPH alums at Social Hour (least formal), getting to know lots of people is invaluable. Sad to say, but most jobs/positions will come to your attention through people you know, and you are far more likely to get an interview if you know the people doing the interviewing. Because, you know, they know you.
3. Look for positions now.
Even if you're not applying (quite yet), you'll get a sense of what kinds of things are available, where to look, who to talk to, what positions sound most exciting. You will thank yourself A LOT if you do the initial, stressful, researching work of applications slowly but early, rather than in April. Don't wait until April. That's when your thesis is due. Do you really want to be applying for jobs while finishing your thesis? No, no you don't.
4. Whew! Take a breath.
Take time to think about what you really enjoy doing. During my MAPH year I discovered that while I love doing research, I'm much happier being in the classroom teaching. While doing grant-writing this summer, I discovered that while I may be good at writing, working on grants felt stressful and unrewarding compared to how I felt actually talking to people from other non-profits. Taking a breather and being honest about what you really like/dislike will help you think about professions/positions that you'll be happy doing.
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Relevant Coursework – Classes like Teaching in the Community College, What are the Humanities For?, and Cultural Policy courses all have elements of professionalization incorporated into the coursework.
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`Dogs Open MW with Nevada
March 27, 2013
By Theresa Kurtz
By Theresa Kurtz
FRESNO, Calif. - Fresno State softball faces Nevada in its inaugural Mountain West series March 28-30 at Bulldog Diamond. The three-game series is both programs first in MW action. Live streaming and GameTracker will be available for all three games, while only Friday and Saturday's games will be broadcast on ESPN2 790 The Deuce.
About Nevada
The Fresno State vs. Nevada series began in 1978 with the Bulldogs winning 8-0. The `Dogs lead the overall series with a 37-12 record. The last meeting was in 2012 and Fresno State won 2-of-3 games. The Bulldogs have six of the last nine games between the `Dogs and Wolf pack.
Scouting the Wolf Pack
Nevada is 20-13 on the season and won three of four games last weekend. The Wolf Pack is hitting .328 as a team with 105 extra base hits and 190 RBI. The Pack has an on base percentage of .420 and have stolen 18 bases. Karley Hopkins leads the team hitting .393. She has collected 44 hits, nine doubles, a home run and 18 RBI. In the circle, Nevada has a 4.10 team ERA and combined for 168 strikeouts. Karlyn Jones has a 13-4 record on the mound and a 3.03 ERA in 104 innings of work. She has struck out 96 batters and opponents are hitting .227 against her.
Bulldogs Start First Season in Mountain West
Fresno State joined the Mountain West Conference in July of 2012. The 2013 season will be the first season the Bulldogs compete as members of the MW. The 'Dogs made the move to the MW with Nevada. Fresno State also faces familiar foes Boise State, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State and UNLV, who are all members of the MW. The Bulldogs have faced every member and compiled a 202-46 (.814) mark against teams in the MW.
Home Is Where the Heart Is
The Bulldogs are off to a 10-2 start at Bulldog Diamond in 2013. Fresno State has an overall home record of 812-186-1 in 36 years. The best single-season home record at Bulldog Diamond is 27-0 set by the 1998 National Champion squad.
Compton Named MW Pitcher of the Week
Freshman Jill Compton earned her first Mountain West Pitcher of the Week accolade and second for the Bulldogs pitching staff. She threw her second complete-game shutout of the season, working all seven innings of Fresno State's 1-0 victory over Pacific last Wednesday. The Oceano, Calif., native struck out four batters while surrendering three hits and one walk.
Angotti Moves into Lineup
Junior transfer Kapri Angotti has moved into the Fresno State lineup and making quite the impact. The first-year Bulldog is hitting .381 in 12 starts and 22 appearances. She has recorded five RBI, one of which was the game-winning run against Kansas. She made her first start in front of a home crowd and recorded two hits. The outfielder has 16 hits, including a double and two runs scored in 2013. Angotti has recorded five multi-hit games and earlier this week hit .714 (5-for-7) against Cal Poly.
"Discover Fresno State Athletics!" -- Bulldog softball open Mountain West action on Thursday, March 28 against Nevada at 6 p.m. Catch the action on ESPN 790 The Deuce, home Bulldog softball. Stay connected with the Bulldogs on Facebook (fresnostateathletics) and Twitter (@FSAthletics).


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WOW, that sounds almost incredible! I wish you good luck Mike :hand10:
God's speed, and good luck.
Here's hopin' Mike! Tennessee is in serious need of some more good folks. The numbers have been dwindling ever since you and I left the state....hahaha.
Hey Mike,
Haven't been on for over four months, but I recall your frustration (understatement!) at your entire misadventure (understatement!), so it's SOOO refreshing to hear of your possiblity of not only getting back to TN, but back to your old stomping grounds and even old house would definitely be icing on the cake!
Hope all goes well and your dream will be realized soon!
Good fortune and God bless!


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My friend Johanna Dyer, who has died aged 87, spent three years of her youth in the women's concentration camp of Ravensbrück, in northern Germany. In her unpublished memoir Whispering Flames, she related the story of her family's opposition to Nazism.
She grew up Johanna Zehrer in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. Although life was very hard, her liberal father remained unemployed as he refused to join the Nazi party. The family watched in terror as the Nazis grew stronger and stronger. In 1936 both Johanna's parents were detained and interrogated.
Johanna, who had a Jewish school friend, was dubbed "Judenfreund" (Jew lover) and this contributed to her arrest in 1942 for refusing to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler. After six months in detention, she was transferred to Ravensbrück. Eventually, with help, she escaped the camp in February 1945.
After the war, she moved with her first husband, Werner Mueller, to his East German home, where, she considered, life closely resembled that under the Nazis. Her husband wanted to remain there so, with great sadness, they agreed to part, divorcing in 1947. Johanna and her baby, Ilona, somehow reached the British zone, dodging bullets from border guards.
Later she married an English naval petty officer, Thomas Dyer, settled down in Portsmouth, and had two more children, Rita and Maureen. When Thomas was awarded the distinguished service medal at the time of the Suez crisis, Johanna and Ilona visited Buckingham Palace to see the Queen present it to him.
In 1965 Johnanna returned to Germany to give evidence in favour of Dr Lucas, the SS doctor who had been instrumental in helping her to escape from Ravensbrück. While there, she visited her dying mother and found that it was she who had denounced Johanna to the Nazis. Johanna forgave her.
For the rest of her life Johanna suffered the results of her time in prison. She could not bear to sleep in a heavily curtained room, never wasted any food and made sure that her daughters understood the Holocaust and the horrors her family had endured.
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One of the big problems with the American "mainstream" media apparatus is the completely uncritical way in which they accept everything that fits their template, printing anything they agree with, and suppressing or ignoring or criticizing things that they don't. We've got another fine example today in an AP story about some congressmen "call[ing] on President Bush to announce by year's end a plan for withdrawal from Iraq." The story is focused on NC Republican Walter Jones, a pre-war supporter of going in to Iraq, which does make it a legitimate news story. But, because he's now disagreeing with the President, what he's got to say is accepted as gospel truth. I think it's safe to say that the AP didn't do a lot of respectful quoting of Walter Jones when he was supporting the President in the run-up to the war.
Jones said the reason for going to war — Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction — has been proven false.
"If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have supported the resolution," said Jones, who had coined the term "freedom fries" as a show of support for the war in Iraq.
Representative Jones is apparently unaware of what he was voting on, and the AP is either unaware or uninterested in pointing that out. There wasn't a "reason" for going to war, there were many, and the fact that everyone believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD was only one of them. To quote from the Congressional Resolution authorizing force in Iraq:
- in 1998 Congress concluded that Iraq's continuing weapons of mass destruction programs threatened vital United States interests and international peace and security, declared Iraq to be in `material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations' and urged the President `to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations'
- Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material an unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things...supporting and harboring terrorist organizations
- Iraq persists in violating resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait
- the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people
- the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council
- members of al-Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq
- Iraq continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that threaten the lives and safety of American citizens
- the attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, underscored the gravity of the threat posed by the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by international terrorist organizations
- it is in the national security interests of the United States to restore international peace and security to the Persian Gulf region
None of that has been "proven false." We have not found the stockpiles that the administration, and every intelligence agency in the world, expected to be found, but not one of the reasons I've listed is false. The AP doesn't care - a Republican congressman is criticizing the administration, and that's good news for the media.
They also managed to get another Cindy Sheehan paean into the same piece, down towards the end.
[Jones has] also met with family members of troops killed in Iraq, including with Cindy Sheehan...He said the meeting about six weeks ago, which included other families who had lost loved ones, was emotional, and that Sheehan didn't say anything about going to Texas.
"You know, that's her right. I think anybody that's lost a loved one, who feels that we should be there long or not be there long, they should have that right to express it," Jones said.
If they're going to publish a comment like that, doesn't it behoove them to find someone who has expressed the feeling that she shouldn't have that right? There's an implied criticism there, the implication that someone less enlightened than Representative Jones, someone who would, therefore, be on the President's side, wants to suppress any opposition. Since no one's actually arguing that position, however, he, and by extension, the Associated Press, are impugning the President by implication.


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"the graph editor in Stata 10 is pretty unwieldy and not helped by not
recording the edits for later use in another situation."
I am quite sure that during the life of Stata 10.1 this constraint was relaxed, and the Graph Editor given recording capability. It certainly is true in Stata 11. -help graph editor- has a section 'graph recorder'. Is this not available in Stata 10.1?
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Antique German Christian HACKER mansion DOLLS' HOUSE. This grand German dolls' house has so many architectural features with a large front porch & an incredible side porch with carved columns, a large front balcony and an elaborate side balcony. On the upper floor there is an extra room that adds a bathroom inside to a bedroom & additional room beyond the railing on the left. The house is painted a cream color with brown timbering decorating the facade of the second story. Although there is repaint on this house, it still retains the original design and details. The basement has charming windows & does open outward to allow storage. There are painted brackets under the roof and a larger center dormer and balcony on the roof. The roof has been restored & has a chimney. The house opens from the front and has four large rooms and two hallways for an elevator that is missing. The floors & walls have been re-papered with appropriate papers. All the rooms have their original electrical outlets in the ceiling with beaded replaced chandeliers & there is lighting in the house. The beaded drape is original. It also has a grand entrance staircase 44 1/2" t x 45" w x 24" d. The rooms downstairs are 12 x 12 x 16" d, upstairs 12 x 13 1/2 t x 16" d; with the 2 halls 6 x 6 1/2" w. We also have a custom made table in the same color for it with antique legs. On the table it's 45 d x 47" long. Freight 500.00 is an approximate, should be close. We use a reliable shipper.
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High overhead as darkness falls on cold January evenings is a tiny cluster of stars that often is mistaken for the Little Dipper. Although it does have a dipper shape to it, with a tiny little bowl and tiny little handle, its real name is the Pleiades, and it is popularly known as the Seven Sisters. A person with average vision should be able to see six stars in the cluster with no difficulty and a bit of careful searching should reveal the seventh faint star as well. A person with exceptional vision might make out as many as 8, 9, or even 10 stars with their unaided eye. How many can you see?
The name "Seven Sisters" is actually a misnomer because only 5 of the 7 naked-eye stars are sisters. The other two stars represent the parents, Atlas, the father, and Pleione, the mother. In order of decreasing brightness, the seven brightest stars are named Alcyone, Atlas, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, and Pleione. The other two sisters, at the edge of visibility, are Celaeno and Sterope. A simple pair of binoculars will clearly reveal the entire family, and many dozens more stars to boot!
Mythology explains that the big brute Orion the Hunter, also seen in the winter stars, was chasing the beautiful daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, heard their cries for help and transformed the maidens into white doves so that they could escape Orion's lustful pusuit. They flew high into the heavens and are still seen today as our Pleiades star cluster.
A more modern, scientific explanation for the lovely cluster of stars is that they were, indeed, all born as siblings from the same cloud of hydrogen gas about 10-million years ago. There are more than 500 member stars in the Pleiades cluster, all lying about 410 light years away from our solar system. That means, when you look at the Pleiades star cluster, you are seeing it as it was 410 years ago!
Although the Pleiades stood alone as a separate constellation for many centuries, modern astronomers have included it within the boundaries of our constellation of Taurus, the Bull. The tiny cluster lies on the bull's shoulder.
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Applying the Lessons of Baltimore to Private Security
Those living on the east coast are likely aware of the recent crime wave gripping Baltimore. Demoralized by recent events, Baltimore police officers have clearly disengaged from proactive policing. The citizens of Baltimore are paying the heavy price! And who can blame the police. Most of them likely believe they no longer have the support of their Mayor or Police Commissioner. They also think local prosecutors have become partisanized and will over-prosecute the officers for any mistakes they may make. --> READ MORE


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Date of Stay: August, 2015
We chose this campground as it was close by to a wedding we were attending. Road from Hwy 460 to campground is very rough and patched with loose gravel. We tow with a dolly and the ramps scraped the road when going over the railroad tracks. Upon registering at the office, which is pretty far down in the campground, we were given site #9 and were told we would have to go totally around the park back close to the entrance, go around the very back row of a section in order to pull straight into our site -- they said the turns were too close for a camper to get into the site any other way. Upon following their directions to the campsite, the tree branches on the back row were so very low, they severely scraped the roof of our motorhome to the point we were afraid we would be missing air conditioners, antennas, etc. Hubby climbed up the ladder on the back of the MH and did not find any obvious damage, but I'm still not so sure that there isn't something wrong up there. The campground is filled with permanent campers and we have no real problem with that as long as it wasn't loud. Our site was close to the entrance/exit so we were far away from the bulk of the permanent rv's.
Date of Stay: July, 2010
Nice park but the sites are a bit close together. Was a family reunion of several campers in the row behind us with no respect for quiet time. Other than that, a nice place
Date of Stay: August, 2009
Nice, quiet park. Very well maintained. Friendly staff. We were looking for a place to take the grandchildren that wasn't too far and found this lovely park only 5 miles from our home.
Date of Stay: June, 2009
Very nice, quiet park. Owner very customer service oriented. We looked forward to a quiet weekend getaway and that is exactly what we received. We had a very shaded site, which was great for the hot days. It did prevent us from receiving a satellite signal, so the only draw back for this campground is the lack of Cable TV.


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Get answers to questions about your Volkswagen Golf TDI at RepairPal. Find solutions, diagnose problems and get back on the road.Refine by vehicle
due to key not being recognized by computer,my car only starts 1 out of 9 - 10 times. Sometimes disconnecting battery(which is new) helps but it appears to be getting worse. I'm told only vw dealer can fix it and its very expensive. Any advice?
Have 2010 TDI golf.Llive in Fairfax county virginia.Can't pass emission
test. Dealer says I have to drive it for 2 to 3 hours to heat engine. I've done this 3 times and still can't pass. What do I have to do. I've put now 3+hundred miles,gas and time trying to heat engine up. What can I do.
Stopped to get fuel, shut car off & when I tried to start the car back up it turned over real slow making a clunking noise in engine-drive train? repeated to try & start twice & on the third time vehicle started like normal, & that"s when the car would not go into to overdrive
Replaced the tranny (tiptronic) with a rebuilt approx 50,000 miles ago. Now having problems with delayed upshifting. No transmission shops for nearly 150 miles of where we live (central British Columbia) but I've been told it might be a selonoid in the transmission???
My starter is working fine, but it doesn't sound like it's disengaging all the way for 5 to 10 seconds after the engine starts. I'd like to take the starter off and see if it's something simple I might be able to oil or replace on the starter but I have NO idea where to start looking for the starter? Do I have to take the Air Filter housing off to get to it from the top? Do I have to try and access it from the bottom? Any help or video would be great?
brake repair was pads all round new front nearside hub one calliper on back 2 days ago no initial problem but today did 1 mile journey stopped briefly flat battery jumped start then alternated warning light on plus anti skid could there be a connection to repair
I have a 2000 tdi that wont shift into high gear .Is there a process for checking tha tout to see the extent of repairs needed
I got a reconditioned one last month
Use key manually for ignition and to lock all the other doors, but I can't lock driver side door with it.
r/h front flasher + l/h reart flasher u/s. bulbs are fine. emergency flasher switc @ on: same problem. unlock key activation: same problem. Flasher relay faulty? Is there a recall on that?
My abs and engine light are on, and speedo, cruise control, trip control aren' t working. Can i disable abs module without losing speedo, cruise control, trip control ? I don't mind losing abs.
I've dismantled and cleaned it, but the light is still on. How do I now reset the EW code?. I've also read that you can't clean the EGR on this model of Golf, but instead have to replace it with a new valve. Is that Correct?
Not my car but my boss who insists he does it to save money by not engaging the gear system. This is the second steering column in one year. In my opinion it is a false economy but I am far removed from a mechanic
I have tested the wiring it test right, I have tested the Air flow meter and replaced it but still not right.
The engine light is on and the turbo doesn't feel like it is working. has anyone got info?
I go to the VW dealer and they cant communicate with door lock module, they try with 3 different laptop .nothing work with the remote need help Thank's
Check engine light come up when I put the car in drive only and it gives code :"17057 Shift Solenoid Electrical" My mechanic thinks is the torque converter, but I don't have any issues with the transmission it works fine.
Also running a bit rough intermittently and this light comes on when it starts running rough light is not on permantly only when starts to run rough usually when engine heats up a bit.
Hi I checked the fuel rail pressure sensor on connector with a multimeter but the reading is fine 5v supply, linear signal volt output and sensor ground its all fine but I still ordered a new sensor by chance and changed it and since then the car is running perfect and the fault code is gone.
so how can I do another test to know if the sensor is faulty or not because after fitting the new one the output volts readings are exactly the same as the old one so If it is another test to do please let me know how to carry it out ?
glow plug light on dashboard still continue on
gear 1,2,3 and 5 but gear 4 is working and when i try to put other Gears it make a lot of noise except gear 4 please help.
I couldn't shift into the gears anymore on a drive down the coast a few weeks back, but after a while everything was fine. When I brought it to the shop (it's a reputable place) they said it costs $5500 to replace the transmission and the clutch as well as the tire rods on the drivers side. Another shop estimated the same amount though they haven't taken a look at the car. We paid $8000 for it last April, and have been really happy with it though the interior is pretty shotty. The main question is - is it worth it to repair and keep it or is this the start of the end?
Does it have to do with the transmission issues found in some cars?
The first Code(po234) is a turbo over boost I was told. My mechanic is not sure how to address the repair and I have a certain disdain for VW dealers so...the second code is exactly what your forum described it as. Again, multiple troubleshooting steps listed but maybe that list can be narrowed down some? My inspection won't pass until these codes are cleared, I just dropped a sum of money on rear springs/shocks. I am in need of help, please!
New fan control module, new thermal switch, new ac high pressure sensor, new engine temperature sensor. Never wrecked. Checked all relays and wiring. AC clutch works when hot wired directly to the battery. AC compressor clutch will not engage. Seven volts at compressor plug.
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African Youth Championship organisers have admitted the area of Cotonou where Youssoufou Samiou was attacked is notorious for its poor security.
Samiou, the Benin under-20 goalkeeper, died on Monday following the attack on the beach near the El Dorado hotel where the Benin under-20 team were staying during the tournament.
"We knew El Dorado presented a security risk," said Lieutenant Colonel Sebastien Ametepe, the chairman of the local organising committee.
"What we feared most were physical attacks from outsiders, that's why the boys were warned not to venture out at night."
However Ametepe said that the team's French coach Serge Deveze had chosen the hotel.
Ametepe went onto explain that the team moved to the El Dorado from another hotel because the squad were being continually disturbed by friends, family and fans.
He pointed out that the Moroccan under-20 squad were also staying at the El Dorado.
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The report, Local Authorities and Home Education, was published today and calls for more legal rights for local authorities to access home-educated children and monitor their progress.
But Stuart criticised the report and said that comments made by Osted's chief inspector Christine Gilbert in response to the report were "deeply concerning".
"It is astonishing that the chief inspector of schools should stray onto home education and get it so wrong. In Ofsted's official press release she [Gilbert] says that 'it is extremely challenging for local authorities to meet their statutory duty to ensure children have a suitable education', when they have no such duty," he said. "Parents, not the state, have the statutory duty to ensure that their children have a suitable education."
The report claims that many local authorities struggle to obtain comprehensive information on home-educated children in their area, accusing some families of being uncooperative. It recommends that parents should be legally required to register with local authorities if they home educate, and should be subject to compulsory annual home visits.
But Stuart argued that in order to ensure all children get a suitable education local authorities should "serve and support" home educators rather than "catalogue and moniter" them.
"The obvious and correct answer is for local authorities to improve their support for families so that more families make contact with them voluntarily," he added. "If they did this and made sure that they employed sympathetic staff who built good reputations, then the number of 'unknown' children would be reduced."


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PB Classic Adirondack Chair
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The Adirondack chair has been a symbol of summer relaxation since 1903, when an ingenious host built the first to create seating for guests at his Adirondacks vacation home. Our design retains all the benefits of the original but in a scaled-up size and simplified profile that enhance its style and comfort.
- Crafted of sustainably harvested mahogany and eucalyptus certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®). To learn more about our environmental commitment click here.
- Crafted with a deep seat, angled back and wide arms.
- Some assembly required.
- Chair: 30.5" wide x 37" deep x 40" high
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- Overall: 30.5" wide x 37" deep x 40" high
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Nanotech 2008 Vol. 2
Nanotechnology 2008: Life Sciences, Medicine & Bio Materials - Technical Proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 2
Chapter 6: Nano Medicine & Neurology
Advances in Automated 3D cortex image data acquisition
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|The study of the 3D architecture of cortex requires the creation of image datasets with sufficient detail in all directions. The detail level required to produce meaningful data requires imaging quality that allows identification of synaptic regions with their characteristic neurotransmitter carrying vesicles. One way to provide a dataset is to apply microtomes and TEM imaging, however, this process requires a lot of manual input and control – therefore it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Another way to create a dataset of the cortex, is to apply a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) based slicing with successive in-situ SEM based high-resolution imaging. The process for 3D imaging of the cortex is easy to describe: 1. Prepare the sample and create a FIB aligned edge at the volume of interest. 2. Define milling conditions and patterning definitions for the volume. 3. Select an imaging detector, to be applied after the slicing process and define the imaging conditions. 4. Run the successive slicing and viewing process in an automated way. After investigating the requirements for obtaining the resolution level that is required for the data acquisition process we have now focused on the challenges associated with increasing the investigated volume, while maintaining the required resolution.
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Housing Numbers and the Debt Ceiling
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Felix Salmon, finance blogger for Reuters, discusses the debt deadlock in Washington and why housing starts are up but home sales are lagging.
A bipartisan agreement seems to be emerging in the Senate that not only breaks the debt ceiling deadlock but would also cut $4 trillion for the national debt over the next decade and reform the existing tax code.
Felix Salmon said while that may sound hopeful, it's still not clear what's in the deal.
It's incredibly vague. There are promises to cut spending... at some point in the future, and we're not quite sure how but we'll commit ourselves to doing it. So I think a bunch of this is sort of saying we want to cut the deficit, but we're not quite sure how, but we'll commit ourselves to doing it in the future, but first lets get this debt ceiling issue out of the way.
He said it is promising that there seems to be genuine bipartisan agreement. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), interviewed on All Things Considered yesterday, said that the agreement would actually lower top tax rates while simultaneously closing a lot of existing loopholes, giving both parties the ability to claim victory.
Any agreement that increases tax revenue through closing loopholes while lowering the top tax rates is closing some large loopholes indeed, and in fact is likely going to be addressing not just loopholes but standardized deductions. Additionally, the $3 trillion in spending cuts indicates a new bipartisan willingness to cut into Medicare entitlements. Salmon is skeptical that the agreement will be sustainable.
I think both parties are in on a conspiracy to claim that they will magically find Medicare cuts, somehow. And as long as they claim that with a straight face they'll agree to pretend to believe each other, at least until we can get to the other side of this debt ceiling vote, and then they'll have a big fight.
He said no one in the House seems able to reliably deliver the votes for any plan, and that poses a real problem, given how soon the deadline looms.
There's a lot of things which the House Republicans can suddenly wake up and decide they don't like. If they think that they have twelve or thirteen days left to do this, if it doesn't work, if something goes wrong in the House, there's no time left to scramble together some kind of a plan B.
Stimulus has noticeably been left out of the conversation. The political unpopularity of the concept, especially in the House, makes it likely that any stimulus the president would be able to get passed would be too small to have any significant effect. Salmon thinks leaving out stimulus is a mistake.
The way you get the economy moving is not by cutting spending. Clearly what we need is stimulus… and there is absolutely no indication that it is a remote possibility.
Existing home sales number released today show a small decrease in June, of 0.8 percent. They were down almost four percent in May. Salmon said these numbers were much worse than expected. He said 0.8 percent is actually significant because it indicates that the market is not rebounding, as was expected, but continuing to fall.
Local housing numbers also show a decrease, with the median housing price in the New York City metropolitan area dropping from $414,000 to $401,000—a three percent decline. Sales also fell, with a seventeen percent decline in sales in June in this area, compared to last year's June.
Salmon pointed out that this is especially bad given that last year's June was also depressed for sales.
Every time the housing market plunges everyone gets this big hope that, hey, we've had this big plunge and now we can have what is known as a means reversion—we can bounce back, because this is such a low figure. And every time we think we're going to bounce back, it just gets worse.
He said you cannot build equity in that sort of decline, which leads to more homeowners ending up underwater with their mortgages, and fewer people buying, and thus more delinquencies and foreclosures.
Yet housing starts were up. Housing starts numbers refer to ground-breaking on new housing projects. Salmon explained that most of these were in multi-family homes, indicating rental units.
What builders are seeing… is that people are getting over this American dream of homeownership. They realize it can turn into much more of an American nightmare—that a house, in reality, is much more of a liability than an asset, and people prefer to rent than to own.
Thirty percent of the sales were of distressed homes, the majority of which are most likely short sales by mortgage-holders who are underwater. While this might seem, on the positive side, to serve as a purging out of some of the most overpriced stock, Salmon does not think it will lead to more affordable housing. Many of the sales were cash, meaning the buyers were likely speculators planning to get their return in rent.
The relationship between the depressed housing market and people's ability to find jobs is also important in interpreting the housing numbers.
Home ownership is antithetical to labor mobility. If you own your home, and especially if you're underwater or it's difficult to sell your home, then it's very difficult to move to where the jobs are. If you rent it's much easier. So in terms of improving the employment picture, what we want is exactly what we're seeing.


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Firefox, the memory monster
I have been using Mozilla Firefox since early 2004, and I am only one of the hoardes of users complaining that it is getting slower and slower with every big release. Even though the Mozilla "release notes" states that they have fixed THE memory leak, it seems that fix opens a new leak somewhere else.
I did a fair bit of research the last few days, and some of the answers Mozilla provides to the memory leaks is that it's down to the extensions and themes users download and then install. Fair point, however this is where I differ from Mozilla.
I have Firefox 3.5.2(the latest version) installed on my laptop, and I also have Firefox 18.104.22.168 installed on a Virtual machine backup of my laptop from June 2008. I managed to downgrade the extensions and plugins I have for my latest version of Firefox to be similiar to the version I have on my virtual machine.
I did a test where I used Firefox 3.5.2 for an hour, writing down the sites I visited, these were the general news sites, facebook, twitter, and checking internet email. I managed to get Firefox to use ~137MB of memory. When I did the same exercise with the older version of Firefox, I managed to use ~98MB of memory. That's a 39MB difference!
However, not just Firefox is to blame. IE8(the new browser from Microsoft) is using about twice as much memory resources, and this is very alarming. What if a user only had 1GB of memory available to him? Mozilla has an answer for this too. They tell us that the more memory a pc/laptop have, the more memory resources the browser will use, as it's primary goal is to make your browsing smoother and faster. Maybe a valid answer, but the problem still remain with how you use the browser.
I do have some tips on how to make your browser use minimal memory, and avoid those dreadful memory leaks.
- Limit the amount of themes or extensions you use. If your browser seems to be getting slower, try removing the latest extensions you have downloaded to see if the browser performance improves.
- Do not open numerous tabs. Use only the amount of tabs you REALLY need. There is no use in opening 20 tabs, or duplicate tabs, if in the end you will only use 5 of them, due to the other pages you opened being irrelevant.
- Update your browser only if you have too. Going for a newer version of the browser won't always make your problem go away. First read the release notes or do research on the latest version, before you install it. You won't just go buy the latest VW Golf, unless you are sure what it has to offer!
- Turn off Auto Update. Disabling the auto-update feature could lead to improved loading time. For disabling update go to Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> Update, and uncheck all the selections and click OK.
- Use the search bar on the right. Use the search bar on the right hand side of the top bar. You can modify this search bar to use your favourite search engine, by clicking on the logo on the left, and selecting "Manage Search Engines".