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Former Lipscomb women's basketball head coach and current associate atheletic director Frank Bennett spent more than 20 years working alongside Coach Don Meyer. Coach Bennett was kind enough to put down his reflections on their relationship working together in Lipscomb Athletics. There will be a Celebration of Life for Coach Meyer in Nashville on June 1 at 2 p.m. at Allen Arena on the Lipscomb campus.
Coach Meyer was a great friend, mentor, advisor and example to me.
The impact he made on the basketball world in Tennessee, the southeast and nationwide is well documented. When I traveled a lot with basketball, almost anywhere I went, if someone saw Lipscomb on my shirt, they asked about Don Meyer. Once in airport Jerry Sloan, coach of the Utah Jazz, asked "have they locked up that Meyer guy in Tennessee yet?" Sloan had been a guest "pro" at Bison Basketball Camp along with Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Sam Bowie, Larry Bird, and Dominique Wilkins among others.
He influenced the basketball world in many ways. He told the coaches who worked as counselors at camp that the camp would be the best coaching clinic they would ever attend. He was in essence a great teacher and a coaches' coach. His coaches' academy brought in college and high school coaches throughout the country. His college post and guard play camps brought in college players from the top NCAA Division I schools including Kentucky, Michigan and North Carolina. His videotapes/DVD's were sold to high school and college coaches at every level throughout the nation. In addition to fundamental techniques and skills and X's and O'x, he taught toughness, excellence, attitude and effort. By the late 80's or early 90's 4,500 campers were coming to camp every summer.
I suppose that next to Mike Roller I worked at more Bison Basketball Camps than anyone over a 22 or 23 year period. Most summers we worked every week with July 4th as the only full day off over a two month period. The camps were extremely demanding and very disciplined. A lot of high school coaches sent their players to discipline them and change their attitudes. Most of the gyms were not air conditioned and everyone took notes. It was hard to take notes with sweat dripping all over the page. We usually had to spell the notes to six, seven and eight year olds.
On the first night of every boarding camp all the campers did the Hokey Pokey. The message was to put your whole self into camp and to not to be too cool to do accept instruction and criticism from the coaches. The Hokey Pokey song and dance ended with two claps and two "big dog" barks. Coach loved to tell camp jokes, especially to the younger campers who might be homesick. We even had clinics on how to truly laugh with the whole body and enjoy a good (although very corny) joke. For many years I worked with the youngest campers on the outside courts known as "The Rock" and later as the slab. We loved when he came to tell jokes, including the longest joke known to man with the punch line, "No, No Squaw Bury Shortcake".
You almost had to be there to understand the genius of Coach in creating the camps. He had spent several summers filling notebooks with notes taken at the best basketball camps out west. Highlights of the week were William James Day on Tuesday, Rolo game day on Wednesday and Pro Day on Thursday. Williams James started off with groups chanting or rapping the words, "As you think so shall you be., William James, the Father of U.S. Psychology". The longer version included, "The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can change their lives by altering their attitude of mind." This developed into an elaborate competition between gyms to see who could develop the greatest skit, musical adventure or extravaganza for the other campers to see. Rolo day featured a game on Wednesday night where the Bison, or Bison and Lady Bison, players played. Everyone picked a team, and if your team lost, you had to sit on the wall a minute for every point that your team lost by. Between the campers and Bison fans coming to see the game the Lipscomb High School game was usually packed. On Pro Day for several years Ralph Turner took on the guest pro, taunting him and raining three's on him from 40 feet. Every breakfast, lunch and dinner the notebooks were out as Coach taught/preached about attitude, effort and the proper way to play the game. Coach made an acronym of the word Attitude and explained the importance of the word associated with each letter (Awareness and communication, Teachable, Technique, Intensity, Tenacity, Unselfishness, Discipline, Effort + Execution leads to Excellence). He would give a letter or two each morning at breakfast.
The campers reaction to camp was a paradox. A few campers quit and went home. For most they had never worked as hard or been pushed and yelled at as much, but they loved it. The Bison and Lady Bison players were great with the campers and the campers loved to hang around them. It was such a positive, motivating environment and was so much fun that many campers returned five, six, seven or even 10 years.
For the Bison players there was no rest. They taught Early Birds before breakfast, taught at a basket, demonstrated the headliners drills, lifted weights on breaks, played and demonstrated for Coach in front of the whole camp until 10:00 pm or later each night. When the campers went back to the dorm many stayed and worked on their games. Many players would tell you that the two months of campers were the hardest thing that they ever did.
I first met coach at a summer basketball practice with my Lipscomb High School team in McQuiddy Gym. A bald, unshaven guy came up to me at a break and said, "My name is Don Meyer. You are doing a nice job working with your post player." I'm not sure he even told me that he was the new men's basketball coach. That coaching job had been a coaches graveyard with bad records and a coaching change every couple of years. There were no camps. He started from scratch and put Lipscomb on the college basketball map.
It was a year or two later when I worked my first basketball camp. For a couple of years I was the basket coach for his daughters, Brooke and Brittany, along with Stephanie Shouse Lane among others. We went to Bobby Knight One Man Clinic together over two or three days. We traveled to the conference coaches meetings every year. The Bisons and Lady Bisons traveled to all our conference away games on the same bus for 20 years. He always shared ideas, new plays, and quotes. He often said I took his stuff and ran it better than they did. I really stole it and adapted it to fit our personnel and what we needed to do. He allowed me to go to all of his coaching academies at no charge. When he began the college player post and guard camps, he let our players attend at no charge. I learned a lot from all the great coaches he brought to camp, especially in the early years. I missed all of that when he left Lipscomb for Northern.
I loved the evening meal at camp when he dismissed the campers back to their dorm and to the gyms. He usually would pack a cone with what seemed like 10 or more scoops of ice cream. He would sit with the coaches and our families. Coach let the headline coaches' families eat free each evening meal and he let our kids go to camp at no charge. All of my kids were influenced greatly by Coach and the basketball camps. We would tell stories and laugh and have a great time before heading back to the gyms. On Friday night Jan, Carmen, Vicky Roller, Debbie Bowers, Regina Atnip, Sherri Turner and other coaches wives got together and played Trivial Pursuit. On Friday nights he paid for all the coaches, including our kids, to go to Mr Gatti's and enjoy the feeling that our week of hard work in the gyms was over.
I have seen coach in all sorts of situations. I have seen him in good times and in tough times both personally and professionally. Here are some things I have observed.
Coach loved babies, kids, special people and older people and he taught his players and campers that the way you treat those people says a lot about you. Coach loved to help people whether a camper, a young coach, or someone in need. No one will ever know how many people he has helped. He liked nothing more than working with a kid or coach and helping him get better. After I had been paying on two mortgages for many months, he walked up to me at the end of a Sunday night practice and gave me a Kroger sack with $10,000 in $20 dollar bills. He advanced most of my summer camp salary when I needed it most. Through camps he made it possible for me to financially stay at Lipscomb. He persevered and loved his wife and kids through good times and tough times. Don and Carmen are a great testimony to faithfulness and perseverance.
In many ways, the worst thing that ever happened to him, the car accident, was the best thing that ever happened to him. After the accident he was able to tell his friends, his family, and associates how much he appreciated them and what they meant to him. After the accident he lost the bitterness he felt toward Lipscomb in the move to Division I. He was completely opposed to the move from NAIA to Division I and fought it as long as he could.
The courage and perseverance he showed after his accident inspired many more people than he had influenced before. It was great blessing to me when Dr. Lowry sent me to the hospital in Sioux Falls a couple of days after the accident so that I could spend a few days with him, Carmen, Brooke, Brittany, Wade Tomlinson and a few others. He really wanted to be able to coach and work with kids again. He developed a more personal relationship with the Lord and was able to share his faith more freely than ever before. He rose early and studied Scripture and asked the Holy Spirit to lead him through each day. He wanted nothing more than to be a conduit of blessings to others, and he asked the Lord to show him who he could help that day. In his Servant Leadership series he influenced businesses, churches, coaches and schools throughout the country. He said at camp many years ago that he would much rather burn out than rust out. He got the most he could out of every moment he had in this life.
Coach is taking part in the greatest victory celebration of all time, the victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ, his Lord (I Corinthians 15). I have a hope of seeing him again and taking part in that celebration.
Coach had a huge impact on my life as a friend and mentor. We were very different in our personalities, but very similar in our passion as competitors and our passion for the game and the people entrusted to us.


text: Whitecaps happy with new home May 16, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next New roof at BC Place puts Vancouver in the fight for an MLS franchise Ian Walker The Vancouver Whitecaps played in the first sporting event at BC Place Stadium on June 20,1983. It was a North American Soccer League game and the Whitecaps were victorious to a 2-1 count over the Seattle Sounders in front of 60,000 fans. Often forgot in the victory was defender Bob Lenarduzzi kicking the ball off the goal-line when Seattle seemed certain to take a commanding 2-0 lead early in the first half. It's no wonder Lenarduzzi was feeling a little nostalgic on Friday when he confirmed the expected and announced the Whitecaps will make BC Place their home to start the 2011 season. "I was fortunate to be a part of the first sporting event in this stadium and I recall it very vividly," said Lenarduzzi, following the details of a major renovation of the stadium, including a retractable roof. "The fact that it was state of the art then and the fact that with all the renovations it will once again be state of the art in 2011, it's very exciting to be a part of it, indeed. I look forward to the Whitecaps being the first sporting event to play in the refurbished BC Place in 2011 also." More than anything, the move affords the Whitecaps the opportunity to bid for a Major League Soccer franchise. It's no secret the Greg Kerfoot-owned club covets a spot in North America's top professional soccer league and time is running out. MLS has 14 teams this year and will add Seattle in 2009 and Philadelphia in 2010. The league has said it will cap its number of teams at 18. Montreal and St. Louis are also in the running. The Whitecaps currently play in the second-tier United Soccer Leagues First Division at 5,200-seat Swangard Stadium, which doesn't come close to meeting MLS seating requirements. The Whitecaps still intend to pursue their proposed soccer-specific waterfront stadium on downtown Vancouver's central waterfront and rail lands, but with talks moving at a glacial pace there was no guarantee it would be built in time. "It gets us back in the game," said Lenarduzzi, adding plans to make soccer games in the cavernous building more intimate have already been discussed with BC Place staff, including seat configuration to get fans closer to the field and the draping off the upper bowl. "The decision to pursue a lease in a refurbished BC Place is a necessary adjustment to course." MLS commissioner Don Garber has said BC Place would be acceptable to the league in the interim, as long as assurances of a more soccer specific stadium were in place. "We look forward to continuing our discussions with the Whitecaps," he said. "There is no doubt the market for professional soccer exists in Vancouver." Lenarduzzi said there was no out clause should the Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium be built before 2016 and preferred not to think about what the team would do if its bid for a MLS franchise was denied. "For us to be thinking about those sort of things ... the example I would provide is it would be like our team worrying about losing," he said. "We can't worry about what might happen. All we can do is try and control what happens. We've taken a significant step here today by committing to this venue and that allows us to pursue the MLS opportunity." B.C. Lions general manager and head coach Wally Buono welcomed the addition of the Whitecaps to BC Place. "At the end of the day it puts good pressure on the organization to stay healthy," said Buono, who jokingly challenged the Whitecaps for the rights to be the first team to play in the updated stadium. "We'll even play them in soccer - it's not that tough." © Vancouver Sun Previous Next

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I'm that easy.
Perusing stacks of ripe and voluptuous veggies - caressing peppers in ruby, orange and yellow, inhaling bunches of basil leaves and mint between hefting gorgeous heads of violet cabbage and tender crimson tomatoes leaves me giddy with inspiration. It's hard to be anything but thankful in the presence of such abundance. I feel alive. Engaged.
And come to think of it, simply damn lucky to be alive and breathing.
Here is my non-recipe:
Sit outside and drink in the sunset. Sip a glass of fresh lemonade. Be happy.
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Israel withdraws troops from Gaza as cease-fire, Cairo talks are set
Israel and Hamas agreed on Monday to an Egyptian proposal for a three-day cease-fire starting Tuesday morning, followed by talks on a longer-term truce to end nearly a month of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The new cease-fire deal raised the prospect of a halt to the Israeli offensive against Hamas that has claimed the lives of more than 1,800 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to local health officials, as well as 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel.
"We hope this will secure a permanent cease-fire and restore stability," the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The approval of the cease-fire plan came as Israel withdrew ground forces from the Gaza Strip, saying the army had completed its mission of uncovering and destroying networks of Hamas tunnels, some leading across the border to Israel.
A previous 72-hour cease-fire collapsed on Friday less than two hours after it took effect when militants killed three Israeli soldiers working to uncover a tunnel. Hamas said later that it had not agreed to continued Israeli operations against the tunnels during the cease-fire.
With Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza, the new cease-fire appeared to have a better chance of holding. An Israeli delegation was expected to travel to Cairo to begin indirect negotiations, mediated by Egypt, on a durable truce.
Hamas is demanding the removal of border restrictions imposed by Israel and Egypt on the Gaza Strip, including the opening of the Rafah border crossing to Egypt for passage of people and goods. It also wants Israel to lift fishing limits off the Gaza coast and to allow access to farmland near the border with Israel, where the Israeli army has enforced a no-go zone.
Hamas also has demanded construction of a seaport and airport in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded demilitarization of the territory as a condition for international aid for its reconstruction, ridding Gaza of Hamas tunnels and rocket stocks.
The cease-fire deal came after representatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the mainstream Fatah faction traveled to Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials. Frank Lowenstein, an American envoy, also joined the discussions, though he did not meet with delegates from Hamas, which the United States considers a terrorist organization.
Israel did not attend the initial discussions but remained in contact with Egyptian officials on their progress.
Tensions stoked by the conflict in Gaza erupted in Jerusalem on Monday, when a Palestinian driving a construction excavator killed a Jewish pedestrian and overturned an Israeli bus, and a soldier was wounded by a gunman on a motorcycle.
The first attack occurred in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood near East Jerusalem, where a Palestinian drove an excavator out of a construction site, struck and killed a man and overturned a bus before he was shot and killed by a police officer who arrived at the scene.
The bus was nearly empty at the time, and four people were reported injured.
There have been similar attacks in Jewish areas of Jerusalem in recent years, in which Palestinians driving construction equipment plowed into pedestrians and passing cars, causing deaths and injuries.
About two hours after the excavator incident, a gunman on a motorcycle shot and seriously wounded an Israeli soldier at a bus stop in East Jerusalem before fleeing the scene. Police searched for the shooter in the area but no arrests were reported.
Both incidents were described by police as "terrorist attacks."
Israel suspended bombardments and shelling in Gaza on Monday for seven hours to allow residents to stock up on supplies. But Palestinians reported that minutes after the lull was supposed to go into effect, an 8-year-old girl was killed and 30 people injured in the bombing of a house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
Israel's Shin Bet security service said later that the strike targeted two commanders of the armed wing of the militant Islamic Jihad group, killing one and seriously wounding another.
Militants fired more rockets and mortar rounds at Israel, but no casualties were reported.
After the end of the pause in Israeli attacks, Palestinians reported that two children were killed in an airstrike on a house in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Rafah was subjected to intense artillery and airstrikes on Friday and Saturday after the Hamas attack on Israeli troops in which two soldiers were killed and a third was initially thought to have been captured.
Israeli forces followed what is known as the "Hannibal" protocol in cases when a soldier is seized in an effort to pin down his captors with heavy artillery and airstrikes. The Israeli shelling killed more than 120 Palestinians, according to reports from Rafah, including three members of an ambulance crew who died when their vehicle was struck.
More bodies were recovered in outlying neighborhoods of the town on Monday.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited a senior army officer as acknowledging that Israeli forces used "heavy firepower" in Rafah to prevent movement out of the area of the suspected kidnappers. The missing soldier was later declared killed in action.


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The United Kingdom is currently experiencing a number of problems affecting nature and this is triggering discussions among policy-makers, scientists and practioners as to how to best tackle the situation.
A fungal disease Chalara fraxinea causing 'Ash dieback' has arrived in the UK and experts are predicting the loss of the country's 80 million Ash tree(Fraxinus excelsior) population, which makes up some 30% of the native tree cover of the nation. The UK's oaks are also being troubled by a phenomenon known as oak decline which been known in the UK for nearly one hundred years. However, in the last few years there has been an alarming increase in the number of trees affected by acute oak decline – a fast-acting problem thought to be caused by bacteria.
Also hitting the headlines is the postponement of the planned cull of Badger (Meles meles) in two counties in England. Apparently new surveys showed that there were twice the number of badgers present in the target areas than previously thought and, as the cull was being paid for by farmers rather than the State, this made it too expensive to undertake. The UK Government has announced that the cull will take place next year. Meanwhile, trials are being carried out to test a vaccine on badgers which could help in reduce the spread of tuberculosis in cattle.


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In The News
Interfaith Iftar Dinner (Jewish Standard 7/5/19)
Emor: One law. Period. (Jewish Standard 5/16/19)
Local Jews, Muslims break bread (Pascack Valley Press 4/29/19)
Remember Scripture's teachings (Pascack Valley Press 4/1/19)
Leading us to that door (Jewish Standard 11/15/18)
Ekev: Preparation Time (Jewish Standard 8/2/18)
To Life (Pascack Press 5/14/18)
What will you take? A pre-Passover Plan (Jewish Standard 3/29/18)
When your child speaks (Jewish Standard 3/28/18)
Another perspective on the Wall (Jewish Standard 8/24/17)
Oh, what a night! (Jewish Standard 11/22/16)
Re'eh: A spiritual checklist (Jewish Standard 9/2/16)
Young entrepreneurs create 'Fashion for Freedom' (Pascack Press 7/18/16)
Faith in action (Jewish Standard 7/1/16)
Educator of the Year is tapped (Community Life 6/30/16)
Emerson shul welcomes Holocaust Torah (Jewish Standard 5/13/16)
Holocaust remembered with Torah scroll (Community Life 5/12/16)
New kosher guidelines test tradition at Passover (Bergen Record 4/22/16)
Put a padlock on your seder plate... (Philadelphia Inquirer 4/20/16)
Passover Project seeks to combat modern slavery (Pascack Press 4/18/16)
Chutzpah This Passover (Jewish Standard 4/15/16)
Passover Project seeks South Florida participants (Sun Sentinel 4/4/16)
'Family promise' (Community Life 3/31/16)
For all we are worth (Jewish Standard 3/23/16)
Parshat Ki Tisa: In a word - or less (Jewish Standard 2/25/16)
The UN-Date (Jewish Standard 12/25/15)
The Great Challah Bake (Pascack Press 11/15/15)
Giving and getting go so well together (Jewish Standard 11/13/15)
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Read, translate, explain (Jewish Standard 10/2/15)
Laws of life (Jewish Standard 8/28/15)
Ekev: Getting ready (Jewish Standard 8/7/15)
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Jewish Standard 7/3/15)
Bemidbar: Where are you? (Jewish Standard 5/22/15)
A father's memory is an inspiration to server--and to smile (New Jersey Jewish News 4/6/15)
Jews combating modern slavery, and an anti-trafficking bill that stalls in the Senate (Jewish Journal 4/2/15)
See One Person, Be One Person (Jewish Week 4/2/15)
Do one thing different (Jewish Standard 3/27/15)
Talking about liberation (Jewish Standard 3/20/15)
Speaking about the unspeakable (Jewish Standard 12/18/14)
Area clergy unite for Thanksgiving (Pascack Press 12/8/14)
We need the minyan (Jewish Standard 11/7/14)
Deep down, you already know (Jewish Standard 10/17/14)
For all we are worth (Jewish Standard 8/22/14)
Board officers are installed (Community Life 6/26/14)
Moving up (Community Life 6/26/14)
Crazy busy (Jewish Standard 6/6/14)
Bemidbar: In the wilderness (Jewish Standard 5/23/14)
Committee helps beautify Emerson (Community Life 5/15/14)
Kedoshim: The paradox of holiness (Jewish Standard 4/25/14)
If you were a slave (Jewish Standard 4/11/14)
Chocolate Seder (Community Life 4/17/14)
Purim Carnival (Community Life 4/10/14)
Creating, balancing, trying (Jewish Standard 3/28/14)
Purim Palooza (Community Life 3/20/14)
2014 America's Most Inspiring Rabbis (Jewish Daily Forward)
Bound and enveloped (Jewish Standard 2/21/14)
Slavery here and now (Jewish Standard 1/31/14)
Freedom Service (Jewish Standard 1/24/14)
Giants Fans (Jewish Standard 1/24/14)
Filling the Fall with Music (Community Life 11/28/13)
Two Families, One Concert (Jewish Standard 10/18/13)
Shalom Baby (Community Life 10/3/13)
CBI Installation (Community Life 8/29/13)
In the path of her fathers (Jewish Standard 8/23/13)
Temple Listing (Jewish Standard 8/16/13)
Justice Gap (Jewish Standard 8/9/13)
Ekev: Getting ready (Jewish Standard 7/26/13)
Shelach: We are well able (Jewish Standard 5/31/13)
One Book/One Community (Community Life 4/11/13)
Jewish Charities Supported by Students (Community Life 4/11/13)
Good Deeds Day (Pascack Press 3/18/13)
WABC Religion on the Line (radio 3/3/13)
Lifecycle Series (Jewish Standard 2/8/13)
Chanukah at the NJ Veterans Memorial Home (Community Life 12/20/12)
School Donation & the Bible Players (Community Life 12/13/12)
Rabbis Riff on Chanukah (Jewish Standard 11/30/12)
Hear The Horn (L'Chaim 9/1/12)
Mitzvah projects contributions (Pascack Press 6/18/12)
D'var Torah--Tazria-Metzora: Love and Distance (Jewish Standard 4/27/12)
Baseball Shabbat-- Spring 2012 (Community Life 4/19/12)
Passover Fun 2012 (Community Life 4/5/12)
The Gift of Learning, Local rabbi finds unique way to honor her father's 77th (Jewish Standard 3/2/12)
Cantor Mandel "Bar Mitzvah" Celebration (Community Life 7/21/11)
D'var Torah--Kedoshim: The paradox of holiness (Jewish Standard 4/29/11)
Installation of Rabbi & Torah Dedication (Jewish Standard 4/8/11)
Drumming Circle (Jewish Standard 3/4/11)
Hey Class Poem (Jewish Standard 1/21/11)
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Beatles Shabbat Tribute (Pascack Press 3/22/10)
Beatles Shabbat (Jewish Standard 2/26/10)


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Tonight, it reappeared on someone else's Pinterest board as I was
In the meantime, my classroom is really coming along! I'm so happy to have time to get organized this year. Settling in last year was such a mess...We were moving into a new school and only had 4 days to unpack and set up before the kids arrived. I was also 9 months pregnant and working in 90+ degree heat with unreliable air conditioning and elevator access for my 3rd floor classroom. It was insane! Then I was only there for 3 weeks before going on maternity leave, and by the time I got back, it was hard to make changes.
This year will be SO MUCH BETTER in that regard. I can already feel it, and I'm super excited about it.
I'll share more classroom pics next week. Have a great weekend!


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If you have been following the 1A Auto Nutt's and Bolts blog, you have no doubt seen the pictures of the 60 Pontiac Ventura rot box that is waiting patiently awaiting some love in my garage. If you are sick of hearing about it, I'm sorry, but it is weighing on my brain, and I need to get my thoughts straightened out. So yea, I have spent a lot of time recently trying to figure out what the heck I'm going to do with it. It definitely doesn't make sense financially to restore it back to original, because you can easily find clean drivable examples for sale for less money than it would be to restore this (and that doesn't include my 1000+ hours of my "free" labor.) That fact has definitely been established.
So my latest wild and crazy idea is to turn it into a 1930's style hot rod. (Disclosure: Yes, I was somewhat inspired from Gary Campesi's paintings from the other day.) Anyway, I would do this by cutting it up and shrinking the body into a 2 seater, almost like a T-bucket but with all the sexy 1960's body lines. Then I would drop it on a home made chassis and suspension. I'd probably power it with something more modern like a 4G64, L92, 2JZ, or maybe a KA24DET. No matter which I choose, it would be backed by a manual transmission, because that's how I roll. Wrap some giant brakes and big wheels around the whole thing, and I feel like it could be pretty slick. Other than the injected engine, I would keep everything super simple, no crazy options. Just simplistic beauty.
Unfortunately I couldn't find anything similar on the internet (imagine that?), but these four pictures are the closest to the idea itself. Obviously none are 1960 Pontiac's, but…. well…. you get the idea…
So what do you think? Stupid? Awesome? or just plain "no"?
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Willys: http://randyellisdesign.com/photo-gallery/custom-fabrication/willys-hot-rod/
Gary's amazing art : http://www.hubgarage.com/mygarage/GaryC/vehicles


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Medicinal Action: Myrrh improves digestion, diarrhea and immunity. It treats coughs, gum disease, wounds, candida, overactive thyroid and scanty menstruation.
Cosmetic/Skin Use: Myrrh is an expensive treatment for chapped, cracked or aged skin, eczema, bruises, infection, varicose veins and ringworm.
Emotional Attribute: Myrrh has been used since antiquity to inspire prayer and meditation, and to fortify and revitalize the spirit.
Associated Oils:
Opopanax (Illicium verum) --This oil from Somalia and Ethiopia is sold as a low-grade myrrh. Lumps that exude from the root and stems are steam-distilled after hardening. Opopanax gives liquor a winelike taste and is a fixative. The herb that bears the name Opopanax chironium is a Sudanese and Arabian plant similar to parsnips, and isn't made into oil. To add to the confusion, cassie (Acacia farnesiana) is sometimes called "opopanax."
Copaiba Balsam (Copaiba officinalis) --This South American oleoresin (not really a balsam), called copal, is similar to myrrh. In Central and South America, where it has been used for centuries as incense, the Catholic church uses it in place of myrrh, and herb vendors sell it in almost every market.


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Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – FAQ/Move List
Xbox 360
FAQ/Move List by Rat
Version: 15a | Updated: 04/17/96
Ultimate Mortal Kombat III FAQ (moves list) for revision 1.0/1.1
By: Ratman (email@example.com) <---- Send additions/corrections here.
FAQ Revision 15a (April 17, 1996)
What's New (changes since the previous revision of the FAQ) -----------------
717-313 - Rain can be found at the graveyard (displays message)
this is such a stupid code, it's not worth updating the revision.
If I get anything worthwhile to add, I'll release a new revision and
distribute it properly.
Distribution ---------------------------------------------------------------
This document as well as others that cover things that are not in this
FAQ can be found at :
WWW: http://rat.org/mk/faqs.html
What's not in here ----------------------------------------------------------
Anything I have not done myself.
Spoilers: If you want descriptions of the fatalities, see Robocod's FAQ.
2.1: This is for Ultimate MK3. If you want info on the old MK3,
see the "Distribution" section above.
Detail: The object of this FAQ is to be a cheat sheet, not a compendium.
Key -------------------------------------------------------------------------
U = Up HP = High Punch HK = High Kick
F = Forward BL = Block
D = Down LP = Low Punch LK = Low Kick
B = Back R = Run
Move (distance): movement
For movement:
"-" means "then"
"+" means "and"
So D-F-HP+LP means Down, then forward, then hit HP and LP at the same time.
Hold button (other thing) more things
So "hold LP (D-F-D-F) HK" means
"Hold LP, then tap D-F-D-F, then let go of LP, then hit HK, release HK"
A word about "Hold button"...
Sometimes you have to hold the button a certain amount of time. If
something doesn't work that involves holding a button, hold it longer.
If something requires UP, it helps to hold block, but it is not necessary.
Special things --------------------------------------------------------------
VS. screen codes
On the VS screen (in 2 player mode), you can cycle through the 6 symbols by
hitting LP, Block, and LK on both sides. Cycle backwards by hitting UP and
the button. The numbers are the number of times you hit the button.
Key (number is number of times you hit the button):
0 MK Dragon 5 Lightning Bolt
1 MK Logo 6 Goro
2 Yin-Yang 7 Raiden
3 Number three 8 Shao Kahn
4 Question Mark 9 Skull
999-999 - Show what revision you have.
010-010 - Throwing Encouraged (displays funny message when you throw)
100-100 - No Throws
020-020 - No Blocking
987-123 - No Meters (all meters at the top are hidden)
300-300 - Silent Kombat (no music)
788-322 - Quick Uppercut Recovery (no lag after you uppercut)
033-000 - Half Energy for Player 1 (start with 1/2 energy every round)
000-033 - Half Energy for Player 2 (start with 1/2 energy every round)
707-000 - Quarter Energy for Player 1 (start with 1/4 energy every round)
000-707 - Quarter Energy for Player 2 (start with 1/4 energy every round)
044-440 - Sans Power (starts game on round 3 with almost no energy)
688-422 - Dark Fighting (screen lights up when you hit)
444-444 - Randper Kombat (random morphing) (or 460-460)
985-125 - Psycho Kombat (dark,randper,no meters,no block,quick uppercut)
466-466 - Unlimited Run (run meters don't go down after combo/run)
642-468 - Galaga (game over for both players after you play)
Kombat Zone: (Lets you fight on that stage)
091-190 - Bell Tower
077-022 - Bridge
933-933 - Ermac's Portal
666-333 - Graveyard
330-033 - Jade's Desert
004-700 - Kahn's Kave
880-220 - Kahn's Tower
600-040 - Kombat Temple
050-050 - Noob's Dorfen (Bell Tower)
820-028 - Pit III
002-003 - River Kombat
343-343 - Roof
666-444 - Scorpion's Lair
123-901 - Soul Chamber
079-035 - Street
880-088 - Subway
Text: (displays a little message)
717-313 - Rain can be found at the graveyard
(this code is probably more BS to get you to try to find him.
Don't fall for it!)
448-844 - Don't jump at me - MXV
122-221 - Skunky!! - E.F.
004-400 - Watcha gun do ? - E.B.
550-550 - Go see Mortal Kombat the live tour!
282-282 - No Fear (it's a pinball game)
123-926 - No Knowledge that is not power
987-666 - Hold Flippers during casino run (pinball game reference)
Winner Fights: (Winner of 1st round plays a certain character, and
it's game over for the loser)
969-141 - Winner Fights Motaro
769-342 - Winner Fights Noob Saibot
033-564 - Winner Fights Shao Kahn
205-205 - Winner Fights Human Smoke
2 on 2 only: (Only works in 2 on 2 mode)
227-227 - Explosive Kombat (Fighters will explode instead of falling down
after they are beaten)
022-220 - Explosive Kombat and Throwing Disabled
To throw, you only need to hit LP while you are up close. You DO NOT need
to hit any direction on the joystick. In fact, you can even push back on
the joystick and you can still throw provided you are still close enough.
To block a throw, hold BACK or DOWN+BACK. No block required.
This works even if you are getting up, or stunned (frozen, spinning, etc).
It has been this way since MK1.
I have listed the standard ground combo for each character.
Some combos end with the opponent being in the air, and you can continue
to inflict more punishment. For information on this, see one of the combo
FAQs in the "Distribution" section above.
Note I have removed the percentages and hits. The only reason I have combos
here is so you know the "push buttons in a sequence" combos. There are far
better combos than the ones I list here.
- Don't hit block during the winning round
- You can be anywhere on the screen (unless otherwise specified)
- You can do a friendship/babality after a doing a mercy (optional)
Stage fatalities:
Scorpion's Lair
Shao Kahn's Tower
The Subway
The Pit III
(see "Stage:" to see how to do these for each character)
(the distance is always "up close")
If you hold both run buttons after you do the stage fatality on
Scorpion's Lair, you can hear Shao Kahn say "Crispy".
If you hold both HP buttons, Dan Forden will pop out and say "Crispy".
You can hold both run buttons AND both HP buttons, and you will hear
both Shao Kahn and Dan Forden say "Crispy".
Mercy: Hold RUN (D-D)
This gives your opponent a little bit of energy back after you beat them.
- You have to hold run a certain amount of time. Around 2-3 seconds.
- Your opponent has to have won one round.
- You can be anywhere on the screen except close.
- You have to do this if you want to do an Animality. After the mercy has
been done, and it says "Finish him/her" again, anyone can do an animality.
- You can't do more than one mercy per match.
- You may do any finisher (Fatality, Friendship, Stage or Babality) after
the mercy. This does not mean you HAVE TO do the mercy first.
Random Select: Just like MK2.
Up-Start at the select screen.
The default players have to be selected for this to work.
Sometimes the guy doesn't say "toasty".
Freeze your opponent while he/she is in danger. To prove this, do the mercy
with sub-zero, then just keep freezing your opponent.
Ending codes
After you beat Shao Kahn, you can choose a symbol. The higher skill level
you choose, the more symbols you can pick from.
Novice: 1-4
Warrior: 5-6
Master: 7-8
Master: 9-12 (The higher Master level)
1 MK Dragon : See the character's ending
2 MK Logo : Galaga
3 Yin-Yang : Fight Ermac
4 Number three : Fight Noob Saibot
5 Question Mark : Random select (selects another code)
6 Lightning Bolt : Fatality Demonstration #1
7 Goro : Fatality Demonstration #2
8 Raiden : Fatality Demonstration #3
9 Shao Kahn : Fight Noob and Ermac
10 Skull : Fight Classic Sub-Zero and Noob
11 Question Mark : Fight Noob,Ermac,Human Smoke,Classic Sub-Zero,Mileena
12 Question Mark : Supreme Demonstration
Ultimate Kombat Codes -------------------------------------------------------
12344-44321 : Enables Ermac to be playable.
1 4 4 1
3 3
2 4 4 2
81835-81835 : Enables Classic Subzero to be playable.
8 5 8 5
8 8
1 3 1 3
22264-22264 : Enables Mileena to be playable
2 4 2 4
2 2
2 6 2 6
Once you enter these, the change is permanent.
Play as Human Smoke
Choose Smoke. When any round is starting, hold HP+HK+BL+RUN and hold the
joystick back.
So if you were player 1, hold it left, and player 2 would hold it right.
Characters (in alphabetical order) ------------------------------------------
Classic Subzero
Freeze: D-F-LP
Freeze ground: D-B-LK
Slide: B+LP+BL+LK
Fatality (close): D-D-D-F-HP
Stage: F-D-F-F-HP
Standard Combo: HP-HP-LK-B+HK-F+LK
Grenade Close: Hold LK (B-B-HK)
Grenade Far: Hold LK (F-F-HK)
Net: B-B-LK
Teleport (can do in air): F-D-BL
Air throw (while you on ground, and victim in air): D-F-BL
Then LP to throw.
Fatality (anywhere): D-D-U-D-HP
Fatality (close): D-D-F-U-R
Animality (close): U-U-D-D
Friendship: R-R-R-U
Babality: F-F-B-HP
Stage: R-BL-R
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-HP-HK-B+HK
Fireball: D-B-LP
Exploding Teleport Punch: D-B-HP
Telekinetic Slam: B-D-B-HK
Fatality (close): R-BL-R-R-HK
Fatality (sweep): D-U-D-D-D-BL
Stage: R-R-R-R-LK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-B+LP-HK-B+LK
Human Smoke
Spear: B-B-LP
Teleport Punch: D-B-HP
Throw (in air): BL
Fatality (close): R-BL-R-R-HK (does the same thing as Ermac too. Lame.)
Babality: D-B-B-F-HP
Stage: F-U-U-LP
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-B+HK
Boomerang High: B-F-HP
Boomerang Middle: B-F-LP
Boomerang Low: B-F-LK
Returning Low Boomerang: B-B-F-LP (Will only return if your opponent is a
human and if they duck the boomerang)
Projectile Invincibility: B-F-HK
Glow Kick: D-F-LK
Fatality (close): U-U-D-F-HP
Fatality (close): R-R-R-BL-R
Animality (close): F-D-F-F-LK
Friendship (anywhere): B-D-B-B-HK
Babality: D-D-F-D-HK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-D+LP-LK-HK-B+LK-B+HK
1 Missile: B-F-HP
2 Missiles: F-F-B-B-HP
Gotcha Grab: F-F-LP (tap LP to keep punching)
Backbreaker (in air): BL
Quad Slam (after starting a throw): tap HP
Ground Pound: Hold LK
Dashing Punch: F-F-HK
Fatality (close): Hold BL (U-D-F-U)
Fatality (far): R-BL-R-R-LK
Animality (close): Hold LP (F-F-D-F)
Friendship: LK-R-R-LK
Babality: D-D-D-LK
Stage: D-F-D-LP
Standard Combo: HK-HK-D+HP-HP-BL-LP-B+HP
Top Spin: B-F-LK
Eye Spark (can do in air): B-B-HP
Ground Saw: B-B-B-R
Fatality (outside sweep): D-D-B-F-BL
Fatality (close): R-BL-BL-BL-HK
Animality (close): Hold HP (F-F-D-F)
Friendship (anywhere except closer than sweep): R-LK-R-R-U
Babality: R-R-LK
Stage: BL-BL-HK
Standard Combo: LK-LK-HP-HP-D+HP
Knife Throw: D-B-HP
Knife Uppercut: D-F-HP
Cannon Ball: Hold LK
Diagonal Cannon ball: F-D-F-HK
Grab and Shake: D-F-LP
Throw (in air): BL
Fatality (close): Hold LP (F-D-D-F)
Fatality (sweep): LP-BL-BL-HK
Animality (close): Hold HP (BL-BL-BL)
Friendship: LK-R-R-HK
Babality: F-F-D-D-LK
Stage: U-U-B-LK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-LK-B+HK
Fan lift: B-B-B-HP
Fan Throw: F-F-HP+LP
Square Wave Punch: D-B-HP
Fatality (close): R-R-BL-BL-LK
Fatality (close): B-D-F-F-HK
Animality (between close and sweep): D-D-D-D-R
Friendship: D-B-F-F-LP
Babality: F-F-D-F-HK
Stage: F-D-D-LK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-B+LP-F+HP
Kung Lao
Hat Throw: B-F-LP
Teleport: D-U
Flying Kick (in air): U-D-HK
Spin: F-D-F-R (tap R)
Fatality (anywhere): R-BL-R-BL-D
Fatality (inside sweep, but not up close): F-F-B-D-HP
Animality (close): R-R-R-R-BL
Friendship (over sweep): R-LP-R-LK
Babality: D-F-F-HP
Stage: D-D-F-F-LK
Standard Combo: HP-LP-HP-LP-LK-LK-B+HK
Liu Kang
Fireball High: F-F-HP
Fireball Low: F-F-LP
Flying Kick: F-F-HK
Bicycle Kick: Hold LK
Fatality (anywhere): F-F-D-D-LK
Fatality (anywhere): U-D-U-U-BL+R
Animality (sweep): D-D-U
Friendship: R-R-R-D+R
Babality: D-D-D-HK
Stage: R-BL-BL-LK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-BL-LK-LK-HK-LK
Sai Throw: Hold HP
Warp kick: F-F-LK
Roll: B-B-D-HK
Fatality (far): B-B-B-F-LK
Fatality (close): D-F-D-F-LP
Animality (close): F-D-D-F-HK
Friendship: D-D-B-F-HP
Babality: D-D-F-F-HP
Stage: D-D-D-LP
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-HK-U+LK-U+HK
Arrow: D-B-LP (can be done really fast after a combo)
Hatchet Uppercut: D-F-HP
Shadow Shoulder: F-F-LK
Glow (reflects missiles): B-B-B-HK
Fatality (close): U-U-B-F-BL
Fatality (far): B-B-D-HP
Animality (close): F-F-D-D
Friendship (anywhere outside sweep): R-R-R-D
Babality: F-B-F-B-LP
Stage: R-R-BL
Standard Combo: LK-HP-HP-LP-Hatchet-Hatchet
Acid Spit: F-F-HP
Force Ball Slow: B-B-HP+LP
Force Ball Fast: F-F-HP+LP
Slide: B+LP+BL+LK
Invisibility: U-D-HK
Run Past and Elbow: B-F-LK
Fatality (jump distance): B-F-D-BL
Fatality (sweep): F-F-U-U-HK
Animality (close): D-D-D-U-HK
Friendship (close): D-F-F-B-HK
Babality: F-F-B-D-LK
Stage: BL-R-BL-BL
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-B+HK
Spear: B-B-LP
Teleport Punch: D-B-HP
Throw (in air): BL
Fatality (jump distance): D-D-U-HK
Fatality (close): F-F-D-U-R
Animality (close): F-U-U-HK
Friendship (close): B-F-F-B-LK
Babality: D-B-B-F-HP
Stage: F-U-U-LP
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-B+HK
Teleport+Uppercut (can do in air): F-F-LK
Missile (dumb): F-F-LP
Missile (smart): F-D-B-HP
Fatality (sweep): LP-R-R-BL
Fatality (over half screen): F-F-F-B-BL
Animality (close): F-F-D-U
Friendship (half screen): R-R-R-R-D
Babality: B-D-D-D-HK
Stage: R-R-R-D
Standard Combo: HP-HP-HK-HK-B+HK
Shang Tsung
1 Fireball: B-B-HP
2 Fireballs: B-B-F-HP
3 Fireballs: B-B-F-F-HP
Volcanic Eruption: F-B-B-LK
Classic Subzero: BL-BL-R-R
Cyrax: BL-BL-BL
Ermac: D-D-U
Jade: F-F-D-D+BL
Jax: F-F-D-LP
Kabal: LP-BL-HK (have to do it fast)
Kano: B-F-BL (have to do it fast)
Kitana: F-D-F-R
Kung Lao: R-R-BL-R
Liu Kang: F-D-B-U-F
Mileena: R-BL-HK
Nightwolf: U-U-U
Reptile: R-BL-BL-HK
Sektor: D-F-B-R
Scorpion: D-D-F-LP
Sheeva: Hold LK(F-D-F) or F-D-F-LK-LK
Sindel: B-D-B-LK
Sonya: D+R+LP+BL
Stryker: F-F-F-HK
Sub-Zero: F-D-F-HP
Fatality (close): Hold LP (D-F-F-D)
Fatality (close): Hold LP (R-BL-R-BL)
Animality (sweep): Hold HP (R-R-R)
Friendship: LK-R-R-D
Babality: R-R-R-LK
Stage: U-U-B-LP
Standard Combo: LK-HP-HP-LP-B+HK
Teleport Stomp: D-U
Stomp: B-D-B-HK
Fireball: D-F-HP
Fatality (close): F-D-D-F-LP
Fatality (close): Hold HK (B-F-F)
Animality (close): R-BL-BL-BL-BL
Friendship: F-F-D-F-pause-HP (pause is to prevent fireball. Or you can
Hold HP(F-F-D-F) release HP, then hit HP.)
Babality: D-D-D-B-HK
Stage: D-F-D-F-LP
Standard Combo: HP-HP-LP-HK-HK-LK-B+HK
Fireball: F-F-LP
Fireball (in air): D-F-LK
Fly: B-B-F-HK (press BL to land)
Scream: F-F-F-HP
Fatality (sweep): R-R-BL-R-BL
Fatality (close): R-BL-BL-R+BL
Animality (anywhere): F-F-U-HP
Friendship: R-R-R-R-R-U
Babality: R-R-R-U
Stage: D-D-D-LP
Standard Combo: HK-HP-HP-LP-HK
Harpoon: B-B-LP
Teleport+Uppercut (can do in air): F-F-LK
Invisibility: U-U-R (do while invisible, and you will reappear)
Throw (in air): BL
Fatality (across screen): U-U-F-D
Fatality (sweep): Hold R+BL (D-D-F-U)
Animality (outside sweep): D-F-F-BL
Friendship (across screen): R-R-R-HK
Babality: D-D-B-B-HK
Stage: F-F-D-LK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-LK-HK-LP
Energy rings: D-F-LP
Leg Grab: D+LP+BL
Square Wave Punch: F-B-HP
Bicycle Kick: B-B-D-HK
Fatality (more than half screen): Hold BL+R (U-U-B-D)
Fatality (anywhere): B-F-D-D-R
Animality (close): Hold LP (B-F-D-F)
Friendship: B-F-B-D-R (they changed what it does in Ultimate)
Babality: D-D-F-LK
Stage: F-F-D-HP
Standard Combo: HK-HK-HP-HP-LP-B+HP
Shoot gun: B-F-HP
Grenade High: D-B-HP
Grenade Low: D-B-LP
Baton Trip: F-B-LP
Baton Toss: F-F-HK
Fatality (close): D-F-D-F-BL
Fatality (a tiny bit closer than full screen): F-F-F-LK
Animality (sweep): R-R-R-BL
Friendship: LP-R-R-LP
Babality: D-F-F-B-HP
Stage: F-U-U-HK
Standard Combo: LK-HP-HP-LP
Freeze: D-F-LP
Ice Shower: D-F-HP
Ice Shower (in front): D-F-B-HP
Ice Shower (behind): D-B-F-HP
Ice Statue: D-B-LP
Slide: B+LP+BL+LK
Fatality (close): BL-BL-R-BL-R
Fatality (outside of sweep): B-B-D-B-R
Animality (close): F-U-U
Friendship: LK-R-R-U
Babality: D-B-B-HK
Stage: B-D-F-F-HK
Standard Combo: HP-HP-LP-LK-HK-B+HK (in 2.1 leave out LP for more damage)
Credits ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I copied info from Druboy's page http://cnct.com/home/druboy/mk3ult.html and
Oudom's FAQ http://icarus.uic.edu/~osengb1/umk3os_c.faq to start this off.
From that point on, I pretty much copied info from those two.
Information after that compiled from the following sources:
- The newsgroups: alt.games.mk and alt.games.mk.mk3
- IRC: #mk3
- email
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Texas on the Potomac is dedicated to remembering every Texan or Texas-based military service member to die in Iraq or Afghanistan. Here is the latest report:
The Department of Defense has announced the death of a Texas Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
According to The Department of Defense, Lance Cpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt of San Antonio died Oct. 6 while "conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan."
Lance Cpl. Schmidt, 24, was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
The incident is currently under investigation.


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It was a magical evening when more than 165 of Orange County's most ardent opera supporters gathered last Thursday to celebrate the opening of Pacific Symphony's much-anticipated performance of Puccini's "Tosca"—the tempestuous tale of love, deception and political intrigue. Guests arrived at South Coast Plaza dressed in chic attire around 5 p.m. and were treated to a pre-concert champagne reception held in the Bulgari boutique. Perusing the dazzling displays of jewelry, some just admired, while others took home a glittering piece or two. Bulgari's iconic Serpenti collection garnered much attention. Following the reception, guests were ushered a short distance away to an elegant dinner held in Jewel Court. The intimate affair, hosted by Bulgari, South Coast Plaza and the Symphony, was nestled inside a giant navy-draped space in the middle of Jewel Court, with metallic forest-green tables beautifully adorned with gardenia and magnolia floral centerpieces and a multitude of candles.
Guests were welcomed by Symphony President John Forsyte and Bulgari's North American President Alberto Festa, as they dined on rucola salada, followed by sumptuous swordfish puttanesca, polenta and asparagus, complemented by fine Italian wines. The meal concluded with assorted Italian cookies and sweets, including juicy chocolate-dipped strawberries. The dinner was of course a prequel to the Symphony's second semi-staged opera production, "Tosca"—full of passionate and beautiful music—taking place across from South Coast Plaza in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, where everyone soon headed for an 8 p.m. performance.
"Opera always brings out the best in everyone," says Gary Good, the Symphony's senior executive for special campaigns and major gifts. "From time to time we all enjoy a spectacle, an escape from our daily lives. Bulgari, South Coast Plaza, our magnificent Pacific Symphony, Carl St.Clair and our talented cast provided us all with a magical evening—one we will all long remember."
The new opera-vocal initiative "Symphonic Voices" launched last season with three sold-out nights of another Puccini blockbuster, "La Bohème," all in an effort to bring opera back to Orange County following the loss of Opera Pacific. Inspired by Music Director Carl St.Clair's successful career as an opera conductor in Europe, the Symphony once again took the music out of the pit and onto the stage to reveal the composer's brilliant orchestration, which painted the scenery and emotion behind the tragic tale. Sung in Italian with English supertitles, the production featured a cast of world-renowned opera singers, Pacific Chorale and the Southern California Children's Chorus, inventive staging and set design that, as the drama unfolded, left the audience wowed and in awe.
The magnificent cast of voices included soprano Claire Rutter as Tosca, tenor Brian Jagde as Cavaradossi, baritone George Gagnidze as Scarpia, bass-baritone Ryan Kuster as Angelotti, tenor Dennis Petersen as Spoletta, bass Michael Gallup as Sacristan, baritone Ralph Cato as Sciarrone and baritone Emmanuel Miranda as the Jailer. For the Symphony's production, the diva Tosca wore a necklace and earrings set by Bulgari valued at $1,000,000, with sapphires, peridots, milky quartzes and round brilliant cut diamonds set in white gold.
At intermission, dinner guests were invited to enjoy a private reception in the Box Circle Club located on the second floor of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. And immediately following the concert, guests returned for a post-concert reception featuring dessert, champagne and an opportunity to mingle with some of the Symphony's talented musicians and members of the "Tosca" cast.


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The fourth-generation NVIDIA® CineFX® engine builds unimaginable speed into the NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processing units (GPUs). Using the CineFX 4.0 engine, developers can create and display the most advanced and high-quality visual effects for emerging PC games and other cutting-edge visual applications.
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Learn more about the mobile PCI Express module; the first consistent graphics interface for notebook PCs.


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One Mile Creek Walk
One Mile Creek Walk Follows an old pipeline up to One Mile Dam, once part of one of New Zealand's first hydro-electric power schemes.
1 hr 30 min return
Getting there:
Starts from the One Mile Roundabout, on the Queenstown-Glenorchy Road.
One Mile Creek Track leads along the creek, up through the native beech forest of Queenstown. Following the old pipeline the disused damsite is soon reached. The dam was once a source of water for town water supply and later for hydro electricity.
If you would like to hike some more you can continue up to the Skyline Access Road which connects to the Fernhill Loop or the Ben Lomond Track. Otherwise you can return back the way you came.
On your walk along the creek you will be accompanied by many native birds of New Zealand: Tui, Bellbird, Fentail, just to mention but a few.


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Master Yang Yang of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Integrative Medicine Service describes qigong, an ancient Chinese healing art that combines physical movement, posture control, and meditation to refocus mental and physical energy. This practice can help cancer patients and survivors reduce fatigue, pain, and stress while restoring balance, strength, range of motion, and coordination.
Yang Yang demonstrates qigong exercises that can be performed while standing, sitting, or with a partner or caregiver.


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Tunesque sits quietly in your system menu until you call it into action. Simply click on the Tunesque icon, and start typing your search query; Tunesque will do the rest.
Tunesque can find music, apps, movies, and books but you get to decide what kind of results it shows. Plus, it works with your local iTunes store, anywhere in the world.
What's New in Tunesque
- Improved compatibility with the UK and IT stores
- Improved German translation


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Fishpond Jacquard Web Belts
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I am looking for Leon Norris, my great grandfather. His wife's name was Edith Elizabeth Milligan. Leon had a grocery store in Knoxville, Tennessee and possibly in Atlanta, Georgia as well. Edith Elizabeth and he had eight children. I am not sure of the order of their ages. Their names were Margaret, Evelyn, Nell, James(went by Jimmy), Avery, Ralph, Joel, and Velma Hazel. Hazel was my grandmother. She married James Cleveland Anderson from Greene County, Tennessee. This is really all the information I have with the exception of my Grandmother's birthdate. Velma Hazel was born on October 5, 1909. I would love to have any information available and to hook up with any distant relatives.
Leon Norris, wife was Edith Elizabeth Milligan. From what I have been told Edith Elizabeth was almost full-blooded Cherokee Indian. I would love more info on this too.
James Cleveland Anderson, wife was Velma Hazel Norris. Velma Hazel Norris had a son from a previous marriage. That son's name was David Jones, born October 16, 1934. Children of James and Velma Hazel Anderson are Helen Laverne Anderson Gaulding, Martha Anderson Grant, Ralph Anderson, Earl Anderson, and Mary Anderson Thomas.
Helen Anderson married Robert Emmett Gaulding on June 28, 1958. These are my parents. They had 4 daughters Linda Dale Gaulding Rutledge(deceased August 15, 1989), Kathy Ann Gaulding Weaver, Lori Denise Gaulding Forster, Jennifer Kirsten Gaulding Low.
Robert Gaulding is son of Hubert Evans Gaulding, Sr. and Verdie Louise Finch Gaulding. Hubert Evans, Jr., Laurabelle Gaulding Martin, James Gaulding, and William Gaulding are Robert's other siblings.
Verdie Louise Finch's mother was Laurabelle Fitch Finch. I believe that Laurabelle Fitch Finch's mother was a Buchanan.
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DETROIT -- It didn't take much to put Chris Sale at ease Monday evening after he had an MRI on the ailing area related to the flexor muscle in his left arm.
"We came back and the first words out of the doctor's mouth were, 'Your UCL looks excellent,'" said Sale as he stood in front of his locker Tuesday in the White Sox clubhouse at Comerica Park. "It's just flexor inflammation. I don't know if it's a strain or not.View Full Game Coverage
DETROIT -- It didn't take much to put Chris Sale at ease Monday evening after he had an MRI on the ailing area related to the flexor muscle in his left arm.
"We came back and the first words out of the doctor's mouth were, 'Your UCL looks excellent,'" said Sale as he stood in front of his locker Tuesday in the White Sox clubhouse at Comerica Park. "It's just flexor inflammation. I don't know if it's a strain or not.View Full Game Coverage
"I heard 'UCL was excellent' and I walked out. That's all I needed to hear."
Sale officially was placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 18 with a flexor muscle strain in the inner area Sale pointed to just above his left elbow. He was replaced on the roster and for Tuesday in the rotation by Charlie Leesman, who was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte.
But the White Sox ace did not look like or sound like a pitcher with injury worries. In fact, Sale truly believes that he will be ready to return when eligible to come off the DL during the first weekend of May in Cleveland.
No rehab starts needed in his mind. No concerns about this injury becoming something worse. After all, Gavin Floyd's original diagnosis last season was a flexor muscle strain before undergoing season-ending surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament and a torn flexor muscle in his elbow.
"MRIs are pretty thorough and extensive how they show," Sale said. "Like I said, the doctor said the UCL was excellent and there was nothing wrong there.
"It showed a clear picture of it and he showed me exactly where it was and all that stuff. So for me, I just think it's more of the same of what it has been in the past.
"You are talking about missing two starts," Sale said. "Obviously, if it was to linger, which, knock on wood, I don't think there's any chance of it actually happening. If I was to miss four starts, then I think there's room for that. I think obviously a week from now I'll probably be off a mound throwing a bullpen and be ready to go for Cleveland."
During a classic mound battle with Boston's Jon Lester on Thursday at U.S. Cellular Field, Sale limited the Red Sox to just a Xander Bogaerts homer over seven innings. Those seven innings also covered a career-high 127 pitches in just Sale's fourth start of the 2014 season.
General manager Rick Hahn said Monday that he wasn't smart enough to make a direct correlation between the elevated pitch count and Sale's soreness. Sale added Tuesday that there's no telling if the injury still would have happened even if he had thrown 18 or 19 pitches fewer.
A normal side session between starts for Sale was immediately scratched on Friday by pitching coach Don Cooper, which isn't out of the ordinary even at times when Sale feels healthy. But when he still felt the soreness while playing catch on Monday, Sale knew it was time to take it to the team to get things right.
There usually is some soreness for Sale after starts, but soreness that lasts just two or three days.
"Any time you have something going on that you are not quite certain of, you want to get down to the bottom of it, regardless of whether it's good, bad or indifferent," Sale said. "Fortunately for us yesterday, it was as good of news as we could have possibly gotten.
"Just with kind of the way Spring Training and the year unfolds for a lot of pitchers, it made me a little bit more nervous just because you don't know. The thing that kind of helped me out was it was the same soreness that I usually have after a start. It was just more of it in the same spot."
Upon Monday's initial examination, which included extensive testing of the arm by the doctor, Sale was told that it was "99.9 percent sure" that it was nothing to do with the UCL. If it was, he would have been jumping off the table during the tests.
Instead, the MRI confirmed the inflammation/strain and Sale's first trip to the disabled list.
When Sale had a similar issue in '12 and didn't make a start from May 1-12 as he was moved to closer, the young man was the picture of disappointment when talking to the media after the team decision. He had almost a feeling of confidence around him Tuesday, as he plans a healthy and quick return.
"With the lack of off-days and the way the rotation is set, I wasn't available this time," said Sale of his trip to the disabled list. "I don't want to put my team in a hole by bringing up guys and putting people in situations that they shouldn't be in. So, not only was it best for the team at the time to do that, but it was best for myself."
"For him, it's a reassurance that he's fine and eventually he'll be over it and he'll be back out there," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "Any time that happens and you're feeling something different, kind of a second opinion and get pictures of it and find out you're fine, there's a relief that's there. You can tell by how he's walking around today that he feels pretty good."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin


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Post subject: I need to out-decadence someone at an upcoming dessert party
First, and foremost...thank you for this blog and this forum, and all things CfE provides. First time writer, long time reader. It's time for an annual dessert party one of my friends host, and last year, I was out-decadenced by a flourless chocolate cake. I'm looking for some type of unbeatable dessert. I'll entertain any and all ideas
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Raspberry cheesecake bonbons are a winner.
You make a raspberry cheesecake in a cake pan and scoop it with a little ice cream scoop then dip in ganache (chocolate and cream, it the basic recipe for truffles). Dip the bottom in graham cracker crumbs before the ganache hardens. Beautiful with little drizzles of white chocolate tinted pink.
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Gateau St. Honore can be a really breathtaking dessert, especially if you top it with brittle webs of sugar. The one I've seen, nobody wanted to be the first to cut into it, and nobody wanted to miss out.
It's a puff-pastry base layered for height with whipped filling, topped with a circle of cream-puffs, basically speaking, but you have a completely free hand with creating the structure of it, and can get a little crazy or spectacular. Sugar lattices are good, or wafer cookies sticking out of the cream puffs, or multiple layers of puffs and pastry, etc. As long as it stays upright (perhaps assembly could be delayed until the last minutes), you've got a spectacle that everyone wants to eat and nobody wants to touch.
By the way, some recipes that one finds online (I'm looking at you, Martha Stewart), call for you to make your own puff pastry. There is really no need, and the rest of it can be hard enough, so just buy the stuff from your local store-- it freezes quite well enough.
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Post subject: A bit of work, but if ya really want decadence....
This is so beautiful - be sure to use a deep serving plate - huge glass paella bowl worked well. credit - Food Down Under
Floating Island with Kahlua Custard Sauce and
Sesame Pumpkin Seed Brittle
Ingredients :
1 3/4 cup Sugar
6 large Egg whites
1/4 tsp Cream of tartar
Kahlua custard sauce & sesame pumpkin-seed brittle as accompaniments.
2 cup Half-and-half
1 x Vanilla bean, split lengthwise
6 lrg Egg yolks
1/2 cup Sugar
3 tbl Kahlua, or to taste
1 cup Sugar
3 tbl Pepitas, (hulled green pumpkin seeds, available at natural foods stores and some Hispanic markets), chopped
1 1/2 tsp Sesame seeds
Method :
In a dry heavy skillet cook 1 cup of the sugar over moderate heat until it begins to melt and continue cooking it, stirring with a fork, until it is melted completely and is a golden caramel. Pour the caramel into a 1 1/2-quart ring mold. Using potholders to hold the mold tilt and rotate the mold to coat the bottom and let the caramel cool.
Preheat the oven to 350F. In a bowl with an electric mixer beat the egg whites with the salt until they are foamy, add the cream of tartar, and beat the whites until they just hold stiff peaks. Beat in the remaining 3/4 cup sugar, a little at a time, and beat the meringue until it holds stiff glossy peaks. Spoon the meringue into the ring mold, rapping the mold sharply on a hard surface to expel any air bubbles, and smooth the top.
(The meringue will fill the mold completely.) Transfer the mold to a deep baking pan, add enough hot water to the pan to reach 1 inch up the side of the mold, and bake the meringue in the middle of the oven for 1 hour. (The meringue will rise completely and will deflate as it cools.) Turn off the oven and let the meringue stand in the oven for 15 minutes. Transfer the mold to a rack and let it cool completely. Invert the meringue onto a deep serving plate, letting the melted caramel drip over the top and down the sides. Some of the caramel will remain, hardened, in the bottom of the mold. Put the mold in a skillet of simmering water and heat the caramel, stirring occasionally, until it has melted. Spoon the Kahlua custard sauce around the meringue, drizzle the meringue decoratively with the melted caramel, and crumble some of the sesame pumpkin-seed brittle over it. Serve the remaining custard sauce separately.
To make Kahlua custard sauce:
In a small heavy saucepan bring the half-and-half just to a boil with the vanilla bean and remove the pan from the heat. In a bowl whisk together the egg yolks and the sugar until the mixture is combined well and add the half-and-half mixture in a slow stream, whisking. Transfer the mixture to a heavy saucepan and cook it over moderate heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until it thickens slightly and registers 175F. on a candy thermometer. (The sauce will thicken as it cools.) Strain the custard sauce through a fine sieve into a metal bowl set in a larger bowl of ice and cold water, let it cool, stirring, and stir in the Kahlua. Chill the sauce, covered, for at least 2 hours, or until it is very cold. The sauce may be made 2 days in advance and kept covered and chilled.
Makes about 2 cups.
To make sesame pumpkin-seed brittle:
In a dry heavy skillet cook the sugar over moderate heat until it begins to melt and continue cooking it, stirring with a fork, until it is melted completely and is a golden caramel. Remove the skillet from the heat, stir in the pepitas and the sesame seeds, and, working quickly, pour the mixture onto a sheet of foil. Let the brittle cool and break it into small pieces.
The brittle may be made 1 week in advance and kept in an airtight container.
Makes about 1/2 pound.
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Post subject: German Chocolate Pie A La Mexicana
Darn. I was going to suggest this essentially flourless chocolate bourbon cake that I picked up from an issue of Fine Cooking, but since you were beaten by this last year....how about a German Chocolate Pie? Nothing better than chocolate, coconut, and almonds.
I'm feeling a little lazy so I'm not going to post a recipe here. But, Ken Haedrich's book PIE, has a good one and the only change I make is that I use Abuelita brand Mexican chocolate reducing the chocolate amount by 1 ounce and adding a 1 ounce square of Baker's Unsweetened baking chocolate to add an extra note of chocolate depth.
You could make a whipped cream topping and flavor it with a little decaffeinated espresso or instant coffee, reconstituted in a little water or cream first.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious and contagious infection that most commonly affects the lungs. Latent TB means the person has the infection but is not ill yet. Patients with latent TB are often given an antibiotic treatment to prevent active TB from developing. Treating latent TB has advantage of eliminating the infection before it makes the patient sick and before it becomes contagious. Unfortunately, the treatment is a long course of daily antibiotics over nine months. For many people a long course of antibiotic when you aren't experiencing symptoms can lead to low treatment completion rates (30%-64%). As with any antibiotic treatment, it is important for the entire treatment to be completed to eliminate the bacteria and decrease risk of developing antibiotic resistant strains of TB.
Researchers investigated the benefits of a shorter course of antibiotics with rifapentine and isoniazid compared to standard nine month treatment with isoniazid alone in patients with latent TB at high risk of progression of disease. The trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the shorter combination therapy was as effective as long-term therapy at preventing development of TB.
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The randomized trial included 8,053 patients with latent TB. The patients were randomized to receive one of two treatment options:
- Directly-observed administration of rifapentine 900 mg plus isoniazid 900 mg once weekly for three months (healthcare team watched patients take treatment)
- Self-administered isoniazid 300 mg once daily for nine months
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- 0.19% with three month treatment vs. 0.43% with nine month treatment
- 0.1% with three month treatment vs. 0.2% with nine month treatment in patients who completed all medicine doses
The three month treatment with the two drugs led to less need to stop medicines due to adverse events. It also made it more likely that the patients would complete the entire treatment.
How Does This Affect You?
This trial was a large randomized trial, which means the results are considered reliable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added a recommendation to their TB guidelines based on this trial. The CDC now recommends isoniazid plus rifapentine over three months with directly observed therapy as an alternative to isoniazid once daily for nine months in otherwise healthy patients who are 12 years of age or older with latent TB at risk for developing TB.
The shorter dose with combination of rifapentine and isoniazid appears as effective as nine month course of isoniazid. Decreasing the length of treatment may make it much easier to fully complete treatment, although the shorter dose requires observation by medical professionals. In this study, the combination of rifapentine and isoniazid was also related to fewer incidences of severe adverse events requiring treatment to be stopped. Latent TB may be found during a TB screening. If you are diagnosed with latent TB, talk to your doctor about your risk factors for developing active TB and which treatment options may be best for you.
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"Scrap the Code" is becoming a silent mantra in the early stages of the presidential primaries. Most candidates have heard this popular mandate from the public and have responded by making substantive proposals for, or at least paying lip service to, a fairer, flatter tax system. In classic grassroots style, the presidential candidates are being pulled toward this issue. Tax reform, once considered dead with the failed 1996 presidential race of Steve Forbes, is now a legitimate issue four years later.
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A new poll released this week by the Des Moines Register shows that forty-two percent of likely Republican caucus participants favor a flat tax, while 33 percent favor changes that basically keep the current tax structure in place. Sixteen percent want a national sales tax to replace the income tax. Des Moines Register poll.


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Of me hiring a cricket-loving, Indian, Accounts Payable clerk a few months before the Indians nail the Aussies 2-0 in a series and send us home with our tails between our legs?
Damn you Viral. You and your exuberant celebrations and outlandish predictions (many of which have come true) and your Bollywood shirts. Be very careful not to make any keying errors over the next few months. You have been warned.
PS – What the hell is going on in the above photo? I hope they are using a condom.


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Explore Wellington's nature and wildlife sanctuaries
Wellington offers a variety of nature experiences - walking in forest parks, enjoying native birdlife on nearby islands, and diving into marine reserves.
Visitors to Wellington can experience nature and historic reserves, marine reserves, and a range of walking, cycling and snorkelling trails.
Matiu/Somes, Kapiti, and Mana Islands provide a safe haven for native wildlife and are popular destinations for day trips.
For marine life, Taputeranga Marine Reserve on the south coast and Kapiti Marine Reserve on the Kapiti Coast are two of the Coastal Gems.
The Rimutaka Forest Park and the Tararua Ranges offer walking and hiking tracks for all ages and abilities. For those wanting to stay overnight, accommodation is available.
Matiu / Somes Island Scientific and Historic Reserve
Located in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington Harbour, Matiu / Somes Island is the largest of three islands in the harbour, and is a tranquil retreat for wildlife and visitors alike. Access is by ferry from downtown Wellington.
Māori have occupied this island for generations. In more recent times, Matiu / Somes Island has served as a human and animal quarantine station, an internment camp, and a military defence position for both World Wars.
Well-graded walking tracks allow visitors to explore the island. Accommodation is also available.
Taputeranga Marine Reserve
At Taputeranga Marine Reserve, located 6 km from the city centre on Wellington's south coast, over 180 fish species have been recorded. Octopus, rock lobsters, crabs and starfish are common. Anemones, sea sponges and sea squirts thrive.
The Island Bay Snorkel Trail is an ideal place to investigate the marine life in the reserve. A track along the beach allows walkers to enjoy the Marine Reserve.
Fishing and the removal or disturbance of any living or non-living marine resource is prohibited.
Kapiti Island Nature Reserve
Kapiti Island Nature Reserve, situated 5 km off the west coast of the lower North Island, is home to many native species that are either very rare or entirely absent from the mainland.
Kokako, kaka, weka, brown teal/pateke, saddleback/tieke, stitchbird/hihi, takahe, North Island tomtit/miromiro and little spotted kiwi/kiwi pukupuku plus many others call Kapiti Island home.
There are two areas on the island with tracks open to the public - Rangatira Point, and Waiorua Bay at the Northern end of the island.
Home to over 1400 little spotted kiwi, a night visit to Kapiti Island offers visitors to chance to see the iconic New Zealand bird in their natural habitat. Overnight accommodation is available at the North end.
Waikanae Estuary
The Waikanae Estuary is a nationally-significant reserve which protects a natural mosaic of freshwater lakelets, saltwater lagoons and marshes, tidal sand flats and sandy beach at the mouth of the Waikanae River.
It connects the Kapiti Marine Reserve and Kapiti Island Nature Reserve, providing a rare sequence of protection for animals which move between sea, river and land habitats.
The river and estuary is a tidal home and airport to a variety of waders and sea birds. More than 60 species of birds breed there, including banded dotterel, pukeko, dabchick, and variable oystercatcher.
Wheel chair friendly walking tracks allow people to explore this unique environment.
Mana Island Scientific Reserve
Walking tracks around Mana Island offer impressive views of steep-sided and flat-topped island. A restored Wool Shed houses historic displays of the island's past.
Many bird species can be seen on Mana Island including takahe, blue penguin/korora, brown teal/ pateke, fluttering shearwater/pakahā, Australasian gannet/takapu, yellow-crowned parakeet/kakariki, little spotted kiwi/ kiwi pukupuku and North Island robin/toutouwai.
Rimutaka Forest Park
Beech forest dominates much of the Rimutaka Forest Park, joined by podocarps at lower altitudes. These forests support hundreds of indigenous plant species and provide habitat for a range of invertebrates, freshwater fish, reptiles and birds including reintroduced brown kiwi.
The Catchpool Valley entrance and campsite is the most popular entrance to the park. The track into the valley is suitable for family groups. There is also hut accommodation, within two to three hour's hike into the valley.
Turakirae Head Scientific Reserve
Turakirae Head offers earthquake-raised beaches that record a continuous geological upheaval over the past 7,000 years.
Wellington's largest fur seal colony is within an easy flat walk from the main car park.
The Wild Coast Track cycle trail passes through Turakirae Head.
This is part of the Rimutaka cycle trail, a trail which cuts through the bush-clad Rimutaka Mountain Range, passing through tunnels on an old rail trail, and skirting around the wild southern coast.
Visiting predator-free islands
Three islands near Wellington - Matiu/Somes, Kapiti, and Mana Islands, which are managed by the Department of Conservation (DOC), provide a protected area for native wildlife. To keep the islands predator and pest free, visitors must inspect their bags and footwear for ants, rodents, seeds, soil and leaves before landing on the island.
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Start your journey through New Zealand's stunning landscapes at a Department of Conservation Visitor Centre. Information about conservation areas, as well as DOC's 14,000 km of tracks, 10 Great Walks, and network of 950 huts and 324 campsites.