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The first thing you notice is the silence. Within 10 minutes of leaving London Victoria's Greenline coach station, the majority of passengers on the 8am service to the north of England have adopted one of two positions: slouching into their seats and staring into space, or sleeping with their heads gently vibrating against the windows. Even by mid-morning, the quiet remains largely unbroken: there are none of the business travellers whose booming mobile-phone conversations so bedevil train journeys, nor anyone attempting any kind of on-the-road high jinks. The loudest noises are the serene hum of the engine and a low-level hiss from the air-conditioning; it's a pleasure to report that in the course of the journey's first three hours, I hear only one novelty ringtone.
Having arrived in London on the train from my home on the English/Welsh borders, I've set out on a two-day quest: travelling by coach to Newcastle, Manchester and Cardiff, via Durham, Sheffield, Leeds and Birmingham, with the aim of making it back to the Welsh market town of Brecon by sundown tomorrow. The aim is to shine light on a part of the transport network that very rarely gets any coverage at all, and answer a few beguiling questions: who are the undocumented millions trundling up and down our motorways and A-roads? Is the coach network, as some people contend, the arterial system of the UK's illicit economy, populated by migrant workers making their way from city to city? Or is it still the preserve of pensioners and students? And what of the apparently barmy price war that has led to hordes of people travelling the length of the country for as little as £1?
London to Newcastle
By and large, my fate is in the hands of National Express, that countrywide institution whose reach is proved by a couple of jaw-dropping statistics: should you want to join the five million people who annually use its services, you can choose from around 1,200 possible stops. First, though, I place myself in the care of Megabus, the frills-free operation launched by the Scots transport conglomerate Stagecoach in 2003, currently positioned as the irreverent, brazenly cheap easyJet to National Express's British Airways.
Travelling with Megabus from London to Newcastle has cost me a mere £11. The journey will take six hours 40 minutes, including a stop-off at Tibshelf Services on the M1, where a small group of Megabus drivers see-out their statutory "time" (45 minutes of rest for every four-and-a-half hours on the road) and after a trip to Costa Coffee and/or a sit-down on a patch of grass, the morning's passengers are divided into two. Thanks to the discovery of a faulty luggage-hold door, those travelling to Leeds must now make their way on a bog-standard local bus. Those of us going to the north-east, meanwhile, are directed on to what appears to be a resprayed London double decker, which rattles through the last three hours of the journey at a steady 55 mph. Small wonder that at least one coach-industry observer sneers at Megabus as "a slightly more civilised alternative to hitch-hiking".
It is, however, mind-bogglingly cheap. My fare, it seems, puts me at the upper end of the market; book your seat early enough, and you can apparently travel just about anywhere for £1. Just recently, with the start of the academic year, the Megabus website has been offering a handful of journeys for nothing (give or take the ubiquitous 50p "booking fee"). Jerry, the genial driver who takes us to Newcastle, claims to have recently met a Chinese couple who made it around every major city in the UK for £11 each. It isn't today's only far-eastern reference: his bus, he tells us, is one of a second-hand fleet bought from Hong Kong, whose knock-down price underlies Megabus's economic miracles.
By the time we arrive in Newcastle, there are nine people on board. For the journey's first leg, however, I take my seat among 60-odd passengers, whose stories span not just the whole of the UK, but much of the planet. One of coach travel's hallmarks is linked to that modern phenomenon whereby multiculturalism is at least partly built around the twin poles of higher education and low-paid jobs. Any lefty-liberal heart would be lifted by the fact that the coach cruising up the M1 looks like the United Nations on wheels, though there is a more unhappy context - chiefly, the fact that so many of the coach industry's cosmopolitan clientele have been priced out of other means of transport.
First, I meet Mudassar and Mubashir Chaudhary, a father and son from London, travelling to Bradford in the company of Mudassar's cousins Talha and Qasim, to buy a car at auction ("Yorkshire's the best place for it, especially Brighouse," they say) and then drive it home. I then have a brief conversation with Paul Grewal and Elizabeth Sullivan, two young Canadians about to go rambling in the Peak District. For a few minutes, I take a seat next to a 26-year-old business student named Eric Asulimea, who says Megabus's fares compare well with transport prices in his native Lagos; then I end up talking to Grace Mills, a European Studies graduate from Richmond in Yorkshire, who has just finished a summer-long stint in the kitchens at Eurodisney.
Having booked her ticket four months in advance, Mills is one of Megabus's lucky £1 customers, which rather offsets any complaints about the lack of luxury. "Because it's so cheap, it doesn't bother me," she says. "I've been on buses in central America - Guatemala, Mexico - and they squeeze three people on to two seats. 'Chicken buses', they call them. By comparison, this is quite nice."
Ana Binto, 26, came to the UK from her native Portugal in 2001. She and her friend Rosa are on their way from London to Leeds to visit friends and shop ("We've heard Leeds is very cheap"). She works as a healthcare assistant at the Royal London hospital, and gets through an average week on no more than £300. Yesterday, having worked 12-hour shifts for four days, she got ready to go away after finishing work at 8am. When I ask her why she chose Megabus, she emits a very sarcastic laugh. "You know why! Come on. It's very, very cheap. But you get comfort, I guess. The seats are OK. The bus ... you know ... clean."
I last see her changing vehicles at Tibshelf Services, looking at her replacement bus with incredulous horror. "And I was talking about comfort," she says. "Can I change what I said?"
Digbeth coach station, Birmingham
Coach travel takes you some distance from the pine-scented, pseudo-aspirational places that define much of the modern consumer experience. The problem is not so much the buses - uniformly pristine, certainly as far as National Express is concerned - but the terminals, as evidenced by the hour I spend the following day at Birmingham's Digbeth Coach Station. Bagel Express and Knickerbox are nowhere to be seen; in the compact station shop, the most typical item on offer is the "Cheese Savoury" sandwich, a wince-inducing item in which a bright yellow splurge oozes from between two slices of bendy-crusted bread. Three out of four of the coin-in-the-slot internet machines are broken; a fourth gratefully swallows two of my pound coins and offers nothing in return. The air carries the sharp whiff of cheap food and cigarette smoke; the place where you board the buses is little more than a vast garage with lines painted on the floor.
In the US, inter-city bus travel has long been surrounded by the low-rent romance of the Greyhound line, and the idea that those grungy waiting rooms might be the setting for bohemian intrigue. The best lines from Bob Dylan's Love Minus Zero/No Limit evoke it all to swoonsome effect: "In the dime stores and bus stations/People talk of situations/Read books, repeat quotations/Draw conclusions on the wall." Britain, unfortunately, cannot quite match up; here, the kiosks do a roaring trade in Embassy Regal rather than Lucky Strikes, and meeting some Kerouacian straggler is a little less likely than falling into conversation with an elderly couple en route to the Devon coast.
"Travelling this way is punishing, I suppose," says 71-year-old Lindsey Shears, journeying from Wolverhampton to Paignton with his wife Joan. "But it's a lot cheaper than a train." Freshly arrived at Birmingham, the prospect of a rest-stop at Exeter is already causing them mild disquiet. "There are no facilities there," says Lindsey. "It's a scruffy place."
"Plymouth's the worst, though," says Joan. "It's disgusting."
The coach industry, to be fair, is wising up to some of this. According to Denis Wormwell, the 44-year-old chief executive of National Express's Coach division, Birmingham's facilities are about to undergo a £10m upgrade, according to designs provided by MAKE, the vogueish architectural practice founded by Norman Foster's sometime partner Ken Shuttleworth. The new terminal, he says, will be "built around the customer rather than around vehicle operations", in keeping with the philosophical sea-change that has been taking root at National Express since 2003. "People used to think that National Express was in the coach business, moving people," Wormwell says, momentarily sounding a bit like David Brent. "Actually, it's not. National Express is in the people business, moving coaches."
In order to reflect all this, the company has redesigned its logo, replacing the old double-chevron with two circles linked by a curved arrow, slightly more suggestive of a human fertility diagram than a coach journey. It has also set its sights on new customers, divided into the kinds of bizarre-sounding sub-groups that are energetically discussed on company awaydays. War has been declared on the idea that coach travel is the preserve of students and pensioners; now, via such innovations as text message-tickets and an on-board entertainment service called NX TV that shows episodes of Friends and The Simpsons, National Express is aiming upmarket. Among its target customers, Wormwell tells me, are Established Traditionalists ("2.2 kids, a plasma-screen TV - they're the hardest ones to get out of their cars and on to public transport"), the Apathy Tribe ("Given the choice, they'd rather not travel anywhere") and Spontaneous Aspirers. "They're big Guardian readers," explains Wormwell. "They use low-cost airlines, but they might stay in a five-star hotel. The biggest chunk in that group is from 16 to 34, but there are a huge amount from 34 to 50."
Wormwell talks about this with a palpable enthusiasm, though at least some employees of the coach industry remain unmoved. Tom Cashman, for example, is branch chairman for the T&G union, and a National Express driver who spends his working life shuttling between Heathrow airport and Woking. "What they're doing seems to be aimed at some mythical affluent potential coach traveller," he says. "I think they've been sold the idea by a marketing company. The question is, who are these people? Do they really think rich people are going to travel by coach? People travel that way because they can't afford to go by train or car or plane. It's a last-resort option. Pensioners, students, poor people - they're the people we carry."
In his account, moreover, coach travel's downmarket position is of a piece with the experiences of its drivers. Thanks partly to its nationalisation-era origins as a marketing umbrella for Britain's various regional bus firms, 80% of National Express's services are contracted-out, according to a bidding process that puts a predictable pressure on costs. "The coach companies can't negotiate with the people who make the buses," says Cashman, "and you won't get Shell or Esso negotiating petrol prices. The only thing that they can squeeze is their labour costs." Terms and conditions, he says, "vary from the totally abysmal to the barely civilised." All told, the coach business is yet another low-wage, long-hours industry, where drivers (whose makeup, according to one industry insider, is "atypical - a lot of ex-forces people, a fair number of migrant workers, and quite a few of the rural working class") think nothing of working 60-hour weeks, in return for salaries that rarely scrape much beyond £20,000.
In the light of one recent development, that hardly seems likely to change. Of late, the coach operators have taken a good look at low-cost airlines, and become very fond of "yield management" - the practice whereby they initially price their tickets at absurdly cheap levels, and then market forces work their wonders, increasing the cost of seats as buses fill up. National Express was first, with a scheme known as Funfare, launched in 2003; Megabus entered the market soon after. Running between both companies is the use of a technique that verges on the hucksterish: "Fares from £1!" scream the adverts, though an attempted online bulk-buy from Megabus suggests that the actual number of such tickets per bus is no greater than three.
All that apart, the latter company's promise, as evidenced by a 20-minute phone conversation with Bob Montgomery, Stagecoach's grandly titled bus service performance director, is almost comically simple. "All of our vehicles are air-conditioned," he says. "They all have toilets. But we haven't got into extraneous things like video entertainment, or sandwiches. It's a very basic facility: we'll provide you with a good, comfortable, safe, clean vehicle." His concluding phrase, repeated three times during our conversation, seems to be Megabus's mantra: "And we'll get you where you're going as quickly as we can."
Newcastle to Manchester
My Megabus experience ends outside Newcastle's central railway station, whereupon I get an hour's sightseeing time before taking the 15.45 National Express Service to Manchester via Leeds (ticket price: £15.30 - the equivalent train journey would come in at around £40). Thus far, both I and the Guardian's photographer have resolved to remain undercover, aiming at an authentic coach-tripping experience by quietly taking our place among the passengers. At Newcastle's gleaming new coach station, unfortunately, our loud excitement at finding a coach-tripping nun (a member of the Order Of The Holy Paraclete, en route to Jedburgh in Scotland, who won't tell us her name) gives us away. Dean, our officious young driver - whose behaviour rather suggests that he may have spent time as a soldier - angrily instructs us to refrain from any interviews and pictures of his passengers, under pain of getting thrown off. The two-hour journey to Leeds thus passes slowly, its half-hourly stops marked by Dean's regular reminders that mobile phones and personal stereos can only be used "with consideration for other passengers", that children should be closely supervised (on all but one of the coaches I take, there are actually none on board) and that there are to be "no hot drinks without a lid".
At first, the journey is sporadically brightened by the sights that occasionally pop up by the roadside - the Angel Of The North, Durham cathedral - though once we've risen to a modest cruising speed on the A1, things fall into a muted kind of tedium. Attempting to find points of interest in passing petrol stations soon proves pretty futile, and trying to read anything substantial produces that heavy, nauseous sensation I remember from my childhood as travel sickness. "Quite often, some people say that's an issue," Wormwell later tells me. "Perhaps you should carry some barley sugars. Or watch NX TV instead."
Unfortunately, I've not been to the sweetshop, and this bus is TV-free. In desperation, I finally start up a conversation with Lois Naylor (15) and Andrew Baker (17), two young Christians who have spent much of the journey either snogging or reading the book of Ephesians. They're travelling back from a festival called Harvest, apparently based around "meeting with God through worship, chilling out with friends, and getting focused on Jesus", though their reasons for taking the coach are a little less spiritual. "Why are we on here? Because it's so cheap," says Baker.
Having seen out a 45-minute stop-off in Leeds, I take the 19:00 to Manchester, and resume my research. Whether they are spontaneous aspirers or established traditionalists seems doubtful, but the passengers I talk to are once again representatives of a truly global crowd. Scarlene Mbanga, 27, is an educational support worker from Cameroon, who has just had a three-day break in Newcastle, and is now returning to her home in Manchester. Like all the non-Britons I meet, she is only too happy to talk - proof, perhaps, that those tabloid anxieties about droves of illegal immigrants furtively scuttling around the country may be slightly misplaced. Her return ticket, bought at the last minute, cost £25 - "much less than the train. I don't know how much the train costs, but I know it's a lot."
As we rumble across the moon-like expanse of the Pennines, I also talk to Harpneet Dhaliwal, a 28-year-old chef from the Punjab, freshly relocated from Manchester to Newcastle, where she works - and, for the moment, lives - at the Novotel. Having spent two years working in France, she says she's quietly amazed at her current cost of living. "Trains in Britain are very expensive," she says. "In fact, everything in Britain is expensive."
Manchester to Brecon
We arrive at Manchester's Chorlton Street bus station - a modernised, glaringly lit kind of place, as against the scuzziness that awaits me at some of the other stops - at 8.03pm, two minutes before our scheduled arrival. I spend the night at my parents' home in Cheshire, before setting out, with a feeling of creeping dread, on the next morning's 9.05 service from Manchester to Birmingham, the first phase of a six-hour journey booked three days before at a cost of £29.30. Here, perhaps on account of the fact that both the coaches I take are pretty much full, the industry's usual undercutting of the railways founders: the equivalent train ticket, a super advance single, would come in at £19, and cut the travelling time in half. Rumbling down the lefthand lane of the M6, a road I'm more used to surveying from the window of a speeding car, the thought causes me the kind of quiet torment that can mark one's entry into temporary madness, something best eased by a conversation with the woman next to me, who is pulling off the magical feat of concertedly reading The Full Cupboard Of Life by Alexander McCall Smith.
Having spent a month visiting relatives in Canada and the USA, Patricia Barrett, a 37-year-old community development manager who works for Coventry city council, began her journey at New York's JFK, before boarding the coach at Manchester airport. Her return ticket cost her £39, though she's not complaining. "It's the easiest way to travel without taking your car," she says. "I can't get a direct train to the airport. And I've got a lot of luggage. But Manchester's about my limit. I wouldn't get the coach to London. It takes too long."
I know what she means. By 6pm, I am rather forlornly passing the time in Cardiff bus station, a faded strip of parking places whose acrid smells and shabby fittings seem a little too familiar. The last leg of my trip, an hour-long journey to Brecon, has cost me £3.30, and because of an accident on the M1, the bus - which has, I later learn, come all the way from Scarborough - is running 40 minutes late. Our driver - sans name badge, for some reason - admits that he's "shattered", and he isn't the only one. As we pull into our final destination at dusk, I wake with a start, realising that I have finally mastered the habitual coach-tripper's most useful behavioural tic: resting my head against the window, and rattling away those silent, endless hours.


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Depending on the venue, our national conference draws anywhere from 400 to 520 attendees annually. However, my staff at the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics (N4A) consists of only one full-time person (me) and two part-time people (admin and IT support). You're probably wondering how the conference even gets off the ground each year. Sure, having a small staff makes managing the preconference, onsite, and post-conference logistics a bit difficult (and so does the fact that I really don't care for meeting planning), but we are able to get it done by relying on a number of dedicated volunteers. This may sound scary to some of you, but I assure you that we've come up with a system that works for N4A.
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From an in-house staff perspective, one of our part-timers handles some of the pre-meeting logistics, including registrations and payment processing, and also serves as our vendor liaison. This person also coordinates with our five region directors to collect names of people who are willing to volunteer during the conference. Our conference typically begins on a Thursday afternoon and ends on Sunday. Those first few days we need, on average, seven to 12 volunteers. We need volunteers to assist with registration, assembling the giveaways and registration packets, room monitoring, moving signs, and welcoming guests. Volunteers from our committees also help with the coordination of our speed-interviewing sessions, community projects, and new member orientation and networking events. In fact, any events held in conjunction with the conference are coordinated by volunteers.
Two of us from the internal staff also attend. In the past, this has meant that I have to do more worker-bee stuff like setting up the room and checking audiovisual equipment than association-representative tasks like facilitating general sessions and playing the role of host. These jobs have been delegated to our board presidents. However, this year I am going to do my best to bring another part-time staff person, so I can assume more of a facilitation role.
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As with any other task that requires volunteers, things can be trying at times, but our dedicated group does its best to help the meeting go on without a glitch. That being said, I also think that the benefits of having volunteers run your meeting far outweigh any problems that may arise.
For instance, N4A has been around for 33 years, but I am only its second executive director and have been for almost two years now. I do not come from the same field as my members (academic-support and student-services personnel for collegiate student athletes) and we have no set profile for our meeting attendees, so our member volunteers help bring an insider perspective to the meeting, which our attendees really appreciate.
Also, we have found that having volunteers involved in different aspects of the meeting helps with member engagement. A lot of attendees have only been once or twice, or may be the only ones attending from their university. Having one-on-one time with another member makes them feel more comfortable, and establishing a connection with another member makes it more likely that they will attend future meetings.
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Teresa Evans-Hunter, MBA, CAE, is executive director of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics. Email: [email protected]


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4) Have the bestest friends!!!!
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Issue No. 04 - July/August (2011 vol. 37)
pp: 486-508
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2010.93
Leonardo Mariani , University of Milano Bicocca, Milan
Fabrizio Pastore , University of Milano Bicocca, Milan
Mauro Pezzè , University of Milan Bicocca, Milano
Many software components are provided with incomplete specifications and little access to the source code. Reusing such gray-box components can result in integration faults that can be difficult to diagnose and locate. In this paper, we present Behavior Capture and Test (BCT), a technique that uses dynamic analysis to automatically identify the causes of failures and locate the related faults. BCT augments dynamic analysis techniques with model-based monitoring. In this way, BCT identifies a structured set of interactions and data values that are likely related to failures (failure causes), and indicates the components and the operations that are likely responsible for failures (fault locations). BCT advances scientific knowledge in several ways. It combines classic dynamic analysis with incremental finite state generation techniques to produce dynamic models that capture complementary aspects of component interactions. It uses an effective technique to filter false positives to reduce the effort of the analysis of the produced data. It defines a strategy to extract information about likely causes of failures by automatically ranking and relating the detected anomalies so that developers can focus their attention on the faults. The effectiveness of BCT depends on the quality of the dynamic models extracted from the program. BCT is particularly effective when the test cases sample the execution space well. In this paper, we present a set of case studies that illustrate the adequacy of BCT to analyze both regression testing failures and rare field failures. The results show that BCT automatically filters out most of the false alarms and provides useful information to understand the causes of failures in 69 percent of the case studies.
Dynamic Analysis, diagnosis, fault localization, false positive filters, regression failure analysis, field failure analysis.
Leonardo Mariani, Fabrizio Pastore, Mauro Pezzè, "Dynamic Analysis for Diagnosing Integration Faults", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 37, no. , pp. 486-508, July/August 2011, doi:10.1109/TSE.2010.93


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Study objectives: We reviewed our short- (30 days) and long-term (up to 17 years) experience with surgical revascularization for patients with angiographically documented isolated single-vessel coronary artery disease.
Design: Retrospective study of single-vessel coronary artery bypass procedures performed from January 1980 through June 1996. During this time, 100 consecutive patients underwent a single-vessel coronary artery bypass. All patients were men with a mean age of 59±9 years (range, 35 to 78 years) and a mean ejection fraction of 56±8% (range, 35 to 77%). The vessels bypassed included the left anterior descending in 66 (66%), right coronary artery in 31 (31%), and the obtuse marginal in 3 (3%).
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Sun exposure is not recommended after surgery but if it already happened there isn't much you can do.
Sun exposure is not recommended after surgery but if it already happened there isn't much you can do. It probably did not damage the grafts but if you are concerned follow up with your doctor for a recheck.
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You will need Citrasolv, which is a natural cleaner and degreaser concentrate. *Edited to add: There are several different cleaning products under the Citrasolv brand. This process requires the cleaner and degreaser concentrate.* I couldn't find this locally. I checked the manufacturer's website and it was listed as being carried at Harris Teeter and Whole Foods in my area. The manager at Harris Teeter told me they had no record of ever carrying it. Pam checked at Whole Foods and had the same experience. I finally ordered this through Amazon. I ordered the 16 ounce size. This goes a very long way. To do the grain sack image I only used an amount to half -way saturate a cotton ball. If you are only using this for personal projects, the 8ounce size should be more than enough.
Next, you will need your image. If it is an object without any text, you do not need to use a mirrored or flipped image. From what I read when I was trying to figure out how to do this myself, images printed on ink jet printers or copiers will not work. You need a copier or printer that uses the toner cartridges. I used a laser jet printer and the prints have worked great. I've read that some people have tried making their copies at Kinko's or local businesses that offer this service, with mixed results. I would think that a professional copy business such as Kinko's could tell you if they have a toner based printer. I would suggest you only pay for one or two copies and see if they work before investing any more money.
I've gotten so many wonderful images, that are copyright free, from The Graphics Fairy. Occasionally she will include a link to an image that is already flipped, such as the image I used on this project. If you scroll down on her post, you will see a second image that has been flipped. When I use her images, I double click on the image and it opens in a new window, in its true size. I then right click and select "copy" and then paste it into a word document. This way you can adjust the size after you have pasted it, by clicking on the image until a box outline appears. Drag the lines of the box in or out, depending if you want it larger or smaller. This is also where I mirror or flip the image. On my computer, if I click on edit, or photo editor (depending on the year of the software), an icon similar to a triangle appears in the tool bar and if you hold your cursor over it, it will give you the option to flip or rotate horizontally or vertically. I would suggest saving the image to a file after you have it in the form you want, to make for easier printing if you decide to use the image again.
This image worked well because the wheat/grain is a mixture of light and dark areas. I've found that an image with a large dark area doesn't transfer well with this method. It comes out spotty and uneven looking.
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You want to tape your image, face down on your fabric, making sure it is positioned exactly as you want it. I just use some masking tape on the corners of my page. I also cut off the word "grains" on this particular transfer and used the rest of the image to suit the project I have in mind for this.
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You can see that I missed a couple of letters here, but I went back and dabbed over them before rubbing with my spoon.
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Will Johnson – Johnson was huge in the first half scoring six points and helping to keep the Heels close. Interestingly, he got the first technical of his career just minutes after Jonathan Holmes was whistled for clearing out State's Josh Powell in the lane. Bet that never happens again.
Rebounding – Carolina outrebounded State 38-27, limiting the Wolfpack to only five offensive rebounds. That is partly due to State's red-hot shooting, but mostly because UNC was aggressive on the glass and boxed out pretty well. And consider they did this playing a smaller lineup – 6-foot-6 David Noel started instead of 6-foot-9 Byron Sanders, that's a nice accomplishment.
Still close – Despite State's torrid shooting, Manuel's foul trouble, and Jawad Williams' three points, Carolina still had a chance to win late, trailing 66-64 with four minutes left. Once again there are obvious reasons why the Heels lost, yet slightly improved play in a few areas would have been the difference. The Heels always play hard and don't ever quit. While there are areas of concern, one reason a solid foundation is being built is the team's desire and intensity.
Matt Doherty – Blame Doherty and his staff for a few of the team's shortcomings (offensive efficiency, lack of structured offense), but also credit them for the team's usually excellent defense and for their fight and grit. They were close to State because of pride and playing at maximum effort, something attributable to coaching.
Rashad McCants – It wouldn't be fair to overlook McCants' first double-double of his career and that he darn near did enough in less than one half to get Carolina a win. One can argue many of his points didn't really matter, but one can also make the point that without his offensive explosion in the last 12 minutes UNC would have been blown out.
Quality shots – Carolina's offensive flow was pretty good over the first eight minutes or so. They moved well without the ball, passed quickly and crisply, and got some quality looks. But they resorted too often to their usual ways: little cutting, very little screening (especially away from the ball), few backdoor cuts, and way too much dribbling. And of course, not enough set plays. State hit a lot of contested shots, which ultimately was the difference. But if Carolina was able to spring Rashad McCants (three first-half points) for a few more looks, and even get Williams (three total points, none in the first half) some in some baseline situations both could have produced more and UNC may have pulled it out.
Defense – State hit a bunch of tough well-defended shots. But the bottom line is that allowing a team to shoot 52.2 percent from 3-point range and 48.1% for the game means it wasn't all the Wolfpack making difficult shots. There were some easy ones no doubt. UNC went to a quicker lineup, which somewhat worked, but still allowed too many cuts to the basket, many of which led to layups.
3-point shooting – Other than Felton's 8-12 performance, the Heels were 4-20 from beyond the arc. Considering UNC's lack of an inside game, this clearly won't cut it.
Jawad Williams – Williams said he won't have days like Sunday very often, which would be good for UNC. He finished with three points (1-9 from the field), and just five rebounds. It wasn't that he played so poorly, his shot just didn't fall. He got some nice looks, a few he created on his own, but they just didn't go down.
Melvin Scott – Scott is considered by many as "instant offense" for the Tar Heels, but he has been anything but that. He's scored in double figures just once (15 points against Davidson) and is only 3-20 from the field (2-13 from 3-point range) in UNC's last four games. For the season the Baltimore sophomore is averaging just five points per game and shooting 33.7 from the floor, including 34.4% from beyond the arc. In the last "G&B" it was suggested Scott might need to play more in order to shoot better. It can also go the other way around: maybe he should shoot more accurately if he is to warrant more playing time. On Sunday he was 0-3 from the field and 0-2 from the charity stripe.
7th loss – UNC now has seven losses on the season, all but assuring they will lose at least ten games for the fourth time in five years. Dean Smith went from 1966-1989 without losing double-digit number of games. Since, Carolina has lost at least 10 games six times: 13 in 1990-91, 10 in 1991-92, 11 in 1995-96, 10 in 1998-99, 14 in 1999-2000, and 20 last season. This year would make it seven.
It also means the Heels can't afford to lose more than six more games unless they capture the ACC tournament. More than 13 losses will likely bound them for the NIT.
The Tar Heels hit the road again with a game at Georgia Tech on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. on ESPN. UNC's next three games are at Tech, at home against Wake Forest, and at Duke. Thus, this is clearly a crucial game, maybe the most important of the season.
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- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Pool umbrellas
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 473
- Children's club
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 13
- Free valet parking
- Terrace
- Poolside bar
- Free self parking
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 16146
- Spa services on site
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Children's pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Garden
- Conference space size (meters) - 1500
- Number of meeting rooms - 16
- Outdoor tennis courts - 4
- Year Built 1980
- Number of buildings/towers - 6
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Outdoor tennis courts
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( MXN 255 per night )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( MXN 278 per night )
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
Sheraton Buganvilias Resort & Convention Center offers 473 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and espresso makers. Each accommodation is individually decorated. Select Comfort beds feature premium bedding. A pillow menu is available. 32-inch flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels. Bathrooms include showers, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
In-room wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Business-friendly amenities include safes and phones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and irons/ironing boards. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Premium TV channels
- Room service (24 hours)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Free bottled water
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Premium bedding
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Daily housekeeping
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Individually decorated
- Espresso maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Pillow menu
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
Where to Eat
Las Gaviotas - Air-conditioned, ocean-view, fine-dining restaurant with terrace seating, also. Open for dinner only. International menu with choices such as beef carpaccio, lobster salad, mango shrimp, pepper-crusted tuna, lamb chops with mushroom risotto, goat-cheese-stuffed pork loin with beer-cola sauce.
La Villita - Casual, ocean-view, open-air restaurant under massive thatch-roof palapa. Covered and terrace seating. Buffet and à la carte breakfast. À la carte lunch menu including appetizers, soups, salads, seafood, chicken, beef, and Mexican specialties such as tacos and faijitas. Sunday champagne brunch featuring mariachi music.
La Pergola - Shaded outdoor restaurant under log roof. Ocean views. Open for lunch. Sandwiches, salads, burgers, tacos, and light meals such as skewered shrimp. Open daily from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
El Embarcadero - Air-conditioned bar with contemporary, minimalist Mexican decor. Extensive tequila selections. Live dance music nightly.
Deli - Located in Suites Tower. Open early morning to late night for sandwiches, salads, juices, coffee drinks, pastries, cocktails.
Hotel Tower Lobby Bar - Sunset view. Live music nightly in high seasons, on weekends in low seasons from 7.30 p.m. Open Daily from 3 p.m until 11 p.m.
Suites Tower Lobby Bar - Sunset view. Live music nightly in high seasons, on weekends in low seasons from 7.30 p.m. Open Daily from 3 p.m until 11 p.m.
La Palapa Bar - Swim-up bar in Hotel Tower pool. Open daily from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Exciting tropical drinks available on request.
La Carreta Bar - Swim-up bar in Suites Tower pool. Open daily from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Exciting tropical drinks available on request.
Nearby Things to Do
The resort's 219-yard (200-meter) oceanfront is divided between a rocky shore and a sand beach. A sand sunbathing terrace extends along the rocky shore. Independent operators on the beach offer rentals and services for personal watercraft, parasailing, banana-boating, and also arrange fishing trips and cruises.
Land recreation at the resort includes complimentary horseshoes and table tennis (surcharge).
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Mountain biking nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Sailing on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Thai massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Body wraps
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 12
- Massages on beach
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 5 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for MXN 690.00 per night.
- Pets stay free
- Dogs only
- 1 per room (up to 18 kg)
You need to know
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.
Only service animals are allowed
No cribs (infant beds) available
Pets allowed (no fees)
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
No pets or service animals allowed
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: MXN 463 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: MXN 255 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: MXN 278 per night (rates may vary)
- Rollaway bed fee: MXN 690.00 per night
Hotel Name
- Buganvilias
- Buganvilias Resort
- Buganvilias Sheraton
- Sheraton Buganvilias
- Sheraton Buganvilias Puerto Vallarta
- Sheraton Buganvilias Resort
- Sheraton Buganvilias Resort Puerto Vallarta
- Puerto Vallarta Sheraton
- Sheraton Buganvilias Hotel Puerto Vallarta
- Sheraton Buganvilias Resort And Convention Center
- Sheraton Puerto Vallarta
We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Up to 2 children 5 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
Awards & Affiliations
Kids Stay Free
Book a stay in an All Inclusive rate category and children ages 5 and younger stay free.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Three weeks after opening, Pixar's "Inside Out" has finally slayed the dinosaurs of "Jurassic World."
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BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine (AP) - The deaths of three members of a family were a double murder followed by a suicide, state police said on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles police chief must answer questions about a high-profile officer-involved shooting of a black man last year, a federal judge ruled Monday, citing contradictions between the chief's statements and a commission's finding that the shooting wasn't justified.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An immigrant who took refuge at an Oregon church to avoid deportation should be allowed to stay in the U.S. because of a judicial error at a hearing more than a decade ago, his attorney said Monday.
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I have set up an OLEDB database using an excel spreadsheet to house the data and I have connected the spreadsheet fields to the corresponding fields in the PDF. That is all working fine when I open the PDF all the information comes in. However, if I have 50 lines of information in my spreadsheet I get 50 pages of documents in my PDF.
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TFP Photoshoot for Portfolio
Talent type: 2x Female Models
Job type: Lifestyle
- Job ID: 95066
Thu 5th May 2016 - 06:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Unpaid per talent
Looking to do a very chilled, lifestyle themed photoshoot, just to add towards our portfolios. Looking for two models who can work closely together as friends. Would like to capture really natural photos, more like we were all just to be hanging out and having fun. Photographs that could promote a happy lifestyle.
I am open to all ideas, if you had any ideas shoot them through. In the past I have thought of photographs on a skateboard, quirky bike, camping, adventure, car trips etc..
I haven't got a set date, I just popped one down that would suit me, although if you have a particular time when you're around, let me know :)
Casual clothes.
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The vehicle in your driveway is head and shoulders above the rest compared to all the other cars, trucks, and SUVs in today's marketplace. You bought your X3 because its sporty handling and European styling struck a chord inside you; so why would you be okay with second best when it comes to superior quality auto parts? Car aficionados appreciate the luxury built into each BMW, and know that only the highest quality repair X3 parts will suffice when your car or truck needs fixing. When your BMW X3 left the factory, it was destined for a person with discerning taste who wants German engineering in their automobile.
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Taste Test: Deep-Fried HoHos
Posted October 22, 2005
But HoHos are a different story. They're more substantial, for one thing, not all sponge cake and filling. So I decided to do a taste test...
... once I could find them. As far as I could tell there's only one place at the Fair that sells 'em, and that's the 1853 Grill on Restaurant Row. I noticed the deep-fried HoHos sign the day before the fair but didn't note where it was, and for the next several days kept my eyes peeled for it. Finally I noticed it again; I had missed it because it was not raised up and there had probably been people in front of it for the last week.
Anyway, the HoHo was ordered, made fresh, and presented to us with about a pound of powdered sugar on top.
As I photographed it (you can't imagine the looks people give you when you're photographing your food) I noticed it looked very much like a deep-fried Twinkie. Could I have been given the wrong thing? But I opened it up for an innards picture and it was a HoHo all right.
Kyle helped me eat it. He doesn't like deep-fried Twinkies either, but agreed that the HoHo was much better. It tastes like hot (very hot!), deep-fried chocolate cake, with just a hint of syrup. It didn't need the powdered sugar at all. It beats a deep-fried Twinkie hands-down!


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Dixie Chicks Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows is a song by American country group Dixie Chicks from the album Taking the Long Way. The track reached the Billboard Top Country Songs chart.
The official music video for Everybody Knows premiered on YouTube at the beginning of July 2006. Watch Dixie Chicks perform the song.
Everybody Knows Lyrics
The lyrics to Everybody Knows were written by Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Gary Louris.Top Country Songs 2006


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New Delhi, Dec. 16: Arjun Kapoor just brought some heat in the chilling weather as he recently posted a shirtless selfie, though his intentions were just to show his tan lines.
The 30-year-old actor took to his Instagram and posted a no shirt picture of himself, which was captioned, "U know you've tanned when u blend with the sofa !!! Feels good to be home #gharvapasi #homevibe #jetlagged."
The '2 States' star was in Argentina shooting for his television debut, "Khatron Ke Khiladi." (ANI)


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In 1968, a 90-year-old woman in Norway was given an incredible glimpse into the future. She was shown what life would be like just before World War III and the return of Jesus Christ, and what she saw is eerily similar to current conditions in our world today. When evangelist Emanuel Minos held meetings in the town of Valdres, Norway where she lived, this precious elderly lady shared what the Lord had shown to her with him. Minos wrote down what he was told, and it got put away in a drawer for 30 years. But after many of the things that she saw started to come to pass, Minos remembered the vision and decided to share it with the world. (Read More...)
Major Prophetic Warnings: 'Socially Accepted But Immoral Lifestyles' In The Church Will Be Exposed And 'Judgment Starts Now'
Judgment begins in the House of God, and those that are playing around with sin need to stop before it is too late. In recent weeks, I have been writing much about the prophetic voices that have been warning about the "exposure" and the "great shaking" that are coming to the Church. If you choose to put yourself out there as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, you can't embrace great sin and expect that there won't be any consequences. Our God is a holy and awesome God, and the only way that any of us are going to make it through what is coming is to live in holiness. The Scriptures tell us that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and there isn't a lot of the fear of God in our churches today, but there will be soon. (Read More...)


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Chapter One
Sometime the idea comes into my head that maybe i should confess, tell everybody i lied about this or that, say sorry, but I'm not, and anyway i see no point, i wont stop anyway.
Everyone lies, i just happen to lie more often, and about everything. I was probably raised to believe lying is bad, lying is wrong, and that I shouldn't do it, but honestly I don't remember, or it could have never happened, i was not raised to be cruel,or vicious as some of you might think. It may have been unconsciously done,could have started off as me simply being rebellious to society in any way possible.
That dos'nt seem right though.
You see when i was very young i figured out what the world was like, that it wasnt ever made of rainbows and sunshine. That it was actually a dark lonely place full of hurt and painful memories. And only if your really lucky will you find happiness here in this terrible place. I was knew i would never be one of those people, at the time it was just a fleeting thought, a little feeling.
Then it became true, i didnt know how to find happiness, i didnt know how to survive, i didnt know what i could do to find myself in all this 'jumbled mess we call life'.I didnt know how to be me, how to love, how to just be ok. So i started lying, to everyone-about everything. I created a new person, a new identity, one that was capable of love and being loved.
The question has always haunted me, always had me wondering, dreding. The question is can someone love me once they know the real me, once they know what my soul is like, the darkness that thrives there. And once they see that, can they ever see the light. Its there-hidden beneath it all.
I lie to keep this from happening, for them to not see the darkness so i show them a fake light, one they want to see, but the thing is, everyone does it.So what makes me so different from you? Nothing. Apsolutly nothing. And everything.
When you don't know what to do
When you are afriad
When you want something
When you need something
When you want to be liked
When you want to be loved
When you just want to fit in
You Lie.
The list goes on and on, but ultimetly this is life, these lies make you who you are on the inside and out. Simple white lies create little aspects of who you are. But those white lies can grow, they can multiply and merge with each other. And together they can take over your life, they can consume you. And once they catch on to you-they never. ever. let. go.


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The Albatros D.III was a biplane fighter aircraft piloted by the German and Austrio-Hungarian Air services during World War I. These aircrafts were flown by many of the top German Ace pilots and was very dominant during their period. The Albatros is constructed of a semi-monocoque, plywood skinned fuselage. The sesquiplane arrangement of the wings offered improved climb, maneuverability, and downward visibility compared to previous aircrafts. It was prone to spinning but easily recoverable.
Dynam have captured the essence of this elegant warbird from a time long since passed with its unique silhouette of the familiar Biplane arrangement, all created in EPO foam. Adding to the scale realism of this vintage warbird is the machine gun on the nose of the aircraft and colorful scale makings which are typical of the markings used in the day.
This ready to fly Albatros is equipped with Dynam's 2.4ghz radio system and powered by a powerful BM3720A 600KV Brushless motor and 14.8v 2200mah Lithium battery which gives the RC pilot the ability to gracefully float about the sky in a scale like manner or "crack" the throttle for more more spirited flying with some crazy maneuvers which are easy to recover from due to the gentle flying characteristics of this plane.


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Displaying the first of 33 photos of Botley.
Historic maps of Botley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey cartographers and Samuel Lewis.
Browse 34 photo books on Botley and the surrounding area.
This great pub has things happening every day - super food and fine beer. The website for the Bugle Inn is www.thebugleinnbotley.co.uk
Not really a memory but I wonder if any of you folk remember a florist shop called Josepine's in Botley, I believe it was on the Hedge End road. She was a Barfoot and a sister of my nan, I think! Any memories would be great ... a photo magnifico. I have family in Hedge End and my Grandad had a shop called HG or WG Ferris in the ...Read full memory
I do remember this lovely lady, her brother, and her quaint little shop. She sold flowers, fruit, veg, sweets, tobacco etc, and wonderful lemon dip sugar. My dad used her shop nearly every day on his way to or from work, and at weekends we were taken there to buy the veg /flowers for ...Read full memory


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Tomas Brødreskift
As a freelance industrial designer interested in the broad diversity of industrial design, with skills in a wide range of tools, I view myself as very useful in any venture concerning the process of high end product development.
As a designer interested in the broad diversity of industrial design, with skills in a wide range of tools, I view myself as a very useful person in any venture concerning the process of high end product development.
Design, development and construction of a high performance electric amphibous aircraft.
Strategic Consulting, including different Industrial Design Assignments.
Part Time Industrial Designer in the IKT department.
Graphic Design and brand DNA improvement, and Product Development, mainly Carbon Frame design for long time Norwegian bike designers Hard Rocx.
Developing new EEg technology helmet solution.
With GeriljaWorks AS I ran an Industrial Design course in Lighting Design over a period of 3 weeks.
Pitched the Equator P2 Project
4 day lecture in basic modelling and high end surface management, in Alias Automotive.
Guidance in Industrial Design assignments for students.
Lectures and guidence teaching in drawing, photoshop and marker rendering.
RAND Sport Skiis
Jordan Tooth brushes
Lectures at AHO and DI
Helping out on several minor projects
Started my own design office and freelance business.
Internship attended while studying.
Presenting the EQP2 Hybrid Electric Amphibian for a board of venture investment experts
Interiour Parts for A340 and A320 / 21 Aircraft
Various Internal Management Assignments
Lead Designer on 2 of a total of 6 Projects done.
Vade water purification device
Forrest Signing for Våler County
Instructor of basic military skill for russian border patrol operatives. Includes communication, survival training, operative training and managemnet skills. Responsible for selection of soldiers for operations on the border.
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Responsible for 6 Army operatives, and conducting behind the lines rec and sting operations.
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A vertical striped pattern composed of brightly coloured fine lines and small blocks on contrasting grounds. Bukhara is the former Persian speaking city on the famous Silk Route now in modern day Uzbekistan.
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