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Without a doubt, Jill Shaw is the new artist of summer 2012 for me. "Summer Sucks" is one hell of a debut single and one of the best things to come out of Belgium in a while. Even that single cover is popstar perfect!
Jill's voice has that bubblegum pop quality to it (God, how I've missed that in the charts) but she roughens the total package up with confidence, guitars and attitude. Think a harder pop/rocking M2M if they weren't such prudes. "Don't say you love me, you don't even know me"? Jill wouldn't even have bothered with your name.
Two years ago a then 15-year-old by the name of Jill Van Vooren entered the Belgian Junior Eurovision selections. As one half of duo Jill & Lauren she deservedly won a ticket to Belarus with "Get Up!", still the pop-iest Belgian JESC entry to date.
Her partner in crime Lauren De Ruyck has since launched a solo career as Lauren Anny J, is starring in musicals and has been cast in the popular kids' series Galaxy Park. Now it's Jill's time to shine, having signed to Sony Music and working with the team who were behind Eline De Munck's excellent Ellektra phase.
"Summer Sucks" comes with a gorgeous video which was shot in Costa Rica. The track starts with an intro reminiscent of the opening to Shakira's "Whenever, Wherever" and once you rock your way through the undeniably catchy chorus there's no turning back. This'll be in your head till fall. If summer's going to suck, having this song around will no doubt make up for that.
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Sweet Technique: Piping 101
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Not very long ago, I wrote an ode to Swiss buttercream, the mother of all buttercreams, for taste, texture, and superior decorating capability. When I first learned to make it, years before I ever set foot in pastry school, I delighted in making neat, uniform mounds with fluted ridges using a set of metal piping tips that I'd purchased at a yard sale. I never really knew how to pipe, but I'd force the tips through a tiny hole cut into the corner of a plastic bag, load it up with buttercream, and squeeze, moving the bag in a circular motion. The cupcakes always looked good enough, and they tasted great.
When I got to pastry school, I discovered that faking it like that would no longer cut it. There were month-long sections in which we learned techniques for decorating cakes, and I discovered quickly that, much like my lefty chicken-scratch handwriting, my cake decorating skills were sloppy and illegible. My skills and sensibilities for this particular art form were so bad, that I remember whipping up a batch of buttercream and sitting at my kitchen table for hours with my piping bag and decorating tips, piping shapes for practice onto a plate, scraping the frosting off, and repeat. This exercise definitely paid off. When it comes to cake decorating, practice makes perfect.
Decorating cakes the way the pros do takes years of dedication and practice, but knowing a few cool tricks can definitely make the difference between a boring cake and a cake that looks elegant and special. With just a basic set of metal piping tips; including an open star tip, closed star tip, round tip, leaf tip, tapered petal tip, and a basket tip, there are many impressive designs that you can create to jazz up a cake. (Here's a good set of tips, nails, and coupler on Amazon, though many people also sell these for much less on ebay.) Additional equipment is not absolutely necessary, but it's also nice to have a piping bag, either the disposable plastic or the reusable kind (you can also use heavy-duty, plastic freezer storage bags in a pinch), and a plastic coupler, which allows you to switch decorating tips as you go without having to stop, empty, and refill the piping bag each time.
With just these basic decorating tips, you can make all kinds of dots and stars, shells, flowers, leaves, stripes, and a woven basket design. This tutorial just scratches the surface of the possibilities when creativity meets buttercream. Click through the slideshow to learn some of the designs, then whip up a batch of buttercream and get practicing.
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A ballot measure will come before New York voters on Election Day, asking us whether we will approve a constitutional amendment to permit an expansion of gambling in our state. The Bishops of New York State have issued a clear statement on this initiative, urging us to consider all the relevant factors in deciding how to vote on this matter.
I have done as our Bishops have asked. Speaking just for myself (and not in my capacity as an official of the Archdiocese), I strongly urge voters to reject this amendment.
The idea is being touted by state officials as a way to enhance government revenue and increase jobs. In fact, the measure would just increase compulsive gambling, impose an unfair regressive tax on poor people, and further coarsen our culture by encouraging improvidence, wasteful spending, and vice.
Once you get past the propaganda and deceptions put out by the euphemistically-named "gaming industry", you can see that gambling is a bad deal for New York, and that there was a reason that everyone once considered gambling to be a vice to be suppressed, not a form of entertainment to be encouraged.
Two recent scholarly studies (see here and here) summarize the negative social effects of gambling, particularly as it will impact New York. Among their findings:
This doesn't even include the awful corrupting effect on our political culture from the massive expenditures by the "gaming industry" to politicians — creating a repulsive marketplace for "legal graft" and back-room influence peddling in our state capital. Or the deliberate and deceptive slanting of the language of the ballot initiative, in a transparent attempt to gull people into supporting it. If you have a strong stomach, check out the recent report outlines the sordid political deals that have brought us to this point.
In their report, "New York's Promise: Why Sponsoring Casinos is a Regressive Policy Unworthy of a Great State", the Institute for American Values asks a very pointed question about this ballot initiative:
The question for New York is a simple one. Is this who we are?
The answer should be a resounding "No!" We are better than this. We should not be wasteful, improvident, and exploitative. We should not allow any powerful industry to prey upon weaknesses, nor should we allow our government and politicians to profit from them. We should protect people and their families from vice and addiction.
Please, for the sake of the soul of our state, and the lives of our fellow citizens. Vote "No" on New York State Proposal One on Election Day.
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The Tech 10: A Ballmer/Chambers Schmoozefest, Adobe Delays Media Player and Blu-Ray Loses Ground
Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won't be writing or posting videos until he returns Monday, Aug. 27.
To keep you abreast of tech news while he's away, we're compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. We're calling it the Tech 10 and it appears below.
- Although they made no jokes about their secret marriage, as did Apple's Steve Jobs when he appeared with Microsoft's Bill Gates at D5 in May, the CEO schmoozefest between Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and John Chambers of Cisco today in New York City yielded news of increased cooperation between the two tech giants, according to eWeek. Ballmer also deflected questions from moderator Charlie Rose about whether Microsoft was contemplating acquiring Yahoo, writes Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG News Service.
- Adobe's Media Player isn't quite ready for show time: the eagerly awaited player won't be fully released until next year. In an exclusive, Beet.TV's Andy Plesser gets the word from an Adobe spokesman and posts a video interview with Adobe's Chris Hock, head of its Flash media group.
- Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks have chosen HD DVD over competing technology Blu-Ray as a means of releasing their DVD movie titles, according to FT.com. The decision heats up the DVD format battle, as media companies consider which technology provides a better viewing experience.
- With little fanfare, Hewlett-Packard has debuted Cloudprint, a free service enabling users to print documents on any printer from almost any location worldwide. According to the New York Times, the innovation came after H-P wondered earlier this year how it might piggyback on the release of Apple's iPhone.
- Speaking of the iPhone (left), recycling is already catching on. This week, Apple is bringing out refurbished iPhones at the online Apple store. Engadget notes that the company is discounting the reconditioned handsets by $100 for both models.
- Skype, reports the Register, is blaming its outage woes last week on a flood of users downloading a routine security patch. The VOIP provider has also issued an apology for the "unprecedented" service interruption, which for some users lasted into the weekend.
- Google is flexing its muscle in China. Reuters reports that the search colossus has bought a stake in a Chinese community Web site called Tianya.cn. The move in the second-largest Internet market in the world marks Google's growing interest in social networking.
- Tilera Corp., a start-up in Silicon Valley, has revealed details of its 64-processor chip. The Wall Street Journal says that the chip and its underlying design could be used in products that have upward of a thousand calculating engines.
- A multistage attack has left job-search site Monster.com reeling from a potentially huge stolen-data headache. Computerworld disclosed that more than 1.6 million records belonging to several hundred thousand people have been compromised by a Trojan horse program that could plant malware on their computers.
- Who's behind those mysterious edits to the entries on Wikipedia? Why, the very corporations written about. According to Wired, Wikipedia Scanner, a data-mining service launched earlier this month, has shown that millions of entry changes can be tracked to corporate "editors."
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Two More from 1955
We return once again to 1955, and the first few weeks of Disneyland's opening. Starting with this shot of the Carrousel; there is a large generator to our left, I'm guessing it was used to help provide light for the workmen working on the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship behind us. As you'll see in a future post, it has a way to go before it is ready for its closeup. So to speak. The Carrousel itself is sort of lost in the shadows, but I still enjoy a bit of "people watching". It wouldn't be long before ladies stopped wearing skirts everywhere and switched over to capri pants and pedal-pushers.
It must be an optical illusion, Frontierland looks surprisingly vast in this photo! I guess it's due to our angle looking back at the bend in the river. You can see that expanse of green lawn near Aunt Jemima's and the Silver Banjo BBQ... I'm not sure how long that remained there, or even what replaced it. Was it simply paved over to make room for lots of pounding, sneakered feet? Judging by the stippled surface of the river, there was a nice breeze to help take the edge off of the summer heat.


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LOS ANGELES – Strong surf will pound the Southern California coast Tuesday as gusty winds, low humidity and above-normal temperatures combine to create an "elevated fire danger," especially in the mountains and foothills, forecasters said.
The expected "moderate to high surf" will hammer west-facing beaches through Wednesday morning, according to a National Weather Service advisory. It is the product of a "moderate long-period swell."
The surf is likely to produce strong rip currents and sneaker waves, the kind that can sweep a person into the sea, forecasters said.
A Beach Hazards Statement will remain in effect through Wednesday morning in L.A. and Ventura counties and parts of Santa Barbara County while elsewhere in Santa Barbara County and in San Luis Obispo County, a more serious High Surf Advisory will be in force, according to the NWS.
A westerly swell "even more energetic" than the one now affecting the region is expected Friday, generating high surf Friday and Saturday from San Luis Obispo County to L.A. County, an NWS advisory said.
"Remember! If caught in a rip current, swim parallel to shore until you are free of the powerful current. Always swim near a lifeguard," it said.
Fire, meanwhile, also remained a potential hazard. Gusty northwest winds will sweep portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties today amid low humidity and above-normal temperatures, bringing the region "elevated fire danger" today and tonight, especially in the mountains and foothills, according to an NWS advisory.
But while red flag warnings were in force all of last week, none had been issued by this morning.
The NWS, meanwhile, forecast partly cloudy skies but high temperatures for a January: 70 in Newport Beach, Palmdale and Lancaster; 71 on Mount Wilson; 73 in Avalon; 75 at LAX; 78 in Long Beach; 79 in Saugus; 80 in downtown L.A; 83 in Anaheim, Pasadena and Woodland Hills; 84 in San Gabriel; and 85 in Burbank. Similar weather is forecast for Wednesday.
A high of 84 was recorded in Burbank Monday, beating the old Burbank record for a January — 82, set in 2009.
And another milestone was recorded in Burbank — eight consecutive days with a high of 80 or higher, matching a pattern recorded in January 2009, according to the NWS.
In Sandberg in the Antelope Valley, a high of 65 was set Monday, matching a record set in 1971 and equaled in 1975 and 1994.


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Darklord, great stuff. Where in Brooklyn do you live? I lived in Williamsburg/Greenpoint from 1988 to 2003. I'm now in the Bronx. Lando the Scoundrel is in Long Island City. It's good to see another New Yorker out on the boards.
Wow. Too bad you weren't around a few years back, it would have been fun to have a SW neighbor.
I miss Manhattan Ave. The little toy shop up there was actually great. I found many hard to find figures there, including the DST trooper wave, and the TC-14 wave.
Hi. The Greenpoint Toy Center is on Manhattan Ave, North of Norman, and close to Meserole. It's right across the street from Cheap Jacks.Also, do you have any pictures of your custom figures? I saw your packages, and they're fantastic. Do you work as a designer? ---Mike
Very cool to finally see some pictures of it! I look forward to more.
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MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Editorial Advisory and Securities Review Committee of BetterInvesting Magazine today announced Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) as its April 2012 "Stock to Study" and Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) as its April 2012 "Undervalued Stock" for investors' informational and educational use.
"The committee chose Schlumberger because of its strong long-term prospects in the oil services industry along with its highly diversified revenue stream and emphasis on the quality of its services," said Adam Ritt, editor of BetterInvesting Magazine. "For the Undervalued selection, the committee noted drilling contractor Noble's belief that the problems related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are behind it and the company's aggressive expansion plans, which include three ultra-deepwater drillships." Check BetterInvesting Magazine's April 2012 issue for more details about these selections.
Committee members are Robert M. Bilkie, Jr., CFA; Daniel J. Boyle, CFA; Philip S. Dano, CFA; Donald E. Danko, CFA; Maury Elvekrog, CFA; Walter J. Kirchberger, CFA; Marisa Lenhard, CFA; and Paul McVey, CFA.
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KDE 3.4 Will Talk to You
The KDE Accessibility team is in the process of integrating speech synthesis into KDE. Not only does this mean better support for visually-impaired and speech-impaired users, but the new features should also prove for a fun desktop experience overall. An important milestone has been reached with the recent release of the KDE Text-to-Speech System (ktts). If you wish to learn more about speech synthesis support in KDE, you can also read an extensive interview with four developers at the KDE Accessibility Website.
Both ktts and KSayIt (an application to read out longer texts) will be included in KDE 3.4. They are important additions to KMouth (an application for speech impaired people) and the other two assistive technologies in KDE, KMouseTool and KMagnifier.
The interview is part of a planned series of interviews with participants of the KDE Accessibility Project. Future interviews will cover other areas of accessibility in KDE:
Pretty cool
This sounds (easy joke) very cool to me. Accesibility is a very important goal to me, but accesibility features are not only useful for people with disabilities. I use the text zooming in konqueror a lot when I want to read something, and I'm very separated from the screen. Now I hope that with ktts I can still read websites or emails while I'm tidying my room or having a shower. ;-)
I'm sure other geeks will find other interesting uses to this features.
By suy at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
The HAL factor
Accessibility aside, you can't beat the coolness factor having your computer talk to you:-) Using ktts to speak the messages from knotify sounds like fun.
One question tho, since I almost always have music plying. Can you set ktts to fade the volume from the mediaplayer (noatun/juk) to like 25% of current volume before it speaks and turn the volume up afterwards? I don't think playing it on top of the music without doing anything with the volume or temporary stopping it would not give anything particularly comprehendable.
By Morty at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
file it as a wish on bugs.kde.org... the sooner, the better. should be easy to do via dcop...
By Mathias at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
Especially with JuK and Noatun having a similar dcop interface.
By mETz at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
The coolness factor is the kind of thing Microsoft uses to sell you their soft (despite how much cooler KDE is).
By Shulai at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
> you can't beat the coolness factor having your computer talk to you:-)
Agreed, but, I want to be able to talk to it.
IBM's ViaVoice was fairly good. I have a (oldish) copy of ViaVoice from my MDK 8.0 Pro CD's (and for whatever reson the CD that ViaVoice is on can't be read... :-\ - I'm on Gentoo these days anyway). ViaVoice worked when I used it last. I want to be able to have a mic sitting in front of me and be able to say "Computer play eno" and have music play. Can I do this yet?
By Xanadu at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
> IBM's ViaVoice was fairly good.
I agree. The problem is that IBM still refuses to make ViaVoice available for Linux endusers.
The speech recognition part is not available at all for Linux. The speech synthesis part of ViaVoice is available on Linux for about half of the languages that are supported on Windows, but only if you buy 300 copies at once for $1500 altogether.
By falonaj at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
I think that "talking to my PC", with the virtual reality stuff, was the biggest and most useless hype of the past years.
And anyway, even if only used as text typing substitute, let's think about the chaos that would be generated in a tipical office...
By Davide Ferrrari at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
SO what keeps you from talking back? Use Sphinx and Perlbox Voice (perlbox.org). Installing Sphinx is really trivial and Perlbox will do the rest. Also, Perlbox has KDE desktop integration. Works like a charm to me...
By Josephine at Thu, 2004/12/30 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
But what if you want ktts to do karaoke? You won't want it to fade the volume down.
By Miguel at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
some tts reqs
as someone who works often with tts engines, please please please include support in the api for following:
By rands at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: some tts reqs
The latter is already supported using the SSML API ;)
I went down to 32 chocolate st.
The issue with automagic string replacement is that it may not expected by the user, but this could indeed be a nice feature..
By Paul at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
I don't know much about this stuff, but perhaps you can support an api to connect to internet servers like
You can search for english and german words and there's also a french dictionary online. After searching for a word you can have it pronounced by clicking on the speakers symbol.
By Andy at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: dict.leo.org
Department of Informatics / Technical University of Munich
Fakultät für Informatik / Technische Universtität München
Egal was auf leo.org bzw der Drehscheibe stehen mag... ;-)
By TUler at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
back end...
ktts is a really good looking project.
By Mark Hannessen at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: back end...
The new Festival voices, i'm told, sound _very_ natural.
By Paul at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
Pretty cool feature, but what about non-english languages, like danish, german, spanish, japanese, icelandic and so on...
KDE is in soooo many languages, will it continue to be that in speech?
Just my 0,02 kr.
By Kalna at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Non-english
Festival supports english (British and American), Spanish and Welsh text to speech, Epos supports Czech and Slovak (read the article). These are the text to speech engines that ktts uses.
There are probably non free tts engines that are available in other languages. I wonder if it is possible to use them?
By Derek Kite at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Non-english
Also German is supported via Hadifix (txt2pho plus MBROLA) and via IMS German Festival mod. Finnish is supported via Festival. See the KTTS Handbook for details.
Besides the dozens of other languages needed, conspicuously absent are French and Italian. If anyone figures out how to get these languages working, please email your links and instructions; I'll put them in the KTTS Handbook.
By Gary Cramblitt ... at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Non-english
AT&T used to sell their natural voices packages that supported English (UK & US), French, Spanish (ES), German, and Korean. There is a Linux client available, though the software is harder to find nowadays since AT&T stopped supporting it. This is non-free software. A company called Scansoft also makes a variety of engines: English, French (FR & CA), Spanish, Dutch, German, Japanese. I'm not sure if they have Linux versions of these engines (I've only seen Windows clients). The AT&T one, at least, should not be hard to plug in, and sounds much better than the free TTS engines.
By rands at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Non-english
I think you're talking about IBM ViaVoice? To properly support it, we need a permanent licensed copy. Anyone care to donate?
By Gary Cramblitt ... at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
User speech recognition?
So how about adding capability to control the computer via speech too (on blind support for kde-4.0)?
Open Mind Speech
and others come to mind... If one could be supported/used, which one? ;-)
By Nobody at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
It is annoying already have to read so many "K", now we will hear them.
By DebianUser at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Annoying..
On Gentoo, you can remove all the K's. Simply add a sed filter to the build chain. Works like a charm. I recommend you switch!
By GentooUser at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
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Re: Congratulations from the fundator
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By c0p0n at Thu, 2004/12/23 - 6:00am
Woot! :D
As a visually impared person(20/100) and huge KDE nut I think this is really good news :)
I tried oralux 0.6a and was sort of dissapointed. Emacspeak would be nice it you took away emacs and replaced it kwrite :) Then again oralux sounded better then my attempts at getting festival to spit out ogg's via the console.
If I go totally blind one day I have faith that I will be able to pop in my live distro dvd with the entire project gutenberg collection and listen my ears out :) I think it will be cool when people who are totally blind now can do the same too! ^_^
By Nintenduh at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Support for the blind
Support for blind users sounds sweet. Is there any information available yet on how this will be accomplished?
By Canonymous Oward at Thu, 2004/12/23 - 6:00am
Re: Support for the blind
What would be _really_ nice is a OCR system for KDE which actually works properly. I have a friend who is slowly going blind. He now cannot read ordinary text, and finds life a bit shallow. I know there are commercial packages which work, but my friend is does not have a private income and cannot afford any of them. Anybody know of a solution?
By Christopher Sawtell at Sat, 2004/12/25 - 6:00am
Re: Support for the blind
By Nintenduh at Sat, 2004/12/25 - 6:00am
Re: Support for the blind
The free versions of SUSE come with an OCR system, that seems to be commercial, but works very well.
By Z_God at Sat, 2004/12/25 - 6:00am
Re: Support for the blind
> Is there any information available yet on how this will be accomplished?
The Qt-toolkit used by KDE already has support for screen readers on Windows and Macintosh. The next version (Qt4) will also support the Linux screen reader Gnopernicus, and a number of other assistive technologies.
We are closely cooperating with the GNOME project to create common standards for accessibility purposes.
We will make more information about this available during the next weeks.
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Sun, 2004/12/26 - 6:00am
Better use of time
It would seem to me that a better use of development time would be things that make Linux more user friendly for the masses. Things like software installation for example. Less time needs to be spent on "foo-faa" features like rotating background software while blending it with a webpage or yet another screen saver option. Don't get me wrong, KDE talking to you is going to be very cool, but there are more important things that need to be fixed first. In reality most of the common tasks that people do in Windows are too difficult on Linux for the end-user. Microsoft will rule the world until a more concentrated effort on making KDE (or Gnome) a really usable environment for Linux and not just some "cool thing" for geeky types to play with.
By chris at Thu, 2004/12/30 - 6:00am
Re: Better use of time
KDE talking to you is more about accessibility than having a toy to play with. It is very important for those who need it.
By Paul Eggleton at Fri, 2004/12/31 - 6:00am
French Perlbox release
I built a french version of perlbox which uses espeak instead of festival.
So to use perlbox voice french (which can be modified to be used with other languages) we need :
- Perl
- Espeak that you will compile from sources, packages included in distros are generaly outdated
- Sphinx 2 in it's simplest version, no matter if in English
- extract the archive you downloaded in the directory /tmp
Logout from your root account and launch ./perlbox-voice
download from http://www.r-kraft.com/perlbox-voice-fr-1.0.tar.bz2
or from http://perlboxfr.tuxfamily.org/
you may have a qucik view of this version at working in it's very alpha version, so it wasn't able to identify every words but only few of them, for now it has evolved so it should be usable even with complex words http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/rkraft_fr/video/x2meug_dscf1...
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About 40% of the mammal species population are rodents, and they can habitat throughout the united states and are commonly found in the Minneapolis area. Common rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters. Rodents utilize their sharp incisors to nibble wood, break into food, and bite predators. A lot of rodents consume seeds or plants which can cause damage to your garden. Spreading diseases and potentially causing illness to your family or pets is a good reason to rid your property of these often cute little furry creatures.
If you observe any of the indications mentioned it is necessary to act promptly and stop the issue from becoming worse. It is likewise ideal to identify where these rodents are entering your property and where they may be lingering if possible. Mice usually like kitchen locations which give them food sources and can be accessible with spaces around the utility lines located near cooking areas or behind appliances such as the fridge and stove.
The most effective means to get rid of a rodent infestation is to stop them from entering your residence. Also if you already have a mouse or rat trouble or reside in an apartment building, exclusion of these parasites will certainly be the most effective lasting option for a rat issue.
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Insecure hike: New federal digs may require scary crossing
Uncle Sam is at it again back to choosing a new home for the local branch of the Social Security Administration.
Last winter, the feds were contemplating plush office space at the pricey Peter Jefferson Place that sounded lovely for SSA employees but less desirable for their clients because the nearest bus stop at State Farm Boulevard was several hundred yards away. That posed a formidable hike for the elderly and disabled, many of whom rely on public transportation.
Although a decision was to have been made in April, the General Services Administration recently sent out a new request for proposals. The site that reportedly is now the leading candidate is out on Pantops near Aunt Sarah's Pancake House. And once again, the nearest bus stop is at State Farm Boulevard. That requires bus-riding Social Security clients to hike across four busy lanes of U.S. 250 east– plus turn lanes– with no pedestrian crossing.
"That is not good pedestrian access," says Charlottesville Transit Service manager Helen Poore. Could the bus route be extended to be closer to the proposed site? Poore says that would be up to Albemarle County, which pays for routes in the county.
Of course, this property, owned by Westminster Canterbury, may not be the ultimate home for Social Security. David Turner, the developer who submitted the winning bid to build the new offices, says another developer is contesting the choice. The other bidders were a group led by Charles Hurt and another group led by Lane Bonner, neither of whom could be reached for comment.
"We'd gotten some indication we might be the ones," says Turner. "There was a protest submitted that should be resolved in two weeks."
The existing Social Security office, which serves a largely elderly and disabled client base, is located downtown at the Market Street Parking Garage, a hub for most City bus lines. So why the need for a new location less accessible to the clientele?
John McFadden, with the General Services Administration in Philadelphia, who is handling the office space search in Charlottesville, did not return repeated phone calls from The Hook.
When Social Security was considering Peter Jefferson Place, a complaint reached the office of Senator John Warner, and an aide there explained that the local Social Security office decides the final site location. Local SSA head Daniel Kliamovich also did not return The Hook's call.
Presumably, the local Social Security office will let their clients know where to find them once a new office is chosen. Whether the walker brigade will be able to cross the street is another matter.


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The Sword Of Elendil
Chapter 030
Aragorn Walks the Pathways
I walk in blissful memory among the birches of Rivendell, Arwen's hand in mine. Late summer flowers, white and yellow and pink, strew the green-gold forest floor. The warm breeze lifts petals from the trees and grass and brushes our faces with their softness. She laughs as fluttering blossoms catch in her hair, pale blue against the dark blue-black gloss of her long tresses falling loose over her shoulders. I feel the warm silkiness of her slender fingers in my hand, her fragrance surrounds me, her whispered words caress my ear. For this, I would endure any torment.
But in the distance thunder crackles and a wolf howls.
The sky darkens. Rain falls—not the warm rains of summer in Rivendell, but the harsh icy rain of the northern wild. My empty hand now holds only sorrow. The birches and the flowers are gone, and I see only gloomy leafless trees and brush amid a stony ground. "Arwen!" I call. My head bent against the wind and rain, I see a faint trail through the tangled branches. I follow it. I hear the hooting of owls on the hunt. The trail disappears, and I am stumbling on sharp rocks, falling to my hands and knees, leaving a trail of blood from my cut palms. "Arwen!"
I can hear Halbarad's voice. "Dream of her!" he is telling me. "Think of her! Fight the Enemy!"
I'm trying, I say to him. But I can't hear him any more. The wind is roaring in my ears, the thorns tearing my clothing, and I feel the menace of the black wings of my fever dreams swooping upon me. The dark wings will grab me and I will no longer be Aragorn but his creature. All around me now, loping through the dusky underbrush, are grey shapes, and the howl of the wolf tears the very air.
"No!" I cry. Blinded by rain and wind, I falter onwards until suddenly, with a cry of terror, I fall. I try to catch myself, but no—I plunge into icy water. I peer before me and see only water, more water. I kick off my boots and thrust my body into the deep, chill currents and begin to swim. If I must, I will drown before I let him take me.
I swim until my body trembles with fatigue. No strength left, I let go, sink, sink, sink. All is black and fear grabs me again. Here is no release after all. He will take me dying.
A light appears, hovering above me, rich and sweet. It grows to a round sparkling window; through the trembling water I can see a wood of silver-bark trees heavy with golden flowers.
It is her voice. Her beautiful face appears in the window, searching for me.
"Estel!" she calls again.
I reach for her with my last strength. My lungs bursting for air, I come to the surface again. Golden light shimmers about me, green ferns murmur songs of peace. The water now is soft and warm, like a pond on a summer's day. I half-swim, half-float to the bank, and fall back exhausted. "Rest," says her voice. "I will hold him back for a little."
I gasp for breath. "Rest," she says again. "When you can go on, follow the path."
"There is no path," I cry, and I can hear the despair in my own voice.
"You will find it," she says.
I close my eyes. Do I sleep? Perhaps. I feel strength returning to my body and mind. When at last I open my eyes and rise to my feet, the wood is dark again. I see no golden window, no starry eyes. I plunge ahead, looking for the path. I find only a narrow trail littered with dry brown leaves, fit only for beasts. When I pass, sharp twigs catch at my body from both sides; I must duck under lowering branches.
And again the wolf howls.
I stop, my heart pounding with fear. "Arwen! Where are you?"
I hear her voice from far away. "I can come no longer. Follow the path. Farewell, Estel."
"No!" I thrust out my hands blindly, but my hand touches only dry leaves and thorny brush. I crouch there, my tears dripping into the dry forest floor. "Follow the path," she says again, so faintly that I wonder if the voice comes from my own heart. I turn to look back at the pool where first I saw her. But instead of the dark water I see in the shadows of the hoary trees a grey wolf. His yellow eyes stare into mine: It is the Sorcerer. I know him by the Elven light in his wolf eyes.
I turn in panic and stumble through the dark, crashing down the path of dry brown leaves.
"Fly then, little Dúnadan," he cries after me. "You may hide for a time, but I am within you and I will never leave. Even now I learn your secrets."
Screaming defiance, I move through the dark trees. The grey shape shadows me as I flee. It is only a matter of time before he catches me.
I do not dare to stop for rest. Panting, my lungs aching, my feet sore, I run and run. At last it seems that dawn is near, if there is a dawn in this place: the sky above seems to pale. Ahead I hear a strange crash and roar as of a thunderstorm, or maybe a massive waterfall in the mountains. Suddenly the path opens up and I step out into the open. Before me stretches a sight that I have never seen with my waking eyes, but I know it from the tales and the paintings of Rivendell: the sea. Marveling I stare at the endless water, grey-blue waves surging and crashing, white foam at their crests, rushing up the sandy beach and slipping back into the turmoil of the sea.
But the wolf is catching up with me. I begin to run along the beach, my bare feet sinking into the wet sand. My enemy follows, waiting for me to give out, when the kill will be easy and swift.
Suddenly I see a figure moving swiftly down the beach toward me. He calls to me: "Senya!"
I know that voice. I stumble toward him. The wolf, snarling, stops in his tracks. Elrond enfolds me in his embrace. I know those warm, strong arms and the touch of the fingers gripping my shoulders: Their power soothed my childhood fevers. I lean my weary head against his shoulder. "Atarinya, I cannot fight any more."
"We will fight the enemy together. Look."
I raise my face and look toward the enemy on the beach.
But it is no wolf who draws near. A mighty Elven form appears before us, his eyes aglow, triumph lighting his face. He carries no weapon. He needs none.
"Greetings, Elrond Half-Elven. My last revenge will be sweet and long."
"Ahando," my foster father says. Never have I seen such fierceness in his eyes, he who is ever kind and strong. "Moredhel, the cruel servant of Celegorm who murdered my mother's brothers."
"So you Exiles call me," the Sorcerer answers. "And it was for this deed that you named me the Black Elf. Yes, I took Dior's two sons, bound them and left them to starve in the forest."
"And for that you lost your Elven body to the blade of Maedhros son of Fëanor, my foster father. He himself tried to rescue the princes, but when he could not find them, he hunted you down and cut out your heart."
"Maedhros was a weakling," sneers Moredhel. "In the end he could not do what was needed and fell to the Valar's curse. He should have killed you and your mongrel brother and finished off your pathetic race. Half-Elven!" He spits at Elrond's feet.
My foster father says slowly, "You speak with much disdain for the race of Men and the Half-Elves. And yet you steal their bodies for your own need."
Moredhel smiles. "Yes, and I will do it again. As soon as a Man or an Elf comes within my reach, I will return to the seen world. Then my master's power will rise even stronger in the North, and Angmar will be reborn. This time we will not fail."
"Do not raise the victory cup to your lips before the battle is fought," Elrond says. "For this war has gone on since the beginning of the world, and only the world's end will tell the victor."
"Spare me your foresight," Moredhel says. "Against the power of Barad-dur there is no victory."
"No victory by force of arms, perhaps," Elrond says. "But we have other weapons that you cannot understand. Love, hope, courage."
"Phantoms," Moredhel says. "I hate you and your witless dreams. For the Valar safe behind the mountains of Pelori will pay you no heed."
"Your hate comes from fear," Elrond says, his voice ringing with authority. "Huor, my grandfather's father, spoke true words to Turgon, my grandmother's father: 'though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and from me a new star shall arise.' That hope is the doom of you and your foul master."
Moredhel shifts his piercing gaze to me. His eyes glitter with malice. "This is your Hope? This Man? He would be wholly in my power but for your interference, peredhel. Already he has done murder at my bidding."
I cannot keep the cry from my lips. "No! You murdered Beleg, you destroyed him. His spirit was gone from his body."
"So ready to believe everything I say. Ah, you will serve well." Moredhel's voice is soft and wheedling. "Beleg wanders houseless as a ghost and cannot leave the bounds of Middle-earth. He will never be at peace. His death with haunt you all the days of your wretched, little life."
"Senya, do not heed these lies," Elrond says. He gazes steadily at the Enemy. "The Age of Men will soon be upon us, Ahando, and you and your master will not taint it with your evil. The last deed of the Noldor before we go into the West will be to drive you out of Middle-earth."
Moredhel grins, mocking. "Are you so certain you will be admitted, Half-Elven? You and your half-caste children?"
Elrond ignores these taunting words. He lifts his arm and from the ring on his hand a silver-blue light begins to glow. "You will leave this place now. Begone! Your spirit has no power here in the pathways of our hope."
The Sorcerer's answer is a snarl as he again becomes the wolf. But he has final words for us. "I will find the Heir of Isildur again, and I will kill him when he is far from your help."
Then it is as if the world has melted in a blazing forge. A roar fills my ears, and the sky turns. We fall to the damp sand, my foster father and I, and I do not know sky, earth, feet, head. A long dark time comes.
"Wake up, senya."
I open my eyes. Above me, a limpid blue sky, and bending over me is the loving face of my foster father, the only father I have ever known. But we are no longer at the shore of the pounding sea.
"What is this place?" I say.
In answer he reaches out his strong hands, and helps me to my feet. I gasp with the effort of standing, and sway, clutching his arm. I hold tight until the sky stops spinning above me. Around me is a field of wild grass and heather. In the far distance I see the towers and walls of a great city.
"Estel, the pathways are now open to you. See!"
I look to the north where his hand points. And wending its way through the fields there is a trail, little more than a faint trace where the grass does not grow so well. "What is this place?" I say again.
"The pathway of your power," he says. "You must learn to walk it."
"Where will I go?"
"The Powers have given us this gift; what they may show you I do not know. Every man treads the pathways alone."
"And you, atarinya?"
"We will meet again when the time comes. Go!"
As he commands I follow the faint trail in the grass for a while, then turn to wave good-bye. But he is no longer there. I am utterly alone. Taking a deep breath I continue on my way. Passing down into a shallow valley, the trail grows wider and more worn; I see the footprints of a man in a patch of mud. But no living creature is there.
Soon the trail becomes a common dirt lane, just wide enough for a farmer's wagon, here and there a patch of grass with a few daisies, or maybe a stone marker with carving so eroded with time that I cannot read it. If this is the pathway of my power, it is a dubious power. But as I walk I realize that the air is brisk and fresh, my body again now strong and fit. My torn and shaggy clothing gone, I am dressed in good strong Ranger gear, but I carry no weapon. I set into a steady rhythm of long strides.
I see sheep grazing in the wild fields, which are giving way to patches of farmland. Across one field I see a plowman with his horse; soon I pass a roughhewn house with a barn in the back. A woman is feeding her chickens. She nods. "Good day to you," she says in the Common Tongue. I return her greeting.
I continue on my way and pass more farms, more people, all simple folk. It seems to be a goodly land of wheat, oats and fruit trees. Sheep graze in the open fields. Ahead of me the walls of the city are growing as I come nearer.
It is a city of Men, prosperous and bustling, with three vast towers looming over all. Before the walls is a busy market of fruit, grain, bread, cheeses, handiwork well-made and sturdy. Now the path divides. Which way do I follow? I go where my feet take me, without hesitation or seeming choice. I pass quays at the edge of a vast lake where ships laden with goods lie docked.
My feet take me to the middle tower, where I see the banner of the Númenoreans whipping in the wind from the lake, but I do not enter through the beautiful carven archway. I walk around the outskirts of the tower, where outbuildings, workshops, stables, and kitchens lie. At last I come to a low door in a small house, and within I find a woman at her spinning wheel—a woman of the people, with a vast apron over her homespun dress. The room is otherwise entirely empty.
"Good day, goodwife," I say in the common tongue.
She does not cease her work. "Have you come to see my wares?" she asks.
"If you will show me," I answer.
"There are many to choose from," she says. "Go within and see."
I see that in the corner of the room lies another low door. I pass through to see a long hall hewn of stone, the walls lined with tapestries. It is very quiet; the bustle of the city does not penetrate the stone. I begin to pace the hall, and soon find that other hallways branch off to left and right—many of them, vanishing into an unknown end. I am in a vast maze. I wonder if I keep walking if I will ever find the way out.
I stop and look at the hangings around me. Many show people and places that I have never seen, but know from the ancient tales: the Dwarf kingdoms, the beauty of Menegroth, the Meneltarma in Númenor that is no longer. Some are scenes of the everyday life of Men—a blacksmith, a weaver, a shepherd with his flock, a washerwoman.
"Which way am I to choose?" I murmur. "What have these to do with me?"
I keep walking. There is no order or pattern in the tapestries that I can tell. I see warfare, burning towns, Orcs armed with black bows and arrows. I see great cities from the far South and East—these I know from the books of history in Rivendell. I see a harbor of ships in flames. I see Isildur at the defeat of Sauron; he holds the broken shard of Narsil in his gloved hand and he is weeping. I see a fleet of black ships sailing up a vast river.
I see my own mother and the walls of Thurnost. I see Rivendell, timeless and never changing. Then I cry out in horror at the next tapestry: Rivendell is besieged by an army of Orcs, the roof of Elrond's House in flames and the bodies of Elves dead in a hopeless battle.
I walk on, awe and wonder and anguish growing in my heart.
The very last tapestry I see shows a young Elf-woman much like Arwen, or maybe she is Lúthien. She is sitting on a rich green lawn, her feet bare, her hair in braids down her back. She is laughing and holding out her arms to a small boy standing in the grass. He is black-haired, an Elf-child from his great beauty. Is this a scene of the past—Lúthien with Dior, her son? Or is this Arwen at some time to come? Dare I hope the child is also mine?
Tears in my eyes from hope or despair, I do not know, to my surprise I see again the door back to the woman's workshop.
I step through the low doorway to the simple, bare room. She is still there, spinning.
"Have you found what you seek, Aragorn son of Arathorn?" she asks, looking into my eyes.
"I do not know," I say. "I saw many beautiful things and many terrible things, but I did not see myself."
"Not yet," she says. "The thread is not yet woven for your tale. Many long years of hardship and toil lie before you."
"What must I do?" I cry.
"Follow the path."
"Which path do I choose?"
"I cannot tell you. Look in your own heart."
And she stood up and seemed to grow in size, her humble garments falling from her. She is now robed in white, her face suffused with power.
"Will you walk the Paths of the Dead, Elessar?"
And with that she shrank back to the spinster she had been, and turning her face away from me, again took up her spinning.
Awe and fear shiver up my back and I shield my eyes from the sight of her. The Paths of the Dead! Has she cursed me? Questions seethe in my mind, but I dare not speak to her again.
Pulling my hood over my face to hide my dread, I leave her and continue on my journey. Days go by, it seems. Always I walk, seeing many people and things all around me. At last I am again on the shore of the great sea, and there is my foster father, as he had said.
I greet him silently, embracing. We gaze at each other. He does not need to tell me that I must not speak of what I have seen.
"We are now in the pathways of my memory," he says at last. His grey eyes, full of light, look out upon the horizon. "Here on the strand of Lindon, two ages ago, I bade farewell to my brother. He loved the sea, as our father did. I loved the mountains."
Together we stand gazing upon the far, far meeting of sea and sky. I seem to see a gleam as of white sails on the edge of the world.
"I never saw him again," Elrond says.
"But surely—" I stumble on my words. "You could have gone to Númenor? It was no short time that Elros ruled there."
"No short time in the counting of Men," Elrond says. "For me, it was too long and too short all at once. I could not bear to say good-bye yet again, or to see him failing in his Mortal flesh. Then, at last, he made the choice given to the Númenoreans and laid down his life."
My heart rises in my throat, and I feel as if I will faint with horror. Or so says the Elven part of me, the part that had not seen age and the failure of the body—not until I had come to Thurnost.
Elrond turns his eyes full of light—so like his daughter's—to my face. I feel naked to his gaze. "Estel I named you," he says. "Have you never wondered why it's you, and not a child of my body, who is so named?"
I shake my head. Words cannot capture the tangle of love, hope, and reverence that is my feeling for my foster father.
"It is a salutation," Elrond says. "If we have hope for the future of Men, it rests with you."
"Of Men," I murmur.
Elrond turns on me then, suddenly fierce. "There is no other. The days of sunshine for the Eldar lie in the past. Only you, the Followers, have a future in this world. We, the Elves, will dwell only beyond the reach of Middle-earth."
"I don't understand."
"Estel," he says, his voice at once pleading and commanding. "In Men lies the future. Elros knew this. I did not. Not then. Only through you will the Children of Lúthien live to bless the Age of Men. For an Age I have guarded and taught the heirs of my brother, hoping for a future for this world."
"The Dúnedain owe you a debt that can never be paid," I say.
"You still do not understand," he says. "Elros knew that we must part. He to ensure the future of Men, I to foster his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons through the long years of defeat so that his sacrifice would not be in vain."
"Sacrifice," I say. "Yes, it is a diminishing to choose the Followers. But I have no choice in the matter, Master Elrond. A Man I was born, and a Man I shall die."
"True," he says. "Yet that is your strength. You find hope in the uncertainty of the future. You believe that despite the defeats of the present, in the future you will triumph. Your children and your grandchildren will live past you."
Hope, despair—I know not what—speaks to me then. I look into his eyes. "Master Elrond, you tell me to have hope, but you do not speak to me of the dearest hope of my heart."
He turns away from me and says softly, "Need I tell you that my daughter is too far above you?"
I flinch at the truth of his words. "Yet she came to me in the pathways and spoke to me through a mirror of light."
For an eternity he is silent. Then he turns his bright eyes back to me. "Would you ask her to make the choice that my brother made—that diminishing?"
I shudder with the horror of it. "Never." Yet I remember the tapestry of the young woman with her little son.
"Indeed, she will face no choice to stay in Middle-earth unless you come between us and bring one of us, me or you, to a bitter parting beyond the end of the world. My son, you do not yet know what you ask of me."
Then his voice changes from sorrow and regret to command. "And you do have a choice, Aragorn son of Arathorn: what to do with the years that are given to you, short though they may be. If you would be worthy of my daughter, many years of trial lie before you. We will speak no more of this, now or for a long time to come."
I am alone again on the shore of the sea.
Somehow I know that my body is in Rivendell now, resting in a soft bed. I see my mother and feel the press of her lips on my brow. But my spirit moves still in the far-off land. I do not see the wolf. I do not hear his howls. Instead I hear the voices of my kin: the voice of Saelind giving me her blessing; my grandmother Ivorwen's wise words; Halbarad's hearty laugh.
Then another comes to me, his fair face youthful and strong. I know him. "Beleg! Forgive me."
"Aragorn, take my hand," he says. "The Sorcerer no longer haunts me. Let me show you before I leave the world forever."
I grip his strong warrior's hand and his memory floods my burdened heart.
Beleg's voice murmurs: "Early spring in Thurnost was ever the best time, and that spring promised to be the loveliest yet. No doubt my own happiness in my lovely wife, Ariel, Arathorn's sister, embellished what Yavanna had made, despite the sadness that still gripped us at her miscarriage of our child. But I will always remember that one day when Arathorn and I returned from the Wild to be greeted by our wives and his small son, dark hair flying as he scampered on his sturdy legs to grab his father's coat. 'My little prince!' shouted Arathorn as he swung his son up into the air. And the boy laughed with delight, and I felt a pang of envy and hope that soon I, too, would have a son.
"We'd missed the boy's second birthday, being on the road as we were. I don't know what moved him—some premonition of what was to follow?—but he chose that day to show Aragorn the insignia of the Heir of Isildur. 'Don't touch, my little one, for you are too small for so great a weapon,' he said. He held the boy on his lap as he lay the shards of Narsil on the table. The red gem on the hilt glowed like deep fire. 'The sword of Elendil, the greatest heirloom of our kingship. Some day it will be reforged and the one who bears it then will be a great king.'
"Arathorn's deep voice recited the verses. Maybe it was the first time the boy had heard them, at least to understand:
Who shall reforge me?
Who shall he be?
Who shall be the king restored?
Who shall lead the host of Men?
Who shall wield the flame of the West,
The Sword of the Sun and the Moon?
" 'It may be you, my little prince,' Arathorn said. 'You may be that great king, my son.' "


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Groom Jonas Hecht and his bride, Veronika Peterkova, traveled from Czech Republic to have their wedding on the Florida beach. The ceremony date was significant because the vows were exchanged Nov. 11, 2011, at exactly 11 a.m. Accompanying the couple were friends and family also from the Czech Republic. After the ceremony and beach photos, the guests enjoyed the reception inside the posh La Playa Resort where the couple and guests were staying. After their honeymoon in Naples, the couple returned to their country. Katerina Klouckova, the couple's best friend, who resides in Fort Myers, was instrumental in arranging the details and worked with Lee Flowers, owner of A Amore Weddings & Notary SWFL in Cape Coral, who connected Katerina with Lee's professional wedding business associates who coordinated and provided professional photography, flowers, wedding cake, etc. Lee Flowers, owner of A Amore Weddings in Cape Coral, performed the ceremony and was also their wedding coordinator. Pete Fournier, professional photographer and videographer, was also heavily involved in capturing special moments of the wedding day. Family, friends, and the public can view this couple's additional wedding photos at www.amoreweddingsswfl.com select album, right click on this couple's first photo, then click on "Slideshow" in red at top of page to open slideshow to automatically display photos.
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Saturday, December 06, 2008
Tapping out at mile 82
4 comments:
- Apertome said...
Hey man, there's no shame in that! I am impressed that you rode as much as you did. Way to go!
- December 06, 2008 3:23 PM
- Sirrus Rider said...
Ditto! It takes audacity and some brass balls to do 82 out of 200k in freezing weather. You have nothing to be ashamed of. If it were me in that weather I would have been a non-starter.
- December 06, 2008 5:15 PM
- Chris said...
Well at least you enjoyed a good lunch! Did the winds shift for you? How did you get back?
- December 06, 2008 5:24 PM
- Noah said...
I'll answer those in the recap, but I was holding c'Dude back something fierce almost the whole trip.
On the way back through the VA Hospital between Lansing and Leavenworth I told him to bolt at his own pace without waiting up for me, because I was pretty sure I'd time out before Control #5.
C'dude barely made it to control #5 in time after he broke away, and he's a lot faster than I am.
This was a solid DNF 200k for me. I'll have more tomorrow.
- December 06, 2008 5:46 PM
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Yellow isn't a flattering color on the Gallardo. Subsequently, 90% of all Gallardo pictures you see fail to capture their cool, compact vibe. No such problem for Ed Callow, who shot this white Superleggera on the streets of London.
Callow points out that when he took this picture a passerby said that the car wasn't a real Superleggera. It sounds to us like someone's jealous.
You can see this picture 2800px-wide on Flickr.
Photo Credit: Ed Callow