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In The Phoenix at Doomben today Fontelina showed he's improved further from his debut run and he blitzed the field to win it easily.
As they rounded the bend it was Cindarockinrella clear by two in front with Lucky Morna alongside Fontelina just behind.
As they straightened though it took only a matter of strides before Fontelina had claimed the leader and once he hit the lead he was never going to relinquish it.
Doomben has shown it's a track favouring the leaders today and nothing form behind made any in roads with the first five around the bend the first five past the post.
Lukcy Morna ended up crossing in a clear second with Cindarockinrella battling on for third.
Saramenha took a rails run and never threatened in fourth place.
For Fontelina this win opens some big doors and provides a welcome win to trainer Anthony Cummings.
"Very pleased about that, nice race to win and on to the TJ," Cummings said.
"He's not the perfect race horse yet, he's still got a lot to learn."
It's not just mental development that he's expecting from the horse either and the run itself will improve him considerably.
"He'll take a lot out of this race again, he'll have a good blow," he said.
Fontelina will now head to the TJ Smith Stakes and will be one of the favourites despite this being just his second career start.
He debuted at Canterbury where he ran second but turned a lot of heads in the process.
Luke Nolen was the man aboard today and he was very pleased with he manner of the victory.
"The leader kicked nicely, when he got there he was still legging it out," he said.
"He was very strong down the 1350."
Darley has dominated the two-year-old ranks in 2011 and with Benefica has a tremendous chance in the TJ Smith as well.


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A state lawmaker says he has received at least one hate message after introducing an anti-discrimination bill.
Democratic state Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco drafted legislation that would make it illegal for businesses to prohibit the use of a foreign language in their establishments.
The bill was in reaction to a proposal last year by the Ladies Professional Golf Association. The tour appeared to be targeting South Koreans when it sought to suspend players who could not speak English.
The LPGA eventually dropped the proposal.
Yee says a woman left a telephone message at his Capitol office this week telling him to go back to China. He says it's evidence of how much more work needs to be done to educate people about diversity.
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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp maintains there will be no easy matches in the battles at the top and the bottom of the Barclays Premier League table as the season draws to a fascinating conclusion.
Spurs head to Bolton on Wednesday night currently in possession of the last Champions League place, but face a side just as desperate for points in their fight to stay in the top flight. Redknapp knows full well what to expect at the Reebok Stadium.
"Bolton away is always tough," he said. "We've been there enough times over the years and it's always a difficult place to go. They are playing well, Owen (Coyle, manager) has got them going at the moment. It will be a hard game but we've got to go there and be positive."
Redknapp is not taking fourth place for granted - in fact, he is as prepared for his side dropping down to fifth as the Spurs boss is for pipping north London rivals Arsenal to third.
"You can't predict results," he told Spurs TV. "Manchester United had an eight-point lead after (Manchester) City got beat at Arsenal, you thought that was the end of them, you thought it was all over. You just can't tell.
"You look at Wigan's games and they had no chance (of survival). They had to go to Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, play United, Newcastle, five of the top six, and they go on this incredible run. You just can't predict results.
"You never know. You just have to keep going. That's all we can do. We've two tough away games this week and then a tough home game against Fulham to finish with. That's three hard games.
"Newcastle have three tough games, for sure. Chelsea might have the best fixtures.
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Spurs go into the match in decent spirits having beaten Blackburn 2-0 in a strong showing on Sunday.


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1999 Memories of Tour Members
Our trip to Seltz and Sessenheim, Alsace, France
By Anton Bosch, Nurenberg, Germany who born at Kandel, Kutschurgan Enclave, near Odessa, Ukraine. He continues to complete extensive research and oral interviews of Germans from Russia.
Mr. Bosch is the author of Entstehung, Entwicklung under Aufloesung der deutschen Kolonien am Schwarzen Meer am Beispiel van kandel von 1808 bis 1944 (Origin, Development, and Disintegration of the German Colonies near the Black Sea, with the Example of Kandel from 1804 to 1944), published by the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, Stuttgart, Germany, 1990, in German language.
28 May 1999
Our trip to Alsace - a day of past and present. On this trip across the Rhine River, which separates Germany from France, every participant prepared emotionally. They quietly asked if something common would still be found in the old homeland on which our ancestors turned their backs more than two-hundred years ago.
Twenty persons of "our Leit'" went from Stuttgart, where we stayed at the Royal Hotel, across the Rhine River to France. As there are no longer border controls, only the gray barracks remind us of the former existence of a border control station. Some had noticed this only when we approached our first destination, Seltz. No one would have noticed this unlikely fact, if the yellow signs with black French writing hadn't been so very different.
After the arrival to the city center, the whole group, as it is proper for faithful Catholics, visited the modern/old fashioned church. They encountered several men and women who were cleaning their church thoroughly with vacuums and dustcloths on this Friday.
Quickly we started talking and learned first hand the entire history of the town of Seltz.
It began like everything else, in the minds of older people, with WW II marks this Catholic church and the hearts of the people.
In 1940, German bombs turned the front of the church to heaps of rubble; only the statue of St. Adelheid miraculously remained untouched and rose above the rubble towards heaven. The people replaced the destroyed front with a modern structure of concrete; erected to the left of the church a gray bell tower on three support beams. At the 1000 year anniversary of Seltz, which today numbers 2,500 people, they placed, to the right, the statue of St. Adelheid which points with her right index finger across the square to the mayor's office. One traveler mentioned that it reminded him of his deceased mother in North Dakota when she reminded him with a similar gesture to always be good and hard working.
In the church our conversations with the women of Seltz proceeded smoothly. In a perfect Alsatian dialect we learned how pious and traditionally minded the people of this small town are which lent its name to a Seltz in Kutschurgan/Ukraine and a Sels in North Dakota. Everything went without further ado; they believed everything about us until we quite seriously tried to tell them our ancestry. Two-hundred years ago our ancestors migrated first from Seltz to South Russia and one-hundred years later from South Russia to the USA. They looked at us like we were people from another planet. Not even our name tags with Elsassian sounding names and the star-spangled banner could take away the doubts of what they had just heard. We learned that as before 50% - 60% of the local residents of Seltz attend Mass on Sunday. We compared these statistics with those in Bismarck where the church services are also diligently attended.
Overall, we found more things in common than we had expected. The amazing outward resemblance, which identifies the German Russians from the Ukraine and our American relatives to these local Alsatians, is unmistakable. To name only a few: the calm, slow way to walk, a quiet conduct, the ability to listen to others when they talk, an interest in the fate of the other person, and slow in judging but acting quickly and decisively were the same with both the guests and the locals. Only now did we become conscious of how deep and lasting the emigrated descendants of these Alsatians were and have been to this day marked by Christian customs.
We have learned to love Seltz and took several group photos for the family album on the stairs beside the strict Adelheid.
Here, the past caught up with us and in our hearts we took a piece of the old homeland into the big world which has become our new home.
On the western banks of the Rhine River, we purposefully drove past Strabbourg on to Sessenheim. The small, nice town was even more clean and beautiful than Seltz and surprised us with many traces of modern times.
We found the main street lined with brown pavement that marked the pedestrian zebra crossing of white cobblestones from the church to the mayor's office every 100 meters. Immediately we discovered a large color picture of Wolfgang Goethe at the church square.
"Why Goethe in France?", asked a traveler. Some had already read that in the Age of the Enlightenment the famous German writer stayed here while passing through but no one could recall the details.
In the mayor's office a friendly and helpful young Alsatian answered our curious question about Goethe. Indeed he had spent one year here (1771/72) because he was attached to the minister's daughter.
By the way, a picture in the hallway of city hall is a reminder of his story. It is a romantic scene in which the poet is on a bench by the wall holding a tender conversation with this young lady of Sessenheim, while her father, the minister, listens to the hushed words of the lovers.
The fact is taken so seriously and is confirmed by a portrait of the young Goethe next to the entryway of the office.
We were more surprised by the religious/prosaic things separately located at the cemetery. Catholics rest to the right and Protestants to the left of the graveyard; Protestants make up the largest part.
To our surprise, on the headstones of the Catholics we found many family names that also occurred in our group. These were names like Becker, Schenk, Grenz and others. To some that do genealogy, a trip to the Alsace would be worthwhile in order to trace the past.
When we were sitting in the bus ready to take off, we noticed a silver-white rooster was put on the massive gold-plated cross on the spires of both churches. This reminded of the local Reformation when Protestantism.
Tired but full of impressions by what we had seen and heard, we returned to Stuttgart in order to take back home the events of the day. The numerous photos of this trip pictorially attest and remind us of what is written here.
Dr. Norman K. Zeller, Portland, Oregon
Today brings to a close a glorious experience to our ancestral tour. The visits to our villages has been enlightening and has given to me deeper sense of appreciation of my ancestral history. I am grateful for their perseverance while they lived here and their wisdom for having immigrated to the United States.
Farewell to our many Ukrainian friends and to the fair city of Odessa, both of whom are undergoing difficult times. Onward to Germany for further study of our heritage.


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Are you an adventurer?
Are you an adventurer?
We're all in the habit of playing adventuresome characters in our games. But I mean are YOU as an individual an adventurer? Living a "life of adventure" sounds fun to me! I'm continuously inspired when I read about adventures that my family and friends have as well. A lot of those friends come from right here at ENWorld and one of their adventures inspired the topic for my first column.
They told me several months ago, "We're moving to Germany for work and staying there for three years." Now that is a leap of faith! An adventure complete with castles and ruins and new cities and exotic languages. Keeping up with their adventure as it unfolds has me taking a look at my own adventures in life.*
I lead a pretty active lifestyle. I like the outdoors and have done a lot of camping and canoeing and hiking. I enjoy travel and seeing new places almost as much as I do meeting new people. I SCUBA dive and love the water. All of those things feel like adventure to me. Getting away from my hobbit hole and out into the world has that feel to it. But, as a famous adventurer once said, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
I stepped out my front door a couple years ago and came to a sudden realization that I was in the wrong business. And unfortunately I owned the business! I had only two real choices: Keep doing the thing I knew I shouldn't be doing or start doing something that I should be doing. Pretty simple.
Thanks to a great friend of mine, who happened to be somebody I met here at ENWorld, I dug deep into my strengths and aptitudes. He told me bluntly that it was no wonder my previous business (a videography company) was grinding along in slow motion. It harnessed virtually NONE of the things I was best at. I was built to talk and share and exchange ideas and strategize, of which there is approximately zero while you're sitting behind a video camera. I was built to be a coach. Specifically I became a life and relationship coach.
That is where the adventure really began. Putting aside a company I'd been running for seven years and setting out in a completely new direction seemed flat-out crazy. I remember very clearly a conversation I had with my wife's uncle during the early days of my journey. I told him that I wanted to do work I loved. He replied, "Well I know what I love: Sex and golf. I just haven't been able to find anybody who will pay me to do those things. So work is what I do to provide the money I need to live and do the things I love."
It was a fair point (although I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's not paying for sex). But I had been doing boring work to fund the better parts of my life for years and it just wasn't working for me anymore. I wanted a life where I never again had to sigh and say wistfully, "Time to go to work."
Just like any adventure, it has not been easy. It's taken a lot of serious thought and planning. It has taken hours of effort, much of which was outside my zone of comfort or previous experience. I have failed and gotten back up and failed again until I got things right. I have been afraid and then done stuff anyway. People have told me "No." I have questioned my sanity (and had it questioned by others) more than a couple times.
But every single day I wake up knowing that I made the best decision. To have my work day full of helping people find answers to the most important questions in their life and relationships is a calling for me. And I LOVE answering it.
However, a funny thing happened along the way: I discovered that a whole lot of my coaching reminded me of gaming. All that strategy and conquering and overcoming fear and resistance...doesn't that sound familiar? Being a gamer and a GM for 30 years has honed skills I barely even knew I had.
Moreover, I discovered a lot of my early clients were gamers. This wasn't coincidence. Gaming was a community of people where I already had friends and was already trusted. They took a chance on me helping them, and I think I did a pretty good job for them. So they referred me to their friends. And a bunch of those people were gamers too.
I've come to adore how I can make a "check for traps" or "player/GM style conflict" reference in the middle of a lot of my coaching sessions as a kind of shorthand. It makes things easier and it makes them fun. And trust me, easy and fun are two of the things that we need in abundance in order to live the best way we can.
I've begun to actively catalog all the ways that lessons I've learned in gaming can be applied to life, helping people, and the huge adventure that I'm on. That's what this Experience Points column will be all about. Each week I'll be discussing my observations on how I've applied gaming's lessons to my life and work. It will be fun for me to write, but the reason I truly wanted to share these ideas with my big family here at ENWorld is that I want to hear your stories.
So tell me about your crazy adventures! When did you take a leap of faith or delve into the unknown? When were you afraid and then decided that you were going to do it anyway? When did you enter the dungeon and know you were going to come out the other side with more experience?
* If you'd like to follow the adventures of ENWorld's The Universe and Queen Dopplepoppolis then you can find them at: twitter.com/d20blonde and twitter.com/theuniversegm
P.S. Thanks to my great friend and coaching client, Kiznit, for this wicked artwork that captures the spirit of dungeon adventure!
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Going to Hong Kong and arriving October 1, 2011. I hear that there are fireworks at 9PM. Where is the best place to view them. Is it possible to reserve a (moderate priced) restaurant to watch
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Fireworks are from barges in the middle of Victoria Harbour, between Tsim Sha Tsui and Wan Chai/Causeway Bay. Good view from both sides of the harbor. Many restaurants will have good views and many will take reservations. Pricing depends.
Since locals don't care too much about the Chinese National Day, I don't believe restaurants mark up their prices for that night, or at least it won't be like Chinese New Year.
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Watched the fireworks couple of years back and it was packed everywhere. The newspapers reported 500,000 people watched the fireworks. I'm certain a lot of people would be making reservations at restaurants with the same objective. Make your reservations early.
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I thought the fireworks were at 8:00 pm?
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Who knows? It is not promoted at all in the city. If you go discoverhongkong.com, the official site of the HK Tourism Board, you will not see it mentioned at all, unlike Halloween. If you google about fireworks on Oct 1 in HK, you won't find anything either.
Fact of matter is that Hong Konger still sees themselves as Hong Kongers, who live in Hong Kong. We don't care about PRC stuff, except for the tourists and their money (both positive and negative) that come here twice a year (May 1 and Oct 1).
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Looks like rain is predicted for that whole day...don't know how good the predictions for that far out is but it looks like a lot of rain coming then...anyway...if it's raining can you see the fireworks/lights of the harbor? We arrive at airport at 7 that night. Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get out of customs,etc and into the city...I.e. Any chance of being there by 9, and have reservations at The Pearl on the Peak for Sunday night...mostly for the view...if raining wondering if its still worth it?
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I wouldn't go to the Peak if it is raining. But you'll be able to see the light show and fireworks even if it is raining.
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Arthroman, if there are going to be fireworks on October 1, your hotel would have that information as well as the start time. As the government does not pay for them, some company has to stump up the money, and this does not always happen. Most years it does (and I think they are on for this year), but check with your hotel. The time for the fireworks varies from 8 or 9 pm depending on the month (my recollection is that the July 1 and October 1 fireworks are at 9 pm because it is summer, and the Lunar New Year fireworks are at 8 pm), but again your hotel would know. They generally last for about 20-25 minutes. See some suggestions below for where to view fireworks.
Marshacarlin, in my experience, a weather forecast for anything other than the next 24 hors in Hong Kong is completely unreliable, so I would not bother looking for October 1. It may be raining it may be clear, but this will really only be forecastable on September 30. If it is raining, the fireworks are generally still quite visible (unless there is thick fog), you just have to stand in the rain to see them (or be inside a hotel or restaurant with a view).
Pearl on the Peak is an excellent restaurant and worth the trip for the food alone. If it is raining, you may not see much, but the dining experience is still good. (Thick fog can also be kind of mysteriously beautiful, but I will admit that is more the case during the day than the night.) You may just have to make another trip up on a clear day to enjoy the views. However, if you land at 7 pm, IDIOM you will be very hard pressed to get through Immigration, get to hour hotel, change AND get to Pearl on the Peak by 9. I think you may be staying at the Bishop Lei, which means you may have a good view from your room. You can also walk to Bowen Road from here, or take a taxi up to 26 Magazine Gap (see below) to see the fireworks, and then walk back down to your hotel.
The fireworks are shot off from barges in the harbour located roughly between the Hong Kong Performing Arts Centre on the Kowloon side the Convention Centre in Wan Chai on the Hong Kong Island side. You need to be facing south or north to see the fireworks, so restaurants with views facing west (like in the Marco Polo hotel) won't offer views, and neither will the W Hotel. Restaurants in Causeway Bay are generally too far east to see them. The IFC Mall and Four Seasons may be a bit too far west, it is hard to say. (However, these are good locations for the December 31 fireworks which are generally sponsored by IFC and shot off from in front of the main tower.)
Private boats are kept well away from the site, so being on a boat is not any great advantage, although it might be a fun way to see them.
There are numerous good places to view the fireworks, including places on the hills above the harbour on the Hong Kong side, so you do not necessarily have to be down on the waterfront on either side to have a good view. The problem with the outdoor waterfront Esplanade on either side of the harbour is that they will be very, very crowded, and you will need to go out and stand for several hours before the fireworks start if you want a good spot. If you want to avoid this, and if you do not have a hotel room with a harbour view, then having a seat in a restaurant or bar with a view may be preferable. For any restaurant with a view, you will need to book some time in advance for a date on which there will be fireworks.
Non-Restaurant places to view fireworks
In my personal opinion, the best place to see the fireworks is from a high elevation rather than from the waterfront. The waterfront is not only hugely crowded, it does not give you the broad overview of the harbour and the fireworks which you can get from a high elevation. My two top choices would be:
26 Magazine Gap Road – this is an apartment building almost up at the top of Mount Cameron which has a long driveway which makes for good viewing. You can see the whole sweep of the harbour and should have an good open view. It also should not be at all crowded. You can also walk up Magazine Gap Road from this building about 20 feet to its intersection with Stubbs Road, where you can get a good view. To get to this building, IMO the best thing to do is take a taxi from Central. This should be about HK$25. If the driver does not speak English, try: "Yee sup lock Magazine Hap Doh?" which should work. He can drop you at the top of the driveway. Other ways to get there would be the #1 minibus or the #15 double decker bus, but you need to know where to get off, so I would not recommend it. You can take the back down after the fireworks if you wanted. (For a return by the #1 bus, cross the street from #26 and flag down any #1 minibus you see. For the #15 bus, with your back to the driveway of #26, turn left, walk uphill about 20 feet, turn left and walk about 40 feet to the sign for bus stop. This can be a bit hard to see as there is no pull-off area for the bus and no sidewalk at parts.) You can also walk up or down from Central to this building. This would take about 40 minutes from Central. If you are interested, write me at [email protected], and I will send directions.
Bowen Road – this is a mainly pedestrian-only road in mid-levels where there are several open sections which will give you a clear harbor view. There will be some people here, but not anywhere near the crowds at the waterfront. As long as you can see at least part of the Hong Kong Arts Centre on the other side of the harbour (pink concrete windowless low building), you should have a good view of the fireworks. IMO the best thing to do is to take a taxi to the Fairlane Apartment building at 2B Bowen Road. This is the last building before Bowen Road become entirely pedestrian-only. The cab should cost about HK$20. Alight from the cab, and walk along Bowen Road keeping the harbour on your left. You will pass through some wooded areas, but will also come to several areas with open harbour views. The best place IMO is the stretch just past the wooded area after the intersection with Bowen Drive. This is about a 10-15 minute walk from where the taxi will drop you at the Fairlane. At the end of the fireworks, you can n walk downhill on Bowen Drive to the intersection with busy Kennedy Road and get a taxi. It is also a very quick easy to walk to the bar/restaurant area of Star Street from here (literally 3 minutes down hill from Kennedy Road) if you are interested send me an email and I will provide directions. You can also walk to Central or other parts of Wan Chai from here.
Restaurants Kowloon side for Fireworks
IMO if you cannot see the Bank of China building clearly from a Kowloon location then you will miss a good bit of the fireworks.
The Ritz-Carlton Kowloon would offer fantastic views, but unless you have booked a few weeks or even months in advance, you won't get a table in any view restaurant.
The Intercontinental hotel has a few options: from the very expensive Nobu and Spoon to the somewhat expensive Yan Toh Heen to the more moderate Habourside Grill; they also have a lobby bar which would probably take reservations for that night (and will have a 2 drink minimum at least). All these have large - -and in some cases like the lobby, enormous - - windows with unobstructed views looking right out onto the harbour and so would be a very good choice.
The funky and expensive Felix restaurant on top of the Peninsula hotel would be quite memorable for the fireworks, as would the more moderate Hutong or one of the other restaurants in this group at the top of One Peking Road. Nanhai No 1 or one of the view restaurants in the iSQUARE Shopping Centre at 63 Nathan Road should also offer good views. For Hutong, you do not need a window table, really any of the tables offer a nice view (they have made booths out of wooden Chinese wedding beds along the wall which are quite nice for a group IMO), and for the fireworks portion you can always walk over to the window if you want a bit of a better view. The Sheraton has the Oyster Bar which has a nice view. I believe that the Morton's Steakhouse in the Sheraton also has a harbour view (and one Michelin star), but I have not been there myself so can't really vouch for it. The Harbourside Grill or the lounge bar in the Intercontinental Hotel would be a very good place to see them. The Wooloomooloo steakhouse outlet near the Shangri-La hotel may also work well, see http://www.wooloo-mooloo.com/. The Italian restaurant in the Shangri-La Kowloon hotel has nice views, and other restaurants there may as well, see the hotel's website. The Jade Garden Restaurant in Star House, at the foot of the Star Ferry pier, would offer nice views and decent, if not totally memorable, food. The restaurants Ocean Centre/Harbour City mall has some restaurants in with have harbour views, see the mall guide at http://www.harbourcity.com.hk/dining.php (not every restaurant listed there as having a harbour view would be good for the fireworks, but you may have time to check some out and see what you like). However, the proviso here is that there no cruise ships in town that day, as they tie up in front of the restaurants and block views, so you might want to have a second-choice for the fireworks in place if it turns out that there is a cruise ship blocking the views on that day.
I think that the restaurants in the hotels behind the behind the Ocean Terminal/Harbour City Mall may not be so good for viewing, as I think they would be orientated too much to the west, but two restaurants there with harbour views would be are Cucina in the Marco Polo Hotel and Pierside in the Royal Pacific Hotel & Towers. You might make a booking and then take a look at them while you are there to see what you think.
Restaurants Hong Kong Side for Fireworks
IMO if you cannot see the clock tower and the Hong Kong Performing Arts Centre on the Kowloon side (the low curving pinkish building on the waterfront), then IMO you will miss a good bit of the fireworks.
I think the Café Gray Deluxe recco on the website noted above is a good one, but bear in mind that the restaurant is probably already fully booked. They have a bar, but you would need to be there several hours before hand to get a seat. Also, the windows in that building have a weird reflective film which reflects interior light onto the glass which interferes with good night views, IMO (I worked in that building for about 10 years). It is however a great place to watch sunset. I would not bother with SEVVA, as it will be far, far too crowded to enjoy the fireworks (and you can't book a table outdoors.)
On the Hong Kong side, the Watermark restaurant right on top of the Star Ferry Building would be a good place to see the fireworks. The Quarterdeck Restaurant on the waterfront in Wan Chai is also a good choice, they have a nice outdoor deck with a prime view, and good casual food, on the moderate side (great deserts). The Vero Lounge upstairs for chocolate and wine paring along with the fireworks would also be a good choice. (Note that walking to the Star Ferry and Fenwick Pier building on firework nights will entail wading through some crowds lining the waterside areas.) The restaurants in Citic Tower which have harbour views would all be good choices, in particular I like San San Trois, there is also an outlet of Victoria City Seafood here. Another possibility is the Fish Bar in the JW Marriott which is outdoors by their pool, you would have to step outside to the pool area to see the fireworks, but this may work; they also have a lobby lounge with huge windows and they may be offering a special meal that night (normally the lounge is only open for lunch). The expensive Petrus at the Conrad would have a quite nice view. In the Grand Hyatt, Grissini's Italian, the Grand Café (continental coffee shop) or One Harbour Road (Cantonese restaurant) would have good harbour views, another place to consider would be The Grill, their poolside restaurant on their huge outdoor pool deck, which would have very good views for the fireworks and has a BBQ buffet most nights, casual although not necessarily cheap. In the Convention Centre itself a possible would be the Golden Bauhinia Cantonese Restaurant, which has huge windows and a very nice view (I am a little concerned that the windows face too much to the east to get a view of the full fireworks but should be OK), see http://www.hkcec.com/catering-and-dining/dining-hkcec for all restaurant listings in the Convention Centre. Finally, there are a number of quite casual restaurants, many with outdoor seating, on the elevated walkways leading to the Convention Centre which may also work, IMO these will tend to be mobbed on firework nights. I can't recco one in particular, but you could do a recci a few days before and see what appeals.
As mentioned, I think that the restaurants in the IFC Mall may just be a tad too far west to appreciate the fireworks, but I could be wrong on that, having never actually been there for any of the fireworks, so you could consider would be the wonderful Cuisine Cuisine or the quite good ISOLA, there are also several restaurants on the top floor (like H Boxas well as large public outdoor space which could work (although the public space may be crowded). Inagaku may work as well.
Up on the Peak, where firework views are actually quite nice (as you gaze down on them from above), Pearl on the Peak would offer a very good perspective. Another possibility is Café Deco, but a window table here would be quite important and views are a little oblique and to the west. They have a tiny outdoor terrace which would probably be the best choice if you can get a table there.
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Peggy's Place is a concert venue hidden in a quiet residential neighborhood just south of Davie Boulevard near I-95 in Fort Lauderdale. Actually, Peggy's Place is Peggy Tibke's house -- 2232 SW 15th St., to be exact. It's a modest affair with a spacious back yard that can accommodate about 40 people quite comfortably.
It's a recent Wednesday night, and the price is $8 to see Christopher Williams, a Massachusetts-based folksinger who's in town to compete in the South Florida Folk Festival. By 7 p.m. about twenty people are chatting in Tibke's living room, many of them drinking coffee they purchased at the "concession stand" (a dining table with help-yourself mugs and a wicker basket containing a few dollar bills). At about 7:20 Tibke blinks the house lights, and the audience members make their way into the back yard.
Tibke is one of a handful of people in South Florida who hold "house concerts" that showcase touring folksingers. It's not exactly legal, but it's not illegal, either. Tibke doesn't sell alcohol and asks only for "donations" from those in attendance. So far, neither the fire marshal nor the police have bothered her. "If somebody wants to arrest me for having a folksinger in my back yard," she says, "I don't know that I would mind that kind of publicity."
Tibke isn't turning a profit. After recouping the cost of renting chairs and printing fliers, she gives the rest of the night's "sales" to the performer.
"I'm not playing the martyr," she says, "but if I took an agent's percentage, there wouldn't be enough money in it for the artist. If I had an actual venue, it might be a different story, and maybe it would pay for itself in terms of the time I put in. But at this point, I'm doing it because I love it."
When Williams agreed to do this concert, he had no idea how many people would show up or how much money he would make. "I'm looking at it as a way to make some extra money," he says, "and maybe sell a few extra CDs and get a few more people on my mailing list."
Peggy's Place is no hip hot spot, but that's exactly the point. It's an alternative to those smoky bars or loud cafes where performers "take a back seat to the cappuccino machine," as Tibke puts it. Indeed, when Williams sings the only sound he competes with is the faint whisper of traffic on I-95.
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Tibke says her neighbors have yet to complain about her concerts. "I didn't even know she was having one," says the guy at 2248. "I think I usually have my stereo up louder than her concerts."
On this cool, moonless night, Williams is lit only by a half-dozen tiki torches placed around the back yard. After a couple of lively songs, he adjusts the knobs on his amplifier and asks the audience if the sound is all right. He explains, "Usually, when you do a sound check, when all the people come into the room, the sound changes."
One audience member pipes up, "It's a big room."
Upcoming house concerts in the South Florida area include the nationally known folksingers Sheryl Wheeler, Cliff Eberhardt, and Richard Shindell. Call Peggy Tibke at 954-583-8543 for more information.


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I've just joined slimming world, today is day 2.
Please can all those who have joined please come along and share your experiences, what you have eaten today, goals and cheer each other on?
I did ww 4yrs ago and lost 3.5 stone, this time I'm aiming to lose about 1.5 stone by christmas.
Today I've eaten a huge fruit salad and natural yogurt breakfast, tuna salad for lunch and I'm having jacket potato, salad and steak for dinner followed by all my syns on alcohol with dh as it's our wedding anniversary this week.
I take free noodles, prawns and batchelors individal frozen veg packs warm them up individaully and then mix together.
A friend suggested the Batchelors Pasta n Sauce sachets done in the microwave. Free if you use water or you have to allow for a few syns if you use milk/butter. Also said she takes in jacket potatoes and beans. Hope that helps.
I found that with the chips, theirs look crispy mine are like long hard roast potatoes. I find lunch hard because I'm at work so cooking isnt an option but we do have a microwave any ideas??
Have been doing this at home on my own for a few weeks using the online diary tracker. So far I'm about 4lb down, still about 2st to go. I find good breakfasts are fried egg (with fry light), bacon, baked beans and one slice of toast. Cereal days I just stick with bran flakes & banana. Good lunches are omlettes and salad. Dinners I struggle with a bit more. I tried steak & frites tonight, but cut my chips too thick so they took a lonnnnnng time to cook, definitely didn't look how they do in the Slimming World calendar . Good luck all !!!
I have lean bacon,poached eggs,tomatoes,mushrooms,baked beans and a piece of toast for breakfast a few times a week,the other days i have just eggs on toast or an omelette,i dont like cereal and it doesnt fill me up at all so i always have something big,but i try not to have bacon every day because of the salt.
Hi can you post you meal plan. I would put a smiley face from the smileys list but don't know how. I'm as rubbish with technology as I am planning meals lol.
Hi can you post you meal plan. I would put a smiley face from the smileys list but don't know how. I'm as rubbish with technology as I am planning meals lol.
Hi thanks for the recipes will give them a go
thank you just I've done a meal plan for this week, I've put eggs for a couple of mornings and fruit salad (and fat free yoghurt). Just need quick easy things!
Hi. Haven't been on for a while. I've been with SW for 10 weeks and got my 2 stone award last week. Really pleased with my progress, for the first time ever I feel like this is achievable for me. Another 24lbs to go to my target and feeling good. Thank you Slimming World!!
For me breakfast is usually fruit and yogurt (love banana and vanilla Mullerlight) but if you're bored of cereal then maybe a full English is an alternative occasionally??
I've just joined SW today. Does anyone have ideas for breakfast? I live on cereal on toast.
Need to lose weight - getting married in summer 2014, want to have slimmed down by next summer so I can start trying on dresses.
Hi can i join?I am planning to start on monday,i cant get to a group so i have bought the books online.I have done sw before and it worked really well but i stopped after my wedding and put it bacvk on again,but its the only plan ive ever enjoyed and been able to stick to so will be giving it a go again.
Hi Lynt
I have been eating lots of rice and pasta too. Chilli always good- I use onions, peppers, kidney beans in a chilli sauce, quorn mince and then tinned tomatoes and a stock cube or 2.
Also eat a veggie stroganoff type sauce - onions, mushrooms, peppers, courgettes etc all cooked in fry light- then add a cup or 2 of veg stock. Simmer for about 10 mins until most if the liquid has disappeared, season and then remove from heat and stir in a couple of tbsp quark. Is good with pasta or with rice.
I also like lots of stir fried vegetables cooked with half a sachet of old El Paso fajita spice mix - 2 syns. Then served with rice and low fat guacamole ( 1 syn per level tbsp).
I find cold pasta salads for lunch at work to be a bit harder but like cold pasta with feta cheese (healthy A), red onions, peppers and cucumber.
Hope one of these ideas might appeal. I am always looking for very simple and easy ideas that are quick to do.
Hi could I join as well please? I am also in need of inspiration. I joined SW 8 weeks ago and lost 10 lb in the first 5 weeks. Was really pleased but have lost my way a bit now- haven't lost any weight over the last 3 weeks- because I seem to stick to the plan all week and then have weekends where I completely lose the plot. I have another 10lb to lose...
Yes you can. I havent joined a club am trying to do it from home but just need help with what to have. I have a lot of magazines but as the family dont need to do it the portions are to big and not really a fan of freezing foods. Just need some basic quick meal ideas to get me started.
Hi can I join you - in need of inspiration. I joined SW last night after taking 6 weeks to get the courage to finally walk through the door of the club. I've got 4 stone and 4lb to lose. I almost lost the will today but was proud to say I walked away from the chocolate desert calling my name in the shop. Last time I did slimming world they only had red or green so I'm struggling with the concept of eating potatoes with meat etc. I'm sure I will get the hang of it soon.
Hi. I have just joined SW online. I could do with any tips to succeed. So far I have written and shipped for a plan of dinners, I can't bring myself to plan all lunches as well. I have filled the fruit bowl and made one of the salad drawers in the fridge my 'super free' drawer. One question - why is bread limited but pasta and potatoes are not?
Can anyone post a weekly meal planner but not the one from the website. I prefer green days as i like pasta and rice but sometimes cant think of what to have in the pasta. Help .
Since I have last posted I have lost a bit and have now lost a total of 3 stone 6 pounds (so it is about 8 pounds in 5 weeks).
I did get very unmotivated at just losing 1/2 a pound a week, I didn't even have a week where I put on, just very small losses, but this week I was 4 1/2 down. Hopefully back on track, I would like my 4 stone sticker by Christmas and be on the way to my 4 1/2, as there are 7 weigh ins to go it is hopefully doable.
I have now given away all my size 24 suits, as I don't intend for them ever to fit again, and am finding my new size 20 trousers are a bit baggy.
Day 6 - still all going ok - have fallen off the wagon quicker than this many times before. How are you all doing?
And how many syns in an extra portion of milk (1% or semi skimmed)
newpup - thats great to hear your story. Its the incentive we all need knowing its achievable.
Hello. Just thought I would share my SW story. I joined just over a year ago and was extremely overweight. Fat. I was a dress size 22/24 and hated it. I had been overweight for 10 years since the birth of DD2. My weight gaining every year and then I put on a stone in the 6 months around my fathers death. Last september I decided it was time and joined SW. It took me 9 months to lose 5 stone and all in all I have now lost 5 stone and 11lbs. I am a size 12/14 but mostly 12!
My life is changed! I have always been confident but now I feel great and I am confident about my looks. I love clothes shopping and have discovered all sorts of shops that I could not shop in before. I love Phase Eight, Fat Face, White Stuff. DH bought me my first designer dress this year and I felt a million dollars in it. I feel so different now, I train once a week with a trainer and take 2 classes a week at the gym, usually Zumba and indoor cycle.
Now I am at my target weight, I still stick to plan but I do indulge once in a while and am not as strict as I was BUT if a lb creeps on I am back to basics again! I only put on 2lbs over the summer holidays even on holiday and lost those in aweek when I got back and the DDs were back at school.
Stick with the plan or whatever works for you because nothing feels as good as being smaller than when you got married . I love life smaller and I am never going back!
Plucked up the courage -205 lbs
I have been doing slimming for couple of weeks and lost 6 pounds
Can i join pls - started yesterday - not joined a group yet as not ready for scales but am guessing i need ro lose 4-5 stone (that looks sooo mich worse typed out!
Started todat with mushroon bacon and egg and have made fee soup for lunch - wish me luck - i have a whole new wardrobe in suitcases that doesnt fit!
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Born in Philadelphia, PA, Dwight Webster has been the Senior and Founding Pastor of Christian Unity Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana for more than twenty-two years. While living in and commuting from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked with Lutheran Social Services of Northern California and was under watchcare at Allen Temple Baptist Church
In 2005 Rev. Webster formed with Civil Rights veteran, C.T. Vivian, Churches Supporting Churches, a post-Katrina long-term recovery organization for pastors, churches and community in New Orleans. Currently, he serves as Executive Director. He also co-founded the Jeremiah Group, a broad-based, faith-based ecumenical organization, affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation that "seeks the welfare of the city" (Jeremiah 29:7) of New Orleans.
Rev. Webster has served on the faculties of Tulane University, Loyola University and its Institute of Ministry, Xavier University's Institute for Black Catholic Studies and Delgado Community College in New Orleans. He served as the Director of the Southern University at New Orleans Center for African and African American Studies for seven years. His first New Orleans appointment was University Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Dillard University.
Rev Webster was the Interim Director and Interim Dean of the Program of Black Church Studies at Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary in Rochester, New York. He also taught at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
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Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman had their first face-to-face debate in the California governor's race Tuesday night, and they agreed on only two things -- that California is dysfunctional, and that electing their opponent would continue the state's downhill slide.
The California budget is three months overdue, unemployment is above 12 percent and most voters think the state is on the wrong track.
Whitman, a former eBay CEO, said what California needs to solve its problems is some business smarts. Want to create jobs? Improve the business climate.
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"I have invested a lot of my own money in this campaign," Whitman said. "I don't think you can buy elections. I think Californians are too smart."
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Opinion polls show the race is a dead heat.
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As combative as the debate was, Whitman remained poised, cheerful and always hit her talking points -- whether or not she was asked about them.
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ANAHEIM -- Angels catcher John Hester noticed it in the third inning. Ervin Santana said he didn't really start to think about it until the sixth. But as the Angels starter inched closer and closer to perfection, the crowd cheers got a little louder each time, letting everyone else know what was unfolding on Saturday night. It took 6 2/3 innings before before D-backs right fielder Justin Upton ended Santana's bid for a perfect game. The hit was the only one Santana would allow in his shutout, however, as the Angels beat the D-backs, 2-0, at Angel Stadium.
"He pitched with purpose," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Whether he made a good pitch or a bad pitch the pitch before, he pitched with purpose. And I think that goes a long way for what Ervin needs to do. He's got such good stuff that if he commits to his game plan, commits to what he wants to do, that his results will be there." Santana retired the first 20 batters before Upton's single broke up his bid for the 11th no-hitter in Angels history. The righty also allowed one walk with five strikeouts. His one-hitter was the 18th in Angels history and the first since C.J. Wilson and Ernesto Frieri combined to throw one on May 22. "He threw the ball great," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "Had good velocity, had good movement on his pitches, and he had everything working." Coming into the game, Santana (4-7) had been on his worst stretch of the season. In his four previous starts, he surrendered 23 runs in 20 1/3 innings. He had given up six home runs and walked 15 batters. But on Saturday night, Santana was better than he has been all season, delivering his first shutout since May 20, 2011, and the seventh in his career. He threw a no-hitter on July 27, 2011, but that included an unearned run. Though it had been nearly a month since Santana had a quality start, Scioscia noticed something in his last start that may have meant he turned the corner. After Santana gave up six runs in the first two innings against the Rockies at hitter-friendly Coors Field, Scioscia said he thought the righty had found the fastball control he had been missing in the previous three outings. And though he may have been somewhat erratic early on Saturday, he found it quickly enough to dominate D-backs hitters throughout the game. He has now given up just one run in his last 12 2/3 innings, and all of a sudden finds himself with some momentum. "Of course, every time when you have an outing like that, you have to keep the mind positive and bring it to the next game," Santana said. "It doesn't matter if I don't have the good results, because in my mind, I'm going to have the positive things." Though the Angels failed to score more than two runs for the fourth straight game, the team is still 2-2 over that span and has won six of its last eight games. The Angels remain four games back of the first-place Rangers in the American League West. The Angels' only runs against D-backs starter Joe Saunders came in the first inning on Mark Trumbo's 15th home run of the season. The two-run shot plated Torii Hunter, who had singled with one out. But the offense fizzled out after that, going 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. "We let them hang around," Scioscia said. "Ervin pitched with his back against the wall and probably speaks more to what he accomplished tonight than anything. We had a lot of chances and couldn't get a couple of runs across and give him a little breathing room." In his first start against the Angels since being traded in July 2010 with three other players in exchange for Dan Haren, Saunders (4-5) was the hard-luck loser. He pitched six innings, giving up two runs on eight hits and four walks. But before the game, Saunders said he offered words of encouragement to his former teammate, who had been struggling of late. And judging by his performance, Santana may have taken those words to heart. "I was kind of out of breath there in between inning because it was just one-two-three, one-two-three, it was like a broken record," Saunders said of Santana. "He had his 'A' game."
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Thanks for depot photos and featureDear editor,
I just had to write and congratulate you on the outstandingly creative shots of the depot museum's cupola.
Don't look now but you've got some prize-winning photos there for sure. Story was great too.
By the way Noelia Cooke's letter (on door-to-door scams) was right on target.
The scam-of-the-day was a yellow van selling shrimp and seafood. It was by my house about an hour ago.
I don't know where it is now but I've called a few friends and relatives to give them a heads up.
Again, congrats on a fantastic job on the story and photos of the depot cupola.
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GANANOQUE, Ont. - A local photographer says it was hard to control her own emotions as she snapped photos of two dads meeting their newborn son for the first time.
It was such raw emotion. Those two guys were bawling and they were so super excited, and Im behind the lens trying to keep myself under control. It was a little hard, Lindsay Foster said in an interview after the photo she took of the June 27 birth went viral.
It is a very unique situation, with a surrogate and two gay expecting fathers and the midwives, and to top it all off the cherry on top was that it was all done during Pride Week, she said.
Foster has received calls and messages from Australia, China, Belgium, Israel, parts of Africa and all over North America. Many of the comments were from people struck by the parents obvious love and emotion captured by Foster just moments after baby Milos birth.
But there were many nasty comments, too, Foster said.
Many of the negative comments come from people who assumed the men were naked in the delivery room, she said. But thats not true. The midwife told the men to take off their shirts because skin-to-skin contact was an important part of bonding after birth.
Foster, who has been doing delivery-room photography for several years, said she was a friend of the surrogate mother, whom she knew as a daycare teacher in Gananoque.
When she heard of her friends pregnancy, Foster offered to take the delivery-room photographs for free, as long as she could post them on Facebook. The surrogate and the two dads enthusiastically agreed.
Foster got the call at 10 a.m. on June 27. Her friend was a week overdue and the midwives had decided to induce.
It was at the Kingston, Ont., hospital that Foster first met the dads, BJ Barone and Frankie Nelson of Toronto.
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As James exclusively revealed on Coffee House this morning, an ambush took place at this morning's Cabinet meeting on legislation for an EU referendum and recall of MPs. Downing Street confirmed this at today's lobby briefing, with the Prime Minister's official spokesman saying that:
'I don't think it's any secret that Conservative members of the Cabinet would want to see an EU referendum bill, and that point was made. With regard to recall, well of course we don't… try to pre-brief the Queen's speech… but the Prime Minister made clear his commitment to introducing that.'
The spokesman said he didn't accept the premise that the Prime Minister had changed his mind on introducing the recall bill, adding that 'the Prime Minister has always been clear that it's part of the Coalition agreement, there was a draft bill that was published, that has long reflected the PM's view.'
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CALGARY -- Funny how things work out.
Robbie Schremp of the London Knights and Marc-Antoine Pouliot of the Rimouski Oceanic were rivals last spring, determined to get the better of each other at the Memorial Cup. Schremp sipped champagne. Pouliot came out second best and got a ham sandwich.
Last night against the Calgary Flames at the Pengrowth Saddledome, Schremp and Pouliot weren't only teammates but linemates, two kids after one roster spot with the Edmonton Oilers.
The big prize now is an NHL paycheque to start the season, and you'd think the competition over who comes out the better would be just as intense as last spring. In many ways, it is, but there's a twist.
Schremp, he of the vast offensive skills and confidence to match, and Pouliot, who has game but is a young man of few words, are pulling for each other. In the weeks since rookie camp opened, they've become friends and fans of each other's bid to make it to the NHL.
May the best man win.
"We've become pretty good friends," said Schremp. "Obviously, we're both battling for a job, but it's not directly personal. If I make it here, it's not going to be like, 'Screw you, I got the job.'
"It sucks to battle one of your buddies, but it's part of the business. We both know our situation."
Schremp, 19, drafted 25th by the Oilers in 2004, and Pouliot, plucked from Rimouski 22nd in 2003, are battling with Yan Stastny, Jani Rita, Brad Winchester and J.F. Jacques for one roster spot.
Pouliot, 20, from Quebec City, is the diametric opposite of Schremp, who is from New York, in terms of personality and how he plays. But he knows a hockey player when he sees one.
"For sure, he's got more attention," Pouliot said of Schremp. "He's scored goals. He's played well. That's good for him. I just try to focus on my game and take care of my side of things."
Schremp's ticket to the NHL will be punched by the offensive pop he adds to the power play on the half-boards. Schremp has what every team can never have too much of - skill.
Pouliot, who played with Sidney Crosby and captained the Oceanic, is a lot more subtle, on the ice and in front of a notepad, but he's silky smooth and more well-rounded.
Schremp, who must return to junior if he doesn't make the cut, played left wing last night. Pouliot, who'll go to Hamilton of the AHL if he doesn't stick, played centre. Kyle Brodziak played right wing on a night coach Craig MacTavish dressed his bubble boys - Schremp, Pouliot, Stastny and Winchester up front, Matt Greene on defence.
"I want to make this team and I know it's a great challenge," said Pouliot, who can play wing or centre. "I think I've been good, for sure. With all the good players here, I'm playing less than I was used to in junior, but I think I've been doing fine."
Schremp might force GM Kevin Lowe to make a trade if he shows enough to stick beyond 10 games - past that, it counts as a year of his contract. That's assuming Winchester, who is on a one-way contract, makes the team.
"Whoever gets the job gets the job," shrugs Schremp. "I'm not even saying it comes down to the both of us. He can put the puck in the net and so can I. It'll come down to whoever gets it done."
From rivals to friends and linemates. What Schremp and Pouliot won't be this season is teammates. There isn't enough room for both of them.
Down the road? Yes. Not this season.
"One or the other has to win," smiles Pouliot, who was talking about the Memorial Cup, but could have been talking about who gets a jersey with the Oilers. "He's a good player. I'm not going to lie.
"He's a good friend and a good guy. We'll play our games and let somebody make the decisions."


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Funny Walks: Cranes bob, bob, bob along when hunting
The jerky neck motions of a whooping crane looking for lunch keep its head still in space about half the time, probably helping the bird to spot food, a video study suggests.
When walking, cranes and many other birds thrust their heads forward, then let their bodies catch up. A Maryland research team now says that it has made the first measurements of a bird's natural head bobbing while hunting. The result fits the idea that head bobbing benefits a hunter, says Thomas Cronin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.


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From May 9-19, Beer Study in Chapel Hill will be hosting the first-ever Ms. Pac-Man Tournament of Champions! The rules are simple... 1) Visit Beer Study at 106 N Graham St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 2) Get your mobile phone ready to take a photo 3) Play Ms. Pac-Man 4) Take a photo of your score […]Find out more »
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A referee is stationed inside the ring with the boxers and regulates the bout. In some jurisdictions the referee scores the contest along with two judges outside the ring. In most jurisdictions, however, the referee does not participate in the judging, and three ringside officials score the bout. The officials award points to each boxer for each round, and a boxer must win on two of the three...
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The bout is supervised by a referee on the mat, a mat chairman, a judge, and a timekeeper. A fall is awarded when one contestant holds both of his opponent's shoulders to the mat for one second. The referee signals a fall by striking the mat with his hand. If no fall takes place, the bout is decided on points awarded by the judges for maneuvers leading toward a fall.
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The game is supervised by seven officials in the NFL, four to seven in the colleges, and as few as three in high school. All officiating crews have a referee with general oversight and control of the game, who is assisted by umpires, linesmen, field judges, back judges, line judges, and side judges. The referee is the sole authority for the score, and his decisions on rules and other matters...


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SAN FRANCISCOSemiconductor shipments are likely to hit bottom late this quarter or early in the first quarter of 2012, according to a Wall Street analyst.
FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger said in a report circulated Tuesday (Dec. 12) that his firm expects inventory reductions to wane and chip shipments to recover back toward consumption levels. The further that inventory levels fall into the first quarter of next year, the sharper the cyclical recovery should be for chip firms in the second half of 2012, setting up the potential for a "snapback" if inventories fall too low, Berger said.
Berger said FBR expects semiconductor industry revenue to grow around 5 percent next year, after a flattish 2011. "We expect some semiconductor shipment strength in smartphone, wireless infrastructure, industrial, and automotive end markets, with some ongoing risks that smartphone and tablet cannibalization impacts eat into traditional PC unit growth rates," Berger wrote.


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Letting the enthusiast down is one thing AMD, disappointing a major partner is another
Subject: General Tech | January 6, 2012 - 01:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, cray, interlagos
Many consumers have been annoyed with AMD this year, from the enthusiast on the bleeding edge trying to track down the elusive HD6990 to the bargain conscious market looking for a Llano based system. It certainly hurt AMDs bottom line to have product shortages and it has alienated customers to the point where they may not consider AMD parts in the future. The shortages also ensured that AMD will miss an entire generation of laptops and pre-built PCs since assemblers like Dell and HP needed a guaranteed solid supply of chips before they would consider selling a product line based on those chips.
The Register reported on even worse news for AMD this morning, it seems that Cray will miss their targeted revenue for Q4 2011 and it seems to be AMDs fault. The delay of the Interlagos based APUs which Cray was basing its new line of high powered clusters on. This is not the first time that this has happened, Cray has been burned by Opteron delays before. In response Cray is designing a new cluster architecture that will be able to interconnect Intel and AMD chips over PCIe 3.0 lanes.
These Cray machines that are being delayed have another problem as well. Not only do they depend on the delayed Opterons they are also planned to incorporate NVIDIA's Kepler HPC cards which are suffering from a serious case of the delays as well. Seems like it is a bad quarter to be Cray.
"Cray is going to miss its revenue targets for the fourth quarter, the company warned Wall Street this morning before the markets opened, and it has pointed its finger (without naming names) directly at its main processor supplier, Advanced Micro Devices, as the cause of the miss."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft gears up for a fat January Patch Tuesday @ The Inquirer
- Apple to ship 'iPad 3' in March, 'iPad 4' in October, say Taiwan component makers @ DigiTimes
- SteelSeries Interview with Kim Rom @ HardwareHeaven
- Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver @ The Register
- Enable Concurrent Desktop Sessions in Windows @ TechSpot
- Magellan Wireless Back-up Camera Review @ TechReviewSource
- Win a Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler @ Funky Kit
I wonder if they are able to learn from their mistakes. At least the chips dont have bugs in them like the phenom did. It is a new architecture for them but still. i am sure they wish they had more supplies also.
On the other side of AMD's success over their Radeon video card products and its sales. This issue is not the thing that AMD is not so very reliable as far as "deliverable and delays"
is concerned. IMO, AMD is doing what its best in order to keep up with the demands of their major partners and distributors, unfortunately as we all know they are having a busy hard time maintaining their innovations in order to provide upgraded lineup of processors particularly on the server side which affected their publicity but, AMD delays the release of some of their products for a very good reason
to ensure top most quality to meet the needs of their major partners and the "mass consumer" in general as well.
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"The notion is not that if you're a monopoly, you compete less vigorously or with more deference to your competitors, ... The interest in antitrust law is for the protection of consumers, not individual competitors."
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About 208,000 young people under 20 years of age in the United States had diabetes in 2012, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While most cases of type 1 diabetes are diagnosed in those under the age of 30, the signs and symptoms often develop rapidly and the diagnosis is often made in an emergency room setting. Thus, screening for type 1 diabetes is not necessary. On the other hand, some youth with type 2 diabetes will have no signs or symptoms, especially early in the disease, and screening can be a useful tool. While still rare in children under age 10, the incidence of type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically in the last decade, especially in minority populations, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Developing the disease early in life means the individual will most likely suffer many more of the damaging blood glucose spikes associated with diabetes. This increases the risk of serious health problems earlier in adulthood, such as heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and foot amputations due to nerve damage.
Risk Factors
Overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity are all contributing factors to development of diabetes, and they too have become national health problems. As public health experts work to educate Americans on how to avoid this disease and its serious complications, parents and children should be aware that healthy eating habits and activity choices can lower an individual's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and related complications later in life.
A youth who is overweight—defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than the 85th percentile for age and sex, weight for height greater than the 85th percentile, or overweight more than 120% of ideal for height— with just 2 other known risk factors faces a substantial risk of having or developing type 2 diabetes, warns the ADA. These risk factors include:
- Having a close relative with type 2 diabetes
- Being Native American, African American, Latino, Asian American, or Pacific Islander
- Having signs of or conditions associated with insulin resistance, including acanthosis nigricans, high blood pressure (hypertension), unhealthy lipid levels (dyslipidemia), or polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Having a birth mother who has diabetes or had gestational diabetes
The ADA makes the following screening recommendations:
- Consider screening overweight children who have 2 or more additional risk factors for diabetes every 3 years, starting at 10 years of age or at the onset of puberty if that occurs earlier.
- Screen using one of the following tests:
- Fasting glucose (fasting blood glucose, FBG) – this test measures the level of glucose in the blood after an 8-12 hour fast.
- A1c (also called hemoglobin A1c or glycohemoglobin) – this test evaluates the average amount of glucose in the blood over the last 2 to 3 months and has been recommended more recently as another test to screen for diabetes.
- 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) – this test involves drawing a fasting blood test, followed by having the person drink a 75-gram glucose drink and then drawing another sample two hours after consuming the glucose.
If the initial result is abnormal, the test is repeated on another day. If the repeat result is also abnormal, a diagnosis of diabetes is made.
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American Diabetes Association. Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes – 2012. Diabetes Care. Available online at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/35/Supplement_1/S11.full.pdf+html through http://care.diabetesjournals.org. Published January 2012. Accessed August 27, 2012
National Diabetes Education Program. Overview of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents. PDF available for download at http://ndep.nih.gov/media/youth_factsheet.pdf through http://ndep.nih.gov. Issued June 2011. Accessed August 27, 2012.
(Updated July 28, 2014). National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2014. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/statsreport14.htm through http://www.cdc.gov. Accessed September 2014.
(January 2014). Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2014. Diabetes Care Volume 37, Supplement 1. Available online at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/37/Supplement_1/S14.full.pdf+html through http://care.diabetesjournals.org. Accessed September 2014.


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Performers Richard Seymour and Kitten Von Mew dance in the Appearing Rooms fountain by artist Jeppe Hein at the Southbank Centre in London. With a roof-top garden, urban beach, several art installations, and a row of beach huts, the Southbank Centre is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, which officially opens tomorrow and runs until Sept. 9. With this and the royal wedding, it sure seems like a fun time of year to be in London! Check out more photos from the festival kickoff.
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