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Holiday Inn Express Preston - South
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Holiday Inn Express Preston - South
Reedfield Place
Walton Summit
Preston PR5 8AA
United Kingdom
Check In: 2:00 PM
Check Out: 11:00 AM
Check-in Age: 18
More Details
- Complimentary Self Parking Available
- Public Entrance
- Guest Rooms
- Elevators
- Public Restrooms
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Public Spaces
Provided by Hotel
Pet Policy
- Pets Allowed
- Service Animals Allowed
- Pet Walking Area On-site
- Pet Deposit per Stay: 10 GBP
- Pet Fee per Night: 10 GBP
- Don't leave your pet behind! We accept well behaved animals for a small fee.
- Smoke-Free Facility
- Number of Floors: 3
- Total Number of Rooms: 103
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 103
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 2
- Connecting Rooms Available
- English
- Polish
- Spanish
Credit Cards
- American Express
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Diners Club
- Carte Blanche
- Discover
- Business Advantage
- Kids ages 19 and under stay for free when sharing their parents' room.*
About Our Hotel
A modern hotel five miles from Preston city centre, with free parking, free Wi-Fi and breakfast included
Holiday Inn Express® Preston - South hotel is located close to junction 29 of the M6 motorway. Bamber Bridge railway station is a little over a mile away, and it's a 40-minute drive to Manchester Airport. Local buses 112 and 125 run between the railway station and the hotel.
It's just over 10 minutes' drive to the Museum of Lancashire, and Blackpool, the lively seaside town with an amusement park and iconic tower, is 20 miles away. Take a leisurely drive up to scenic Lake Windermere, in the Lake District, 80 minutes by car from the hotel. Manchester is a 40-minute drive from the hotel, and Liverpool is 33 miles away.
Visiting Lancashire on business? The hotel is just minutes from Walton Summit Green Business Park, and Capitol Centre Retail and Leisure park is a nine-minute drive away. The hotel's three smart meeting rooms can accommodate up to 70 delegates. With free Wi-Fi and stationery, plus delicious catering options, your meeting is sure to run smoothly.
All guests enjoy free Wi-Fi and parking, plus an inclusive Express Start Breakfast buffet with scrambled eggs, sausages, baked beans and continental options. Enjoy a delicious coffee in the modern, light-filled bar and lounge. Small, well-behaved pets are welcome to stay.
- Black-out Shades
- Crib Available
- In-Room Heating and A/C Controls
- Extra Bedding Available
- Sofa Bed/Sleeper Couch
Bathroom/Personal Care
- Private Bathroom
- Bathroom Amenities Available
- Hair Dryer
- Separate/Walk-in Shower
In-Room Features
- Tea Maker
- Flat-screen TV
- DVD Player
- Work Desk with Lamp
- Desk-level Electrical Outlet
- Cable/Satellite
- Direct-dial Phone
- Electrical Adapters Available
- Windows Open by Guest
Added Value
- Connecting Suites Available
- Oversized Bath Towels
- Complimentary Coffee/Tea Supplies
Breakfast Buffet Included
Continental Breakfast Included
Hotel Restaurants
Relax in our contemporary restaurant overlooking the terrace or enjoy your meal watching Sky TV in the lounge or bar. Our restaurant is conveniently located on the ground floor next to the bar and main reception. Our menu is regualary reviewed and updated by our onsite chef to offer a varied and well balanced menu.
Location: Restaurant
Serves: Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert
Hours of Operation: : 6:30 AM-10:00 PM
Hotel Bars & Lounges
Modern bright contemporary feel with open area to seated Lounge and patio area which provides a relaxing environment to meet, eat and drink. . 2 Large flat screen TV's with Sky Sports available.
Location: Ground floor
Hours of Operation: 6:00 AM - 5:59 AM
Business Services
- 3 Meeting Room(s) Available
- Copier
Internet Access
- Free High-Speed Internet in all Rooms
- Wireless Internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
Housekeeping & Laundry
- Daily Housekeeping
Added Value
- Language Interpretation
- Wake Up Calls
- Storage Space Available
- Ice Machine


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Hindsvik isn't just an Etsy store, but they also have a rad blog where they feature cool projects like their recent go at furniture design. I really like how they re-purposed a beautifully worn piece of wood into a table using these industrial hairpin legs. It looks like the perfect combination of rustic and modern against the back-drop of their crisp white floors.
Reclaimed Wood Plank Table

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Ebel's call for Wilson to pinch-hit helps build big inning
ATLANTA -- Following a leadoff single by Erick Aybar on Saturday, the Angels' acting manager Dino Ebel called on southpaw starter C.J. Wilson to make his 23rd career plate appearance and bunt Aybar over to second base.
"He's a great bunter," Ebel said. "He knows how to bunt. He wanted to bunt, so we gave him that chance."
The experiment had seemingly failed when Wilson bunted the first two offerings from Braves reliever David Hale foul to fall behind 0-2, but the lefty battled back by taking four straight balls to end up on first base. It was his third career base on balls.
"Fouling off two bunts is kind of frustrating," Wilson said. "We've practiced bunting the past couple of weeks. Some of the coaches have pretty sick movement [on their pitches], so I just tried to make sure I got a strike."
Ebel added: "C.J. taking, looking for the strike. Even with two strikes, he was going to bunt and he didn't get the strike, and he took his walk, which is nice."
The walk was part of a five-run inning for the Halos as Wilson crossed home plate for his third career run on a two-run double by Mike Trout. Wilson applauded Ebel's decision to use him in that situation, even with Collin Cowgill and Hank Conger still available to come off the bench.
Most of all, Wilson was happy to achieve some redemption as the four runs he allowed in the first inning of his last start proved costly in the Angels' 4-3 loss to the Braves the previous night.
"You've got to do that if you can because it preserves the bench," Wilson said. "It gives our guys a chance, if it didn't work out, it gives them the chance to pinch-hit later in the game, so whatever I could do to help the team. I lost the game singlehandedly [the] last night, so it was nice to score a run tonight and be part of the effort."
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Axos is a cozy and pleasant apartment hotel, in a beautiful location and with a great variety of services. Highly recommended as an alternative for those who want to explore majestic Rethymno and its surroundings but don't want to be confined within the city. Its name comes from the village 'AXOS' where the family that runs the hotel comes from, works since 1989 and been fully renovated in 2009. It is a 2 storey white and terra cotta colored building. It is built in an L shape that encloses the pool and garden.
There is also a gift/gold shop near the entrance where guests can benefit from an exclusive discount on every purchase. Axos is located in Platanias which is the most well known seaside village for the holidaymakers with restaurants, supermarkets, bars, stores with clothes or souvenirs and with a very good bus and taxi transport.
To its guests it offers free Internet at the public areas (lobby, pool, bar) (Wi-Fi) or they can use the PC provided there for the guest and its target is the friendly atmosphere since it is a Family Run hotel. Last but not least, Axos is very pleased and proud to announce that the National Jury of programs ''GREEN KEY'' decided to reward ''Axos'' hotel, after having evaluated their application for participating in this ecological label for tourist units. So now Axos is officially a ''GREEN KEY'' hotel.
Axos hotel offers 44 Studios and Apartments that recently have been renovated (2009). Modern furnishing, spacious rooms and big balconies suitable decorated in a pleasant atmosphere. All rooms are equipped with central heating, self controlled air-condition, balcony, satellite Flat Screen TV, direct telephone line, radio, cooker with 2 rings, microwave, kitchen kettle, coffee & tea making facilities, refrigerator, toaster, coffee maker, wake up service, hair dryer, bath tabs and very relaxing bed mattresses with ISO certifications for you to enjoy.
In addition, for those who may ask for more Axos offers some Superior rooms with some extra facilities such us, DVD with USB input, safe boxes in laptop size, daily changing linen, bathroom amenities, bathrobes and sleepers.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hotel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Adaptors
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Bicycle hire
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cafeteria
- Child Friendly
- Concierge
- Cots available
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Currency Exchange
- Direct Dial Telephone
- Elevator
- Express check-in / out
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Iron / Ironing Board
- Key Card Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Luggage Storage
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Parking
- Pool Table
- Postal Service
- Reading Light
- Restaurant
- Safe Deposit Box
- Swimming Pool
- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Towels Included
- Wake-up calls
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 3 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
Axos is located in Platanias of Rethymno which there are frequent buses from Heraklion and Chania city.The main bus station of Rethymno is only 7 kilometers away from Axos hotel. From there every 30 minutes there are buses going to Platanias. The bus stop is just 50 meters away from the hotel.
Located Near
Axos hotel is in the center of Platanias and just 200 meters from a sandy beach. The bus stop for the town of Rethymo is just 2 minutes away and the shops and restaurants is just in a very short distance.


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The Religious Studies and Philosophy collections comprise some 250,000 to 300,000 volumes. The reading rooms contain non-circulating reference material and are located in Rooms 314 and 316 of John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library. The subjects covered in the reading rooms are: Biblical Studies, Church History, Early Christian Studies, Medieval and Byzantine studies, Religion and Religious Education, and Theology. Two smaller reading rooms cover Greek and Latin and Canon Law. The collections are oriented to Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic religious materials as well as Greek, Medieval, and Phenomenological philosophies. There are also collections of material on the Orthodox Church, Judaism, Anglicanism, Protestantism, and other religions where needed to support the collection.
At the present time the library provides remote access to a wide range of databases for CUA faculty and students. Your CUA Cardinal card number is required for login. Non-CUA guests must access the databases within the library.
The library also has a list of CD-ROMs pertinent to canonical, philosophical, religious, and theological research.
The library currently subscribes to 961 print journals with hundreds more available through CU's e-Journals. It also has extensive runs of important but now defunct periodicals: the American Ecclesiastical Review , the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, etc.
Please note that Rare Books and Special Collections and the Semitics/ICOR Library also have a great deal of theological and other religious material.
Reserves may be identified and located in the WRLC library catalog by course, by instructor, by author, and by title. Reserves are shelved at Central Reserves behind the Mullen Circulation desk. See Course Reserves for full details.
CUA faculty and students may use Consortium Loan Service and Interlibrary Loan for material not owned by the library. Follow the instructions on each page for prompt service. CUA faculty and students have the option of visiting libraries in the Washington Theological Consortium to borrow material. Before doing so, please acquire a WTC Borrowing form from the circulation desk in Mullen Library.


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Our experience in working with the Multihull Company, with Phil Berman as our broker, was outstanding. Phil and his team could not have been more attentive and helpful. We appreciate the considerable amount of time they spent educating and guiding us through the entire process. If we need brokerage service down the road, we will return to the Multihull Company, without hesitation.
~ Mark and Terri Johnson
As we set about to design and build our yachts, these are the ten design principles that drive our decision making:
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PRODUCE YACHTS THAT OFFER ALL THE CREATURE COMFORTS. Balance designs are meant to sail swiftly but they are also a pleasure to cook on, sleep on, and offer spacious bathrooms, good places to read, and write, and offer the most ergonomically comfortable living spaces. Main living spaces with be bright and airy and offer excellent headroom for tall men and women.
PRODUCE YACHTS THAT ARE SIMPLE TO MAINTAIN. Balance owners must spend as little time as possible fixing and maintaining their catamarans so they are designed and built that way from the beginning.
PRODUCE YACHTS THAT CAN SAIL UPWIND. Balance designs will offer powerful, high-aspect ratio sail plans and a single-dagger board or dual- dagger board option. Balance Catamarans must sail well on all points of sail.
PRODUCE YACHTS THAT DO NOT BANG OR SLAP EXCESSIVELY IN BUMPY SEAS. Balance Catamarans are designed to sail in blue water, not lakes or ponds. As such they will have substantial under-wing clearance to insure they do not persistently slam or pound in lumpy seas.
PROVIDE HELM STATIONS THAT CAN BE FULLY COVERED, CLOSED AND OFFER FOUR-CORNER VISIBILITY. Balance designs will allow for the operation of the yacht from inside the salon, using a remote autopilot, and offer a single- bulkhead helm station where the skipper can be fully protected from the elements when piloting on deck in inclement weather.
BUILD THE GREENEST YACHT POSSIBLE. Balance Catamarans love to sail in light air and are energy efficient in every aspect. The design employs LED lighting, generous sail plans, and the use of the best and lightest materials possible to insure our boats sail more than they motor. Sailboats are Green, motorboats are not.
BUILD YACHTS THAT ARE STRONG AND SAFE. Balance Catamarans will be designed to weather a storm when avoiding one is not possible. Our catamarans will use the finest vinyl ester resins, foam cores, composite bulkheads, and fiberglass construction. They are built light, but they are strong.
For additional details or questions, please contact The Multihull Company, the exclusive dealer for Balance Catamarans worldwide, at +1-215-508-2704 or inquire here.
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Three Class AA playoff teams from last season will participate in the second Cardinal Conference Grid-o-rama in Madison today on Scott's artificial turf field.
The schedule begins at 1:15 p.m. with Poca vs. Sissonville, followed by Herbert Hoover-Tolsia at 3:30, Chapmanville Regional-Wayne at 5:45 and Mingo Central-Scott at 8.
Admission is $7 for students and adults. Gates open at noon.


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gendun wrote:Aloka wrote:Hi gavesako,
I've only just noticed this thread - and I think that the Vajrayana group Aro gTer which the guy who wrote the blog in your first post belongs to, used to be on a cult list .I am an "apprentice" in the Aro lineage. Aro is a lineage within the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
Kind regards,
Just noticed this and thought it worth going off topic to point out that the key words here are " used to be". The Aro were declared a cult by a group within the old E Sangha site.
Their authenticity is now accepted pretty much universally, including by Malcolm ( formerly Namdrol ).
I apologise for the detour.
gendun wrote:Due to the nature of the internet once a person or group has been blacklisted that list tends to get picked up and repeated widely as "received knowledge".
In the case of the Aro a number of senior Tibetan teachers ( this is easily verified ) came forward to endorse the validity of the Aro..whereupon a number of previous opponents ( including " Namdrol " ) made public apologies.
Btw Malcolm ( Namdrol ) no longer identifies himself as a Buddhist.
We are now way off topic.
Does anyone here knows about this and if the above is verifiable?


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It really was one of those things I just thought about on the spot. So I was already viewing Saturn so I tried it and this picture was the first shot I ever took using this method with the iPhone 4 (I was really dumbfounded on how great the picture came out. Meaning from a phone)since this image I've taken more shots but can't come near as close as my first time doing it. Enjoy, cause I did... Thank y'all so much, really, for this really cool "project". I really enjoyed myself and it was just because I was sitting around waiting to view the next satellite and figured hey I wonder if I can take a pic. with my phone. Lord and behold it worked. This made it even more fun. Thanks
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Here's some photos from my live performance (The Horrorist) at the Ground Zero Festival 2012. It took place in Bussloo, The Netherlands. It was a huge event with 5 stages and about 40 DJs and live acts. All the music was hard, hardcore, hardsomething techno. Like most people I can't differentiate between the small music sub-genres but let's just say it was an agressive night of music. Beyond the stages and many thousands of wasted youth there was large carnival rides, pyrotechnics and anything else you can imagine. I made some good new friends such as Mark Eg & Chrissi, Ms. Sprinkles and saw old ones such has Dano Leeflang, Lenny Dee, Delta 9, Dave Cik, Maxime Fight, Tymon, Laurent Ho, Manu Le Malin, Sacha Blank and Rene Schuster. I was on an "early rave" stage but of course I couldn't resist playing a lot of new techno material. If you follow my Twitter or Instagram you will have seen the cool new Thermen Busslo hotel they put us up in. It was certainly a pleasant stay and I got a chance to see a bunch of old naked people at the spa. Time does funny things to a body. To see the full set of photos: click here.
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Joovy Caboose
Strollin': Joovy Caboose Ultralight Stroller
Double strollers can be double the pain as they take up more space and often weigh more than a single option. However, when you've got more than one tot, they are usually a necessary evil.
As I quickly approach my due date, I am eager to find the double stroller of my dreams. The Joovy Caboose Ultralight Stroller ($270) fits the bill so I was hoping this would be my golden carriage.
To see what I thought about the Joovy Caboose,
The most obvious argument for the Caboose is that even though it can seat two children, the width is the same as a single stroller, making it easy to push through doors and stores. I've seen some mothers scramble to hold a door open while struggling to get behind a double-wide before it comes slamming on them. The Joovy Caboose keeps that scenario at bay.
The Caboose is unique in that is comfortably seats one child in the front seat while the older child either sits or stands on the back seat. The design enables the stroller to maintain a light frame — weighing only 21 pounds. A simple latch provides a quick collapse and a simple assembly. Both are appreciated when you have two children running circles around you.
While the front seat is fine for a stroll or quick errand, it affords about as much comfort as an airplane seat. The attachable tray has cup holders that offer as much stability as an airliner would and the seat reclining capabilities are about the same. The reclining issue makes sense though as the second child is seated right behind it and hey, at least it has a removable tray! While on the subject, the second child's seat can move back and forth, making it an option to sit or stand for the ride. If you have a loose cannon, you may adore the seatbelt straps that both seats offer.
The biggest bonus feature for many moms is that the front seat is adaptable to hold at least 14 various infant car seats. While your older child cruises around on the footstool and handles, you can both keep your eyes on the newest family member securely fastened to the front of the Caboose. Now how your older child manages your second child is your own problem. I think tickling feet or tossing water bottles on the freshest babe is to be expected.
While I found the Joovy Caboose to be quite delightful and an ease to manage, there are a few drawbacks. The handle on its own is fine. However, I rely on mine quite a bit to hang my diaper bag, groceries and other items. If your first child is standing or even seated on the back, you will rarely have the opportunity to hang anything from the handles. In an effort to soothe that fear for parents, the stroller comes with a neoprene organizer that holds two drinks and a pouch for cell phones or wallets but it doesn't come close to fitting what I need for a day out on the town. The basket underneath can hold a few items (say one diaper bag) but you'll have to ask the bigger child to remove herself from the seat in order to access it.
Overall, I like the Joovy Caboose. It's practical and easy to use for a mother often on the go. The ball bearing wheels, although plastic, do offer a pretty swift and docile ride, especially for a double stroller. The ability to maneuver in and out of places with the ease of a single stroller cannot be underestimated. However, I do wonder if the double wides may not offer more ease in the overall grand scheme of things.
Children birth and up can use the front seat with an infant car seat. Otherwise, the limit is six-months-old up to 45 pounds for the front seat. To ride on the back seat or stand, children should be 2.5 years old and no more than 45 pounds.
Tell me what you think of the Joovy Caboose Ultralight Stroller!
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Welcome to Weekend Rewind, a glance back at The Tribune's news stories, top photos and opinions you may have missed over the weekend.
Top stories this past weekend
Welcome to Weekend Rewind, a glance back at The Tribune's news stories, top photos and opinions you may have missed over the weekend.
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Shurtleff surrenders soapbox • Gregarious, independent A.G. known for impromptu outbursts is off to work at a law firm; his spotlight-shunning successor will be a sharp contrast.
Gridlock the new normal in Washington • Gridlock has permeated Washington, D.C., for the last several years the most recent example being the showdown over the fiscal cliff and it doesn't appear the polarization will lessen anytime soon.
A child is killed, a child is saved: three years later • Organ donation that saved girl permeates lives of two Utah families during good times and bad.
Utah lawmaker Aaron Osmond calls for more transparency • State Sen. Aaron Osmond wants to end the long-standing practice that lets legislators create a boxcar an empty bill file and keep the contents secret until late in the legislative session.
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From Mitt to the pill, Mormon missions to nuns Utah's top 2012 faith stories • Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman ran for president, the LDS Church lowered the age limits for its missionaries and hundreds of Mormons took to the streets to march in, of all things, a Gay Pride Parade. There were continuing clashes: Catholic bishops battled the White House over contraception coverage and congregants battled one another over ownership of two Salt Lake Valley houses of worship.
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I bought 300 of these discs and I mainly use them for bootable files for my PC and taking them to work. I bought them because they were so cheap, and on offer. The discs themselves are no thinner than any other CD-R and are not too flimsy. They do have some give and can flex a little bit but they aren't stiff. Dropping them from a few feet onto a laminate floor will not break them but can chip the disc. They are not at all scratch resistant either so sliding them along coarse surfaces or flipping them around in your hands with other CDs will scratch them, and these can be quite large scratches.
The top of the CD has a silver plastic film over the top of it and if you start to scrape away at it, eventually it will come off. However one thing I do like about the top layer is that the there is a lot of space to write things, and there are lines provided for you to write notes and title of the disc. The space available and the Tesco label both appear on the top of the disc.
@ Burn Quality & Playback @
I have had a few bad burns before and all of them were caused by buffer under run failure. Basically the poor build quality of the layer on the disc which the laser will burn to, has mistakes and glitches in the lines where the content is burned to, so the discs can't buffer, and burning over these errors will cause problems with audio on audio CDs and further corrupt files on data CDs.
On CDs that do burn correctly though the playback is quite average. Sound quality is not perfect on audio CDs where bass is flat and tinny with no peaks of high hats which sound hollow and not as sharp as they should. The good thing with Data discs though is that the CDs are fast to access and I have never had any problems with transferring files from the disc to a computer. The discs are able to quickly transfer files without any problems or errors,and I have never had a file that was unable to transfer.
Burning to the discs can be up to 52x but I strongly recommend using a much slower burn. For example, 32x. These discs can do 52x speed burns so they are not lying, but the discs do screw up and fail burns at this speed, and they are not built for it.
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These discs are cheap, and you get exactly what you pay for, low quality build, and low quality playback for audio. If you want these as data CDs for your computer then by all means get them because they are fantastic for this purpose but for audio, these are a NoNo. And regardless of what you want them for: burn them much slower than 52x
If you're going to buy any form of computer accessories, I think in the first place you would go for well known computer manufacturers. Myself, I'm not a technological whizzkid and all I wanted when I bought these blank CDs were to burn a few copies with music so that I could keep them in the car and listen to them when and where. Despite not being re-writable, they may seem a waste but to be honest when they're burnt with different music tracks it's value for money.
A few pointers about the pack.
- Comes in packs of 25
- Disc recording speed is 52x
- CD-R media type
- Disc capacity of 700MB
- Standard recording time of 80 minutes
A pack of 25 is available from tescodirect.com for £3.50 and for 25 I consider that a bargain no matter what the quality.
They do what I want them to do, which is to store music for the car and this is definitely ideal. At 71p a disc I can't complain at quality for money. My advice would be if you want a faster processing disc of better quality, capacity and recording time, fork out a little extra for a more reliable brand. I never expected anything good from these but I bought them for a simple purpose and that purpose is fulfilled with ease.
These are very handy for students who have to submit their work with a CD. I recommend this because I have a friend who often uses them as they have to submit electronic work as well as written work at the sametime and these are so cheap they are ideal for this purpose.
I wouldn't recommend these to people who want it for other purposes e.g. storing images or transferring data. They're nice and simple, cheap, and I still have a load of blank ones left! They may not be up to standard with today's demand of higher memory and processing speed but they do what you need them to do.
I bought 2 packs of 100 and so far only some work i have got a second pc exactly the same and some that don't work on my pc work on the other and also these are terrible for booting from if your like me and have to boot from them stay clear. also another instance was roxio 2010 kept failing and hen when it said it was done i put the disk in and it didn't work.So far i would say my success rate is around 20 percent. Tesco really do need to look into the quality of there .I would go and try to get a refund but there 6 months old. I have also tried some Maxtor ones and there work a treat. Looks like im going to have to get some new ones.These are also the worst discs i have ever used in my life and i would like to advise other people not to buy them.
These days there are hundreds if not thousands of different brands of blank media on the market, and it's no surprise that the supermarket giant Tesco has branded some as there own.
Now the quality of blank media is solely dependent on the ink used in the dye on the underside (the colourful bit that reflects). It is clear after using some Tesco one's that no single ink is used but several different ones, so the quality obviously varies with them. Some burns work perfectly fine in stereos, cars and laptops. Others are coasters (failed burns) and hence useless.
All I can say is you have no guarantee of which batch of these discs you are buying and therefore have no clue as to what ink (and hence the quality of it) is being used so avoid them completely. Stick to the only name worth your time in blank media - Verbatim.
It's been a long time since I've actually needed to use a CD-R, as I normally stick to blank DVD disks regardless of whether I'm burning movie files, photos, personal data, or backing up my hard drive.
But my six year old cousin was given a personal CD player for his birthday. Now I know what you're thinking, most likely the same thing I did. Can you still buy those, and why not just get him an mp3?
Needless to say he wanted one and nothing else would do. So I decided that I would put some of his music on to a couple of CD's for him (naturally nobody thought to buy him an actual CD for his birthday.) He is going though the stage of either loosing items or more commonly breaking them. And because I knew that he would more than likely use it as a Frisbee, or play with it in his sandbox, I wanted to buy the cheapest blank CD's I could find. Enter these Tesco branded 52x media.
I had his music (ranging from children's nursery rhymes, to tracks by Hi-5, Milkshake and others) on my computer ready to go. I would need to split the tracks over two disks. So I inserted the first blank Tesco disc. Nothing happened at first. My disk drive just span the it around and around making strange noises before finally spitting it out around half a minutes later. I tried a second time with the same disk and the same thing happened. So I could only conclude at the time that the first disk out the cake box (or spindle) was faulty. So I put it to one side, and inserted another. "Great" I said, as up popped a dialogue box asking me what I wanted to do. "First one was a fluke" I said again, as I began his burning his first disk at 48x (the fastest Nero would let me).
I was about to phone him and tell him the good news that his music was on the way. That was until I stood up and with greeted with a "Burn Process Failed" error message, while the process had only reached thirty percent. Shaking my head I removed the disk and threw it straight into the bin. Next one went in no problems, and I actually sat at my computer watching the percent bar indicator move from one to one hundred. My computer ejected the disk and I was happy to see the "Successful" message" (I even put it back in just to make sure.)
So far my success rate with the disks was one out of three. So I set about burning the second disk. Every thing looked good, until the burn process failed again, this time at nearly seventy percent. And then AGAIN with another, but this time, the burn process failed at a very frustrating ninety odd percent, just as I was convinced that it had worked.
Thankfully as I was about to throw the entire pack in the bin, the next disk I inserted worked fine and completed the burn process.
I think it should be clear by now with my success rate with the disks that they should be avoided. I don't know why I had such a high failure rate with them, as my disk drive has always been more than happy to play or burn to any brand. Maybe someone else would get on better with them. But from my experience, I can only conclude that they are simply poor quality. I just feel annoyed that I spend so much time doing this for my cousin, because of the faulty disks.
Rather than bin them (as the chances are I would never use them again even if I needed to) I decided to ask Duncan (a family friend) if he wanted them (for free). "Sure." He said happily before asking me what brand they were. "Tesco" I told him. Hmm, I don't think I'm allowed to write what his colourful replay was, but needless to say the disks are now in the bin (less stressful that way).
But lessoned learned and in the end my cousin did get his two CD's (and for the moment they seem to work).
Next time I'll pay slightly more and get a better brand (both Sony and Verbatim have been recommended to me.) I suggest you do the same.
I purchased a pack of tesco 50 CD-R 700 MB 52x for my mac mini and had a 90/% success rate. Then I bought another 50 and none worked. I bought a pack of Sony 48 x and so far all have worked and I have used half of them. I know others who will not use tesco discs. As far as I am concerned i won't buy them again. Tesco must look at the quality of the discs they are making or having made for them. I also have a low success rate with their dvd rw. So I am afraid i have to give tesco a big thumbs down and if you are a mac user a definite no. O and i got the sony from tesco buy one get one free so i bought 2 packs for one. When none of the tesco discs worked i thought i new a new cd writer
I still remember the old days when a single CD from Sony or TDK used to cost around £1 and they used to come in individual CD case. But now you can buy loads of them in a towering stack called 'spindle', and they come cheaper than match-sticks !!
I bouth 25 pack CD from Tesco last year. It was nice small spindle package and CDs were nice silver matt finish with Tesco's name written on it. I have bought cheap CDs from the internet websites, but they come in ugly Red / Purple colors.. But this CDs were better lookwise.
As they are cheap and basic, I did not expect anything extra ordinary out of it. I just wanted to burn some audio CD to play in the car audio, and also use it as temporary media to send photos to my parents. I would not use it to backup photos permanently as it is very easy to get scratches on this, making it unreadable.
Only irritating bit was when I created Ubuntu Linux Live CD on this. May be something is not EVEN about this CD, so it spins frantically in my laptop drive, making my laptop vibrate a lot. This doesn't happen with other Sony or good branded CDs.
But as I said, I was happy with its basic functions and I bought the same 25-pack couple of times from Tesco.
What can I write about Tesco CD'rs. Although lot of people actually says that we should stay away from value CD and DVD's I find Tesco CDrs useful and very solid. I have never been dissapointed.
The most important thing is the price. You get 52 700 MB CDs for as far as I remember 9,99 and thats a bargain. Off course you can invest in Verbatim or TDK disc which are more posh and lets say more expensive but if you have a lot of data to burn every day as a storage drive Tesco's CDs are far more better. 52 CD's thats over 35 GB of data.
You can store lots of pictures, photos, music or even a few homemade movies on one CD. There's lot of opinions that we shouldnt actually use them because they can wear our lasers more than expensive CD's. That may be true although I'm using them for more than two years (since I came here) and I've never had any problems with that.
Anyway it's up to you. I advise you to use them as a storage not to play everyday just in case I've been wrong.


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Hey guys this is my first blog so go easy on me! It seems that we are currently at the dawn of a new era for NXT and I personally am very interested in what the era of Regal may bring to the show. Anyway I have my own hopes for the direction the show may go in so I thought I would share them with you guys and see what you think.
As we saw last week William Regal has taken charge of NXT


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Pina Colada's are one of my favorite drinks. They're just so festive. I can't be in a bad mood when I drink a pina colada. Maybe that's because the only time I drink them is when I'm on a vacation, usually on a beach. But that's a minor detail…
I've made multiple versions of pina colada cupcakes in the past. The old recipe that I made first for Hubby's mom's birthday was a bit fussy with the egg whites getting beaten separately then folded in. Then for another one of her birthday's, I made lime and coconut cupcakes. That recipe was much more user-friendly and just as (if not more) delicious than the first one.
So when I was asked to bake cupcakes for the bridal shower of my friend who loves coconut, I instantly thought of those lime and coconut cupcakes from a couple years ago. I decided to use the coconut cake recipe as a base and add some pineapple to make them pina colada cupcakes.
I used festive cupcake liners and topped each with a pineapple chunk and cherry. The toasted coconut on the outside added some great nuttiness and texture to the cupcake overall.
As expected, these were a huge hit. The groom-to-be got to taste a leftover cupcake and then requested I bring him one every week for the rest of his life. Now THAT'S a compliment!
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Pina Colada Cupcakes
Yield: 24
For the Pina Colada Cupcakes
1 batch Coconut Cupcakes, recipe below
1 batch Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting and Filling, recipe below
Toasted coconut, optional
Pineapple chunks, optional
Maraschino cherries, optional
For the Coconut Cupcakes
1 cup unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for pans
3 cups cake flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup cream of coconut
1/4 cup whole milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp coconut extract
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
2 whole eggs
3 egg whites
For the Coconut Frosting and Filling
8 oz cream cheese, not whipped
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 2/3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup chopped, drained, canned pineapple chunks
3 ounces unsweetened or sweetened flaked coconut
For the Pina Colada Cupcakes
Bake the cupcakes as directed and allow to cool completely.
Make frosting/filling while cupcakes are cooling.
Make any optional garnishes while cupcakes are cooling:
Toast coconut in an oven at 350 for a few minutes until they were emitting a nutty aroma.
Let pineapple chunks and cherries sit on a paper towel to release their juice. Stack on a toothpick to use as a garnish.
Use the cone method to remove a portion of the cupcake. Eat those cones as a snack. Or discard them. Fill the hole with the pineapple/coconut filling.
Pipe frosting on top of the cupcake and add a rim of toasted coconut (or sprinkle coconut over all of the frosting). Add garnishes. Colorful drink umbrellas would be great here too.
For the Coconut Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 325° and prepare two muffin pans with cupcake liners.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
Whisk together cream of coconut, milk, and extracts in a bowl or measuring cup.
Beat together butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add whole eggs and egg whites, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, until combined well.
On low speed, beat in flour mixture and cream of coconut mixture alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour mixture, until just combined (do not overbeat).
Pour batter evenly into the prepared muffin pans.
Bake cupcakes until golden and a toothpick comes out clean, 20-25 minutes.
Transfer pans to racks and let cool for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan and allow to cool completely.
For the Coconut Frosting and Filling
Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy.
Beat in butter until smooth.
Slowly beat in confectioners' sugar on low speed until smooth for frosting.
Transfer 2/3 cup of frosting to a bowl and fold in pineapple and coconut for filling.
Recipe adapted from these Lime and Coconut Cupcakes, originally from Ladies' Home Journal
20 Responses to "Pina Colada Cupcakes"
These are so adorable! A friend once made me margarita cupcakes for a birthday, but I love the sound of all the coconut.
I love this cupcakes week!!!!! And even Pina-colada cupcakes…..ciao, Flavia
these look incredible! I am LOVING cupcake week!
These make me crave a warm summer day.
This sounds like a fun, summery cupcake recipe! Love it!
Mmm these look awesome! But where's the rum?
Tell me about it! I'm not excited about the rain/snow we're supposed to get tonight and tomorrow.
Good point! They have the flavors of a pina colada without the alcohol. If you wanted to add some rum, I'd throw it into the filling.
I'd like one of these cupcakes along with a pina colada on the beach!
I've really been into "booze" cupcake lately and yours looks fantastic! Perfect for a luau or a summer pool party!
Those are truly beautiful cupcakes! I love Pina Coladas and I love cupcakes so…
These are so beautiful! Eating one of these would bring me back to Hawaii 🙂
Ooohhh Hawaii sounds awesome right about now. I've never been.
oh my gosh, those look adorable, and i love the flavor combo, too!!
Very nice! May I ask how you set the background for your cupcake pics? The solid colors really bring attention to the cupcakes themselves.
For the majority of my cupcakes, I use a piece 12×12 scrap-booking paper for my backgrounds. I have a big stack of a variety of colors and patterns.
Thank you 🙂 .
I love the garnishes on the top, they looke exactly like little poolside drinks. I have been wanting to try a cocktail-like cake since I went to "cupcake happy hour" at Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square. Have you ever been there? Because if you haven't you must go and try their mojito!
I have been to Kickass before during the Cupcake Crawl I hosted a couple years ago. In fact, we even tasted the mojito cupcake while we were there.
Such creative finishing touches to a perfectly delightful cupcake.


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A dry start to spring has yielded abundant supplies of high-quality, promotable California spinach.
Oxnard, Calif.-based Boskovich Farms Inc. finished its desert spinach deal the week of April 1 and will ship from Oxnard throughout the end of summer, said Don Hobson, vice president of sales.
Hobson reported a smooth transition from the desert to Oxnard.
"We didn't have any rain, so there were no gaps," he said. "Sometimes we'll stay in the desert longer if Oxnard has rain."
That lack of rain also has meant good quality at the beginning of the Oxnard season.
"Everything's perfect," he said. "There was no rain during planting, so the stands look good, and the yields are good. There should be plenty of supplies, and there are no mildew issues."
Ample supplies of high-quality spinach from the Salinas Valley should be a welcome change of pace for retailers, who dealt with trying to move winter spinach at high prices, said Mark McBride, salesman for Salinas-based Coastline Produce.
"Supplies look good — hopefully what we have now looks pretty darn attractive," McBride said. "We anticipate good movement and product. It's been awhile since we had that combination."
The cool, dry spring meant very little concern about decay, soft rot and other issues associated with wet, warm weather, McBride said.
"I think we'll have a good spring with good quality, and hopefully it dovetails" into strong summer demand, he said.
Markets can often tighten during transitions, but because of the smooth transition this year, prices were in the $8-9 range in mid-April, and would likely stay in the $8-10 range for the rest of the month, barring mildew problems, Hobson said.
Salinas supplies also aren't limited by weather, and in mid-April, Salinas, Oxnard and Santa Maria all were shipping at the same time, Hobson said.
On April 16, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $8.35-9.85 for cartons of bunched flat 24s, down from $10.25-11.61 last year at the same time.
Boskovich kicked off its organic spinach harvest April 16, Hobson said. The company expects its organic program to be up 20% this year.
Conventional spinach also is set to rise, by about 15%, he said.
"We picked up some extra business."
A higher percentage of the spinach Boskovich harvests this year will likely be bagged, Hobson said.


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Artist Connects with Iranian Roots
Artists never decide to be an artist because of the money. The "starving artist" motif is an accurate, if overused, stereotype. However, some artists are lucky enough to find someone who shares their passion and can afford to fund that passion.
Such is the case for Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi MFA '11. The decorated D.C.-area painter, who has returned to AU as a professional lecturer, found her patron recently.
Ilchi immigrated to the United States from Iran at the age of 18 and found culture shock and isolation in her new environment. "The language barrier was very difficult," Ilchi says, "but it drove me more towards visual arts, and that enabled me to express myself freely. Art made me feel understood! In retrospect, despite its difficulties and bitterness, being separated from my motherland made me more curious and aware of my cultural heritage."
Her work illustrates this connection with her native culture. Her previous body of work portrays surreal images of women with long, wild hair. This depiction, Ilchi says, is a reference to herself and her issues as an Iranian immigrant.
"The use of disproportionately long hair is a statement on the notion of freedom in relation to the oppressive and mandated use of head coverings for women in Iran," she explains. "These female figures are central to my work since they portray a narrative of defiance in a cultural confrontation with tradition. They evoke a sense of resilience and that is a true reflection of how many Iranian women fight the daily battles."
Since her graduation from AU, Ilchi has received the support of many local collectors. She recently met Blake Kimbrough, the man who would be her most recent patron and collector, when Contemporary Wing's Lauren Gentile introduced him to her work. He immediately fell in love with her use of Islamic themes and her use of abstract colors. Kimbrough explains his attraction to Ilchi's art: "Since my academic pursuits dealt with the Near East and I am a Baha'i, a religion that comes from Persia, I have always been fascinated with how contemporary artists of Persian heritage express themselves given the oppression they may feel and their government's attitude towards Western modernity. Since typically what is appreciated and celebrated in the arts is the concept of innovation, how would Persians abroad or at home interpret or respond to the desire to innovate or sensationalize in a global market place? I find Ilchi's approach nuanced and compelling."
Ilchi's and Kimbrough's first conversation revolved around a work that he later purchased. Ilchi saw right away that he had a deep understanding of her culture and her inspirations as an artist.
"Even though this is a new friendship, because of our backgrounds, I have a sense that this relationship will continue to grow," she muses. "We are already planning a studio visit in the near future to have a deeper dialogue about my work. My paintings are hybrids of the two cultures with a fusion of Eastern and Western visual languages. The result is a paradoxical sense of chaos and order, which I think is one of the reasons that draws Blake to my work."
Hedieh Ilchi is currently participating in a group show, Social Construction, which opened April 10 and runs through June 9 at the Arlington Arts Center. She will have a solo exhibit, A leaf from my rose garden, curated by Steven Matijcio, at the Southern Center for Contemporary art in Winston-Salem, NC. Later this summer, she will show at Scope Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland.
Ilchi has received multiple awards, including The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards Semi-Finalist, The Bethesda Painting Awards Finalist, and The eighth annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize semifinalist.
She will also participate in Nostalgia Structures at the Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, Maryland, in mid-July. For more information on Ilchi, and to see examples of her current work, visit her website.


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Two Sides by Alton Brown
1 pound Brussels sprouts, rinsed and trimmed
3 ounces pecans, coarsely chopped
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 teaspoon kosher salt
.25 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
4 ounces dried cranberries, coarsely chopped
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly ground
1. Slice the Brussels sprouts using the thinnest slicing disc of a food processor. If you do not have a food processor, you may slice thinly with a knife or a mandoline.
2. Set a 10-inch straight-sided sauté pan over medium high heat and add the pecans. Cook, stirring continually, until the pecans darken in color and begin to give off a toasted aroma (approximately 2 minutes).
3. Add the butter to the pan and stir to combine.
4. Once the butter has melted, add the Brussels sprouts, salt and pepper and cook. Stir continually, until the color brightens and the sprouts are just tender (approximately 6 minutes).
5. Remove the pan from the heat, add the cranberries, toss and cool slightly while preparing the apples.
6. Chop the apples into fine matchsticks using either a knife or the julienne blade on a mandoline. Toss the apples with the apple cider and nutmeg.
7. Add the apple mixture to the Brussels sprouts, toss to combine well and serve.
Makes 6 to 8 servings
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 large onion, chopped
4 stalks celery, chopped
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
1 pound stale cornbread, crumbled
5 ounces oyster crackers, crumbled
1 ½ teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 pint small oysters with liquor
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Heat the vegetable oil in a 12-inch cast iron pan over medium-high heat.
3. Add the onions, celery, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, until the onions and celery are translucent (approximately 15 minutes).
4. Remove the pan from the heat and add the cornbread, oyster crackers, thyme and sage. Stir.
5. Add the oysters, their liquor and the eggs. Stir until very well combined.
6. Pat the mixture down into an even layer.
7. Put the dressing on the middle rack of the oven and bake until golden brown and crisp around the edges, about 30 to 35 minutes.
Makes 6 to 8 servings
-Recipes courtesy of Alton Brow
Longtime TV personality, food expert and cookbook author Alton Brown says cooking a turkey with stuffing is a bad idea.
Take his word on it. My family tried his method for making a Thanksgiving turkey last year and it was by far the best we have ever had.
As someone who can usually only make one thing in the kitchen — meat pasta sauce (an all-day affair I learned from the Italian side of my family) — I pretty much have to follow instructions to get anything else right. The simpler the better is my motto,
and Brown makes his tips easy enough for even me to follow.
The key is a piece of aluminum foil that allows you to cook the dark meat at a higher temperature without drying out the white meat. Brown, who will be returning to his "Alton Brown Live — The Edible Inevitable Tour" in January (he was recently in Cerritos and will likely be back), also offers a couple of side dishes we like: Apple, Cranberry and Brussels Sprouts Salad and Oyster Dressing.
For more tips and recipes, go to Brown's website altonbrown.com.
Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. After giving the bird a good canola oil rubdown, insert a probe thermometer into the thickest part of the breast.
Cook the turkey at 500 degrees for 30 minutes. (Brown likes to put his turkeys in legs first on the lowest rack of the oven.)
Apply an aluminum foil triangle to the breast. The trick is to cut out the triangle ahead of time and fit it onto the bird; so all you have to do is pop it on quickly and not mess around with a hot turkey.
Now reduce the oven's temperature to 350 degrees and set the thermometer alarm to 161 degrees. (If you don't have a thermometer alarm just keep an eye on it.)
A total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours of roasting should be enough for a 14- to 16-pound bird.
Once it hits 161 degrees, take the turkey out and let it rest, loosely covered with foil for 15 minutes before carving.
Don't stuff the turkey with stuffing. Brown says cooking stuffing inside the bird increases the cooking time, which can lead to dry meat. Also, the uncooked inside of the turkey is a haven for bacteria. The cavity should be filled with herbs and aromatics to add flavor.
Basting is not necessary to flavor the meat, he adds. Each time you open the oven, you let heatout, which also can mean a longer cooking time.


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Davey expects Werth to rest hamstring, ankle
ATLANTA -- With concern centering around Stephen Strasburg following Monday's 3-2 loss to the Braves, the offense also may not have come out unscathed.
Right fielder Jayson Werth, the team's second-leading home run hitter and run producer, injured his right hamstring. He came up in the eighth inning but told manager Davey Johnson that he would be unable to get around the bases.
"He had a tight [hamstring] going up," said Johnson. "He said, 'Maybe I can hit one out, but if I get on, you'll have to run for me.'"
As if to reinforce that he wasn't going to do any running, Werth fouled a 2-1 pitch off his left ankle. He'd strike out swinging two pitches later.
Johnson said afterward that he expected Werth to get a couple of days off to rest.
Jon Cooper is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mighty Mazama: Small quakes detected at Crater Lake
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) For the first time since seismic equipment was installed at Crater Lake National Park in 2001, three tiny earthquakes have been recorded.
The Cascades Volcano Observatory at Vancouver, Wash., recorded the quakes on Friday, and they registered a magnitude of less than 1.
Seismologist Seth Moran told the Mail Tribune the Crater Lake area is not necessarily dead.
It's been 7,000 years since the dormant volcano last erupted and it could be a while before another eruption, but Moran says it's worth monitoring.
Crater Lake is the caldera formed when Mount Mazama blew its top.
Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/
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Best Of Bluegrass Looks To Expand On Popular Festival
LEXINGTON, Ky. - 2013 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Festival of the Bluegrass and this year attendees won't just be flocking to the Kentucky Horse Park for their bluegrass fix.
The Festival of the Bluegrass got off to a rocky start in 1974. In fact, Roy Cornett, whose grandparents founded the celebration of Appalachian music and culture, says many people assumed the first festival would also be the last.
"Due to rain, last minute cancelations, and basically lack of experience it was a complete financial disaster, but the community came together and came to them and showed an outpouring of support to where they felt like they had really no choice," Cornett recalls.
Fast forward four decades and the festival regularly draws an estimated 10,000 people over the course of four days.
"And a huge percentage of them show up early before the music shows up, some of them as much as two weeks early," he says.
Now, the Lexington Area Music Alliance is looking not only entertain those early visitors but attract some new faces by expanding the festival to include music at venues across Lexington and a large number of organizations have already signed on: the Downtown Lexington Corporation, Natasha's, Southland Jamboree, and many others. Cornett says the new event, dubbed "Best of Bluegrass" or BOB for short, is a natural outgrowth of the festival.
"The thing that makes that event so special is the community aspect and that everybody works together to make that event and what we're doing now is bringing together all the separate different parts and making it grow even larger," he explains.
Trolley service will be available from downtown Lexington to the Horse Park and BOB will also feature hands-on bluegrass workshops with some of the top names in bluegrass. The event will run June 3 – 8.


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I'd like to make a suggestion about establishing a Theravada Nuns Vihara in North America, which offers accomodation (e.g. kuti) and facilities in a safe, quiet, suitable place for sincere Theravada 10-precept (and probably also 8-precept) nuns who truly practice according to the Buddha's teaching. It can be somewhat similar to Gotami Vihara in Malaysia (http://snfwrenms.wordpress.com/). Hopefully it will be run by the lay supporters. Aspiring female renunciates and lay women devotees can probably also stay in the vihara when space is available.
I hope such a vihara can be established to support the Dhamma practice of the nuns, so that they can truly live a simple renunciant life focusing on their practice according to the Dhamma Vinaya.
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In the fourth quarter consumer businesses can always catch the last fling–it's the most important time for clothing retailers, as people tend to spend more during the holiday season. Department stores and boutiques see an increase in sales. Jeans, coats, sweaters, scarves, winter pajamas, stockings and other articles of clothing go flying off the racks during this time of year. For wholesalers it's an exciting time because lots of people add to their wardrobes for Christmas parties, New Year celebrations and other winter festivities.
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Anderson sinks deeper into funk as D-backs fall
Righty allows eight hits in 3 2/3 innings, drops fourth straight
PITTSBURGH -- Heading into his Wednesday night outing, D-backs rookie Chase Anderson was hoping to snap his three-start losing streak and pitch deep into the ballgame.
Neither happened, though, as the Pirates jumped on Anderson early en route to a 5-1 win over the D-backs at PNC Park.
"Just fastball command once again," Anderson said of his issue Wednesday. "The first pitch of the game was a sinker away and from then on, I didn't have a feel for it. My off-speed pitches were pretty good, except for that one pitch hit for a home run. The leadoff double I didn't get it in far enough, I wasn't able to establish the inside part of the plate tonight. I didn't do a good job of putting myself in counts to be successful. That game's on me, for sure."
The loss was the third in a row for the D-backs, who will try to avoid a sweep when the three-game series concludes Thursday night.
If they want to do that, they'll need to find a way to jumpstart an offense that has scored just 10 runs over the last six games.
"You've got to give their guys some credit," first baseman Paul Goldschmidt said. "They've made some good pitches and got some good arms, but you've got to find a way to score more than one run. It's not a one-night thing; this last week or 10 days we haven't every day been able to put up the type of runs we'd like to put up. Hopefully we can start tomorrow."
Anderson won his first five big league starts, but is 0-4 since.
The Pirates took a 1-0 lead in the first when Gregory Polanco led off with a double off the wall and went to third when right fielder Gerardo Parra had trouble picking the ball up on the carom.
Starling Marte then grounded out to short to bring home Polanco.
It was Polanco who did the damage in the second inning as well when he smacked a 3-1 pitch into the bleachers in right for a two-run homer and a 3-0 Pittsburgh lead.
"It was a curveball that I was trying to get down in the dirt," Anderson said of the home run. "It was probably four or five inches off the ground and the guy just put a good swing on it and hit it out. It's a testament to him. It's a good swing. It was a decent pitch -- I wouldn't say a good pitch or a bad pitch, but kind of right in his wheelhouse. I should have tried to bury that pitch. Bad location."
Though he only surrendered three runs, Anderson allowed 11 baserunners and the Pirates put together some long at-bats to drive up his pitch count. Anderson was lifted with the bases loaded and two out in the fourth having thrown 88 pitches.
In trying too hard to make the perfect pitch, Anderson said his front shoulder has been flying open, causing him to lose command.
"I've been working in the bullpens and doing pretty good in between [starts] but I've got to carry it into games," Anderson said. "You don't last in this game very long if you don't go deep in the game as a starting pitcher. I've got to get better for sure."
Charlie Morton (5-9) managed to keep the D-backs in check for most of his six-inning stint.
Arizona's lone run against him came in the third when Goldschmidt singled with one out and came around to score on Aaron Hill's bloop single to right.
Goldschmidt was a rare bright spot for the offense going 3-for-4 with a double.
"He's a really good hitter," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "We probably haven't hit the spots we like to, but this guy can hit. You keep the people off base in front of him, go from there."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Most kids are, at some point, going to experience an acne outbreak. Although your teen may decide that the only good remedy is the one that makes her acne instantly disappear, kids do live through the embarrassment of a few pimples. Most acne can be treated at home, but severe acne may need to be treated by a dermatologist.
There are several at-home acne remedies that are known to be as good, or better, than over-the-counter acne medications. The first, and foremost, acne treatment should be a good skin-care regimen. Washing the face regularly and with a gentle, but effective, cleanser is the best defense against acne. A gentle soap and warm water at least twice a day helps keep acne at bay. You may find that an antibacterial soap works well also.
Other at-home remedies include over-the-counter acne treatments and herbal treatments.
Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health, and Health Insite.
Last revised: Sunday, 18 July 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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Karuna ~ Compassion.
II've been thinking about Compassion (Karuna) a lot lately.
But what I have been noticing in myself is that it is easier to talk about compassion, and perhaps even feel "something" - probably the near enemy pity - than actually experience the real thing.
Hearing about some tragedy on the other side of the world, can evoke deep feelings, as can seeing a disabled child or old person.
But the type of compassion I observe in my older brother (who cares for our elderly frail mother), is a continuous 24 hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, expression of this Brahma Vihara ~ which, if I am to be honest, I don't think I could emulate.
And he is not a buddhist, not a christian, not any religion.
I can do it in short stints - I assist her in the shower, and help her to get dressed.
But he is there all the rest of the time, never reacts to her increasing depression and short temper, doesn't have an ounce of "Oh aren't I wonderful" attitude in him.
I don't know that the fleeting feeling I have could really compare with "in for the long haul, never a moment's relief" type of compassion.
TheDhamma has a graph showing the feelings which masquerade as, or are the opposite of, the Brahma Vihara which is Compassion (karuna), on his site at http://www.brahmaviharas.com/
Karuna (Compassion has a Near enemy which is Pity and a Far enemy which is cruelty.
I wouldn't say I feel pity - but certainly, on occasion, I feel aversion towards myself for not feeling 'inside' a stronger sense of kindness.
On the surface, I do the kindly things - but how to 'educate and change' the inside?
Any thoughts from the Classical pov?


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Even though he has only starred in a few old school action games, there's a reason why so many people continue to love Strider Hiryu. It's not for his witty banter or diverse fashion sense, but rather because this futuristic ninja has one of the coolest weapons in video game history. It also doesn't hurt that he's incredibly agile; able to quickly climb, slide and dangle off of nearly every ledge and wall. And while many games have attempted to recreate the magic of Strider, few get the formula right.
Now, a quarter-century after the release of the arcade hit, Capcom is finally bringing Strider Hiryu out of retirement. Thanks to California-based Double Helix Games (who also recently rebooted the Killer Instinct franchise), one of my favorite characters is getting the next-generation treatment he deserves.
For better or worse, this new Strider feels like a checklist of everybody's favorite moments from the original 16-bit game. Our hero, a sword-wielding ninja with a long flowing scarf, swoops into Kazakh City to beat up Grandmaster Meio's robot army. Along the way we'll meet up with a giant mechanical gorilla, three Chun Li lookalikes and one very angry flying serpent. The premise, locations and bosses may look familiar, but the developers have done a good job of fleshing out the story and wrapping these disparate pieces into one somewhat coherent narrative.
Instead of being a straight-up action game like the arcade classic, this 21st century Strider shares some of the Metroid/Castlevania-style elements found in the far less exciting 8-bit NES game. Each of the various stages is connected, allowing players to revisit the different parts of Kazakh City. This is important, as Strider Hiryu is constantly earning abilities that open up new parts of the world.
While none of Strider's upgrades are especially original, they do go a long way to turning our hero into an unstoppable killing machine. Sure there's the double jump and slide, but Hiryu is also able to freeze enemies, throw a variety of projectiles, command several mechanical animals and even teleport in any direction. Although some of the new abilities are tied to defeating specific types of enemies, I never got bored of going back and using my super-powered moves to pick on Grandmaster Meio's most basic robot guards.
Even without the different types of weapons and special abilities, Strider Hiryu remains one of the most compelling action heroes working today. It's the sword, which he swings so fast that the human eye can barely see it. It leaves a quick outline, cutting through enemies with one satisfying flash of light. This time around players can aim the sword, as well as use it to launch enemies into the air to set up combos. These additions are smart and help add some depth to the combat, though it's hard to beat Strider's awesome sword.
While most remember Strider as being a straight-forward action game, the truth is that the original arcade title had a lot more going on than people remember. One stage may be all about climbing, while the next has our hero jumping between flying machines. Some of the stages even added new wrinkles to the gameplay, such as portions that see the player literally walking on the ceiling and orbiting a floating sphere. I was happy to see that this brand new Strider not only recreated these moments, but also found ways of making them relevant to the overall story.
When it comes down to it, I'm impressed that Double Helix managed to figure out how to draw a through line between all these weird story beats. This is, after all, a game with a huge mechanical gorilla, a large flying battle ship, gravity defying spheres and strong overtones to Soviet-era Russia. And did I mention that the three Chun Li lookalikes are finally explained? The story may not make a ton of sense, but I give credit to the developers for finding a way of working all these pieces into one very zany quest.
Unfortunately, sometimes the game is a little too zany for its own good. The supporting cast ranges from purposely cheesy to just plain bad. It doesn't help that Strider Hiryu often spouts cringe-inducing lines. There are a few great moments that help fill in the story, but there are far too many cut scenes dedicated to annoying characters whose only purpose is to send Strider on a fetch quest.
Speaking of fetch quests, I found the missions and open world structure ultimately stifled the arcade game's urgency. Instead of constantly moving forward, much of this new Strider involves backtracking and fighting through the same areas multiple times. To the game's credit, it does keep the action fresh by constantly offering upgrades and new abilities, but there's something about this sub-genre of game that doesn't feel as consistently exciting as that 16-bit arcade classic.
The connected world also limits the variety of backgrounds Strider experiences. Players will see a lot of Kazakh City, along with a prison, laboratory, subway station, airship and more. Each of these areas has a unique look and new types of enemies, but most are indoors and start to run together after a while. Thankfully, Strider mixes things up with moments of anti-gravity and other fun quirks, but I was disappointed that the actual stages weren't as diverse as the arcade game. Some of my favorite stages from the original were the snow-covered mountains and jungles filled with robot dinosaurs, but neither of these areas are explored in this new Strider. Instead we get hours of drab indoor locales.
Thankfully, the combat and play mechanics are strong enough to make up for many of these disappointments. It's also a lot of fun to explore the world, and Hiryu's many abilities make reaching tough areas a snap. This new game makes good use out of Strider's ability to climb walls and hang from ledges. Best of all, there are a lot of upgrades and collectables that make searching each stage worthwhile.
Although I complain about the indoor stages, I was impressed by Strider's overall look. Hiryu's sword has never looked shinier, creating sparks and other lighting effects as it rips through the robot fiends. The backgrounds are full of believable details and Kazakh City has never looked better. There are also a number of impressive boss fights, including one on the top of a flying serpent and another involving those floating spheres I talked about earlier. There's nothing about this game that couldn't be done on the PlayStation 3, but it certainly looks sharp on Sony's next-generation console.
While I will likely always prefer the original arcade game, this brand new Strider is a great start to what will hopefully be an ongoing series. I would love to see a sequel dig up those robot dinosaurs and finally make sense of Journey from Darkness: Strider Returns, the unofficial Genesis follow-up by Tiertex. This reboot is not perfect, but it's great to have Strider Hiryu back in action. He's been missed.
Strider's back for his first adventure in more than a dozen years. As Capcom reboots go, this is one of the best. Double Helix has managed to capture what made the original game so much fun, while fleshing out the story in some very wacky ways. Unfortunately, too much of the game is spent indoors and there's a little too much backtracking, but Strider is a great start to what will hopefully be an ongoing series.
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County Schedules Six Public Meetings on Proposed Zoning Ordinance Changes
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Fairfax County has scheduled a series of public information work sessions from Sept. 15 through Oct. 11 that focus on proposed zoning ordinance changes to setbacks, building heights, minimum lot widths, fence heights, deck screenings and patios.
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text: Price, Godwin pick up on their legacies By Rick Kozlowski January 23, 2014 Story Share MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - James Jett and Chelsea Carrier-Eades left track and field high school legacies at Jefferson and Buckhannon-Upshur, respectively, that might have appeared unreachable when each graduated and grew into All-Americans many times over at West Virginia University.Dante Price and Emily Godwin created their own standout identities at Jefferson and Buckhannon-Upshur and are now freshmen just beginning their collegiate careers - Price at Virginia Tech and Godwin at North Carolina.Price and Godwin followed in their predecessors' footprints - Price as a sprinter, like Jett, and Godwin as a hurdler and jumper, like Carrier-Eades.Like their predecessors, Price and Godwin won a collection of individual gold medals throughout their prep careers.Like their predecessors, Price and Godwin are now winners of the Ray McCoy Awards as the top track and field athletes in the state for 2013, as awarded by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association."We were just passed the torch at our given times," Price said.Price and Godwin also shared one more common trait - they supplanted the 2012 winners after both finished second in last year's balloting behind Cabell Midland's Jacob Burcham, a three-time winner, and St. Marys' Maggie Drazba, both distance standouts.Other voting finalists were Dylan Rich of Buffalo, Abe Miranar of Bridgeport and Matthew Brafford of George Washington for boys, and University's Amelia Paladino, Frankfort's Bria Welker and Washington's Devyn Hosby for girls.Price won the state 100- and 200-meter dashes for the third straight year, added a 400-meter crown while competing in the event for the first time, and notched a fourth gold medal in the 4x200 relay on his way to claiming high-point honors in the Class AAA state meet as Jefferson won its fourth straight team title. A year earlier, he anchored the state meet-record-setting 4x100 relay unit. Career-wise, he captured seven individual golds after two second-place finishes as a freshman. Godwin claimed Class AAA high-point meet honors for the team champions after winning both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles plus the high jump and long jump crowns. A year earlier, she also scored a high 40 points by winning all four events including record-setting meet marks in both hurdle races.In the eyes of both of their coaches, it was a team-first approach that was simply golden for Price and Godwin."Dante was the ultimate team player," Jefferson coach Craig Hunter said. "He would do anything you asked him to do. He always went the extra mile and his work ethic was like nobody else."Hunter added that Price "wasn't necessarily a vocal leader but he led by example. His teammates would see what he was doing, where it took him, and they gravitated to him. If he worked hard in practice, they'd work hard, too." 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"She's not only a great athlete but very humble and a great person I always looked up to."Price said "individual goals always came second to team goals. I knew if I would do well, it would help us achieve our team goals."Both Price and Godwin will be honored by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association at the nation's oldest statewide athletic banquet, the 68th annual Victory Awards Dinner, on May 4 at the Charleston Civic Center. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 YWCA Charleston's Women of Achievement to be honored in March 4 WVU law professor announces run for Congress 5 'Heroin(e)' tells complex story of Huntington's drug crisis WVU set for over $50 million in improvements Previous Story Prep roundup: Poca boys top Sissonville 79-47 Next Story


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Madson to undergo MRI on sore elbow
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Ryan Madson, who hasn't thrown since experiencing soreness in his last bullpen session on Feb. 1, is expected to undergo an MRI on Tuesday.
The Angels want to make sure there isn't anything structurally wrong with Madson, who's recovering from Tommy John surgery that was performed last April. If the exam comes back clean, the 32-year-old right-hander will be cleared to resume throwing.
General manager Jerry Dipoto reported that the MRI is standard operating procedure for a player recovering from surgery and dealing with a temporary setback. Dipoto has said that the target for Madson's return to the field -- at some point around mid-April, with Opening Day technically possible, but a bit too ambitious -- hasn't really changed.
A bad result on the MRI, of course, could change that entirely.
Even with a clean MRI, the Angels won't get a true gauge on where Madson is until he starts appearing in games around the middle of March. But they won't rush him.


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i think i also fit into this category with a bit of primping. i dunno its just weird, i started lurking jb when i was 13 and ugly and super insecure and didnt really have friends so i figured that was what everyone on here did haha but it seems like we're just a big random bunch of hot intro or extroverts who all found this place through a random act and now we're all together in a community even though we come from all these different cultures
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