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Nothing The attitude, mentality and character of the Concierge.
The car service. Truly great. Location as well. Food is good. Massage was great. ZaZa has changed. You will find lots of drunk business men at the bar and hookers. Not fun when you travel alone for business and art. The staff seems to be more occupied with themselves then you.
interesting art breakfast was too expensive
Friendly staff, very unique room, and most comfortable hotel bed I've ever stayed in.
The interior design of the hotel and the rooms. I may be biased because i was a lucky customer and got a free upgrade to a suite that was so great. I didn't see the rest of the rooms but if they are a fraction of what the suite was, its great. I was a little alarmed that upon my return from a day out, i came to my room at night and found all the pillows off my bed, sippers on the bed and candles lit. I know it was the staff making me feel comfortable so i would necessarily say it was a bad thing but i was scared when i walked in and saw candles lit and my room rearranged as i was not yet sure it was the hotel staff.
The service was spectacular and well above expectations! I loved everything!
spatious room, interrior and friendly staff. The wireless internet connection was not good, lost the signal most of the time. The food in the restaurant is overpriced unless you go on days that they have special deals.
Interesting design, fun rooms, great staff Musty carpets, smoked-in rooms, mediocre room service
Nothing The attitude, mentality and character of the Concierge.
The overall look and feel of the Hotel .... You feel like a rock star tycoon during your stay.
We booked the fantastico suite for $245 and when we arrive and mentioned it was for a birthday the receptionist hooked us up with the Black Label suite that was simply unbelievable. The room must be over $1000 per night. One of the magnificent seven suites. Will certainly stay again! Thanks Zaza fam.
Hotel Za Za is a beautiful hotel and very luxurious for the money. Old hotel charm with a flair for the creative. Always a wedding or some special occasion going on keeps it lively but not loud. The balconies have some great views. Service is very good and staff very friendly and helpful. Room service was very good but not great. Lovely pool and small spa. Houston sun is hot and our AC struggled in the afternoon sun. We even had it looked at but it didn't seem to help. Blackout curtains do keep light out but evidently not the heat. Still the view was spectacular from 8th floor.
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Event - Liveblogby Brian Klug on 10/29/2012 12:58 PM EST
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- Smartphones
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- windows phone 8
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CaedenV - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkseated with drinks and snacks in hand, all ready for the show.
Seriously Anand and Brian, I love these liveblogs you have been doing for major release events. Witht he exception of the occasional picture not loading right they tend to go really well. Reply
makken - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkI work about 5 blocks from the venue where this is taking place. Completely forgot about this event until I saw the huge Windows Phone posters outside while walking by it to work this morning. Reply
BrianDustin - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $5600… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online(Click on menu Home)
http://goo.gl/bm5wF Reply
ol1bit - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkBrianDustin...is that all you have to say dude? Reply
AnnihilatorX - Tuesday, November 06, 2012 - linkThat's a standard spam message, appeared more than once under several user names Reply
Yofa - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkplease post nude pics of your hot mom! Reply
B3an - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link... Jessica Alba? ....Random.
I like the sound of Pandora being free for a year with no ads. Reply
othercents - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkDid they not update the alerting system? This is one of the major downfalls of WP7.5. They added the ability to have other ringtones, but not for text messaging. The alert system needs to be more robust if WP8 is to compete against the other operating systems available. Reply
Houdani - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkSo, when is the secret event going to occur? The one when they announce the exciting features that they have been hiding. #phooey Reply
von Krupp - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link...I can't say I like it. The old one let you know that there was more to the right and the little bouncy arrow added some character. Now it's a bland array of squares with nothing to suggest to new users that there are more options to be had with a swipe to the left.
I feel like Microsoft has lost sight of what the Metro design language was about: simplicity, efficiency, and intuitiveness. With Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, they've lost the "intuitive" part.
Windows Phone 8 feels like a marginal upgrade to Windows Phone 7.5 at best, and apart from NFC I can't honestly see why they couldn't enable many of these features in an update to Windows Phone 7. I was expecting something a little more profound with WP8, now I don't think I'll be upgrading my Omnia 7 with another Windows device. Reply
haxter - Friday, November 02, 2012 - linkBut does it run Android apps? That would be a reasonable start... Reply


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A government-led plan to review more than 650,000 foreclosures in the nation for bank wrongdoing could end and be replaced by a $10 billion mortgage settlement that's in the works, news reports say.
As part of an agreement with U.S. regulators, banks promised to carry out free audits for borrowers who were in some stage of foreclosure in 2009 or 2010 and provide compensation or other remedies, including corrections to credit reports and loan work-outs, if issues are discovered. Lenders agreed to this deal in 2011 to settle charges of "robo-signing," the process of approving loan documents with little or no review.
The process, which has been lengthier, pricier and more complicated than expected, has been criticized by the lending industry and the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which released a critical report on its progress in the summer. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in recent days have reported the possibility of a $10 billion deal between major banks and regulators to supplant the independent foreclosure review system.
The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the two agencies overseeing the audits, declined to offer comment to the U-T San Diego on the news articles or on the future of any of the foreclosure-review cases.
Consumers in San Diego County and across the nation had until Dec. 31 to request reviews. Federal officials estimated 4 million were eligible to receive one. Ultimately, 16 percent, or 654,000 borrowers submitted requests, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Wednesday. At least 56,000 requests came from San Diego County.
Because of a lack of submissions, the deadline for applications was extended three times last year. The government watchdog report released in the summer examined several issues with the review process, everything from complicated terminology in letters that informed borrowers of the audits to lack of communication with housing groups that could've helped spread the word.
"The independent foreclosure review process was flawed from the get go," said Appaswamy "Vino" Pajanor, president and executive director of San Diego nonprofit Housing Opportunities Collaborative. "The victims of foreclosed homes, did not benefit from the process. The expected outcomes were meager, if not absent.
"Housing counselors from HUD-approved housing counseling agencies should have been actively engaged to participate in the independent foreclosure review process, as they are truly independent," Pajanor added. "Hopefully, the $10 billion settlement with regard to the independent foreclosure review process will be channeled to benefit homeowners including providing valuable unbiased housing counseling services that has proven outcomes in the past."
The New York Times said the settlement in the works could send $3.75 billion to those who have had their homes repossessed, making it a better deal than the national mortgage settlement approved in February that gave $1.5 billion in monetary aid to consumers.
If the current deal does go through, it's unclear what will happen to 654,000 foreclosure cases that are in the review process.
Related : New homeowner protections go into effect Jan. 1
The pending settlement agreement could play out several ways. Among the scenarios: Open cases could still be reviewed, completed and resolved; or reviews could be halted and cash relief doled out equally regardless of financial harm.
San Diego resident Mark Augustin, who applied for a foreclosure review in February, is exasperated with the long wait and doubts the possible settlement will deliver better results than those coming from more thorough, case-by-case reviews.
"The little guy gets screwed," said Augustin, who lost his Palm Springs home to foreclosure in 2009 after he was promised a loan modification. "That's the name of the game at the expense of the American taxpayer."
After Augustin realized his lender would not honor a loan modification, he agreed to do a short sale for $280,000. The bank declined the deal and instead sold his home at auction for $117,000, he said.
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What every woman should know about breast cancer related lymphedema Francis Bevern, (name changed to protect patient identity) had to stop wearing her wedding ring. Even though her husband had died a few years back, she wanted to keep wearing the ring as a reminder of their relationship. But taking off the band was a necessary step because it didn't fit her swelling finger. She had trouble fitting into her jacket and blouse sleeves and she experienced an odd and restrictive feeling in her arm and shoulder. Stepping on her scale revealed she hadn't gained any weight and she started to question the reasons for her newfound swelling. At that time she didn't know that her recent breast cancer surgery had put her at risk for developing infections and fluid build-up in her arm due to breast cancer related lymphedema (BCRL). The highest incidence of lymphedema, a common and serious condition affecting at least three million Americans, is observed following breast cancer surgery, particularly among those patients who undergo radiation therapy following the removal of axillary lymph nodes. Many of these individuals will develop (BCRL). BCRL is one of the most concerning and prevalent secondary complications of breast cancer treatments. "Research indicates that approximately 25 percent of patients develop lymphedema after breast cancer surgery. But for those who also undergo radiation therapy, the development of lymphedema increases to 38 percent," according to the American Physical Therapy Association's - "Physical Therapy Journal." Lymphedema is a condition characterized by swelling in one or more extremities that result from impaired flow of the lymphatic system. It's a complex matrix of specialized glands and vessels that spans throughout our bodies. A very simplistic example of this system can be likened to water going through a heavy duty nylon stocking. If the hosiery gets kinked, fluid would seep out above the kink. And fluid will descend with time and gravity.
Our complex network of specialized vessels also has fluid being efficiently transported. If our system gets "kinked," the excess fluid will be blocked and result in localized swelling. There are many reasons for the blockages. Lymph node dissection disrupts lymphatic flow and results in a build-up of pressure in the vessel walls, causing them to distend and can lead to a backflow of fluid and blockage. This blockage obstructs the main lymphatic route and fluid can't exit into their appropriate site. Not having enough lymph glands or too many damaged lymph glands can impair our system. Radiation treatment can scar and harden tissue and the surrounding specialized lymph vessels to the point of excess fluid accumulating in the upper extremity and chest. Lymph nodes are exquisitely susceptible to radiation treatments. If lymph nodes become impaired, they can't filter the fluid and waste. And the stagnation of fluid provides a breeding ground for bacteria. That's why lymphedema makes people more susceptible to infection. Any opening in the skin, (an insect bite, dry-cracked skin, or a knick while shaving the underarms) should be closely monitored and discussed with a doctor for signs of infection. Understanding the importance of lymphedema and the lymphatic system is paramount to Stanley Rockson, MD, director for Stanford University's department of Lymphatics and Venous Disorders. "I think the easiest way to think of the lymphatic system is to imagine if you would build a house with bricks you would need mortar and although the mortar is not what the focus is on, it is really what holds the building together," states Dr. Rockson during an online video representation at the Lymphatic Research Foundation. According to the American Cancer Society, "Recent studies are trying to find lymphedema early and treat it right away to help better control it. If you notice tingling or strange sensations in your arm after surgery, talk with your doctor, even if you haven't noticed swelling. If you feel uncomfortable, ask your doctor to refer you to a specialist who's an expert in managing lymphedema." "If possible, ask to be referred to complete decongestive therapy (CDT). The therapists that have CDT among their title shows additional certification given to state licensed physical and occupational therapists that have undergone specialized training consisting of manual lymph drainage and compression wrappings," states Mindy McCleery, director of rehabilitation for a facility that specializes in comprehensive outpatient therapy as well as lymphedema therapy. "Those who are experts in this condition can make lymphedema better," she says. "It's also important to know the best exercises to mitigate the effects of this condition. And there are so many ways to avoid infection and episodic flare-ups." McCleery says that
overuse can result in injury and has also been linked to the start of lymphedema in some women. "If you've had surgery or radiation treatment, ask your doctor or therapist when you can initiate exercise. Then start working with a well-trained health professional to design a therapeutic regimen. With the proper education and treatment, you should notice improved function and quality of life," she says.
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Three people have died on Western Australia's roads within 12 hours in a spate of car crashes, bringing the number of road fatalities this year to 13.
In addition to three fatal crashes, a man was airlifted to hopsital after he was injured in a two-car Ellenbrook crash.
Car collides with tractor in Wagin
A man died in Wagin on Friday evening after his Nissan Patrol collided with a tractor.
The 20-year-old was driving west along Nallian Road near the intersection of Dongolocking Road about 5pm when it hit a loader/tractor that was travelling on a farm access road.
The 51-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl were in the tractor at the time. Neither were injured in the crash.
Brunswick crash
In a second fatal incident a man died in Brunswick, south of Perth, when his car crashed into a tree.
Police were called just after midnight to reports of a car crash near the intersection of Clifton Road and Australind Bypass.
Arriving on the scene, they found a Holden Commodore and a male driver, a 22-year-old from Withers, who died at the scene.
It appears the Commodore was travelling along Clifton Road heading towards the bypass when it left the road and collided with the tree.
Kwinana death
It was one of two fatalities that occurred after a car crashed into a tree, with police investigating a third fatality in Kwinana early on Saturday morning.
A car left the road and collided with a tree Rockingham Road south of the intersection of Anketell Road about 4am.
The driver, from Orelia, died as a result of the crash.
Major crash investigators are conducting inquiries into the three fatal accidents.
Prior to the three fatalities overnight, the 2013 death toll had already reached 10 on Friday, more than three times higher than the three road fatalities which had occurred in the same period in 2012.


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A month long campaign to help sick children has raised more than £10,000.
The May'ke campaign culminated in a free 'Celebration of Yorkshire' event in Millenium Square on May 31.
The campaign, which was launched by Horsforth schoolgirl 14-year-old Bethany Hare, has raised money for children with chronic, terminal or life threatening illnesses. The money will go towards the goal of building a purpose-built Smile Cottage, a holiday respite home in Yorkshire, where families can spend quality time together when they are faced with the news that their child has a very short life expectancy
Bethany's mum Yvonne said: "The event went really well. There was some amazing talent on the stage and a lovely atmosphere. We are delighted that the first ever May'ke campaign received donations of over £10,000. Beth is hoping, with one year to plan it, that next year will be bigger and better than ever and supported by a lot more of the Yorkshire community. "
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Server CPU news, march 2008by Johan De Gelas on 3/27/2008 12:00 AM EST
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mvrx - Friday, April 04, 2008 - linkIBM is very far along developing optical interconnects for chips that are as fast or faster than todays copper interconnects... So picture this..
Say your processor has 4 optical connectors that connect to optical switches... you buy pure cache modules that interconnect via that same optical system.. Adding another switch allows you to stack and stack and stack.. Think about a 8 core chip that can interconnect with up to 16 * 32MB L2 or L3 cache modules...
Or you keep plugging more 8 core chips, and more 8,12,16,32MB cache modules into the clustered CPUs...
IMO, this is one of the directions IBM is going to take the POWER line.. and hopefully even the CELL B.E.
mino - Monday, March 31, 2008 - linkPlease be so kind to test Your new modifications in Opera as the new movong add is not possible to close (no close button) and renders across the published conetnt in the middle of the screen.
Also, login to post comments stopped working..
Sorry to post here, dop not have account on forums. Reply
Visual - Monday, March 31, 2008 - linkseconded, i get a nasty floating thingy that i can not close, and i am with firefox+noscript (anandtech.com scripts allowed, all the others blocked) Reply
chiadog - Monday, March 31, 2008 - linkThanks for removing the Ad. Not only was it annoying and intrusive, it wasn't very relevant either. Why do we need to know about Shanghai the city? Reply
thesix - Saturday, March 29, 2008 - linkBarcelona is a city name, so is Shanghai (one of the best cities in China). What is 'Shangai'? Reply
Nehemoth - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - linkWell as Barcelona is an Spanish city, Shangai is how you write in Spanish Shanghai.
:- ) Reply
JohanAnandtech - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - linkShangai was nothing more than a typo... Fixed Reply
ThaHeretic - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - link"Remember that currently all 32 bit OS make use of 4 KB size, but that most 64 bit OS (Linux and windows) can use 4 KB or 2MB page size."
That's actually quite false. 32-bit OSes have been able to use hugepages (>= 2MB page size) for many years. I'm relatively sure that ability was added along with PAE to the P6 core, ala PentiumPros back in the day. Linux itself has had hugepage support since the 2.0.x kernel series. I've used hugepages for Oracle databases in Oracle databases for at least 5-years now.
Now granted you get more benefit from larger memory footprints which 64-bit CPUs give you access too, that doesn't mean you can't use hugepages in 32-bit environments. There's 64-bit requirement.
What I'm really waiting on are x86 supporting page sizes > 2MB. Itanium does up to 256MB pages I believe, and Alphas long ago support 64MB pages. I'm deploying SunFire x4600s with 8GB of RAM per core, and hugepages is an ENORMOUS performance benefit. Reply
wordsworm - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - linkA key point that you're missing about the differences in 32 and 64 bit computing is that despite the fact that *some* OSes have used PAE, it does so with a performance hit, potential problems with drivers, etc. In the case where software such as what Adobe pumps out, the total number of pages that can be open cannot exceed 2GB. With 64 bit computing, you can have numerous pages open each of which consume a maximum of 2GB. So, you could easily have three pages open each consuming 2GB for a total of 6GB on your system. You couldn't do the same with 32 bit without using PAE.
Furthermore, with PAE, no single application could use more than 4GB of RAM. AWE allowed applications to exceed 4GB, but not simultaneously.
64 bit is the way to go if you're going past 3-4GB of RAM. It's a shame that MS created a 32 bit Vista. Reply
BikeDude - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - link32-bit XP has PAE enabled by default by SP2.
...and practically, although you limit memory hungry processes to 4GB (well, half that is normally reserved by the kernel, so it is actually 2GB), your cache manager can still make use of the rest. Adobe advocates using systems with more memory than 4GB, since file I/O is improved (Photoshop enables caching for their swap-files in case the user has lots of memory).
That said, I fully agree that 64-bit is where it is happening. We've pushed the 32-bit design to the limit and it is time for everyone to move on... Reply
BikeDude - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkoh, I forgot to say that I realize XPSP2 is still limited to a 32-bit address space, despite toggling PAE support on. (and I'm fully aware that 32-bit drivers from manufacturers like nVidia does not support the extended memory address space -- I have to limit 32-bit Windows server 2003 to 32-bit addresses if I want to play well with the nVidia drivers) Reply
mlau - Saturday, March 29, 2008 - linkThe Itanium supports up to 4GB pages (and a lot of other sizes
between this and 4k).
What *I* would like to see is support for various pages sizes at runtime. Larger sizes for e.g. DMA buffers, hugepages for database folks, and small pages for everything else.
IIRC most processors can only support ONE (selectable) pagesize at
pm - Monday, March 31, 2008 - linkMost processors can only support one selectable page size. But the Itanium does support multiple page sizes while running:
johnsonx - Friday, March 28, 2008 - linkyes, but how many fps do those things get in Crysis? Reply
ThaHeretic - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - linkThere's [no] 64-bit requirement. (sic) Reply


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This article was published 19/9/2012 (1797 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
About 125 transportation and trade experts from throughout the south-central United States and Midwest as well as the four central Canadian provinces will be in Winnipeg next week talking about ways of enhancing trade.
It's this city's turn to host the annual NASCO (North America's Corridor Coalition) conference to hash out ways of uniting public and private sectors to address national and international trade and transportation issues and the economic development possibilities that go along with them.
Supply-chain development and trade issues are becoming continuous topics of discussion in Winnipeg these days as we all try to wrap our heads around the potential opportunities for CentrePort Canada, the national inland port being developed near Richardson International Airport.
Seeing how this regional economy is devoid of the things that cause boom-town economies elsewhere, Winnipeg is banking on the development of an inland port as a way to enhance long-term economic growth in the city.
The underlying rationale of the initiative -- which we all need to be reminded is more like a 40-year project than a five-year one -- is the pre-existence of a package of transportation assets that can be leveraged and tweaked so they become more valuable than they might be on their own.
We're talking about a 24-hour cargo-friendly airport, a proper highway network, a well-developed trucking and distribution industry and three transcontinental railways that cut through the city.
It's not good news that one of those railways -- Canadian Pacific -- is discontinuing its container service to Chicago.
But it sounds worse than it is.
For starters, CP has been hauling, on average, less than seven containers a day from Chicago to Manitoba and Saskatchewan. In 2011, the railroad moved about one million containers on its network.
Ed Greenberg, a spokesman for Calgary-based CP, said the route will be discontinued effective Saturday because of insufficient volumes. It's hard to argue with that.
And the absence of locomotives pulling scant little freight today ought not to have much impact on the plans for whatever type of logistics hub CentrePort turns out to be.
A spokesman for CentrePort said, "We don't expect it (CP Rail's Chicago route cancellation) to have any impact. The majority of CP's freight to Chicago is from Asia, is unloaded in Vancouver and crosses the U.S.-Canadian border at Portal, Sask. (not through Winnipeg). CP's Winnipeg operations are strong and we have a good working relationship with them."
The assets upon which the CentrePort concept is based do not go away, and the service could come back.
"As part of ongoing monitoring of traffic patterns and volumes, our railway would look at revising service offerings if the need emerges in the future," Greenberg said. "With the rail network that we have in place, our railway is well-positioned to changing customer shipping requirements."
The light traffic does indicate, however, surprisingly little exchange of goods between the Prairies and the busiest transportation hub in the U.S.
But don't tell that to border agents in Emerson and Pembina, N.D., who man the busiest border crossing west of Detroit-Windsor.
Total two-way trade has been between $13 billion and $17 billion for each of the past five years and where annual bidirectional traffic has exceeded one million vehicles in four of those years.
The final destination for that traffic is all over North America, but there are continuous efforts to forge stronger connections regionally.
Economic Development Winnipeg vice-president Greg Dandewich said there is always more that can be done.
"There is a variety of efforts to identify more opportunities for supply-chain and value-chain development from a binational and bi-regional perspective," Dandewich said.
Meanwhile, there's no telling what the trade flows will be like in coming years. And it is those changing global trade patterns -- China is now the second-largest economy in the world -- that CentrePort is trying to anticipate.
A tiny blip in CP's freight operations in the region does not alter the big-picture strategy that is in the works. The development of regional connections through NASCO and otherwise has to be ongoing to ensure economic health in this region.
But in the long run, it's China more so than Chicago that will ultimately be the difference-maker for CentrePort.


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Joubert-Tradauw Private Cellar makes the only R62-trademarked wine on the R62 Wine Route.
The R62 Wine Route runs concurrently with the Cape Route 62, a 'tourist' route, which follows the less-travelled, shorter and vastly more scenic regional R62 road from Cape Town, through the Klein Karoo and the Garden Route to Port Elizabeth.
This, off the beaten track wine route on Route 62, is often missed by motorists tearing along the N2. Whereas the fortunate few who take the time to explore its length discover a feast of culture, hospitality, food, and a variety of wine styles.
Billed as the longest wine route in the Western Cape, the Route 62 Wine Route encompasses Wellington, Tulbagh, Worcester, Robertson and the Klein Karoo. Wine lovers can visit up to 70 wine farms, of which 11 are specialist brandy cellars, and comprise the R62 Brandy Route – an adventure on its own!
Of special interest along the wine route is Calitzdorp, the port-making capital of the country. Though EU export legislation prohibits South African port producers from naming their product as such, the master blenders in Calitzdorp make their versions of Vinho do Porto, called Cape Tawny, Cape Vintage and Cape Ruby, that will rival anything produced in the Douro region.
In the fertile Tradouw Valley, you'll find fruit orchards, Khoisan descendants and the country's smallest wine district. Barrydale Wine and Brandy Cellar produces world-beating pot still brandies, and Joubert-Tradauw Private Cellar creates fine Chardonnay and Syrah.
Unique spirits are par for the course on this unconventional wine route. Grundheim Wines in the Klein Karoo makes witblitz (a white brandy spirit), potent enough to keep you and your car tanked, as well as interesting cream-based liqueurs which the locals refer to as melkskommel met skop (milkshake with a kick).
At Kango Co-op cellar, sip their Jerepigo, a robust dessert wine made from red grapes, or sooth your digestion with a snifter of their honey or herbal buchu brandy.
The Route 62 Wine Route is ideal for travellers who like to take their time, travel at leisure, and get to know the country and the people en-route. Offering excellent value for money and unusual wines, quirky characters, unstinting hospitality, and hearty regional cuisine, what more could an adventurous wine lover ask for?
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Approximately 850km from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth on Route 62, via Paarl, Tulbagh, Worcester, Montagu, Oudtshoorn, Uniondale.
Best time to visit
The Route 62 Wine Route can be visted all year round. The vineyards and fruit farms are in blossom from October to December, and harvesting is from January to late April.
Around the area
Along the length of the route, you'll find art and craft producers, restaurants, nature reserves and game parks, botanical gardens, adventure sports and dozens of cultural and historic attractions.
Tours to do
Within Route 62, tour the Route 62 Brandy Route.
Get around
A car is the best way to explore this route. Alternatively, a tour operator can take you to individual wine areas along the route.
Length of stay
You'll need around a week to make the most of the route.
Where to stay
Guest lodges, family-run hotels, self-catering, and farm accommodation. If you don't fancy anything too rustic, Jan Harmsgat Country House, Assegaaibosch Country Lodge, and Thorntree Country House are good bets.
What to eat
Free-range ostrich, lamb venison. In season, fresh fruits, especially from Montague, Wellington and Tradouw. Country cuisine – you'll find egte Boerekos (genuine Afrikaaner food) as well as contemporary 5-star dining
What's happening
Wine farms on Route 62 host festivals and activities throughout the year. Visit the Route 62 website for details.
Best buys
The Route 62 wine route is home to award-winning wine, brandy and port producers.


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With the rapidly changing economic environment, outsourcing, and merger and acquisition activities, students desire to have the option of becoming an entrepreneur by either starting a new venture or purchasing an existing business. The interest in students to start or purchase a new business has accelerated over the last two to three decades. Here at the Jones School the percentage of MBA students now taking entrepreneurship courses each year exceeds 45%.One major objective of the Entrepreneurship program in the Jones School is to provide students with processes for either starting or purchasing a business. The "core" courses in the program are The New Enterprise and Enterprise Exchange courses.The New Enterprise course students are led through the Opportunity, Launch, Growth, and Harvest phases for a business startup. The Opportunity segment includes recognizing and evaluating opportunities. In the Launch phase the following subjects are covered: attracting stakeholders and resources, business planning, selecting appropriate legal form of organization and taxation issues, and financing alternatives. During the Growth stage, operating and growing the venture are discussed. In the Harvest period, the various methods for exiting a business are considered.The Enterprise Exchange course assumes that a student may choose to enter the entrepreneurial world by purchasing a business and then selling it at some point. Some topics covered in the course include: 1) developing a "needs" approach for buying and selling businesses, 2) negotiating an appropriate acquisition or sale of a business, 3) applying merger and acquisition concepts learned for publicly-held corporations to smaller leveraged buy-outs, 4) applying techniques for consolidating fragmented industries, and 5) harvesting ultimate value from the business.Beyond these initial courses, more specific courses consider entrepreneurial opportunities in biotechnology and life sciences, technology, real estate, and other business arenas. Students also have the option to take courses in managing growth, developing a business plan, and venture capital. In addition, internships at organizations like the Houston Technology Center, the Houston Angel Network, NASA and AlphaDev are available for students to learn even more practical aspects of entrepreneurship.The Entrepreneurship group strongly supports the activities of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship that sponsors collaborative activities between the Sciences, Engineering and Business schools at Rice University. The team that represents Rice in the Rice Alliance Business Plan competition is selected from one of the entrepreneurship classes.Entrepreneurship Concentration CoursesRequired:
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My boyfriend keeps exotic pets and I am planning to marry him. I don't, however, share his love of snakes and other creepy crawly things and will want to do away with them. I don't mean "kill" them, of course, but give them away before we get married. I'm planning that he'll ask me on Valentine's Day -- gentle hints laid, cards played, but there's still the pet problem. Everything was going smoothly until last night when I broached the topic. He's not co-operating! It's not like the pets can love him! They are wild and just his captives. I tried to explain this, but he didn't get it. He says he loves them and they love him back and he's not doing away with pets he loves. I said, "But what about me?" And then he said, "I love you, too and if we had any kids I would love them as well, but you don't seem to have that much extra love to give." I thought a man's wife was supposed to be first and foremost in his life. It seems I am tied in first place with a bunch of rodents and spiders. Last night, before I went home, I said, "It's either me or the weird pets" and he said: "I'll have to think long and hard about that. Now go, as I'm beginning to lose it." What does that mean? -- Second Fiddle to Creepy Pets, Wolseley
Dear Second Fiddle: This man is mighty turned off and angry and it's good you left the premises when you did. You're quite the little planner and manipulator, but you just came up against a cement wall. You were trying to push your man into an engagement, with a huge price. He must get rid of living creatures he loves in order to have you. You are the queen and you have said they must go. But, he is the king of his life and he has said no. He's seen an ugly side of you and he's not going to be dumping his pets off and riding out to get you a diamond, ma'am.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I went on a week's ski holiday with my boss and no one was to know. She said she had told no one and I thought we'd be A-OK. I'm not married and she's divorced but still, we didn't want people at work to think we were seeing each other. Well, when we returned to work on the same day, everybody was looking at us and trying to hide their smirking faces. My male across-the-desk mate said "Have a good time apres-skiing?" I told him to do something anatomically impossible and he said, "Have it your way, but everybody knows." So, who told? Apparently, my boss told her best friend and executive assistant and swore her to secrecy, and then had her book our tickets. My lady called her assistant into her office end of the day and a big fight ensued. We couldn't hear exactly what was said in the outer office. Now my lady/boss is studiously ignoring me both in the office and out and my feelings are hurt. We weren't in love but we had a wonderful time together when we were away. Now what? -- Totally Ignored, Downtown
Dear Ignored: Be pleasant and fake being OK with things returning to status quo. Your boss is deeply embarrassed and paying the price of her unwise dalliance now being the subject of gossip and tittering when she got back. People will get back to work and worrying about their own love lives, as long as she ignores you and they think it's over. She's actually doing you both a favour, no matter how she feels about you. If you had clearly become office pet, life at work would continue to be difficult at work for both you and her. People would stop talking to you about anything work-related if they thought you two were still sleeping and gossiping together past the holiday, imagining their words would get right back to her.
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One ballot initiative that got overlooked in all the hubbub last Tuesday was a right-to-farm measure in North Dakota.
The amendment, approved by the state's voters, guarantees farmers the right to "modern" agriculture and bars laws limiting their right to "employ agricultural technology, modern livestock production, and ranching practices."
The Associated Press reports that North Dakota is the first state to move to protect the right to farm. The amendment on the ballot, pushed by the North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation, was partly in response to attempts by the Humane Society of the United States and other animal-rights organizations to ban livestock practices, such as gestation-sow stalls, in other states.
"It's going to give us a big leg up on special-interest groups that come in from outside and want to tell us what to do and what not to do," Doyle Johannes, president of the state Farm Bureau told the AP.
Though the amendment was passed, state officials are unsure what the right means for farmers, how long it will take to define the right, and whether it can survive a potential court challenge. Read, "N.D. votes to protect a right to farm."
Other states have gone further to protect farmers from activist groups. Bills introduced in Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Missouri limit or prohibit the making of undercover videos. Dubbed "ag-gag" laws, the legislation was passed in Iowa earlier this year that was designed to keep people from accessing agricultural production facilities under false pretenses. Missouri also passed a diluted "ag-gag" law in May, which requires anyone with photos or videos of animal abuse or neglect to report it to law enforcement within 24 hours. Click here to read more about Iowa's or Missouri's laws protecting agriculture.


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VOLUNTEERS who helped to build a new visitors area at a historical Winchester water site have been praised for their hard work.
Twyford Waterworks Trust volunteers celebrated the official opening of the new 'hide and story-telling' building on Sunday (August 3) welcoming Mayor of Winchester, Cllr Eileen Berry.
The project aims to create a much-needed base for activities and was funded by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Winchester City Council and Twyford Parish Council.
Trust chairman, Graham Feldwick, said: "It was fantastic to mark the occasion, not only to celebrate the abundant wildlife we have here, but also to mark the achievement of the volunteers who coordinated the project and those who funded it both in terms of time and money.
"We hope that this, as part of our Return To Steam project, will provide interest and education for many years to come."
After a short walk around the site and nature trail Cllr Berry cut the ribbon and took the first step into the hide.
She praised the preservation work carried out by the Trust and the importance of the pumping station.
A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has also allowed restoration to start with the engine and boilers due to return to steam in 2015.


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I-Card Policies
General Policies
The BYU-Idaho I-Card is the official identification card for students, faculty, and administrators at BYU-Idaho. The I-Card is also a declining balance card (debit card) used at various locations across campus.
The I-Card allows you to:
- Provide identification
- Access certain campus events
- Check out library materials
- Gain admittance to athletic facilities
- Cash checks on campus and other Cashier services
- Obtain campus event tickets
- Access the Testing Center
- Spend pre-deposited funds on campus
- Print in computer labs
In order to ensure that only authorized individuals receive an I-Card, a photo ID is required before a card will be issued (driver's license, passport, etc.).
Anyone wishing to obtain an I-Card must be in conformity with BYU-Idaho dress and grooming standards.
Use of the I-Card
The I-Card is yours to use, but it remains the property of BYU-Idaho. The I-Card must be returned to the University upon request. Fraudulent use of any I-Card may result in disciplinary action. You are entitled to have only ONE I-Card in your possession.
University departments, personnel, or community businesses may not ask to retain your I-Card as collateral for goods or services. Report any such occurrences to the I-Card Office.
In order to minimize your losses, it is your responsibility to inform the I-Card Office if you believe your card has been lost or stolen.
You may use the I-Card like a credit card at the following locations (Charges will be applied to your Personal Account and can be paid online or at the Cashier's Office):
- University Store
- Ticket Office
You may use the I-Card as a debit card at the following locations (Must pre-deposit money to your account):
- Crossroads (University Cafeteria)
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All students registered for class may obtain an I-Card beginning one week before the start of the semester they are attending. The spouse of a student may obtain an I-Card for free, as long as they are in the dress and grooming standards of BYU-Idaho.
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All full-time employees are entitled to an employee I-Card. A spouse and family members of full-time employees are also entitled to have an I-Card. Dependents children 8 to 26 will be issued an I-Card free of charge (covered dependents are defined as unmarried dependents living in the same household).
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As my esteemed colleagues have done since the NCAA unveiled its bracket for the annual tournament championship, I too will be offering predictions. I'm guessing that's all the introduction you need so let's roll out the predictions.
There's not much else to be said here that hasn't been previously stated: Ohio State was awarded for being the best team all season with a killer bracket. North Carolina, Syracuse, and Kentucky are all formidable top 4 seeds, and tOSU's potential second round match-up with all-time Cinderella George Mason ensures the Buckeyes will earn every game this March.
Potential Sleeper: Xavier. The Musketeers enjoyed a quiet season on the national scale, but do not mistake the silence. Xavier could pull an upset in the early rounds; in fact I've predicted them to defeat Syracuse in the Round of 32 in my bracket (for whatever that's worth; i.e. not much).
Player to watch: Jared Sullinger. tOSU's all-world forward delivers Dyke-ism's favorite tough twos. Quite simply, he's a helluva player and the stronger he plays down low the more open (and more dangerous) the Buckeye offense becomes.
Winner: Ohio State. The Buckeyes have senior leadership, a good balance of talent, and one of the best players in the country in Jared Sullinger.
The West bracket is also balanced this season, though not quite at the level of the East. Duke, as the one seed, will be the favorite to escape, but San Diego State, UCONN, and Texas form a challenging top four seeds. But Arizona as a five, Cincinnati as a six, and Temple as a seven seed all poise serious threats who can make deep runs.
Potential Sleeper: Missouri. The Tigers are an eleven seed thanks to their woeful road record and struggles inside the conference. But what makes Missouri dangerous is Mike Anderson's Forty Minutes of Hell style of play. The Tigers like to press and run teams to death. The system also produces turnovers and turnovers are a death nail in March.
Player to Watch: Kemba Walker. UCONN's All-American showed up early in November with magical performances in Maui, and after a small stumble during the mid-season, Walker turned it on as the Huskies won five games in five days to capture the Big East tournament championship. UCONN goes as Kemba goes, and if a game is on the line in the waning seconds, he's money.
Winner: Arizona. I'm taking an upset in this bracket. The Wildcats have the second best player to watch (and possible #1 NBA draft pick) in forward Derrick Williams. Williams poses a match-up problem for any team, and Arizona's guards are just good enough to keep the Wildcats in ballgames. I think Williams is the deciding factor in a Sweet Sixteen match-up with Duke with propels Arizona onto the Final Four.
Labeled as the third strongest bracket (of four), the Southwest boasts one of the strongest teams throughout the season in the Kansas Jayhawks. The other top seeds include Notre Dame, Purdue, and Louisville; all strong teams. The Morris twins lead Kansas as they attempt to wipe away memories of an early exit last season. The other top seeds all share an interesting similarity: small preseason expectations. Notre Dame was not projected to finish as high or as strong in the Big East after losing Luke Harangody. Louisville faced similar preseason expectations as it waited on a heralded 2011 recruiting class to arrive on campus. Purdue was a Final Four contender in August until Robbie Hummel tore his ACL again which accordingly dampened expectations.
Potential Sleeper: Georgetown. A six seed isn't much of a sleeper, but the Hoyas struggled late in the season when guard Chris Wright broke his hand. Before his injury, Georgetown was rolling towards the top of the Big East standings. His return will provide help for teammate Austin Freeman. Then again, the Hoyas could be out in the first round like last season.
Player to Watch: Marcus Morris. The better of the Morris twins, brother Marcus has expanded his game from the smooth inside
hook shots to include the ability to knock down the three pointer in Bill Self's high-low offense. Morris, often accused as dirty, provides the gritty toughness to succeed in March.
Winner: Notre Dame. I love the make-up of the Irish. They have experience across the board, and Ben Hansbrough has shown the ability to make tough baskets when the team needs a lift. The only thing that scares me is coach Mike Brey's less-than-stellar record in the NCAA tournament, but the team plays good enough defense to survive.
The weakest region of the tournament displays proverbial choke-artists, Pittsburgh. The Panthers last reached a Final Four when the tournament included eight teams. Some credit is due as the Panthers have maintained a good record and resume despite high preseason expectations, but in a season in which no team is truly dominate, Pittsburgh looks vulnerable. Meanwhile in this bracket, SEC regular season champs Florida were gifted a two seed while the Davies-less Cougars of BYU are the three seed and Wisconsin is the four. This bracket is perhaps the most wide-open of them all.
Potential Sleeper: BYU. I know what you're thinking: How can a three seed be a sleeper? Technically, they cannot. But after BYU dismissed forward Brandon Davies for violation of the university's honor code, the Cougars have looked beatable to the point where the national media has lost hope in them. However, they still have Jimmer Fredette, an electric scoring machine. Guard play in March can be a difference maker, and Fredette's ability to light up the scoreboard is critical.
Player to Watch: Jimmer Fredette. The Cougar guard, as I just stated, is a scoring machine. Fredette has the ability to perform like Stephen Curry did in 2008 riding his success to a top NBA draft pick. Leave him open at your own peril.
Winner: Florida. Even though the Gators were probably a seed too high, they're still a good team. The lower half of the bracket is a little weaker than the top half, and I think SEC Player of the Year Chandler Parson spurs Florida into a Final Four for the first time since 2007.
Final Four
In one semi-final, we have Ohio State versus Arizona while the opposite side features Notre Dame versus Florida.
Ohio State defeats Arizona in a battle of future NBA forwards Sullinger and Williams. The Buckeyes' balance is enough to put them over the top. In the other semi-final, Notre Dame continues their good form with a win over the Gators. Ben Hansbrough and the rest of the experienced roster put the Irish over the top late.
In the finals, Ohio State's dream season comes to an end just like 2007. Notre Dame rides the wave of success to a somewhat improbable National Championship.


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Retirement savings: How do yours measure up?
They say misery loves company, and that could be an ominous sign for retirement saving in the U.S.
According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), most American workers have less than $25,000 in savings. This is the type of problem that can become self-perpetuating: As people look to their peers for examples of how to save for retirement they might be satisfied to find they are doing a little better than most.
But the truth is, retirement saving is in such bad shape nationally that you had better count on doing much better than average to meet your goals.
In conjunction with America Saves Week (February 19-26), here are some age-based benchmarks for retirement saving. Your needs may be greater or smaller than the spending target given in the example, so you may need to adjust the benchmarks accordingly. Still, the figures below can give you some insight into roughly where you should be in saving for retirement at your age.
New assumptions
Retirement saving is based on a host of assumptions, and some traditional assumptions may not be appropriate for today's savers. For the purpose of this analysis, here are three of the primary assumptions:
- Spending, not income, is the right target. Traditionally, people have tossed around rules of thumb that base the retirement income you'll need on some percentage of your income while working. The problem is that income tends to be very uneven over the course of a career, and different people spend different portions of income. So base your retirement targets on projected spending needs, with the appropriate adjustments for inflation.
- The new interest rate environment is changing income projections. Savings account interest rates are below 1 percent, and CD rates and bond yields are not much higher. Assuming your savings program uses a mix of stocks, bonds, and cash, you'll want to water down your return assumptions to reflect these low yields. This analysis uses a blended return assumption of 5.6 percent to account for the low interest rate environment.
- Taxes are not included. With the popularity of Roth IRAs, retirement savings are often a mix of pre- and after-tax savings. To avoid confusion, all the figures below will be given as after-tax equivalents. Therefore, if you have savings in a pre-tax vehicle, you should adjust the value downward by your tax rate for comparison with the figures below.
Calculating the benchmarks
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), households of people aged 65 years or older spend an average of $36,802 per year. So that figure is the sample target for retirement spending in this analysis.
The EBRI reports that people 65 and older collect an average of $11,249 in Social Security or similar benefits, and the BLS reports an average of 1.7 persons per elder household. That amounts to an average of $19,123 in Social Security income per elder household, leaving $17,679 to be funded from individual saving.
The benchmarks below adjust that $17,679 for inflation at 3 percent a year, and assume retirement at 65 with a further 30 years of life. That's longer than the current average life expectancy of a 65-year-old, but the higher figure was used to anticipate longer life expectancies and to reduce the risk of outliving your money.
Accordingly, here are benchmarks for what a person with average spending habits should be doing about retirement at the following ages as of today:
- Age 25. You may not have accumulated any retirement savings yet, but now's the time to begin. Start with a goal of saving $3,000 a year.
- Age 35. By this age, you should have accumulated about $35,000 in retirement savings, with another $4,500 a year being added.
- Age 45. As you enter your peak earning years, you should pick up the pace of retirement savings. You should have about $100,000 saved by now, with another $7,000 a year going toward retirement.
- Age 55. This is the homestretch, so you need to really kick it in. Having $200,000 in accumulated savings and $10,000 in new annual savings are reasonable targets.
- Age 65. Given the spending assumptions described above, it would take about $370,000 to make your money last. If you're not there yet, you might want to consider working a little longer.
Keep in mind that these are benchmarks as of today. As time moves along, all these numbers will grow larger with inflation.
When it comes to retirement, there are many variables pertaining to both your personal situation and economic conditions, so the reality is that no two situations will be alike. However, the above analysis should give you a general feel for whether you are ahead or behind in funding your retirement.
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4 September 2013 at 5:33 pm
Saving early and investing in real estate is a good strategy. Rental income helps augment losses in stock market,
26 September 2012 at 1:11 pm
What has worked for me, and the things I believe are keys to retirement accumulation success, are time and consistency. Compounding interest is a powerful thing, as is being methodical in your approach. The other thing I'll add to the mix is living within your means. I've never made that much money, but I started saving $50 a paycheck when I was 23 (I'm 46 now) and increased it as I could, but ALWAYS having money automatically taken out of my check and put in to the 401K. That's the key to all of this, allowing your money to compound on itself. Sure people can accumulate vast amounts in other ways, but saving early and habitually is most efficient and painless, in my opinion.
21 September 2012 at 8:16 am
I'm 45 and plan to retire at 52. I've got $990,000 in mutual funds, 401(k), IRAs, and 529/coverdell plans. I have no debt with my house and all cars paid off. I have a 6-year in a private school. Out of the $990,000, about $100,000 can be tapped before 59-1/2, so my goal is to continue saving in retirement plans, but also to put as much in non-retirement plans so I can use this (along with a $3000/month pension) once I retire until I can tap the retirmeent plans at 59-1/2. I currently save about 40% of my incomv.


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I was watching the Discovery Channel Sunday night and made an amazing discovery. My last name may be long and hard to pronounce, but it sure beats being a Wallenda.
If I was a Wallenda, I would be expected to walk across a two-inch cable, 1,500 feet above the ground with no harness, no safety net, no nothing.
That's what Wallendas do, dare-devil Nik Wallenda said talking the talk before walking the walk across the Grand Canyon Sunday night flirting with death.
His wife said she'd be more nervous if Nik was doing something more dangerous. Something more dangerous? Walking across the grand canyon on a two-inch cable with gusting winds doesn't classify as dangerous? This family must toss hand grenades instead of bags.
Hieronymus is looking a whole lot better these days. You know we're no high flyers if you've seen my speed on the base paths, but that's OK. It's safe to be better grounded.
I got a kick how Yahoo! corrected that Wallenda didn't actually walk across the Grand Canyon, but rather the Little Colorado River Gorge belonging to the Navajo.
I'm sorry, but any canyon 1,500 feet high is grand, doesn't matter if it's officially apart of the National Park. Fifteen hundred feet is 1,500 feet.
Seniors with class: While we're putting the final touches on the 2012-13 school year with all of the All-BCR team features that we originated years ago, I'd like to reflect for a moment about the class of 2013.
I have found this year's senior class to be outstanding, not only on the field, but more importantly off it. There are way too many to begin to name, but I have been highly impressed with all the seniors I have got to know over the past four years. They have always been respectful during interviews and talking to them in general. Moms and dads you should be proud.
That's the best part of my job, getting to know these kids. Best of luck to you in all your future endeavours.
Blackhawk up: Congrats to all you Blackhawk fans. What a finish.
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DETROIT - We're in for another cold night but the cloud cover could save us from slipping too low overnight.
Temps will fall to the upper teens and many neighborhoods will have single digit wind chills first thing Sunday morning.
The cold north winds bringing the chill is also bringing lake effect snow showers that will likely linger into Sunday morning, especially from Port Huron on down to Detroit on the east side.
Eventually, some sun will break out from time to time and highs will only reach the upper 20s.
Monday will be a much brighter day with highs into the low and mid 30s as we slowly start to warm things up.
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Hundreds of people will dodge paint powder as they take on a 5K run to raise money for a hospice.
Anyone aged 11 or older can take part in the event which will start at 10.30am at the Furzefield Centre in Potters Bar on Sunday May 18.
Hertsmere Leisure, which manages the centre in partnership with Hertsmere Borough Council, set up the 5K run to raise money for the Peace Hospice Care, which supports people with life limiting illnesses and their families.
Peace Hospice Care provides a day service, inpatient care, home and supportive care including bereavement support. They also work with schools, colleges and care homes providing them with educational support.
Rob Dodkin, Hertsmere Leisure's operations and events manager, said: "This is the ultimate fun run with a difference. At various points along the route volunteers throw coloured powder over the runners, with a different colour at each station so by the end each runner is covered in a multitude of bright rainbow colours.
"Spectators can also join in the fun by buying their own bag of coloured powder and throw this over the runners near the end. The powder isn't harmful and will easily brush off but it is a brilliant way to keep active, have running goal to aim for and raise hundreds of pounds for Peace Hospice Care.
"This is the first big sport event Peace Hospice Care has done in the Potters Bar area so we hope people will come along and take part and cheer the runners on. You can run, walk, hop, skip, dance, twirl whatever you fancy, super fitness is certainly not required."
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Adnan Oktar: "Now there are people like that that fit the description. Conservative people who recognize and value spiritual values: They work at some place and engage in the trading or sale of carpets. They have three daughters and a son. The son goes to a school overseas. Girls sit at home. What is their mission? What is their target? It is to get married and have children. There is no other cause. What is the man's goal? It is to earn lots of money and do good business. He says, "This is my cause." He asks, "What else do you do?" When we are bored we go off on the Umra. He hangs a silk rug on the wall with a picture of a mosque on it, and then slurps his coffee.
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FASTSIGNS of Scottsdale, the local visual communications/sign and graphics solutions provider, has unveiled a new branding platform with updated messaging: "More than fast. More than signs."
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Following in Dell's Footsteps: HP to Acquire Voodoo Computersby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2006 6:25 PM EST
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Indigo64 - Friday, September 29, 2006 - linkI'm hoping that this all works out - so we have Dellienware and now we have HooPoo Computers. Reply
dvinnen - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkSood has an interesting blog post about the buying of his company here: http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/09/project-vampi...">http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/09/project-vampi...
Sood has one of the most interesting blogs out there, and well worth reading through the archives. Reply
Sunrise089 - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkI also fail to see how this deal benefits either company itsself. But the Voodoo brass gets their checks and the HP board can say they successfully copied Dell, so they're happy. The only way these gaming PC acquisition deals can make $$$ is if the large PC company offer the name of the gaming marque in retail stores, like how Alienware was sold in BestBuy. That way you get to charge a few hundred extra for a name.
Anyways, at least Falcon is still independent, so once I hit it rich I still have a vendor to use. Reply
Zebo - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkObviously this will put a few million in the pockets of Mr Sood and company but I'm not sure the value to HP. No matter how cutting edge Voodoo remains or retian thier famous attention to details within thier boxes and personel tech support the people dropping paper for these boxes don't cater to the huge megaconglomerates like HP Dell and IBM for thier boutique purchases. They buy because its cool, hip, it's uncoventional, no one else on thier block has one and its not from ACME computer corp. It's psychological mostly wating to feel special elite and taken care of, HP will never be able to do that. I like to see the sales fiqures drop with Aleinware after Dell took over. You can bet its a drop even though it's a secret. Meh for these companies tosing away 50-100million on a chance is nothing though, it's not thier money. Reply
SixFour - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkThere still going to to be the most overpriced computers. Reply
flatblastard - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkI suppose this is good for people that do not build their own PCs.
Dell = Garbage
Alienware = Trash
HP = Junk
Voodoo = Poopoo
(Dell + Alienware) / (HP + Voodoo) = Landfill Reply
QueBert - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkwrong, they might be overpriced, but Voodoo PC and Alienware makes great boxes. The myth that just because you build it yourself it's better is so far off. Sure people who understand what they're doing make great custom pc's. But, I wouldn't suggest a newbie who ain't willing to really learn try to build a top of the line SLI box.
Expensive and trash are two different things Reply
mostlyprudent - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkI have often used Falcon and Alienware sites to see which component combinations they use. Fastest MB + Fastest RAM + Fastest Video Card does not always = Best PC. Companies like Voodoo and Alienware add the value of testing various configurations before marketing them without making the same performance sacrifices the big OENs often make.
I only hope we don't see watering down of their respective systems. Reply
Ecmaster76 - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkGateway buys Falcon Northwest!
Okay, so who knows. But it seems like the general trend. Reply
Zebo - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkMext? I like that idea....Ok I jusr checked thier site , wow!... time to start our own. They charge $14433.18 for a water cooled 1900xt xfire box we could build for $2000-$3000 = profit!! and even more profit going to sell the company to the stiff suits on wallstreet. Damn thier is some dump people with a lot of money in this world. Reply
QueBert - Friday, September 29, 2006 - linknot sure who "we" is, but tell "we" if they can build a a system like that for 3,000 - hell for 6,000 I will buy 10 of them at once! 14.5k is inflated yet, but you need to shop around, Falcon's paint job's alone are hella expensive. I was quoted one place for wanting a custom air brushed case (I already had the case...) $750 bucks. All these specality vendors like Falcon and Voodoo put anything they sell threw hella testing, which is good for the consumer. As a consumer you can't possibly test all the configurations they do to know what works best together. Typically I read 2 reviews of a MB, buy it, and end up having issues :)
cutting edge doesn't always equal = best b0x!
Zebo - Saturday, September 30, 2006 - linkBuilding 6? You aint started yet? Reply
Zebo - Saturday, September 30, 2006 - linkNo problem that what were here for at anandtech
Lets review voodoo's $14,443 OMEN WATERCooled jober. Don't look at Jarrad's specs his are innacuate.
All I added was a second x1900xtx for gaming
Voodoo Case Voodoo propietary closest to LIAN LI PC-V1200 $200
Voodoo Water cooling but not on video cards, I'll give you video card cooling in our build - All Swifttech
-2 x MCW60 for videocards $100
-APOGEE for CPU $37
-MCP350™ 12 VDC Pump $71
-MCR220 Quiet Power 2X120mm Radiator $44
-2x Yateloon Low RPM Fans $8
- Res and tubing $30
Voodoo OMEN Elemental Intel Core 2 Duo X6800- ours: X6800 $934.00
Voodoo ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Digital Home - ours $237
Voodoo Stealth 600 Watt Modular Silent Power Supply - Ours Corsiar modular 620W $120
Voodoo CORSAIR TWINX 2GB 8500C5 DD2 - ours CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) (PC2 8500) $388
Voodoo 500 GiG HGST Sata 7200 RPM - ours Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS 500GB 7200 RPM $169
Voodoo OMEN Molded Digital Card Reader - Ours Spire Coolers SP150 16-in-1 USB 2.0 compliant & USB 1.1 backward compatible Card Reader $9
Voodoo Pioneer Dual Layer 16X DVD+-RW - ours Pioneer DVR-111D 16x Dual Layer Black IDE DVDRW $22
Voodoo ATi Radeon X1900XTX 512 SS - ours Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX Video Card $344
Voodoo ATi Radeon X1900 Crossfire SS - ours SAPPHIRE Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition $374
Voodoo Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Music - ours Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Music $62.46
Vodoo Windows XP Professional - Ours Windows XP Professional $99
Grand total with better water cooling and quieter = 2938.26
$14,443 or $2938.26 if we do it.
JarredWalton - Friday, September 29, 2006 - link$2000 - $3000? Hardly.
High-end chassis = $200 minumum. Note that the $14000 PCs generally have custom paint jobs that can easily cost hundreds of dollars, sometimes more. Let's just say $1000 for kicks.
975X Motherboard = $250 or so. (Curse them if they use an Intel BadAxe2!)
X6800 = $1000, possibly a bit more given current prices.
2 x X1900 XT (probably should be X1950 by now) = $700-$900 depending on cards.
2x1024MB high-end DDR2 = $400-$550 these days.
2x150GB Raptor = $430 (or $540 for the windowed model).
2xDVD = $60 for cheap brands; $120-$150 for high-end (and/or SATA).
Was a 30" LCD included in that price? That's $2200 for Dell 3007WFP.
Watercooling, probably in the neighborhood of $250 for full system cooling.
X-Fi Platinum (likely) = $250.
Keyboard and mouse (probably wireless Logitech laser version) = $125. Paint matching would add another $50-$100 I would say at least.
700W PSU = $160; 1000W PSU = $360. (I'm just going extreme here; I don't know for sure what they're using as I'm too lazy to look.)
Bottom line: $6000 minimum to use off-the-shelf equivalents, without any paint job.
$7875 for maxed out version with paint (estimated at $1100 for painting all components)
What about some digital 5.1 speakers? There's another $300 if they use the Logitech Z-5500. Let's give them 15% profit, just because we are talking a high-end configuration. That puts the total of the maxed version at $9400 at least. Hopefully there's a full onsite 3-year warranty (or next-day shipping to and from the manufacturer), which could be $500 or so. Assuming top quality support, you might also get another $500 added on to pay those people, and I forgot the $130 for the OS.
Yes, I'm being a bit generous on some prices, and it is quite possible to get over $10000 in "costs" for the system builder. That's still $4500 in profit, but there is no way on earth you can match a full FNW $14500 system with any box costing under $4000 (not including LCD). Then you just need to get people to buy it, which is the really tough part. Heh. Reply
Zebo - Friday, September 29, 2006 - linkI can paint a three cars with $1000 in paint using the best PPG urathanes and hardners..probably 500 cases. Being generous $35 paint
Case does'nt cost more than $100 directly from china..there not buying from newegg it's custom and laser etched just for voodoo.
Hell all your prices are way out of line at MSRP not wholesale as you noted. The only ting accurate is watercooling.
No no monitor was included
Of course sales is the hard part these rip off boxes don't sell themselves. Reply
Chadder007 - Thursday, September 28, 2006 - linkWhat?? After their mistake of buying out Compaq?
Also what is with everyone merging or being bought out here lately? Reply