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John McCain's appearance at his St. Paul headquarters was a bit of a pep rally for the 100 or so volunteers there. Many arrived three hours before the event to make phone calls on McCain's behalf.
McCain told them their efforts are vital to his campaign, and he urged them to continue to make phone calls, knock on doors and register Republican voters.
"Minnesota will be a battleground state. Minnesota may determine who the next president of the United States is," said McCain. "We're going to win this state because of your efforts, and we can lose because of your lack of effort."
In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio News, McCain characterized himself as an underdog against Democrat Barack Obama, and acknowledged that he's polling behind Obama in both Minnesota and Wisconsin.
"Our soybean growers and corn growers in Minnesota who are in the rural areas are going to have a bone to pick with John McCain."U of M political scientist Larry Jacobs
McCain said those two states -- along with Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio -- are critical to his path to the White House. McCain will finish the week having campaigned in all but one of those states.
"This is a very important region for John McCain, and it's being reflected in the most precious commodity that he's got -- which is his time," said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota.
Jacobs said McCain and the Republican Party are placing a higher importance on the Upper Midwest and Rust Belt states because some of the more traditional Republican states are leaning towards Obama.
Jacobs said Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana are just a few states that could go Democratic this election cycle.
But a path to victory in Minnesota for McCain almost certainly runs through the West and South -- rural regions that have a heavy interest in federal agriculture policy.
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, a conservative Democrat who chairs the House Agriculture Committee, said last week that McCain has never met an ag bill that he could support.
McCain said he would work to open up more foreign markets to help farmers sell their goods and services, but said the recently passed fram bill is too bloated with pork barrel projects.
"I think the farm bill was a bad bill," said McCain. "I don't think we should give $93 million worth of tax breaks to thoroughbred racehorse owners. I don't think asparagus growers need $15 million of our subsidies. I certainly don't think that ethanol subsidies are necessary."
Jacobs said McCain's stance could upset what otherwise would be a core Republican constituency in this state.
"Our soybean growers and corn growers in Minnesota who are in the rural areas are going to have a bone to pick with John McCain," Jacobs said. "Usually the Republican Party in this state, and Democrats, are leery of offending that very important block of voters."
On another issue of interest to Minnesotans, McCain said the campaign is working towards choosing his vice presidential running mate, but he would not comment on who he's considering or whether Gov. Tim Pawlenty is on his list.
McCain said he'll consider a candidate who shares his principles, values and priorities, but added that balancing a ticket with a candidate from a different region is not as important as it was years ago.
Pawlenty told reporters on Thursday that he is not being vetted by McCain's campaign, and is not aware of being under consideration for the slot.


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Many Web developers face the issue of which programs will work the best for enhancing their experience with their website. The truth of the matter is that there are numerous different programs available regardless of the platform in question. This article showcases the ten best programs for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux Web developers.
Windows Programs:
1. Firebug (Free)
Similar to a free version of Adobe's Dreamweaver, Firebug will allow code to be edit and debugged and see the changes happen in real time via a "design" tab. It also comes with the ability to be integrated with Firefox for work while browsing. Download
2. SeoQuake (Free)
As another extension for Firefox, this allows Web developers to further enhance the way they handle search engine optimization. Within seconds, it determines the effectiveness of the promotional words placed into any given Web page. Download
3. FileZilla Portable (Free)
Any Web developer who has used FileZilla before will enjoy this handy version – a lightweight, portable version that can be stored on a flash drive and taken on the go. Download
4. PuTTY Portable (Free)
This is a lightweight, portable version of the lovechild between SSH Client and PuTTY telnet. Now this, too, can be take on the road without having to leave behind all of that personal information. Download
5. MeasureIt (Free)
This simple Firefox plugin allows developers to show rulers to make measurements on any given page. Download
6. CSS Validator Service (Free)
Not so much a program as it is a website itself, this HP-supported service allows a URL to be typed into a box. From there, it will point out any potential problems in the CSS coding of the website. Visit
7. BrowserCam (Various Plans Available)
This is an essential tool to ensure coding works across all Web browsers. It allows for comparisons between Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and more, ensuring one browser does not ignore any part of a code. Visit
8. Yahoo! YSlow (Free)
CSS must be compressed in order to save on bandwidth, and this handy application – which can integrate itself with Firebug – can help do just that. Visit
9. Browser Window Resizer (Free)
This program can be used to see how well a website looks in varying window sizes, such as 1024×768 versus 800×600. Download
10. Format CSS (Free)
For web developers that do not have any CSS code, or very little of it, it is possible to use this program to generate a format code based on desired and selected input. Visit
Mac OS X Programs:
11. MAMP (Free)
Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL and PHP come in a convenient little package, allowing Web developers on a Mac to handle their databases and servers. Installation is easy, as well. Download
12. Virtual Hosts X (Free)
This allows developers to edit a virtual host in real time, so no mistakes can be made live on the Internet. The free version lets developers use three hosts at a time, and there is a paid version for more. Download
13. Coda ($99)
This software is similar to Dreamweaver. The only difference is a lesser price, more features and less clutter on the interface. Download
14. Sequel Pro (Free)
Despite its name, this is a free of charge software. It allows developers to manage their MySQL databases, and it is compatible with the usage of MAMP. Download
15. Power*Architect (Free)
For those in need of a good database designer, this program has everybody covered. It effectively maps out keys, relationships, tables and more. Download
16. Transmit ($29)
Made by the same developer as Coda, this program also shares a similar interface. Rather than a code editing software, however, this software aims to function as an FTP uploader. Purchase
17. Versions.app ($52)
This is a powerful tool that services a developer's SVN needs. A demo is available for testing. Download
18. Assembla (Free)
Web developers who are looking to host a small amount of data may find solace in this free SVN-friendly host, which includes other convenient things like a wiki. Visit
19. Photoshop ($699)
This is the end all program for any Web developer in need of graphics. It comes with a full assortment of various tools, but it can cause quite a dent in the bank. Download
20. iTerm (Free)
This program stores bookmarks and effectively replaces the somewhat uncomfortable interface that the default Terminal provides. Download
Linux Programs:
21. Bluefish (Free)
This is one of the most popular development programs available on Linux. It is capable of opening 3,500 files at once and supports file syntax highlighting. Download
22. Anjuta (Free)
This allows developers to edit C and C++ languages, as well as debug their programming. Download
23. Glade (Free)
This is a Rapid Application Development software, and it looks similar to. It offers many build blocks, such as setting up checkmarks and text boxes. Download
24. GCC (Free)
This is a GNU compiler that is compatible with FORTRAN, Java, C, C++, Ada and Objective C. Download
25. KDevelop (Free)
Developed in 1998, this program was designed to function with a KDE desktop. It supports 15 different languages and comes with a debugger and code reformatting. Download
26. GDB (Free)
This is another debugger, but this time it is for GNU. Download ]
27. KompoZer (Free)
This is a user friendly authoring tool for coding that follows one simple rule of thumb: what you see is what you get. Download
28. Eclipse (Free)
Written in Java, this IDE supports multiple languages that comes with many different extensions for different needs. Download
29. Make
This program automatically determines whether or not parts of a large program code require being recompiled for any reason. Introduction
30. Quanta Plus (Free)
This is one more HTML editor that provides the "what you see is what you get" rule of thumb. This is also a user-friendly tool. Download

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Straight blonde hair and straight human males have never made a fortunate pair. From the brothers Hanson to Fabio to Metal Gear Solid 2's Raiden, the flaxen-haired fellows have always had it rough in the popular imagination. I think it really all began with Shakespeare's Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek, the blonde imbecile to whom the bard gave one of the greatest lines written in the English language: "But I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit." Oh, Sir Andrew, you kidder.
Unfortunately, the protagonist of Konami's Nanobreaker cannot plead the Atkins diet defense for his pathetic dialogue. Not only does he sport a straight blonde "do, he's also got a waistline that would make Paris Hilton jealous. Yes, there's a lot working against the Nanobreaker even before he breaks his first nano, but can the game overcome the haircut?
That would take innovative gameplay, strong artificial intelligence, revolutionary graphics, and a compelling storyline all of which Nanobreaker eschews with the same haughty disinterest that Carson Kessely might indiscriminately bestow upon either the Swedish Bikini Team or your favorite pair of pleated pants. Which is to say, the unfortunate haircut might be the most distinctive element of this repetitive, derivative, and senseless game.
The story is set on a remote island where a government nanotechnology experiment has gone horribly wrong and morphed the resident human population into giant mechanical monsters. You play as the golden-locked Jake Warren, a half-human, half-robot warrior sent to destroy the "brain" of the robots. Although the plot is reminiscent of the well-developed Parasite Eve, it quickly devolves into an excuse to include lots and lots of blood in a bad videogame.
Your plasma sword slices and dices the robots, unleashing torrents of red "oil" that stains everything it touches except your own immaculate white coiffure. The game's score is counted in gallons, and in every battle you will spill more blood than a one-legged vampire at a Transylvania U. keg party. Since power-ups depend upon how much blood you can milk out of a monster, you end up doing absurd things like chopping robots in half, then chopping up each completely harmless quivering remainder. Nanobreaker? Not any more. From now on call him Robot Juicer.
However, for a game so committed to satiating bloodlust, it doesn't quite get the liquid physics down. Rather than streaking across the ground or flying from the tip of your blade, the blood limply fountains from each baddie identically. It looks a little like you're simply puncturing balloons "which is more icky than ruthless. The game also slows down quite a bit when many things are bleeding at once, breaking up the fluidity (no pun intended) of the more difficult combos.
Nanobreaker seems to trot out a new kind of combo system, allowing you to use obtainable "chips" to build new combo moves. But rather than customizing combos, the chips merely unlock pre-set combos. In a neat touch, Robot Juicer's plasma blade can "morph" into giant melee weapons during these combos, and the effect is satisfying, especially when pounding on monsters with a giant glowing hammer. It's too bad that the environments are largely non-interactive, because your giant tools of destruction are useless against furniture or other non-juicy matter.
This is not a big drawback since the environments are devoid of any interesting details. The varieties of areas include the straight alley, the straight hallway, and the empty sterile arena. Compounding the tedium is the fact that Robot Juicer has to frequently retread his steps, dispatching the exact same enemies repetedly. Any satisfaction that comes from dismembering an orgamech goes out the window when the orgamech keeps respawning at the same location. But Nanobreaker provides you with an increasingly attractive option out of the repetition: whenever things get really bad you can trip a special lever that ends the pain. [Exclusive GR Special Hint: it's on the back of your Playstation 2 console.]
And I haven't even gotten to the worst element of it. Nanobreaker's infuriatingly poor camera mechanics make everything that might simply be mediocre much, much worse. Within two seconds of playing Nanobreaker, one notices that the right-thumb-stick adjusted camera is both slow and severely limited. It never gets as low as Robot Juicer's shoulder, which means you will always be looking down on him, and there's no first-person view mode. This prevents you from seeing what's in front of you and behind you'all you get a really good view of is the ground.
And Robot Juicer cannot look up, so navigating some of the game's platforming segments is frustratingly difficult. The camera also has a tendency to move independently when there are shifting platforms in an area, a kind of artificial difficulty that will make you want to hit the "special" lever immediately. The jumping puzzles are made even more difficult by R. J.'s ridiculous lack of dexterity. I don't know which is worse, the inability to look up or the inability to walk.
The boss battles, to their credit, are long and involved'usually with at least two or three "mutations" before their nano is broke for good. But in some cases, the closest save point will come 10 minutes before a boss battle, making an already repetitive game even worse. Also, in many of the battles timing is absolutely crucial, making Nanobreaker's frequent framerate dips potentially lethal. When you've already got millions of gallons of juice and thirty minutes of your life on the line, you won't be inclined to forgive a framerate death.
The music might escape mention, but because it is my job to consider such things I must report a thoroughly mediocre performance. Although non-obtrusive, many of the tracks sound strangely whimsical, as if your whole "save-the-world" project and your insatiable bloodlust are really kind of cute.
But Nanobreaker isn't very cute, and it isn't very much fun at all. It can be difficult, but usually this difficulty stems from horrible camera angles, slow animations, and ill-positioned save points. In the end, although a robot juicer might be a good thing to have in a cyborg kitchen, it still suffers from a crappy haircut, poor posture, and, judging by the uncomfortable dialogues it has with other characters in the story, bad breath too.


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The third annual Joseph City Fire District Tree Festival will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the fire station on Main Street. Come meet Santa, and bring your camera to take your photo with him. Hot chocolate and cookies will be served. To enter a tree, call Sandra DeSpain at (928) 587-0296 or Frances Monzingo at 288-3648.


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were both at a joint venture of DuPont and Merck, then later at Chiron. Martin is the science guy, with longstanding credentials as a former UCSF faculty member and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, while Knighton is a business guy with a Wharton School MBA combined with a master's degree in genetics.
"It's a very complementary relationship," Martin says. "We each have skills that the other hasn't perfected yet."
The founders liked the combination of the science and the practical aspects of starting a biotech company in the antibiotics field. In fields like cancer, autoimmune disease, and cardiovascular disease, success in animal models often fails to predict success in humans. But animal tests of antibiotics tend to be a better predictor. That meant they could finance the company step by step, without raising huge amounts of venture capital and ending up burning it all on a dead-end concept.
So far, AvidBiotics has raised a total of $9 million, bit by bit, much of it from government grants. The company has raised a modest $2.6 million in equity from the founders, family, and friends, Knighton says. Doing it this way encouraged disciplined management of the company finances, Knighton says.
"We raised $1 million at a time. We have a lot of skin in this game, and we want to keep our friends and family on our good side," Knighton says.
Now that AvidBiotics has shown it can make its bacteria-killing proteins, it has started focusing in on specific applications. The initial plan is to go after E. coli O157:H7, the bug that has been known in a few infamous cases to strike via undercooked ground beef.
AvidBiotics has developed a "two-fer" strategy against this nasty diarrhea-causing bug. The initial application is a spray-on formulation that would be used for beef carcasses, spinach, lettuce, or other food products that you'd want to protect. The other formulation, an oral pill, is being … Next Page »


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The University of Western Ontario revealed Thursday it has been conducting top-secret research for the past two years into what happens when curlers sweep, part of an effort to put Canadians on the Olympic podium.
The UW0 discoveries, some of them startling, will make a difference at the games -- particularly for the women's team, said UWO engineering professor Tom Jenkyn, who lead the research team.
Under signed secrecy agreements with the Canadian Olympic Committee, Jenkyn said he is forbidden to speak about key discoveries until the Winter Games are over.
But he is certain the Scottish have their own scientists studying the curling broom and how it is used.
While the critical discoveries remain a state secret, Jenkyn did reveal a few tidbits at a Thursday morning press conference.
For one, curlers have long believed they were melting the ice in front of the rock when they were sweeping. Doesn't happen, said Jenkyn.


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Doctor Woolfson's Answer:
You are absolutely right to take this seriously as your two-year-old is at risk of sunburn if he doesn't have sufficient protection. Incidentally, as well as using suntan lotion with a high SPF, try to keep your toddler out of the sun between 11am and 3pm as that is when the sun is hottest. Also, use a water-resistant lotion, especially when you are on the beach.
An uncooperative two-year-old is no fun on holiday! So to encourage your two-year-old to wear sun tan cream, start off by letting him see you put some on yourself – tell him how good it feels and how it keeps you safe. Maybe he can even help rub the cream into your arms. Then explain to him that it's his turn. Laugh, joke and tickle him as you put cream on him. As you say, better to make it a game than a chore. All the time remind your toddler that you have also put cream on and that it will keep him safe from the hot sun. Keep smiling as the lotion goes on, even if he moans and groans.
In the end, of course, he can't play in the sun without using protective lotion. That's non-negotiable. When he eventually realises no suntan lotion means no playing in the sun, he'll soon change his mind. Hopefully, though, it doesn't come to that and that the above strategies are effective.


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Speer PeaPod over the Speer 8.0 A hammock in the High Uintas.
Hammocks can be a wonderfully comfortable way to sleep while backpacking. When sleeping on the ground, a pad provides cushioning from the ground and also insulation under the sleeper. Cushioning is not required in a hammock for comfort, but some type of insulation is, in all but the very warmest conditions. In fact, more insulation is required under a sleeper in a hammock than on the ground largely because of convective heat loss from the exposed hammock bottom.
The Speer PeaPod is an innovative way to provide insulation under a hammock sleeper. It is large enough to completely surround the hammock and, with the aid of attached Velcro strips that run the length of the PeaPod, it can be completely closed over the top of the hammock and sleeper (but leave an opening above your face). Both ends have a drawcord and toggle so they can be cinched closed once the PeaPod is in place around the hammock. Since insulation is under the hammock, it is not compressed by the weight of the sleeper. The PeaPod is very comfortable to sleep in as opposed to sleeping on a foam pad inside the hammock (which can be hard to adjust underneath you). The PeaPod is a dual use item – it can also be worn for in-camp insulation.
The rectangular Top Blanket on top of the PeaPod, which has its inner side up. Note the tapered shape of the PeaPod and that it is quite a bit longer than the 6'8″ Top Blanket.
I tested the Speer PeaPod along with a companion piece, the Speer Top Blanket, with the Speer 8.0 A Hammock in Washington, Arizona, and Utah. Conditions included rain and wind, as well as cold, clear nights. Sleeping temperatures ranged from 65 to 20 °F. The Hammock, PeaPod, and Top Blanket are sold separately but are designed as a system. The hammock is used by itself in very warm weather. The PeaPod is added as the weather cools. As it gets even cooler, the Top Blanket is added as a quilt inside the hammock. When more insulation is needed, the Top Blanket can be used under the hammock and inside the PeaPod either in a single layer or doubled for more loft. Another Top Blanket, quilt, or sleeping bag of the appropriate rating is used on top of the sleeper.
The Top Blanket is a simple, 1-pound (0.45 kg), very reasonably priced down blanket. Velcro strips at the end of the Top Blanket can be closed to create a generous sized foot box when the Top Blanket is used as a quilt.
In Brief
- The PeaPod fits over a hammock leaving an uncluttered and comfortable sleeping surface (the hammock itself).
- The PeaPod is relatively easy to add to the hammock after it has been set up.
- The PeaPod insulation is not compressed under a sleeper since it is beneath the hammock.
- The PeaPod can be worn in camp for warmth.
- Extra insulation can be added under the sleeper by simply sliding it into the PeaPod.
- The Top Blanket can be used over the sleeper as a quilt or beneath the hammock and inside the PeaPod as under insulation.
- The Top Blanket is a warm, weight saver in a hammock, at just the right width for hammock use.
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|PeaPod for Speer 8.0 hammock and Top Bag, both with 700+ fill power down
|PeaPod: oversize rectangular blanket with full length Velcro side closure and foot and head drawstrings; Top Blanket: rectangular blanket with Velcro closed foot box
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|700+ fill power goose down, sewn through box construction
Manufacturer's Rating
|45 °F (7 °C) rating for both PeaPod and Top Blanket
|1.1 oz/yd2 (37 g/m2) ripstop nylon with DWR
|Also available to fit the longer Speer 8.5 hammock. Down overstuffing is available, as well as 900 fill power down with baffles.
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The author models the Speer PeaPod as in-camp wear. The top half is secured under her arms and the bottom half is turned inside out and secured above her shoulders. The PeaPod can be worn in different configurations – this one insulates the torso even when the arms are being used.
The PeaPod design is well thought out and functional. It is relatively easy to install once the hammock is strung, although more care is required when the ground is wet or snow covered so that the PeaPod doesn't drag on the ground. Both edges of the Speer hammock have Velcro "loop" strips while the PeaPod has a loop strip on one side and a hook strip on the other so the two sides can be attached to each other. The side of the PeaPod with hook Velcro can be temporarily "tacked" to the loop Velcro strip of the Speer hammock to hold it in place while arranging the PeaPod over the hammock. But the other side of the PeaPod hangs free. It would aid setup over wet ground if some method of temporarily fastening the loop Velcro side of the PeaPod to the hammock were available. A small loop of cord sewn to the center edge of each side of the hammock and corresponding buttons or hooks on the PeaPod edges would do the trick, or a patch of hook Velcro could be sewn to each side of the hammock.
The hammock is easy to enter and exit with the PeaPod installed. Simply separate a section of Velcro and either sit down into the hammock to enter or swing your legs out to exit.
The PeaPod hangs below the hammock bottom so the hammock must be hung high enough that the bottom of the PeaPod doesn't drag on the ground. With extra insulation in the PeaPod, it hangs a little lower and hammock height must be adjusted accordingly. When I camped at 8000 feet on snow at Doyle Saddle in the Flagstaff Peaks of Arizona, I had two layers of insulation in the PeaPod – the Top Blanket and a down sleeping bag liner. The button and loop idea from above would have come in handy to quickly secure the sides of the PeaPod to the hammock sides to keep the loaded PeaPod from dragging on the snow upon entry and exit.
The PeaPod can easily be used on the ground as a sleeping bag. It is long enough that the top can be pulled over the user's head to form a hood. The Velcro can be left open to form a face hole – but watch out for the scratchy Velcro. I wore the PeaPod around camp in various configurations. My favorite was with one end cinched under my armpits with the drawcord tied to hold it in place, and the other end turned inside out and brought up to my neck and secured. Almost full body coverage with two layers of material, some neck warmth, yet I was still able to use my hands through the front opening.
The PeaPod and Top Blanket I tested both have 700 fill power down in a sewn through box construction. I measured the loft of both items at the highest point in the center of several baffles and averaged the results. In each case (Top Blanket, bottom of PeaPod, top of PeaPod), I measured a higher loft than Speer claims. Since the baffles are sewn through and not overstuffed, Speer's claims of 1.5 inch loft for the Top Blanket and bottom of the PeaPod, and 1.0 inch loft for the top of the PeaPod provide more conservative estimates for comparing these items to other sleeping quilts and bags. The Top Blanket I tested weighed 14.5 ounces, 1.5 ounces less than claimed. I would have liked to see that extra ounce and a half as fill, since some baffles appeared to have slightly less down than other baffles. Speer offers overfill to prevent down shifting and also the option of 900 fill power down with baffles for more loft.
The drawcord ends and Velcro along the top of the PeaPod effectively seal in warmth. Since the PeaPod closes above the hammock sides, there is an air gap between the sleeper and the PeaPod. I felt cozier with that gap filled by something such as the Top Blanket. As advised by Speer, I left an opening in the Velcro along the top of the PeaPod for my face. I normally sleep with a sleeping bag hood snugged around my face, so this open gap took some getting used to. However, I found I was comfortably warm with the PeaPod/Top Blanket combination wearing the same headgear I would have worn in a hooded sleeping bag.
The Top Blanket is a wonderful quilt for hammock use. It doesn't waste weight with unneeded width, and it is nice and puffy. The foot pocket keeps my feet covered all night, and the blanket is wide enough to tuck in along my sides and stay there even with frequent turning from side to side. Speer says that the Top Blanket is not intended for on-the-ground sleeping, but I tried it anyway as a lightweight option. The Top Blanket is quite narrow and must be adjusted throughout the night to keep it tucked in at the sides. Still, it made a nice 60 °F quilt under a tarp.
The PeaPod and Top Blanket have ripstop 1.1 oz/yd2 nylon shells with DWR treatment. Additionally, the PeaPod can be closed along its entire length with Velcro and both ends can be closed snuggly with drawcord and cord lock. The shell material is highly wind resistant and water resistant. I never felt a draft inside the PeaPod even in winds gusting to 25 mph. Water left in a puddle on the shell did not wet out the fabric or soak into it after an hour. After a very still, 20 °F night in the PeaPod, frost covered the shell, but the loft was unaffected. I stuffed the frost covered PeaPod, Top Blanket and hammock into my pack while I went day hiking and later drove home. I was surprised to find the PeaPod limp but still retaining about half its loft when I removed it from the pack a day and a half later – I'd expected it to lose all its loft. Speer Hammocks believes in the use of substantial tarps with their hammocks. The 8′ by 10′ tarp provided with the Speer hammocks does a good job of protecting the down of the PeaPod from rain.
Stealth camping at its best – I woke up from a rainy day nap in the High Uintas and snapped this photo from the comforts of the Speer 8.0 A Hammock and PeaPod.
I used the Top Blanket over me inside the PeaPod in moderate temperatures and under me (between the hammock bottom and the PeaPod) in colder weather. The 17-inch deep Velcro foot pocket kept my feet securely contained when I used the Top Blanket over me. I also wore the Top Blanket around my torso, underneath a rain jacket for in camp warmth.
The Top Blanket slides into the PeaPod easily and stays in place overnight lengthwise, but the sides fold during the night to form a double layer of bottom insulation. Speer recommends four safety pins to hold the Top Blanket in place if only one under layer is desired, and folding the Top Blanket in half for a double layer of insulation.
Missing from this review (and for all sleeping bag reviews published here, for that matter) will be an assessment of whether or not the sleeping bag performs adequately at temperatures near its manufacturer-reported temperature rating. Click here for the complete Backpacking Light Position Statement on Sleeping Bag Temperature Ratings.
Both the PeaPod and Top Blanket are well made with appropriate materials. With a bit of care, both should last a long time.
At $109, the Top Blanket is a good deal for a hammock top quilt. The PeaPod retails for $235, which is a fair value because the long length of the PeaPod requires much more down than a typical sleeping bag.
Speer recommends four safety pins to keep the Top Blanket as a single layer underneath the hammock. Extra line tied to both corners on each end and secured to the D-rings on the hammock straps also works if one has forgotten the safety pins.
Tie the drawcord at each PeaPod end to the D-ring on the Speer Hammock strap to keep the PeaPod in place.
To help keep the PeaPod off the ground when first installing it, temporarily tack one side of the PeaPod in place using the compatible Velcro strip on the side of the Speer Hammock.
Recommendations for Improvement
Larger stuff sacks or pull-tabs on the ends of the stuff sacks would aid in removing the Top Blanket and PeaPod from their stuff sacks.
A small loop on the center edge of both sides of the hammock and corresponding buttons on the edges of the PeaPod would make it easier to keep the PeaPod from dragging on the ground or snow when initially putting it on the hammock in camp.


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We all have some old makeup brushes in our stash that have become too worn out or were never good to begin with, like those useless little brushes that come with palettes or gift sets. But throwing them away would be a waste. Just because those brushes aren't useful to apply makeup, it doesn't mean they're not good for anything else. Here are 3 creative ways to put them to good use:
1. Clean all those nooks and crannies
Old makeup brushes are very useful to clean small objects such as computer keyboards, camera lenses, hi-fi sets and remote controls, as they can fit into all those hard-to-reach little nooks and crannies, easily removing all the dirt that has deposited there. Just be careful not to wet the brush when you use it on electronic equipment, such as computers, especially if they are turned on. If you're cleaning your furniture instead, you can safely spray your brush with some furniture polish or vinegar.
2. Arts and crafts
If you have children, you could give them your old brushes for painting and other crafty projects. If your kids just want to have fun and experiment with art, old brushes will do very well. And if they discover a love for painting, you can always invest in better brushes later on. Besides, old brushes can work well to paint grass or add texture to a picture.
3. Messy glue projects
For some artsy or DIY projects, you may need to use glue, which can be pretty messy. Old eyeshadow and eyeliner brushes are very handy to apply it with precision on small areas, while larger face brushes can be used to apply it liberally on bigger surfaces.
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sadmafioso (4.5)Too late to make demands, when you've got a riot on your hands....toxin. (4)A remarkably consistent offering from a band transitioning into the mainstream....peartnoy (3.5)New Surrender is disappointing, but there are enough moments of greatness here to make it ...Green Baron (4)Retrace the steps we took on that lost summer night......
cleary21 (4.5)Anberlin is back, and their much anticipated 2008 release, New Surrender, does much to ple...
I have yet to be disappointed by Anberlin and can't wait for this album. Good review, I definitely agree with your remarks on Stephen's singing. I can't imagine liking the band without him at the helm.
Album Rating: 4.0Album is streaming on their MySpace btw
Album Rating: 3.0
Though it might not be a contender for album of the year, it is definitely a solid and highly enjoyable album from the Floridian quintet
there is a lingering fear that the band will start churning out horribly overproduced, not to mention dumbed down and generic, music.
Digging: Adimiron - Et Liber Eris
First paragraph feels like a sound off to me, don't know why.
Good review, though, very concise.
Album Rating: 4.0It was up for maybe five or so minutes before it got bumped to the bottom by that horribly inconsiderate individual who posted 4 Muse reviews at the same time actually its gone completely now...no fair haha
First paragraph feels like a sound off to me, don't know why.
Is that a bad thing? I thought first paragraphs where supposed to be more or less summations of the whole thing and then elaborate on the ideas presented?
Album Rating: 4.0Ugh I should have just waited like five extra minutes...haha
Album Rating: 3.0Believe me, I understand. Mine is somewhere below yours. I have this band's last two albums and it doesn't sound like enough has changed to buy this one. I guess I could just check out the stream.
Album Rating: 3.5Nice review, I pretty much agree completely. Not as good as Cities, but probably on the same level as NTFP, maybe better. They were soooooo good at Warped Tour too.
I actually don't remember what they sound like.
Album Rating: 4.5this album is so good, seriously
Album Rating: 4.0The Resistance is fantastic...
Album Rating: 3.5Good review...perhaps a bit short, though.
Anyways, maybe you'll get lucky and this review will become featured?This Message Edited On 09.23.08
Album Rating: 4.0Its shorter than most (if not all) of my reviews, but I don't feel like this is an album you just go on for days about (without being tedious and redundant) like "this is awesome for this reason, and this is great for this reason" when all the songs are pretty much great for the same reasons. I thought I covered more than enough though :/ hahaThis Message Edited On 09.23.08
Album Rating: 3.5Listening to the new album right now. The first song definitely brings about comparisons to NTFP more than Cities (namely to "Paperthin Hymn"), and then there's that cover of "Feel Good Drag" from that album, as well. We'll see, though. I like "The Resistance," but I don't think that it's as powerful an opening track as "Godspeed" was.
I get what you guys are saying, though; solid music, but not groundbreaking. Might end up on my top albums list, though it would only be because it's a new Anberlin c.d. (as opposed to, say, "Viva La Vida," which is an amazing, out-of-nowhere hit for me).This Message Edited On 09.23.08
Album Rating: 4.0The retooled version of Feel Good Drag is a lot better I think...I dunno I liked The Resistance as an opener a bit better than Godspeed...but they are both great and I dunno its hard to decide
Album Rating: 3.5Sounds pretty awesome, I am excited for this and really doubt it will disappoint.
Sucks that guy put up the 4 Muse reviews right after this.This Message Edited On 09.23.08
Album Rating: 3.0Good review. I'm gonna force myself to wait till next week when I have a copy in my hands to listen to this. I've been really digging Cities lately. Stephen's voice rules.
Anberlin are a great band, Cities is one of my favorite albums. I'm not gonna rate this til I listen to it a few more times, but after the first time through I'm guessing this will be a 4. Not as good as Cities but pretty awesome nonetheless.
Album Rating: 4.5never actually listened to this band, who do they sound like.
I also think this should be featured, you know, just throwing that out there.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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The package party is grand, with great towers of wrapped surprise packages to be auctioned to raise money for other new immigrants to the community. Such wonderful smells, tastes, and sounds, and oh, so much to see...
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Fast bowlers Jerome Taylor and Kemar Roach, who have battled injuries recently, have been recalled to the West Indies squad for the first Test against New Zealand, which starts in Kingston on June 8. The squad also includes offspinner Shane Shillingford, who was cleared for a return to international cricket earlier this year, following remedial work on his bowling action.
The selectors also named left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn in the 13-member squad, while Dwayne Bravo was ruled out due to an injury sustained during IPL 2014. Plagued by injuries since his debut in 2003, Taylor recently returned to competitive cricket for Jamaica in a one-dayer against the touring Ireland side in February. He then finished as the second-highest wicket-taker for Jamaica in the Regional Four Day Competition, bagging 25 wickets in eight games at an average of 25.28. Taylor's last Test appearance was in November 2009, against Australia in Brisbane.
Roach, on the other hand, has not played a Test since the home series against Zimbabwe in March 2013.
A shoulder injury forced him out of the India tour in November last year after which he underwent a surgery. Since April, Roach has been working with BCA coach Vasbert Drakes, West Indies coach Ottis Gibson and his Maple teammate Corey Collymore—all three are former West Indies fast bowlers—in order to get his shoulder back in shape for bowling. A few months ago, he escaped serious injury following a car accident in his native Barbados. The series will be the first assignment for Denesh Ramdin, who took over as Test captain from Darren Sammy last month. Sammy then announced his retirement from Test cricket hours after Ramdin's appointment. The wicketkeeper-batsman has led the national side in three T20s and an ODI.
The Jamaica Test is also likely to be Chris Gayle's 100th match in the format. Gayle struggled with a back injury during the IPL and recently sought treatment in Germany, aiming to be fit for the landmark Test in front of his home crowd.
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Mary L. Stracke was born in Maryland, USA, in 1949. She received a B.S. degree with high honors in physics in 1972 and an M.S. degree in zoology in 1975 from the University of Maryland at College Park, Md, USA. In 1979, she was awarded an M.D. degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md, USA, and completed residency in internal medicine at Baltimore City Hospital, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. From 1982 to 1985, she was a Medical Staff Fellow at the Laboratory of Dr. Reuben Siraganian in the National Dental Institutes at the National Institutes of Health. Then in 1986, she entered a fellowship under Dr. Elliott Schiffmann at the National Cancer Institute. Presently, she is a staff scientist at the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Cancer Institute. She is mainly interested in tumor invasion and metastasis, cell motility, cell interaction with the extracellular matrix, biochemical pathway activation associated with cell motility and tumor invasion, and regulation of genes associated with tumor invasion and metastasis.
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Subject: Writing to living rellies.
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:57:09 +0800
Hi all,
I have also had great success sending letters to people with the surname
I'm after, but seeing as I could only find one BRINDAL in the UK phone
numbers (on-line), I didn't have too many to send! :) Never the less it
has been so great! They were as excited as I was to find that there were
other BRINDAL'S on the planet. We have exchanged information, photos
etc.. and are connected through our great great grandfather. We keep in
regular contact, they are a lovely family, and I'm so glad I found them.
It certainly worked for me.
Dianne Haywood in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Researching: BRINDAL, CHADWICK, FELTHAM, HOWARD,
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Rwanda defended its track record against claims made by a U.N. peacekeeping group it was tolerant of child soldiers recruited to fight in the DRC's wars.
U.S. State Department said last week it decided against issuing a waiver to Rwanda from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 because of its support for the March 23 Movement, a rebel group suspected or conscripting child soldiers.
Dee Brillenburg Wurth, director of child protection at the U.N. peacekeeping group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was quoted Tuesday by Voice of America as saying Rwanda was tied to child soldiers fighting in M23 ranks.
"[Recovered children] told us they had this system in place, like a pyramid scheme; $5 for every child that was recruited," she said. Wurth said about 20 percent of the children interviewed were from Rwanda.
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo denied the allegations.
"Rwanda does not tolerate children being enrolled in any way near armed groups, not in our own army," he was quoted as saying.
The United Nations is supporting the DRC military in its fight against M23. Simmering conflict has displaced more than 100,000 people in a country where a humanitarian crisis has impacted the lives of an estimated 2.6 million people.


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All we can say about Mork Encino's attempt at "spread[ing] the word about [his] predicament" (i.e. unemployment) is OH COME ON NOW.
Encino's entirely-a-joke website, HuntMe4Sport.com, says that for $10,000 USD you can spend 24 hours trying to hunt Encino. If you find him, you kill him and get a "PRIZE HUMAN MOUNT for your wall and ALL INCOME from any organ harvest."
"If you dont think this here is real than you havent seen the numbers or know anyone desperate for a GODDAMN paycheck," he said in another post.
And yes, Encino's "offer" made it into a Taiwanese animation news clip. That's how you know he's hit the big time.
The Guardian spoke with Encino about his site, saying that Encino was really just trying to get publicity for being out of work for more than a year.
"After losing his construction job 13 months ago, Encino, 28, has been unemployed, despite sending out more than 200 job applications. 'I haven't got a single response.'"
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Cloud infrastructure startup Nebula, founded by former NASA IT chief Chris Kemp, wrapped up the week's funding deals with a multimillion dollar debt round. We've got the details on that financing and more below in Friday's installment of Funding Daily.
Nebula nabs $3.5M for OpenStack hardware
Following a $25 million financing in late 2012, Nebula has taken on an additional $3.5 million in debt funding, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company deploys complete private clouds for enterprises based on OpenStack (open-source cloud computing software) and commodity hardware. The resulting implementations cost as little as $100,000, which is cheap for an enterprise-capable data center. Read the full story on VentureBeat.
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Mobile-productivity startup Gusto has closed a $1.3 million funding round led by Elevate Ventures, the company announced today. Gusto's eponymous iPhone app launched on the app store today, bringing powerful search and attachment features to its unified mobile inbox. The best part? It's free. Read more about Gusto on its website.


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The Science of Getting Rich is the best known work from pioneering self-help and success writer, Wallace D. Wattles. With these principles and methods, which he developed from his own study and experimentation, Wattles shows others how they too can become wealthy. His daughter Florence wrote of Wattles that "He wrote almost constantly. It was then that he formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and… (more)
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Court hearing against Clair Troxell results in fines
The May 2 East Penn supervisors' meeting began with an executive session to discuss litigation.
Under public comment Harvey Keiper asked what the result was of the hearing on zoning violations at Troxell trucking.
Solicitor Jim Nanovic said there were three separate orders. There is a fine of $115,500 for storing commercial vehicles at the building previously used as a schoolhouse and community center. The same amount was for raising pigs on the property along Route 895, with an injunction that he may not get more.
He was enjoined from using the property for storing junk, tires and scrap metals, and to not use the property as a trucking terminal. Commercial vehicles are to be removed from the property and it is to be cleaned up. There is also a fine of $624,500 with this order.
Troxell has a 30-day right to appeal.
If he does not comply with the orders prison time is a possibility. The township would need a court order to go in and do the cleanup, said Nanovic.
Supervisor Randy Pfeiffer made a motion that the solicitor should proceed at the end of the 30-day appeal period.
Keiper said trash remains around a trailer home down Route 895 from Troxell's on the same property as the trucks. Zoning officer Richard Dietrich said he was out and no one is living in the trailer at this time.
Both Duane Schleicher's subdivision and Churchview Downs land development plan will go before the planning commission on May 16.
The East Penn Recreation Committee will hold a fishing derby on May 7, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the playground. Refreshments will be available.
The D&L Trail continues to be closed for surface construction Mondays to Fridays up to 5 p.m. It is open after 5 p.m. and on weekends.
A previous motion to request bids for a police cruiser was rescinded. The cruiser will be bought from Co-Stars - a state organization, at a cost of $23,000 and will be received several months earlier than it would through the bid.
Nanovic was ordered to disband the fireworks ordinance. Pfeiffer asked why since it does not forbid legal fireworks and makes it easier to enforce the ordinance. The magazine "Township News" had an article saying all townships should have a fireworks ordinance, he said.
Supervisor Jake Nothstein said supervisors are required to inspect a site where fireworks are planned.
Supervisor Herb Truhe said he does fireworks displays all over the state and few municipalities have an ordinance. It will be disbanded. Pfeiffer voted against doing so.
Fuel bids will be advertised.
Pfeiffer asked who owned a pickup truck in the equipment-storage pole building at the municipal offices.
"We're storing someone's vehicle that is not owned by the township and no one knows who owns it. Maybe we should get the detective to run the VIN number," said Pfeiffer.


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Caria - 1200 BC - 545 BC
Caria was an ancient district of Asia Minor, bounded on the N. by Ionia and Lydia, on the W. and S. by the Aegean Sea, and on the E. by Lycia and a small part of Phrygia. Homer (Il. x. 428-429) distinguished the Leleges from the Carians, to whom is ascribed the invention of helmet-crests, coats of arms, and shield handles. Its capital was Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), which had been originally been founded by the Greeks. In Antiquity, the Carians were famous mercenaries.
Herodotus writes that the Greeks had been indebted to the Carians for three military inventions: making shields with handles, putting devices on shields, and fitting crests on helmets (Histories 1.175). Because of this last invention, the Persians called the Carians 'cocks'. The Carians were especially famous because they served the Egyptian pharaoh. The main source is, again, Herodotus. He relates that the first to employ these men was pharaoh Psammetichus I (664-610; Histories 2.152), probably at the beginning of his reign. The Carian language belongs to the Hittite-Luwian subfamily of the Indo-European languages. It is related to Lycian and Lydian, the languages spoken to the southeast and north of Caria. Had the Carians arrived in their country from the west, their language would have been closer to Greek.
Caria and the Carians are mentioned for the first time in the cuneiform texts of the Old Assyrian and Hittite Empires, i.e., between c.1800 and c.1200. The country was called Karkissa. They are absent from the Egyptian texts of this period. After a gap of some four centuries in which they are mentioned only once, the first to mention the Carians is the legendary Greek poet Homer. In the Catalogue of ships, he tells that they lived in Miletus, on the Mycale peninsula, and along the river Meander. In the Trojan War, they had, according to the poet, sided with the Trojans (Homer, Iliad, 2.867ff).
The country known as Caria was shared between the Carians proper and the Caunians, who were a wilder people, inhabiting the district between Caria and Lycia. They were not considered to be of the same blood as the Carians, and were, therefore, excluded from the temple of the Carian Zeus at Mylasa, which was common to the Carians, Lydians and Mysians, though their language was the same as that of the Carians proper. Herodotus (i. 172) believed the Caunians to have been aborigines, the Carians having been originally called Leleges, who had been driven from the Aegean islands by the invading Greeks. This seems to have been a prevalent view among the Greek writers, for Thucydides (i. 8) states that when Delos was "purified" more than half the bodies found buried in it were those of "Carians." Modern archaeological discovery, however, is against this belief; and the fact that Mysus, Lydus and Car were regarded as brothers indicates that the three populations who worshipped together in the temple of Mylasa all belonged to the same stock.
A considerable number of short Carian Inscriptions has been found, most of them in Egypt They were first noticed by Lepsius at Abu-Simbel, where he correctly inferred that they were the work of the Carian mercenaries of Psammetichus. The language, so far as it has been deciphered, is "Asianic" and not Indo-European.
Caria figured but little in history. It was absorbed into the kingdom of Lydia, where Carian troops formed the bodyguard of the king. Cnidus and Halicarnassus on the coast were colonized by Dorians. At Halicarnassus the Mausoleum, the monument erected by Artemisia to her husband Mausolus, about 360 BC, was excavated by Sir C. T. Newton in 1857-1858. Cnidus was excavated at the same time, when the "Crudian Lion," now in the British Museum, was found crowning a tomb near the site of the old city (C. T. Newton, History of Discoveries at Cnidus, Halicarnassus and Branckidac). On the border-land between Caria and Lydia lay other Greek cities, Miletus, Priene, and Magnesia, colonized in early times by the Ionian. Inland was Tralles (mod. Aidin), which also had an Ionic population. though it never belonged to the Ionic confederacy. The excavations of the English in 1868-1860, of the French under O. Rayet and A. Thomas in 1873, and the Germans under Th. Wiegand and Schrader in 1895-1898 have laid bare the site of the Greek Priene, and the same has been done for the remains of Magnesia ad Maeandrum by French excavators in 1842-1843 and the German expedition under K. Humann in 1891-1893. A German expedition under Th. Wicgand carried on excavations at Miletus.
In the Persian epoch, native dynasts established themselves in Caria and even extended their rule over the Greek cities. The last of them seems to have been Pixodarus, after whose death the crown was seized by a Persian, Orontobates, who offered a vigorous resistance to Alexander the Great But his capital, Halicarnassus, was taken after a siege, and the principality of Caria conferred by Alexander on Ada, a princess of the native dynasty. Soon afterwards the country was incorporated into the Syrian empire and then into the kingdom of Pergamum.
The coast-line consists of a succession of great promontories alternating with deep inlets. The most important inlet, the Ceramic Gulf, or Gulf of Cos, extends inland for 70 m., between the great mountain promontory terminating at Myndus on the north, and that which extends to Cnidus and the remarkable headland of Cape Krio on the south. North of this is the deep bay called in ancient times the Gulf of Iasus (now known as the Gulf of Mendeliyah), and beyond this again was the deeper inlet which formerly extended inland between Miletus and Priene, but of which the outer part has been entirely filled up by the alluvial deposits of the Maeander, while the innermost arm, the ancient Latmic Gulf, is now a lake. South of Cape Krio again is the gulf known as the Gulf of Doris, with several subordinate inlets, bounded on the south by the rugged promontory of Cynossema (mod. Cape Alupo). Between this headland and the frontier of Lycia is the sheltered bay of Marmaricc, noted in modern times as one of the finest harbours of the Mediterranean.
Almost the whole of Caria is mountainous. The two great masses of Cadmus (Baba-dagh) and Salbaciun (Boz-dagh), which are in fact portions of the great chain of Taurus (sec Asia Minor), form the nucleus to which the whole physical framework of the country is attached. From these lofty ranges there extends a broad tableland (in many parts more than 3000 ft. high), while it sends down offshoots on the north towards the Maeander, and on the west towards the Aegean. Of these ranges the summit of Mt Latimus alone reaches 4500 ft.
The coast is fringed by numerous islands, in some instances separated only by narrow straits from the mainland. Of these the most celebrated arc Rhodes and Cos. Besides these are Syme, Telos, Nisyros, Calymnos, Leros and Patmos, all of which have been inhabited, both in ancient and modern times, and some of which contain excellent harbours. Of these Nisyros alone is of volcanic origin; the others belong to the same limestone formation with the rocky headlands of the coast.
Caria: the southwest of modern Turkey, was incorporated in c.545 BCE the ancient Achaemenid empire as the satrapy Karkâ.
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When I first looked at the Vitra Haus, I immediately thought it was absolutely amazing. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Vitra Haus is the newest addition the the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. As though a tornado whipped through the town, twelve houses have been strewn together, one atop the other.
Although seemingly random, there is, of course, a well-thought out plan behind the chaos that is Vitra Haus. See more images above.
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France: Skiing in the French Alps is exceptional and each area offers skiers and snowboarders a choice of varied terrain that's suitable for all levels. Some of the main resorts in France include Alpe d'Huez, Chamonix, Chatel, Courchevel, Les Deux Alpes, Meribel, Morzine, Tignes, Val d'Isere and Val Thorens.
Switzerland: The crème de la crème of ski destinations, Switzerland is all about serious skiing and serious frills. After all it's the home of one of the most expensive ski resort in the world – St Moritz. Other popular Swiss ski resorts include the Swiss Alps, Davos, Grindelwald, Interlaken, Klosters, Verbier and Zermatt.
Austria: The true definition of an Alpine ski destination – Austria. Huge frosted trees line the slopes while quaint wooden chalets are dotted around the hills. Three of the best Austrian ski resorts include Kitzbuhel, Saalbach and St Anton.
Italy: Great food, chic hotels and challenging ski amid the most breathtaking view in the world – this is what skiing in Italy is all about. Among the top Italian ski resorts are Cervinia and Courmayeur.
Andorra: Budget-conscious skiers head to the Principality of Andorra for its affordable accommodation, tax-free shopping and great skiing. The best known ski resort in Andorra is Pas de la Casa.
Bulgaria: Serious skiers who want an affordable resort head to Bulgaria's slopes. The country has some excellent ski schools, a well-developed ski area and is a good choice for families. The main resorts in Bulgaria are Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo.
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USA: There's no denying the fact that America has some of the best skiing in the world. Excellent facilities coupled with outstanding service make it a popular destination for all levels and ages. Two of the biggest – and best – ski resorts are Aspen and Breckenridge.
Canada: With guaranteed snow, stunning scenery and some of the biggest and best resorts, Canada attracts skiers and snowboards from all over the world to its slopes. The most popular ski resorts in Canada include Banff, Lake Louise and Whistler.


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Pre-2012 news, results & reports are on the old sites: 2009 to 2011, Pre-2009
2017 Road Championship
Category: Road Published Date Hits: 1419
For those new to the Harriers or unfamiliar with this club competition, the championship series provides all senior runners with an opportunity to compete against each other and gain points.
There is a separate male and female championship. Points are awarded based on your finishing position amongst other Harriers; 25 points are awarded to the first male and female over the line, then 20 for second place, 18 for third continuing down to 1 point - with all runners taking away a minimum of one point.
This year 16 races have been selected including a mixture of local and/or popular/highly recommended races. All races are on the road and the distances vary from 5 miles to 15 miles distance; there's plenty of opportunity to test yourself and achieve your running goals.
Whilst you can run all of the races it's not essential and only your best 8 performances will count. You must however run a minimum of four races which must include two short races (5 mile or 10K) and two middle/longer distance (10 mile, half marathon or 15 Mile) race to be in a position to win.
Race calendar
The races below make up the championship for 2017.
- 29th Jan – Meltham 10K
- 5th Feb – Dewsbury 10k
- 19th Feb – Wombwell 5 mile
- 19th Mar – Thirsk 10 mile
- 2nd Apr – Wakefield 10k
- 17th Apr – Ackworth Half
- 7th May – North Lincolnshire Half
- 8th June – Bronte 5 mile
- 14th June - Joe Percy 10k
- 5th July – Helen Winsor 10k
- 13th Aug – Askern 10
- 10th Sep – Vale of York Half Marathon
- 22nd Oct – Holmfirth 15 mile
- 19th Nov – Preston 10 mile
- TBC Nov – Barnsley 10k
- TBC Dec – Percy Pud 10k
Bonus Races
If you compete in these events you will be awarded 10 bonus points in the Championship.
- 12th March – Club 6 mile
- 16th May - Club 5 mile
- 4th July – Club 10 mile
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Justin Miller returned a kickoff for a 95-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter Sunday as the New York Jets beat Buffalo, 30-26.
Ty Law intercepted three passes and Mark Brown returned an interception for a touchdown while Brooks Bollinger went 11-for-20 passing for 153 yards for the Jets. Laveranues Coles had four receptions for 79 yards and running back Cedric Houston ran for a score for New York (4-12), which ended a dismal season by breaking a two-game losing streak.
Kelly Holcomb was 23-for-37 for 184 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions for Buffalo. Willis McGahee gained 113 yards on 22 carries and Eric Moulds had eight catches for 96 yards and a touchdown for the Bills (5-11), who lost six of their last seven games.
Miller's touchdown came right after Rian Lindell's 36-yard field goal with 6:13 to play gave Buffalo a 26-23 lead.


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FIFA's ethics court began hearing corruption allegations against two executive committee members who offered to sell their votes, and at least two countries bidding to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Soccer's world governing body ordered investigations into Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Reynald Temarii from Tahiti after British newspaper The Sunday Times reported they offered to sell their votes in the World Cup bidding contests.
FIFA requested evidence from the newspaper, which filmed the officials discussing deals to fund soccer projects with reporters who posed as lobbyists.
The ethics panel is also examining allegations that unnamed bidders were colluding to trade support, in breach of FIFA rules of conduct created for the bid race which began in January 2009.
The panel, chaired by lawyer and former Switzerland player Claudio Sulser, can suspend FIFA officials from duty and recommend action against bid candidates.
FIFA sanctions could wreck a bid's multimillion dollar global lobbying campaign with polling scheduled in just six weeks.
FIFA's ruling executive will select the two World Cup hosts in a Dec. 2 secret ballot in Zurich.
The 2018 tournament will be held in Europe with four candidates in the running: England, Russia and the joint bids by Belgium-Holland and Spain-Portugal.
The 2022 hosting rights race was between the United States and four Asian confederation countries: Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea.
FIFA barred bidders from making agreements with other candidates, and insisted they must act with "integrity, responsibility, trustworthiness and fairness." FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke issued a reminder of the rules last month after rumors of vote-swapping deals surfaced.
The Sunday Times allegations kicked off a dramatic week as FIFA seeks to maintain the integrity of the bid process.
Temarii, the Oceania Football Confederation president, met FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Sunday and asked to clear his name before the ethics committee.
The 43-year-old former professional player was filmed asking for $2.3 million to fund a soccer academy in Auckland, New Zealand.
"I'm confident about my integrity but I made a mistake by talking in that way," Temarii told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The newspaper also quoted Temarii saying backers of two other unidentified bidders offered $10 million to $12 million to Oceania.
Amadu was filmed requesting $800,000 to build four artificial soccer fields in Nigeria, and for the money to be paid to him directly.
Sulser's panel could provisionally suspend Adamu and Temarii while it completes the investigations. They are scheduled to attend an Oct. 28-29 meeting of FIFA's executive in Zurich, where choosing a World Cup voting procedure is on the agenda.
FIFA does not have the power to fire members of the 24-strong executive because they are elected by their continental bodies.
However, its code of ethics for officials says those who "severely fail to fulfill, or inadequately exercise, their duties and responsibilities, particularly in financial matters, are no longer eligible and shall be removed from office."
Adamu's four-year term ends at the Confederation of African Football's congress being held on Feb. 23 in Khartoum, Sudan. The 57-year-old former physical education teacher joined FIFA's executive in 2006, succeeding Ismail Bhamjee from Botswana, who resigned after a ticket scalping scandal at the World Cup in Germany.
Temarii, who has led 11-nation Oceania since 2004, is scheduled for re-election at a Jan. 21-23 congress on his home island.


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In an interview to CNBC-TV18, D Sarkar, CMD of Union Bank of India and Ananda Bhoumik of India Ratings & Research spoke about the asset quality concerns that India is facing
Banking sectors, which has been going through series of mishaps following lower economic growth, Reserve Bank of India's measure to tighten liquidity, may find it even more difficult to maintain their asset quality going ahead as experts predict rise in non-performing loans and debt restructuring pleas.
Recent macro data such as IIP numbers in May and export data showed contraction in growth pointing that worst may not be over for the economy, which may lead to fresh cycle of non-performing assets. There are also anecdotal evidences of big companies going for corporate debt restructuring. For instance a consortium of 23 banks led by State Bank of India (SBI) is likely to refer Bombay Rayon to the Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) cell for recasting the company's debt of around Rs 4,000 crore.
"The recovery cycle certainly has been pushed back. FY14 will be a bit of a washout as far as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expansion is concerned. The pipeline of CDRs and restructuring will continue to be strong," Ananda Bhoumik of India Ratings & Research told CNBC-TV18.
D Sarkar, CMD, Union Bank of India also agreed that asset quality of bank were directly impacted due to poor performance of the economy. He stressed that despite efforts to maintain status-quo asset quality was under stress. Big accounts especially under the steel and power sector are facing the most stress, Sarkar said. He added that the Union Bank was trying to maintain its slippages at Rs 800-Rs 900 per quarter.
Bhoumik predicts that bank's stressed assets could rise to 12-12.5 percent of advance by March 2014 from 9 percent recorded at the end of FY13.
Also read: FY14 GDP growth risk at 5%; mid-term eco 'stable': Moody's
Below is the verbatim transcript of the discussion.
Q: Are you getting a sense after looking at the macro data and the increasing number of Corporate Debt Restructuring (CDR) cases that the Non-Performing Loan (NPL) cycle has been extended probably to all of FY14?
Bhoumik: The recovery cycle certainly has been pushed back. FY14 will be a bit of a washout as far as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expansion is concerned, good monsoon notwithstanding. You are right the weak industrials have been a bit of a setback. The pipeline of CDRs and restructuring will continue to be strong. We are certainly going to see a pick up in that. NPL conversions have been surprisingly benign in March and we have also seen a slowdown in defaults, but as the pace of growth remains slow I have concerns certainly on the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) book and we may see NPLs pick up there, aside from the large corporates where the accounts are well identified.
Q: What were your previous numbers in terms of system NPL? I think the last number we have from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is 3.5 percent of total advances, not counting restructured assets. What were your numbers for FY13 and your estimates for FY14 and how much higher will you tweak them?
Bhoumik: FY13 NPLs ended at around 3.4 percent and restructured assets were around about 6 percent of advances, so totalling about 9 percent of stressed assets. We had earlier estimated the NPL rising from 3.4 percent to peaking at around 4 percent. Our sense is that with the growth failing to pick up and the SME conversions being higher than expected, this 4 percent could actually rise to perhaps 4.2-4.3 percent. On the CDR restructured assets we are seeing a total of around 8 percent, so that 6 percent number going to around 8 percent. So total of around 12-12.5 percent stressed assets by March 14.
Q: Do you expect this to therefore constrain the capital available with banks and therefore growth also taking a beating anyways? Any numbers on loan growth and capital constraints?
Bhoumik: I think capital should not be a problem. As you have said loan in any case is anemic and weak. Loan growth could actually slowdown further from last year's 18 percent. This year I think anything between 14-15 percent is probably a given, simply because the demand for credit is just so weak, investments are not just happening. So we would think there would be a slight slowdown in growth, but capital should not be a constraint at all, because the demand for capital is just not there.
Q: We have seen a lot of asset quality concerns not just for public sector banks, but now we are seeing it rise in private sector banks as well. We saw names like Kotak Mahindra Bank, Federal Bank report a stress in asset quality and now we are seeing rising CDR cases as well, the latest we saw from Bombay Rayon. In your mind, do you think that asset quality weakness will continue for most banks well into FY14?
Sarkar: The asset quality of the banking industry is under stress because the economy is not doing well, that everybody knows about. When the economy is not doing well the direct impact is coming on the asset quality. We are just trying to maintain the same level, because whatever guidance is given you know that in March we could maintain at 2.98 percent, but still I am telling you this that they are very much under stress, because some of the recovery issues are there. Still some of the big accounts are facing the trouble, especially in the steel and power sector. So we are just trying level best to maintain at the same level, but asset quality is really under stress in the economy as a whole and we are not the exceptions. As I told you we are trying to maintain at that level.
Q: What do you suspect will be your own slippages in the quarter just over and in even the current quarter? Do you think the slippages will be more than the Rs 875 crore you reported in Q4?
Sarkar: Our average slippage per quarter is Rs 800-900 crore. We are trying to maintain it. More or less the same level is maintained, but basically what happens is suddenly one or two big accounts come in all calculations goes wrong. So in that case I feel that we will be able to maintain same level of Rs 800-900 crore per quarter. Our audit is going on. We will be coming with the result in next week and we are hopeful that we will be able to maintain the slippage, because all sorts of steps have been taken to maintain the slippage level at that ratio.


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Our local lake is still — barely — capable of supporting wakeboard boats, something I tested out yesterday in the photo above. It won't be much longer, Lake Travis will simply dry up into Baked Mud Canyon if we don't get a veritable deluge of rain in the next few months. But if present trends continue there could be plenty of water. Scientists working with Antarctic sediments have found a disturbing signal: the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice sheet on earth today, melted partly or wholly during the Pliocene. And that pushed global sea levels up almost 200 feet (65 m), the only thing between us and the kind of rise is time, the GHG concentrations are about the same
NBC News — Scientists have long known that seas were higher during the Pliocene, a geological epoch that ran from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago. At the time, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were similar to today's 400 parts per million (ppm).
"Overall, it was a warmer climate than today, but similar to what we expect to reach by the end of this century," Carys Cook, a graduate student at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London and the study's lead author, told NBC News in an email.
The West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets were likely completely melted at the time, she added. The fate of the East Antarctic ice sheet has been less clear, though at least some of it must have melted to fully account for the highest global sea levels predicted by some reconstructions of the ancient earth.
Cook and her colleagues studied the chemical composition of sediments drilled from the ocean floor near East Antarctica. They identified the signature of a specific type of rock "only found in large quantities hundreds of kilometers inland from the current ice sheet edge," Cook said.


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An Athens man and his girlfriend have been indicted in federal court on charges they trafficked large amounts of cocaine while living at a Westchester Circle town home.
A U.S. District Court grand jury in Macon charged Torey "Eggman" Gantrell, 30, and Kitty Smith, 25, earlier this month with one count each of possession with intent to distribute more than 20 grams of cocaine base, the indictment states.
Gantrell was arrested last February and Smith was arrested Friday when the Western Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force raided the Laurel Drive home Smith and Gantrell share, Athens-Clarke police said.
Officers found several grams of crack in the residence, but didn't bring new charges against Gantrell, who was at home during last week's raid, according to police.
Gantrell and Smith were indicted after a paid informant told local police that in February 2006 he or she saw someone preparing cocaine for distribution at the Westchester Circle home, according to an Athens-Clarke police officer's search warrant affidavit.
The informant said the drugs were delivered to "third parties" in the Rocksprings Homes public housing complex, according to the affidavit.
Gantrell's attorney, Charles Cox of Macon, maintains the paid snitch didn't give police sufficient reason to search Gantrell's Westchester Circle home.
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Anthony Milner, the composer who has died aged 77, wrote mainly choral music, mostly to religious texts; his work was widely commissioned and had power and atmosphere without stretching performers to their limits.
A practising Roman Catholic, Milner was strongly motivated by his religious beliefs, and his music was deeply serious and personal in nature. He treated the subject of man's estrangement from God and his subsequent reconciliation in a language of concentration and sombreness, though often with alleviating passages of lighter harmonic texture.
Milner was always careful not to permit the meaning of texts to be obscured, allowing the melodic line to follow the inflections of speech, and making use of traditional musical devices to suggest emotion - falling semi-tones for grief, or rising 4ths and 5ths for affirmation of belief.
Even his purely orchestral works were imbued with religious meaning. His Variations for Orchestra, for example, are based on the Rosary, with 15 movements in three groups of five, representing the Joyful, the Sorrowful and the Glorious Mysteries. The work was premiered in 1959 at the Cheltenham Festival with the Halle conducted by Barbirolli.
Milner was dedicated to tonality and was highly critical of the anti-melodic vocal writing of composers such as Stravinsky and Webern. He was a resourceful and original contrapuntalist, much influenced by medieval plainsong, yet he made few concessions to popular taste.
He was a generous composer for the robust chorus and orchestra and was capable of writing ravishingly beautiful music, such as in his short cantata Roman Spring (1969), a richly evocative setting of Latin poems on the themes of spring, the renewal of love and the transitory nature of life. But in general his harmonies tended towards the ascetic and his tonality might best be described as "outer edge". As a result his work was undervalued and is now seldom performed.
The son of a doctor, Anthony Francis Dominic Milner was born at Bristol on May 13 1925 into a large, devout, Roman Catholic family. Several of his siblings would enter religious orders.
He was educated at Douai School, Woolhampton, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano with Herbert Fryer, theory with R O Morris, and composition with Matyas Seiber.
He went on to become tutor in Music Theory and History at Morley College, London, where he met Michael Tippett, a composer he much admired. He would later collaborate with Tippett on the text for Tippett's oratorio The Vision of St Augustine.
Milner was a lecturer in Music at King's College, London, from 1965 to 1971, moving to Goldsmith's College as senior lecturer in 1971, and becoming principal lecturer there in 1974. In 1961, he joined the staff of the Royal College of Music, becoming its principal lecturer in 1980, as well as professor of composition.
Milner's Opus 1, the cantata Salutatio Angelica, had an auspicious debut in 1950. An astonishingly mature and professional piece, it won the composer immediate respect, and curiosity grew about how his music would develop. Many critics felt that he failed to fulfil this early promise in his later works.
Milner's most vivid works included The City of Desolation (1955), written for chorus and orchestra, and three symphonies, of which his first has been recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lionel Friend, who had studied under Milner at the Royal College.
His second symphony, scored for soloists, choir and orchestra, was commissioned by the BBC for the Liverpool Festival of Sacred Music and premiered in 1978 at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, by the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It was based around a quotation from Virgil: "These are the tears of things", with texts from Gerard Manley Hopkins, St Francis and the Bible.
In 1964, Milner visited America for a short lecture tour and over subsequent years visited more than 60 universities and colleges. From 1964 to 1965, Milner was director and harpsichordist of the London Cantata Ensemble, a group specialising in Baroque chamber music. They gave the first broadcasts of many of Buxtehude's solo cantatas and Biber's Mystery Sonatas, as well as the first performances of many of Milner's own works.
As a teacher, Milner was rigorous and demanding and could sometimes be difficult. But he was also enormously generous. He was devoted to his students and often took them out to meals, even sometimes on holiday.
His third symphony, commissioned to mark the centenary of the Royal College of Music in 1987, was an abstract work concerned with music and structure. It was premiered at the Royal College of Music by the RMC Orchestra, conducted by Lionel Friend, and was dedicated to all Milner's students at the college, past and present.
In 1985 Pope John Paul II appointed him a knight of St Gregory in recognition of his contribution to Catholic liturgical music.
Milner suffered for many years from multiple sclerosis and, as time wore on, he became increasingly debilitated by the disease. Two years ago he moved to Spain for his health. He died there on September 22.
Anthony Milner was unmarried.


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Photographer's Note
Good evening,
another photo taken from the view tower on the top of Boubin (elev. 1362m), the fifth highest peak in Sumava Mountains Range. I have already uploaded 2 photos from this place before, this one was taken just when we got on the top and it shows the other peaks in the range before the actual sun risen above horizon. Colors of the sky were truly amazing on that morning, i'm glad i managed to capture it.
best of luck*
canon 40D & 17-40L;
Tripod, remote control & mirror lock-up;
F/22, 30s shutter speed;
Hoya CPL & Cokin full ND & Grad used
RAW converted to TIFF, JPEG for TE
RAW processed (saturation and contrast balanced) in Digital Photo Professional, Framed in Zoner Photo Studio 9.0
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barni (15751) 2008-01-23 14:30
Hello Viktor
Perfect colors.
Good job
Matthew-Watt (5934) 2008-01-23 16:43
Hello Viktor,
I think this is sensational, the colour is so much warmer and more enjoyable than in my most recent shot - this sort of hue is what I was looking for. The top 1/2 of this shot has a beautiful change in gradient from dusky blue to purple to pink, punctuated by the beautiful moon. The forest below is sharp and the green is pleasantly saturated. All encompassed in an attractive white frame with black edges. It all combines well in this format. At 30 seconds of exposure, I guess that it would have been quite dark in reality, so this is an interesting effect. TFS.
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- Copyright: viktor pressl (vikous) (2217)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2007-12-25
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Canon 40D, 17-40 f/4 L USM Canon, Hoya CPL + Cokin ND Grad
- Exposure: f/22, 30 seconds
- Details: Tripod: Yes
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2008-01-23 13:41


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Legal Question in Family Law in Maryland
I am seperating from my spouse. At what point can I drop her from my health insurance?
We have been married 3 years and I have been unfaithful during that time. Can she file for adultry and what does that entitle her to? Will I be obligated to pay alimoney? She works and has always worked during the duration of our entilre relationship and marriage.
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You can probably drop her from your health insurance, depending on the terms of the policy you have. However, given the likelihood that this may well end up in divorce court, you would be ill advised to do so. She can indeed charge you with adultery, and if you have any significant marital property to be divided up, a court can consider what led to the breakup in deciding how to divide up the property. As for alimony, is there is significant income disparity you could be required to pay this as well. At this point you should strive to work out a fair resolution of the financial issues to avoid the expense and risk of putting your fate in the hands of a judge. Consult an experienced family attorney for further advice.