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When considering promotional items for your business, there are several ways to go about marketing services and promo item to the general public. But, for anyone who is hoping to get the biggest returns for the marketing money spent, want consumers in to the future shop with your stores, and wish to bring in a whole new customer base, to the lowest costs on the marketing, using promotional items is one of the best tactics to take into account. Not only do you not have to hire a separate advertising team to do the job, but you are gonna find that with the use of promo items, you will be greatly saving within the cost of marketing, yet getting the greatest returns.
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Washington State University center Riley Sorenson has been named to the 2016 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List, it was announced Tuesday.
The Pac-12 Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has voted to award WASHINGTON STATE football student-athlete Riley Sorenson with the Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award for 2015-16.
The four honorees of the Steve Gleason Community Service Award.
Linebacker Frankie Luvu enters his junior season looking to lead the Cougar defense.
Washington State offensive lineman Joe Dahl was selected with the 12th pick in the fifth round, No. 151 overall, by the Detroit Lions in the 2016 National Football League Draft ,
Washington State football wrapped up spring practice Tuesday afternoon with a two-hour workout in helmets and shoulder pads on Rogers Practice Field and in Martin Stadium.
Luke Falk connects with Gabe Marks for two touchdowns to lead Team Gray to a 24-12 win.
The Cougar offense accounts for 10 touchdowns and 571 yards of total offense.
Washington State scrimmaged for 85 plays in Martin Stadium Saturday.
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Amazing Honeymoons in Beautiful America
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- Written by Dillon Kreider
Just the other day I found this great article about some of the best places to honeymoon in America. Since we are celebrating America this week, I thought I would share some of these ideas with you and throw in a few of my own.
This will be your first vacation as "official spouses" and if you are spending a lot of money on your wedding day, you may have a smaller budget for your honeymoon. The most expensive part of any trip is airfare and flying to exotic locales can really put a dent in your pocketbook. Flying or driving in the US with advance planning can cut down that expense significantly. With the cash you save on airfare you can upgrade your hotel or find a few adventures like rafting the Grand Canyon.
Speaking of National Parks, America is incredibly beautiful, so why not book a vacation at Yosemite National Park in California, Grand Teton in Wyoming, or the Great Smokey Mountains in Tennessee.
Maybe you don't like to rough it and can't imagine spending your honeymoon in a tent or cabin. Hawaii, Cape Cod and the Big Easy await. How about whooping it up at Dollywood, Graceland or a summer music festival like Coachella? Pamper yourself at a retreat because the best part of any vacation is relaxing, reading a good book, and enjoying good food.
If you really do want to go on a grand vacation in Italy or France, wait until an anniversary and plan a really special trip that celebrates your first few years together. In the meantime, America has so much to offer and your most memorable vacation could be right under your nose.
Dillon Kreider, ACSM-CHFS, is a nationally certified personal trainer, bridal fitness expert and owner of the Healthy Bride. Dillon has been helping brides and grooms lose weight safely, quickly and permanently while getting into the the best shape of their lives for over 10 years. Visit us at Facebook.
Healthy Habits Away from Home
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- Written by Christina Broat
As a bride who travels for work, I know a bit about keeping healthy habits on the road. It wasn't an easy thing to learn, and I gained more than just wisdom figuring it out. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and avoid any upticks on the scale while you're on the road.
Don't Think of Travel as "Not Normal Life"
Sure, things are different than they might be at home, but framing a trip up as somehow drastically different from your day-to-day gives you the freedom to ignore any rules you might follow at home. Chances are you pay attention to portion size and make time to exercise when you're home, and you don't completely forget those skills once you get on a plane. This is especially important for anyone who has regular travel in their schedule. If being gone one week out of the month is your reality, you need to get used to it.
Lessons From My Father
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- Written by Diana Cherry
With Father's Day approaching, I've been thinking a lot about the many lessons I've learned about fitness and health from my dad. My parents were divorced, and so we saw my dad on weekends and in the summers, mostly. But, in our times together he managed to impart to me some important lessons about life and health.
Taking care of yourself makes you stronger.
As junior high was starting to approach, I was feeling less and less confident in myself. Acne was starting to crop up on my face, extra weight was starting to creep up, I had no idea how to style my frizzy, fro-like hair. I felt very unsure of myself in many, many ways. My dad suggested to me one night that I try out for a sports' team. I'd never played sports before in my life, I made sure to remind him. He sat down with me and talked through options of sports I could try out for that didn't require me to have played since I was a child. We decided on cross country. I joined the team, and it changed my life. I learned that when I was running, when I was in the best physical shape possible, I felt good all over. I felt stronger inside and out.
It's Not a Competition
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In the process of planning our wedding, I came across a profound article about how 'Your Wedding is Not a Competition.' Before I tie this all into fitness, let's just take a minute and let that sink in.
On your wedding day, no one is ranking your wedding in comparison to others (no matter competitive wedding garbage is on TC these days). No one is going to give you the grand title of Wedding Champion because your centerpieces have more flowers than at so-and-so's wedding. Surely, you will get compliments on how nice your wedding is, and some may tell you it's the greatest they've ever been to. But in the end, there is no grand prize for how ahhhhmaaazing your wedding was - except, of course the life you've started with your spouse.


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A senior lawyer encounters a junior colleague in the law library and asks how the morning's hearing came out. "The judge came down hard on us. He was like, 'The doctrine of primary jurisdiction applies only in administrative-law cases.' And I was like, 'No, Your Honor, it can have broader application.' And he was all, 'Show me some cases.'
"Anyways, I'm like researching the caselaw, you know, and like, the stuff I'm coming up with is huge for our side—totally awesome. I'm thinking I'll finish my brief, like, tonight. I'll show the dude his cases for sure."
How much, like, confidence do you, like, suppose the senior lawyer will have in the junior colleague's abilities? And if the senior lawyer feels doubtful about, you know, the junior's, like, abilities, is that unfair? Is it wrong to conclude that the work product is unlikely to be totally awesome?


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If you listen to the internet -- and that's always a precarious thing to do -- Warner Bros. "Man Of Steel" is either the worst movie of all time or the best movie of all time and of course, nothing in between (and lord there's been some kicking and screaming by people who disagree with one another). It's either all due Zack Snyder inability to direct or David Goyer's (and to an extent Christopher Nolan's) writing genius. Granted some Playlisters did not like this movie much and some of it thought it was decent-to-ok, but we'd still like to think there's a middle ground to be found when looking at this latest Superman movie (in fact, we're happy to say our original review does just that).
So, will this movie beget a "Justice League" super-team-up movie? Is that even the success metric? A "Man Of Steel" sequel is already in the works and while Superman couldn't outgun "Iron Man 3" at the 2013 box-office this year, it did break some June release records and grossed north of $110 million domestically this weekend (helping to bring the worldwide tally over $200 million) which is nothing to sneeze at.
What most of us at The Playlist can agree on -- no matter how impressive "Man of Steel" occasionally can be -- it's that the film is far from perfect and often very uneven. So, as we're wont to do, we thought we'd look at what worked, what didn't work, and what kinda worked in the superhero film. Or to make it simpler -- the Best & Worst Of "Man of Steel." Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the film, but really, you should probably see it before you read this piece.
"The Best"/What Worked
The Score
John Williams' iconic score for Richard Donner's 1978 "Superman: The Movie" is so unforgettable that it would have been a fool's errand to try and replicate or even pay homage to its kind of sweeping grandeur (Bryan Singer's abortive remake/sequel/whatever-the-fuck "Superman Returns" was chose to just forgo any originality and play the original theme song.) Instead, composer Hans Zimmer, who had just finished crafting a trio of legendary superhero scores for Nolan's three Batman movies, went the other direction: instead of sweeping, he went brooding and rhythmic, with a heavy emphasis on hardcore drums (some played by none other than Pharrell). The music serves to make the action sequences even more thrillingly intense and (occasionally) tragic, yet there are also moments of quiet, reserved beauty, like the twinkly synths that accompany some of the outer space stuff. Zimmer balances these quieter moments with the unrelenting intensity of the rest of the score evenly and with a sure hand. What makes the music even more miraculous is the fact that, like with Batman, he creates so much stirring emotion while only utilizing a handful of notes. Even if you didn't care for more of "Man of Steel," you had to begrudgingly admit that the score was a feat of super-heroism.
The Fresh & Bold Take On Superman
If you have to drill down and pick out the best elements of "Man of Steel," it really makes you wish Christopher Nolan was more involved. Nolan always said his Batman trilogy -- one in which Batman controversially fakes his death and then hands down the cape to another generation of crime fighters -- was the story he wanted to tell. Fanboys may not have liked it -- Harry Knowles infamously lost his shit about the end of "The Dark Knight Rises," but Nolan stuck to his guns and vision, letting it play out right from "Batman Begins" with little compromise. And so the best element bar-none of "Man of Steel," is its foundational story, premise, ideas and themes. Nolan and Goyer wanted to modernize Superman so that meant boldly changing his origin wherever possible. They told the story that they needed to tell no matter how much that fucked with the origin stories that most audiences are familiar and comfortable with. That meant Clark Kent isn't a journalist (well, not until the end anyhow). It means he's a brooding outsider living on the fringes of society trying to figure out where he fits in. This means Pa Kent being killed right in front of Superman's eyes -- almost at Pa Kent's request; the father making his final point, if you intervene, they will know and that will change the world and the world isn't ready. Smallville isn't even mentioned as Smallville by name (though it is seen quite clearly on a water tower). Goyer and Nolan eschew most of the outdated, cheesier relic moments of Superman's origin in favor of the story they're telling, which is a man torn between two fathers, struggling with his own identity, grappling with having had to turn the other cheek his entire life, and haunted by the fact that he could have saved his father from death, but was prevented from doing so. This is all great, deep emotional texture to work with and as much as you can argue that the execution messes it up, the central ideas are modern, fresh, compelling and affecting. Pa & Ma Kent aren't shown finding the baby, or dealing with a child with super powers and lifting cars because we've seen this before and it can be extremely hokey. Goyer and Nolan focus on the emotional and spiritual burden of being superhuman and we can't think of finer philosophical building blocks to work with.
There's no, "it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!" And thank god. The name Superman is barely said and when it first appears it's in the form of an audio joke. This Superman wants to boldly go into modern times and we're, ahem, super appreciative of that. That means building a plausible and grounded world and a similar context. What Nolan and Goyer clearly started off with was this question: what would happen if an alien being with super powers revealed himself to the people of Earth? And that central and essential query is what drives most of "Man of Steel," and is part of its very fabric. How would the world react? Well, there would be a lot of fear. This is embodied by Pa Kent, a wise man who is all too familiar with the way the world works: humanity's mistrust and fear of the unknown, even of religions that aren't familiar to us. He raises Clark from a young age to keep his powers hidden. Not for the greater good, but for himself. If humanity knew, the CIA/FBI/etc would be on the Kent doorstep in seconds flat and not only would their family be torn apart, but Clark's life would be ruined. How would the world react? A news editor might squelch one of the biggest stories in the world from one of his own writers for fear of the panic it could create. Selling newspapers is important, but having an ethical responsibility to the public is even more essential. And so a boy who becomes a man grows up with a secret that is often too much to bear. He knows he isn't from this world and thus feels alienated from it and his parents. He struggles with his father's ideals and then has to live with the fact that his father died because he chose to keep his secret safe, just as his father always asked. You'd grow up into a hell of a moody kid too and it's this entire modern context, modern, relatable emotional context that Nolan and Goyer create that we not only appreciate, but respond and relate to. The world they set up is plausible and the reactions to Superman -- the government coming out in full force to try and contain him, their mistrust and fear -- feels very real. Everything from news stories leaking on blogs to drones trailing Superman to find out his whereabouts (illustrating that the government doesn't fully trust him despite the fact that he saved the world and fought off an alien invasion), there's a solid modern world built in "Man of Steel," and it's as solid as anything you'd find on Krypton.
The fresh take, the bold redoing on the origin, the modern context...we realize this is all cut from the same cloth. But if you look deeper at this texture, all the themes of the film emerge and again, and this is the richness within a film that's, well...not always that rich. But it's also what makes us enjoy "Man of Steel." Without it, what you're left with is pretty surface level (and it's why many critics are rightfully complaining). So choice is a big theme as discussed, with Clark having to choose between Earth and Krypton and its potential rebirth should Kal-El have chosen to go that route (knowing what he knows, probably not). But "Man Of Steel" is also about fathers, Clark's two disparate patriarchal figures and choosing between them. Both instil Clark with values, but Pa Kent admittedly is on the apprehensive side of things with good reason. But the turning the other cheek philosophy is also god-like is it not? Jor-El envisions his son like a god amongst the people of Earth if he chooses, and its his initial meeting with Superman in the arctic that finally forces Clark to piss or get off the pot. His father essentially galvanizes him. Clark's been internal for years and finally, there's a figure who says, "Embrace what you are," and Clark is very ready to hear this message. It gives Clark's embrace of being Superman, the same kind of rebirth that Jor-El and Zod would like to bring to Krypton. And while all of this doesn't always work -- is the movie saying Pa Kent was just a cautious wuss, what does he take from him? -- these dimensions and philosophical compositions are what keep "Man Of Steel" interesting and not just the tentpole super showdown the movie is constantly threatening to become. It's an uneven picture to be sure, but to say due thought wasn't initially put into the movie would be grossly unfair.
The Cast & Henry Cavill
We'll say this, while there's no real masterpiece theater of acting to be found in this tentpole, films like "The Cold Light of Day" and "Immortals" didn't convince us of Henry Cavill's acting abilities, indeed the former is so bad that the English actor seemed positively wooden. But we'll admit Cavill is really confident, self-assured and comfortable in both conveying his angst and confusion and the in moments he has to play the more-cool and collected Superman. The writers thankfully give Amy Adams much more to do than previous Lois's and she puts a nice spin on Lois Lane as an ahead of the curve, tenacious journalist that grows the character from the Margot Kidder days. Special shoutout must be given to Kevin Costner who makes it look all too easy as Pa Kent, who loves his son completely, but also aims to protect him from a world that simply won't understand. Costner's appearance is brief, but so good and so natural that when his death comes, it's one of the most powerful moments of the entire film. Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni -- even if not all these actors have a lot of screen time or worthwhile scenes, they all sell their characters well. Zod on the other hand, we'll get to that…


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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Bilks Taxpayers out of Millions
Just over three years ago, subsequent to the Dodd-Frank financial "reform" bill passing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came into existence. As Elizabeth Warren's intellectual baby, it should be no surprise to conservatives that the CFPB is an exercise in the biggest kind of government. However, in the third year of the CFPB's existence, a bevy of stories have broken that underline that the bureau | Read More »


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Sites Recommended by the Members
Learn to Subnet
A FREE site with detailed instructions on how to subnet.
Randall S. Benn's Cisco Systems in a Nutshell
Page full of links to hard to find places on the Cisco Website. Nice page but a little over commercialized for my taste.
The Net3 Group IP Subnet Calculator
A top notch Subnet calculator from the Net3 Group Inc.
ICMP Type Codes
Type codes for ICMP
List of TCP/UDP Well Known Port Numbers
List of Well known port numbers for the TCP/UDP protocols.
The CIDR Report
A weekly report on the effective use of CIDR on the Internet (very cool)
Understanding IP Addressing
3COM Document about IP addressing and subnetting.
Introduction to BGP
Introduction to BGP presentation by Paul Ferguson of Cisco Systems
Charles Spurgeon Ethernet Web Site
This site provides extensive information about Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) local area network (LAN) technology. Including the original 10 Megabit per second (Mbps) system, the 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet system (802.3u), and the Gigabit Ethernet system (802.3z).
ATM Tutorial
A tutorial on ATM
ISDN Tutorial
ISDN Tutorial
Novell Info about IPX
Novells all you ever need to know about IPX stuff, approx 60 pgs
TCP over Satellite Links
How to calculate TCP bandwidth over a satellite connection


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Let Android app BeerWhere lead you to the closest pub
by Kate Currin
If you travel a lot and love tasty local beer selections, the free BeerWhere app is a must-have on your Android phone. A simple search by hitting the "My Location" selection within the app brings up the closest beer establishments like bars and pubs with quick links to driving or walking directions.
The app by default pulls up pubs, bars, homebrews, breweries and stores, which can be a little overwhelming if you're in a big city, like me. Use the "Filter" selection to narrow your target beer establishments, and narrow even more by changing the search radius. When viewing establishments in map or list mode, handy letters signify what type of establishment you're looking at, making it easier to narrow selections without changing your default settings.
While this beer-finder app provides a star rating system, there is not access to detailed reviews or information about the pubs, bars and stores beyond address and phone number. Even a simple favorite beer on tap would spice up each listing and give the overall BeerWhere app a little more pizzazz. If you want more information on a bar, you'll have to search using your phone's web browser, or download an app like Yelp for patron reviews.
If you're a road warrior and just looking for the closest watering hole in the town of the moment, then this beer-themed app is for you. If you're a discerning boozehound, you might want to look elsewhere for more-detailed reviews.


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1. Morbid fear of infection.
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Gallatin County law enforcement has teamed up with the Drug Enforcement Administration for a national initiative to keep prescription drugs out of our waterways, out of the hands of children and away from those who might abuse them.
Missouri River Drug Task Force Commander Jake Wagner and Bozeman Police Captain Mark Johnson combine prescription drugs from their two drop-off spots.
"It seems to be kind of that emerging problem," says Wagner.
Wagner tells us prescription drugs are likely their greatest issue when it comes to drug use and abuse within the state and nationwide.
"Prescription drugs are, I guess, the most readily accessible because it comes from our medicine cabinets," explains Wagner.
That's why Wagner says the sooner you can dispose of unused, unwanted or expired prescription drugs, the better.
During Saturday's drug take-back event from 10a and 2p, he tells us he's seen four to five people every half hour. Once folks turn in their pills, Wagner is tasked with removing the pills from their bottles and placing them into small, plastic baggies, blacking out the names on the bottles for privacy purposes.
Once the pills are sorted, a DEA agent will pick up the pills and take them to Salt Lake City where they will be incinerated.
Wagner says it's been relatively slow but credits fewer folks, in part, to bins he says are accessible to the community all the time.
"It's confidential. They just come to the Law and Justice Center either here or the police substation on Rouse," says Wagner.
Between those two bins, Wagner says they average close to fifty pounds a month. He says the pills are stored in a safe location until they're taken to an incinerator with special certifications to be burned. That's because there are federal guidelines as to what can be burned.
"Anything that's combustible that will explode, things like inhalers. Liquids are very tough to deal with just because we end up with a heck of a mess when they're not capped correctly so, we don't want liquids, either. Lastly, we don't want needles or any cancer medications because of the toxicity," Wagner explains.
If you need to dispose of items like those, Wagner says you can contact the Missouri River Drug Task for or take them to environmental services at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.
Gallatin County law enforcement takes steps to cut down on prescription drug abuse
Gallatin County law enforcement has teamed up with the Drug Enforcement Administration for a national initiative to keep prescription drugs out of our waterways, out of the hands of children and away from those who might abuse them.


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Regarding "Noise from Falcon Field draws more complaints" (Valley & State, Monday):
It amuses me to see the complaints registered by people who buy homes in an area near a public venue at low prices and think they have more rights than the venue, which has been there for many years.
Make a choice and live with it. Either low prices with noise, or buy somewhere else. You certainly know ahead of time.
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Nothing like a little trade report at the end of August to shake things up on the Rajon Rondo front. This latest tidbit is from an edition of Around The Horn on Wednesday afternoon. On the preshow, Jackie MacMullan and Frank Isola were discussing who would be the next star to be moved now that Kevin Love has been dealt. MacMullan, as was pointed out first by our friend Jay King over at MassLive.com, dropped a big nugget about Rondo's wishes.
"Oh, I hope so," MacMullan said of whether Rondo would be next to move. "Just get it done. And it will happen because [Rondo's] told them he wants out. And no one believes me, but that's the truth. I don't see how you get 80 cents on the dollar for him. Tell me where."
You can watch the full video clip after the jump. We'll have plenty of more analysis on the impact of the rumor later today, but as you might imagine this might have a drastic impact on Boston's rebuilding plans, if true.


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Mable "Viola" Fanning - May 02, 2013
Mable Viola Fanning, a twin, was born Nov. 13, 1925, to Ernest and Mable Green in Stratton, Neb. Viola's mother and twin brother died in childbirth, and Viola was raised by her Aunt Nora Fox.
Viola grew up in Wauneta and attended Wauneta High School.
On March 4, 1944, she married Russell O. Fanning, and to this union three children: Lynn, Judy, and Larry, were born. They lived in Wauneta several years before moving northeast of town to start life on the farm.
Viola's passion was home and family, keeping an impeccable home, and being an always there mom. She also enjoyed singing.
Viola and Russell retired from the farm in 1980, and made Wauneta their home once again.
Viola passed away early Thursday morning, May 2, 2013, at the Sunrise Heights Nursing Home in Wauneta. She was 87 years of age.
Survivors include: son: Lynn Fanning and wife, Charlene, of Centennial, Colo., daughter: Judy and husband, Robert Zohner, of North Platte, Neb., four grandchildren: Garrett Zohner and wife, Jennifer, of York, S. C., Dacia and husband, Mark Ritterbush, of Grand Junction, Colo., Kimberly and husband, Robert Nock, of Eagle, Colo., Kristal and husband, Bradley Mangham, Highlands Ranch, Colo., 10 great grandchildren.
Viola was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Russell in 2007; son, Larry; one sister and two brothers.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, May 6, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. MT at the Liewer Funeral Home in Wauneta with Lay Pastor Melody Newman officiating.
Organist was Mrs. Diana Ham and soloist was Dawn Doetker with recorded selections of "Old Rugged Cross," "How Great Thou Art" and "Amazing Grace."
Casketbearers were Garret Zohner, Kimberly Nock, Robert Nock, Kristal Mangham, Bradley Mangham, Dacia Ritterbush and Mark Ritterbush. Interment followed at Riverside Cemetery, Wauneta.
Visitation was held Monday before services.
A memorial has been established in Viola's memory.
On line condolences can be left at liewerfuneralhome.com
Liewer Funeral home of Wauneta was in charge of arrangements.


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Funding plea for Donore NS project
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THOUSANDS OF euro have been paid out to local groups as part of the Indaver Community Fund since its inception in 2010.
And local councillors have said they are the envy of other places, all struggling to fundraise.
It has been agreed that up to €250,000 will be paid out in 2012 by Indaver in their scheme which is dependent on the volume of waste delivered to the centre at Carranstown.
Up to five groups have applied for funding, which has a closing date of December 14th.
Cllr Wayne Harding, speaking at last week's Slane Area Council meeting, urged that funding would go to Donore National School which intends building a gym and basketball court, to be used by the community.
He said the Indaver scheme was the 'only show in town when it comes to grant aid' at the moment.
It was outlined that Cushinstown AC have benefitted from over €40,000 in funding since 2010, establishing a top indoor training area.
The Old Donore graveyard committee, St Mary's GFC, Donore, who have received €30,000 for nets and a new clubhouse plan, St Cianan's Boxing club, Duleek/ Bellewstown GFC, Duleek AFC, the tidy towns and Duleek Girls NS are just some of the others to benefit.
A call has now been made for Slane to come under the umbrella of the funding, courtesy of Cllr Ann Dillon Gallagher.
'Slane falls between the Knockharley scheme and the Carranstown project and it should be considered in the area,' she stated.
Cllr Jimmy Cudden feels that proper lighting on the footpath from the Indaver plant to Duleek is badly needed and funding should be directed towards that.
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There is significant evidence. What is the approximate cost and time required? The house is on the market and it could be sold at any time, so time is critical.
also, do any lawyers in NZ work on contingency? The last NZ lawsuit I was involved in, the lawyer merely ran up the clock, and came up with encouraging predictions, but after running up $40,000 in fees, he passed it on to a colleague because he "got busy with another case".
That sounds really high. Is that $8,000-$10,000 for legal fees or court costs or both? Is that only for the freezing order or for complete filing of the case?
If you can refer me to someone to write the letter, that would be great.
How much do they typically charge just to write the letter at first?
That would be fairly modest I think-i think a few hundred at the most. Perhaps a Wellington lawyer-Ord Legal [email protected]
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I didn't find anyone posting about this, so I'm guessing no one is attaching large attachments? For me, at least, I'm using the latest Zimbra stable under Ubuntu LTS.
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zmprov mcf zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize 1024000000
then attaching files greater than about 200MB causes Zimbra to crash. A restart is required before people can connect to the imap server again.
As for the briefcase, it just won't take the attachment. No error message, it just doesn't attach.
Any ideas? I guess I should open a bug report?


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On July 11, Wills Eye Institute ophthalmologist Carl Regillo delicately placed 100,000 cells beneath the retina of 52-year-old Maurie Hill's left eye. She was rapidly losing her vision due to Stargardt disease, an inherited macular dystrophy similar to the much more common dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Maurie's disease was far along, the normally lush forests of photoreceptor cells in the central macula area severely depleted, especially the cones that provide color vision. Would the introduced cells nestle among the ragged remnants of her retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and take over, restoring the strangled energy supply to her remaining photoreceptors? They should, for the cells placed in Maurie's eye weren't ordinary cells. They were derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
I've waited 15 years to see human embryonic stem cells, or their "daughter" cells, make their way through clinical trials. And thanks to Maurie's sharing her story, I'm witnessing translational medicine.
On September 29, 1997, The Scientist published my first stem cell article, Embryonic Stem Cells Debut to Little Media Attention. Alas, the public was still too enamored with Dolly the cloned sheep to pay much attention to cells that could both spawn specialized cell types and "self-renew," maintaining a perpetual stream of hard-to-derive cells that could be used to both observe embryonic development and replace abnormal adult tissue. Over the years, public interest seemed to surface only on slow news days. And still the media report that the cells can "turn into" every cell type in the body – ignoring the very quality that defines the cells: the capacity for self-renewal, making more of themselves as their daughters specialize.
Partly because deriving hESCs until just a few years ago required destroying early human embryos, research using less objectionable stem cells accelerated. And while so-called "adult" and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) don't require embryos and match patients so that the immune system isn't provoked, embryonic stem cells remain the "gold standard" for scrutinizing a disease's beginnings as the ball-of-cells early embryo folds into layers, contorts, develops organs, and grows. For example, hESCs recently glimpsed how the drug thalidomide harms embryos. The second use of hESCs is to generate useful specialized cells, such as sensory neurons to restore hearing. It's this second application – hESCs as a source of implants – that is the focus of clinical trials for Stargardt disease and dry AMD.
Using hESCs could be incredibly economical. Just one can yield many millions of cells, the characteristics of the cells coaxed by the cocktails that researchers choose. And embryos can be returned to the freezer, unharmed. The RPE cells in Maurie's eye came from an hESC line derived in 2005 by Robert Lanza and colleagues at Worcester, Mass.-based Advanced Cell Technology, one of five cell lines called NED for "no embryo destroyed."
NED cells come from a protocol similar to preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), in which one cell of an 8-celled embryo is sampled to screen for genetic disease, and if all is well, the remaining 7-celled embryo is implanted in a uterus. PGD has been around since 1989. The ability to pluck out a cell at this stage without damaging the whole is a characteristic of our branch of the animal kingdom called indeterminate cleavage, for those who recall Zoology 101.
For a time, the first clinical trial to use hESC-derived cells — oligodendrocytes to treat spinal cord injury – was sponsored by Menlo-Park, CA–based Geron Corp. That effort ended in November 2011, due to cost. But eye diseases are perhaps a better first choice, because the retina is naturally shielded from the immune system.
I never expected to befriend one of the first people to be in an hESC clinical trial. But this past June, email friend Irv Arons connected Maurie and me. She and her older sister Cindi would soon be on their way back from the Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia, where they were being evaluated for the clinical trial to treat Stargardt disease. They'd be at the Albany Amtrak station on their return to Vermont, near my home.
The sisters have become so adept at using their peripheral vision to see around the central abyss in their visual fields that I couldn't, at first, tell that anything was wrong with them. They were as excited as if they'd just won the lottery.
"Twelve people are participating. When I saw something about the clinical trial a year ago I thought yeah, right. But things just lined up," Maurie said. She works 12 hours a week blogging for Ai Squared, maker of ZoomText software, and has a young daughter, a husband, and an associate's degree in electronics and engineering technology.
Cindi agreed. "I was thinking this will never happen. There were too many barriers, too many things had to fall into place."
The visual loss of Stargardt is slow. "In 3rd grade I'd read very fast, but by 5th, I knew I should be able to read faster," Maurie recalled. She struggled, not realizing anything was wrong, and didn't even have an eye exam until her physical for college. "The doctor saw something and he sent me to an eye specialist who sent me to another eye specialist, but still I had no diagnosis."
At age 30, Maurie needed a physical for work, and again made the rounds of referrals. "I could still see pretty well, but some things bothered me: night driving and the lights coming at me and then disappearing, and being unable to recognize faces. I'd have trouble going from light to dark and vice versa." By age 35, yet another job required a physical, and she went again to retinal specialists, but by this time she'd lost enough visual function to meet the diagnostic criteria for Stargardt. With every month, she could see less.
Eyechart: This is what Maurie Hill sees with her left eye covered when observing the eye chart from a meter away. (credit: Derek Bove)
Meanwhile, Cindi's vision was going downhill. "I went to my doctor, and I said 'my sister has this, do I have it too?' He ran out to open his textbook to see what it was, and said 'yes, I think you have it," Cindi said. She taught special ed for 14 years before she had to leave, no longer able to do the visual tasks required for her job, even with the adaptive technology that had helped for a decade.
The sisters have four other siblings. True to Mendel's first law for single-gene inheritance, their older brother has Stargardt too, although his case is so mild that until recently he could read normal-sized print, although slowly and with great eyestrain.
In 2009, the siblings heard about successful gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis another inherited retinal disease. Could they have gene therapy too?
In May 2009, the family went to the National Eye Institute to confirm Maurie's 1995 diagnosis, which had been based on clinical findings. But genetic test results indicated that the family didn't have a mutation in the ABCA4 gene, as 40% of those diagnosed with Stargardt do, or any other mutation. "That was a little disappointing, since we knew the mutation would have to be known to do gene therapy," recalled Maurie.
But what about stem cell therapy?
Maurie read (by zooming her text and using her peripheral vision) a news release from Advanced Cell Technology announcing that their researchers had derived RPE cells from hESCs. The first two applications would be dry age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt disease. Mice and rats had responded well.
So Maurie called her siblings, and her brother called ACT immediately, but got nowhere. The timing just wasn't right.
By late 2010, FDA had approved ACTs testing the RPE cells for safety, and clinicaltrials.gov officially announced the upcoming experiments in late April 2011. Four cohorts of three Stargardt patients each would receive escalating doses, starting with 50,000 RPE cells. The AMD trial would proceed in parallel.
Results came very quickly, published online in January 2012's Lancet. And the news was good. The cells hadn't harmed the first two patients, a woman in her 70s with AMD and a 51-year-old woman with Stargardt, both treated at the Jules Stein Eye Institute in Los Angeles.
A fear of using embryonic stem cells is that they can give rise to teratomas, which are bizarre tumors festooned with bits of specialized tissue such as teeth and hair. If an ES cell lurked among the RPE cells put into a patient's eye, a teratoma might sprout. But since this hadn't happened by three months, and neither woman had inflammation or immune rejection, the therapy passed the first safety hurdle. (A year out, the 9 patients treated so far report more vibrant color vision and improved visual acuity. The first woman treated, for example, could detect only hand-waving before the procedure, but can now read three lines on an eye chart.)
After the sisters heard the two LA patients on NPR January 23, Maurie called the clinical trial director at the nearest participating center, the Wills Eye Institute. When she finally got through, she learned that the center would consider only local patients, so they'd be easier to follow. But a month later, her local eye doctor urged her not to give up.
So Maurie called back, and finally the timing was right. "The research coordinator answered and was flowing with information." Elated, Maurie sent her medical records right away – she had fortuitously just had a colonoscopy (cancer is grounds for exclusion due to the teratomas), mammogram, Pap smear, cholesterol test, and more.
Dr. Regillo liked Maurie's test results. She was the ideal clinical trial participant – healthy except for the condition under study, a rarity. When Maurie got the good news, she asked if she could bring Cindi along. Both sisters agreed to foot the Amtrak bills. They told me about the visit when I met them in the Albany train station. Maurie was in; Cindi is still being evaluated.
The big day came in just a month. On July 11, Maurie and Cindi arrived a little before noon, greeted by video cameras. Every step of the procedure had been meticulously choreographed and practiced, with trial runs to identify the time with the lightest traffic on a midsummer Wednesday between New Jersey, where the precious cells were on ice, and Philadelphia.
The cells arrived in a red cooler, the clock ticking down the 3 hours they could survive. Testing for viability and contamination took 30 minutes, and then the procedure itself took just 3 minutes.
Maurie hadn't expected to be awake and aware as the descendants of human embryonic stem cells flooded her eye, although she'd chosen local anesthesia. "I actually saw the needle come in the inside of my eye! Dr. Regillo said, 'Can you see that?" I said I clearly saw the needle coming in from the left, and he said, 'Yup!' I could see the fluid coming out and forming a little puddle. It was the coolest thing. And everyone was so excited that I saw it!"
And so Maurie Hill joins the brave and selfless individuals who have volunteered to participate in clinical trials, who make new treatments possible for many. But Maurie's going one huge step farther: she's blogging about her progress.
Maurie Hill, shortly after having 100,000 retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) placed in her left eye.
To be continued …
This was first published on September 27th on the PLOS blog. Click here to read the original article.
Ricki Lewis is the author of "The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It," St. Martin's Press, March 2012. To read more blogs from the author, please visit her site at http://www.rickilewis.com.
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From the Rick Owens leathers to the Balenciaga finery, there's no denying A$AP Rocky is a certified fashion killa (you can check his influence in other rapper's closets). But the Harlem upstart spits more than designer labels from that gold-plated mouth. He followed his lean-drenched mixtape, Live.Love.A$AP, with a chart-topping debut that shows off his versatility and a penchant for crossing state lines when it comes to flow.
And while that helped Rocky to earn the title of #8 Hottest MC in the Game, Pretty Flacko's buzz and his grasp on the intangibles also put him in contention for our list. RapFix Blog Editor Nadeksa Alexis laughed, "I don't even know if we're still using the word 'swag,' but that's all him, and everyone sees that."
As further proof, she pointed to a surprising cameo in last year's "National Anthem" clip. "He was in Lana Del Rey's video as JFK. What black dude is in a video playing JFK?," she asked rhetorically. "He has something outside of hip-hop that everyone can see, and everyone wants a little bit of it."
Rihanna definitely wanted a little bit of it, literally and figuratively. "[A$AP] opened the VMAs with Rihanna — and grabbed her butt!" MTV News Senior Hip-Hop Writer Rob Markman reminded the roundtable. "Fashion icon, on tour with Rih Rih, this dude gets it in the studio and then knows how to work the angles outside of the studio with all his fashion influences and stuff like that. I think Rocky has done a tremendous job of penetrating the culture from different angles."
Album: Long.Live.A$AP.
Selected Mixtapes: A$AP Mob's Lord$ Never Worry
Singles: "Goldie," "F—in' Problems" (featuring Drake, Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz)
Street Bangers: "1 Train" (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf and Danny Brown)
Key Guest Appearances: Schoolboy Q's "Hands on the Wheel," Rihanna's "Cockiness"
Meteoric Metrics: Debut album opened at #1 on the Billboard 200; second single, "F—in' Problems," topped out at #8 on the Hot 100 (giving Kendrick and 2 Chainz their first top-10 hits in the process)
Business Ventures: Recently filmed a spot for Adidas; unofficial face of your favorite European fashion house
Tours: Long Live A$AP Tour (with Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown and A$AP Mob); set to open for Rihanna on Diamonds Tour
Monumental Moment: After being tapped by Rihanna for her 2012 VMA-opening performance, the "Diamonds" singer asked him to join her on the road.
Forecast: With a globe-trotting run about to kick off and A$AP Mob homey Ferg already working his first street single, A$AP is primed to turn everything in his path purple.
Named for rap legend Rakim, the 24-year-old's face was plastered on seemingly every print rag in the last year, from rap mainstays like XXL to high-fashion French rags like Jalouse. And when he wasn't shooting videos in the streets of Paris, he was logging studio time with in-demand acts like Skrillex and Florence Welch. Still, these facts left some members of MTV's Hip-Hop Brain Trust uneasy.
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"Everyone's talking about everything else but the rhymes and the bars: his fashion, and he did a song with Skrillex … where's the heat, where's the bars?" asked a frustrated Renaud Jean-Baptiste, story producer for MTV2's "The Week in Jams." "This kid's biggest record? He has the weakest verse," he argued of "F—in' Problems," the #2 charting sophomore single off Rocky's Long.Live.A$AP.
MTV story producer Steven Roberts chimed in to "reluctantly agree with" Jean-Baptiste, saying, "If you do listen to that album, other people outshine him," citing "Problems" and "1 Train" as examples. This opposition ultimately set the stage for the previously eighth-ranked Big Sean to take the #7 spot, with Rocky holding strong at #8, ahead of Meek Mill (10) and Future (9).


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Every celebrity worth their inches in Heat has their own fashion line but not many of them are of Jennifer Hudson's calibre. Hello Oscar and Grammy.
According to WWD, Jennifer's line won't discriminate – she designed to flatter her old US size 16 (UK20) body as well as her current US size 6 (UK 10) frame.
She said of the collection: 'I've been on both sides of the fence. I've been a big girl and now whatever this is, the average size, whatever you want to call it. But I wanted the clothes to be where any girl could wear it — no matter what size you are — and you could feel comfortable in it.'
It's not only about extending the Jennifer Hudson brand – there is serious money to be made here. And by here we mean among African Americans. WWD reports: 'Based on the 2010 U.S. census, African-Americans number 38.9 million, or 12.6 percent of the U.S. population. Nielsen Co., the New York-based information and research firm, said African-Americans are expected to spend $967 billion this year. Moreover, Nielsen said that if buying power were quantified as gross domestic product, the African-American community would be the 16th largest country in the world, ranked ahead of Turkey, Australia and Taiwan. By 2015, African-Americans are projected to spend $1.1 trillion annually.'
Although QVC aren't openly targeting the African American demographic, having a star as high profile as Jennifer speaking to their 100 million customers means they are sure to attract some of the massive spending power of the American black community.
Way to go Jen!
What do you make of her collection? We think it looks very wearable, nothing amazing, but should certainly appeal to the masses.


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So far its a small group of cruising boats in the bay -- there are about 12 of us. The smaller boats in the distance are the local fishing boats.
With only a couple weeks till the big Sailfest event its surprising there aren't more boats in here. They usually draw at least 25 - 30 boats, with the largest group of over 100 boats in 2006!
We've heard more boats are on their way, so we should have a good turnout in the end. At the first planning meeting for Sailfest yesterday there were more land based volunteers than boaters and they seem to have things well in hand. We have offered to help out as it is a very worthy charity event raising funds for the children of Zihautanejo.
We went into shore this morning for a short walk around town and a nice lunch and I've posted an album of the pictures we took as we walked around the waterfront area.
01/21/2012, Zihautanejo, Mexico
The first time we sailed to Mexico in 1999 we were looking forward to reaching Z-town -- we'd heard so much about it and it sounded like the ideal cruising destination. As things turned out on that cruise, we only made it as far south at Manzanillo, nearly 200 miles north of here, before it was time to turn north.
Since that time we've been to Zihautanejo several times -- but by airplane for vacations with family and friends and once on a cruise ship! We've stayed in hotels here, but more often traveled about an hour north of here to the beautiful beaches of Troncones.
So when we finally sailed into Zihautanejo on our own boat yesterday it was a dream fulfilled -- and since we have been here before it was a comfortable entry -- we already knew the lay of the land and what to expect as far as the anchorage.
We plan to be here about a month preparing for our journey to the Galapagos. I will fly back to Gig Harbor for 10 days in February and Carly and Ryan will be flying down here for a visit at the beginning of March and good friends will be in Troncones at the beginning of March and we hope to visit up there, too. So it will be a busy quick month!
I'm posting some pictures from our 5 day voyage from La Paz to Zihautanejo in the photo gallery to the right. Enjoy!
01/19/2012, Off of Manzanillo
The picture above shows the display on our radar/chart plotter when we had ships coming at us from both directions -- we're the one in the middle with the circle around us (it's a two mile radius that easily shows us how far away things are)
Once we came south along the mainland coast we started seeing lots of cargo ships -- going both north and south. It's always a bit disconcerting to see the lights of a very big ship looking like its heading straight for you. A lot of that worry has been taken away now that in addition to radar which helps you spot the ships and gives you a good idea of where they're heading, we now have AIS that picks up a transmitted signal and gives us all the information we could possibly want : type of vessel and size, destination, heading, speed, time to closest contact and how close it will be. It also gives the vessels name and MMSI number so it is easier to make contact with the ship in question than in years past.
We have called on the VHF to two of the ships we've seen -- when they showed that they would pass relatively close to us -- just to check with them to make sure they were aware of us and what their intentions were (which side they'd pass us. So AIS is definitely on our list of "things that work" and we'd highly recommend it for any boat that will spend any time near shipping lanes (like the Straits of Juan de Fuca back home).
We're still seeing lots of ships today, but they're much less mysterious during daylight when you can actually see them.
We've had a mix of weather today -- the biggest surprise being the 20 knot winds on our nose along with a 3 - 4 foot swell to beat into. The forecast called for much lighter weather, but you get what you get. The biggest worry was that it would slow us down to much so we'd be out an extra day because we need to time things right so we reach Zihautanejo during daylight hours. Only time will tell, but right now we think it looks good to get in late tomorrow afternoon.
The wind and seas continued to build yesterday, as expected, so we haven't had to turn the engine back on in the past 24 hours! There is a 6 foot swell with some wind chop, winds gust between 18 and 28 and we're moving along under our storm main sail and a reefed Genoa.
We chose to use the storm sail over the reefed main in these conditions for two reasons: 1st, the wind is straight behind us and our storm sail isn't attached to the boom so there's no danger of accidental jibes and secondly it is less sail area than our reefed main so it doesn't block the wind from the Genoa. If the winds got nasty we would roll in the Genoa completely and put up our storm trysail -- that's a good combination on this boat if the winds are 35+.
We are doing a bit of rocking due to the sometimes confused swell, but all and all it isn't bad -- it's a good shake down cruise as we'd hoped.
I think Rosie is a little displeased with all the motion -- she chewed up the edges of a chart when we weren't looking -- I think she isn't getting enough play time right now.
If the forescast is correct we will have these same conditions this morning and then we should get far enough down the coast for things to settle down. Hang in there Rosie!
Last night was a nice smooth night, though winds were so light we used the engine to keep us on our way. That's a luxury we have on this passage because we know we can buy fuel in Zihautanejo. On a long ocean passage you must restrict your engine use so the fuel can stretch as far as possible.
This morning as the sun rose the winds began picking up and we've enjoyed a very nice sail all day with our trusty Monitor windvane doing all the steering. The winds and seas are predicted to pick up even more by tomorrow, but we've got a good sail configuration and expect it to be a good passage.
We've always said the first 3 days of any passage are the hardest as your mind and body have to adjust to all the constant movement, so if that holds true our last couple days should be quite nice.
Rosie is still doing great, but she seems a little more bothered by the movement today and has been sleeping even more than normal -- if that's possible!
I've always said the hardest part of cruising is saying goodbye to places you love and the friends you've made there. Dock 3 has been our home for the past 3 winters and we've enjoyed the company of a wonderful bunch of cruisers celebrating Christmas, New Years, watching football games, going out to eat, doing "walk abouts" in town, hiking the mountain, playing cards, having coffee and of course, our famous Dock 3 Dock parties.
They made our departure lots of fun with a great send off dock party with lots of gifts and then last night when we went out to dinner they filled our boat with lots of fun little surprises -- funny toys stuck into every nook and cranny -- bows and stars and a Canadian flag tied over our American flag!
So it was tempting to stay put and enjoy the comfortable life on Dock 3, but we managed to tear ourselves away and now we're spending a nice evening at a cozy little anchorage with plans to get up early and begin the 633 mile trek to Zihautanejo.
The Friday excursion to pick up the blood serum from the vet, package it, take it to customs to be stamped then to DHL to be shipped to Kansas went extremely well so we were finally free to leave La Paz!
Our first leg was a short one and we just traveled about 10 miles to an anchorage just north of La Paz to anchor for the day and get everything ship shape to set out on the long passage to Zihautanejo in the morning.
Well the cat blood serum adventure continues!
When we checked with DHL last week about arranging to ship the serum to the States as quickly as possible, we thought we had everything in place..... but today we found out that they only ship out of the country once a week (Friday afternoon at 5)! That would have really made a mess out of things if the samples had to sit in the office till Friday and the ice packs would have been all melted even before it was on it's way.
Luckily our veterinarian, Dr. Tomas, knew they didn't ship everyday and recommended we go check with them before we take the blood sample there. And luckily there was a guy working that spoke good English and we got the information we needed -- plus another tidbit that they hadn't told us last week: we have to take the unsealed package to the customs office down the street to be sealed and stamped by them before shipping. It would have been another big fiasco if we'd just taken the package to DHL in time for the 5:00 shipping because customs closes at 4:00!
So it seems La Paz has its hold on us and now we're just hoping to get out of here this coming Saturday. But like I said before: La Paz isn't a bad place to be stuck :-)
Wow! 2012! Hard to believe.
We woke up to a beautiful sunny day to start the New Year and will enjoy a day free of boat projects, having completed the last major one yesterday. And it was a doozy -- replacing seals on our Lectra San.
It was one of those projects that wasn't on our pre departure check list, but got added to the list when a little water started leaking out of it a week ago. It wasn't a project we really wanted to tackle -- but much better that it showed up while we were here in La Paz and not out in the middle of the ocean where we wouldn't be able to take care of it.
The Lectra San is basically a miniature sewage treatment plant that uses high amperage to neutralize waste so it is safe to discharge overboard and eliminates any holding tank smells. So it is not a critical piece of equipment, the boat can function fine without it, but its something we are happy to have. It is right up there on my list of "things that work".
When Terry identified the parts needed from Raritan (the manufacturer) we were afraid it might delay our departure from La Paz, because getting things shipped into Mexico can often take a very long time. We were very surprised after ordering the repair kit on Tuesday that it was delivered to the Marina on Thursday afternoon!
So Friday morning Terry tackled the project and removed the Lectra San from it's confines under the bathroom sink and disassembled it (on the dock) and then put in the new seals. That makes it sound like a short easy job, but as anybody with a boat knows nothing is ever as quick and easy as it sounds -- even when it all goes well. So he spent the major part of the day getting it all put back together and now it works perfectly again.
So today we'll enjoy relaxing and watching football games, then tomorrow I will begin the last phase of our preparations: Provisioning.
Happy New Year everyone!
Now that Christmas is over we're getting down to serious work on our off shore preparations list.
Today we're inspecting the rigging and adjusting the tension. Terry went up the mast to check things out from top to bottom to make sure all is well: inspected the rigging with a magnifying glass, lubed the sailtrack and checked the masthead lights and VHF antenna. All looks good to go.
And we also had our refrigeration checked for leaks and recharged to ensure that is in top running condition. For that we enlisted the services of a local company, Hector Refigeration. Now that system is good to go and can be checked off the list as well.
It's going to be a busy couple weeks as we're hoping on leaving La Paz by January 7th to give us a full month to get down to Zihautanejo (several stops along the way). We hope to leave Zihautanejo mid March for the passage to the Galapagos.
It's getting exciting!!
12/24/2011, La Paz, BCS Mexico
We're enjoying our 3rd Christmas on dock 3 in Marina Palmira in La Paz, Mexico!
It's been busy with preparations and festivities but not the hectic pace I remember from back home. We had a fun progressive boat dinner last week with a group of 12 of us that have been here the past 3 years and last night we had our 3rd annual white elephant gift exchange. Last nights was especially nice, because we happen to have 2 professional singers that led us in Christmas carols! We moved the party up to a room (a seldom used bar) at the hotel due to the high winds we've got going for a couple days. It was a great venue and the party was a huge success.
We're enjoying a quiet relaxing day today and tomorrow dock 3 will have another dock party -- complete with turkey and ham and all the other Christmas feast fixin's.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
Heidi, Terry and Street Cat Rosie
I finally uploaded some pics from our travels in the Sea of Cortez this fall -- from Santa Rosalia to La Paz and all the stops in between. To see the album go to Fall 2011 The Sea of Cortez in our Photo Gallery to the right.
It was a wonderful trip with sun, swimming, sailing and hiking and beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Now that we've been at the dock since Dec. 1st life is totally different. We still hike -- but it's the same hike every morning, no swimming or sailing -- those have been replaced with boat projects and trips to the stores in town for provisioning. But, we still get to enjoy the beautiful sunrises and sunsets, so life is good.
When I got the new SPOT Connect I didn't change my settings to have it display on my share page. But now I have, so if you click on the link to the right called "Where in the world are Terry and Heidi" it will take you to our new share page on the SPOT website and if any SPOT messages have been sent out within 7 days they will show up there.
You can also click on the map to the right and it displays our location from the Sailblog posts. One way or the other we can always be found!
We're still getting settled into life at the dock -- we came in on Dec. 1st but by Dec. 3rd we were on the road north driving up Baja to take our car back and stow it away for awhile. I traveled as far as San Diego where I flew back down so I could stay with Rosie while Terry completed the trip, and now he will fly back home on Saturday.
We plan to be here in Marina Palmira until around Jan. 15th when we will cross to mainland Mexico to position ourselves in Zihautanejo -- our jumping off point for the Galapagos. We plan to begin that big passage mid March. But, you know all cruising plans are written in sand........
While here at the dock we'll be busy working on readying the boat for the big crossing -- but it won't be all work and no play because all the regulars -- and some new friends -- are all back on Dock 3 where there are great dock parties and lots of other social events.
So for the next month and a half my blog posts won't be about our travels, but rather about our preparations for a big off shore passage. I'll also include several of our "Things that work.....or don't" entries as we find our what works and what doesn't!
Livia & Carol, thegiddyupplan.blogspot.com
Heading south from Santa Rosalia we were able to climb to the top of two big hills (we like to call them mountains) that we hadn't conquered before.
The first one was right off of El Burro Cove in Bahia Concepcion. We could see the switchback trail from our anchorage, but two years ago when we tried to find the start of the trail with some other cruisers, we just couldn't tell where to go -- and at the base we couldn't see the switchback. This year, the trail head was marked, so we were able to hike to the top and were rewarded with a beautiful view of Bahia Concepcion.
On our next stop, at Punta Pulpito, we were surprised one evening to see some people pop up on top of that big prominence! We hadn't realized there was a trail leading up there -- but now that we knew it was doable we set out to shore with Prairie Oyster and climbed to the top! Another good hike and breathtaking view.
Yesterday evening brought a rare event for this time of year on the Baja Peninsula: Rain!
Even though it was just a trace of rain, it was welcome by everyone giving the boats a fresh water rinse -- something they only get at a marina.
We've been enjoying the beautiful Bahia Concepcion for the last couple days and will continue our journey south when the winds swing back around to the north tomorrow morning, and hopefully enjoy another good sail.
We reached our northern goal of Santa Rosalia last Friday where we met up with friends and spent a couple days enjoying the little town. Then yesterday we began our trip south.
We consider the nice sail we had yesterday as the first leg of our trip to the Galapagos, even though we won't reach those wonderful islands until late March or early April of 2012, we are now headed in that direction!
We had a great day for traveling north yesterday so we were able to reach another one of our favorite anchorages: Punta Chivato.
And we got here just in time, because a Norther was predicted to start late today and this is a great protected place to be in a Norther. After a nice quiet night last night it felt good to not have to get up early to travel today and we put the engine on the dinghy and went to shore for a little walk and to check things out.
The hotel on the point that we've gone to in the past to eat and even enjoy the swimming pool is all closed down, but they have a sign up saying it will re-open December 15th. We've always wondered how they could make a go of it since it's so far away from everything and there were hardly any guests. But there's another small hotel on the other side of the landing strip and we stopped by that little restaurant and had a nice breakfast before heading back out to the boat.
The winds started picking up as we were getting back to the boat and are now blowing 15 - 22 knots, but we're comfortable where we are -- and the best thing is that the new wind generator is quiet! The old one would have sounded like a plane coming in for a landing in these winds and we would have shut it off. This one can hum away and isn't any louder than the wind through the rigging -- and it's generating great power for us. So, let the wind blow!
Once this blows itself out we'll head the rest of the way up to Santa Rosalia -- hopefully on Friday.
Our second day of travel north was much better than the 1st and we had a fairly short trip to one of our favorite anchorages: Punta Pulpito where we met up with friends on Cheers and had a great evening catching up along with a delicious dinner aboard their charming boat.
We left just as the sun was rising this morning as the weather forecast was good for going north and our next stop is 44 miles away -- so we have a full day of travel ahead. So far so good out here -- the seas aren't too large and there's enough wind off the land to fill our sails to augment our speed. We'll keep the engine running since we have so much distance to cover and want to be sure to arrive before dark (and sunset is about 6 pm right now).
So northward we go!


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Alice M Corp of Melody Lane, Marietta Ohio passed away at her home on Sunday, January 13, 2013.
Alice was born in Marietta, Ohio on December 8, 1938 to Harry and Bessie Becker.
Alice was a hairdresser for many years and then served as a caregiver at Strecker Cancer Center, O'Neill Center and also was a home nursing aide.
She is survived by her brother Ernest "Ray" Becker (Sara Lou) of New Matamoras, Ohio, one aunt, Ruth Wallace, three nieces and nephews: Kristina (Jeff) Lauer, Ernest Becker and Jeffrey (Melanie) Becker, five great nieces and nephews: Amanda (Don) Thomas, William Lauer, Wesley, Tim and Mandalyn Ludtman, and two great-great nieces and nephews: Kristiana and Dominick Thomas, and her loving dog, Sadie.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one infant sister, Edna Becker, and her faithful companion, Charles Siders.
Funeral Services will be held at the Hadley Funeral Home Reno Chapel, 1021 Pike Street, Marietta on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 11 am with Pastor Steve Thibault officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before the service. Burial will take place at East Lawn Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Strecker Cancer Center or ComfortKeepers. Online contributions may be made at www.hadleyfh.com.
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