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Christian Life's community celebration turns 10
When Christian Life Church held its first Life Fest 10 years ago, it was a small community event. There was food. There were inflatable games for the kids. It was a fun opportunity for the church to invite the community in for an afternoon.
Funny the way little things can grow when you give them a decade.
Christian Life pastor Kent Boyum figures there were about 600 people, including volunteers, at that first Life Fest. Last year there were about 2,200. This year, the event has gotten big enough that the church has moved parking to the Farmington High School lot across Highway 50 and will run three shuttle buses to carry people back and forth.
This year's event, scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, will feature a car show, a radio-controlled airplane show and entertainment for parents, teens and younger children.
The event grew naturally. The car show was added because one of the church's members has classic cars and enjoys attending shows. The event grew from about 20 cars the first year it was held to 137 last year. Boyum believes there will be even more this year.
The RC airplane show started last year with a church member who is a member of an RC club.
"Last year we had a spectacular air show," Boyum said. "That became a highlight."
Putting it all together is a lot of work, but Boyum said the event has become an important activity at Christian Life.
"It's the kind of thing where everybody can get involved doing something. It just builds great team spirit," said Boyum, who brought the idea to Christian Life from a training class for pastors. "Our goal is to just bless the community. That's number one. But secondly, I wanted an activity in the church where absolutely everybody would serve together. All ages."
This year's event will also feature the dedication of a new playground structure at the church and school. At nearly 27 feet, the playground, part of a larger renovation behind the school, is touted as tallest play structure in the south metro.
Boyum said the church got the structure, originally priced at $133,000, for $87,000.
"I hope a lot of kids are going to enjoy it," he said. "Frankly, a lot of the adults are enjoying going up there."


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On the forecast for the week ahead: no fewer than three notable fashion and tech events, several parties and lots of ways to hang out at the intersection of fashion, digital style and technology. I would have liked to have done extensive posts on each of these events separately, but I'm traveling this week and, […]View Post
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The Poison frontman has landed another deal with Donald Trump by co-hosting the mogul's upcoming Miss Universe beauty pageant, alongside U.S. TV correspondent Natalie Morales.
Rocker Bret Michaels has signed another TV deal with Donald Trump - he's co-hosting the mogul's upcoming Miss Universe beauty pageant. The Poison frontman will take the stage with U.S. TV correspondent Natalie Morales for the annual crowning, which will air live from Las Vegas on August 23.
The pair will preside over the evening's swimsuit, evening gown and interview competitions, which will see the most beautiful women from over 80 countries compete for the prestigious title. Michaels' deal with Trump's Miss Universe Organization comes two months after he won the real estate mogul's TV competition "The Celebrity Apprentice".
Meanwhile, Orianthi will perform her hit song "According to You" during the swimsuit competition. As for the evening gown portion, John Legend and The Roots will set the tone.


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Welcome to Hackett's Orchard, a family owned diversified farm and farm market in South Hero, Vermont - with 47 varieties of apples, fresh cider donuts, apple cider, vegetables, pumpkins, Vermont maple syrup and more. Enjoy our picnic and play area, and scheduled fall wagon rides and orchard tours. School groups welcome.
Apples, Frozen Cider and Apple Crisp!
Welcome 2017 to all! The orchard is quiet now as we prepare for the next season. We have our frozen cider for sale as well as frozen apple crisp. We still have apples too! We will not keep regular farmstand hours so please call before coming.
Newly released Video of Hacketts Orchard
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Try one of our favorite apple recipies:
What's Available
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TEL AVIV (Dec. 29)
An Israeli army patrol killed two terrorists in a clash in eastern Lebanon Monday, a military spokesman announced today. He said the killings were confirmed only yesterday when a routine search of the area turned up the two bodies and tracks leading toward Syrian army lines.
According to the spokesman, the clash occurred near Hamed E-Luz village close to the Syrian lines, in the vicinity of a dirt road where three Israel army officers were killed by a road mine last week.


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iOS 6 tethered jailbreak now works with iPhone 4 and 3GS
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Sep 2012, 03:47
It has been less than 24 hours since Apple released the iOS 6 update for many of its existing devices – iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and the new iPad, to name a few. However, that tiny amount of time was enough for those code-crunching experts to jailbreak the platform's latest release, albeit to a limited extent...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
without jailbreak iOS user can't breath clean air?
2. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
why are so people so bitter with apple and its iDevices?! iOS just work just fine! its like you are also saying that rooted android device will be better...
5. RapidCat (Posts: 351; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
i never say that. i just ask, see the question mark "?"
11. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
Envy. That's all it is.
12. buccob (Posts: 2740; Member since: 19 Jun 2012)
iOS just work just fine just like Google and Nokia Maps...
3. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
do you really wanna know why its called "jail break" for IOS and rooted for android?
well apples operating system is a "prison" (restricted) and in order for an ifan to escape that prison and be free, he or she must........ Jail break it!
im not tryna be funny either....makes sense doesnt it?
7. mrllano (Posts: 91; Member since: 20 Aug 2012)
Make sense.. I'm interested why it is called rooted for android
8. baldilocks (Posts: 831; Member since: 14 Dec 2008)
Uhhh, because you are gaining access to the root file system. Google would have told you that in a few seconds.
9. mrllano (Posts: 91; Member since: 20 Aug 2012)
I mean is there any other possible name other than rooted. to make it sound much cooler
10. adelta90 (Posts: 63; Member since: 14 Sep 2012)
If rooted doesnt sound cool enough, then android is not for you :)
4. fistigons (Posts: 354; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
Too bad my first gen iPad will never see iOS6. I have most of the new features on the device already. Thank you Cydia. I do wish someone would release the ultimate android tablet already.
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You know why iphone user want to jailbreak? Because I think they want to taste android.. ICS, GB and JB are delicious..


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Study of Quinvaxem for Vaccination Against Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Hepatitis B and Diseases Caused by Haemophilus Influenzae Type B
This study has been completed.
Crucell Holland BV
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Crucell Holland BV
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 26, 2011
Last updated: August 29, 2013
Last verified: August 2013
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of the Quinvaxem vaccine (a liquid combination vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, B. pertussis, hepatitis B and H. influenzae Type B). Healthy Vietnamese infants received three doses of vaccine at 2, 3 and 4 months of age according to the local Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) schedule
|Diphtheria Pertussis Tetanus Hepatitis B Haemophilus Influenzae Infections
|Biological: Quinvaxem
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Assessment of the Immunogenicity and Safety of Quinvaxem Vaccine (DTwP-HepB-Hib) Against Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Hepatitis B and Diseases Caused by H. Influenzae Among Healthy Vietnamese Children
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Diphtheria Flu Flu Shot Hepatitis Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Tetanus Whooping Cough
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Diphtheria Haemophilus Influenzae Whooping Cough TetanusU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Crucell Holland BV:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Immunogenicity - Seroprotection (Seroconversion for Pertussis) to Each Vaccine Component [ Time Frame: at 5 months (equivalent to 1 month after the third vaccination) ]Assessment of the proportion of subjects who have seroconverted to each of the 5 vaccine components (D, T, P, HepB, Hib)
- Immunogenicity - Seroprotection (Seroconversion for Pertussis) to Each Vaccine Component [ Time Frame: at 14 months (equivalent to 12 months after the first vaccination ]Assessment of the proportion of subjects who have seroconverted to each of the 5 vaccine components (D, T, P, HepB, Hib)
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Safety: Adverse and Serious Adverse Events [ Time Frame: From Day 1 up to 30 days after the third vaccination ]Assessment of the proportion of children with adverse events and/or serious adverse events following each Quinvaxem vaccine injection
|Study Start Date:
|April 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Quinvaxem
Biological: Quinvaxem
A single dose (0.5 mL) of Quinvaxem contains:
diphtheria antitoxin (>= 30 IU), tetanus antitoxin (>= 60 IU), whole-cell inactive pertussis bacteria (>= 4 IU), 10 mcg Hib oligosaccharide conjugate (approx. 25 mcg CRM197), 10 mcg Hepatitis B surface antigen
One dose of Quinvaxem given at 2, 3 and 4 months of age
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|60 Days to 120 Days (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Infants are at age of DTP vaccination of the local EPI program (60-120 days old) and free from any obvious health problems
- Have a normal gestational age (≥ 37 weeks); birth weight > 2.5 kg
- There is no congenital disease detected through interview and clinical examination
- Already had or not yet received Hepatitis B vaccination at birth
- Do not have dermatological diseases such as eczema, allergies
- Parent or legal guardian voluntarily provides consent for their child for participation in the study by signing the informed consent and agrees to comply with all study procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Already vaccinated with DTP vaccine
- Have an acute infection at the time of study vaccination
- Contraindications to Quinvaxem
- Receiving treatment with systemic corticosteroids
- Currently participating in another clinical trial
- In receipt of a parenteral immunoglobulin preparation and/or blood/blood products since birth
- Parents intend to move to another location during the study (the next 12 months)
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01362517
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01362517
|Pasteur Institute
|Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sponsors and Collaborators
Crucell Holland BV
|Principal Investigator:
|Tran Ngoc Huu, PhD, MD
|Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City
More Information
Keywords provided by Crucell Holland BV:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 23, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Crucell Holland BV
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01362517 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 26, 2011
|Results First Received:
|March 27, 2013
|Last Updated:
|August 29, 2013
Keywords provided by Crucell Holland BV:
Hepatitis B
Haemophilus Influenzae
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Influenza, Human
Hepatitis B
Whooping Cough
Haemophilus Infections
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
Respiratory Tract Infections
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Hepadnaviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Bordetella Infections
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Clostridium Infections
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Neuromuscular Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 23, 2017


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Serius Jones samples the line where Gucci Mane name dropped him to create a track for his Serius Bizness 2 mixtape.
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I'm sure most of you have heard of the Sphynx cats:
and Chinese Crested dogs:
But horses?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is a hairless horse. And this little filly isn't the only one! There have been sporadic reported cases over the years. Records of this phenomena appear to go as far back as 1871, then there was Blue Bell in 1872 and finally Harry made it into the papers in 2003 (the Q&A with Harry's owner that we linked to, by the way, is amazing – we love to read about people who love their horses as much as this woman did Harry). We tried to find more information from other sources on the so called "world wide web" however, google let us down this time. The only sites we found that appeared even remotely credible were ultimatehorsesite.com (where we found Harry!) which had a page with an email from an Akhal-Teke breeder – which eventually got us here. Apparently the above filly is actually an Akhal-Teke. This breed is known to suffer from something called Hairless Foal Syndrome – it ain't pretty (and we don't just mean that aesthetically, it's a lethal and painful disease)
It's interesting to note that the Akhal-Teke breeder and Harry's owner both talked about inbreeding. Is hairlessness really the result of a recessive gene as suggested here, or perhaps a faulty gene (see 3rd paragraph here for info on faulty genes) brought on by inbreeding? The British royals stopped inbreeding a while ago. If it's good enough for the British, it's good enough for the horses! We're just sayin', 3 eyes happen y'all…
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High-Tech Weapons: A Loss Of Control?
At the core of the Bush Administration's campaign to transform the U.S. Army into a leaner, more technologically advanced fighting force is something known as Future Combat Systems. A vast computerized network, FCS would link soldiers and commanders to a galaxy of sensors, satellites, robots, drones, and armored vehicles, both manned and unmanned. While debate rages over the military's performance in Iraq, the five-year-old FCS has sparked concern about whether the Pentagon is too eager to surrender control over complex weapons to the companies that design and make them—in this case, to Boeing Co. (BA )
In a little-noticed report issued on June 7, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, warned that Boeing's influence over FCS poses "significant risks to the Army's ability to provide oversight." Because of the program's complexity and cost, GAO auditors urged the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assume direct supervision. The projected bill for FCS through 2030 has already more than doubled, to $230 billion. Boeing would receive an undetermined fraction of that. The estimated price tag has ballooned even as former military officials and other experts question whether the ambitious program can accomplish its goal of allowing U.S. forces to cut through the confusion of battle.
FCS "misunderstands the frailty of the technologies, the limitations of the sensors, what they can and can't and never see," says Winslow T. Wheeler, a former GAO auditor of military programs who now directs the Center for Defense Information, a private research group in Washington. U.S. Army and Boeing officials counter that FCS remains on track and that the Pentagon hasn't ceded too much influence to the company. "We think [FCS] is going to revolutionize how we conduct warfare," says Lieutenant General Stephen M. Speakes, who heads the program to outfit 15 combat brigades, or about 60,000 soldiers, with the innovative gear.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took office in 2001 pledging to transform a plodding Cold War force to a smaller, more mobile fighting machine, based on technological superiority. Much of that agenda fizzled when Rumsfeld encountered stiff resistance from uniformed leaders and Congress to trimming spending for tanks, nuclear submarines, and other expensive weapon systems designed for a war with the Soviet Union. Rumsfeld was forced from office in December, 2006, when his strategy of occupying Iraq with a relatively spare force failed to quell the bloodshed there.
One element of the Rumsfeld transformation that has moved forward is FCS. The Pentagon in 2001 set as a goal a first-ever detection-and-communication network that would connect disparate Army units of armor, infantry, and aircraft, which traditionally have had trouble maintaining contact and pinpointing the enemy in the proverbial fog of war. The daunting task would require the writing of 63 million lines of computer code, the most ever for a weapon system.
The Army quickly concluded that it lacked the technical capacity to manage the program, according to Speakes. Beyond the sheer complexity of FCS, the Pentagon had seen 38% of its civilian workforce eliminated from 1989 through 2002, with much of the reduction coming from the staff that oversees weapons purchases.
Boeing, the Chicago-based military and civilian aviation giant, underbid General Dynamics Corp. (GD ) and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT ) to win the main development contract for FCS. Previously only a minor player in competing for Army contracts, Boeing hired as its main subcontractor Science Applications International Corp., based in San Diego. Acknowledging in 2003 that it would rely on Boeing to handle supervisory chores normally done by Army officials, the Pentagon named the company "lead systems integrator," a new designation in the arcane world of military contracting, although one not unique to FCS. "It means there is really nobody [in the Pentagon] monitoring the performance of these government contracts," says Joshua I. Schwartz, co-director of George Washington University's government procurement law program.
From the contractor's point of view, the arrangement offers the opportunity to anticipate the Pentagon's buying proclivities. "Simply being in a strategy-shaping position offered the potential to have an unprecedented understanding about the needs of a rapidly evolving [Pentagon] customer and could enable the defense contractor to better target its product and service offerings," industry analysts with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. noted approvingly in a report earlier this year. Boeing doesn't break out its annual FCS revenue, but in 2006 that money stream combined with the company's space-related revenue to total $11.9 billion. Boeing had overall revenue of $61.5 billion and net income of $2.2 billion.
The GAO auditors observed in their June 7 report that Boeing's influence has already raised troubling questions. One example: Armored vehicles outfitted with FCS technology were supposed to be light enough to be transported by C-130 cargo planes built by Lockheed Martin. But under Boeing's supervision, plans have already shifted to make the vehicles heavier, leaving the C-17, a plane built by Boeing, as the only aircraft capable of moving them. On another front, the Army's weapons-testing command has raised concerns about whether Boeing has been granted excessive influence over assuring that FCS works properly.
The program "is at wide variance from the best practices" for acquisition embodied in the policies of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the GAO concluded.
Boeing and the Army's Speakes disagree. "The Army is extremely happy," the general says, referring to the FCS program and Boeing's role. He stresses that the company, despite its unusual role, still works for the Army, which set the initial requirements for FCS. On the question of heavier vehicles and whose plane can transport them, Speakes says engineers are struggling to develop lighter, stronger armor. But it could take years to reduce the weight of FCS vehicles.
Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing's vice-president for Future Combat Systems, says the Army participates in supplier selection and that all subcontractor bidding is competitive. Acknowledging the problem with overweight vehicles, he, too, says engineers are trying to address it. Boeing, he adds, enforces a strict "firewall" separating contractors writing specifications for FCS from those bidding on hardware contracts. "We have a hardware exclusion," Muilenberg says of Boeing, meaning that his company is prohibited from competing for subcontract work. "The process we set up precisely ensures that [conflicts of interest] don't happen." Boeing's role as lead systems integrator and its compensation are appropriate for such an intricate program, he adds.
Boeing and Science Applications stand to collect a total of $20.77 billion from FCS development work over the coming years. Boeing is expected to make a lot more for managing manufacturing assignments. The company and the Army plan to produce the first elements of FCS next year. These include the initial version of the program's operating software, a tactical radio, and ground sensors for use in Iraq. Full production of FCS weapons isn't scheduled to start until 2013.
Speakes says the Army ultimately will get its money's worth: "What we are doing is giving the soldier the ability to see and operate through remote sensors and other technologies. We do understand the changing shape of war, and we will continue to evolve FCS to adapt to those changing requirements."
Wheeler, the former GAO auditor, says Speakes and his allies are kidding themselves. FCS "is an attempt to micromanage the battlefield to a degree that is physically and mentally impossible. It just misunderstands technology and warfare at a fundamental level."
Some former senior military officials agree. Paul K. Van Riper, a retired U.S. Marine lieutenant general, says the Pentagon must first focus on post-Cold War challenges such as how to confront urban guerrilla fighting. "We don't understand insurgencies, and we don't know how to counter them," Van Riper says. "I would have no problem with the Army researching FCS concepts, but to put these hundreds of billions of dollars into it is a waste of time and money. We don't need it in the immediate future."
Some in Congress, meanwhile, have begun to signal hesitation about FCS. Without trying to halt the program, the House Armed Services Committee in May approved an authorization bill that would reduce FCS spending for fiscal 2008 by $857 million, to $2.85 billion. The committee expressed "serious concern" about the program draining the Army's future budget. The panel also inserted language in the measure instructing the Defense Dept. not to issue new contracts with corporations as lead systems integrators. The full House passed the bill, but the Senate restored some of the House cuts in its version of the legislation. The two bills now have to be reconciled.
However lawmakers resolve the current tangle, the Army has bet a big part of its future on FCS, and Boeing appears likely to continue to benefit.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor
every atom of me in magnificent glow
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live
not to exist.
I shall not waste my days
in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London
I go bouldering a lot lately.
I listen to music and pass the time.
That's really the only thing regarding my appearance people are commenting on.
I also enjoy movies that make me laugh/think/feel. Lammbock is probably my favorite.
Music plays am important part in my life, I mainly listen to metal, drum'n'bass, indie and postrock.
I love korean food.
the sea.
good people.
the firm belief that everything will sort itself out eventually.
Yet, I'm struggling with the question why I don't give a fuck about what people think about my opinions regarding politics and such, my musical taste, the way I look, but rather whether they like me or not. Fuck that.


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SYDNEY'S public transport patronage has returned to its highest level in 20 years on the back of a sharp increase in train use.
But the latest census snapshot of Sydney's transport also shows the car remains the dominant mode in the city, accounting for more than 1.2 million journeys to work a day.
After declining for much of the 1990s, the proportion of Sydney residents getting to work on trains, buses and ferries rose from 21.2 per cent at the 2006 census to 23.2 per cent at the most recent census last year. This is its highest share since 1991.
The main cause of the increase was a 50,000 jump in the number of people using the train. This was in part triggered by the opening of the Epping-Chatswood rail line in 2009.
The share of Sydney workers catching a train to work increased from 14.5 per cent to 16 per cent in the five years to last year.
Yesterday's report, part of the delayed release of last year's census, lands amid a sharpening debate in Sydney about the relative importance of investment in public transport or motorways.
In its 20-year strategy for the state released this month, Infrastructure NSW, the government's advisory body, argues the geography of Sydney demands major investment in new roads.
''The overwhelming majority of Sydney's journeys are dispersed in nature,'' the report said. ''For such trips the flexibility of the private car makes it the dominant choice.''
According to yesterday's census figures, 67.7 per cent of all residents drove to work, down from 69.6 per cent five years before.
But Paul Mees, a senior lecturer in transport planning at RMIT, said the figures suggest Infrastructure NSW's view was out of date. ''If we are trying to plan in a forward-looking way, what we look at is the trend, not just the raw numbers,'' Dr Mees said.
The share of Sydney residents catching a bus to work increased from 6.3 per cent to 6.8 per cent in the past five years, while the share of employees cycling increased from 0.7 per cent to 0.9 per cent.
Residents in the rail-starved north-west are most likely to drive to work. The suburbs with the most car commuters were Castle Hill, Blacktown, Baulkham Hills and Quakers Hill. But the trend was for public transport. The number of Cherrybrook residents catching the bus to work more than doubled in five years.
And if you live in the inner-west enclaves around the University of Sydney, you are most likely to cycle to work: Darlington, Redfern and Enmore are the suburbs with the highest proportion of cyclists.


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Whitesnake Announce Touring Hiatus
Those of you hoping to catch Whitesnake in concert sometime this year will have to spend your ticket money elsewhere — the band have announced they're taking a break from touring in 2012.
A statement from Whitesnake says that they'll spend the year in the studio, mixing live recordings made during last year's Forevermore World Tour (we posted some tour photos a few months ago) and working on a concert DVD. They also say that while new material is in the works, "there are no definite plans to record a full studio album at this time."
Fans are advised to keep an eye on the band's official website for news about other projects involving David Coverdale and the boys.
'Forevermore' was Whitensnake's 11th studio album. When it was released in March of 2011, it charted at number 49 — making it the band's most successful effort since their 1980s heyday when they were all over rock radio with hits like 'Slow An' Easy,' 'Here I Go Again,' 'Still of the Night' and 'Is This Love.'


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Military veterans care study group head named
The Welsh government has named the person to chair a group to consider the need for a specialist medical residential facility to treat military veterans from Wales closer to home.
Prof Rosemary Kennedy is a former chief nursing officer for Wales and was appointed chairman of Velindre NHS Trust in January last year.
Tomos Dafydd of BBC Wales Today asked her what a specialist centre for veterans would do.


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Prof. Eleanor Miller
HBO's series The Wire has been regularly described as "the best TV show ever broadcast in America" (and more) by numerous critics, and some claim it deserves to be considered a great work of literature. Ellie Miller has another take. She has long been a researcher of urban issues; her study of urban female street hustlers, Street Woman, remains a classic. So when designing a new course on urban poverty, she decided to use The Wire as a lens through which undergraduates can study problems of urban poverty, and the tangled issues of race, drugs, violence, and corruption with which it is associated. Her new course, "Urban Inequality and Crime: The Wire" (Soc. 96A), will be offered Spring semester, 2014. And there's reason to believe the show's creator, David Simon might approve. He wrote about the program, "We thought some prolonged arguments about what kind of country we've built might be a good thing, and if such arguments and discussions ever happen, we will feel more vindicated in purpose than if someone makes an argument for why The Wire is the best show in years."


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The Duties of Real Men
Zhytomyr, Ukraine, April 2009. In the delivery ward of the Zhytomyr oblast mother and child centre reclines a man who's holding twin newborn babies to his chest. He looks a little confused, but also happy. The boy and girl twins were delivered by Cesarean section, so it's the father who has to take care of them while doctors attend to their mother.
"This isn't a matter of fashion, but a scientifically-proven necessity," says Olena Sherstiuk, director of UNICEF's Mother and Child Development Programme, of the position in which the man finds himself. "First of all, a father warms a baby with his body, which is good because the newborn's system can't regulate its own temperature yet. Second, the contact sets off immune system mechanisms. Through skin-to-skin contact, a child picks up 'domestic' infections for which he or she already has antibodies," not aggressive hospital infections.
"Third, and most important, this contact lays a foundation for good emotional health. The child feels from the first moments of life that this new world is friendly, loving, and warm. The child senses his or her father's heartbeat. If for any reason a mother can't handle a baby, it should be the father who does. Not a grandmother or a sister, but a father."
Eighty per cent the of deliveries at the Zhytomyr oblast mother and child centre are partner-accompanied. Women select relatives with whom they'd like to be during this most crucial time, and usually it's their husbands whom they choose to render moral and physical support.
This leading health care facility offers assistance to residents of those territories affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. According to a study in that area by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the level of knowledge among men regarding the majority of medical issues related to pregnancy and mother and child health is 20 per cent lower than that of women. The situation is much the same in other regions of Ukraine. However, since the Chernobyl regions are regions of particular social, economic, and medical vulnerability, it is there that UNICEF has founded its papa school network.
Knowledge Gives Strength
The first papa school in the Zhytomyr region was officially registered at the end of March. Work to establish similar facilities is underway in Novograd-Volynskyi, Berdychiv, Yemelchyn, Ovruch and Korosten.
"If 10 years ago someone had told me and my friends that we would be doing this, we'd have laughed out loud," says Volodymyr Martseniuk, the founder of the papa school movement and the director of the joint Ukrainian-Swedish OLEH project. "We were normal, ordinary guys who strongly objected to violence and believed that there was a need to change something in society. We didn't like the false perception that some 25-year-old bald bastard driving a Mercedes was a successful and normal bloke, while a family man who had worked at the same factory for years was a sucker."
Men Are the Same Everywhere
"We wanted to open a papa school and draw on the long-standing experience generated by similar facilities in Sweden," says Volodymyr. "At the beginning they told us it was a disastrous idea. Swedes are rich and they have nothing to do, while our men are totally different. However, our own experience – and by now we've helped to establish papa schools in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Lithuania – shows that men are the same all over the world."
The standard duration of a training course at a papa school is six lessons of two hours each. "But since 2004, when we started to build our network, not a single class has lasted less than five hours," smiles Volodymyr. "Moreover, our training courses have always exceeded six classes. In Vinnytsya we even signed an agreement with the local cooking school to use its premises to hold special classes in conjunction with their specialists."
The most popular question the papa school students ask is, "How soon can we start having sex after childbirth?" Laughs Volodymyr, "I think that soon I'll have to print up banners on that topic and hang them up everywhere." Beyond that, the programme's medical, financial and legal components usually generate the greatest interest. "Unfortunately, gender awareness is quite new to Ukraine. But after the first class, men start to understand that gender isn't a dirty word."
Volodymyr recalls a tractor driver from Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. "He was a very religious man," he says, "who was brought up in a conservative family. When he came to our school, he thought that everything had to go according to Biblical principles. He believed that 'a wife should obey her husband' was the main principle governing family relations. But after he completed the first course and returned with the next group, he brought a notebook full of notes, arguing with everyone else that that Biblical admonition had a different meaning than they thought it did."


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Prada Does 1950s Rockabilly Style
There's a running joke in the Rockabilly scene about flames, dice and cherries being the symbol of the 1950s infatuated followers of this subculture. Cars, tattoos, clothing – you name it. Anything can be made more "Rockabilly" with these calling card symbols.
Prada tapped into the style and marched statuesque models (a very opposite body type for Rockabilly girls) around a vintage gas station in sexy playsuits and glamorous skirts, complete with flamed out stilettos. And you know what? I love it!
I'm not too Rockabilly to love Prada's whimsical take on the 1950s look of young women who may dress properly for school during the day, but run with bad boys in loud cars at night. And those shoes! I want a pair just to display in my home. Dare I say they are the Cadillac of shoes?
If you would like to see the beautiful video campaign click here: Prada's 1950s Inspired Spring Collection
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The Cadillac of shoes indeed — or the hottest hot rod. Those Prada's are killer.
- 2 Catwalk Creative Vintage { 02.02.12 at 11:22 am }
Stunning photographs! Great shoes! Thanks for sharing.
- 3 Hayley { 02.08.12 at 10:02 am }
The clothes are interesting but the models are just completely wrong for this style. They just look so fake and unpleasant. They're about as Rockabilly as Maragaret Thatcher. Urgh.
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loving the vintage looks. very unique with the color palettes
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I'm not too hot on the shoes, but some of the clothes and accessories are amazing!
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When you are traveling, unexpected things always can happen. Really, it's inevitable. Stuff will happen and it will occur at the "best" times. Traveling has its way of doing that. You don't want to over pack, but you also want to keep a few things on hand to make sure you are prepared when disaster strikes.
Travel emergencies to prepare for
First and foremost, carry photocopies of your important documents, like your passport, driver's license and health insurance card. Bring an extra cell phone charger that can also charge a tablet (if you have one). Keep these photocopies in a separate place from your original docs.
Since I always pack light, I also carry a few pocket size stain removal packets handy. If you only have a few changes of clothing, it's nice to have to get the stains our right away. I also always carry a backpacking first aid kit with me when I travel. And it's a wise move to pack some extra energy bars with you in the event you are traveling after hours and restaurants are closed.
A couple of other items I would highly recommend are a small LED flashlight, a few extra batteries for it and a water bottle… at all times have the water bottle.
I hope you enjoy the emergency travel tips… Please post some of your emergency travel tips below in the comments. I'm sure I overlooked some of those that others value as extremely important.
Happy and safe travels!


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Jerry Seinfeld is stepping into the web series realm with Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, which is set to premiere on Sony-owned video hub Crackle at 9 PM ET on July 19. A trailer for the series — which appears to be exactly what its title says it is — hit today, featuring the likes of Ricky Gervais, Larry David and Michael Richards, among others. There's also a website. BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield already is saying Seinfeld could be a big enough name to score big on the web and outside the TV paradigm — much the same way Glenn Beck is attempting to do with his live-stream video network GBTV.
Web Teaser: Jerry Seinfeld's New Crackle Series
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Michael Richards is back! fingers crossed he does his N-word shtick
Here's to never letting things go.
Stay bitter!
Sorry but it isn't a question of being bitter, it's a question of association, and it's virtually impossible now to look at Michael Richards without thinking of his vitriolic meltdown.
Not really, I look at Michael Richards and see Kramer. And the guy who's holding up "Fridays" ever being released to home video. But thanks for being outraged on my behalf.
"Classic Liberal" indeed, heh
Gotta watch this just to see all of Seinfeld's cars.
Seriously how many cars does he really own?
Someone said he actually had a NY building torn down so he could build a huge warehouse for all his cars.
Nah….that would be so out of character!
Eat the rich!
Yeah, Jerry is super rich and has a bunch of cars. Yawn. I would love to see him exercise his enormous talent to doing something REAL (that isn't a sequel to BEE MOVIE).
this looks like it's only getting made 'cause it's self-financed.
sheeesh this seems really weak and I'm a huge fan of Seinfeld……
the tv show.
Comedians With Very Expensive Collectors Cars
Starring Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and who else?
Nobody because they are the only two who buy these cars.
They have so much money they don't know what to spend it on.
Seinfelds final episode burned all his bridges with the fans of the show and he has done nothing in the last 10 years to make himself relevant to the new generation. I could be wrong but I see him doing as well as Reiser did on NBC
What planet are you on? Seinfeld's sitcom is still on TV like 6 times a day in reruns, 14 years after the final episode, meaning the demand is still high. Burned all his bridges? I think you've burned all your brain cells trying so hard not sound as dumb as you truly are.
Re-runs aren't aired based on demand. "Seinfeld" is still on, and so is "Yes, Dear" "MASH" and "Little House on the Prairie." Once the syndication deal is done, it costs next to nothing to run them into the ground. Doesn't mean people still watch, or care.
This trailer is so odd because it's just rich man car porn. Doesn't bode well.
Just what the world needs, another TV show with Ricky Gervais laughing like a teen age girl.
Just what the world needs, another TV Show with Ricky Gervais laughing like a teenage girl.
Does Jerry Seinfeld know a comedian or anyone for that matter under 50 years old?
Easy. There are no comedians under 50 years old who are actually funny.
And don't say the overhyped Louis C.K., he's only funny if you're a sad, loser white guy. Maybe.
And I thought Marriage Ref was bad on NBC…this upcoming show is even worse and this truly is about nothing!
Michael Richards is great. It's always so much fun watching Jerry with his old cast members. I think this is interesting enough to get a look.
Jerry, please go back to NY and get those inefficient, polluting vehicles off our roads ASAP. There's enough pollution and traffic in LA as it is, please find another city to pollute and cure your boredom.
Yikes. Jerry can't help but continually show who the driving creative force of "Seinfeld" was, can he?


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Washington: The internet's regulatory authority says country-specific web domains cannot be seized in court proceedings as it sought to quash an effort to recover assets in terrorism-related lawsuits.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said that it filed its argument in response to lawsuits by victims of acts of terrorism who were seeking to seize the web domains of Iran, Syria and North Korea to collect on civil damage judgments - potentially shutting down internet access in those countries.
The response was to petitions filed by victims of terrorism and family members of those injured or killed in attacks believed to be sponsored by the countries, and are seeking to seize the "country code top level domains" such as .ir for Iran, .sy for Syria and .kp for North Korea.
ICANN general counsel John Jeffrey said in a statement that these domains were not assets which could be seized, but "part of a single, global interoperable internet which ICANN serves to help maintain".
He said these domains "are not property, and are not 'owned' or 'possessed' by anyone including ICANN, and therefore cannot be seized in a lawsuit".
ICANN filed its response on Tuesday in a US federal court after being served with orders to recover assets from those three countries from plaintiffs who won lawsuits against Iran, Syria and North Korea.
If the recovery efforts succeed, they could allow the victims to take over the domains and potentially shut down all internet access in the three countries.
Last month, lawyers for one group of plaintiffs - including American citizens or families of those killed or injured in attacks on Israel by Hamas, believed to be sponsored by Tehran - said they had won a judgment against Iran and were asking for the domains.
It was the first time terrorism victims had moved to seize the domain names, IPs and internet licences of terrorism-sponsoring states such as Iran, lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said at the time.
But ICANN's court filings said seizing the domains was not the correct legal remedy.
ICANN argued that even if the domains were considered property and could be handed over, a ruling for the plaintiffs "would destroy whatever value may exist" in the domains and "would wipe out the hundreds of thousands of second-level domain names registered therein by various individuals, businesses and charitable organisations, and could jeopardise the single, global, interoperable structure the internet".
Court papers filed on June 24 in a Washington court asked for ICANN to hand over assets in cases against Iran and Syria after the countries refused to pay damages in lawsuits.
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It has never been 103 in Miami as Dorothy claims when she walks in from shopping. Also, not only is it unlikely there would be a heat wave in December,but, the hottest temperature ever in Miami was 100, and that occurred in July.
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In the opening scene, Stan's gift to Dorothy goes from sitting on the corner of the coffee table in one shot to disappearing altogether in the next shot, even though none of the girls go near it.
Rose: You know, I've been thinking.
Blanche: That would explain the beads of sweat.
Stan: What if I told you, I'm going to make all you ladies wealthy?
Dorothy: How come when my ship comes in, it's leaking?
Rose: As we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake would be like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy!
Blanche: Sophia, you were just kidding about the eels, right?
Sophia: It wouldn't be Christmas in Sicily without eels, eels and larks.
Blanche: Honey, larks aren't eating birds, they're singing birds.
Sophia: They don't sing long in Sicily.
Dorothy: Come on, Stan, you've always been able to turn a bad situation around. Remember the Christmas we were so broke that you convinced the kids that Christmas was actually December 26th? You went out and got a tree from somebody's garbage and decorated it with gum wrappers and pull tabs and put on Jim Thorp, All American, and told them it was King of Kings.
Stan: And they believed it.
Dorothy: Right up to where Jesus got His olympic medals taken away for playing professional baseball.
Dorothy: Ma, remember the Midnight Mass? The music and the candles, it was beautiful.
Sophia: And they spoke Latin...these days who knows? It might be English, it might be Spanish, they should put it back to Latin, the language Jesus spoke.
Dorothy: Ma, He spoke Hebrew.
Sophia: Even in church?
Dorothy: Robbie wanted a Batman hat, I went to three stores, there was one left and another woman saw it.
Blanche: Oh no.
Dorothy: I tell you I don't understand how a woman can push aside a complete stranger, step on her hand and elbow her in the forehead all for a Batman hat. But I did it anyway.
Blanche: Rose, for the last half hour you've been humming Jingle Bells and yelling out 'hey!' Why do you do that?
Rose: It's too hard to yell out the 'hey'.
Sophia: We've got all these fruitcakes from this year, last year and the year before, why don't we put them together and...
Dorothy: And what, Ma, make a fortress?
Sophia: No, we can unload them, I mean take them to the church for dessert.
Dorothy: Why are the Christmas cookies in shapes of American flags and Liberty bells?
Rose: I couldn't find the Christmas cookie cutters so I used the 4th of July cookie cutters.
Dorothy: Take a look around at these kids, this may be the only Christmas they have. Think about that instead of your own problems, Stanley.
None of the girls want to receive Rose's gift; however, it turn out to be very nice!
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, made famous by Judy Garland.
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5 Ways To Tell Your From Amarillo, Texas
I was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. I'm proud to call this town home. Many people gripe about Amarillo being too small and boring, but Amarillo is a great place to live.
Below is a quick list of ways to tell that you're from this great city.
#1. – When you smell the cow manure from Hereford in the air, your first thought is "that is the smell of money".
#2. – You wear shorts and a tank top one day, and snow boots and jackets the next.
#3. – You've nearly killed yourself on the "Burger From Hell" from Coyote Bluff.
#4. – You've given someone driving directions using only Toot N' Totum.
#5. – You find yourself blacking out from smoke inhalation after a night out at the bar.
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Indeed, the Argentinian Intelligence Service found that the decision to bomb the centre in Buenos Aires was made by Iranian leaders who issued a directive to Imad Mughniyeh, commander of the overseas operations unit of Hezbollah.
Mughniyeh now lives in Tehran under the protection of the Iranian regime. But he is believed by most Western intelligence agencies to be responsible for countless suicide bombings and terrorist attacks.
After al-Qaeda, Hezbollah are responsible for the deaths of more Americans than any other international terrorist group. Although a Shiite Muslim organisation, it provides significant operational support to the Sunni-based al-Qaeda Islamic network. Indeed, in 1996 Imad Mughniyeh met Osama bin Laden and the two have maintained a working relationship since.
The attack on the USS Cole in Yemen employed an almost identical plan to one Hezbollah had plotted against American ships visiting Singapore.
Dedicated to the establishment of a pan-Islamic state led by an Islamic clergy and run along the principles of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, Hezbollah legitimises the use of terrorism to destroy its perceived enemies, in particular the US and her allies.
"Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan," declared its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, last September. Last Christmas, he implored his followers to spread their carnage globally: "I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it. Martyrdom operations, suicide bombings, should be exported."
Some Hezbollah supporters and defenders have sought to present the organisation as a political movement that merely has a militant arm. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Hezbollah is primarily a military organsiation, funded and trained by Iran for terrorist operations abroad. It has representatives in the Lebanese Parliament, but rather than disavow the use of terrorism, they endorse it.
One such representative, Hussein Haj Hassen, argues that "Hezbollah is an organisation in which all the fighters are simultaneously politicians and fighters". His colleague, Hezbollah deputy secretary Sheikh Naim Qassem, is unequivocal about the group's objectives: "Hezbollah is a jihad organisation whose aim first and foremost is jihad against the Zionist enemy, while the political effort can serve as a prop and a means of support for jihad."
Since 1997, Hezbollah has been listed as a terrorist organisation by the US, and it is also so listed by Britain and Canada. In 2001, its assets and fund-raising activities in the US were frozen by presidential order, and it is already illegal to raise money for Hezbollah in Australia.
Hezbollah's association with al-Qaeda, together with it's preparedness and capability to export terror operations to our region, makes it a real and present danger.
Dr Colin Rubenstein is executive director of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council.
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Camobear Artists To Be Featured At CMJ Showcase in NYC [PSA]
New York, NY – Camobear Records is proud to announce that three of our artists will be going to New York City this month to showcase at one of the biggest music award showcases in existence, CMJ Music Marathon. Our newest addition to the label, Sapient, as well as Evil Ebenezer and The Chicharones will be performing at the Sapphire Lounge (249 Eldridge Street) on October 21st.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and music will start at 8 with a high powered and energetic Chicharones performance, leading into Evil Ebenezer and then Sapient later in the evening.
The showcase is sponsored by Camobear Records, Platform-1 Entertainment and DJBooth.net. A free mix tape is available for download at http://www.djbooth.net . The mix tape features Evil Ebenezer's new song Scarecrow as well as Sapient's breakout single Universal Diorama, and The Chicharones newest, Champion.
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Rod Advice - Redington/TFO/Sage
I have just joined this forum, having looked on for the past few days. I am a relative novice to fly fishing but hoping to get more into it over the next year. I presently have a "real beginner - but graphite" 7/8 fly rod and am looking for something more appropriate for trout in the smaller rivers and streams here in Alberta.
I am not looking to spend a lot, but enough to get into reasonable performing hardware. It appears that the best bang for the buck is in the combo offerings. I started looking at the TFO professional rod, have considered going as high as the Sage Launch and am now having a close look at the great deal of the Redington RS3 conbo that Cabela's has on at the moment. I got to see this rod locally and looks quite good.
If someone could give me comments on the Redington RS3 and how it might compare to the TFO Professional or Sage Launch product would be great.
Re: Rod Advice - Redington/TFO/Sage
Hi Larry
I have 2 Redington Redfly2 rods an 8wt and a 9wt a little big for your needs but i really like them i have the cabelas csr reels a number3 on the 8wt and a #4 on the 9wt and they work great, the rods are forgiving and easy to cast. i fish mostly salt and have not had any issues with corrosion the reels have a sealed drag and it is very smooth. In my opinion these are very nice rods and reels for the money. Sage and TFO are both good products too but i don't own one and can't really comment on them.
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Hi, in 25 years of fly fishing and owning a fly shop in the U.S., Redington packs more value into their fly rods & outfits than any manufacturer I have found. The Red.Fly 2 Outfit is a beautiful mid level outfit that retails for $250, which we sell for $199.00 & ships free. It comes with a nice Redington rod & reel case and lifetime warranty on the rod. I would recommend getting this outfit with the SVII reel, and not the new Red.Fly 2 reel. The SV is superior and we can build this outfit. The 4-pc travel outfits retail for $300, our price is $224.00. If I were starting all over again, this is the exact outfit I would choose for myself. Feel free to visit our Fly Shop at the link below. We are a small shop in Ohio with great prices. Tight Lines, Todd
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Thanks for the responses. The input sounds positive for the Redington product. I was hoping someone might have had some experience to share with the actual RS3 rod. Although, most seem to be very happy with it, a few comments I have seen on the web seem to vary from it being very stiff to it being too flexible?
As for ordering, I live in Canada and as luck would have it, fishing rods/reels are subject to duty and all that goes with it. Has to be an exceptional deal to make it worth ordering. On the other hand the shop prices on most of the products here is quite a bit higher so I am looking.
Re: Rod Advice - Redington/TFO/Sage
Darn - feel like I am talking to myself (i.e. two posts in a row), but there was one more question that I wanted to ask in my last post.
One of the rods that seems reasonably priced and packaged here is the Okuma Guide Select. From searches on the web (and because this is quite new to me), it seems that Okuma are big in reels but just getting into (of have low market share) fly rods. Does anyone here have experience, or comments, with the Okuma Guide Select rods??
Thanks again,
Re: Rod Advice - Redington/TFO/Sage
I was thinking of getting one of the Redington rods #4 probably. "Dry tested" the CPS (7', 3WT, 4PC) and liked it but was thinking of getting #4 for dries and nimphs any suggestions (CPS, RS4, RS3, ?????).
Thanks for info. !!!
Re: Rod Advice - Redington/TFO/Sage
Welcome to the forum!Where abouts in Alberta are you?
I am guessing that you will be fishing the mountian streams and small lakes.
If that is the case i would deffinitily go witht he Redington in a 5 or 6 wt.
If you are in southern AB shoot me a PM,and I will help you out with a few GREAT little streams where one can really cut their flyfishing teeth!!!
Tight Lines
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Thanks for the input on the Redington. I have not made a decision yet - my list seems to increase rather than decrease - now looking at Greys GRXI (Hardy) and Frontier (G-Loomis).
troutbum - I live in central Alberta so my most local fishing opportunities are the Red Deer, Ram, Raven (Stauffer) rivers as well as some smaller lakes. Most of my limited experience has been in the Crowsnest where my son-in-laws uncle is a guide. I have been to a spot or two on the Oldman, Crowsnest, Carbondale and Castle rivers. I have an open invitation and plan to frequent this area as much as possible. I am open to any additional suggestions, however.
Re: Rod Advice - Redington/TFO/Sage
Well, been a good week. I made it to the city and purchased my Christmas present. I finally settled on the 4 piece TFO Signature Series rod (9' - 5 wt). According to the supplier in Canada these are made from the same blanks as Professional Series with some improvements in guides. For rods in this price range it finally boiled down to the warranty center being only an hour and a half away and the many good reviews for this rod (along with several others).
I fitted the rod with the Pflueger Summit reel and a Rio Select Trout line. Now for the long wait till fishing season.
BTW - another great part of the week - I went to a local fly tying get together (held every Monday night in winter) and tied my first two flys. The Evil Weevil - only mine looked a little more evil than the others. I don't know if I am hooked, but, I do have a Danvise coming from e-bay.
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Hardy has finally received his Rising Star Award trophy after he missed the ceremony for going on holiday with fiancee and son.
Tom Hardy has finally received his British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) trophy, after snubbing the ceremony earlier this month to go on holiday.
The "Inception" actor landed the Rising Star Award ahead of fellow nominees Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Aaron Johnson and Gemma Arterton - but he was not at the ceremony to claim his prize.
Hardy admits he chose to miss the BAFTAs to go on holiday with fiancee Charlotte Riley and his son, Louis, from a previous relationship - because he never expected to land the prize.
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IntroductionEditThe Ancient Forest, the origin of the Elven civilization, was the homeland of the Elves for tens of thousands of years. It also hosts the Temple of Nature where the Soul Enforcer Rena lives. As the years passed, the Elves moved from the Ancient Forest to the Elven City. The forest is no longer peaceful, smothered by pollution and filled with horrible plants. It became a land of terror.
The Elves have finally found the root of the problem: Drow, the traitor of the Elves, has used his evil power to defile the woods. Thousands of trees have been mutilated. Worst of all, Rena believes that it were the Elves who have caused this. This way Soul Enforcer Rena has lost all her peacefulness and sensibility, which all turned into blind anger. She is going to revenge on Elven City.
You can enter the instance through the Elven City Memory Teleport Man-Liana. After entering the instance, you become the Soul Enforcer Rena and get her four skills:
- Wilt (doesn't show, bugg?)
- Pshychic Scream
- Berserk
- Destructive Explosion
Your own skills cannot be used at that time.
Skills in DetailsEdit
Destructive ExplosionEdit
[Area Ranged] Slows the target's movement for 5.0 seconds while the bombs explode.
- Cooldown: 3.8 seconds
- Attack range: 25
- Magic consumed: 1
- Skill Attibute:
- Effect time: 5.0 second
Physic ScreamEdit
[Single Debuff] Causes fear in the target for 6.0 seconds. This effect can be removed.
- Cooldown: 11.3 seconds
- Attack range: 20
- Magic consumed: 1
- Skill Damage: 400-701
- Skill Attribute:
- Effect time: 6.0 seconds
[Single Buff] Increases your movement speed and attack speed by 50%.
- Cooldown: 11.3 seconds
- Attack range: 1
- Magic consumed: 1
- Skill Attribute:
- Effect time: 30.0 seconds
There are small groups of enemies waiting for you everytime you get further.
Every enemy gives you 5 Soul Points.After a certain point, you will meet a fairy NPC. If you talk to her, she tells you she wants some sort of moss. You can get the moss off the green mushrooms. Gather 3 and go back to her. She will give you an extra buff on your way.
Then after a while you will meet a tree, he asks you to find his friends who are sleeping. If you open the map you find 5 circled areas in blue. They appear randomly so you'll have to check them all. If you find 2, the game will tell you you can go back to the first tree. He gives you ????
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ETFs have morphed from their original design as proxies for indexed mutual funds. There are now a multitude of ETFs, and their sister structure exchange-traded notes, or ETNs, that allow investors to pursue more active management strategies in their portfolios, versus the passive investment approach of an index ETF or mutual fund. An active investor tries to beat the market. The passive investor is satisfied to earn the market return on an index, less any applicable fees or expenses. Studies have consistently shown that employees don't do a very good job with active management in trying to time the market or take on other investment strategies to try to beat the market.
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This paper empirically investigates potential effects of economic recessions on consumers¡¯ decision making process for recreational activities using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) data during the Great Recession. We employ the Probit model to study how changes in income affect the likelihood of making non-zero expenditures on entertainment activities. We also use the Tobit model to assess the income effect on those activities in the presence of censored observations. We found overall statistically significant effects of recessions on leisure activities, which may explain sluggish adjustments of leisure consumption during recessions.
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Iriver Story - Poor battery life?
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Well my understanding was that they use no power when not changing the display - has anyone ever tested this?
They do use power, even if minimal.
They have a RAM which must be kept "turned on", for example, otherwise at each page turn the device would have to
1) load the kernel
2) load the reading application
3) load the file
4) load the last read page
5) change page
6) turn off
Which is impractical.
The screen is, of course, the element of a PC or PC-like device that consumes the most (think of mobiles, netbooks and smartphones, the screen is the single element consuming the largest quantity of electricity) so the fact that the e-Ink screen consumes energy only when changing page improves significantly the duration of the battery.
I have made a couple of simple tests, and I noticed that if I turn off the device each time I stop reading, the battery of my device (a HanLin V3) lasts for about 10 days (reading 80 pages per day on average), while if I never turn it off it lasts only 6 days.
Of course, turning on and off your reader increases the energy consumption, so if you make a lot of breaks while you read you're better not turn it off every time you stop, or you end up sucking even more energy from your battery instead of saving it. Turning it off helps if you make long reading sessions with no breaks.
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A representative for the Helen depicter in 'Troy' has debunked the engagement rumor that swirls on the internet after he buys her a necklace, which boasts 11.7 carats of white diamonds.
Contrary to rumor, Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson are not engaged. A rep for the 35-year-old actress was quick to pour cold water on the engagement rumor soon after it emerged following news that he gave her a $45,000 diamond necklace.
The "Dawson's Creek" actor bought the lavish gift at a Nights in Monaco benefit gala he attended together with his longtime girlfriend. A guest at the dinner reportedly heard Joshua saying that "he was looking for the 'perfect engagement gift'," but his publicist denied it.
The Carla Amorim "Boreal" necklace features 11.7 carats of white diamonds set in 18 carat rose gold. The Helen of "Troy", who came to the fund-raising event in a Prabal Gurung dress, reportedly "was stunned" and "absolutely floored" by his purchase.
A witness testified, "She kept kissing him the rest of the night because she was so shocked still! The necklace is out of this world and he definitely had his eye out for it."
Diane and Joshua have been dating since 2006. Although the couple have no plan to get hitched sometime soon, they have been wearing a ring as a sign of their "commitment." The actress once told Glamour, "Without sounding pessimistic, I learned that I don't believe in marriage."
The ex-wife of French actor-director Giullaume Canet continued, "I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay. A guy friend of mine said, and it made a lot of sense, that people should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning."