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We're encouraging not just seasoned rally racers, but entire families to experience the adventure and adrenaline of rally racing with our Forester Family Rally. If selected, you'd get an all-expenses-paid trip to Tremblant, Quebec for our next rally event in August. On top of that, the winning family would go home with a new 2014 Subaru Forester!
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Wonderful and Stylish Studio
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This is a modern and cozy studio, full of character, set on the ground floor of an ancient typical Lisbon building near ( 5 minutes walking distance ) the trendy and vibrant Bairro Alto and the best Lisbon neighborhood, Lapa.
The Apartment is a studio and has a maximum capacity for 3 persons: Sleeps two in double bed and another one in the sofa bed. Nice bathroom, fully equipped kitchen, ready to cook homemade meals. Towels and linens at your disposal are included in the price.
You will found also a little patio, with furniture and stone floor. Here is the perfect place to relax, have a nice meal or enjoy a tastefully glass of wine with you family and friends.
The apartment are in a typical Portuguese street, between lively Bairro Alto and Lapa/Estrela in the neighborhood of São Bento. Also enjoy the "Estrela Basilica" or the botanical gardens just at front. There is a supermarket, plus several restaurants and bars within a 5-minute walk.
If you walk 5 minutes you´re at "Bairro Alto", known as one of the most attractive and picturesque areas of the Lisbon's city center. At night, this 17th century colorful district is transformed into the city's vibrant nightlife quarter. The main streets and narrow passageways are bustling with activity of dozens of excellent traditional restaurants, «fado singing houses», cafés, and a multitude of sleek clubs and bars that stay open until late. In recent years, «Bairro Alto» is also an alternative shopping destination, for those looking for trendy design shops, art galleries and bookshops. Bairro Alto, one of the Lisbon hippest and coolest place.
There are several buses and trams, and subway, 5 minutes away, although one can easily walk to the main points of the city. Two minutes walking is the heart of the glamorous and cosmopolitan city can still be felt in the Chiado, a place where the "new" and "old" live in harmony. Characterized by casual-chic atmosphere, with streets full of shops, fine restaurants, beautiful cobblestone, beautiful churches and timeless cafes, Chiado makes any visitor feel real Lisbon.
Chiado is where Lisbon's history and urbanity meet. This tourist area of the capital begins at the Brasileira café, on Rua Garrett. Opened in 1905. It´s one of Lisbon's postcards. On the side walk café you will find the different urban tribes and a statue of poet Fernando Pessoa, who offers his lap for tourist photos.
Luís de Camões square, which any Lisboner will call Largo Camões, is not just a passing place. Sit on the steps of the poet's monument and enjoy the bustle that Chiado has. But do not leave Chiado without inquiring about the theatres. São Luiz Municipal Theatre was one of Lisbon's first cinemas. Today it is a municipal theatre with a rich and varied programming. Also glimpse the Teatro Trindade and the S. Carlos Opera House.
Правила ПроживанияDeposit €100,00. Please Note the deposit value will be returned via bank transference after your check out.
Check-in is after 3:00 p.m. and need to be arranged before the day of arrival. Please call or send us a message after collecting your luggage at the Lisbon airport, or train/bus station, to let us know you are already in Lisbon. Our representative will give you a friendly welcome and answer any questions you may have.
Check-in after 23:00 is subject to a 25 EUR fee.
Check in on the 24th of December and 31 of December after 6 pm are not allowed..
We will provide you with our contact details after your reservation is confirmed. The apartment will be ready and cleaned for you before your arrival. Fresh towels and bed clothing are also provided and all is included in the total price. You will be given a set of towels per person. Keys delivery: In the apartment. Cleaning: On departure.
Please note that from the 1st of January 2016 a city tax of EUR 1 per person, per night is not included in the total price and should be paid on site. This tax is charged to guests aged 13 and older. It is subject to a maximum amount of EUR 7 per guest.
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Great place, in a very crowded livley part of the town. We (5 persons) had a great time, stuff was very friendly and uncomplicated... All clean all nice all good!
Our stay was great from the moment we arrived at the airport! Margarida and Anne have been excellent hosts during our stay! They have helped us with arranging taxi's, but also been amazing when it came to suggesting places to see.
Next to that the appartment we were in was lovely! It really felt like coming home. It was clean, internet access, cable tv (not that we needed that) and the best location you can imagine, close to all the hotspots which Lisbon has to offer!
Thank you ladies, we have enjoyed each single moment of our stay!
It is a really great apparment very close to all popular places and quiet surprisingly. Margarida was very helpful and I could always ask for help when I needed something. I highly recommend it!
This apartment has the perfect location. Walking distance from the Underground, bus stops and tram stops, it is also really close to Bairro Alto! It is clean and also equipped with the necessities. The only thing is that it looks a bit smaller than what it does in the picture! But it was still enough for all three of us. Lovely place, would consider living here again if I ever go back to Lisbon.
We stayed 4 days in lissabon and were 5 people. The apartment was wonderful, centrally located and the host very nice with a wonderful tipp for a restaurant that we enjoyed (the decadente in barrio alto). The beds in the room for 3 were a bit small and instable, but apart from that we can highly recommend the apartment!
A bright and cozy apartment with a perfect location.
We enjoyed our stay in Lisbon very much. The appartment is in Bairro Alto, near to many party places. From there you can explore the city very good.
In my opinion, the appartment is too small for 7 people, especially because of the one small bathroom. But it's clean and very nice.
It was a nice stay on this flat. I loved it ! And Ana was very friendly and helpful with all. Thank you Ana :-).
Wonderful place, perfect central position. Tiago also helped us to find right places in Lisbon. If you go to Lisbon call him. You won't be disappointed
Carla was a very, very nice and friendly host :)
The apartment was clean and located very well. Bairro Alto is a fun place, everywhere are bars und cosy restaurants.
As well, it is not far away from the main sights in lisbon.
I think we will come back here next year :)
Thank you very much for all your advices and help, Carla!
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Sen. Cardinale still skeptical of Demarest police contract
From the Bergen Beat blog on NorthJersey.com:
State Sen. Gerald Cardinale met with Bergen County officials this week to be briefed on a proposal to have the county provide police services to Demarest.
Based on a Record Talk Radio interview with Cardinale Tuesday, the former Demarest mayor still sounds pretty skeptical of the deal, which goes before the freeholders later this month.
Here are some edited excerpts from the interview.
Cardinale was asked about the county's argument that the 13 Demarest officers would represent a savings for the county since they would not be earning as much as comparably-experienced officers on the County Police pay scale.
"Why would they have people of comparable experience?" he asked. "You'd normally bring somebody in at the starting rate."
"…So there's one problem I see with their accounting. The second problem is they not just hiring the Demarest police they are taking on the responsibility of policing Demarest in addition to the current workload.
"If the current workload justifies adding another 13 to 15 people, how many do they need for the additional workload that's going to be assumed in Demarest?
"They've promised the people of Demarest there will be no diminution of service. As a matter of fact, they are promising an increase in service.
"…And when a Demarest officer calls in sick, they say they can put in a county officer rather than call somebody else on overtime.
"But that county officer wasn't sitting around in a waiting room, waiting to get a call. He was assigned somewhere.
"So it seems to me that you can't split people in two….Now I understand you can reassign people if you have a bigger (force.) It may very well be some economies of scale that are legitimate and I accept that. But I don't see how if you look at the proposed contract with Demarest.
"…I could be wrong. I'm not a forensic accountant and I am not competent – and I'll tell you that – to evaluate a police budget. I don't have the experience of a police chief.
"A police chief makes a hell of lot more money than I do as a state senator, so it's above my pay grade, literally.
"But just as a layman looking at it, it does not make sense from the county perspective. From the Demarest perspective, I think it's a home run."


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Mormon missionary work in Great Britain and the operation of the Perpetual Emigration Fund
When the Utah territorial legislature incorporated the Perpetual Emigrating Company, more commonly known as the Perpetual Emigration Fund, in 1850, the Mormon "gathering of Zion" entered a new phase. Although Mormon converts had often been encouraged to migrate from their present locations to join the main body of believers, little institutional support had been provided for them. With the establishment of the PEF, however, the Church committed itself to financing in part or in full the emigration of impoverished Saints converted by its increasingly successful overseas missions. Drawing in large measure upon the contributions of the members of the Church already settled in Utah, the PEF assisted nearly 10,000 Saints in emigrating to Zion just between 1852 and 1855. PEF agents, in cooperation with representatives of the Church's British Mission, organized companies of emigrants early each year, funneling them through the English port of Liverpool and across the Atlantic on chartered steamers to New Orleans. From there, river steamers carried the emigrants and their supplies up the Mississippi to St. Louis and then up the Missouri to frontier communities such as Westport, the precursor of modern Kansas City, Missouri which served as the jumping-off points for overland wagon trains destined for the Great Salt Lake Valley. Other PEF agents in New Orleans, St. Louis and the Missouri frontier towns received these human cargos, ministered to their needs and forwarded them on to their next stop. These agents dealt with steamship lines, freighters and merchants throughout the Mississippi and Missouri river valleys, hiring transportation to carry their charges to the edge of the settlements and purchasing the enormous quantities of provisions and equipment necessary to outfit each overland party.
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New York sculptor Randall Rosenthal creates a realistic jackpot that isn't what seems. Made from wood, Rosenthal created this piece from a single block. We aren't sure about the tools he uses but the results are phenomenal.
Wow. The money and the rubber bands holding the bills together are amazing enough but ten the worn corrugated cardboard box just takes it all completely over the top. What a talent. Amazing craftsmanship.


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What Is A Cragel?
The hyperbole has begun. After the spectacular success of the Cronut last year, the latest Franken-pastry to take the media by storm is the Cragel which is already being touted as the pastry of 2014 less than a month into the new year.
Created out of Brooklyn bakery shop The Bagel Store, the Cragel is half bagel, half croissant and has gone viral after being picked up by major media and broadcast outlets including USA Today, The Daily Mail in the U.K., and The Late Show with David Letterman.
The brainchild of bakery owner Scot Rossillo, the Cragel is described as "a delicate, flaky, buttery croissant" baked into a bagel and costs $2.95 each.
But while the pastry has picked up steam, so far the Cragel doesn't seem to have inspired the same kind of pre-dawn lineups and black market mania seen by pastry chef Dominique Ansel's Cronut, the hybrid croissant-donut which took the world by storm spawning copycats from Europe to Asia.
It seems the foodspotting diviners at Andrew Freeman & Co. called it when they predicted that mash-up foods would become a major trend in 2014.
Also look out for crezels -- croissant-pretzels -- and piessants (pie croissants) to try and share some of the hybrid pastry spotlight.
Picky eaters beware, you may not see as many chicken options on menus anymore. Restaurants are honouring more adventurous eaters and diners' palates with a variety of meat options instead of relying on chicken dishes, which are often dubbed "safe."
Cobb salads will still be popular next year, but forget typical toppings like bacon and chicken breast, and think crispy avocados, jerk chicken and Scotch bonnet peppers.
You may start seeing highbrow peanut butter and jelly sandwiches taking over some joints. In 2014, chefs will be going back to childhood favourites and making high-end versions of classic comfort foods. Think truffle perogies or bacon-leek marmalade poached eggs.
Chefs are suddenly turning into mad scientists and whipping up some not-so-scary kitchen hybrids. We've already seen the popularity of the cronut in 2013, but trends forecast more ramen burgers, souffle and brioche hybrids and even dessert pizzas with Nutella.
Cupcakes and doughnuts won't be as popular going into 2014. Trend seekers are expecting ice cream sandwiches to get all the attention, and hey, we're not complaining.
We won't be seeing that many chips and dip dishes, but we can expect alternatives like fried potatoes, beef tender crisps or crostinis with dip.
Chefs are stepping away from basics like olive oil and getting their hands dirty with oil flavours like avocado, hazelnut and sesame seed. Even mixologists are getting into the groove with oil-enhanced cocktails.
Everything "old" is coming back in style. We're talking about the return of pickling, fermenting and homemade bread, so your grandparents should feel right at home.
Ice isn't just for chilling anymore. Bars will be more likely to infuse their ice cubes with herbs and other ingredients for cocktails.
Expect more vegetarian options and veggies sneaking into your favourite traditional meals and desserts. For example, some restaurants in New York are experimenting with chocolate and eggplant. We're interested.
The next time you want some slow roasted barbecue ribs, you won't have to wait around until the summer. Chefs are taking back classic barbecuing techniques and adding them to restaurant menus.
Yes. You read this right. In 2014, chefs will be experimenting with solid cocktails, or as we like to call them, heatwave healers.
So almond milk comes from ... almonds? Yes. Pasty chefs are going vegan and sticking to nuttier flavours of milk like almond and pecan to make their delectable dishes.
Salmon and shrimp are so 2013 (as well as the decade previous). It looks like we're heading towards restaurant menus featuring everything under the sea, including sea beans and fish cheeks.
If you're looking for ways to cut back on your booze intake next year, this is the perfect concoction for you. Tea, both hot and cold, will be just as popular as alcoholic beverages.


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Hawaii and Bali are to become sister states.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Indonesian Consul General Hadi Martono will attend a signing ceremony at the governor's chambers on Monday.
A reception featuring hula and Balinese dance will follow.
The Indonesian island of Bali is one of Asia's top tourist destinations. Its beaches are favored by sun-seekers and waves are sought after by surfers. Balinese dance is a highly developed traditional art form.


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Jeff Beck - Beck by Popular Demand
As one of the instrument's most skilled rock stylists, Jeff Beck has burned a template for guitarists second in importance only to Hendrix. Though he ranks behind his former band the Yardbirds' two other premier playersJimmy Page and Eric Claptonin terms of commercial success and popularity, Beck eclipses them both when it comes to sonic innovation. He's been universally lauded for his work in rock, jazz, fusion, metal, and pop, but his career has also been plagued by long gaps of inactivity, erratic behavior, and under-the-radar releases that tended to subordinate his work on landmark guitar albums like Wired and Blow By Blow. Yet without albums like these and Beck's abundant originality laying the groundwork, guys like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eddie Van Halen might never have become the kind of modern icons they are today.
Now 55, Beck still commands the kind of respect most living guitarists can only dream of, and his new album, Who Else?, should serve to keep him on the map at least through the Millennium celebrations. Draped in a dark fleece jacket to ward off the chill of a New York City winter, Jeff Beck sits in the corner of a posh hotel restaurant sipping a cup of tea, and ponders some major issues.
Guitar.com: What exactly is your relationship with your guitar?
Jeff Beck: If you took a look at it you'd know. It's sad. Of course, it's your best friend. When I'm ailing it's the first thing I reach for. Sometimes it protects you from the misery of being ill. I can't work on my cars if I'm not content with things in my life; I need some degree of good feeling to enjoy the cars. So the guitar is a convenient leaning post. I've got one in every room.
Guitar.com: Does it ever take the place of romance for you?
Beck: [Laughs]. I've been pretty lucky in some ways, because of the rock 'n' roll life. I've had a pretty good bite of a tasty cake. I'm not obsessed by fame like some people; it's amazing the pain they'll go through to keep it. Before I picked up a guitar, I couldn't get arrested, I couldn't pay enough money for a girl. Suddenly, I got my confidence in the band, and the money that followed, of course, helped even more.
Guitar.com: Do you ever see yourself trying to do an Unplugged project?
Beck: Are we talking acoustic? Oh, I couldn't do that. You mean, completely unplugged? I unplug for nobody! It's like throwing yourself to the lions, I'd feel exposed. I'd rather be involved in something that was interactive. I've gotta start using some of what I felt when I saw Bjork and Prodigy play live. I want to give that amount of joy.
Guitar.com: You were inspired watching Bjork?
Beck: Yes! She sings with such total freedom and knowledge of rhythm. There was no pulse but she was singing on time and coming back right on the beat. It was astounding, the first time I was impressed with modern sounding stuff. Personally, I need a more organic, less modern set-up; Im not comfortable without a drummer. I'll have one for whatever project I'm working on, but from now on I think it will compete with the machines and the power of electronics.
Guitar.com: You're new album, Who Else?, is really modern-sounding. Was that purposeful?
Beck: I told a good friend of mine before the project started that I wanted to take the electronic rhythms of industrial music and put my guitar sound over it and he said, "Yes! The screaming guitars, the mayhem. It's what Hendrix would be doing if he were alive!" So I knew when he said that, I was on the right track.
Guitar.com: What took you so long to get this album out?
Beck: It doesn't matter if you get a 10,000,000 quid advance, you can't just go up the road for a while and come back with great ideas. There's no way you can force it. We tried a million things, just writing riffs and whatever you could think of. But then, as time went by, we knew we at least had to have something extraordinary to show for it.
Guitar.com: You've had some morale problems over the years. Can you talk about them?
Beck: It doesn't matter how much good happens to me these days, my negative kicks in and destroys it. I constantly feel that I'm failing and frustration. In 1968 I didn't get time to cogitate and deliberate like I do now. Back then, every day was charged with activity, and we finished off with a meeting of the lads in a bar somewhere. You don't get that newsline anymore.
Guitar.com: Surely people tell you how much they appreciate what you've accomplished?
Beck: But you just don't know whether people are genuine. If I have half a dozen people tell me I'm the greatest, who's to say they won't say the same thing to the next guitarist who comes in the door? I've always had favorable comment. You're the guy! Is it patronizing bullshit or is it real. Far-out rock n'roll Is it bolocks? And besides, there's no time to sit around and look for compliments.
Guitar.com: What's been your biggest problem?
Beck: My biggest problem is maintaining a steady flow of incoming work, having something always on the horizon. I'm not in a position to sit around and put my feet up and say, "Fuck off! I don't want to work anymore." I'm driven by the need to work.
Guitar.com: You have a home studio at your place, don't you?
Beck: Yes, it's an attic space that had been taken up by all these matchboard divisions, so I tore them out and the space made either a great bowling alley or a new studio. I had a D88 put in and some outboard gear. There's a Mackie mixing board, which is a small, modest desk with great quality. The main stable force of my art is that good old-fashioned thud from my amp, courtesy of that analog circuitry. From there I have everything move with me. That's what I do for a living, plain and simple.
Guitar.com: You've always been a Marshall amp guy, right?
Beck: Yeah, without wishing to get too nerdy about it, I'm not much of a techie. Marshalls have been in my life for a long time. They have a vintage-style head now, that gives me a great, vintage low-level distortion, even when you don't crank it up. It's the biggest nightmare for a soundman if you're too loud onstage, because he doesn't know how to put you back into the mix where you belong. I play at a fairly low level now just blasting along. I've done it that way all along.
Guitar.com: Looking back on your career, what could I have done differently?
Beck: The obvious thing is to get a great-looking singer. No can do. By the pure lack of no more Rod, Little Richard, Robert Plant, that's God's way of saying you've got to do it yourself. When someone suggests a singer, I feel like it's my shortfall, that I must be failing now. Having a singer is a different thought process.
Guitar.com: If you had a singer you wouldn't have been able to develop as a player.
Beck: I'm very proud to say that I haven't had a singer for 25 years. Who needs 'em? That places the onus on the songs and the melodies and whether they will carry on a guitar. Or whether it's not necessary to have too much embellishment on the chordal changes on guitar or whether it needs to be more minimalist.


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A new medical report has warned that Australia would experience more multi-resistant infections but have fewer effective antibiotics to counter them unless there was a greater focus on research and development.
The Victorian investigation, published in this month's Medical Journal of Australia, said that after antibiotics were developed in the 1960s, time and money put into infection control had been slashed to a bare minimum.
The authors of the report, Patrick Charles and Lindsay Grayson, of Austin Health, called for greater co-operation between public, academic and private sectors, particularly with pharmaceutical companies.
Professor Grayson said Australia was one of the worst countries for overuse of antibiotics, and until recently had not concentrated enough on infection control in hospitals.


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The austerity era "staycation" has fallen out of favour with British holidaymakers after the miserable wet and windy winter, according to research.
Only 45 per cent of those questioned said they were planning to stay in their own country for a holiday of at least a week this year — down from 56 per cent last year, and 58 per cent in 2012.
Researchers BDRC Continental found 78 per cent said they were heading overseas, up from 73 per cent last year and 66 per cent in 2012. Among higher earners, 82 per cent are planning a foreign holiday, up from 74 per cent.
The polling was carried out in January when Britain was being lashed by downpours that brought flooding to thousands and wreaked transport havoc. But there are also signs that an improving economy is encouraging travellers to spend on a foreign jaunt.
The BDRC's Holiday Trends 2014 report found nearly a quarter of respondents believed it was very unlikely they would lose their job this year — up from a fifth during the past two years.
Staycations came into vogue during the recession triggered by the 2008 banking crisis. David and Samantha Cameron led the trend when they holidayed in Cornwall during his first summer as Prime Minister in 2010.
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I am happy the Penguins signed Kris Letang and Pascal Dupuis. The Pens got destroyed by Boston in the Eastern Conference final, yet management seems in love with retaining ALMOST EXACTLY the nucleus of that team.
So be it. Those Penguins lost, but not because they weren't good enough.
Using Letang should be easy. Letang has a great level of comfort when he partners with Simon Despres. They should have been a tandem all last season. Despres makes Letang responsible, Letang makes Despres better. They're an obvious pair.
I'm shocked Dupuis got four years. That was obviously the only way to keep him. At worst, he'll be a very good third-liner for that contract's last two seasons.
But how should Dupuis get used right now?
If Dupuis moves from right wing to left wing – some can't switch; Dupuis can, easily – that leaves Dupuis and Chris Kunitz comfortable on the left, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin comfortable in the middle, Beau Bennett and James Neal comfortable on the right. Almost any combination thereof would be potent.
That's not how it's going to happen.
Crosby likes to skate with Dupuis and Kunitz. It's not a mandate, but Coach Dan Bylsma knows. That means either Bennett or Neal plays left (his weaker) wing.
Bylsma and his staff believe any wing can play either wing. They're right about a lot, but wrong about this. Dupuis can. Jarome Iginla couldn't.
The Penguins have a very potent top six up front. But deployment matters.
Vote, please, in the poll at left. What line combinations should the Penguins choose for their top six forwards? It's assumed Malkin and Neal will definitely skate together.
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No. 7 Trojans Trample Buffaloes in Three Sets for 900th Win
Oct. 21, 2012
LOS ANGELES - The seventh-ranked USC women's volleyball team (19-3, 7-3 Pac-12) earned the program's 900th all-time victory as the Women of Troy took out Colorado (13-9, 3-7 Pac-12) in three sets, 25-16, 25-19, 25-18, in a Sunday-morning matinee at Galen Center.
The Trojans improved their all-time record to 900-304-4 (.745) with today's win. 303 of those wins belong to head coach Mick Haley who is just eight victories from taking the reigns as the program's most successful coach. Troy's first-ever coach Chuck Erbe recorded 310 wins in 12 seasons.
Freshman outside hitter Samantha Bricio powered the Trojan attack, again, as she scored 18.0 points with 12 kills and four service aces to go with three blocks (one solo). Junior middle blocker Alexis Olgard knocked down nine kills (2e, 16att) for a .438 hitting percentage and junior outside Sara Shaw posted eight kills (3e, 23att, .217). Senior opposite hitter Katie Fuller had six kills (2e, 12att, .333) and served up two aces for 8.5 points.
Used in the latter two frames, senior middle blocker Natasa Siljkovic came in and earned four kills on just five swings for a .800 hitting rate. Sophomore setter Hayley Crone split time with freshman setter Cinnamon Sary as the two dished out 40 assists to run the Trojan attack. USC posted a .255 hitting percentage in the match (43k, 16e, 106att).
For Colorado, outside hitters Neira Ortiz Ruiz and Alexis Austin shared team-high honors with nine kills apiece.
The Trojans hit .231 (14k, 5e, 39att) in the first set and scored on a pair of service aces to claim a 25-16 win. Olgard's kill off a quick set broke a four-all tie before Bricio came up with three kills in four rallies to push the Trojans ahead, 8-5. Bricio's service ace gave USC a 10-5 lead and forced a Colorado timeout. The Buffaloes fought back to claim a couple of points but USC took a 15-8 lead when Shaw knocked a shot off the CU block. The Trojans continued to roll and went up by nine points, 22-13, as Olgard collected consecutive kills. The Buffaloes gave up the next two points to put USC at set point but scored the following three points to save set point until Bricio went cross-court to terminate the set. Each team had three blocks but Colorado only hit .032 in the set with seven kills (6e) on 31 swings.
A pair of service aces by Fuller put the Trojans up, 6-3, in the second set; a lead USC never relinquished. Fuller provided the firepower again when she crushed a cross-court shot for a kill and a 15-8 Trojan lead. USC went up by nine points on two straight Bricio kills and earned a 10-point advantage, 20-10, when Bricio tooled the Buffalo block for a kill. Colorado made a push and rallied to trim the USC lead to four points, 20-16, before Bricio went cross-court again to stop the Buffalo stampede. Siljkovic came in and scored twice on slide plays to give USC a 23-18 lead before Colorado scored its last point. Fuller gave the Trojans set point at 24-19 before Ogoms knocked down a ball on an overpass for a kill and the 25-19 win. USC posted a .314 hitting percentage in the second set with 16 kills (5e) on 35 swings while Colorado had eight kills (5e, 28att) for a .107 rate.
The final set was tied three times before Bricio's cross-court shot put USC ahead for good at 4-3. Colorado stayed within striking distance and was as close as one point at 11-10 when Austin earned a kill. The Buffs got within one point just one more time before the Trojans erupted for an 8-0 run capped by Bricio's fourth service ace to lead, 22-13. An Ortiz Ruiz kill tripped the USC streak but Olgard blocked an Austin offering to put the Trojans up, 23-15, before a Colorado error put set point in USC's hands. Sophomore opposite hitter Emily Young had the final point of the day when she tooled the Buffalo block to seal a 25-18 win for the Trojans and a 3-0 USC sweep. The Women of Troy had 13 kills in the final set (6e, 32att) for a .219 hitting percentage and held the Buffaloes under 10 kills (6e, 30att) for a .100 hitting rate.
The Trojans remain home to host Washington (Oct. 26) and Washington State (Oct. 27) at the Galen Center to complete a four-match home stand. Please visit www.USCTrojans.com for more information.


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HOUSTON, Texas – A united UTEP women's basketball team pushed its winning streak to three with a 72-57 road conquest of Rice in front of a nationally-televised audience (Fox Sports Networks) at Tudor Fieldhouse early Saturday afternoon.
The Miners (23-5, 12-3 C-USA) outscored the Owls (12-16, 5-10 C-USA) 42-28 over the final 20 minutes, including a 26-4 run spanning eight minutes midway through the second half, to spoil the home side's "Senior Day." UTEP connected on 54.8 percent from the floor in the stanza while also forcing Rice into making nine of its 15 turnovers.
The game-changing surge brought a partisan Miner crowd, which included UTEP President Dr. Diana Natalicio, to life, and the Owls never recovered. The advantage swelled to as many as 23 before a late push by Rice made things a little more aesthetically pleasing as the final buzzer sounded.
For the second straight contest the Orange and Blue were without the services of senior leader Kayla Thornton, but a team effort across the board made that fact a moot point.
Kristine Vitola (18 points), Sparkle Taylor (14 points) and Jenzel Nash (13) all reached double figures in scoring to lead the way for the Miners, who pounded Rice down low. They outscored the Owls, 38-24, in points in the paint, which helped them finish at 45.5 percent (30-of-66) from the floor in the contest.
Rice mixed up its defenses, including using a swarming trap, but UTEP handled it with ease. The Miners dished out 12 assists while committing only nine turnovers, using smart, quick passes to effectively render the schemes useless.
But the day belonged to the defense. UTEP flocked to the ball, and Rice never got into a rhythm. The Owls were held to 35.4 percent (23-of-65) from the floor, including just 3-of-15 from beyond-the-arc.
Christal Porter 21 points, 15 rebounds) enjoyed a big day but no other Owl reached double figures in scoring. Potential C-USA Player of the Year, Jessica Kuster, was essentially shut down. She finished with seven points (3-of-9 FG, 1-of-2 FT) and 10 rebounds, while playing all 40 minutes of the game.
Kuster, who had posted 12 straight and 24 double-doubles on the year, was face guarded throughout the tilt which certainly limited her impact.
Rice looked sharp early, bolting out to a 10-4 lead over the first 3:33 of the contest. Kuster had five points and two boards in the sequence but a timeout by Keitha Adams refocused her squad. The defensive intensity was noticeably different after the break, and Kuster scored just two points over the final 36:27 of the game.
UTEP took its first lead (13-12) with a jumper by Vitola at 12:41 but the Owls struck back with a 10-4 surge to lead 22-17 with 9:07 remaining in the first half. The home side's cushion remained five (24-19) with 5:53 to play in the period but the Orange and Blue closed it strong by going on a 11-6 run to carry a 30-29 lead into the locker room.
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Posted by TJ Keitt on June 30, 2014
Businesses invest considerable sums of money with vendors like Box, Cisco, Google and Microsoft for a collection a technology we call collaboration tools. As an analyst, though, the question that has dogged me in watching this space is "why?" As in "what is the actual value a business gets from investing in collaboration technology?" The vendors' rationale for acquiring collaboration tools has shifted in emphasis over time, going from a conversation on cost savings to one on productivity gains. However, cost savings is an undifferentiated and limited message while "increasing productivity" can feel ephemeral because it is difficult to measure. Yet my inquiry queue remains full of companies trying to figure out how best to deploy these technologies and my briefings calendar is filled with startups and incumbents pitching new offerings in this space. This brings me back to my original question: Why?
We've recently opened up a new stream of research on the use of collaboration technology in customer experience ecosystems that is beginning to give us a clear answer. Ecosystems are networks of people (employees, customers and partners) who collectively contribute to the quality of a customer experience. To ensure all parties in these networks are on the same page, they must be able to access information and work on it with others. This is where collaboration tools come in handy. We're early in this research, but already we're seeing collaboration tools ensures business leaders can:
- Alter how employees interact with customers. Healthcare non-profit Health Leads is trying to change how physicians treat disease in low-income patients by helping the doctors connect patients to social services that can ameliorate their socio-economic issues. A key part of this effort is using Salesforce Chatter to allow Health Leads' patient Advocates to collaborate with subject matter experts to properly identify the patient's needs and locate the appropriate resource. We detail this story in an upcoming case study.
- Increase the pace of product innovation. US restaurant chain Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is deploying Yammer to provide employees in the restaurant locations a clear line of communications to the company's operations managers. The funnel of real-time insights on product launches helped Red Robin reduce its product iteration cycle from 18 months to 1 month.
- Provide clients greater transparency into the service. Payroll processor Safeguard World International deployed a project management tool, ProjExec, in conjunction with IBM's SmartCloud for Social Business to help its project managers better communicate with distributed project teams and clients. The technology allows the business and its customers to monitor the progress of an implementation, ensuring no steps are missed. The result? Clients report increased confidence in Safeguard's service.
- Empower employees to make decisions in real-time. Perennial strong performer in Forrester Customer Experience Index Hyatt operates under the theory that hotel operations decisions must be made locally. To that end, they built a set of hotel monitoring tools called the "hotel productivity suite" in SharePoint Online. These tools allow hotel staff to share information on guests, rooms, and other aspects of the property, allowing the hotel managers to quickly make decisions based on the best available information.
What technology managers and customer experience managers should both note is we can begin drawing a direct line from these capabilities and revenue. For example, Red Robin's accelerated iteration process led to the most successful hamburger launch in its 44 year history. We think this is the case because collaboration technology -- particularly cloud-based collaboration technology -- contribute to giving a business's constituents three freedoms essential to building a successful ecosystem: the freedom to access and use information, the freedom to interact with individuals who can help solve problems, and freedom to move as necessary. However, the relationship between collaboration tools and healthy customer experience ecosystems won't flourish until:
- Vendors define their products on business value, not features. Our examples show collaboration tool vendors have a great opportunity to partner with customer experience professionals. However, to do so, they must become smarter about the business value they create within ecosystems. This is where customer journey maps that show what challenges these tools help employees, partners and customers overcome become essential. They also will help vendors think more expansively about integration. For example, how can data from a Verint text analysis stream connected to a SharePoint workspace help a project team better anticipate and respond to customer problems?
- Customer experience pros expand their definition of customer experience technology. For most customer experience professionals, a list of essential customer experience tools would not include email or team sites. Changing this perspective starts with embracing the three freedoms concept: You cannot serve customers if you cannot connect constituents with information and the people who can them use the information, all while providing those constituents the latitude to shift context as they do these things. This will allow customer experience professionals to work with their technology management partners to better deploy collaboration tools to better serve customers.
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Yes, you have uncovered positive values from a high-level view of collaboration tools. The points of discovery in your use cases are accurate and clearly encouraging.
I would like to add another hard-to-quantify data point is the value of increasing the skillsets of the low-level employees. Yes, most IT decisions are top-down but deployed collaborative tools are inherently inclusive. Giving a voice to employees who are usually exempt from the big idea creation. These tools empower entry and mid-level employees to take ownership of their ideas and give an ability to show-and-prove recent advancements to often unaware executives.
In a recently completed training for a large multinational migration from MS to Google Apps for its early adopters, there was a level of bridled excitement when I coached them on examples of the key asset of collaboration. For most, there was twinkle in there eyes that is hard to capture or expression when a worker can connect better dots (mobility, etc) to improve their job performance.
I am arguing this strong indicator leads to higher job satisfaction across the board.
Happy employees = positive collaborations
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My Horrible expierence with my srt8
So I only got to drive my car for about 14 days until the first incident happened. I purchased a 2012 jeep srt8 with 11500 miles on it. On the 14th day of driving I was on my way back from montauk when I had turned on to the next street. Traction kicked in all of a sudden all my lights went on and I was stuck in a 4wd low mode. I couldnt engauge out of 1st gear or reverse. I had my car towed all the way back to the dealership. They determined it was a bad transmisson control module and i had to wait 5 days for the part to come in and install it. Okay I said. After the 5 days i picked up my car. Car seemed fine on the drive home. About 5 blocks away from my house i turned again to the main street and it happened again!!! No Fing way I had the car towed again and wait till monday to go in and talk. Upon arriving the service manager told me the lights were off and to go for a test drive. Didn't make sense the lights were on and it was stuck in 1st when it went on the tow. Car was driving fine so he told me i could take it if i wanted. Guy never insisted to really check it to make sure everything underneath was ok. About 5 days later i decided to leave my house for a drive. I was on a two lane road with really nowhere to pull over when all of a sudden i hear a couple of loud clicks and a loud boom. I see smoke and metal pieces flying out underneath. I immediately pull over and see look underneath the car. There's a huge whole in the transfer case. I was in shock because i didn't hit anything i was just driving and this is only a 30 mph road. I again got it towed. Long story short Chrysler had come down to determine if this was covered under my warranty. They stated that i must of hit something for it to combusted from the inside which is completely bs cause there is no indication of anything being hit underneath scrapes scratches etc. So now chrysler is saying they wont cover it so i now am forced to call my insurance to make a claim. Now a get a phone call today from the adjuster from my insurance company stating that this was definitely combusted from the inside from 2 of the teeth in the gears and insurance will probably not cover it.???? Honestly this has been the worst first car bought experience for the past 20 days. I'm defiantly not paying for this this is defected part and i think jeep or Chrysler should fix this. How do I know the previous owner or anyone who test drove this car didn't do this before i bought it. Any ones comments or opinions are greatly appreciated just don't know where to go from here.
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The symptoms you were having are an occurrence others have had. I remember this particularly when the 2012's first delivered. The dealership should have never allowed you to take it the second time even though the lights were off. In fairness to them, you also should have refused to take it and required them to look into it. That way it was documented once again.
How this is not a warranty cover is beyond me. You have no mods on the vehicle and the warranty mileage is well under the limit. There is absolutely no way, even if driving it hard, you could have caused the TC to grenade like this considering the circumstances. IMO, you need to start making calls to the SRT hotline, Chrysler Customer Service, and Chrysler Top Care Service.
To the SRT Team folks who read this (we know you do)......please help this guy out.
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As stated above, you need to push back harder. Jeep customer service and SRT customer service to start, then your state's consumer protection board, and so on.
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You are DEFINETELY due to NEW transfer case. Please PM me if you have no luck.
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Hey guys update so from them claiming I hit something I had no other choice but to call my insurance company. They came down and determined that the case was DEFIANTLY combusted from the INSIDE and nothing indicated I hit something. So now insurance is saying this was not my fault but mechancial. My car has been in the shop for 2 weeks with out nothing being done. Scott if you can get in contact with someone It would Deff help Chrysler is not helping me at all and it's basically a on going investigation at this point. The fact there deny me warrenty when I bought the car 14 days ago is beyond me I'm basically asking for help cause I'm lost at this point this whole thing is just a horrible experience and Deff does not want me to ever purchase anything from jeep dodge Chrysler ever again.
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Ouch! This is why I added the Transfer case skid plate to mine! I fear of smackin that tcase
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have you called the 855 SRT TEAM number?
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Where are you located? Might help you if you are near someone on here who has a really good service department they always use.
They had a Chrysler rep come down to look at it. Him and the service advisor both agreed that I hit something to cause this. This dealership is east hills jeep in greenvale ny. They are by far the worst people I ever delt with. No help and they keep claiming that this was caused by me like accusing me really. It's like honestly how do I deal with these people when there against me. They know they messed up and don't want to fix this problem so there pointing the finger at me but again there's no way I could of done this I was just driving it was only 14 days till the first problem started. But now insurance is saying different so honestly what do I do from here this is just crazy I have to deal with this I haven't even. Made a first payment on it yet
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Adventures in carbon pricing
A federal carbon tax in the U.S. appears to be a political dead letter, but all sorts of interesting experiments in carbon pricing are underway regionally.
First: the California Assembly this week votes on the California Clean Car Discount Act, a "feebate" system that imposes a direct charge on sales of gas guzzlers and uses the funds to reward buyers of fuel sippers. The way it works it pretty simple. If you buy a Chevy Tahoe, you'll have to pony up a $2,500 fee, which then goes straight to all the folks buying Honda Civics. Fees and rebates are determined on a sliding scale based on the fuel efficiency of the vehicle in question.
Although not quite a carbon tax, the system does establish clear price signals for energy efficiency, and such feebate systems are thought to be an improvement over CAFE. Unfortunately, some members of the Assembly are still sitting on the fence:
"What if some poor guy in Watts retires and says, 'I want an SUV,'" Dymally said. "Do you punish him for that?"
Feel free to email Assemblyman Dymally to explain respectfully that no one wants to punish, um, poor inner city…retiree SUV drivers. We just want them to shoulder the full cost of their choices, so that the rest of don't have to. (You might also point out that some of the cleaner SUVs won't be subject to any charges under the bill.)
Further north, Bay Area regulators are mulling a straight-up carbon tax of 4.2 cents per metric ton. This is, by any measure, a pittance, but environmentalists are nevertheless ecstatic about the possible precedent. Indeed, the move would represent the flexing of newfound regulatory muscles, as air quality boards begin treating CO2 as a regular old pollutant.
Stories like this always come with unintentionally amusing quotes:
Once a carbon fee is in place, critics worry, it could easily increase.
You could call that a worry, or you could call it the point.
Moving still farther north: British Columbia just enacted an honest-to-goodness carbon tax, effective July 1. The tax will start at about $10 per ton, rising to about $30 per ton in 2012. This is a tax shift, meaning that all revenue will be returned to tax payers through offsetting tax cuts and credits (which is generally speaking a good thing).
What makes this news particularly intriguing is that British Columbia is also part of the Western Climate Initiative, a collaboration between BC, California, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona. So soon enough, BC could be operating under both a carbon tax and a cap-and-trade system. Despite what you may have heard, there's no particular reason the two carbon pricing mechanisms can't shake hands and be friends. This will be worth watching.
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Homes on the Highway for Displaced Haitians
"South of Port-au-Prince, just over 1,000 people are living on an 8-foot-wide stretch of median in the middle of Route Nationale 2, a torn-up, six-lane road that is one of Haiti's busiest.
Motorcycles, cars, buses and trucks whiz by on either side of shacks erected in the median. Some of the shacks are made only of bedsheets wrapped around sticks with tarps stuck on top."
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such a good looking and intelligent dog, love them!
Beagles are conveniently-sized, handsome and easy-to-groom, friendly with people, peaceful with other pets, and with their appealing soulful expression, it's perfectly natural that many people consider them as potentially wonderful pets.
However, Beagles were developed as hunting dogs and they have many hunting dog behaviors "hardwired" into their genes.
Beagles need much more exercise than most people give them, which is why you see so many fat Beagles with health problems. Though they're often kept in city apartments or condos, they should not be. Beagles require long frequent walks and a fenced yard where they can stretch their legs off-leash -- FENCED because Beagles are explorers and chasers who will follow their nose wherever that fascinating sight or smell takes them, and since Beagles are endowed with selective deafness, they seldom come back when you call them.
In addition, you can't leave them outside unmonitored, for Beagles are prone to wanderlust and can be adept climbers and diggers. Also, Beagles left outside become bored and then they bay and howl and dig holes.
The Beagle's vast stubbornness and distract ability call for early, consistent obedience training. Use food rewards to motivate him, but don't indulge too much or you'll end up with that portly Beagle I mentioned earlier. A Beagle is often found with his head buried in the garbage and he will cheerfully filch whatever morsels you leave within reach!