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Eat, Drink, Play: Summit County sleigh ride
December 13, 2011
In Frisco, some distance behind the adventure park visible from the state highway, hidden by hills and trees is a little hut lit with Christmas lights, alive with music and steeped in the smell of cocoa and comfort food.
The only way to get there is by sleigh.
Or rather, at Christmastime, the best way to get there is by sleigh.
Even in a place that specializes in once-in-a-lifetime experiences, Two Below Zero's dinner sleigh rides stand out. In December, the icy-cold evening excursion, which carries bundled guests out to the dinner site in a sleigh by moonlight, is downright magical.
Sleigh rides leave from the Frisco Nordic Center, where guests are loaded onto one of several mule-drawn carriages on skis.
The sleigh ride is disarmingly beautiful. On clear nights, moonlight illuminates Frisco, sparkling off the snow and casting an eerie glow over the surrounding mountains. The cold quiet is interrupted only by the crunch of skis and hooves on snow, jingle-bells and the conversations aboard the sleighs.
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As ears and toes start to get cold, the 15-minute ride to dinner ends and guests are ushered into the warm lodge where set tables and the evening's entertainment are already waiting.
Both at dinner and on the sleigh, the evening is a group experience. The carriages comfortably seat 14 people, and the ride is generally cold enough to make it tempting to squeeze in and get to know your neighbors. If conversations don't get started on the ride out, they probably will over dinner, where guests are seated at tables set for 10.
The lodge is big, comfortably seating 60 or more people, and decked out for the holidays with lights, a little stove-like fireplace and a Christmas tree. Like the entire evening, the dinner location has an unmistakable country feel.
As soon as guests arrive at the lodge, Two Below Zero is ready to cure the chill from the ride out with hot cocoa, sweetening the deal with a splash of peppermint schnapps. Local microbrews from the Dillon Dam Brewery and wine by the glass, warm rolls and tortilla soup follow in quick succession.
Dinner is steak, chicken, veggies and a baked potato and the portions are generous. The food is hearty, unpretentious and surprisingly satisfying.
As the diners are scraping the last traces of apple pie off their plates, entertainer David Peel steals the spotlight from the meal.
Peel is almost a combination musician/stand-up comedian. He plays country, Christmas and classic songs, promising there will be something for everybody, but his talents for telling stories and impersonating legendary singers are just as good.
At the end of the night, full and warm, guests are herded back out to the sleighs for a gorgeous ride back to the Nordic Center.
The ride could be a romantic evening for two, but with a kids' menu and a particularly entertaining rendition of the Disney Mouseketeers' song after dinner, it's equally fitting for families.
Reservations for sleigh rides should be made ahead of time.


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Opera Lauriers latest production, Dreams, Fantasies, and Delusions: An Evening of Outrageous Operatic Scenes, takes place Nov. 8 and 9, starting at 8 p.m. in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. Tickets can be purchased at the door and are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and free for Laurier students.
Under the musical direction of Leslie DeAth and stage direction of Aria Umezawa, students will present excerpts from six operas, including Street Scene, Hänsel und Gretel, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Lelisir damore, La Cenerentola and Trouble in Tahiti.
The second production of Lauriers 2013-2014 Opera Series will be the full opera Giiwedin by Spy Dénommé-Welch and Catherine Magowan. Giiwedin will be performed Feb. 28 and March 1 and 2.
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Long before the hipster Microkorg hit Williamsburg there was the Korg 700s Minikorg. It was one of Korg's first synths and to this day it's one of my favorites. Every time I hear one of its raspy detuned aggressive sounds it makes my brain jump to it's evil side. Daniel Miller used a 700 to create one of my all time favorite records TVOD/Warm Letherette by The Normal (iTunes link). Daniel soon went on to found Mute Records and sign Depeche Mode.
"It has three ring modulators for some strange sounds and noises. Sometimes a decent bass sound for techno music can be achieved using the MiniKorg's hi-pass and low-pass filters. The two oscillators can be de-tuned and they offer triangle, sawtooth and square waveforms. There are some strange analog effects built-in as well such as portamento, a rudimentary repeat-delay, auto-bend (bender), vibrato and Chorus and Noise waveforms." – vintagesynth.org
You can find the Korg 700s MiniKorg on eBay from time to time for a decent price. It's on my wishlist!
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After some promising returns in earlier awards-nominations announcements, two La Jolla Playhouse-birthed musicals found themselves on the fringes of the party in today's big unveiling of the Tony Awards field.
The Playhouse-commissioned "Hands on a Hardbody," which had its world premiere in La Jolla last year, managed three nominations: for score (composed by Amanda Green and Phish leader Trey Anastasio, with lyrics by Green); featured actor (Keith Carradine, who played a taciturn contestant in a quirky endurance competition); and featured actress (Keala Settle, who was memorable as a gospel-praising, roof-raising fellow competitor).
"Chaplin," which premiered at the Playhouse in 2010, earned just one nomination, for Rob McClure's lead performance as the iconic comic actor Charlie Chaplin.
It was a disappointing outcome for two shows that had less-than-spectacular Broadway runs, but seemed poised for at least some significant recognition (possibly with best-musical nominations) come Tonys time.
Chaplin ran about four months on Broadway last year, while "Hardbody" — despite mostly supportive reviews in La Jolla and then New York — had only 28 performances during its approximately three-week tenure, closing two weeks ago.
The biggest story coming out of the nominations, announced this morning in New York by actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster, was the major haul for "Kinky Boots," the musical written by Harvey Fierstein and scored by Cyndi Lauper.
"Boots" nabbed a leading 13 nominations, including best musical. It will compete in that category against "Matilda," which earned an impressive 12 nominations. Also nominated as best musical: "Bring It On: The Musical" (which likewise has lyrics by Amanda Green) and "A Christmas Story, the Musical."
"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," which is coming to the Old Globe Theatre next year, earned six nominations, including best play and a best-director nod for Globe associate artist Nicholas Martin, who also will direct the San Diego production. (Its nominees also include leading actress Kristine Nielsen, who was in the Globe production of "Anna Christie" last year.)
Joining it in the best-play category are "The Assembled Parties," "Lucky Guy" and "The Testament of Mary."
A couple of additional San Diego links: San Diego Junior Theatre alumnus and Globe associate artist Gregg Barnes, a previous Tony-winner, earned a nomination for "Kinky Boots"; and onetime San Diego director Bartlett Sher was named for "Golden Boy."
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text: Keep your style in step with the Barcelona heel by Kelsi Dagger Brooklyn. Since the weather is finally warming up, pull out all of your shorts and skirts and lengthen those legs when you rock this chunky heeled sandal. With a white rubber sole and rich black leather, this on-trend ankle strap sandal pairs perfectly with just about everything in your summer wardrobe. The Barcelona is sure to make heads turn and you can grab a pair for yourself from Heels.com!


text: THE SEVEN CAPITAL CITIES OF HEAVEN keeps kicking and punching its way toward the brutal finish line. Danny fights for survival --- for the centuries-long legacy of the Iron Fist against the other Immortal Weapons; for his own life, as Davos the Steel Serpent makes his deadly move behind the scenes; and for K'un-Lun itself as the sinister Mr. Xao and his legion of Hydra science-terrorists conspire to wreak havok on the mystical city. Can even an ultimate warrior like the Immortal Iron Fist fight a war --- and win --- on three fronts? Even with the classic HEROES FOR HIRE working behind the scenes? Yeah, no, probably not.


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Hey blake,
I love my champion beast, but I have a bit of a problem. It's an original mold, and I know that when I lose it, I'm going to have to find a replacement. I was hoping to stick to something rather durable, yet still retain similar flight characteristics. It's gotta be something that I can hyzer flip with close to the same results.
I just bought a Star Sidewinder to fill a small gap (being that I had no roller disc, or long anhyzer disc) and it is a bit more stable than I expected from the sidewinder. Although it's not quite stable enough to consider it a replacement for my beast.
Was wondering if you had any suggestions. I love the fact that my beast can stay 10-15' off the ground for such a long time in order to get distance, and I have grown used to the nose down drives that I have to use to achieve a good throw with it. I know the retooled beasts are flippier but do they act the same way with this tendancy to stay low and get great "D"? If so, I believe a max weight Star Beast might be the answer.
Thanks in advance for you input, as usual.


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By the time Vallejo city officials took a hand in reducing the blackened remains of the structure at 1903 El Dorado St. to rubble Monday morning, little remained to topple.
In June 2012, when a fire broke out and apparently killed a dog staying inside, the former home was already boarded up and abandoned by its owner, officials said.
No cause was determined for the fire, though firefighters uncovered evidence that squatters had once lived there.
The neighborhood eyesore's removal Monday came with the assistance of the Vallejo Neighborhood Law Program, which sought to compel the home's owner to take care of the unsafe structure without success. This is the first such uninhabitable structure demolished with the backing of the law project, but further projects are on the horizon, said Neighborhood Law attorney Ryan Griffith.
The Neighborhood Law Program works to address blighted property issues that cannot be resolved through usual city channels. The demolition, however, is an extreme remedy of last resort, Griffith acknowledged.
"This building has presented a danger and blight to the community for more than a year," Griffith said. "Having it demolished will eliminate the dangerous conditions presented by this building and improve the neighborhood."
Vallejo will foot the bill for the demolition, estimated at about $9,000, out of Measure B sales tax revenue set aside for non-Mare Island demolition projects. That cost may later be recovered through a lien on the property, Griffith said.
Vallejo Chief Building Official Gary West said that the city has moved to demolish other unsafe buildings, but could not recall a time when it had to follow the process through to completion.
"It's very rare that we have to go to that extreme," West said of Monday's demolition. "We have a list, literally a list, of burned out properties that the owners have refused to take ownership of. A home at 212-216 Carolina Street, we were about to do the same when the bank stepped in."
Vallejo garners its power to demolish such buildings and bill the property owner under the city-adopted Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, Griffith said. Lengthy efforts to reach the owner for direct negotiations were unsuccessful, Griffith said.
"We do everything we can (to avoid doing the demolition), because clearly we'd rather the property owner address it," Griffith said. "There is still work to be done on the properties, but progress is being made in the right direction."
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Hi there,
I'm new to the forum and I'm seriously considering taking a Games Dev course at my local Uni next year if I can get in...
I'm currently working as an SEO Analyst / Technical Assistant for an SEO Company but I'd like a change of career as I've always wanted to be a Games Developer, since I was like 6 years old.
I've read recently that a VP of Codemasters has stated that he'd rather hire someone with a Computer Science degree than a Games Dev degree, also if you cannot get into games development you can do so much more with a Comp Sci degree.
What do you guys all think? What have you taken and got etc...
Hi Ninpo and welcome to DevMaster.
A computer science degree is an accredited degree that trains you to become a self-sufficient computer programmer, scientist, and researcher. This enables you to research new advanced topics and theories to apply in your work. Often you see this in the games industry as someone inventing a new real time lighting algorithm, or a new way to adopt physics on the GPU, new rendering techniques, and so forth. You don't need to have a background in games development to become one. A comp sci graduate would possess the aptitude to find and learn more about the field. A game dev course is more or less designed to get you up and running with game development. It doesn't train you to think about hardware, performance metrics, researching, algorithms, etc. It's analogous to a giving a man a fish to eat for a day vs teaching a man to fish to eat for life.
Of course, not everyone needs either. All it really takes is dedication to push yourself to success. A comp sci degree is more or less proof that you are capable of doing the aforementioned. You could easily prove yourself with a solid portfolio.
Thanks for the info TheNut.
I'd be more interested in the artistic side, possibly animation over programming. As I've a background in Art & Design, Fine Art etc... I did take a course in Software Development however...
Based on that I think the Comp Sci is probably the better course.
I'm just aware of the face that a Games Dev course might teach me how to use designing software like Maya etc... Whereas a Comp Sci course might not.
I can tell you right now if your go with art animation. be prepared for some rough spots. where you work freelance or create your own stories or games, what have you and make money of it. your a lot less likely to work a regular 9-5 in your field unless you create the job. because there simply arent that many positions. for you to work in. Im not trying to disuade you. but be aware your going into something that will put you thru some changes and test you.
the people that do art and animation as a profession more often than not feel a need to do it. you would be surprised how tough artist actually are. life cannot make them stop doing art. Im saying this. so you dont get art and animation confused with something like a computer science degree. which can be used in a general or generic way. computer science is multi purpose. art and animation is not.
you really need to be aware of this before you jump in
Thanks for that tyree, I am aware of the difference between and & animation and Comp Sci but thatnks for claifying.
Hello everyone....This is my first post and i came here to enjoy and want to share and get some knowledge from here.
I agree with tyree, I had a GA working with me and when the company had financial problems he was offered a proper salary to go back to being a driver on London underground.
He turned down the job and hung on so he could continue doing graphics. He went without food for 3 days so his kids could eat, but still wouldn't go back to being a train driver.


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James Bond through the ages
The 007 movie franchise has turned 50 with the release of Skyfall, one of the best in the series that's already breaking box-office records overseas.
The previous 22 Bond films have grossed around US$5 billion, a sum even Ernst Stavro Blofeld wouldn't dismiss.
Daniel Craig, in his third outing, is as craggy as ever but he's also more three-dimensional, thanks to a Scottish-orphan backstory and a Freudian flourish involving Judi Dench's matriarchal M.
Sean Connery, for me and just everybody else, remains the best of the babe-magnet Bonds. He had style to burn. The only time Craig dresses up is when he has to infiltrate bad-boy billionaire soirees. (There's a lot of Bourne in this Bond).
Connery liked to swank it up because his James had a snobby sense of entitlement and he knew how good he looked in a tux.
Beginning in 1962 with Dr. No followed by From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and Thunderball - before he got a bit long in the tooth - Connery had just the right curdling cruel mix of suavity and menace. Bond, he never let us forget, is licensed to kill.
Connery grew in stature as an actor outside of the series but he was never so brazenly priapic as he is in these films. Who else, grappling with crime-ring queen Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger" could deliver a line like "You're a woman of many parts, Pussy" with a (sort of) straight face?
Still, the series was never dependent on Connery for its success. After Connery and before Craig, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan all had a go at it. The formula, always loopier than the Ian Fleming novels, has continually adjusted to the zeitgeist.
The early Cold War-era Connery films were top heavy with stateless master-race crazies seeking world domination. The "Star Wars" era resulted in the unfortunate "Moonraker," with its zero-gravity laser battles barely mussing Moore's cast- iron coif.
Nothing mussed Moore really, which is why he was the most freeze-dried of the Bonds - a debonair hologram. Even Brosnan, also afflicted with blow-dry suavity, had his ornery side. Moore became fully human only in The Spy Who Loved Me, when Jaws's chompers were bearing down on the aghast Bond's jugular.
In the eighties, with the advent of the violent Stallone- Schwarzenegger pulpathons, movies like For Your Eyes Only and License to Kill, the latter starring the moody, Hamlet-esque Dalton, emphasized ground-level crunch-and-thud theatrics.
In Skyfall, Bond, who doesn't seem to be especially computer literate, faces off against cyberwarriors. But throughout the series, no matter who his adversaries are - blatant or shadowy, high-tech or lowdown - Bond generally dispatches them the old-fashioned way: one on one.
He's battled baddies with cast-iron pecs and poison-tipped shoes (Robert Shaw and Lotte Lenya, respectively, in From Russia With Love). He's fended off stainless steel incisors (Richard Kiel's Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker) and steel-rimmed bowler hats (Harold Sakata's Oddjob in Goldfinger). Mads Mikkelsen in Casino Royale literally cried tears of blood.
He's tooled around in autogyros, space-station shuttles, Aston Martins, Lotuses, even invisible cars.
The Bond series also has the distinction of being a pioneer in the dubious realm of product placement. Not for nothing was "Die Another Day" dubbed "Buy Another Day."
Throughout it all Bond remains the avatar of For King and Country sangfroid. He leapt to freedom in The Spy Who Loved Me in a Union Jack parachute. To kick off the London Olympics, Craig's Bond escorted the Queen herself from Buckingham Palace. It was a Rule Britannia joke the whole world was in on.
The Bond franchise has more global reach than the old empire ever did.


text: Mason County students dine on locally grown lunch By Julie Robinson August 28, 2012 Story Share Chip Ellis Leon Elementary School fourth graders Hunter Dawson and Christianna Casto bite into locally grown foods supplied by Mason County farmers Tuesday in the school cafeteria. LEON, W.Va. -- They learned the song back in their preschool days, but students at Leon Elementary and nine other Mason County schools enjoyed the fruits of Old MacDonald's labor in their school lunches Tuesday.Local farmers grew the wheat for the whole-wheat buns, tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers and watermelon for the salad bar and the potatoes for the seasoned wedges. The hamburger was ground from steers raised by FFA and 4-H students.Mason County extension agent Rodney Wallbrown, who has worked with farmers for 41 years, proposed the Farm-to-School initiative to local farmers."I'm really excited about Farm-to-School. I think it's the best opportunity for local farmers to market their products that I've ever been involved with," Wallbrown said. "It's a great opportunity for farmers to raise something and have a ready market for it."Students gobbled up their watermelon, potato wedges, hamburgers, tomatoes and red bell pepper. They said they particularly liked the potato wedges, which several deemed "better than French fries.""I wish we could have this kind of lunch every day," said fourth-grade student Hunter Dawson.Many of the students wore straw hats, boots and flannel shirts because their teachers told them they would be eating lunch grown by local farmers. Leon Elementary has 150 students. Mason County cooks prepare an average of 2,000 school lunches daily.Brunetti's Italian Bakery in Kenova baked 375 dozen whole-wheat hamburger buns for the hamburgers ground from five steers. Businesses purchased the steers at the Mason County Fair, then the school system purchased them. The hamburgers were ground by a local processor from all cuts."You'll have some T-bone and sirloin steaks mixed in there," said Wallbrown.Farmers supplied 25 50-pound bags of potatoes. "That's how much they use in one day in Mason County schools," Wallbrown explained. In the past few decades, local farmers have moved away from growing foods for local production, partially because the market consisted mainly of what they could sell at roadside stands and farmers' markets, which wasn't much. If they are guaranteed a local market like the school system, they'll grow more produce because they know it will sell.Dan Foglesong, who raises mostly corn, soybeans and cattle on his 300-acre farm, was a little hesitant when Wallbrown approached him earlier this year to grow foods for the schools. He supplied the wheat for the buns, and tomatoes and cucumbers. Foglesong also sells produce, mostly squash and zucchini, to Cabell County schools."He talked to me in early summer and we've been trying to work it out. It happened kind of late in the growing season. I was skeptical at first. I wondered if they would go through with it," Foglesong said.Foglesong's confidence grew after he and Wallbrown met with Cristi Rulen, Mason County Food Service Supervisor. Rulen was enthusiastic about getting local foods into the schools."She was really understanding about knowing at this point that we could only supply a little bit of what she needed. Most people wouldn't go with that, but she was good with it. She was willing to do that," Foglesong said. Although the fresh produce can mean more work for food service personnel than the packaged, processed foods available from institutional suppliers, Wallbrown and Rulen both said the school cooks took on the tasks willingly. "They work hard and take it seriously. They're dedicated to having good meals for the students," Wallbrown said. "They like using local producers, knowing they're concerned about food safety. They like keeping the money in the community." Madora McCarty, one of two cooks at Leon Elementary, said, "This supports the local economy, it's fresher. I think the children will take pride in the food from their own county. Just today a little boy brought in a cucumber that he had grown."As Foglesong and other farmers recognize that the local food market is real, Wallbrown hopes they'll increase production of the kinds of produce, eggs, meats and dairy foods needed by the school system and time their plantings for harvest during the school year.For the past two years, former FFA president and Point Pleasant High School senior Wes Davis has supplied all Mason County schools with eggs from the free-range hens he raises.Some farmers such as Foglesong are already building high tunnels, which are plastic stretched over raised growing beds that protect plants from frost and freezes and lengthen the production season. Peak production is typically in the summer, when most schools are not in session. "Next year my planting timing will be different," said Foglesong.The school system purchases locally grown food at the same price they'd pay big food supply corporations. "We'll take out the middle men. There's no cost to truck or package," Wallbrown said.Because farmers must be reliable and deliver a consistently good product to make the system work, the coordination of quantity and delivery time is important, Rulen said. The state Board of Education recently hired Andy Pense in the position of Farm to School coordinator for the state schools.Farm-to-School programs benefit communities, farmers and the students, said West Virginia Board of Education Superintendent Jorea Marple as she sampled the school's lunch."I've been eating school lunches for a very long time. I've never tasted a tomato like this one," Marple said.Five Point Pleasant Middle and High School FFA students watched as the children filed past and filled their trays. Although they hadn't grown the food for this meal, they plan to supply their schools with food they grow in greenhouses and high tunnels."This isn't limited to adults. We can do it, too," said Caitlyn Parsons, a junior at Point Pleasant High School. "It's starting to grow."Parsons' words are music to the ears of Wallbrown, Fogleson and other farmers who hope their children see farming for local use as a viable career path."There will always be kids and schools and they're going to feed the kids at schools," said Wallbrown. "There's a demand. They're going to buy all they can produce."Reach Julie Robinson at email@example.com or 304-348-1230. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Police seek car driven by woman found dead in Kanawha River 2 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 3 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 4 Man allegedly cuts father in Rand over argument about sandwich 5 Esa Ahmad ineligible for first half of WVU men's basketball season Chef Jeff cooked up a new life in prison Previous Story Teen pageant queens explain their hobby Next Story


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New goal outlined during annual campaign kickoff luncheon
The United Way of Denton County was able to help more than 55,000 people through its partner agencies last year, officials told about 350 supporters gathered for the agency's annual campaign kickoff luncheon Friday at The Mill.
Donations last year topped more than $2 million, Gary Henderson, president and CEO, said, and as this year's campaign gets underway, officials are hoping to improve on that total.
"Our goal is to at least exceed 10 percent of what was previously raised in order to maintain the assistance we have been providing," Henderson said.
In Denton County, one in five people live at the poverty level. Be it school supplies, a meal or counseling, United Way of Denton County tries to assist with community needs as efficiently as possible, board members said during the luncheon.
The United Way of Denton County, a nonprofit organization, works through more than 20 community partners, including school districts, area businesses and faith-based organizations, officials said, and the campaign that began Friday will support their efforts.
"Workplace campaign drives and individual donations attribute to 90 percent of our fundraising," Henderson said. "From now until Dec. 31, we will be actively working with our community organizations to bring in the necessary funds needed to take care of our county."
Among the achievements of the past year, Henderson said, was getting more volunteers to help with the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program. The program partners with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit tax center for low-income families.
Greg Sawko, the 2013 campaign chairman, said the VITA program doubled the number of assistance centers across the county with the increased volunteers and new partnerships with the city of Sanger, Sanger school district and Vision Ministries in Denton.
The organization, Henderson said, is looking to educate more families on budgeting and provide second-chance checking with BankOn, a new program set to launch Sept. 1.
"We have been working closely with about 70 agencies to launch the first program of its kind in Denton County," he said.
According to Charity Navigator, United Way gives back more than 90 cents from each dollar contributed.
After the campaigns close, the amount raised will be announced in January.
MEGAN GRAY can be reached at 940-566-6885 and via Twitter at @MGrayNews.


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Bentonville, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. revealed in a Tuesday SEC filing that it will most likely incur a loss from bribery probes into its operations in Mexico and other countries.
According to the filing, Wal-Mart said it expects to incur costs beyond the $157 million it spent on the probes in 2013, but didn't elaborate on the amount or the size of the potential loss.
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The allegations of bribery surfaced last April, with claims that Wal-Mart neglected to notify law enforcement that company officials authorized millions of dollars in payments in Mexico to speed up getting building permits and gain other favors. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act forbids American companies from bribing foreign officials. Wal-Mart launched an internal investigation and is cooperating with government officials in the U.S. and Mexico.


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A Study of Zidovudine (AZT) Used Alone or in Combination With Other Anti-HIV Drugs in HIV-Infected Patients With Little or No Previous Treatment
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To compare, in zidovudine (AZT)-naive patients, the safety, tolerance, and efficacy of saquinavir mesylate (Ro 31-8959) alone versus AZT alone versus AZT in combination with Ro 31-8959, zalcitabine (ddC), or both. To compare various disease markers among the different regimens.
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|A Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Phase III, Parallel Study of Zidovudine (AZT) Alone Versus AZT Plus Zalcitabine (Dideoxycytidine; ddC) Versus AZT Plus Saquinavir Mesylate (Ro 31-8959 ; HIV Proteinase Inhibitor) Versus AZT Plus ddC Plus Ro 31-8959 in Previously Untreated or Minimally Pretreated HIV-Infected Patients With CD4 Lymphocyte Counts From 50 to <= 350 Cells/mm3
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- Local skin radiotherapy.
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- HIV infection.
- CD4 count 50 - 350 cells/mm3.
- No prior antiretroviral therapy OR less than 16 weeks of prior AZT.
- No acute serious opportunistic infections requiring immediate treatment.
- No unexplained fever persisting for 14 days within 90 days prior to study entry.
- No significant unexplained diarrhea persisting for 14 days within 30 days prior to study entry.
- No visceral Kaposi's sarcoma or lymphoma currently requiring chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.
- Life expectancy of at least 80 weeks.
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Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms or conditions are excluded:
- Malabsorption.
- Severe chronic diarrhea.
- Inadequate oral intake (unable to eat one or more meals daily because of chronic nausea, emesis, or abdominal/oral-esophageal discomfort).
- Any grade 3 or worse toxicity.
- Inability to comply with study requirements.
Concurrent Medication:
- Other investigational agents.
- Antineoplastic agents.
- Biologic response modifiers (including interferons).
- Foscarnet.
- Anti-HIV drugs other than the study drugs.
Concurrent Treatment:
- Radiotherapy (other than local skin radiotherapy).
Patients with the following prior condition are excluded:
History of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Prior Medication:
- Acute therapy for opportunistic infection within 14 days prior to study entry.
- Prior HIV proteinase inhibitor.
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Collier CA, Coombs RW, Schoenfeld DA, Bassett R, Hooper C, Timphone J, Baruch A, Corey L. A comparative study of saquinavir (SAQ), and zidovudine (ZDV) vs. ZDV and zalcitabine (ddC) vs. SAQ, ZDV, and ddC. Program Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1994 Oct 4-7:60
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Anti-Infective Agents
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Protease Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
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Modus.Ponens wrote:During routine tasks, such as walking to work, cleaning the house, washing dishes, taking a bath, etc. be continuously mindful of the activity you're doing. I focus on the movement of the body or the sensations resulting from it. This is easy to do because in your mind it won't be taking time away from anything. But this simple application of mindfulness will have the effect of reducing the hindrances, including lazyness. The other positive effect is that you'll become more aware of the hindrances and you'll get to their origins. In case of people, such as me, that have suffered depression, the hindrance of lazyness is stronger and has psychological causes. The good news is that they can be fixed.
Try to do this and take note of how much of what you (don't) do is influenced by this hindrance in particular. Then apply equanimity and you'll be on your way.
Ben wrote:Greetings weakfocus
Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.
I have been a student of SN Goenka since 1985. I have vivid memories of attempting to do the practice during a ten-day course for the first time then practicing at home - it is hard. It is also hard to get established with a regular meditation schedule and it took me some time.
If you haven't attended a ten-day course in six years it might be worthwhile thinking about attending another - if you have the time and volition. In the meantime, I am happy to discuss any issues you have.
kind regards,
mal4mac wrote:Why not make "interrupting" thoughts, and consequent frustration, part of the meditation?
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I couldn't find this B&B in the catalogue, sadly, so I thought I would place it here!
I stayed at the Coach House B&B in York, for 3 nights.
The building itself dates from the 16th century, and you can certainly feel the history! The rooms are full of original beams, and the reception area even has original wrought iron gates (gates, inside. Sounds weird, looks amazing).
There are only 14 rooms in this B&B, which means it's a really cosy, friendly experience, not like staying in a faceless, large hotel. We arrived pretty early, check in is usually from around 2pm, but when we arrived at 11am, our room was ready. If you do arrive before your room is ready though, the staff are so friendly, and will happily look after your luggage while you explore.
We were shown up to the very top, (no lift, be warned) to our room. It turned out to actually be a suite, (Room 14, if you're interested). We opened the door onto a private corridor, separate toilet and bathroom, and twin bedroom. The bedroom was beautiful, the decor is slightly chintzy, but it really fitted in with the style of the building. And, I have never had such a good night's sleep in my life.
The B&B is situated on Marygate, which is just outside the city walls, about a 5 minute walk from the Minster. So it's a perfect base for exploring the city. Despite being a bed and breakfast, they do serve lunch and dinner, at an extra cost. This cost was very reasonable, and the food looked and smelled beautiful, so although I didn't try it, I would be willing to bet it was lovely.
The breakfast is served between 8 and 10am, and is very comprehensive. There is a buffet style full english breakfast available, as well as a great selection of cereals, fruit and yoghurts. There are also 3 fruit juices, and tea or coffee. Toast is brought to the table, in a basket with jams, marmalades and butter. You are also given both white and wholemeal toast, which is a nice touch.
The cooked breakfast is amazing, without a doubt the best I have tried. The buffet area is small, due to the size of the B&B, but althogh all the rooms were taken while we stayed, we experienced no problems in serving ourselves. The food was all cooked perfectly, and tasted amazing. We were also given the option between regular and smoked bacon, which I thought was another nice touch.
My favourite thing about this B&B, is that at 4.30pm on the dot, every day, it's cake time. Complimentary tea, coffee and cake are served to guests every afternoon. The cake was different each day, and tasted home made.
All in all, this is a really nice treat, a really friendly, family run experience. The tariff isn't bad either, we stayed in what is technically the season, so ours was a little higher. It is much cheaper if you stay in march or april, say. Full tariff details can be found on their website, www.coachhousehotel-york.com.
Check out the website, if you are off to York, I would definately recommend staying there.
What a wonderfull time we had in York. warrens was the perfect venue for a perfect holiday. We had a perfect stay after the dingy hotels of London. Warrens was a beautifull place, on the outside it is quite plain, once inside there is an Oak panelled lounge and spacious bedrooms. There are antiques everywhere, one of the chairs in our room was victorian!! Hot showers, clean rooms and a great full English breakfast served in a lovely conservatory with Wysteria growing on the outside. They try to cater for everyone with their food, they even serve something called Vegemite for the Australians...Yuk!!! There is a Web station to send and receive emails and surf the net, tea and coffe in the conservatory and it is all free. After my travels around Europe, mainly the Uk, I have never been made to feel so welcome. There is free parking in their own car park, some places charge £15 just to leave a car, most you have to leave it on the side of the road. My family are saving up to come back to the UK again next year and the best place to visit is York, and the only place to stay is Warrens.


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Author Bruce Schneier's premise is a simple one: Good encryption should be available to all. Just as people have the right to hide their letters in whatever kind of vault they wish, he reasons, so too should they have the right to protect their digital information with the most impenetrable cryptography. The federal government certainly isn't going to provide citizens with strong encryption tools (the Clipper chip fracas proves that), so Schneier felt a duty to provide a single sourcebook of useful algorithms for people who wish to keep their private business private.
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The Mysteries of Burgundy
Posted April 1, 1995
From Chablis to the Côte d'Or to Beaujolais, Finding the Best Wines of this Fabled Region is Always a Challenge
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Auxey-Duresses is a little town wedged in a narrow cleft high on the slope of Burgundy's famed Côte d'Or. As in all the hamlets along the Côte d'Or's 32-mile length, nearly everyone in Auxey-Duresses is a winegrower. In fact, many villagers are related. Burgundian villages often have one or two family names that have become prominent over the generations. In Volnay, for example, it's Clerget. In Auxey-Duresses, the preeminent name is Prunier.
Burgundy insiders point to Jean-Pierre and Pascal Prunier, father and son respectively, as producers of unusually good wines--unfortunately not yet exported to the United States. This particular branch of the family tree is not the most famous of Auxey's various Pruniers. Jean-Pierre's brother, Michel, whom I had already visited, claims that honor.
In Burgundy, when you find the grower's house, you also find his winery. Most Burgundy winegrowers literally make their wines in the basements--in good-sized cellars. And finding the Pruniers was not a problem. All I had to do was go to their home, which is smack in the center of the village. But as I approached the door, I read a chalked message on a slate: "Je suis sur la route de Saint-Romain. Camion rouge." ("I'm on the road to Saint-Romain. The red truck.") So I was on the trail of the Pruniers. Their little red truck was parked alongside a vineyard. Father and son were laboring on their vines up the slope. I walked into the vineyard, introduced myself and made arrangements to meet to taste later in the day.
Once inside their Hobbitlike cellar, I was presented with a typically bewildering array of wines, all of them mis en bouteille au domaine--estate-bottled. There was red Auxey-Duresses (Pinot Noir) and white Auxey-Duresses (Chardonnay). There also were premiers crus, or first-growth red Auxey-Duresses, a vineyard ranking that's a major step up in quality. And there were yet other wines from neighboring villages where father and son own tiny vineyard plots.
Father and son have separate labels, even though Pascal, the son, makes all the wines. The wines under both labels taste nearly identical--until I arrive at two bottles of red, both labeled Auxey-Duresses "Les Duresses" Premier Cru. One sports Pascal's label, the other has Jean-Pierre's.
One of Auxey's eight premiers crus vineyards, Les Duresses is so highly thought of by the locals that in 1924 the former Auxey-le-Grand renamed itself after the wine. Villages up and down the Côte d'Or renamed themselves--common practice in Burgundy in the 1800s--to bask in the reflected glory of their most famous vineyards. It began in 1847 when by royal decree of Louis-Philippe the unadorned Gevrey-en-Montagne became bejeweled: Gevrey-Chambertin. After that came Aloxe-Corton (1862), Vosne-Romanée (1866), Chambolle-Musigny (1878), Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet (both in 1879) and Nuits-St.-Georges (1892).
Anyway, the premiers crus of Jean-Pierre and Pascal should have been the same; both came from the Les Duresses vineyard, were made by the same winemaker and were the same vintage. Yet when tasted side by side, Pascal's wine was undeniably better. Now you're really in Burgundy, I thought.
Excuse me, but didn't you tell me that Pascal made all the wine? Oui, monsieur. And that he makes the wines for both labels? Oui, monsieur. In exactly the same way? Oui, monsieur. And that everything was made in this cellar? Oui, monsieur. Forgive me, but I have to tell you that I think that this Domaine Pascal version of Les Duresses is superior to the Domaine Jean-Pierre. How do you account for the difference?
It turns out the answer is that Pascal's parcel in Les Duresses is 2.5 acres planted with 40-year-old vines. His father's Les Duresses parcel is 1.2 acres planted to 21-year-old vines. Both wines are made by Pascal, but kept separate.
I understood why Burgundy is so difficult to grasp. It's not the wines themselves. If anything, they are seductive beyond even a schoolboy's fantasy. A really fine Burgundy can convert--or at least convince--even the most determined teetotaler.
But Burgundy's maddening complexity can drive you to...Bordeaux. The wine cosmos in Bordeaux is idiotically simple: you've got the famous 1855 classification that ranked 58 of the greatest estates. Today the number is 61. It's the fine-wine version of paint-by-number. Burgundy, in comparison, is an insider's game. Like winning at the slots, everything must line up: vineyard, vintage and producer. Miss just one and you've missed it all. But when you win, you never forget the sensation. And that sensation can be summed up in one word: somewhereness.
What makes Burgundy unique in the world, what has kept wine lovers returning to it for nearly 1,000 years, is this thrilling sensation of somewhereness. In Burgundy, the earth itself speaks. The grapevine is vehicle rather than voice. It's also why it is absurd to describe red Burgundy as simply 100 percent Pinot Noir (which it is) or white Burgundy as 100 percent Chardonnay (ditto).
It also explains why Burgundy has hundreds of named vineyards; some are as small as an acre. Over the centuries, the Burgundians--taught by the Benedictine and Cistercian monks--learned to listen to the land. Each plot, with its unique combination of soil, sunlight, exposure, slope, air, water drainage and who knows what else, delivers a different message.
Pinot Noir and Chardonnay were the grape varieties chosen not because of their "varietalness"--to use American wine-marketing jargon--but for their exquisite sensitivity in conveying the nuances of place. The resulting wines give the drinker a feeling of tasting something that goes beyond the grape or the technique of the winemaker: somewhereness. As always, the French have a word for it: terroir.
But not all terroirs are equal. Some wines offer a strong sensation of the effect; others are comparatively mute. All of which explains the underlying organization of Burgundy's vineyards. Every piece of its vinicultural land is qualitatively ranked. The least "vocal" sites (which are the most common) are allowed to be labeled no more than mere Bourgogne (Burgundy), red or white. Vineyards that have something more to say are allowed a village designation, such as Volnay, Gevrey-Chambertin or Pommard. Some villages, of course, are better than others.
Finally, sites that can impart the strongest sensations of somewhereness are raised to the rank of either premier cru or, rarest of all, grand cru. Only 31 vineyards in the Côte d'Or--the source of Burgundy's greatest wines--plus an additional seven vineyards in the Chablis district, are ennobled as grands crus.
Rank has its (label) privileges. In the same way that the herald simply announces the arrival of "the king," only a grand cru, such as Chambertin, can use its vineyard name without any further information about place. Premiers crus, as lesser aristocrats--like, say, the Earl of Northumberland--require an additional fillip of identification: Gevrey-Chambertin "Clos St.-Jacques Premier Cru."
But place isn't everything. After all, somebody has to make the wine, and he or she may not be as good as one might like. Then, there's the matter of vintage, which is the wine's way of recording the quality of the weather during the entire growing season. Ironically, vintage is the least important of the three factors in creating fine Burgundy today: producer and vineyard are more important. Modern wine-making technology has performed wonders in salvaging once hopeless years. Still, there's nothing like a great vintage to vault a wine--and its drinker--into a state akin to bliss.
So how does one make sense of Burgundy? How do you make a frustrating, complicated system work for you? It can be done. It takes a bit of insider knowledge, a certain amount of interest and application on your part and, of course, some money.
The amount of money can vary. Burgundy has earned the reputation of being expensive. It can be. But much depends upon the designation of the wine. For example, a simple red or white Bourgogne typically costs between $8 and $15. But if you buy a Bourgogne from one of the great producers , the odds are you'll be getting a deal. Great producers make great Bourgognes--often from young vines planted in top vineyard sites.
More expensive, but still within the realm of reason, are the premiers crus. Premiers crus from some villages (Vosne-Romanée, Gevrey-Chambertin) cost more than those from other villages (Auxey-Duresses, Santenay). But generally, a good premier cru will cost between $20 and $40 a bottle. Most Burgundy fanciers stick with premiers crus, partly for economy's sake, but also because they know that the more you learn the intricacies of Burgundy, the more you discover premiers crus that--in the hands of the right producer--are just a fraction less impressive than grands crus--at half the cost.
Only when you reach the grands crus do you start to get the financial bends. All grands crus are expensive. Prices start at $65 and can skyrocket to as much as $500. Are they worth such money? They can be. But after, say, $200, you're paying for rarity, status and bragging rights. Still, a really good grand cru (remember, producers count here as much as for lesser wines) is a wine that can live in your memory forever--and be worth the money.
But money is only the beginning. You must decipher exactly what Burgundy is. It is a far-flung region in eastern France that encompasses five subregions. The northernmost subregion is Chablis, which exclusively grows Chardonnay. Technically, Chablis is a white Burgundy. Usually, though, it stands by itself, in part because of the fame of its (much abused) name.
Considerably south of Chablis is the Côte d'Or, the slope of gold. For all practical purposes, when people say Burgundy, they're really talking about the Côte d'Or. It is divided into two equal-length sections: the Côte de Nuits in the northern half and the Côte de Beaune in the southern half. Both have numerous communes or villages, each of which, in turn, is parceled into hundreds of named vineyards. Pinot Noir overwhelmingly dominates in the Côte de Nuits. The Côte de Beaune produces nearly all of the white wines; it also issues some of the finest reds.
Behind the Côte d'Or lie what are known as the hautes côtes. These lesser vineyards have their own designations, Haute Côtes de Nuits and Hautes Côtes de Beaune. Their suggestive names aside, they are not part of the Côte d'Or and make pleasant but undistinguished wines.
Directly south of the Côte d'Or lies the Côte Chalonnaise, which is divided into five villages: Bouzeron, Rully, Mercurey, Givry and Montagny. Both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are grown here, sometimes to an impressively fine standard, although never to match the better Côte d'Or properties. Still, the quality can be good, and values abound.
Then comes the Maconnais subregion, which is all about Chardonnay (and a little Pinot Noir and Gamay) grown by a variety of winegrowers' cooperatives. Maconnais wines, pleasant if boring, are meant for short-term drinking and are invariably good deals. The one great exception to this rule of niceness is the village called Pouilly-Fuissé. It is more famous in the United States than anywhere else and consequently fetches a much higher price than any other Maconnais wine. Rarely does it deserve its premium. It is capable of being very fine, although it almost never is.
Finally comes the Beaujolais subregion. Technically it, too, is part of greater Burgundy. In reality, Beaujolais is its own world. The grape here is Gamay, which bears only a superficial similarity to Pinot Noir. Beaujolais is famous today for the ultrayoung wine called Beaujolais Nouveau, released with much fanfare every year on the third Thursday in November. Beaujolais has its own grands crus (10 in number), and these wines are truly the best of Beaujolais.
The most important issue in Burgundy today comes down to one word: yield. If the greatness of Burgundy lies in its unrivaled ability to impart a sensation of somewhereness, then the object of the winegrower is to amplify the voice of the land. In the vineyard, that means fewer clusters per vine rather than more--a low yield. In simple terms, there's only so much flavor and character each vine can draw from its spot. If this is spread among too many clusters, the resulting wine tastes diluted. Terroir is then faint, if not lost altogether.
The problem, as always, is economics. The world clamors for any Burgundy with a famous name. The French government trots out all sorts of regulations trying to demonstrate how it is limiting yields. In fact, yields have legally reached absurd levels that result in painfully thin, bland wines that sell for high prices. Producers have no market incentive to lower the yields yet--and no governmental constraints to do so either.
This is why the producer is so critical. The best ones conscientiously keep their yields low, even though they don't always fetch a commensurate price for doing so. A few get a higher price thanks to buyers from abroad (especially Americans), but most keep their yields low out of integrity and personal honor. Regrettably, not all of these honorable growers are also first-rate winemakers. The trick is finding the ones who are both.
There's another factor to consider in the Burgundy equation: the shippers. Although the ownership of Burgundy's vineyards is divided among thousands of growers, the majority of all Burgundy wines are still sold through négociants or shippers. Prior to the Second World War, virtually all of Burgundy's wines were sold by shippers. The growers sold their months-old wines to the shippers, who aged the wines and bottled them under their own labels. The rise of estate-bottling--in which the grower makes and bottles his wine and sells it under his own label--effectively began in the 1950s and really took hold only in the '70s and '80s. It humbled to a degree the previously all-powerful shippers.
But the balkanization of Burgundy's vineyard ownerships means that shippers will always be needed, if only to consolidate small batches of wines into one commercially salable lot. The division of Burgundy's in-dividual vineyards is almost incomprehensibly fragmented. For example, the 14.5-acre Les Charmots vineyard in Pommard has 58 owners. Its largest single owner is clutching just 1.2 acres, which is too small a plot for all but the most zealous producer to estate bottle. Still, the power rests with those who own the vines; buyers must come directly to them to buy their estate-bottled wines.
Generally, it is true that the best Burgundies today are estate bottled, but it is also increasingly true that a few of the most ambitious shippers are issuing comparable fine wines. They do that either by buying vineyards when they can or, more often, paying growers a price they can't refuse for their grapes or young wines. Sometimes growers have more wine than they can sell easily. Or they need money quickly. Or a family doesn't have a new generation interested in working the vines, so it enters into a long-term contract with a shipper to tend the vines and sell the wine.
In a world that fervently pursues convenience and easy understanding, Burgundy is an anachronism. Nobody today would fashion a wine area with hundreds of named vineyards tilled by thousands of growers. It doesn't make marketing sense. But Burgundy achieves something that is literally irreproducible. Its wines, red and white, retain such a distinction of place that even Burgundians themselves can't fully explain how one neighbor manages to reap grand cru on a slice of land contiguous to property that overachieves at premier cru.
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Scott Fujita is contemplating retirement from the Cleveland Browns because of a neck injury.
Fujita said Friday he is not ready to announce that his career is over and wants time to discuss the decision with family. He said he is more sad than angry at not being able to play.
The 33-year-old linebacker, one of four players suspended by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for his role in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, last played Oct. 7 against the New York Giants.
Fujita had neck surgery in college and said he was grateful to play another 13 years "relatively pain free."
He will serve as honorary captain Sunday when the Browns play host to the San Diego Chargers.


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The Philadelphia Flyers have some company on Throwback Tuesday.
Michael Ryder is headed back to the Montreal Canadiens as part of a winger swap with the Dallas Stars for Erik Cole. TSN.ca's Bob McKenzie first reported the deal, which also includes a third-round pick for Montreal, according to Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News.
For the Canadiens, the deal is more about cap flexibility than anything else. Cole, 34, is in the second year of a four-year deal that carries a $4.5 million cap hit and was negotiated by former GM Pierre Gauthier, not Marc Bergevin. After a 35-goal, 26-assist season, Cole has six total points in 2013. He'll fit in well with the Stars, who already employ Jaromir Jagr, 41, and Ray Whitney, 40.
Ryder, 32, also had 35 goals last season, but is a free agent this summer. He started his career with Montreal in 2003 with a 25-goal season, then scored 30 in two of the following three. After a 14-goal 2007-08, he signed with the Boston Bruins, where he won a Stanley Cup in 2011.
Cap considerations aside, the Canadiens, despite their Eastern Conference-leading 27 points, could use another top-six forward. Ryder, with six goals and eight assists in 19 games, still fits that bill. Plus, that whole "favorable contract" and "extra draft pick" thing. So mark this one down as a big win for Montreal.


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BTW, I won't be able to do a postgame thread Tuesday as I will be at the game in Charlotte so someone else is gonna have to do it.
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Losses happen, bad officiating happen, frustration happens.
No big deal - we'll just take the next game by storm! GO PACERS!
follow me @TruenoPanda - lets talk Pacers!
Well that was unpleasant. How many 16-2 runs did they go on, 8 or 9!?!
Here's to hoping Lance can play next game.
Injuries, foul trouble, being tired from playing back to back games, and playing a pretty good team on the road was too much to overcome.
Overall and during the whole game the Pacers defense was not up to par. Offense kept them in the game through 3 quarters, but the defense never turned it up
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With the amount of good to very good point guards there are in this league, I'm still struggling to find a reason as to why we gave Hill the amount we did. 6'3" combo guards are a dime a dozen, and in no way is Hill elite at his position.
You do have the give the Nets credit: they played an amazing fourth quarter. Deron broke Hill down on every pick and roll. Their bigs attacked the glass, and Lopez hit shots that Roy couldn't and West wasn't getting open for. They adjusted, we got frustrated, and they killed us. Tough loss to take at the moment, but a reasonable one with perspective. Hope Lance isn't too banged up.
I didn't know that the sound system at the Nets games just played Jay-Z songs all game. I'd play "Change Clothes" in the opponents' locker room on a loop if I'm in charge of that sort of thing.
Oh well. I didn't expect us to win this game anyway. The Nets are a good team without Avery and they are on a roll. I would expect a win if the game was at home but since it was a road game I didn't.
Simply put, it's not easy to beat playoff teams without your best player on the road.
We still need Danny. Games like those are the proof that we do, in case anyone doubted it.
Anyway, I'm proud about the effort of our guys. They played a great game for 3 quarters. A combination of running out of fumes and thus not being able to hit shots and having foul trouble and thus not being able to play proper D costed us the game. Their crowd was a big part of it, too.
Let's take care of business in Charlotte and hope for a win in Orlando. We need to regather.
Also, let's hope that Lance will be able to play. We need him.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Anyway, I didn't watch the game, what happened to Lance? Brooklyn's been playing well so there's no shame in losing to them.
We lost, but I'll tell you what, I ain't afraid of no Nets come playoff time.
Point is you can find options at the point guard position just as good as Hill for half the cost. That money would have or could have been better spent or saved elsewhere. Bigs are at a premium, combo guards are not.
Just got out the game, even Nets fans were talking about how lucky they were getting with calls.
It's true that you have give the Nets credit. They executed perfectly. Their crowd helped a lot.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
This was terrible officiating in my opinion. 31-12 FTA. Thats the game right there. PG couldn't even get a call. They gave the Nets a ton of ticky tack foul calls. Hard to win a game when the officials call a game like this. Our own misses in the 4th made it impossible.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Vogel not letting the media bait him into ripping the refs. Though you can clearly see he wants to.
All I know is that if Hibbert went 5 - 14 and had his shot blocked 4 times, this board would have one or two things to say, instead he goes 3 - 5 and blocks 6 shots and he's bested by the former?? guess I missed the colour there
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!
We just can't let other teams grab 16 O-rebounds.
Only 5 games separate 1st from 8th place in East.
These next two games are big since we are the favorites and we just can't afford to lose those.
Here's hoping we have everyone (besides Danny) at 100% by Tuesday.
Seemingly half the team has the flu, back end of a b2b and it still takes almost perfect quarter and craptastic reffing for Brooklyn to beat us. Can't blame the team for the loss.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Let's hear ONE of them.
So McGuire's 10 days are up Tuesday, think he gets another one? That was a pretty ugly 7 minutes the other night.


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Although perhaps best known for shoehorning a small-block Ford into a British roadster to create the Cobra, Carroll Shelby's first foray into the world of automotive multiculturalism involved an even more unusual conjoining. Perhaps it stemmed from a desire to rise above his roots as an erstwhile chicken rancher, but he always had a thing for those European road-course race cars. Especially when he could beat them at their own game--which he did with remarkable facility, while irreverently dressed like a cowpoke in a pair of bib overalls, with a nitroglycerin pill tucked under his tongue to stave off a heart attack.
Before there were ever Shelby Cobras beating Ferraris and winning the World Manufacturers Championship, this temperamental Texan stomped the poultry manure off his cowboy boots and built another car to take on the Europeans. On the surface, it was an exotic "sport car" (Shelby's term, which he preferred over "sports car"). Underneath that sensuous Italian skin, however, beat the heart of America's sports car. Called the Scaglietti Corvette (the "g" is silent, if you no speakaduh language), only three were ever built, making it rarer--albeit less successful--than the Grand Sport Corvette. How this exotic bird took flight yet was later shot down from two different directions serves a telling reflection of the times.
The project started out with two fellow Texans, Jim Hall and Gary Laughlin, who both owned Chevy dealerships. Shelby and his cohorts leaned on their connections with the GM brass to acquire a trio of '59 Corvettes--but without the fiberglass bodywork. These were sent to the car's namesake coachbuilder, Carrozzeria Scaglietti, in Modena, Italy. Over the next two years, they were fitted with a custom-tailored Italian suit, as form-fitting and stylish as an Armani, but made of aluminum. The shape was inspired by the Ferrari Tour de France, since Scaglietti was already a coachbuilder for Ferrari, having fashioned the GTO and the pontoon-fendered Testa Rossa. That connection would ultimately contribute to the car's downfall, however.
The result was an extraordinarily striking exotic, one that wowed the likes of GM Vice President Harley Earl, Chevy General Manager Ed Cole, and Corvette godfather Zora Arkus-Duntov. Yet their superiors were not so enamored, largely because of a corporate dictum prohibiting racing sponsorship. And Enzo Ferrari reportedly pressured Scaglietti to abandon the project as well. (No surprise, then, that a few years later, Shelby would utter that memorable line after losing to Ferrari in the '64 racing season, "Next year, Ferrari's ass is mine!")
Shelby bitterly recalls how the axe fell: "I was living in Italy at the time, and the cars at Scaglietti were just about done. Ed Cole woke me up with a phone call at two in the morning, and told me to forget the whole thing. He got his ass chewed out by GM management and was told to drop the project."
More's the pity, as the stillborn design would have looked utterly at home on the road courses of Europe and the swanky boulevards and country clubs of America. Undeterred, Shelby eventually got even by partnering up with Ford to produce the winning and legendary Cobra. Yet he probably still longed for that lovely Italian coachwork, often griping about the uneven, misaligned aluminum Cobra bodies from AC Cars, stating that, "They looked like they were made by a bunch of winos under a bridge with old beer cans."
The sports-car world's loss is the collector's gain, as these three ultra-rare Scaglietti Corvettes are highly valued by automotive aficionados as the exotics that could've been. No surprise that Hall's car--after stopping wine-sipping spectators in their tracks at such tony concours events as Pebble Beach, Santa Barbara, and Newport Beach--sold at auction in 1990 for nearly a half-million bucks. This sum was a world record at the time for a Corvette crossing the block (even though it didn't even remotely look like one).
Laughlin's went to a large collection in Japan. The third one, shown here and referred to as the "Shelby Car," is generally considered the most attractive of the three, in part because it didn't have the Corvette's chrome "teeth" in the grille that Laughlin insisted on for the first car in order to pander to GM management. Since Shelby was a race-car driver and not a well-heeled car dealer, he bailed on the purchase. ("I was so tight, I could squeeze the s**t out of a Buffalo nickel," he once admitted to me, when I was in his employ for pauper's wages in the hopes of fame and fortune.) It passed through the hands of several wealthy owners before ending up at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Since founder Bob Petersen and Carroll Shelby were longtime friends, the site is a fitting place of honor for the car, and the location of our shoot.
As mentioned at the outset, underneath that glorious shape are sturdy C1 Corvette mechanicals. After all, during the late '50s the Chevy V-8ûpowered Scarabs were thrashing Monzas and the newest Ferraris on the racing circuits. No high-strung, 12-cylinder tuning nightmare here. Right from the get-go, the Chevy V-8 was cheap and easy to build, with a thin-wall iron block, interchangeable (left to right) iron heads, and an intake manifold that acted as a valley cover, with stamped rocker arms on pressed-in ball studs. And the water pump did double-duty as a front motor mount.
Seeing its obvious advantages, race teams replaced the Jaguar's twin-cam six in Listers and the D-Jag with the new SBC. And in Ferraris and Maseratis, it stepped in for fours, sixes, eights, and even twelves. It was also Shelby's first choice for the Cobra, but when the Bow Tie wasn't available, he settled for the Blue Oval instead.
Rather than being fitted with finicky Weber or Dellorto carbs, the 283ci Chevy V-8 was topped by a prized (if occasionally problematic) Rochester fuel-injection system, and pumped out 315 horses. Its exhaust has that ample American note--loud and proud--as you blip the throttle through a four-speed Borg-Warner T-10, its gears stirred by a Hurst shifter. It's interesting to note that the second and third cars initially had a pair of four-barrel carbs, but were later fitted with fuel injection, and their stock Powerglide automatic transmissions replaced with the four-speed setup.
For safety's sake, the factory fuel tank was replaced with a comp-grade fuel cell. The rest of the chassis used a stock setup, drum brakes, and a live-axle rearend. While not sophisticated by today's standards, the aluminum body shaved off 400 pounds, requiring some spring adjustments but giving the Scaglietti a significant power-to-weight advantage. Also, the mechanical fuel injection was a newer, more refined 1961 version--all pretty heady stuff back in the day.
As was that curvaceous custom body. Franco Scaglietti was known for doing short production runs of hand-fabricated bodies, rather than the volume production of better-known coachbuilders such as Bertone, Pininfarina, and Zagato. His shop employed the old-school technique of hammers and dollies, shaping and sculpting the bodies purely by eye and touch. Italian artisans painstakingly pounded out the panels by hand from flat sheets, using wooden mallets and sandbags or wooden forms as molding surfaces. This shop never knew the aroma of styrene from fiberglass resin.
While certain design elements such as the side louvers echo ones seen on Ferrari's Tour de France sports racer, not all of the form was fashioned for aesthetic reasons. The fastback shape and recessed rear panel have a functional aspect, directing airflow with a minimum of turbulence--somewhat similar in concept to the inset Kammback tail of the '64 Cobra Daytona Coupe.
Laughlin, Hall, and Shelby had to decide just what form the Corvette-based car would take inside. All three were tall Texans, standing six-feet-plus, and for them the factory Vette was cramped and uncomfortable, with a large steering wheel placed too close to the driver, non-supportive seats, and a bulky center console. Their approach was a mÚlange of the Ferrari GTs' virtues and the practicality of Corvette.
As a result, the interior was a spaghetti western of sorts, combining familiar American components such as Stewart Warner gauges; a T-handle parking brake; and a Corvette shift knob with classically Italian touches such as a crackle-finish dash; a Nardi wooden steering wheel; bolstered, camel-colored leather seats; and high-zoot door hardware. Exterior touches also manifest a distinctively Euro flair, including a pair of Ansa exhaust outlets and Borrani cross-laced wire wheels. Fittingly, the car's logo combines Scaglietti's rectangular logo and the Corvette crossed-flags, literally emblematic of the car's brief yet romantic Italian-American pairing.


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The Fire scored their first goal of the season, but it wasn't nearly enough as Jose Luis Sanchez Sola's side continued its good form.
The game was scoreless until the 57th minute, when Edgar Mejia struck a rocket from 25 yards out after the Fire failed to properly clear a cross from the left flank.
The Fire found their first goal of the match -- and the season -- just a few minutes later when Sherjill MacDonald slipped Patrick Nyarko behind the defense and the Ghanaian slotted home.
The Chivas onslaught came in the final 20 minutes. First, off a free kick, Joaquin Velazquez floated a header over Fire keeper Paolo Tornaghi, who was caught in no man's land.
The points were sealed minutes later when Juan Agudelo shrugged off a Jeff Larentowicz challenge in the box, before curling a classy right-footed effort into the corner.
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Located near the slopes, this Vail hotel is next to a golf course, within a 10-minute walk of Vail Valley Medical Center and Vail Ski Resort, and close to winter sports such as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Betty Ford Alpine Gardens and Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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Sonnenalp guests can head out to the slopes, sip drinks at the bar/lounge, and enjoy an indoor pool and a full-service spa.
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All 128 rooms boast deep soaking tubs and offer DVD players and TVs. Other amenities available to guests include minibars, room service, and premium bedding.
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After a day on the slopes, indulge in a treatment at the full-service spa or soothe your muscles in the spa tub. When the sun goes down, sip après-ski drinks in the hotel's bar.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This luxury hotel also offers ski storage, an indoor pool, and an outdoor pool. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
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- DVD player
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Sonnenalp has 3 restaurants on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
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- Snowmobiling nearby
- Snowshoeing nearby
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- Mountain biking nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
- Manicures and pedicures
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
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Check-in time ends at 4 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
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- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
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- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: USD 38.43 per accommodation, per night
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- Breakfast fee: between USD 21 and USD 34 per person (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 32.00 per night (in/out privileges)
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Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
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- The property is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.