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A modern touch has been added to all the Standard rooms (double and single) in the new wing.READ MORE
The double room in the traditional wing offers the feeling of both worlds - traditional design and modern amenities.READ MORE
A touch of class within the Jr. suite of Halepa Hotel. Enjoy your privacy in a suite.READ MORE
The Stylish Suite, located in the traditional section, features all modern facilities with en suite bathroom, handmade furniture contemporary style. Queen sized bed and a sofa which converts to a Queen sized bed. There is also a separate sitting room/ office area. Bathroom with bath - CD Player - Central Heating - Hair dryer - Mini bar - Satelite TV - Telephone - WiFiREAD MORE
Nestled in a quiet side road, HALEPA HOTEL blends the charm and personality of yesterday with the amenities and technology of today, making an ideal place for those seeking the historic and modern in one destination. It has since 1990 being offering accommodation services and our many visitors are a great proof that when they seek a relaxing environment, they will definitely find it within our renowned hospitality. The New Classical architecture has remained even after being converted into a luxurious accommodation facility. As a guest you can expect the best hospitality and the latest amenities offered by hotel Halepa. Dedicated and attentive service at the front desk, DSL internet access, the spacious lounging area with the Fireplace and Piano, elegant breakfast area, Meeting room (20 persons), Cafeteria, Bar are enough to satisfy the most eclectic of customers and many more conveniences ensure your happiness while staying with us. Whether business or pleasure brings you to Halepa Hotel, the same warm personal Cretan hospitality awaits you.
If cancelled up to 3 days before date of arrival, no fee will be charged. If cancelled later or in case of no-show, 100 percent of the first night will be charged. Prepayment: No deposit will be charged. Breakfast is included in the room rate.
The hotel reserves the right to pre-authorise credit cards prior to arrival. Prepayment: No deposit will be charged.
All children under 2 years stay free of charge when using existing beds. All children under 2 years are charged 7 Euro per person per night for children's cots/cribs. All older children or adults are charged 20 Euro per person per night for extra beds. The maximum number of extra beds in a room is 1. The maximum number of children's cots/cribs in a room is 2. Any type of extra bed or child's cot/crib is upon request and needs to be confirmed by management. Supplements are not calculated automatically in the total costs and will have to be paid for separately during your stay.
Breakfast is included in the room rate.
WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge. Free private parking is possible on site Pets are not allowed.
Halepa area itself sits just outside the city center, next to Dikastiria (main Court House of Chania) with all the amenities of the city center just minutes away - pharmacy, dentist, doctor, realtor, hair salons, exercise club, super markets, walking trails and dozens of local restaurants and taverns and a cinema are found along the main road leading to Dikastiria. sprinkled among unique shops and entertainment.
The directions from Chania Airport to Halepa: Fallow the signs to the main road to the center of Chania town, and at the end of the road (traffic light ), you turn right, and you will be on El. Venizelou street, on number 164 where we are (300 meters away from traffic light, on your right hand side).
|Egill OrnThu 11 Aug, 2016
Efraisto :)
Words can not describe how GOOD this hotel and hoW WONDERFUL the entire staff there is. We had a remarkable, life lasting event to remember our whole life onward in Chania, and what made this entire trip so good - was this hotel and their staff. We made friends I hope for lifetime and look forward in visting this beautiful hotel, the island itself and to see again everybody there. Special thanks to Kostas the hotel manager from the Icelandairs :)
|FRANCOISEThu 06 Aug, 2015
loved this hotel
I would definitely come back.


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Corina and Karen show Mike some dinner etiquette lessons.
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St. Louis left winger Keith Tkachuk had not seen numbers as low as his 2005-06 totals in six years. Right winger Bill Guerin's numbers were as thin as they'd been in five years. The other member of the Blues' top line, Doug Weight, is coming off his lowest numbers in four years.
The 2005-06 season was a forgettable one for Guerin and Tkachuk, who combined for 76 points – a mark that either could have reached on his own in better times. And while Weight is coming off a Stanley Cup win in Carolina, his regular season point totals left something to be desired in fantasy land.


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NFL Draft 2011 Grades: Green Bay Packers Day 3 AnalysisApril 30, 2011
It's been an interesting draft for the Green Bay Packers, who came into this draft with no glaring holes on their roster.
It was really up to Ted Thompson to pick whoever he liked most of the players on the board with no huge needs to address.
I think he did a nice job all draft, and Day 3 was no exception.
Green Bay used their first pick of Day 3 to select New Mexico State corner back Davon House.
House is a speedster, and I think this was a decent pick. Any time you give a corner a chance to learn behind one of the greatest corners of all-time—Charles Woodson—you're putting him in position to succeed.
As Woodson gets older, it should be nice to get some more depth, House brings that.
Don't expect the second coming of Sam Shields, but expect a good future nickle back.
I give this pick a B+ grade.
With their second pick of the day, the Packers decided to go with a TE. Because, you know, having three tight ends under the age of 25 wasn't enough, so Green Bay added another one.
They got Arkansas tight end D.J Williams.
I think Williams will be a good TE in this league, and I think he's a great person, but I'm not sure where he fits in.
You'd normally like your fifth round pick to make the team, and I'm sure Williams will, but what do you do with Tom Crabtree now?
Crabtree played well down the stretch last season, and it will likely come down to him and Williams for the third tight end spot.
I give this pick a C, because in my mind, all it does is complicate things.
With their third pick on Day 3, Green Bay picked Utah OG Caleb Schlauderaff.
I don't know much about Schlauderaff, but what I can tell you is that it certainly doesn't hurt Green Bay to pick up a guard.
It's uncertain whether or not Daryn Colledge will be back next season, so picking up a guard in the sixth round was a pretty solid decision.
With their second pick in the sixth round and fourth Day 3 pick overall, the Packers went with App. St. LB D.J Smith.
I don't really get this pick, Smith is a better fit as a 4-3 outside linebacker than anything. Plus, why would the Packers go with anything but a pass-rushing outside linebacker if they were going to take a linebacker?
It's already crowded enough in the Packers linebacking corps with Nick Barnett, Desmond Bishop, A.J Hawk and Brandon Chillar. Smith doesn't have the pass-rush skills to play outside in Green Bay's system; am I missing something here?
I don't get this pick at all. D-.
With their third pick of the sixth round, the Green Bay Packers made a great pick by picking up Arizona defensive end Rick Elmore.
He'll probably be an outside linebacker for the Packers.
Either way, the Packers finally got the pass-rusher I've been waiting for them to get. Elmore obviously isn't on the same level as guys like Brooks Reed and Akeem Ayers that went rounds earlier, but if you put him opposite Clay Matthews, he should be able to produce.
I'm not sure he's an improvement over Erik Walden or Frank Zombo, but he's worth a look. I'll give Thompson an A for this pick, because this guy was an animal in college, and he could be our next Aaron Kampman.
With their first pick of the seventh round, the Packers went tight end AGAIN. They already had an elite tight end and two perfectly adequate backups on the roster, yet they pick two more here on Day 3.
The pick is UNC TE Ryan Taylor, and I won't even waste your time breaking down why he is or isn't a good fit; we have too many damn tight ends!
This gets an F; sorry, Ted.
With their final pick of the draft, Green Bay picked Arizona State DT Lawrence Guy.
Green Bay had a mini-need on the d-line coming into this draft, and I don't think Guy is the answer, but you never know.
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BURBANK, Calif., July 9, 2014 -- Hollywood Records and Marvel are set to release three albums from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy on July 29, 2014. The Guardians of the Galaxy Deluxe soundtrack features classic 1970s songs from the film, plus score by composer Tyler Bates ("Watchmen," "Slither," "Dawn of the Dead"). Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is the collection of 12 songs including Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling," "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc, Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love," and The Runaways' "Cherry Bomb," and Guardians of the Galaxy is the digital score soundtrack. The film opens in U.S. theaters on August 1, 2014.
Music plays a major role in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy as the 1970s songs featured in the film are part of the storyline in a unique way. Explaining how the songs come to play in the story, director James Gunn says, "One of the main story points in the movie is that Quill has this compilation tape [Awesome Mix #1] that he got from his mother before she died that she made for him. It was of songs that she loved, all songs from the 1970s, and that's the only thing he has left of his mother and that's the only thing he has left of his home on Earth. He uses that as a connection to his past and to the sadness that he feels of having left all that and lost all that." Gunn also asked composer Tyler Bates to complete some of the tracks for the movie before the start of principal photography so he could play them on set. "The score is also very important," says Gunn. "I've worked very hard early on with Tyler Bates, our composer, whom I've done three other movies with, to write part of the score ahead of time so that I'm able to use it on set for big emotional sequences and big action sequences. We can actually play the music on set and the actors can really understand where we're going with it tonally. Our actors have a much better idea of what this film is because of the music that we use, both score and soundtrack."
Executive Soundtrack Producers: James Gunn, Kevin Feige and Dave Jordan
Music Supervisor: Dave Jordan
Awesome Mix Tape, Vol. 1 track list follows:
"Hooked on a Feeling" Performed by Blue Swede
"Go All the Way" Performed by Raspberries
"Spirit in the Sky"* Performed by Norman Greenbaum
"Moonage Daydream" Performed by David Bowie
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" Performed by Elvin Bishop
"I'm Not in Love" Performed by 10cc
"I Want You Back" Performed by Jackson 5
"Come and Get Your Love" Performed by Redbone
"Cherry Bomb" Performed by The Runaways
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Performed by Rupert Holmes
"O-O-H Child" Performed by The Five Stairsteps
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
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Guardians of the Galaxy Deluxe, Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy digital score soundtrack will be available on July 29, 2014. The album is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com


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I sometimes have to deal with Windows networking issues in my job. It's very depressing.
I feel your pain.
In my case it wasn't depression so much as anxiety. After a couple of serious bike accidents I had a terrible time just "climbing back onto the horse". On more than one occasion Mrs. Grouch and I drove down to the Katy Trail, assembled our recumbent tandem to ride - then disassembled it and loaded everything back into the car because I couldn't bear the thought of riding. Therapy with a psychologist didn't seem to help. Gradually, my anxiety would start to fade only to have another setback.
That's been for about 4 years. I'm hoping this year will be a breakthrough for me. My cinfidence is definitely building so that's a good sign. We'll see.
The body is stronger than the mind - at least in my case.
A couple of things to add. I'll put the clinical thing aside and assume that's not the problem.
I've been through a couple of depressive times. What I learned is that the urge to go on comes from positive reinforcement. When you took your first steps as a baby, you were giggling your head off. The more you walked, the better you felt. That's positive reinforcement.
Now and again you may encounter a hard task that you really don't want to take on. It looms over you and pushes you down. Inaction is your enemy. The more you don't act, the more it looms. The cure is to act. Always act, never react. Move forward. The only way to get positive reinforcement is to move forward. These first steps are the hardest. You have to gut it out and move forward enough to have positive things happen for you. There will also be negative things. Ignore them, or if you can't do that, find a way around them. Heal yourself. As you get stronger, you'll have plenty of positive reinforcement, which in common parlance is called "joy."
In this case, I think you should trust your cardiologist enough to follow their recommendations. Do they want you to be more active, to ride, work out, etc? With what limitations, if any? The suggestion to ride where you have cell phone coverage or to ride with others is a good idea, at least to start with.
Every year for the past 35 years, my wife and I go off into the mountains on a 10 day or so backpack or climbing trip, just the two of us. We will be out of cell phone range, we may not see other people for days, and we rely entirely on our own resources. We haven't died yet or been badly injured, but we know we could be. The positive reinforcement for doing this is so great that we will not stop until we can't do it anymore. We're the same on our tandem bike. We know the risks and we accept them. The price for not accepting them is, to us, to die the little death.
Your second comment sounds to me as if what you really need is to talk to a cardiologist who can answer they questions you posed there. A second opinion is something you should actively seek. Not all doctors are open to your fears, some are just doing a job to treat your heart, staying unengaged to the your emotional/psychological needs. While a cardiologist can't be expected to also be a therapist, she/he should be able to explain your condition to you to clarify your thoughts so that you can seek help to give you strength to make changes. And while exercise can be positive in many post-attack cases, you should undertake an exercise regimen only under explicit instructions.
If your heart problems were not caused by unfavorable lifestyle but rather from a structural defect, a doctor can determine and clarify this. If you need to change your diet and lose weight, make a plan to do it. If you need help to realize your plan, seek that help here and with a good therapist. Many people have overcome poor lifestyle choices by taking control of the choices they make - but this must be done under the care of competent specialists.
If you and a physician arrive at a solution which includes antidepressants, be aware than most prescribing doctors are unwilling to EVER take you off (they don't want to be liable to lawsuits if a patient has an adverse outcome after stopping a drug), and many don't even know how to determine whether your prescribed medication is the right one. Some docs simply try increasing doses. I am not saying that you should stay away from antidepressants - they can be lifesavers. IMHO, if taking this type of drug, one would be best advised to also partake talk therapy from a cognitive therapist. This type of therapy allows one to challenge thought patterns so that the patient can determine which negative or depressive thoughts are objectively false. If one simply believes every thought without critical questioning, depressive spirals can deepen rather than abate.
Please let us know how you make out! And good luck!
For me, the best answer has been meditation. It helps me slip from depression's snot-like grip, and gives me answers with which to rebut depression's arguments. Pedaling gets me outside and out of my cubbyhole. Riding demands awareness beyond myself and being centered in the moment. Sights that I see grab my attention away from my depression. And then there's work, doing something to distract myself and possibly accomplishing something in the meanwhile. All help me.
One of the most important things I've learned about depression is that it is not constant. Even at its darkest, there may be lighter moments in the day and you need to seize them and acknowledge the elevation you have achieved off the bottom. And you have to acknowledge that this is every bit as real as the depths you have felt earlier.
And depression, not being constant, becomes a "temporary" thing in Buddhist terms. Depression never feels temporary, but that's part of its lie and in the blackest times, you have to acknowledge that it is a temporary state and look towards your awareness, which is not.
Meditation is exercise for your mind, in the same way that cycling is exercise for your body.
Lots of good advice.
Lots of not so good advice.
Physically, humans are incredibly complex.
Psychosociospiritually, humans are beyond complex. One might say that fear of our own ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
Medications can be life-saving adjuncts. If I forget mine, I've been known to double back to the house on the way to work.
Anyway, thanks to the OP for his courage. I think it's easier these days to talk about ED than depression.
I'm going to throw a couple of things out to you Pirate, first, notice how many members here have put in their concerns for you and offered some kind of advice, maybe right maybe not, not for me to judge, but just how many people in this disparate group care about your well being. That is amazing to me, the support the members here offer helped me tremendously with my health issues and yes, depression from not being able to do things I used to do. Take this for your corner stone or support group if that works better for you.
Next, you seem concerned about another attack when you are out fishing or riding or just not close to help, if needed. Take some steps to bolster your confidence about this, I use a RoadID wrist band with the interactive feature so the doctors can access my important medical information very quickly and accurately (I have no relation or benefit from this product, it is just something I believe in,) you can keep your cell phone with GPS capability for when you are in range of the coverage areas. When you aren't see about one of the many alert devices that send an emergency signal via satellite communications to alert rescue units. A simple push of a "Panic Button" is all these take, some even have motion sensors and accelerometers to send the signal if you fall and stay down. Put things in your favor so you feel better about doing what you love to do.
Always tell someone, anyone where you are going and when to expect you to return, if it changes call them, or another person, so they know you are very reliable about your comings and going. Don't put yourself in a really risky location, put the odds in your favor. And, think positively about not having another episode or attack, if you have planned for the bad things let the good things dominate your thoughts. This is as much for your loved ones as for yourself, I always let Monica know where I am riding, how long to expect me to be out, I call her if I want to go longer so she knows what is happening, she feels better and I feel better knowing she is relaxed.
I raced motocross and XC for a really long time, started in 1973, I can't risk that anymore, it took me deep into depression, I got worse in my overall health. I can ride a bicycle so I got back into this sport that I got away from in the mid 90's and let it take the place of the missing activity and excitement. Try to think of what you can do, not what you cannot do. Get with a physician or psychlogist to get action going, not necessarily medication(s), they are not always the answer or even appropriate for many of us. If it turns out you do need something to beat this, get with a doctor that works to minimize this but doesn't push you aside or just write a script to write one and wants to keep you in zombieland. Avoid this like the plague, I left a physician last year because his total answer to anything was to pull out the pad and put me on a new Rx. That enede and I got a new, caring, listening physician and got off the Rx train and take only the couple I really need, only one mild for anxiety that is necessary, not stupefying or narcotic.
Sorry for reposting and for the length, I just want you to do something positive to help yourself. Let these replies inspire and reinforce your mindset, use them to move forward, it the spiritual helps you use it, I certainly do, that one is completely private, though.
Best of luck,
I can't really tell you what will help you, but I can offer my approach:
I don't know if I suffer from depression because I don't know what to compare it against. I am aging. I can not do what I used to do. I have an irregular heartbeat that worries me slightly. If(when) I can no longer ride, I plan to walk regularly. Walking can be an amazingly useful exercise (others have told me) for conditioning, weight loss, and stress relief. I almost feel a relief that walking might still be my savior when riding is no longer possible.
Regarding worrying about keeling over in a bad spot, I try to just do the things I enjoy. If my time comes, I would prefer to be doing what I love. I know that sounds shallow, but I don't know how else to approach my own vulnerabilities.
I really do not worry about it. Maybe that is how I stay sane and keep my depression at bay. In 2004 a brother died of a very aggressive cancer of the pancreas. Six weeks from diagnosis to the grave. Many other friends and relatives have died, or are fighting for their lives. I will die. Worrying about it will not change it. I may last another twenty to thirty years. I may have a fatal heart attack, or be right crossed by a bus this afternoon. I live very comfortably accepting what ever happens.
One thing to look into, as a possible thing to do instead of drugs is fish oil. There have been lots of studies which have said that taking fish oil everyday can have as good as results as the drugs - without the side effects. Do your own research on this, and make your own decision.
My wife takes fish oil, and has been for more than 10 years, she used to have seasonal depression, now she doesn't. Of course, moving to the tropics helped too... but when she goes off fish oil, she can tell.
I have recently started taking fish oil, and it is making a difference.
So, exercise, fish oil - and forget your past achievements and what you once were able to do. You can seriously hurt yourself trying to be 20 again. :rolleyes: One of the greatest things of being over 50 is no one in their right mind should be expecting us to be breaking records - except us of course. :twitchy:
I just turned 55 and the gift from my family was a ban on all large projects. :lol: They said I have accomplished all I need to in my life, and still have good health, now it is time to enjoy what I have done, instead of thinking I have yet one more big hill in me.
Been reading up on such things.
Seems depression is an effect of cardiac events.
Not that this helps much...
Hang in there.
I'll second the fish oil recommendations. I use high dose and it helps with mood, though mostly because it helps with soreness from working out and keeps me off statins.
I had a heart attack while riding at the tender age of 46 YO. It motivated me as I had to climb up that damned steep hill where it happened ASAP. While I was slower after the heart attack, I started doing silly things like a century every month and some double centuries.
Before that I came down with gout which I always considered an "old man's" disease. It got me on a healthier diet.
I have arthritis in my right hip and was told that I'd probably need a hip replacement when I'm around 70 YO which is 10 years from now. However last week it started hurting BAD as the weather got better and I picked up my riding plus training for a half marathon in a couple of weeks. Looks like I'll be loosing my entry money on the half marathon and miss the hilly Vino Fondo next month if things don't improve soon. I have an appointment with my doctor on April 1st and fear the worst in that I may have a more serious hip problem. The thought about buying a hand cycle floated through my mind. I WON'T be stopped!
Professional counseling can help. I had it decades ago as a child. Drugs as a near last resort if that's what it takes.
Again thanks. I posted here intentionally because I saw the response to other people's health issues and how many had shown they care. This has helped some to see these posts. I happen to be one of those people who is very spiritual, brought up in a southern Baptist church so I have some spiritual background. The good thing is my doctors have released me to do anything I want to do. Of course they also tell me that my cholesterol issues are inherited and there is no guarantee that even with the meds that I won't suffer another attack. They also say that activity will certainly help with the chances I won't. In fact when I have had times when I felt it was my heart again, they have assured me it is not my heart or I would not be able to ride 20 miles each day. (I normally ride 20 miles after work if I do not ride to work' which is 20 miles also). Again while my heart issues do come to mind it is more about just getting old and not being able to do what I used to do. No I never was a diehard cyclist. I rode as a child and only got back on the bike after my heart attack in 2009. I figured that is a great way to exercise. This recent depression really came about from a fishing trip to the Keys. Before I went and the whole time I was there, I had a real issue dealing with being in the middle of nowhere and having an issue. Yes I was with others if something had happened. It didn't and for that I am thankful. But still I did not enjoy the trip as much as I should due to that feeling. Maybe the more I do it the more comfortable I will get. Thanks again for all the suggestions and caring words. Hopefully soon I will just learn to live and accept getting old.
I have suffered with depression for many years... I can say that it actually led to my brother's death (long story) and the death of my brother-in-law (another long story).
At some point I just hated not really feeling good or not enjoying myself. One of the toughest things I've ever done was to "push" myself out of my depression and get on with living life. I choose to be "happy" (not sloppy happy but truly grateful and content with my life). I count my blessings, I don't dwell on the negative and especially my past (had an extremely horrible childhood, abusive relationship etc) but instead wake up each day thinking about al the things I want to do, not what I have to do.
This is the hard thing about happiness... you have to eliminate all the negatives out of life - negative friends, negative relationships, negative jobs, whatever... you have to choose to be with people who are good for you and good to be around. You have to choose to want to be happy in your job. I don't particularly like the job I am doing, but I just try and not dwell on the negative aspects and look for the fun things to do.
Another thing that was helpful was finding a good therapist. Didn't go for long but did go long enough to know I wanted to do something more with my life. Another thing... try and stay away from medication. If its necessary, fine, but it only masked symptoms - you never get better, in fact, I believe makes things worse because you are veiled from what makes you sad and don't have the energy to do anything about it.
And find friends to talk to. Talk, talk, talk... talk it out... get out, be out, enjoy your life. Ride a bike (boy has that saved my life!) Seek help... ACT... single hardest thing to do is act but act you must. Take care and PM me if you need to talk...
also want to add, I am 63... had cancer surgery and chemo, had multiple fractures and other serious injuries, including a permanent brain injury (caused by a cycling accident). I will never be the person I once was but darn it, I still get - all old and slow - and enjoy riding. I don't care if I can't ride a steady 18 miles an hour or do centuries every weekend, but I still get out and ride, way better than probably 90% of everyone else. I look at what I can do and then do it. Just enjoy the ride no matter how slow or short it is...
Statin drugs had lowered my cholesterol somewhat. Even though I was watching the quantities of what I ate, the quality sometimes took a back seat. I still ate things like hot dogs and foods with moderate amounts of hydrogenated oils. I am convinced that people in our boat really need to avoid saturated animal fats and hydrogenated oils. Things I no longer eat are sausage of any kind, including McNuggets (yes, they are basically a chicken sausage), packaged cookies, even the girl scout kind. Hostess pies and Twinkies and stuff like that. Cool whip-real whipped cream is OK in very small amounts. Non-dairy coffee creamers. when eating out, most places will give you 2% for your coffee if you ask. I will use (sparingly) whole milk, or real cream if there is no 2%.
Since I started doing this after my second MI I feel better. I am sure a big part of this is mental, but my cholesterol numbers have improved so much as a result of these changes that my statin dose has been cut way back.
So, I have had two heart attacks. After the first one, I started exercising more and working less, but there was concern that something might happen while I was fishing, walking, working, or doing almost anything ending in "ing." For a considerable time after the first heart attack I had pain in my left arm and upper chest, right in the heart area. Numerous stress tests showed no cardiac issues -- in retrospect it was probably medication-related or possibly muscle issues related to working out. But, I worried about it. I cut back on working started to exercise more and over a period of time the fear of "is it going to happen when I am out in the middle of nowhere" receded. Exercise helped the most for me: I felt physically stronger and in my mind it seemed if it happened again, then I had a better chance of surviving the second one.
It did happen again and I was in decent shape, eating well, working out regularly, a stress test a short-time before showed I was in excellent cardiac condition, but down I went again. After the surgeon was done with me he commented: "with your arteries, I will be seeing you again, next time for a bypass." Well, he is a surgeon. After that event, some of those initial feelings of vulnerability returned and I increased my workouts, then a friend asked if I was interested in cycling and in 2010 I started a few months after the second event.
it was slow at first and I have had a series of knee and other issues that have kept me off the bike, but my cardiac conditioning has improved significantly. Last year on more a less a whim, I tried climbing Haleakala on Maui because, well my wife and I were there and so was the mountain. Short story, I made it to 8000 feet, a couple thousand feet short of the top. In the last couple of hours of riding I started to beat myself up some with those thoughts of not being able to do it, etc.... And, at some point I just became glad I was there, glad I could do what I could and not sad about what I could not do. "Everybody gets knocked down" as the saying goes and it is getting up and going on that helps to keep going on.
That depression thing after a heart attack is real. I got past it with exercise and just getting on with things, but it was not an easy path. You can do it.
I'm really struggling with some of what I'm reading here. There is growing evidence that both talk therapy and medication/drug therapy are effective. However, it is likely different for each person. Some will respond well to talk therapy and others will not. Same thing with medications. And some folks respond best to a combination of the two. It troubles me to hear folks tell others to avoid drug therapy. If talk therapy has worked for you, I'm glad you found something that was effective. If talk therapy works for others fine, but what if it doesn't? There is no singular root cause of depression and it would be foolish to treat each individual as if there were. It also seems that the first attempt at treatment fails about 40% of the time, regardless of what that treatment is. Medication or Talk Therapy? PET Scans May Personalize Depression Treatment | Psych Central News
So, to the OP, if it doesn't improve soon, seek help. And if when you seek help you don't get results. Try again. Or as Mark Gold would say, "Try another way."
We each have our own path to follow so I try not to decide whats best for other people.
I suffer from depression and I have found that biking relieves that depression.
Good luck on your path in life.
When I had my heart episode at the age of ~42, it was a turning point. Beforehand, I was depressed a lot of the time. Marriage and relationship break-ups, bad financial situation, smoking and drinking. For some reason, the heart episode (it technically wasn't a full-on heart attack as I recently found out), motivated me to start cycling and get my life in shape.
That was over 17 years ago. I've had periods where things haven't been so bright, and I can now sense that alcohol played a role in them. And here is the thing... I feel I can do and am doing things I never thought I could when I was younger. I've had a successful stints in long distance cycling, cycle-touring, going for over a decade without owning a motor vehicle, sailing in various forms including races, hiking, canoeing, and international travel.
I also have had jobs I really liked, with several of them, including my current one, involving extensive outdoor work. And I have a wife who keeps me busy one way or another.
Staying physically active has been and continues to be a lifesaver for me. I can't help with any advice on clinical depression -- that is strictly for the medicos. But if Piratebike is suffering the downer feelings coming from a heart condition, now is the time to set some realistic targets in life and to strive to achieve them.
Incidentally, there are two posters in this thread whom I consider extraordinarily inspirational and whom I admired deeply. qcpmsame, whom I have met personally, is someone who has fought through some awful medical situations, yet has retained his dignity and zest for life. The other is bruce19, who has recovered from a really bad accident that could have left him a paraplegic but for the grace of destiny. I know both have held self-doubts about whether they could get back where they were. I know both persevered, and now are riding and living (almost) as though nothing was amiss.
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ATLANTA -- Georgia lawmakers approved a redistricting plan late Friday designed to give Democrats a majority of the state's congressional delegation for the first time since 1994.
The plan, which still requires the signature of Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes and faces potential lawsuits, would create seven districts with a majority of Democratic voters and six with a majority of Republican voters.
The House approved the plan 99-59, with only three Democrats voting with most Republicans against it. The Senate, where Democrats hold a 32-24 edge, passed it 30-23 late Friday.
Democrats, including Gov. Roy Barnes, went into the session intent on reversing GOP gains made over the last decade. Republicans currently hold eight of 11 seats. The state has gained two seats because of population increases.
The two new districts were drawn for Democrats, and others were changed to make it difficult for incumbent Republicans in Congress, especially Reps. Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie and Bob Barr of Smyrna.
Republicans fought against the new districts, saying they may be struck down by the courts because they dilute minority voting strength. But black Democrats, who broke with their party during redistricting following the 1990 census, refused to join with Republicans this time to fight against the maps proposed by the Democratic leadership.
Still, Republican leaders said their candidates may be able to win in some of the districts drawn for Democrats.
''I think our people start campaigning tomorrow,'' Republican Leader Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said. ''We're not going to be scared, we're not going to be disenfranchised, we're not going to be intimidated by people who want to stack the deck to try to gives us odds we can't beat. I think we'll beat those odds.''
A legislative conference committee made up of three Democrats from each chamber agreed to the compromise map Friday afternoon. The committee had been battling over competing plans from the two chambers since Sept. 11.
Chambliss appeared to have been the hardest hit of the GOP incumbents. His middle and south Georgia district was largely dismantled and his home was placed in Rep. Jack Kingston's 1st District, although congressmen do not have to reside in the district from which they are elected.
Chambliss has warned he may seek a statewide post, perhaps challenging Democratic Sen. Max Cleland next year, if he is not satisfied with his district.
Chambliss' district was changed to make room for a new, mostly Democratic district centered in middle Georgia. One likely Democratic candidate already has emerged: Perry attorney Chuck Byrd, law partner of House Democratic Leader Larry Walker.
Barr, a favorite target of Democrats following his role in the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, was put in a changed 11th District extending to Muscogee County and drawn to be Democratic.
Republicans said Barr might defy the Democratic oddsmakers and run in that district, anyway. Or, he potentially has an opportunity in the new 7th District stretching on the northern outskirts of Atlanta in a loose semicircle from Paulding County to Gwinnett County.
A new east Georgia district, the 12th, pushed Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood of the current 10th District north into a a reconfigured 9th District. Republican Rep. Nathan Deal of the 9th District likely would find a home in north Georgia's renumbered 10th District.
The eastern 12th District runs from Clarke County to Chatham County and jogs over to pick up Augusta. Among the candidates thought to be considering a run is the son of Senate Democratic Leader Charles Walker of Augusta.
A new south metro 13th District, configured as a semicircle with long, spindly projections, is drawn to elect a Democrat. A number of lawmakers are believed to be considering a bid, including Democratic Sens. Greg Hecht of Morrow and Donzella James of Atlanta.
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For the last seven weeks, ton after ton of waterlogged debris has been picked up from sidewalks and front lawns in towns affected by Hurricane Sandy and shipped to the Atlantic County Utilities Authority Landfill in Egg Harbor Township.
The 21-year-old facility has enough capacity to last until approximately 2026, so it isn't in any immediate danger of filling up completely — although by taking in as much waste in one month as it would normally take in six, that lifespan was certainly shaved.
From Oct. 31, when the facility reopened two days after Sandy, to Dec. 18, the landfill took in almost 67,000 tons of waste, more than double over the same period last year.
The dumping continued this week and on a recent day, a truck backed up to the edge and opened its liftgate, dropping hundreds of pounds of wood, fabric and metal into the space below.
Gary Conover, solid waste director for the Atlantic County Utilities Authority, said the hauler is contracted to remove storm debris from just the city of Ventnor.
Much of the stock of the CVS in Ventnor Heights "was emptied all out from a tractor-trailer down here," added solid waste manager James Coffey. "Stuff came right off the shelves and right to the landfill."
In terms of "bulky" waste material — "The stuff coming out of houses ... furniture, cabinets, carpets, that stuff," Coffey said — the landfill saw a nearly eight-fold increase over that same seven-week period last year, from about 2,500 tons in 2011 to more than 19,000 this year.
But that includes a relative slowdown in December, Coffey said. The year-to-year increase for bulky waste in November alone?
"One thousand percent," he said. "Things have calmed down now, but the month of November was pretty busy. We opened up seven days a week to accept all the waste coming in. Construction debris also increased. ... People were starting to rip out sheet and wallboards, stuff like that, and those were big numbers. But household trash also picked up. It was the biggest month we ever had."
For the Oct. 31 to Dec.18 period, the amount of construction debris increased 54 percent over last year, while household trash went up 73 percent — although Conover said that was partly due to the fact that last year haulers could still take some waste out of state. Even yard waste increased by 36 percent.
"It filled up a lot of space, but there's plenty of room left," Coffey said.
In northern counties, he added, "they obviously got hit a lot harder and had a lot more waste," Coffey said. "I know some counties relaxed waste-flow regulations, just to be able to move waste out where they can handle it. We didn't have that situation here."
In Cape May County, John R. Baron, deputy director of the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority, said the Woodbine facility took in an additional 23,000 tons of material on top of the normal 18,000 tons it would normally handle this time of year.
The impact on space at the landfill is not a problem, however — Baron said that it means the facility might be filled to capacity two months earlier than planned, although that would not be until sometime around the year 2093.
"Obviously we've got an awful lot of debris coming up," Baron said. "We've had a number of weekends we've stayed open, we were open on Veteran's Day, and we've also increased the hours. ... We were open as much as we could."
The ACUA also increased manpower during November, mostly through weekend overtime. Extra workers were needed to operate a second trash compactor working alongside a bulldozer.
"Not only do you want to get the waste in, you want to pack it to save airspace," Coffey said of the 100,000-pound machines that slide back and forth over the waste.
"This whole area is being filled in with storm debris," Conover said, standing at the top of the 140-foot-high manmade hill. "They'll push the waste up, make it even, come across, come across, come across, and then come back the other way till everything is at this height."
And then when that day comes in the 2020s, a wall will be built around the landfill and its disposal days will be over. Because of Hurricane Sandy, that day will come sooner than they imagined.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Rays manager Joe Maddon joined an elite crowd by managing his 1,000th game for the Rays on Saturday night.
Along with Maddon, the Angels' Mike Scioscia (1,971 games), the Twins' Ron Gardenhire (1,646) and the Phillies' Charlie Manuel (1,161) are the only other active skippers who have completed the feat with their respective teams. Tigers manager Jim Leyland joined the group on Sunday.
Maddon has compiled a 514-486 record over the course of seven seasons with the Rays, who were 518-775 before his arrival.
Maddon also became the fifth manager in the modern era to have managed at least 1,000 games for one team without ever playing in the Major Leagues.
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"Not only is it our national philanthropy, but each of us has been directly affected by breast cancer, so we understand how difficult it is," said senior Christina Garcia.
Started at the University of Florida in 1995, the sorority's national philanthropy every year is breast cancer awareness.
On Wednesday, the UNF chapter held a pink ribbon bake-off to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and the American Cancer Society. UNF students chipped in by baking pink pastries and cakes shaped like breasts. They hoped to raise $200, but the more important goal was to lure students with free food so they could spread the message of breast cancer awareness.
"I think a lot of college students brush it off, thinking they won't get breast cancer, but it can happen to anyone," said sophomore Amanda Ferree.
All of the girls in the house show their support for senior Whitney Piragine, a fellow sister whose mother has been undergoing treatments since 2006. If she has to miss a meeting because of her mother, they all stop by her house for support.
Two years ago, Piragine was attending the University of Central Florida when her mother was diagnosed. She transferred to UNF to move back in with her mother and to help with the cost of college.
"It was really hard on me to go to classes and try to graduate and be there for my mom, but it was a lot harder on her. I can't believe what she went through," she said. "I'm just so happy that her treatments were successful."
Sonia Jimenez and Katrina Gayle, both juniors, each had a grandmother diagnosed with breast cancer and both said the sorority's philanthropy was a big reason why they joined.
Garcia lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 5. Not only was it tough growing up without her, but Garcia said she's scared because she's at a high risk of breast cancer herself.
"It's really made me think a lot because I know I'm at risk," she said. "That's why I really feel better raising this money because breast cancer can really hit anyone."
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Reminder: Paddlefest 2009
As I wrote back in March, 'tis the season, once again. The mighty Arkansas River is rising, the waters turning chocolate. Our big kickoff to river season is Paddlefest, May 22-25, 2009. This what the folk at Colorado Kayak Supply have to say,
Come to Buena Vista, Colorado for huge kickoff party to celebrate the start of the summer whitewater boating season. Join us for an action-packed weekend of fun and educational activities for paddlers of all ages and abilities. Kayakers from beginners to aspiring competitors can rub elbows with paddling manufacturers, top pro kayakers, and other industry pros during a weekend chock full of education, entertainment, gear shopping and camaraderie.
Join a pro kayaker for a freestyle clinic, take a guided tour on the river, participate in a "how to" clinic, show off your skills in a fun kayak competition in the new river park or relax and watch live music and videos. The entire weekend will also promote awareness and raise funds for American Whitewater, the nation's leading organization dedicated to conserving and restoring America's whitewater resources. We hope to see you all there.
The Buena Vista Roastery will be open across the street from CKS, bright and early Saturday morning and all day Friday roasting beans and slinging espressos.


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BUSINESSES are being encouraged to put themselves forward for an award in an annual ceremony.
The Nigel Wood Recruitment North-East Accountancy Awards aim to reward the best accountancy and finance firms across the region.
Nominations are now open in a number of categories, with awards for individuals and organisations from accountancy and finance groups as well as public sector organisations and members of recognised professional bodies.
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David Bowman, managing consultant of Nigel Wright, said: "These awards see the professional and governing bodies within the finance community come together to celebrate excellence within the discipline.
"The finance function is a key part of the decision making process in any business, and is often an unsung hero, and these awards have always been well supported."
The awards night takes place in the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead Hotel on June 13.
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Temp files in RSpec
by gabebw
I've been hard at work at Chat Stew, the awesome upgrade to Pidgin2Adium. My tests involve creating a lot of temporary files to test various inputs. I had a hard time finding a solution, and figured other people might be having the same troubles I am.
I looked at FakeFS and Construct (test-construct), but neither one does exactly what I want. FakeFS has good RSpec integration, but I want a real filesystem – I just need it to reliably delete files after I'm done with them. Construct is not easy to integrate with RSpec – they have Test::Unit helpers, but for RSpec I tried this (and it failed):
in spec_helper.rb:
RSpec.configure do |spec| spec.include Construct::Helpers end
and the test:
within_construct do |construct| construct.file("log.html", "test content") it { should do_things_correctly } # etc end
and that didn't work. I also thought of Aruba, but that's Cucumber-only.
So how can I get temp files that:
- are guaranteed to be deleted when I don't need them anymore, and
- preferably have an easy way to specify their content?
As to the first part, Factory Girl has a wonderful bit of code in its (her?) spec:
in_directory_with_files(*files). It is run in a context block, and it chdir's to a tmp directory, creates an empty file for each file passed to the method, runs the specs, and removes the files afterward. It uses before and after blocks to handle creating the files and cleaning up. However, I didn't want to have to do
def self.in_directory_with_files(*files) for every context block, so I factored it out to a module and used a trick from FakeFS (the
self.included bit below) to make it work when included in a describe block. I only use one temp file at a time, so my solution also dynamically creates a method called content_for_file which I use to specify that file's content in
it blocks.
Without further ado:
module UsesTempFiles def self.included(example_group) example_group.extend(self) end def in_directory_with_file(file) before do @pwd = Dir.pwd @tmp_dir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'tmp') FileUtils.mkdir_p(@tmp_dir) Dir.chdir(@tmp_dir) FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(file)) FileUtils.touch(file) end define_method(:content_for_file) do |content| f = File.new(File.join(@tmp_dir, file), 'a+') f.write(content) f.flush # VERY IMPORTANT f.close end after do Dir.chdir(@pwd) FileUtils.rm_rf(@tmp_dir) end end end
Here it is in action:
describe ChatStew::ProgramProtocol do # "Percolates" down, so including it in an outer describe block gives the method to all blocks inside it include UsesTempFiles context "with non-empty file" do in_directory_with_file('non_empty_log') # You can also put the content_for_file call in an "it" block instead before do content_for_file("blah") end it "does things correctly" end end


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Olympus FE-280 review
By Narusa Rebbapragada | on January 07, 2008
Price When Reviewed: 92
Pros: Low cost. 21 scene modes.
Cons: No manual controls. Poor output.
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The eight-megapixel FE-280 costs under £100 – which looks like a bargain. However, the camera offers few manual settings, and its image quality was mediocre.
Our test unit was lightweight and easy to hold. It had a metallic-blue case, though the camera is also available in silver, black, or red.
The design incorporates a 2.5-inch LCD, which becomes extra bright when you hold the shutter release halfway down, though the real-time preview can look grainy. In playback mode though, images appear cleanly.
You're unlikely to need all of the FE-280's 21 scene modes – but that list is more manageable than the 41 options presented by the competing Casio Exilim EX-S880. The modes include Under Water Wide 1, Under Water Wide 2 (locked focus for quicker shutter release), and Under Water Macro; but since this isn't a waterproof model, you'll need underwater housing.
If you expect to be able to switch from scene modes to manual settings, you'll find the FE-280 limiting. Its Program mode provides only white-balance presets, ISO settings, and autofocus modes.
The FE-280 captures AVI video, and has three quality settings. The highest, 640-x-480-pixel resolution, produced accurately coloured, well-contrasted video with a slight grain; but the FE-280 can record only a 10-second clip.
Overall, the FE-280's performance is best described as average. It didn't excel at any point in our testing, whether in simple or complex situations, indoors or outside. Pictures of a still life and a female mannequin looked drab but had good contrast. In our black-&-white line-art tests, its sharpness was unimpressive.
One setting on the mode dial, called Guide, offers a Color Effects preview, which gives you a four-way split window to show the results of different white-balance settings.
The FE-280 is cheap and cute, and it fits easily in your pocket. Anyone with serious photographic ambitions, however, will outgrow it quickly.


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Wild turkeys are on the decline in the Southeast, and a team of University of Georgia researchers is trying to figure out why.
Using big rocket-powered nets — they can catch more than a dozen turkeys at a time — they've caught and tagged more than 100 turkeys with radio transmitters in two big wild tracts in Southwest Georgia.
The transmitters let the researchers track the turkeys' movements — and to know where to find them when they've stopped moving.
And the researchers may be close to clearing one suspect in the turkey decline — fire.
Like many other creatures, the wild turkey's numbers declined alarmingly in the late 1800s and early 1900s as Americans hunted them and cut down the vast forests of the eastern United States.
By about 1959, only an estimated half million wild turkeys remained, according to UGA graduate student Meg Williams, part of a team in the university's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources studying the life and times of the bird. By about 1930, the turkey had vanished from 19 of the original 39 eastern and Midwestern states it once roamed.
The turkey made a dramatic comeback in the second half of the 20th century as forests slowly grew back in the second half of the 20th century, and wildlife managers helped the wild turkey back into states where the bird had been extirpated. Today, the wild turkey population is estimated at about 7 million — including more than 5 million Eastern turkeys, the subspecies in Georgia and other eastern states.
But for about 10 years, state wildlife agencies across the Southeast have been seeing declines, said Mike Chamberlain, a professor in the Warnell school.
"We don't know exactly why," he said. "It has prompted turkey folks to kind of stand up and try to figure out not just what's causing this, but how much further are we going to see the decline? Is there a way to reverse it? Do we even need to reverse it?"
Chamberlain and Williams are trying to tease out answers to some of those questions, along with Warnell wildlife researcher Bob Warren and graduate students Drew Ruttinger, Christina Perez, Derek Colbert and Andy Little.
They're learning where gobblers, the male turkeys, like to roost at night, and where hens like to nest in the 30,000-acre Joseph Jones Ecological Research Center in Southwest Georgia and a nearby site, the Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area southwest of Bainbridge.
They've learned a few surprising things, too — like who's literally knocking off gobblers in the middle of the night.
Periodically, they've found decapitated gobblers.
They figure great horned owls looking for a meal are taking off the turkeys' heads, said graduate student Christina Perez.
"It seemed like the owls took them right off the roosting tree," Perez said.
But their early results show that fire may not be much of a factor.
Since the 1990s, state and private land managers have increasingly used prescribed fire as a management tool in pine forests like their study sites in Southwest Georgia.
The fire mimics more natural conditions of centuries ago, when frequent lightning-caused forest fires shaped the landscape.
The fires help kill off young hardwoods and invasive plants, and actually seems to boost the populations of bugs and greenery that turkeys like to eat.
But the researchers also wondered if fires set in the spring might be destroying nests and killing baby turkeys, or poults, that are abundant at that time of year.
So far, they've found little evidence of that, said Williams and Perez.
Of about 50 nests Williams studied earlier this year, seven were in the path of fire, and six were destroyed. But most of the hens whose nests were destroyed built new nests and laid more eggs, Williams said.
Researchers are looking beyond fire for answers to the turkey decline.
"Turkeys live across the entire United States, and live in all kinds of habitats," Perez said.
And the reasons behind the decline may vary from place to place.
"What's causing it seems to be anything from loss of habitat through the encroachment of civilization to changes in forest communities," Chamberlain said.
The amount of forest acreage in industrial forests is increasing, he said. And chemical herbicide use and forest thinning could also be factors, according to Perez.
A growing predator population could also be eating up more turkey eggs and baby turkeys.
"Everything eats a baby turkey poult," Perez said — not just carnivores like bobcats, hawks and owls, but even fire ants, she said.
And like the turkey, some predator animals have bounced back as Eastern forests grew back in Georgia and other states from the 1930s up to the 1990s.
Chamberlain suspects raccoons, which find turkey eggs tasty, may be an important part of the wild turkey's recent decline.
"There's growing evidence that there are more of those animals than ever," he said.
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Bullies get a bad rap, but in basketball, they are often important parts of a team.
Veteran Reggie Evans has long been considered that type of player and he has been joined in Toronto by young Joey Dorsey.
Though the bruising Dorsey has an unguaranteed contract, management likes what he provides and his teammates do too.
(Dorseys) a bully, a boss, said close friend Sonny Weems.
He really doesnt care about scoring. His focus is rebounding.
Dorsey followed up a strong summer league campaign with 13 points and 10 rebounds in 18 minutes against Phoenix last Wednesday.
Weems hopes Dorsey sticks around and becomes a contributor like he did.
I was in the same situation ... they almost sent me to the D-League, Weems said.
Hes really fighting for playing time like I was last year thats why I talk to him, try to keep his head up.
Though far from an experienced pro, Weems has given Dorsey advice about how to carry himself.
I tell him you have to show youre a good guy, Weems said.
You cant be in here getting mad about everything because its a different organization. A lot of people wont put up with that. Jay Triano wont put up with that nonsense. He has to carry himself a different way.
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Volvo has showcased a new version of the V40 hatch which has more than a little of the country casual look about it.
Looking as though it's donned a Barbour jacket and pulled on a pair of Hunter wellies, the V40 Cross Country has been designed for people "who want a sense of adventure in their everyday life".
The news comes just a week after the unveiling of the V40 R-Design, and now completes Volvo's autumn collection made up of the well-cut suit (V40), the sporty trainer (V40 R-Design) and the classic country wax jacket (V40 Cross Country).
To suit its outdoors nature, the V40 Cross Country features a ride pumped up by 40mm, a revised front bumper with in-built day-time running lights, sculptured muscular door-sills and a different rear bumper with a skid plate.
There's also some dark bodywork trim, a honeycomb grille and roof rails suitable for carrying dead pheasants or a kayak.
Inside there's a number of special details too, like a whole wealth of personalisation options available. For example, tick the box for "Raw Copper" paintwork, and you can have the seat stitching in a contrasting colour.
Just like the other V40s, the Cross Country can be ordered with any engine you like - from the eco 1.6-litre diesel D2 right up to the all-wheel-drive 2.5-litre petrol T5 model. It's the latter which gets hill descent control to help drivers scale kerbs, pot holes or even the odd grassy hillock.
The V40 is the first Volvo to wear the Cross Country name since 1997. Back then it was the V70 that wore it, which then became the V70 XC and the XC70. But Volvo has clarified the V40 hasn't been called an XC40 because it doesn't boast different body panels or a high-up seating position as other XC models do.


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COLUMBIA — London Richardson scored 16 points, Lateia Brailey and Ashley Thompson added 14 apiece, and the Benedict women picked up an 86-74 victory over Paine in Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action.
The Lady Tigers (11-11, 8-2) shot 53 percent from the field (33 for 62) and extended their lead in the SIAC East Division race.
Benedict dominated the first half, taking a 54-25 lead into halftime. The Lady Lions shot just 21 percent (5 for 24) in the first half.
Paine attempted to claw back, outscoring the Lady Tigers 49-32 in the second half, but the deficit was too much to overcome.
Former Butler standout Ashley Watts had a game-high 24 points for the Lady Lions (9-12, 7-4), who have lost three of four. Ariel Brown added 16 points and Kiara Farley chipped in with 10.


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Consider this search for a two word phrase: kwd1 kwd2. The search is made about 10.000 times/month and yields 387.000 pages. The following ranking is brand new as of the recent update and represents a huge jump up for #1 and #2.
#1 PR2 Title: "Fluff kwd1 Flash detect" (a warning to gentlemen to keep their trousers zipped up?) Description: fluff kwd1 kwd2. No text on page.
#2 PR3 - a page from the #1 site. Title: "Fluff kwd1 kwd2 fluff fluff kwd1 fluff kwd2 fluff."
Google shows <50 inbound links for the #1 site.
#3 PR6 Title: "kwd2 fluff fluff fluff kwd1 kwd2 fluff"
#4 PR5 - a page from the #3 site. Title: "kwd2 fluff fluff fluff fluff kwd1 kwd2"
Google shows >1000 inbound links for the #3 site.
The way this looks to me is that PR is no longer the most important factor in determining rank. Keyword density and proximity are. If this is right, Google has become a lot more like other search engines and suprisingly easy to spam. Any thoughts?
After the June update we jumped to #2 (above the the 6 and one 7). We stayed there for a large part of July, but then ended up dropping back into the #4 spot prior to the last update. After everything setteled this month, we are still #4.
Clearly, they seem to be toying with on-page criteria, but it doesn't seem to be something that is being done across the board.
Popular/competitive searches don't seem to be showing any signs of on-page factors being tweaked, but many less competitive areas do seem to be producing many more lower PR pages at the top.
I'm also seeing this sort of change. Whether it's greater weighting to keyword density, HTML title or link text is beyond me.
In my home page title, I recently changed it to contain keywords. I put:
"Site Title - Keyword1, Keyword2, and Keyword3 Database"
Now, I screwed up because I used Plurals on everything and nowhere in the singular (more popular search terms) appear. That's beside the point, it was the order that I put them that screwed me up...
One of the top 100 search terms on the web is the singular version of "Keyword2 Keyword1" from my title. But, I was noticing that I was getting some hits every day from the plural version if they typed Keyword1 first. So I looked at it.
For the term: "keyword1 keyword2" I was ranked #1 in google (too bad it only gets searched for about 500 times a month according to the Overture suggestion term.
BUT, if I typed in "keyword2 keyword1" a term that gets about 80,000 (if I remember correctly) searches a month. I searched to about 200 sites deep and my site still never showed up.
Now, I understand that one term is more competitive in its exact incarnation than the other because of the way people speak and would think to enter the term, but it stunned me at how big a difference the rankings would be in google just by reversing the order. It'd be like webmasterworld's homepage being ranked number 1 for "web professional" (two consectutive words in the title) but being ranked 400th for "professional web".
I was stunned. (And I, of course, fixed my mistake, let me tell you!)
For example we changed from
I do not know if this is related, but after few days all the changed pages got the PR of the main page; before the change all that pages had a PR diminished by 1.
Maybe the main page is going to increase the PR.. (I hope so)
Agree that on page factors now seem to be more important, but Im also seeing that the hyperlink text from external AND internal inward links may also be given more weighting. This explains, as many here have pointed out here, why keyword domanins go well - ie. it is far more likely that people will link to you with the keywords you want!
In just about every SERP we follow where lower PR's beat out higher PR's the former seem to have the keywords in their domain.
perhaps this is part of the reason that PR seems less important.
if it's just keyword density / order, then I have a couple of sites that should be in #1 spots instead of #2, since the site ahead of them has equivalent PR, no instance of the keyword on the page or in the source code, and several solid incoming links containing the keyword.
really, I think it's all about the incoming link text now more than ever. PR is still crucial - but not so much your PR as the *relevant* PR of the incoming link with your key-phrase in it.
Tweak the algo to be a bit more sensitive to the proximity of words in the search query
Example: search for: Google searches from your web page (without "..")
sadly for Google, the number one result is Altavista..
and the Google pages presented are not the ones I copied the exact sentence from (it was in the first sentence of [google.com...] )
from this posting: [webmasterworld.com...] msg 121
I forgot to take a screen shot, but if you do the same search: Google searches from your web page (without the "..")
the Altavista page does not turn up first anymore.
However Google's searchcode page still only turns up 16th (of Google's own site results).
So proximity alone is still far to go.
Hence my suggestion in that posting:
And while on the subject of proximity, what about a variable control bar in the toolbar that allows you to adjust the proximity factor?
My observation, that covers too few examples to carry any value, was that two or three updates ago, Google put more emphasis on external incoming textlinks. If these textlinks form part of your multi-word query, proximity plays a smaller role.
Certainly done us no harm...always a case for not putting all your eggs in one basket, but then I never believed PR was the 'be all and end all' anyway
The site was built without any real optimisation for the main keywords so I was surprised to see it beating much much higher PR sites like PR5 & 6.
It's certainly nice to see something like this happening as it gives hope that people with smaller sites can compete with the big boys and that PageRank is not the 'be all and end all' of good ranking. I can only put it down to the keyword domain.


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Originally published Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 6:48 PM
Earnhardt moves into overall Sprint Cup lead
So far this season, Junior has been a closer.
The Associated Press
So far this season, Junior has been a closer.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. moved into the Sprint Cup points lead after his second-place finish at Fontana.
Earnhardt logged his fifth consecutive top-seven finish Sunday, avoiding the trouble between Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on the final lap for his best result since coming in second at Daytona. Although Earnhardt briefly dropped back to 22nd late in the race after an extra-long pit stop, he shrugged off the mistake and drove his Chevrolet back into contention.
"We just stick together," Earnhardt said. "We're pretty good at closing races, something I never really was good at for years, and now we're doing it as good as anybody. Just riding the wave. Just real happy with how things are going for our team."
With just his sixth top-10 finish in 21 races at Fontana, Earnhardt took an 11-point lead in the standings over Brad Keselowski. Earnhardt also weighed in on the aging Fontana asphalt, which has been praised and reviled by drivers.
"I think it's great, (but) do everybody a favor, whoever owns this place, and pave the back straightaway," Earnhardt said. "There's some real bad bumps. We all watched it on TV in the Nationwide race, and I'm sure you saw it today. ... It probably doesn't cost much to pave the two lanes that we race in, and that would really cure any complaints that I've got. I think the corners are perfect. This is the age of asphalt that I think tracks strive for."