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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to an influential Washington, D.C., federal appeals court faced no outright opposition from Republican senators during a Senate hearing on Wednesday in a break from ongoing partisan battles over judicial appointments.
Obama, a Democrat, nominated Sri Srinivasan, 46, a political appointee in the Justice Department, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which tackles many major regulatory issues and other high-profile cases.
Srinivasan's bipartisan and pro-business credentials - he clerked for Republican-appointed judges, worked in the George W. Bush administration's Justice Department, and represented corporations in private practice - look set to smooth his passage to confirmation.
His reception among Republicans was in stark contrast to Obama's only other nominee to the court so far, New York lawyer Caitlin Halligan, who withdrew from consideration last month. Republicans twice blocked a confirmation vote after raising concerns about her "activism" as a lawyer for the state of New York.
During Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican senators questioned Srinivasan about cases he had worked on, both in government and in private practice, but voiced no major doubts about the nomination.
"I intend to support you," said Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, long a member of the committee. A committee vote could come as early as next month before the nomination goes to the full Senate for confirmation.
Texas Republican Ted Cruz described himself as a long-standing friend of Srinivasan's dating back to their time together as law clerks in the U.S. appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia.
Cruz said Srinivasan had done a "very fine job" in answering the committee's questions.
Srinivasan, much more of a Washington insider than Halligan, has the backing of influential Washington lawyers on both sides of the political divide. Born in India and reared in Kansas, Srinivasan would be the first South Asian to serve on a federal court of appeals.
He clerked for two jurists appointed by President Ronald Reagan: J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Richmond, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He then spent more than a decade moving between corporate law firm O'Melveny & Myers and the Justice Department. From 2002 to 2007, during the Bush administration, he was a career lawyer in the Solicitor General's Office.
Obama is hoping to shape the makeup of the appeals court, having failed so far to add a single judge to the 11-strong bench despite there being four vacancies.
Of the current seven active judges on the court, four are Republican appointees.
Asked about how he would approach a role on the bench, Srinivasan said he would not have an "over-arching" judicial philosophy.
Instead he would approach each issue "on a case-by-case basis," he said.
Srinivasan ducked questions regarding gay marriage and corporate liability for human rights abuses - two matters he has worked on - by noting they were both issues pending before the Supreme Court.
In his current job as deputy to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, he appeared before the Supreme Court last month when the justices weighed the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which limits the definition of marriage under federal law to opposite-sex couples.
It was in his prior role in private practice that Srinivasan represented both Exxon Mobil Corp and Rio Tinto Ltd in defending the companies against human rights claims. Both those cases are pending before the high court while the justices decide a related case involving claims against Royal Dutch Shell.
Once that case is decided, "I would faithfully apply that precedent" if confirmed, Srinivasan said.
(Editing by Howard Goller and Mohammad Zargham)

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Korean bank dumps Unix boxen for mainframes
Seoul of a new machine
BC Card, the largest credit card processor in South Korea, is dumping its Unix servers, made by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, and moving its processing applications to mainframes made by IBM.
No, time is not moving backwards on the Korean Peninsula. But BC Card, which is a coalition of 11 South Korean banks that handles credit card transactions for 2.62 million merchants and 40 million credit card holders in the country, has apparently had its fill of distributed Unix systems.
In fact, seeing the very low prices - comparatively speaking for mainframes, that is - for the Solution Edition mainframe bundles that IBM launched in August 2009, BC Card decided to move its transaction processing systems to these machines, including IBM's DB2 database, its CICS transaction monitor, the WebSphere application server, and the InfoSphere Replication Server for data integration, and Tivoli Workload Scheduler systems management tools.
As IBM explained it back in August, the Solution Edition bundles aim to have a price that is 50 to 80 per cent lower than buying mainframe hardware and software piecemeal at prevailing prices, and are designed specifically to have a premium over an HP Integrity server running HP-UX of no more than 20 per cent.
IBM says that what won BC Card over, in addition to the lower Solution Edition pricing, was the fact that the mainframes have utility pricing that lets customers activate and deactivate mainframe engines on demand and with software pricing that scales up and down with capacity. BC Card processes hundreds of millions of credit card transactions daily, and says that it can have very unpredictable workloads. The ability to cope with high transaction volumes and not fall over is why companies have been paying such a high premium for mainframes all these years; another is the grief that comes from porting applications off the mainframe.
Sources at IBM say that this is the first Unix-to-mainframe application migration in nearly a decade. That obviously does not count any workloads that were moved from Unix systems to Linux running natively on z/VM partitions on IBM's big iron. Neither IBM nor BC Card would provide details about the Unix systems being replaced or the capacity of the System z mainframes being dropped in to assume their role at BC Card.
The two would confirm is that HP and Sun boxes were displaced, and added that BC Card ran benchmark tests pitting mainframes against Unix boxen to stress test the setups for their security, availability, and capacity. As part of the switcheroo, BC Card has also hired Big Blue for consulting and system integration services.
The BC Card deal caps four large publicly admitted mainframe deals that IBM did in Korea in 2009, including sales at Kookmin Bank, Korean Air, and Korea Exchange Bank Card. IBM also announced a $5m mainframe deal with the First National Bank of Namibia, which has shelled out a total of $15m to get core banking moved into that African nation. Previously, FNB outsourced the data processing for its 400,000 customers to the First National Bank of South Africa. This is the first mainframe ever sold into Namibia, by the way.
In April, an Indian commercial bank, Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited Bank, inked a seven year, $10m deal to create a credit card processing system based on the System z platform to support its 11 million customers. This was similarly the first mainframe deployed at a bank in India, according to IBM. Banks in China and Russia have also bought mainframes in recent years, and they do so because of the I/O capabilities of the machinery. The Bank of China has a mainframe getup that hosts 400 million accounts, has a 3 billion transaction history database, and runs at over 10,000 transactions per second.
Of course, for every bank in an emerging market you can find installing a mainframe, you can probably find one in a mature market that is being displaced by Unix, Windows, or Linux iron. The real issue is can IBM get a net gain in mainframe customers, boost revenues, and keep a talent pool of mainframers around to keep these machines humming. Ironically, as IBM expands the mainframe's appeal by lowering its costs, it may be hampered by a lack of techies with deep mainframe experience.
At the premium that IBM is charging for mainframes - even after Solution Edition bundle pricing - tuning and tweaking and babysitting are not optional. They are economic necessities, and sometimes, customers prefer to be lazy and get cheaper iron they don't have to tune so much to get bang for the buck. That doesn't make one way or the other right or wrong. That's just the way it is. ®


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Sheffield Wednesday manager Dave Jones is hoping to persuade Jeremy Helan to return to Hillsborough for a second loan spell at the club.
Manchester City midfielder Helan, 20, made nine appearances for the Owls during a recent stint with the club before returning to his parent club after last weekend's goalless draw with Wolves.
Jones visited Helan at City's training headquarters this week, but may face a fight for the Frenchman as several other clubs are keen to take him on loan.
Stoke striker Mamady Sidibe also returned to his parent club after the Wolves game, but will not be making a quick return to Hillsborough due to family reasons.
Sidibe, 33, who made 10 appearances for the Owls after arriving at the end of November, is reluctant to travel as he needs to be close to his pregnant wife.
Meanwhile, Jones is confident over a deal with an unnamed Spanish club that could see the departure of another forward, Rodri.
The 22-year-old, currently sidelined through illness, arrived on a season-long loan from Barcelona B in August, but has failed to settle in England and is keen to return home.


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§ 10. Sir Thomas More.
Sir Thomas More, the associate with Fisher in his tragic death, the pupil of Linacre and Grocyn, the disciple of Colet and the beloved friend of Erasmus, was the one member of the band of English humanists who had a distinct gift of literary genius. The son of a well-known London lawyer, he was placed by his father in the household of archbishop Morton, who, recognising his precocious genius, sent him to Oxford. There he became a good Latinist and a fair scholar in Greek. His devotion to the study of law at Lincolns Inn did not quench his ardour for classical learning. After he was called to the bar he delivered lectures in the church of St. Lawrence, on St. Augustines
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which were attended by all the chief learned citizens of London, dwelling on the philosophy and history rather than on the theology of the book. He became reader at Furnivals Inn, was a member of parliament (15034) and there successfully withstood the exactions of the king. His subsequent withdrawal from public life, usually attributed to fear of the king, gave him opportunity to cultivate his acquaintance with Greek and Latin. Together with Lily, he translated epigrams from the Greek anthology into Latin elegiac verse, and, in company with Erasmus, he translated into Latin prose portions from Lucian. The former, largely added to, were published in
and the latter, in 1506, under the title
Luciani compluria opuscula ab Erasmo Roterodamo et Thoma Moro traducta.
More had gradually built up for himself an extensive and lucrative private practice, when he was drawn into the kings service. He was employed in the negotiation of a commercial treaty with the Netherlands and, from the year 1516, he took office at court. He was made a privy councillor and was knighted in 1521. He became Master of Requests, undertreasurer, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster (1525) and finally, lord chancellor (25 October, 1529). He held the office for two years and a half. The last years of his life were full of tragical suffering. Convocation and parliament had pronounced the marriage of Henry VIII with Catharine of Aragon invalid. The first act of succession (25 Henry VIII, c. 22), passed in the spring of 1534, had settled the succession in the children of Anne Boleyn, and all Englishmen were required to swear to maintain the act. More declared repeatedly that he accepted the act, but the oath which was afterwards prescribed went beyond the contents of the act and required a declaration about papal authority within the realm. This, More steadfastly refused to make. He was confined in the Tower in circumstances of great hardship, and, in the end, was condemned to suffer death under act 26 Henry VIII, cc. 1 and 13. The barbarous punishment devised for traitors was commuted by the king to beheading. More suffered on 6 July, 1535. His execution, a judicial murder, and that of the bishop of Rochester, filled the world with horror. An interesting proof of the wide-spread character of this indignation has been furnished by the recently published (December, 1906) process against George Buchanan before the Lisbon inquistion. The humanist confessed to the inquisitors that he had written his celebrated tragedy,
a work translated into English, French, Dutch and Germanwith his eye fixed on the tyranny of Henry displayed in the trial and execution of Thomas More.
More was a voluminous writer both in Latin and in English. His fame rests chiefly on his Latin epigrams and
but his other work requires to be mentioned.
His verses, English and Latin, are, for the most part, mediocre, but contain some pieces of great merit. They are interesting because they reveal the character of the man, at once grave and gay, equally inclined to worldly pleasure and ascetic austerity; and they are not free from that trait of whimsical pedantry which belonged to More all through his life, and which displayed itself when, being in love with the younger sister, he resolved to marry the elder because it was meet that she should be the first settled in life. He wrote of Venus and Cupid, of a soldier who wished to play the monk, of eternity, of fortune, its favours and its reverses, and a
Rueful Lamentation
on the death of Elizabeth, the queen of Henry VII. Many of his epigrams are full of sadness, of an uncertain fear of the future. They describe life as a path leading to death. They reveal a man who had seen and felt much suffering and who brooded over the uncertainties of life. They seem to anticipate the fate of one who fell almost at once from the throne of the lord chancellor into a cell in the Tower. His translation into English of the
Life of John Picus, Erle of Myrandula, a greate Lorde of Italy,
is an autobiography of ideals if not of facts. The young gifted Italian humanist, who was transformed by contact with Savonarola, with his refined culture, his longing for a monastic career, his deliberate choice of a lay life and his secret austerities, was repeated in his English admirer, who wore, almost continuously, a sharp shirt of hair, who watched and fasted often, who slept frequently, either on the bare ground, or on some bench, or laid some log under his head.
Mores other prose writings,
with the exception of
are controversial and devotional. The controversial include, besides those in Latin,
The Dialogue, The Supplication of Souls,
A Confutation of Tindales Answer, A Letter against Frith, The Apology, The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance
and an
Answer to the Supper of the Lord.
They form about three-fourths of the whole and deserve more consideration than they usually receive. They are by no means free from the scurrility which was characteristic of that age of controversy. His opponents are swine, hell-hounds that the devil hath in his kennel, apes that dance for the pleasure of Lucifer, and so on. These writings are unusually prolix, but they show that the author was well read in theology and they manifest a great acquaintance with Scripture. More was no curialist or ultramontane, to use the modern word; but he was a man who felt the need of an external spiritual authority and clung to it. While Colet lived, he was Mores director; during occasional absences, Grocyn supplied his place; after Colets death, he felt increasingly the need for something external to rest on, and the thought of a historical church, which he defined to be all Christian people, was necessary to sustain his faith. The style in all these English writings, their carefully constructed balanced sentences with modulated cadences, exhibit the scholar and the imitator of the Latin classics.
the one work by More which still lives in all the freshness of youth, was written in Latin. The author was diffident about it. He showed the manuscript to friends, especially to Erasmus, and they were enthusiastic. The great French humanist Budé wrote the preface; Erasmus and Peter Giles (Aegidius) superintended the printing; the book took the learned world of Europe by storm in somewhat the same way as did
Moriae Encomium;
and the author was at once hailed as a member of the wide republic of letters. It was translated into most European languages; new editions appear continually; and it has become one of the worlds classics. It may have been suggested by Platos
the names it contains are Greekbut the books have little in common. It borrows something from Augustines
De Civitate Dei,
a favourite of the author. Yet the book is thoroughly original. The ground-plan had been suggested by the account of the voyages of Americo Vespucci; the sight of the wide, clean, well-paved streets of the towns in the Netherlands, refreshing after the crowded, narrow, filthy thoroughfares of London, the extent of garden ground within the walls of Bruges and Antwerp, suggested the commodious and handsome streets and the gardens with all manner of fruit, herbs and flowers of the city of Amaurote. The economic distress through which England was passing, the increase of sheep and the decay of agriculture, the destruction of farm steadings and of country towns, are all apparent in the book, and have produced many of its suggestions. The detestation of war shared by Colet, Erasmus and most of the humanists found utterance in the toleration of all religions and in conscription for agriculture but not for war. It is possible that Colets well-known opinions about priesthood appear in exaggerated form in
The book is full of allusions to the circumstances of the time during which the author lived; but critics are scarcely warranted in concluding, as many of them do, that they can find his practical remedies for the disorders of the age in the laws and usages of the imaginary state.
More lived long enough to see the maxims of
applied in a way which must have horrified him, and which probably gave their sharp edge to his denunciations of the Peasants war. He did not dream that, ten years after the publication of the book, and ten years before his own death, his
would furnish texts for excited agitators on village greens or in the public-houses of German towns. But so it was. The
Moriae Encomium
of Erasmus and Mores
were made full use of in the future tumult which they both dreaded.
It is not easy to say what influence this group of English humanists had in making the study of classical learning take root in their native land. Fishers position as chancellor of the university secured the continuous study of Greek at Cambridge, and More is our authority for saying that its popularity there was so great that scholars who did not share the teaching were ready to contribute to the support of the teacher. At Oxford, the struggle, evidently, was harder. Greek was denounced by obscurantist churchmen, and it was Sir Thomas Mores task, while he was a power at court, to protect and encourage both lecturers and scholars. It may safely be said, however, that the example and writings of Erasmus were the most powerful stimulus to the desire to know something about, and to share in the revival of, classical learning.
Note 6
. First edition 1518, second edition 1518, third, greatly enlarged, 1520.
Note 7
. For the
History of King Richard III
attributed to him, see
Note 8
. See
Chap. iv.
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I was curious as to how telezapper is legal. The commercial claims it removes your number from the solicitor's computer, but wouldn't that somehow be breaking and entering?
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The check cleared today; it was 38 Studios' second attempt this week to make the defaulted loan current; the first check was withdrawn after the company treasurer warned it would bounce.
But Gov. Chaffee (an independent whose Republican predecessor made the loan) says he's still refusing Schilling's request for more money. Get it from the private sector, he told the ex-star and sometime Fox News guest.. AP story here.
EARLIER: Two years ago Curt Schilling, the star Major League Baseball pitcher who spent more years with the 1990s Phillies than anywhere else, sweet-talked Rhode Island's Republican Gov. Donald Carcieri into lending $75 million to Schilling's nascent computer-games development firm, 38 Studios (named for Schilling's Phillies-Diamondbacks-Red Sox number), after venture capitalists turned him down. In return, Schilling promised to move the firm to Rhode Island from the Boston area, and start paying the money back this year.
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Gold for April delivery fell $5.80 on Friday to settle at $1,572.80 an ounce. The price of gold dropped below $1,600 on Wednesday for the first time since August, after details from the Fed's last meeting revealed that some Fed officials discussed ending its bond-buying program sooner than planned.
Gold prices have fallen 11 percent this year, largely because investors' biggest fears have dissipated, said James Steel, chief commodities analyst at HSBC in New York.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, gold prices climbed as the Fed and central banks around the world sliced interest rates to support economic growth. Low interest rates tend to draw traders to gold.
Any sign that central banks are considering removing their support "triggers a knee-jerk selling in the gold market," Steel said.
Prices for most other metals were lower Friday. Silver for May fell 24.1 cents to $28.52 an ounce. Platinum for April fell $12.60 to settle at $1,607.40. Copper for May fell 1.9 cents to $3.5505 per pound.
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Encouraging news about the global economy helped oil prices stabilize. The European Commission said Friday that it expects the recession afflicting the 17 countries sharing the euro currency to bottom out during the first half of the year, then recover near the end of the year.
In other futures trading on the Nymex:
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— Heating oil was up less than 1 cent to end at $3.10 per gallon.
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What if I provide API functions that are using <!! >!! and may be invoked from within go?
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I'd like to rephrase my question: Do I have to provide {!} and {!!} macros that do the same thing and use {<!} {>!} and {<!!} {>!!} respectively? Would it make sense for core.async to provide a defasync macro that creates those two versions from the same body where you could for example use {<!!!} and {>!!!}, {alts!!!} and so on so that they would be replaced by a postwalk before the macro is defined defined twice with {!} and {!!} appended to the name? Or are there other plans of abstraction? [Quoting symbols because of jira markup]
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Salads are uniformly low in fat, full of vitamins and makes a perfect accompaniment to a variety of dishes. And this sprouts salad is simple and easy to make which is healthy, colorful and crunchy. Here is the little healthy side dish.
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- De seed the tomato and chop it, chop the capsicum also.
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Life seems about coming to an end for many of us in the marketing department of the company I work for. Efforts towards the purchase of a large consignment of our product, aimed at the legislative arm of a Nigerian government (with a positive outcome that would have earned some of us 'all expenses paid' trips abroad), have come to naught. We all feel devastated as a result, hence this request for a respite from you on how to make the best out of such lost sale – Buba Y.
Your portrayal of awareness that something positive could be derived from your company's demise, in itself, spurs me towards providing some ways to help absorb 'the shock' from dashed hopes, you all seem to be facing presently. Remember the saying, "If the animal being hunted escapes today, tomorrow remains another day for hunting". If you miss your objective today, who says another day's attempt won't bring success? Draw on my response here to inform your affected colleagues not be down cast due to dashed hopes from loss of even a ground-breaking sale. In sales, when it turns out that you have lost out in all your efforts at securing any anticipated prospect's or client's patronage, do not see it as the end of life.
Regard lost sale as any selling opportunity that you encounter due to an item being out of stock; or as a result of a particular brand or line not being in your stock at all; or any other reason that caused you to lose that opportunity to sell. Remember to always draw the line between actually sold items and potentially or anticipated sold items. Lost sale has bearing on the former. Generally, it is vital that you obtain any piece of information relevant to your lost sale, hence I urge you to note the following in order to wade off the form of negative reactions you stated and persevere in future, after encountering a lost sale:
Note what went wrong
Whenever you experience a lost sale, even where it will be human to feel 'under the weather' brace up for a form of soul searching on what went wrong in the transaction. Is it a case of defect in the quality of your product (or service) – Bearing in mind that lower quality product attracts fewer or no buyers, while improved quality gives sales a boost? В двух словах, find out exactly why you lost the deal. Where the prospect is hesitant towards your enquiry, let its contact person realize your willingness to remain an effective backup if given the opportunity in future. Эта, no doubt, will likely create a positive impression about your readiness to correct lapses, and will likely not lose out if given a second chance.
Did you in any way contribute to the lost sale? Try to do what top sellers often do – Assume total accountability for the lost business and then try to figure out how to ensure it never occurs again. An analysis of the total sales process will likely present both what you did well and something that went amiss. These can be exemplified by what the prospect liked, intended achievement or what should be eliminated. Did you encounter any resistance, objections at any stage of your encounter(s) with the prospect? What actions could you have taken to prevent these barriers?
Since you have obviously lost to a competitor, somehow your message 'did not hit target'. Ask yourself why. If indeed the competitor edged you out, ascertain if you misconstrued the prospect's primary decision criteria. In such a situation, decipher what you could have done to maximize your strengths, minimized your weaknesses and differentiate your offering better before any form of competition? Then ascertain the strategy your competitor adopted to convince the prospect to choose the competitor's over yours.
Try to figure out what you could have done that would have led to a different outcome – one where you were the winner. В двух словах, I urge you not to give up (perseverance is of essence). Another attempt, if it comes, can be the master stroke.
Signs to watch out for
There are things you should watch out for next time, to serve as pointers to the likelihood of the deal not coming your way. View such as 'red flags' which portend the need for a re-adjustment of whatever strategy you have in place. Endeavour not to overlook indicators such as: (a) A prospect showing signs of being indifferent (an interested party would likely have questions, and show concerns. When the reverse occurs, be on your guard and then work towards a better relationship with the prospect). (б) If the prospect seems to be non-committal to a definite cut-off date for a decision (a prospect becoming imprecise on this should give cause to 'smell a rat'). (с) When the contact person is not really a significant decision maker within the structure of the other party (where this is the case it portends a sign of no serious intension to purchase). (d) When the prospect demands for a proposal rather than a conversation at the unset (this tends to hint on a prospect's desire for merely insight on pricing or terms, for comparative purposes). (е) If the prospect has issues with your price, and not too willing to reason with you. (Продолжение следует).
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Discover the wonders of the stunning Galapagos Islands
Discover the rich marine life, abundant bird colonies and stunning landscapes of the Galapagos Islands on this 17-day tour. Feel the rush of a panga ride to Cerro Brujo, snorkel off the coast of Isla Espanola, discover the archipelago's history on Isla San Cristobal, be mesmerised by the flourishing Scalesia forest on Isla Santa Cruz and visit a green turtle breeding zone on Isla Floreana. This is an adventure abounding in natural wonder, impressive vistas and rich history.
Quito is so much more than a gateway to the Galapagos. Misty mountain scenery, a heart-melting Old Town and world-class cuisine make this one of South America's most dazzling destinations
Snorkelling in the Devil's Crown is like nothing else. This underwater volcano – full of sea lions, turtles and rays – boasts some of the best snorkelling on the archipelago
This trip is one for the bird-lovers. Witness the albatross colonies of Isla Espanola and seek out the rare red-footed booby on Isla Genovesa
Gaze in awe at the largest trees in the Galapagos on a hike through Santa Fe's Opuntia forest
Plant your feet on 100-year-old pahoehoe lava as you walk across Bahia Sullivan, perhaps spotting a marine iguana or two
An included visit to the San Cristobal Interpretation Centre fills you in on the archipelago's geography, history, conservation projects and more
Although we don't ask travellers to complete a Physical Participation Form for this trip, we do ask that you read through the trip notes carefully to ensure that this trip is right for you. You'll need to feel comfortable with the included activities and with moving about the boat. The cabins and communal areas of the boat are spread over four decks, and the steps between the decks are steep.
You will be entering and exiting a Zodiac boat (panga) during wet and dry landings and when returning from snorkelling. Although the waters we sail are usually calm, there are times when the sea can get rough and choppy. Steady sea legs (and a sturdy stomach) are needed when walking around the boat during bad weather. Rain or shine, your trusty crew will always be on hand to assist you.
A typical yacht/boat for sixteen travellers is equipped with eight cabins each with ensuites. They are designed to maximise living area space, so sleeping quarters can be a bit cramped. That being said, the adventure and exhilaration of an authentic Galapagos trip more than makes up for any discomfort.
While at sea and when exploring the islands, you may be exposed to the sun for large parts of the day. It's important to use sun protection and drink plenty of water.
Please note that while there is an itinerary in place, some changes may occur due to the weather or because of direction from the local authorities. This can happen with little notice so please be prepared for potential modifications to the route or activities. A sense of humour and flexibility will ensure you have a fun, relaxing trip through this beautiful part of the world no matter what happens.
All of our Galapagos tours begin and end in Quito which is located approximately 2850 metres above sea level so you may experience some altitude sickness.
On this itinerary, you'll be travelling aboard the Daphne
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There are currently no scheduled departures on our Absolute Galapagos (Daphne) trip. If you are interested in other trips in the region visit one of the links below.
Before checking in for the flight from Quito to the Galapagos, there is a US$20 transit fee that needs to be paid. On arrival in the islands you must pay the US$100 national park fee to enter Galapagos National Park.
When booking, please make sure that your name is spelt correctly, and that you book using the name in your passport (particularly if you are recently married). If you are issued a new passport with a different number between the time that you book and the time you travel, please take both the old and new passports with you.
Should you have a special diet requirement (for example vegetarian, celiac, vegan, severe food allergies) it's essential that you inform us or your agent of the specific details at least 10 days prior to departure, in order to make sure the chef on board the boat or on the island can request the necessary food supplies.
The minimum age on this trip is 15. Please note that triple cabins are not available. If travelling with a child, the child will need to share with one of the adults, and the other adult will share with another adult passenger, or pay a single supplement.
Please note that from June to August the water is rougher than usual. Consequently travel times will be longer than usual. If you suffer from seasickness you may want to reconsider travelling during this period.
Electricity in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands is 110 - 120V and requires US plugs so you may need to take an adapter.
Wi-Fi is not available on the boat at all whilst in the Galapagos Islands. There is limited access on the bigger islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal and Isabela and there may also be internet cafes for you to use if there is time.
Like Wi-Fi, mobile phone coverage is pretty non-existent whilst travelling around the islands. Again, you may find that you have limited service when you are closer to the bigger islands.
There is a satellite phone on board, for the use of shipboard staff, in case of emergency.
We do not offer diving as a part of our Galapagos program and due to our internal safety policy our leaders are specifically prohibited from recommending or assisting with booking this activity.
Our Absolute Galapagos (Daphne) trips score an average of 5 out of 5 based on 1 review in the last year.
A fantastic trip with lots of opportunities to interact with the bountiful wildlife of the Galápagos Islands. Comfortable lodgings onboard and fantastic food. The itinerary takes in a wide range of very diverse ecosystems. Be prepared for a fair bit of sailing/cruising between the islands, particularly at night => Bring motion sickness tablets. (But it's worth the discomfort).
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Kevin Tancharoen didn't originally intend for the world to see his "Mortal Kombat" work. The 27-year-old director of "Fame" and "Glee: The 3D Concert Movie" made an eight-minute video last year called "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth" that featured a new, grittier setting and origins for characters from the 19-year-old video game fighting series. His intention was to show the short to executives at Warner Bros. and its label New Line Cinema and demonstrate that despite his background in choreography and directing the unsuccessful 2009 remake of "Fame," he was the right choice to bring Mortal Kombat back to the big screen after a 14-year absence.
However, a YouTube snafu resulted in "Rebirth" being posted publicly on the site, where it garnered millions of views thanks in part to supportive tweets from celebrities such as "The Guild" creator Felicia Day, who, like Tancharoen, is represented by International Creative Management.
Based on the short's viral success, Warner Bros. gave Tancharoen $2 million to produce a nine-episode Web series, called "Mortal Kombat: Legacy," in support of the new Mortal Kombat game it released in April. Now New Line has agreed to make a new Mortal Kombat movie with Tancharoen directing. Shooting is expected to start in March, with the movie coming out in 2013. The director talked to Hero Complex contributor Ben Fritz about the road so far.
BF: In all honestly, when you made "Rebirth," how likely did you think it was you'd be here now, about to direct a full-length feature film?
KT: It was such a crapshoot for me. I honestly felt it was 50/50. Previous to doing it I had some discussions with Warner executives about Mortal Kombat, but they didn't go anywhere. This video was meant to be a showcase that I didn't only have to do dancing stuff, even though that was primarily my background. I was desperate to get into the genre space. As a director you can get typecast just like an actor. I knew nobody would risk putting my name in front of a genre movie. There would be an outcry by fans with everyone asking, "Why are you getting the guy who did 'Fame' to make 'Mortal Kombat'?" I knew I had to get some credibility.
BF: So what's your background with Mortal Kombat? How long have you been a fan?
KT: It goes back to when I was 13 or 14. It was my favorite game at the arcade, back when arcades existed. Then when they started coming out for Super Nintendo, I bought them all and I still have up to this day. Like everyone, I was mad when they made one that didn't have any blood.
BF: So who was your favorite character?
KT: I always played Scorpion because I could remember his special move very easily. In the second game I think I switched to Baraka, but Scorpion has always been the go-to character for me.
BF: Both "Rebirth" and "Legacy" were more grounded and realistic than a lot of us are used to from certainly the first two movies. Is that what we should expect from your movie?
KT: Yes, my sensibilities lean more toward realism as opposed to the more mythological stuff that Mortal Kombat automatically has. You can expect more of that instinct in the feature version. It will be more realistic and gritty than the last two movies, but also a very big story.
BF: You created some new origins for the Mortal Kombat characters in your Web shorts. Will you use similar origins in the movie?
KT: Yes. Although we're very adamant that you don't have to be a fan of the games to understand what's happening in the movie. It will be an origin story that you can understand completely from the film. Over nine games, the mythology has gotten quite complicated.
BF: You're making this movie for Warner Bros. and Mortal Kombat is now made by Warner Bros. So have you gotten to work together with [Mortal Kombat creator] Ed Boon?
KT: Yes, Ed Boon is completely supportive. He understands that to tell a really good story, Mortal Kombat needs to be taken back to basics. [Writer Oren Uziel and I] sat down and talked with Ed over breakfast at Comic-Con. A lot of our ideas are in line. I've got to admit I was very nervous … but a lot of our ideas connected.
BF: So is there any question your movie will be rated R and be just as violent as fans expect?
KT: I want to do it rated R and all the discussions have been for it to be rated R. I want it to be bloody, but in a natural sense and not gratuitous, crazy spurting pools of blood. That takes it to a different level of camp.
BF: So you want to have more of a Christopher Nolan-like approach than the 1990s movies?
KT: The cartoonish version has been done. Chris Nolan started the trend of making everything in this type of genre grounded. What took most people by surprise with my shorts, I think, is that you never would think of putting Mortal Kombat in a realistic setting. But I believe it's a fighting game and it's meant for that purpose.
— Ben Fritz
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I'm seriously looking at one, Some advice
Postby heavymetal » Sat May 19, 2007 12:27 pm
I'm looking at one for loaded touring uses as well and I have a BOB trailer. I looked at trikes, but on the highways when dealing with road trains, these could become an issue.
I've ridden a bent with steering sticks and found it easy. The one in the above mentioned picture has handlebars. I don't really want one with handlebars as I feel this might aggravate my arm/hand problem.
Does anyone know how much bend in an arm, or stress on shoulder/neck is caused when using handlebars on a bent. It appears to me from looking at the picture, that one's arms would be in a similiar position using handlebars on a bent as it would be riding an old dragster with hi rise dragster bars.
At least with stick steering, ones arms are rested at one's side.
If I decide on a trike, I've narrowed it down to the tadpole on this page. It has steering sticks
Does anyone have experience with a trike on the highways with large semis and road trains?
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Re: I'm seriously looking at one, Some advice
Postby europa » Sat May 19, 2007 1:30 pm
heavymetal wrote:Does anyone have experience with a trike on the highways with large semis and road trains?
Can't imagine you'd be able to tow even a small semi with a trike, let alone a large one or a road train
Regarding the handlebars, I reckon they'd be like driving a car - the hands are up there, doing stuff, but you don't have any weight on them. Interestingly, I also have numb hand issues in the car
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Postby Hotdog » Sat May 19, 2007 3:49 pm
The other handlebar style is the n-shaped 'tweener' bar (as seen on Bacchettas) where your hands are mostly vertical and your arms stretched out in front of you. The idea behind these is primarily aerodynamic, but the straight armed position is more comfortable for some.
As Richard pointed out because there is no weight on your arms any type of recumbent steering is likely to put less stress on you arms than a upright bicycle, however for ultimate comfort under seat steering (steering sticks) would probably be the best. A lot of recumbent bicycles designed specifically for touring have underseat steering, at least as an option, as having your arms resting by your side is the most relaxed position.
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Postby europa » Sat May 19, 2007 9:34 pm
Yes, you may deduce that my experience with these creatures is limited, but it is interesting to note that Hotdog's new Barchetta has been recommended to me as an ideal beginner's weapon to perform all round duties, and it has equal sized wheels with the high crank.
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Re: I'm seriously looking at one, Some advice
Postby heavymetal » Sun May 20, 2007 10:48 am
europa wrote:Interestingly, I also have numb hand issues in the car
I've noticed this as well, so I have more than neck/brain issues to think about. I suspect that using handlebars on a bent will give me a bent elbow position.
Having tried steering sticks, I prefer these. The different wheel sizes are not an issue to me, but having the larger rear wheel, gives gears closer to a normal bike.
Thanks guys for your help, I'll keep researching.
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Re: I'm seriously looking at one, Some advice
Postby Bnej » Sun May 20, 2007 11:46 am
europa wrote:I also have numb hand issues in the car
Same. I have to pay attention so I keep my hands relaxed, wrists straight, and move them around on the wheel over time. My left hand gets a break by shifting gears, my right hand I occasionally rest on the door's arm rest.
When using a computer, I use a keyboard timer to remind me to take a break every 25 minutes.
On the roadie, I move between the drops and hoods often, and spend some time on the tops when my speed is low.
I find some benefit on flat bars by resting my hands on the mounts for the break levers. This lets my hold the bars with open hands, and allows a narrower, more relaxed grip. But I don't ride flat bars for too long generally.
I haven't been having numbness or pain since I started being more careful, I think it's primarily just a matter of, if it hurts, don't keep doing the exact same thing!
Oh, and it can also be beneficial to sleep with a wrist brace on the affected wrist, which stops you from contorting the wrist in your sleep and lets any existing inflammation get better by keeping the wrist and hand in a relaxed position.
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Postby heavymetal » Sun May 20, 2007 3:30 pm
Changing the subject, I was looking at pictures of trikes and the ones with the small rear wheel seem to have the rear derailleur and chain too close to the ground for my liking.
Having destroyed a RD on a normal bike, I'll think I'll go for one with a larger rear wheel.
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Recumbent Hand Position
Postby rdp_au » Mon May 21, 2007 11:56 am
My experience is that there almost no pressure on hands or arms. Once you learn that on a recumbent, RELAXED arms and hands is the key to smooth riding, any hand, arm, or shoulder strain becomes a thing of the past. Also, since just a light touch is required, it is easy to drop an arm down by your side every now and then as you ride. This really helps relieve any strain that may accumulate as a result of holding it in one place for a while.
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Postby rdp_au » Mon May 21, 2007 12:23 pm
The two wheel sizes appear to control how high your pedals wind up. However, I've noticed that the more up market models are quite happy to have equal sized wheels and pedals above your belly button. Why? I don't know but it could be either a more efficient position (a bit like racers with their very low bars) or just a result of development over time (discovering that the high position isn't a problem).
It's all about seat height. With two full size wheels, it's hard to get the seat low enough for most people to feel comfortable. Unlike a DF bike, you can't just slip off the seat and stand up when you stop. Pedal height is a secondary issue. If you are tall enough to feel comfortable sitting on the seat, then lifting your feet higher onto the pedals isn't a problem. A configuration such as Hotdog's Bacchetta will certainly be faster, since the high pedals put you in a more aerodynamically efficient position and the large wheels roll more efficiently. And I'm not the slightest bit jealous. No, not at all...
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Postby Kalgrm » Fri May 25, 2007 8:04 pm
heavymetal wrote:I tried sleeping with an arm brace to keep the wrist straight and also one for the elbow. It didn't help. They also shoved big needles in my hand and arm and ran electrical currents through for a test and couldn't locate the problem.
I don't know how much riding you're currently doing on a "normal" bike, but that alone could be the root cause of the arm and shoulder problems you have. You may find that riding a recumbent (of either style) will ease the pain and give you the relief you seek.
Having only just taken delivery of my own recumbent with over seat steering (OSS), I can tell you that I feel completely at ease with it. It is very much like holding the steering wheel of a car, or resting your arms on the arm rests of your recliner at home. I was starting to get some pain in my left wrist before I got the bike after doing many km each week on my MTB, but that pain is gone now.
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Postby heavymetal » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:56 pm
Kalgrm wrote:I don't know how much riding you're currently doing on a "normal" bike, but that alone could be the root cause of the arm and shoulder problems you have. You may find that riding a recumbent (of either style) will ease the pain and give you the relief you seek.
I've got a neck injury which apparently is causing the problem. I say apparently, because doctors never really know.
I've got my eye set on a trike at the moment.
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Wildly successful in the navigation business, Garmin formed a partnership with Asus to create the Garminfone, a GPS-centric device marketed exclusively on T-Mobile. With a 600 MHz processor, Android 1.6, and 3.0-megapixel camera, the Garminfone is a mid-range device with awesome GPS functionality (and some great accessories – more on that later). As you would expect, navigation services have been fantastic on the device, but is it good enough for you to forego a "normal" Android handset?
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I like the design of the Garminfone. It's sleek, and sports few external buttons, giving it a clean look. Unlike most devices on the market, the device ships with quite a few goodies. Inside the box, you'll find the phone, battery, AC adapter, USB cable (which doubles as the charging cord), 2 GB microSD memory card, wired stereo hands-free headset, stereo headphone adapter, premium dash mount, and instruction manuals. Coming in at 4.57 inches tall by 2.46 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and weighing 5.04 ounces, it's slim and easily slips into a pocket or purse. With 262,144 colors, the 3.5-inch LCD screen isn't the best on the market, but it does a decent job and provides reasonably crisp colors.
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The Garminfone ships with Android 1.6, Given the vast customization this device has been put through, I doubt we'll ever see an Android 2.1 build. Though it's built on Android, Garmin-Asus decided to customize the device to reflect Garmin GPS units, and they've done a good job – at first glance, it's hard to tell that Android is hiding underneath the interface. The phone can be used in portrait or landscape mode (it can be turned to the left or right). To their credit, Garmin-Asus did a great job in designing the on-screen QWERTY keyboard (it's not the Android standard one). It's easy to type on in both portrait and landscape mode, and after a few minutes, I was blowing through text messages and e-mails with ease.
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The Northport City Council spent more than three hours Tuesday night interviewing four internal candidates for the position of police chief — but no selection has been made.
The Northport City Council spent more than three hours Tuesday night interviewing four internal candidates for the position of police chief — but no selection has been made.
The council will likely hold a public work session in March to discuss the candidates and their interview answers and will then vote on their selection during a regular council meeting.
"In making a hire of this magnitude, I'd like to take a chance to look at the answers and schedule a work session," Councilman Steve Acker said Tuesday night. "I want to digest the information."
Candidates interviewed for the position were Capt. Kevin Leib, who has worked in the department since 1983; Lt. James Carpenter, who joined the department in 1997; Lt. Tommy Kimbrell, who has been with the department since 1995; and interim chief Kerry Card, who has been with Northport Police since 1990.
One common thread in the interviews was that all the candidates said that the officers and personnel within the department was its biggest asset.
"The staff [is the biggest strength," said Kimbrell. "They want to do their job and they want to make a difference."
The department's employees are the heart of the department, Carpenter added.
Although the officers are for the most part, fairly young, they are caring and are able to work together very well, Leib said. What the city needs to do is to create an environment where the young officers can be trained and "seasoned" he said to become even more well-rounded and to be able to move up within the ranks, he said.
One way of doing this, he suggested, is to institute a rotational policy where specialized officers are rotated through various divisions — traffic, investigations, community relations — every two to four years.
"That way, by the time they make lieutenant or captain, they are more well rounded," Leib suggested.
It's also something that Kimbrell advocated, telling the council that it would help train officers and "ease succession."
Ensuring the department acts ethically and gains the trust of the community is also vital, Card told the council during his interview. Currently, all Northport officers have undergone training from the Alabama Ethics Commission.
"We know what is ethical and what is not," Card said. "Public trust is like leadership, you have to work every day at it."
One way that officers are currently working in the community is by checking on businesses after hours and leaving their cards so that the business owners know that the police are on watch, Card said.
Another way to gain the trust of the community, Leib said, is to also get out and walk the neighborhoods, for officers to introduce themselves and explain who they are, what they do and why information is so important to their job.
"Once we get the public on our side, they'll call us," Leib said.
Kimbrell shared a similar view.
"The most effective way is to get out and in the neighborhoods and talk to people," Kimbrell told the council. "If you get out they will talk to you about what's going on, but if all you do is drive around and answer calls, it won't work."
Working with other area law enforcement agencies is also important, Card said, something he said he has had experience with, especially during the last year while serving as interim police chief.
"For the last year, I've had the day-to-day management of the Police Department and done it day after day," Card said. "I've gained some confidence and certainly had on-the-job training and feel that I can be an effective police chief for the city."
Leib said that he has spent the last 29 years of his career in the Northport Police Department, under three different police chiefs and two interim chiefs. He said he's confident he has the skills and knowledge needed to make the department more effective and stronger, both for the city and for the department itself.
"I've seen enough examples of how not to do things in order to move the department in the direction it needs to go in the future," Leib said. "I expect people to be adults and to be professional within the guidelines I've given them."
Each interview lasted approximately 45 minutes and also included a section of questions that had to be answered in a written format.
The interviews were public and had a standing-room only attendance, with more than a dozen attendees, including mostly employees of the Northport Police Department.
City Administrator Scott Collins said that Northport's police chief is an incredibly important hire.
"We have an opportunity to build something," Collins said. "We aren't in the position to accept second-tier results."
The chief will ultimately replace former Police Chief Robert Green, who left in July. In March 2012, Green was put on administrative leave during an audit that found he had used coercion, threats and punishment as "power tools of intimidation" to run the department. The outside audit recommended that Green be fired and that the city conduct a nationwide search for his replacement.
As interim, Card is making the same salary Green did, $83,000 annually. But the city will increase the salary to the $90,000 range for the right candidate, Collins said.
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Officials in a North Carolina town have approved bowhunting within its city limits, the latest city to join the ranks offering urban archery.
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If you are a fan of the Fallout franchise, circle the date of October 19 on your calendar. Then go ahead and take the rest of the week off of work, turn off your phone, and kiss your loved one goodbye, because Fallout: New Vegas is looking to fill the gaming void left when Fallout 3 ended and returned players to their regularly scheduled lives.
If you have been living in an underground vault to avoid radiation and mutants and haven't heard, Fallout: New Vegas returns players to the post-apocalyptic world that was born from a nuclear war between the U.S. and China in the year 2077. The events of New Vegas take place in 2280, three years after those of Fallout 3, and while this is a spiritual sequel to Fallout 3, it is not being considered Fallout 4. Of course, that probably won't make much of a difference as significant others wonder where their loved one has been for the 60+ hours that can easily be claimed by this game.
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Looking for an historical book to read, where the actions and emotions of the characters involved are realistic? Where passion is always high, and the atmosphere is so sensual it's bordering on primal? Then look no further than The Highland Guard series by Monica McCarty, and more recently her new novel, The Raider.
Think of The Highland Guard, after which this gripping series is named, as the ancient equivalent of the FBI or the ASIS. Each member must fight for Scotland's freedom during the War of Independence.
Robert Boyd, whose warrior name is Raider (you can guess why), helps us to remember that warriors can still be vulnerable to their surroundings and make mistakes. So many authors of historical romance forget this and write about figures of the past that barely seem real – go figure! Monica McCarty's warriors, however, are human and thus susceptible to love in whatever form that may come in. And falling in love, as Raider learns, means making sacrifices and accepting that some things cannot be changed, otherwise you risk losing the one you love.
Raider comes to realise this after he takes an English woman hostage. Though he might be the strongest man in Scotland, he is just a man when in the presence of this woman, aptly named Rosalin. Rosalin, the sister of a powerful Englishman and seemingly his enemy, forces him to see and acknowledge things that he doesn't want to- both inside and out.
Rosalin thankfully is not a damsel in distress; she pushes and pushes, never giving up. Unfortunately, most authors give their characters a happy ending after only the slightest of hiccups; they make their "heroines" do anything and everything for the man they love.
More importantly, the constant upheavals in this story are not softened by unrealistic moments of passion. Some historical romances depict moments of "passion" as a turning point in the story, where the characters come to an understanding and realise everything will be alright. In this story sex is depicted as a way for the two main characters to show their love and frustration at the situation they have been dealt with. Not only that, but it helps them to forget for a while and imagine a happier world.
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Nick Bonino scored for Anaheim on a second-period power play — 18 seconds after Detroit's Justin Abdelkader was ejected for a violent hit on Toni Lydman — and the Ducks went on to a 4-0 victory Saturday night to take a 2-1 series lead over the Red Wings in the Western Conference playoffs.
Abdelkader appeared to catch Lydman square in the side of the head with his left shoulder, and he was given a major penalty for charging and a game misconduct with 4:49 remaining in the second.
The Ducks immediately took advantage when Bonino backhanded a shot past goalie Jimmy Howard from point-blank range.
Ryan Getzlaf, Emerson Etem and Matt Beleskey scored in the third period for the Ducks. Jonas Hiller made 23 saves for Anaheim.


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The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rule in men's and women's water polo Thursday regarding swim caps for players. The new rule stipulates that, beginning in the fall, water polo players can wear only swim caps beneath their water polo caps.
The rule, recommended by the NCAA Men's and Women's Water Polo Subcommittee, prohibits the use of padded caps, which are becoming more popular among water polo players concerned about concussions.
The committee based its decision on the fact that, according to the NCAA Sports Science Institute, no scientific evidence supports the notion that padded headgear helps prevent concussions.
PROP also approved a rule providing referees more discretion in awarding or not awarding a foul – ordinary, exclusion or penalty. Referees could take into account whether the call would give the attacking team an advantage. The rule is aimed at promoting more offense.
Referees are allowed to officiate in favor of the attacking team at their discretion if, in their opinion, awarding a foul would create an advantage for the offending player's team. Referees will be directed to apply that principle to the fullest extent and not inhibit the offensive advantage.
Additionally, PROP approved a new rule allowing electronic-media timeouts to take place after three minutes of playing time have elapsed in each quarter.
As a way to enhance the student-athlete experience, PROP approved reintroducing the minor acts of misconduct rule. Officials can now award a 20-second period of exclusion for minor acts of misconduct rather than exclude a player for the remainder of the game.


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Discovery's seven astronauts have successfully transferred almost two tons of material and equipment to the International Space Station to be used by the first residents of the outpost when they arrive next year.
Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa, who has been coordinating the transfer activities, reported early this morning that the transfer of clothing, water, sleeping bags, spare parts, medical equipment, supplies and hardware for the so-called Expedition One crew is essentially complete. Mission Specialist Julie Payette coordinated stowage of the items in the Unity and Zarya modules. Earlier in the flight, space walkers Dan Barry and Tammy Jernigan installed another 700 pounds of equipment on the exterior of the station to be used during future assembly missions. A handful of items will be carried from Discovery to the station late tonight to wrap up the primary objective of the flight.
One of the few items still to be transferred is a seventh bag of water. A total of almost 75 gallons of water will be left aboard the station for the first resident crew, which is comprised of Expedition Commander Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Kirkalev.
With the transfer work all but complete, the astronauts conducted some additional work, installing parts of a wireless strain gauge system that will help engineers track the effects of adding modules to the station throughout its assembly, cleaning filters and checking smoke detectors.
The crew took time from their activities overnight to conduct a variety of news conferences with media representatives, and Payette accepted a congratulatory call from Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and schoolchildren in Ottawa.
The astronauts began an eight-hour sleep period at 7:50 a.m. Central time and will be awakened at 3:50 p.m. to begin their final day of work aboard the international station.
The primary activity for the astronauts will be to move the few remaining items from Discovery to the ISS, then close a series of hatches within the station's modules leading back to the shuttle. Shortly after 4:30 a.m. Thursday, Discovery's thrusters will be commanded to fire in a series of 17 bursts to raise the Space Station's altitude by about five to six miles. That reboost maneuver will enable the station to be in the correct altitude for the arrival of the Russian Zvezda service module late this year. It will be the next component to be linked to the growing station complex and the first living quarters for the first permanent occupants of the orbital facility.
Discovery and the International Space Station are in excellent health orbiting 240 miles above the Earth.
The next STS-96 mission status report will be issued at about 7 p.m. Wednesday or as developments warrant.