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Scott Morgan necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Columbia Valley Golf Trail
The Columbia Valley Golf Trail is a group of 9 golf courses (all located within a 40 minute drive of each other) in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
We're a remote destination - 3 hours from a major airport (Calgary, Alberta), but to get here our guests take one of the world's most beautiful drives through the Canadian Rockies and Banff National Park.
Golfers obviously. About 70% of our customers are men, but we get a lot of women, couples, etc. too. We get most of our business from rubber tire traffic within 6 hours. However, I want the site to speak to a global audience. I guess we're really just targeting people anywhere who are golfers and looking to get away from their busy city lives.
Viewing our site should make people want to come see our location for themselves - and golf.
I need 4 pages designed. 1 homepage and 3 sub-page templates that should be very similar to the home page.
Things to think about:
1. The design should be a clean, simple, uncluttered design showcasing the natural beauty of our location.
2. Charming small towns, gorgeous mountain landscapes, an abundance of wildlife, and great golf really define who we are and what we offer our guests.
3. I'd like the design to not be entirely constrained within the center frame. I'd like the background to extend beyond the main frame of the site. I don't want a dominant background image or anything like that. It can be subtle. I've provided a list of website designs that I like and show the type of style I'm looking for. The background should help convey the beauty and expanse of our mountain location. I'd like the center frame to be fairly wide.
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A papyrus fragment from the fourth century contains a phrase in which Jesus refers to "My wife," which a U.S. scholar says is the first evidence supporting the belief among early Christians that he was married, The New York Times reports.
The fragment consists of eight lines of black ink, written in Coptic, which include the phrase. "Jesus said to them, 'My wife …' " Below it is what the Times calls "a second provocative clause" that reportedly says, "she will be able to be my disciple."
Karen King, a Christian scholar at the Harvard Divinity School, presented the finding today in Rome at the International Congress of Coptic Studies. She said in a statement that the earliest claim that Jesus did not marry is from 200 A.D. Early Christians did not always agree on whether they should marry or be celibate.
The fragment does not prove that Jesus was married or that if he was that it was to Mary Magdalene, according to the draft paper.
Based on the faded papyrus and handwriting, the fragment is likely authentic, Roger Bagnell, director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York, said in a statement from Harvard, Bloomberg reports.
King did not identify the owner of the fragment, which is about the size of a business card.
King showed the fragment, enclosed in glass, to the Times,The Boston Globe and Harvard Magazine on Thursday.
In an interview, the Times writes, King "repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married. The text was probably written centuries after Jesus lived, and all other early, historically reliable Christian literature is silent on the question," she said.
"This fragment suggests that some early Christians had a tradition that Jesus was married," King told the Times. "There was, we already know, a controversy in the second century over whether Jesus was married, caught up with a debate about whether Christians should marry and have sex."
The Times adds:
The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, Dr. King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery. But she and her collaborators say they are eager for more scholars to weigh in and perhaps upend their conclusions.
Even with many questions unsettled, the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary Magdalene was his wife and whether he had a female disciple. These debates date to the early centuries of Christianity, scholars say. But they are relevant today, when global Christianity is roiling over the place of women in ministry and the boundaries of marriage.
Princeton University religion professor AnneMarie Luijendijk, who co-authored the paper with King, said the fragment's poor condition suggests it was found in a garbage heap, Bloomberg writes.
The Smithsonian Channel will air a special on the discovery Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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Sometime soon, the California state legislature is going to vote on whether to move forward with the bonds necessary to start the construction of California's controversial high-speed rail system. Before they vote, they should consider the new official business plan, independent studies, the legislative analyst's advice to delay -- and one history book.
That history, Railroaded, by the Stanford historian Richard White, may have been the best book I read last year. It was a finalist for the recently announced Pulitzer Prizes. And it holds a lesson: big, grand rail projects across open space, with shaky projections about traffic, are cons.
White wasn't writing about high-speed rail. He was writing about the transcontinental railroads. In the popular imagination, the transcontinentals were a triumph. But as White makes clear, they were not. They were destructive, to the finances of individuals and governments, to the economy, to the environment, to established ways of life.
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And they never lived up to their promise. The history of the railroads is to over-promise and under-deliver. It took 30 years for rail traffic to catch with the projections and promises of the continentals.
What is the relevance? High-speed rail, a big project across the center of California with shaky finances and ridership projections, resembles the transcontinental con. And if you don't believe, ask White, who has written extensively against the California high-speed rail project. Two of the best of his many pieces are here and here.
Reading White, it's clear that any approval of high-speed rail must have constitutional provisions that protests taxpayers -- both state and federal -- against contributing any more than the money already promised for this project. If there's really a market for high-speed rail in California -- and I've seen no clear evidence that there is -- then this shouldn't be a problem at all.
So read away, lawmakers and Californians. And remember that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).


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The Senate refused to kill a $5 billion annual subsidy for ethanol today, backing continued government aid for a Farm Belt-based industry over deficit reduction in an era of record red ink.
The 40-59 vote, far short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, reflected regional as well as partisan differences, a split among Republicans — and anything but the final word on the issue.
"We continue to spend money that we don't have on things that we don't need," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a prominent deficit hawk who led the effort to eliminate the subsidy immediately.
Supporters of continued federal spending for ethanol argued it is a leading source of alternative fuel and is needed to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
"With conflicts in the Middle East and crude oil priced at more than $100 a barrel, we should be on the same side. Why would anyone prefer less domestic energy production," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said on Monday, when the measure was debated at length.
Grassley's state leads the nation both in harvesting corn and blending it into alternative fuel. Other leading ethanol-producing states are Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Indiana, and all senators from them opposed an end to the subsidy, regardless of political party.
Ethanol is blended with gasoline, and subsidized at 45 cents a gallon, with an additional 10 cents for small producers. These tax breaks long have been supported as a way to reduce oil imports by politicians in both parties, emphatically so for many who campaign across Iowa every four years in the state's kickoff presidential caucuses.
But a new emphasis on deficit reduction, particularly among Republicans aligned with tea party activists, has contributed to a shift in the political landscape.
As a result, with the current subsidy scheduled to expire at the end of the year, Grassley and other farm state lawmakers support alternative legislation to reduce the tax break without eliminating it for several more years.
Unlike Coburn's measure, the alternatives put only a fraction of the savings to deficit reduction. Instead, the rest would go for renewal of different tax breaks, including one for firms that purchase pumps to blend ethanol with gasoline. Given the pressure to cut spending, it was evident even before the vote that the roll call would not be the final word this year in Congress on ethanol.
House deficit hawks are likely to seek to cut or eliminate the subsidy, and the issue also may come up in deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden.
Additionally, shortly after Coburn's legislation was blocked, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced he would schedule additional votes on the fate of the subsidy at the end of next week.
Coburn's pre-emptive move forced a quick choice.
White House spokesman Clark Stevens said President Barack Obama opposed the elimination of the subsidy, but was "open to new approaches that meet today's challenges and save taxpayers money."
For Republicans, the choice was complicated by opposition from Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform and an inflexible opponent of tax increases.
Because the subsidy isn't scheduled to expire until the end of 2011, he said Coburn's legislation to end it immediately amounted to a tax increase.
The Oklahoman disagreed, as did other deficit hawks who said the vote marked a chance to go on record for spending cuts.
"It seems to me to be a pretty easy one" to cut, said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who said he had supported the subsidy in the past but had switched his position because of the growing national debt.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., elected to his first term last fall, said the current program was "extremely inefficient. It is a waste of taxpayer money."
But Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said ethanol takes the place of 445 million barrels of oil annually. "That is the equivalent of $34 billion that we don't send overseas," he said.
Other critics noted that Coburn's state of Oklahoma is part of the nation's oil patch, and said the oil industry has benefited from government largesse for roughly a century.
"Already, the ethanol community is ahead of every other energy sector in stepping up with an alternative plan," Grassley said in a statement issued after the vote.
Thune and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., like Grassley, are sponsors of an alternative measure.
In all, 33 Republicans sided with Coburn, several of them first-termers elected with the support of tea party voters eager to cut federal spending.
Another 12 GOP senators opposed the legislation, all from farm states.
Among Democrats, five voted to kill the subsidy. Another 46 voted one independent voted to retain it, but some said their votes reflected an unhappiness that Coburn had decided to force a vote rather than a long-term commitment to the program itself.


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John Nastav
This story appears in the January 2002 issue of Entrepreneurs Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
To New Orleans natives, a beignet is more than a square fried piece of dough coated with powdered sugar-it's culture and history. So how does this Southern favorite make it in urban Chicago?
It's the challenge John Nastav was prepared to face when he bought a Crescent City Beignets franchise in the Chicago area. When Nastav, 55, opened his doors a few months ago in Lincoln Park, he figured customers would come in and say, "You're selling beig-whats?" Instead, he discovered that Chicagoans are big beignet fans. "We're shocked," he says. "The majority of people know what they are."
Though Nastav figures these instant customers have visited New Orleans, he also markets the product to reach those who aren't in the know. His direct advertising, consisting mostly of fliers and mailers, targets the local hospital, colleges and schools. Plus, he's got a publicist on the case.
Nastav first patronized Crescent City Beignets while visiting Texas, where the franchise was born in July 1997. CEO of a construction company specializing in large plants, oil refineries and steel mills, Nastav jumped into the restaurant business without any prior experience. "It somehow struck me as something the people of Chicago would like," says Nastav, "so I thought I'd give it a whirl."
Surprisingly, the biggest obstacle in transporting the concept has been not the cultural factor, but the climate factor. At press time, Nastav expected sales, which were just below the break-even point, to boom as the city cooled down, forecasting between $500,000 and $1 million for 2001.
"We know now not to open stores unless we can get at least three months of cool weather," says Nastav. When it's hot, he explains, "people don't want to leave their house."
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Publix recalls bagels over metal fragments
Items are sold at Florida stores
MIAMI – Publix has voluntarily recalled Thomas, Sara Lee, Weight Watcher and generic brand bagels after the baking company says possible presence of metal could be found in the food.
BBU, Inc., initiated a voluntary recall after the possibility of fragments was found in two packages and is believed to be caused by a faulty metal part. No injuries have been reported.
Recalled products are the following fresh bagels with "Best Buy" dates (month and day) "JAN 18" to and including "JAN 27" found on the lock tab bag closures.
The following items have been recalled and are sold at Publix stores in Florida:
GTIN | Product | Description
48121-25319 Thomas Everything Bagels
48121-29208 Thomas Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
48121-27707 Thomas Plain Bagels
48121-24903 Thomas Onion Bagels
48121-25504 Thomas Blueberry Bagels
48121-25321 Thomas Cinnamon Swirl Bagels
41415-35990 Publix Premium Original Bagels
41415-36290 Publix Premium Cinnamon Swirl Bagels
41415-36190 Publix Premium Multigrain Bagels
41415-36090 Publix Premium Onion Bagels
48121-25505 Thomas 100%Wheat Bagels
48121-22615 Thomas Honey Wheat Bagels
48121-21694 Thomas Cranberry Bagels
83791-00002 Weight Watchers Bagels
72945-35068 Sara Lee Honey Wheat Bagels
72945-35066 Sara Lee Plain Bagels
72945-35070 Sara Lee Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
72945-35069 Sara Lee Blueberry Bagels
72945-61003 Sara Lee Everything Bag
Read more about it on Publix's website.
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In Latin America, the traditional Christmas fare is tamales. Tamales originated in Mexico but today, every Latin American culture has its own version. While tamales vary from country to country, all are made with a corn or rice dough steamed inside a leaf. Most tamales are filled with meat and sauce, but some are sweetened and filled with raisins. Making tamales is a labor-intensive process that can take several days. Watch how the residents of Santa Teresita make their tamales.
Mexican tamales
Allow two days for preparation.
4 lb. package of maseca for tamales (available at Hispanic grocery stores)
10 lb. chicken pieces
3 c. oil
4 T. salt
4 T. baking powder
1 package each of chiles anchos, chiles California and chiles de arbol
1 lb. corn husks
Prepare the chiles
1. Pour hot water over all the chiles and let soften for one hour.
2. Puree the mixture in a blender.
3. Strain through a colander to remove seeds and skin
You may want to wear vinyl gloves because the chile oil can burn your hands.
Prepare the chicken
1. Remove the skin and boil the chicken with salt until the meat is cooked.
2. Remove the bones and tear the chicken into small pieces.
3. Saute chicken pieces with the strained chiles in 2 T. oil and 1 tsp. salt. Set aside.
Prepare the masa (dough)
1. Mix maseca, baking power, salt and oil with enough lukewarm water to give it the texture of playdough.
2. Knead the dough for one hour.
Prepare the corn husks
1. Soak the husks in hot water overnight.
2. Remove from the water and rinse.
Prepare the tamales
1. Spread one husk out flat.
2. Spread with a thin layer of masa, about Ω inch thick.
3. Add 1-2 T. of the chile/chicken mixture in the middle of the dough.
4. Fold all sides to the center, adding a bit of dough inside the ends to keep the chicken mixture from oozing out.
5. Steam in 2î of water in a large pot or tamale cooker covered tightly with aluminum foil for several hours on medium high.
6. Let sit for 1 hour
Enjoy with sour cream and hot sauce. Eat them anytime, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Tamales can be stored up to a week in the refrigerator or for 3 months in the freezer.
In Mexico, tamales are eaten traditionally during the Christmas season with champorrado, a hot, spicy drink made with maseca.
Recipe courtesy of Martha Cromer


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Gregg Zaun dialed up his favorite sounding board, CanWest's John Lott, and let loose on the Jays organization and J.P. Ricciardi for a series of slights (both real and imagined). While we're not inclined to pine for the return of a 38 year-old catcher with diminishing skills and a possibly overinflated sense of his worth, we'll confess that J.P.'s statement near the trade deadline that nobody wanted Zaun was a bit offside.
(Even if it was true, Ricciardi should probably have shrugged it off and eaten shit when the press was grilling him on Zaun trades.)
We'll miss Zaun this year, and we hope he lands the backup spot on a contender as he states is his wish. We also hope that he makes his way back north of the border for the occasional broadcasting gig, because his fake slow-mo clinics in the commercial breaks in the playoffs were as insightful as a whole year with certain analysts.
If Marty York says it, you know it must be true
In his latest commuter rag scribblings, Marty York buys in fully to the "Bob McCown's Stan Kasten for Jays President" story, noting that Gord Kirke met with him in New Orleans. And this is absolutely newsworthy, as Gordon Kirke is not at all known for hanging out with sports figures and front office types. So something must be up, right?
Cito to be honoured
We'd never heard of the Jackie Robinson Lifetime Achievement Award before today, but if it exists (and apparently it does), then we can think of no one better to receive it than Cito.
This offseason is having an affect on us
It's making us very sleepy. Someone jostle us awake when something happens.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Playing Catch Up with a Mess o' Items
3 comments:
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Bye-bye Zaunie...
- November 11, 2008 at 5:17 PM
- Joanna said...
I always admired Zaun for pulling his life back together and for talking a lot, showing personality...he probably feels loyalty to the club because JP/Jays gave him a shot, so getting the cold shoulder prob smarts...esp since the break up was of the avoidance/show up with another girl at the club variety not the "it's not you, it's me" or the "I like you, but not in that way" variety.
- November 11, 2008 at 8:18 PM
- Unknown said...
mcCown just launched his own web site...he was talking about it on Prime Time last night. Kinda cool where you vote for a new logo.
- November 25, 2008 at 1:47 PM
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Easy riders
Every summer, a special biking community meets up in Biarritz: retro fans and grease monkeys, surfers and skaters – all united in their passion for beautifully battered vintage motorcycles.
The starting shot shatters the relative tranquility and is followed by the howling of engines. Two elderly motorcycles race around the corner. Enveloped in thick clouds of exhaust fumes, they speed neck and neck up the hairpin bends of the course in the Pyrenees. Thousands line the sides of the country roads, everyone craning to catch a view and bellow encouragement to the riders. The best place to watch this race is a place known as Punk's Peak on the ridge of the Jaizkibel mountain range.
Motorcycles? Aren't they a typical hobby of middle-aged guys beyond midlife crisis who chase after the rebel rocker dreams of their youth on gleaming, chrome-embellished Harley Davidson bikes? Well, prepare to abandon prejudice, because the Wheels and Waves festival in the Basque country, straddling the border between the south of France and northern Spain, reveals a completely different biker scene, one with fewer mullets, fringed jackets or skull tattoos. Instead, the majority of the crowd are in their mid-twenties, sporting faded Hawaii shirts and with the occasional ornate moustache or flat cap. There's also an astonishing number of women, with colorful headbands, well-worn striped shirts and overalls squeezing through the crowds on their impressive bikes to great applause.
This festival is where a brand-new biker community comes to celebrate their lifestyle, where the members are less interested in the power and performance of modern bikes and more in the baroque bikes of bygone times: Yamahas from the golden Sixties with giant headlamps, mean machines like the Honda CX 500, nicknamed the "plastic maggot" in the Seventies, any number of Triumphs and Moto Guzzis that may have been avant-garde 30 years ago. Many are beat-up rides with dull paintwork, old mopeds that stink, belching copious clouds of fumes. From banger to beauty, anything goes is the motto, and the main meet for this particular community is a festival that takes place every year in June at the Plage de la Milady near Biarritz. In 2017, the event drew nearly 20 000 spectators to the Atlantic coast – from across Europe, from the United States and even from Indonesia.
A good bike isn't necessarily the fastest one, but it needs to have character and a soul
The combines scents of gasoline, oil and singed rubber waft across the festival site. Dozens of old military tents stand in rows in a field above the beach, surrounded by a chest-high wooden fence. This is where the motorcycle makers hoping to tap into this culture showcase their bikes and services, where customizers present their weird and wonderful creations, while over in the motordrome, daring riders perform death-defying feats. Next to it, skaters and BMX riders slide and jump in a large wooden half-pipe, cheered on by young women in petticoats and bright red lipstick. Farther away, on the waves of the Atlantic, blonde surfer dudes balance adroitly on longboards while on stage, Kid Congo Powers, Brian Bent and the Tomorrow Tulips provide the soundtrack for this meet with surf rock drenched in reverb and songs with a liberal smattering of Sixties tunes. It's like stepping back in time to the legendary surfer era and plunging into the 1966 Californian lifestyle.
The community that meets every summer in Biarritz is the motorized embodiment of the current retro trend. A few years ago, restored bicycles started appearing on the streets of hip districts around the world. Since then, the focus has shifted to motorcycles, which with a little skill can be refurbished and revamped. "In the age of the smartphone and intelligent fridges, many people are discovering the charm of the analogue, the imperfect," says Sébastien Lorentz, born in 1975 and sporting a baseball cap and chunky spectacles. Six years ago, in his workshop, the Lucky Cat Garage in Chartres, the Frenchman started building custom motorcycles. These are no highbred mega-tech machines that howl and rumble at the press of a button. No, these are old school bikes that need a powerful kick to start them and have a fuel tap hidden under the tank that requires considerable finger contortion to open.
When he was a teenager, he saw racing champion Eddie Lawson on TV, recalls Lorentz, "and from that day on, my world revolved around motorcycle racing." Lacking the funds for anything else, he forked out a couple of hundred francs for a ramshackle track bike. To rebuild the bike, he taught himself to take it apart and put it back together again, down to the smallest screw. He learned that it was easier to control the bike on bends with a flat saddle and offset footrests. By the time he turned 18, he had built his first custom bike.
Lorentz's hobby has since grown to become a flourishing business. Screwing, welding, shaping: He still does most things himself. He uses BMWs for the components, because they are robust and simply built, unlike modern motorcycles, which are not suitable for conversions. Lorentz takes the engines apart and then combines them with frames, carburetors, mudguards and handlebars from other models. The DIY ethos is as much a part of this new motorcycle culture as the fact that the old rigs are prone to breaking down. "A good bike isn't necessarily the fastest one," says Lorentz, summing up his philosophy and experience, "but it needs to have character and a soul."
If you can't feel the vibration of the machine, the heat of the engine when you're riding, it's only half the fun
And what goes for bikes certainly goes for fashion, particularly the gear worn while riding. There's really only one look you can wear on a 40-year-old, slightly scruffy Honda: the Steve McQueen style. "For many custom bikers, looks are more important than technology," says Thomas Errera, sitting inside his tent. Until a few years ago, Errera, 34 and a dead ringer for a youthful Antonio Banderas, worked as a medical technician, making knee and hip replacements. He wasn't happy in his job – there wasn't enough time for dreams. So he set up Kytone, a label for artisan biking apparel. "In the beginning, I knew nothing about fabrics, patterns and manufacturing," he says. But he knew exactly what he wanted: jeans, T-shirts, casual looks instead of bulky leather gear. "I didn't want to look like a Hells Angel or one of those weekend bikers with the one-piece Gore-Tex bodysuits," he says. Instead, he rides in earth-colored long-sleeved shirts, shorts and knee-high tennis socks. "If you can't feel the vibration of the machine, the heat of the engine when you're riding, it's only half the fun." It's a mindset that many bikers seem to share, as the young entrepreneur is successful and has found dozens of distribution partners for his label across Europe.
What distinguishes the new biker community, explains Errera, is its diversity and close connection with surfers, skaters, BMX riders and hot rod fans, forming a lively subcultural scene. "It's a fusion that has sparked wild creativity," he says, as an artist in the opposite tent earnestly decorates a helmet with glitter paint, comic figures and Mohawk fringing. Others stick bright neon tape on their handlebars or crochet covers for their tanks. "Everyone can do their own thing here, live their own style," says Errera.
The festival founders were bowled over by the success of their event: "We had absolutely no idea that we'd be starting such a hype," says Vincent Prat, a sunglasses-wearing fifty-something. Back in 2009, all Prat wanted to do was to enjoy a weekend trip from Toulouse to his old home, Biarritz – with some surfing, a barbecue, a bit of music. A good dozen friends joined him in the first year, and the group grew larger and larger by the year. By 2012, there were so many that Prat and his pals Jérôme Allé and Julien Azé had to officially register the party as an event. Nearly 100 people attended the first official Wheels and Waves festival. The following year, there were 1000, and two years later 3000. "It's like Rebellion on wheels, and we've obviously hit a nerve," says Prat. As a 16-year-old, he would go off-road across the mountains on his Yamaha, but that was banned in France many years ago. He sees the festival as a call for a bit of biker anarchy. When he fires a revolver for the starting shot of the Punk's Peak race, or when pros and amateurs race against each other on a sandy circuit in San Sebastián, Spain, these are the moments that preserve a spark of the original unruliness of motorcycling.
Crossing boundaries, bringing a fresh spirit to biking – these are the festival's core ideas. The organizers are proud of the fact that it is attracting more and more women. Like Irene Kotnik and Cäthe Pfläging from Berlin. Kotnik, 35, thick blonde hair, beige overall, passed her driving license in the US. On her first tour, she rode the entire length of Route 66. Pfläging, 44, nickname "Racäthe" – pronounced to sound like the German for rocket – has had a driving license for half her life. At home in Bergisches Land in Germany, all her family ride motorcycles. When she was little, she would be glued to the window at the weekend, watching the thousands of bikers racing around the bend in front of her parents' house.
In 2015, Kotnik and Pfläging founded The Curves, a women-only motorcycle club. The hard core has come to Biarritz: Janna the journalist, Freddy the physician, Silke the mechanical engineer, and half a dozen other women aged between 20 and 50. Many of them sat their motorcycle license without making a big deal of it, preferring to avoid the stupid comments. Now they meet up for repair classes and go on group tours through the Alps. Biarritz has inspired them to set up their own little festival, Petrolettes, which is held just outside Berlin in the summer.
"The biker scene is opening up, and many clichés no longer apply," agrees Errera, during a jaunt in his 1938 Ford Hot Rod. Harley or moped, men or women, old or young: Everyone is equal at Wheels and Waves, and everyone feels equally free. Occasionally, says Errera, he'll grab his surfboard and simply cruise along the coast, with the wind in his hair and the sun on his face, past palm trees and over the waves – without a goal, without the need to be anywhere. And that's when the "born to be wild feeling" is at its strongest …
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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Today was an off day from running which usually means that I will eat more & be hungrier than on the days I run. Weird, but I think it is my body recovering from the torture! LOL! I had to have Jon at the orthodontist by 7:30, so I still had to get up early. I was up by 4:55 and downstairs & eating by 6 AM.
My breakfast today was a 3 egg white frittata with spinach & Roma tomatoes, decaf w/ vanilla Almond Breeze, brown rice cakes w/ Trader Joe's Creamy Almond Butter with Sea Salt & Superfood Fruit Spread. This was my first time trying this AB….OMG…I don't know which I like better….the raw unsalted that I tried or this stuff. They both rock!! And, at $4.99/jar, they are the best deal in town (or on the internet)!
Like my mug?
Frittata (not super pretty…had some egg cooperation issues today)
Rice cakes w/ AB & Fruit Spread
The star…
Guess who didn't take a picture of her snack? LOL! That would be me! I had a bowl of cereal (I mixed Brown Rice Crispies, Corn Chex & Honey Kix) and topped with a large spoonful of Fage Greek yogurt. Love cereal & could eat it for every meal!
Lunch was so good today. I am in love with pears and these apple pears that I discovered last week. I made a sandwich with turkey, provolone, spinach, basil, apple pear on Pamela's bread & dipped in Grey Poupon. YUM!! I also had a spinach salad with grape tomatoes & Fat Free French (I normally don't like the Fat Free, but Walmart didn't carry the Light, so I tried this and love it!), Baked Lays, celery sticks & the rest of the apple pear. The celery ended up back in the fridge….my eyes were bigger than my stomach.
Up close of the amazing sammie…
And one more, because you need to see it…
I am never too full for chocolate, so I had a small handful of dark chocolate covered blueberries & cranberries.
Around 4:30 or so I was hungry and knew dinner would be later because of Hannah's skating class, so I grabbed a bowl of Daisy Cottage Cheese and some leftover grilled pineapple. This was amazing together!
Went to skating and I don't know about you, but I always have to have Tic tacs in my mouth in the car. These are my Tic Tacs of choice right now:
Dinner was late & I was starving while cooking. I hate that! It leads to lots of nibbling…tonight it was on fresh cherries. 🙂 I decided on Artichoke burgers tonight.
If you have not tried these, you have to! They rank right up there with Sunshine Burgers, and may be better! They are not only gluten-free, but Vegan, too!
Large salad had to be made…I love my salads. I just realized that I forgot my tomato on my salad….duh!
I had a small pour of this awesome Pinot Noir from Trader Joe's
Dinner was an Artichoke burger on a Trader Joe's French Roll topped with Swiss cheese, sriracha & raw spinach leaves. On the side I had some thin-sliced pan-fried zucchini slices & grape tomatoes.
See the sriracha on the cheese?
Veggies close-up
Last, but not least, fresh blueberries & cherries w/ mini chocolate chips & a tiny scoop of Turkey Hill Banana Split Ice Cream.
Was a great day! Tomorrow is my baby girl's 7th b-day! I am starting the day off with an 8 mile run at 5 AM, so wish me luck!
Fun stuff coming tomorrow…more product reviews & at least one giveaway tomorrow and one later this week and early next week! Can't wait! Night!
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South Carolina Vital Records
This entry was originally written by Johni Cerny and Gareth L. Mark for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
A law mandating registration of all births and deaths in South Carolina was signed into law on 1 September 1914. Actual registration began in 1915, and South Carolina achieved ninety percent compliance within a few years. Original copies of birth and death certificates are filed with the state, and copies can be obtained by writing to South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Vital Records and Public Health Statistics, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29201. The above office accepts Visa or MasterCard for payment for urgent requests made by phone. There is an additional fee for this service including postal costs.
Each South Carolina county has a copy of the state's records, and a few cities have records pre-dating the statewide registration requirement: Charleston began keeping birth records in 1877 and death records in 1821, and Georgetown was authorized to establish a vital records registration system in 1883. The Church of England parishes created in 1706 recorded christenings, marriages, and burials, and these registers can serve as vital records for much of the colonial period (see South Carolina Church Records).
South Carolina had no law requiring marriage licenses or registration until 1911. Assembly Act No. 70, 'An Act to Require Marriage Licenses and Regulate Their Issuances,' became effective on 1 July 1911. Licenses are on file with the judge of probate in each county. Prior to 1911, marriages were legal if performed according to canonical law; common law marriages also were recognized. Many churches recorded marriages, but when compared with the vast number of marriages that took place, the number of documented marriages is small. Marriage settlements, made by a widow and her second husband to protect the heirs of her first husband, and premarital agreements, not necessarily involving widows, were popular for a while. These records date from about 1760 to about 1890, and may be found in county conveyance books or the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and on microfilm at the The Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City. Newspapers accounts of marriages from 1732 to the present are a primary source of marriage documentation (see South Carolina Newspapers).
Until 1949, divorce was illegal in South Carolina. Since then, divorces are the province of the county court, and all inquiries should be directed to the county clerk of court.
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- South Carolina, Births and Christenings, 1681-1935
- South Carolina, Marriages, 1709-1913
- South Carolina, Deaths, 1915-1943
- South Carolina, Deaths, 1944-1955
External Links
- South Carolina Birth, Marriage, and Death Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing South Carolina birth, marriage, and death records (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Includes links to FamilySearch vital record databases.
- South Carolina Marriages Search Engine - free South Carolina marriages search engine that has indexed marriages posted across the web.
- South Carolina Obituary and Death Notice Archive - free South Carolina obituary archive that has transcribed obits from across the state.
- South Carolina Library of Files - free South Carolina obituary and data files archive from across the state.
- South Carolina Vital Records - links to South Carolina vital record sources organized by county


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IN TRULY hospitable fashion, the dear old Australian Bankers Association saw fit to describe your correspondent as "inaccurate" the other day in response to a story we had penned about bank profit margins.
The critique from the cartel's peak body presented a most fine opportunity. It was akin to a gilt-embossed invitation on designer stationery: "Dear Sir, you are cordially invited to give us a shellacking at the earliest opportunity." The bankers said we had singled out "covered bonds" as a source of funding whose "spread compression" over the past year had been, in the words of a Westpac note to institutional clients, "an extraordinary performance". Our story did not recognise the "pressures" in other sources of funding, they said.
Indeed this new source of funding, covered bonds, made possible by a kindly and somewhat furtive act of Parliament a year ago, had performed extraordinarily. But so had all forms of funding, be they deposits, hybrids, bonds or cash.
The banks, you see, have a conundrum. They are rolling in it. While they did their usual Oliver Twist routine and held a bit back at every Reserve Bank rate cut over the past year or so, their blended cost of funds has been dropping dramatically. How can they possibly spin it now? It's tough out there? Surely the "wholesale funding pressures" line is passe. Surely there is no place to turn but the dependable "Australia needs a strong banking sector" angle.
Mind you, there is the dreaded "competition". Nasty thing, that competition, should be avoided at all costs. Roughly two-thirds of bank funding is deposits and there has hardly been a battle royale in deposit-land lately. Online and cash management deposit rates have dropped 50 basis points since the last two official rate cuts. In contrast, the average mortgage rate has only declined 40 points.
Racking retail deposit costs up against wholesale bonds, the average online rate is 3.05 per cent, the average cash management account deposit rate 1.9 per cent and the average term deposit rate 3.45 per cent. This is the best funding the banks can get, generally far cheaper than wholesale money.
And as for wholesale funding, both covered bonds and ordinary bonds have enjoyed a similar narrowing of spreads to the swap rate. The covered bond compression is actually greater than we had outlined. Westpac and Commonwealth issued covered bonds at 160 and 175 over bank bills in early 2012 that are now only trading about 55 points over. The ASX hybrid instruments floated in the past year or so have also performed spectacularly.
■ FOR all its debt and myriad social and economic challenges, the US has the wood over Australia on the banking front – from a consumer rather than shareholder perspective. US banks are genuinely competitive. They regularly have honeymoon lending deals where you get finance from zero to 1 per cent for a year or more. Long-term rates are 3-4 per cent. They are nowhere near as profitable as our four majors and their credit spreads are going in the opposite direction. There is the odd reason to be bullish towards the US, vis-a-vis Australia. Our cost structure is far too high, as evinced by the price of goods and services ranging 25-50 per cent above theirs, even after tips. The minimum wage in many states is between $US7-$US8 an hour.
The hollowing out of Australia's manufacturing base, the devastations of a strong currency and high energy prices, surely render this country susceptible to a rocky landing when the commodities music stops.
■ BUT at least we have the Obeids and the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. What a show. This week we learnt of the lowest-cost finance there is, a Bank Jones low-doc loan.
During testimony, it emerged that Greg Jones, the co-founder of RAMS home loans, gave his friend, former mines minister Ian Macdonald, a $195,000 loan that Mr Macdonald never repaid … and $35,000 "in cash and gifts". What a top bloke. Then there was the $4 million Macca was set to receive from the proceeds of the rigged coalmine tender. Not looking rosy for Macca.
It was a big week for ICAC, though Eddie and the Obeid family are still up $30 million on the Cascade Coal deal. Roughly $15 million has gone to address the clan's housing requirements. Lot of loans flying about, no doubt being scrutinised by the taxman.
■ FINALLY, it would be negligent to pass without comment on the brilliant Special Northern Economic Zone idea (not proposal!). Why go north of the Tropic of Capricorn when you can set up your own zone. Take Google Australia, which has opted to stay put and set up a Special Darling Harbour Economic Zone, enabling it to pay just $74,176 in tax on its estimated $1.1 billion in income.


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I thought it only appropriate for my first TA blog to be a story of how I lost my faith. Let it be a lesson on how to reason with the unreasonable. First a little background on where I came from.
I was raised in a Christian fundamentalist home. My uncle is a Petroleum Engineer which he thinks qualifies him in the area of Geology as well. I was raised to believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and God created the Heavens and Earth in 6 literal days. I believed this well into my 20s. I only lost my faith ~2 years ago and I am now 29 years old. I am partly embarrassed to admit that but I only learned about Evolution from people who were apposed to Evolution. Something I never would have done with the Bible but with Evolution it made sense at the time.
I was so immersed into this dogma and delusion that I actually decided I wanted to be a part of it. I was going to start blogging on Creation and stumping the top Evolution myths. I also decided that once I had built a large base on evolution blogs I would turn it into a book. I first needed to learn the top arguments for Evolution. I looked through AiG and ICR.org and finally made the greatest decision of my life. I wanted to hear it directly from the horses mouth. So I Google'd it!
What really got me was a link to a documentary that covered Biogeography. Specifically, the evolution of Marsupials. It was brilliant. Discovery was made in South America of early Marsupials which only exist in Australia. A prediction was made that fossils would one day be found in Antarctica of all places. Then 10 years later, a treasure troll of Marsupial fossils were found in Antarctica. This obviously did not fit with the Global Flood model! It was just enough to spark my interest. I started with the obvious questions. How did the Eye evolve? What about the heart? Or the ears or nose? Everything made sense. It suddenly dawned on me that I was only learning about Evolution from people who were admittedly apposed to it. After that, I read Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" and I could no longer believe in the Supernatural.
Science softened me up and logic killed every bit of faith I had left. I have since then researched the answers to many of the arguments from a Creation side and found them all to be false or blatant lies. I can no longer stand my children being indoctrinated into religion and see it as a form of child abuse. I now see the problems caused by religion and cringe any time I hear a politician talk about God or Jesus. I cannot hear religion discussed without fighting back the chuckles. I do not have a problem with the liberal Christians. The ones that believe Jesus died for their sins but think the rest is just the ranting of a book. To them I wish the best and I hope you make it to Heaven. For the rest however, I think they are damaging my country. I believe they are raising their children into a hateful religion built to spread like a virus.
To the fundamentalists I ask:
• Would you learn about the bible from an Atheist? Then why learn about Evolution from a Creationist?
• Why was God so involved in a time of desert nomads who still believed the Earth was flat and disappear when we had real questions to ask?
• If God can heal the sick, why can't he grow back limbs as well? Is this beyond God's power?
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I'm always relieved to see that my science rants could, in theory, have some effect. Not in your case ,mind you, but in theory. I was raised "open-to-free-thought" in a highly educated and liberal household and obviously you don't jump into religion from that start. Religion holds a sick fascination for me because I have no basis for comparison.
You will REALLY enjoy these videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/Evid3nc3
Oh. FYI, god (in the form of christian prayer by someone else) has actually been shown to have a negative correlation with the healing of sick people (well, cardiac patients).
That's a great story.
One thing you said:
To the fundamentalists I ask:
• Would you learn about the bible from an Atheist?
Actually, you would be surprised how literate atheists are on the bible. Maybe I'm biased here but in general I've found atheists to be more knowlegable than religious people on the buybull.
Thanks for sharing your story and it's very similar to mine! I also wanted to be one of those Christians with "the answers". Look where knowledge has took us!
Have you shared your experiences with your immediate family? I ask because sometimes the fundie reactions can be quite a shocking experience.
Good luck & never stop learning!


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Vipin Kasana and Ravinder Singh Khaira, made it to the final of the javelin throw competition at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games that concluded on Sunday; but they didn't participate in the medal round
Article about same in TOI: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tournaments/commonwealth-games-2014/india-at-glasgow/Indian-javelin-throwers-froze-in-CWG-final/articleshow/39573176.cms
"It is shocking and shameful that both the Indian throwers didn't try to make a single throw. It was raining during Vikas Gowda's event but how did he cope? They shamed the nation with their refusal to take part in the competition and it was watched by millions on television," a former athlete, who saw the proceedings on television told TOI.
Vipin Kasana, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab's Ravinder Singh Khaira simply watched the proceedings from the call room safely away from the chilly drizzle at Hampden Park as Kenya's Julius Kiplangat Yego took the gold with a best throw of 83.87m.
How can this be? The given Federation Chief will have to answer what was the reason here..this is trecherous!


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City Blends' new modified system, the City MiNi program, is designed for smaller footprint clubs and personal training/functional studios that may not have the clientele to support a full-blown juice bar. This new system is a compact, hand-pour program that uses a powerful tabletop blender, in lieu of the original BD-8 Blender Dispenser. The program allows club owners to offer the same City Blends smoothie menu to customers where space and finances are limited. The City MiNi program is a more economical option that is just right for customers looking to add a smoothie bar at a lower buy-in cost.
Contact: City Blends Smoothie Café Ltd.; phone: 877-525-3637; www.cityblends.com.
Bradley's new Individual Coverall Wall Shower was designed to help facility managers save time, money and space on both installation and maintenance. The streamlined, pre-assembled design greatly reduces installation time with no extra work required to mount the unit onto the wall. The valve bodies and components of the shower are easily accessible from the front or by unscrewing the unit from the wall. Perfect for tight spaces, the compact and flexible Coverall Wall Shower easily accommodates both exposed and concealed piping, so there is no need to cut into the shower room tile during renovations, providing an ideal shower solution for recreational and health club facilities.
Contact: Bradley Corp.; phone: 800-272-3539; www.bradleycorp.com.
Magneat is a personal electronics accessory that helps with headphone wire management and is designed to attach to virtually any type of fitness clothing. Magneat is the size of a half-dollar coin and features a two-part design consisting of a circular, wraparound headphone wire piece and a powerful magnetic clip piece that combine to attach the Magneat to clothes. Users can organize and control the length, motion and weight of their headphone or earbud wires, minimizing the risk of tangling and relieving the ears from the weight of the wires. Magneat is available in a variety of colors and design patterns that are constantly evolving and expanding. Magneat is especially useful for joggers, bicyclists and gym goers.
Contact: Magneat; phone: 646-454-9378; www.magneat.com.
The DynaMax Core Trainer is a new hand-held device designed to replace many free-weight exercises while providing a powerful upper body and core workout. It works by using dynamic resistance from the product's internal gyroscope. It weighs 3 pounds and can generate up to 8,000 RPMs while producing up to 200 pounds of resistance. The DynaMax features variable body sculpting resistance, so people can work out at their own pace. The faster the internal gyroscope spins, the more resistance users experience.
Contact: DynaFlex International; phone: 714-757-6557; www.dynaflexpro.com.
FitWall is more than a climbing wall — it is a gravity training product that allows users to engage in a total body workout and burn up to 900 calories per hour. The FitWall allows people to move and hold their bodies up against the force of gravity so their abs are constantly engaged. Plus, while using FitWall, multiple groups of muscles are always fighting against gravity to burn calories, shape the body, improve hand-eye coordination and core balance. The FitWall can be installed anywhere, indoors or out, where there is adequate support. It also can be easily disassembled and relocated.
Contact: FitWall; phone: 307-638-4046; www.fitwall.com.
Signature Fencing and Flooring's new division, Signature Sports Flooring, features five products. They are: SignaFlor, a pad and pour product that creates a synthetic, seamless surface easily renewed and customized; SignaFlex, a rolled vinyl product with a real wood appearance that is easy-to-install and suitable for several athletic surfaces; SignaFlexAqua, a slip-resistant, waterproof floor ideal for barefoot traffic areas, such as poolside, steam rooms and shower areas; RubberDeck, a shock absorbent, Earth-friendly flooring made from high-quality recycled rubber; and TempoTile, a line of multipurpose modular flooring tiles that will provide a raised, durable surface suitable for indoor and outdoor activities. Signature Sports Flooring will distribute, install and provide maintenance for all types of sports flooring, including those used at fitness centers, gymnasiums, aerobic rooms, multipurpose floors, locker areas, and other indoor/outdoor athletic surfaces.
Contact: Signature Fencing and Flooring; phone: 212-953-1116; www.signaturesportsflooring.com.
Perf Go Green cleaning products are all natural and highly effective. Products include multipurpose cleaners, odor eliminators, stain removers, bathroom cleaners and glass cleaners that use nanotechnology in the form of microscopic electrically charged particles. The nanotechnology combined with a proprietary formula of plant-based ingredients allows Perf Go Clean products to cut through dirt and grime and emulsify organic matter. The cleaning products are biodegradable, non-toxic, hypoallergenic, non-flammable and non-corrosive. Plus, all packaging is made with recycled materials, even the sprayer, which has no metal coil.
Contact: Perf Go Green; phone: 212-935-3550; www.perfgogreen.com.


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- Roomy front seat layout
- Quiet when cruising
- Easy to fold second-row seating
- Good acceleration and road holding
- Not as quiet at full throttle (when passing or going up a hill)
- Relatively poor cargo space
- Unimpressive infotainment system
- Relatively expensive
Track Performance: B+
Road Performance: B
Ease of Use: B
Comfort and Roominess: B-
The polarizing design of the Crosstour makes it more of a station wagon than SUV. The car offers two engine options — a 2.4 liter four cylinder or a 3.5 liter V6. If you're looking for a comfortable, quiet, pleasant ride, the Crosstour isn't a bad choice, but it is a relatively pricey one.
Driving Experience
While not an exciting ride, the Crosstour offers a smooth one. It offered one of the better driving performances of the 19 crossovers we tested — with competitive acceleration (0 to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds) and road holding, and a quiet cabin ride while cruising. Braking was the only performance metric we reviewed from the track testing in which it didn't get top marks, taking 187 feet in Car and Driver's track test to go from 70 mph to stopped.
Infotainment System & Controls
Where the Crosstour really fell short in GHRI tests was its infotainment system. In general, it was unintuitive, and the cluttered dashboard made it difficult to control. The recessed screen also made it difficult to view. Phone setup wasn't seamless and contacts didn't auto sync. Even when set up, voice recognition wasn't accurate. Music controls, likewise, weren't great. Navigation was nominally better. It had a nice visual layout, but required an annoying scrolling action to input each letter. It did have exceptionally good driver controls on the wheel, though.
Interior & Design
Driver and passenger will enjoy the front seat layout — which is spacious and comfortable. Rear passengers aren't quite as lucky, with notably less space. Interior cargo space is on the small side, but trunk space was more ample. Rear seats easily fold down, but car seat installation was somewhat hindered by a difficult-to access latch.
Fuel Economy (city/highway/combined): 18/26/21
Size Class: Crossover
Base Price: $28,585
Reviewed: September 2012
Price When Reviewed: $37.00


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UnNews:Threat of dirty pants 'increased'
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
25 March 2009
THERE IS AN INCREASED RISK terrorists could get hold of dirty pants, the Home Office has said. The assessment comes as Home Secretary Jacqui Smith unveiled a new UK strategy to tackle an evolved threat from used under-garments.
Ms Smith said the threat is "severe" - meaning the use of dirty underwear is "highly likely" and "could happen without warning".
Unnews toilet correspondent, Paulos Santos, said the threat posed by skid-marked, piss-stained and other soiled underpants "have always been something al-Qaeda have aspired to" but the report warns they are now within terrorists' grasp.
"There is a concern now among officials in the Home Office that the chances of them getting hold of a pair of poo marked Y-fronts have increased in a world of easy availability of soiled pants, bras and knickers"
He added that the greatest concern was not over an attack via a used pair of under-crackers "being wafted around a bit", but with a few pairs of "deliberately freshly soiled" pants which could contaminate a wide area and trigger panic.
Mrs Smith told Unnews of her particular concern at the lacksadasical security in the UKs 1000s of high street laundrettes: "We need to consider posting armed security at all public laundrettes to send a signal to the terrorists that want to acquire dirty underwear."
"Gone are the days when we can just leave a bin-liner with our shitty underwear for the attendant to process.".
- watch for splashback! "i need a poo". "PLOP!", March 25, 2009


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Google has launched a new app, called Field Trip, to get smartphone users out to discover their communities -- and see many things strange, cool and historical.
The app, which comes from NianticLabs@Google and is available on Google Play, uses geolocation to help users discover obscure, interesting and even mainstream things like local bands or restaurants.
The information if provided by Google partners such as Sunset (as in magazine) Thrillist, Food Network, Zagat and the historians at Arcadia.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
For the more undiscovered, Google is using Atlas Obscura and Daily Secret, while Flavorpill will offer up local music. While only offered on Android, Google expects to launch an iPhone version soon.
It seems like a pretty handy app. I tried it and found about a dozen historical markers I didn't even know existed, including the site of the first Protestant church in California.
The only negative is that if users choose to be constantly notified with any new discoveries, their smartphone batteries will be drained in a matter of hours. It may lengthen battery life to shut off notifications and use the app manually.
For those interested in seeing a real-life demonstration of the Field Trip app, followed by a party, check out the Field Trip Day website, which has events scheduled for Sept. 29 in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and San Francisco.
Admission is free, but you have to RSVP at the site.


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Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Glasses in winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
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Divine Designs UK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 290 diseños de 85 diseñadores freelance.
The Ray and Paul Group
We are an established local interior design company, looking for a new contemporary direction. The business has been family run for over 28 years and although business is still good we feel that we would like to break into the national market arena and compete with companies such as John Lewis and Habitat.
Here are our products:- Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Blinds, Bedding, Flooring.
Our biggest sell at the moment is our high level of customer service. We truly believe that we offer the best customer experience in the country. Our installation staff are clean, friendly, prompt and work to a very high standard. There are no extra costs for going that extra mile.
Our current store is a little out of date but we intend to move to new premises in the next year. The new store will be vibrant and exciting. Unlike anything seen before. We want to make the experience of visiting an interior design showroom an exciting one for everybody. I would like for customers to walk in and be guided through our store by following a natural flow of events. We will invite customers to stand on coloured patches that will look like paint drops on a painters pallet. From there they will see all types of fabrics associated with the colour they are standing upon.
Our company is being broken down into 3 divisions:- Residential, Commercial and Designpak. Each division will be represented by a colour in the winning logo.
Residential is self explanatory but I want to describe the other two divisions in detail.
The commercial market is made up primarily of House Builders. In England we have companies which build thousands of large housing areas per year. We deal with the high end builders, the ones that build large 4 to 5 bedroom houses in very up market areas near London. We will kit out entire houses before they are sold and our reputation is highly regarded in these circles. Other areas of the commercial market are hotels, hospitals, offices and nursing homes.
Designpak is a new product offered by us. It's purpose is to take away the time consuming aspect of putting an interior design plan together by offering the customer a selection of completed packages to choose from. This is proving to be quite popular amongst the customers with deep pockets and little time to afford.
Generally, our market is aged 30-45 with plenty of style, sophistication and disposable income. We want to come across very mid-age-hip and we would like to appeal mostly to our residential customers.
Our aim here is quite simple.
We require our company name to appear above a painted 'swoosh'. The onus is on our creativity and we want to lean toward a painted swoosh effect. Paint is a big issue and it should be made up of three colours, each one representing a division of the company. (see above)
The colours must be vibrant. We need the winning logo to achieve this vibrancy whilst at the same time maintaining our mid age markets attention. We don't want anything that would appeal only to the young.
It must be contemporary as it needs to herald in the future of the company.
It must work on both a charcoal grey background (for the vans and the website) and a white background (for letters and business cards).
It must stand out and grab people.
It must excite the eyes and the spirit.
It must directly suggest expertise, professionalism and customer satisfaction..... dare I say- Happiness? Very serious but quite happy :o)
Please do not contact us directly.
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text: The perfect Kildare wedding venue for your special day. The Glenroyal Hotel is a stunning setting to say "I do" with facilities for intimate celebrations or for gathering all your family and friends together. Our wedding coordinators can assist in helping you choose the prefect wedding package and arranging bespoke requests to make your day unique to you.Read More


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Thanks for having a look at this. I will try to apply and test your patches on my false positives (hp6710b notebooks accelerometer) and let you know. Will be great if this is addressed.
udevadm info --query property --name /dev/input/js0
root@moon34:~# udevadm info --query property --name /dev/input/js0UDEV_LOG=3DEVPATH=/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input7/js0MAJOR=13MINOR=0DEVNAME=/dev/input/js0SUBSYSTEM=inputID_INPUT=1ID_PATH=platform-lis3lv02dDEVLINKS=/dev/char/13:0
Sure, here it is on the accelerometer machine (hp6710b):
I really want to beat whomever did the udev rules for these devices to a fucking pulp... -Thom


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Lenmazur necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
I am launching a consulting company to help hedge funds use technology to do things better. I consider myself an artist in what I do so I'm not some dry dorky quant engineer from MIT. My skill is that i can solve hard problems, and communicate it in ways that are palatable for non techy types and I have a sense of style.. I do not want this brand to evoke some bland software company. The industry has too many of those. Not sure if this helps give a sense of my style, but I also have an art importing company (meytreya.com), play the saxaphone, play soccer several times a week, and am launching an NYC barguide/dating site http://barstalk.com. I try to improve everyday, and want to share what I learn. Hope that helps.
The target audience will be asset management firms- private equity, hedge funds, brokerage, etc..
The brand can't be too edgy for its a generally conservative crowd- but people have money and need to feel like they are paying for something of quality, substance, and is clever.
This will be the type font and logo that will go on business cards and website.
No tacky symbols that are way to obvious. I know it will be finance (ie. Dollar signs, calculators). No loud colors - Reds or Greens- need subtle pallets.
I like subtle and clean, refined with a hint of fun (if possible).
The thoughts that I want the brand to evoke:
Interesting, Smart, Reliable, Refined, Respectful - all this but not too serious. Still want some kind of lightness or fun edge to it.
Some symbols to think about:
Linchpin, Light (bring light to the situation) - but would be open to your own..
Some sites I like:
hunch.com - not the home page, but when you login in and see your page- its a great minimalist design.
http://8020studio.com/ - like colors and cleanness
http://www.voceantica.com/ - logo is too big- but like this design
http://www.gravitastechnology.com/index.html - this is a competitor - like the logo
http://www.tonic.com/ - nice design
What I mean by boring logos :
http://www.tradestationprime.com/ - don't like logo or boring blue colors
So So
http://www.infohedge.net/ - this one is interesting but the logo may be a bit too techy Tron for my taste.
http://www.eci.com/index.html - competitor - not bad logo and type
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Of course, Speed Games are a feature restricted to Premium Members. These members who support our club financially deserve very much to be rewarded with improved Speed Games. But it wouldn't be in the holiday spirit to leave out free members entirely. Therefore I have granted 3 free Speed Game entries to every active member of Conquer Club. Using these free entries is as easy as joining a Speed Game. These free entries will expire by the end of January, so why wait? Enjoy a Speed Game today!
Don't forget we have also started Conquer Club's official Winter Holidays 2011 celebration, which will include unlimited Speed Games on the Christmas map during the designated period of time!
Herbas wrote:Great update!
All those extra addons beside shorter round times seem to be very nice!
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U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, both Virginia Democrats, again asked the Obama administration to open the state's coast to oil and natural gas exploration.
In a letter Friday to Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, the pair said that offshore drilling has "vigorous, bipartisan support among Virginians and their political leadership." It specifically mentions Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, who hoped to use drilling revenue to rebuild the state's roads and bridges.
Virginia was going to be the first East Coast state to allow drilling, but Obama scrapped the plan after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed 11 and fouled the Gulf of Mexico. Last year, the Interior Department announced it would offer lease sales off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico — not Virginia — during the next five years.
Webb and Warner, who argue that drilling will create jobs and boost domestic energy production, hope to persuade Salazar to include Virginia. They also want Salazar to increase the 2.9 million acre zone — located 50 miles off Virginia's coast — that would be open to exploration.
But the opportunity to change Salazar's mind is running out; the Interior Department plans to finalize the lease sale program early this summer. Neither he nor Obama has indicated a willingness to change it.
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The K-Laser is a product of K-LaserUSA, the leading company in Class IV laser therapy. The K-Laser is being used by numerous health care providers and professional sports teams throughout the US and the world.
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Many therapeutic lasers being used to this point were Class IIIa or IIIb, since their power output was under 500 milliwatts. The K-Laser Class IV Therapeutic Laser delivers up to 12,000 milliwatts of therapeutic laser energy. It is the only Class IV therapy laser with wavelength selectability, intense superpulse, and multiple therapy presets. The higher power of Class IV therapy lasers delivers a therapeutic dosage of laser energy to a larger volume of tissue, thus producing more immediate, significant results.
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Anthony Family Speaks To FBI About Caylee Search
New Jailhouse Phone Call Released; Casey Requests For Only Her Immediate Family To Visit
Cindy Anthony, grandmother of missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, her husband and Caylee's uncle spoke at length with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation about information that could help in finding Caylee.
"I met with authorities for six hours. It's making sense," Cindy Anthony said.
It has been two weeks since authorities were informed of Caylee's disappearance.
"Whatever information, whether they speak to our agency or another agency, the more the better," Orange County Sheriff's Office Deputy Carlos Padilla said.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office is the lead agency in the Caylee case, but investigators said they hope the information given to the FBI will help find the young girl alive.
"The FBI is monitoring and assisting the Orange County Sheriff's Office in this matter. Everyone's working aggressively towards Caylee's safe recovery," an FBI spokesman said.
Investigators have not had as much luck receiving helpful information from Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, currently held under a $500,000 bond. On Thursday, she filed a new inmate request that only her immediate family -- her parents and her brother Lee -- be able to visit her in jail.
"If there is something we could use to find Caylee, [Casey Anthony's] certainly going to talk about it," Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, said.
Baez also said Casey Anthony does not know where Caylee is and thinks Orange County investigators are focusing too much on the prosecution.
Investigators from the sheriff's office said they should be receiving results of analyzed evidence including hair and a stain from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car by next week.
Gov. Charlie Crist commented on the search for Caylee during his visit to Orlando Thursday, saying, "Well, it's a tragic situation to say the least, and I wish that more information were available about what happened. I shouldn't comment too much on the case because I know local authorities are on top of that," Crist said.
Friend To Casey: 'Tell Us What You Know'
Meanwhile, a high school friend of Casey Anthony recently spoke Thursday in East Orange County about Anthony as a high school student and how life was at Colonial High.
Robbie Swiebel said Anthony was very passionate and very smart. He said he believes Casey Anthony would never hurt her daughter.
"She's smart, so she knows what she's doing," Swiebel said. "Good or bad, she knows what she's doing."
Swiebel and Anthony both attended Colonial High School. He described Casey Anthony as a popular, fun-loving high school student who probably knew how to manipulate the system.
"Being brought up at Colonial High School, you know like not to trust authorities; I mean, that's just life at Colonial," Swiebel said. "You don't really learn a lot about books. You get street smart from that school; you're definitely street smart."
Swiebel continued to describe how different high school life was at Colonial.
"I mean, you know how to talk to cops, you know how to do everything, thats just the way of life there."
Casey Anthony, 22, is still in custody facing charges of child neglect. She has been incarcerated since July 15, the day Caylee was reported missing.
Casey Anthony's bond remains at $500,000 after a judge denied a request Wednesday by her attorney for a bond reduction.
"Just tell us what you know," Swiebel asked of Casey Anthony. "We just want to know the truth."
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NXTGEN Networks brauchte ein neues Briefpapier Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 38 Designs von 9 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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Growing technology company which has recently moved to a larger facility is in need of a new business card design which builds upon some of our existing marketing materials.
Our customers are small/medium businesses with 5-150 PC's and a small, or no IT staff. Typically we deal with Controllers, CFO's, CTO's and Business owners.
We are looking for bold and inoovative designs; a design when dozens of business cards are dumped onto a desk would stand out and be immediately recognizable. We would like the card to be similar to our existing cards (but please take your creative freedoms with our design), and incooporate elements from our new Invoice template which I have also attached.
The final file/files must be in PSD format and use the existing templates as a guide. When we get the business cards printed (from VistaPrint) we need this template to be uploaded for their systems to recognize the margins and such. No exceptions; build your design using these templates.
You can use the existing address and information in the teamplates, howerver the information is not correct.. I can put information in later in PhotoShop myself.... same for the back of the card; please use ixisting information and I'll adjust later as needed.
I believe you should have access to the logo and source files you need from the existing PSD files, but should you need anything else please ask.
Any RED used in the design must be RGB 228, 8, 2 (however, I'm pretty sure the business card nees to be CMYK) This site shows the conversion from RGB>CMYK http://web.forret.com/tools/color.a…28&G=8&B=2
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MSNBC, which is the home of 9/11 Truther Toure, on Wednesday smeared Republicans skeptical of climate change as "truthers." During a segment on the latest United Nations report on global warming, Now host Alex Wagner touted White House talking points, playing a clip of an Organizing for America commercial labeling House Speaker John Boehner a "climate denier."
Later in the segment, an MSNBC graphic appeared with an image of the globe and the GOP elephant. The graphic read, "truthers?" It's a sleazy move for MSNBC to lump conservative skeptics of global warming in with those who believe that the United States government was behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But it's also hypocritical as Toure, who hosts the Cycle at 3pm on the network, has publicly supporter trutherism.
For instance, he has previously tweeted, ""How could a plane crash into the Pentagon? And not appear on video cameras?? And leave little wreckage??? #Don'tbuyitfiremenow." (For more of his 9/11 truther e-mails, go here.)
Wagner on Wednesday featured a panel of liberal guests to slam Republicans. Radio host Kurt Andersen insisted that people like John Boehner are either climate skeptics "because they are ignorant and crazy or simply appealing to ignorant and crazy people."
Wagner talked to Joe Romm from the Center for American Progress, a liberal organization. She introduced Romm by insisting things are far worse than even the United Nations report will allow: "You say this one is an instantly out of date snapshot that low balls future warming. So, in fact, it's even worse, way worse, than this climate panel would have us think?"
A partial transcript of the segment, which aired at 12:40 on August 21, follows:
ALEX WAGNER: The latest report from the world's leading climate panel is dire. The IPCC, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace prize finds that the recent increase of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide is unprecedented in the last 22,000 years. Revising their already grim estimates from their last reports in 2007, the commission now believes with 95 percent certainty that humans are the principle cause of climate change. The panel also warned that sea levels, one of the greatest threats posed by climate change, could rise by more than three feet in the next 80 years. But these days even science is partisan. Witness, Speaker of the House John Boehner.
[Clip from Organizing for Action ad]
JOHN BOEHNER: The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that's harmful to our environment, it's almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.
WAGNER: Boehner's anti-science theorizing has been echoed by other self-appointed environmental experts, including Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, author of climate denial book, The Greatest Hoax.
JIM INHOFE: A lot of our listeners out there are not aware that you have to have CO2. That's a form of a fertilizer in order to grow things, it's actually sought after in many, in many cases. And so it's not something that you can't just automatically assume, well, we have to try to do something about CO2 because every effort that we do to think that we can change something that nature– You know, God's still up there.
WAGNER: And yet, as the IPCC report lays out in deeply distressing black and white, humans are changing nature, regardless of where God may or may not be. Joining us now is founding editor of Climate Progress and a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress, Joe Romm. Joe, thanks for joining us. You– I did not read the whole report. I read the analysis of the report to be honest and I found it deeply distressing as I find most environmental treatises to be these days. You say this one is an instantly out of date snapshot that low balls future warming. So, in fact, it's even worse, way worse, than this climate panel would have us think. Tell us more about that.
KURT ANDERSEN (Host, Studio 360): The Steve Kings and, as we saw, the John Boehners of the world, in maintaining this position, whether they're– because they are ignorant and crazy or simply appealing to ignorant and crazy people is-- remains to me shocking every time I hear these people. And the question is, when and will that change in the Republican Party, because they are practically in terms of a powerful entity in the developed world unique in taking this position.
WAGNER: Joe, before we let you go, I think one of the problems, maybe it's not a problem but it's a new sort of strategy that has to be employed by folks who want to see something done in terms of the environment, is talk about economics, because you look at what's happened in the United States. You have a drought disaster that was last year. The largest the -- the largest sort of scope of droughts in 50 years. Wildfires that have been raging that continue to rage. The average wild fire today burns twice as many acres as it did 40 years ago. And of course, hurricanes. No one will forget super storm Sandy. If this is framed perhaps in economic terms, perhaps there will be more political room to do something on it.
MSNBC GRAPHIC: Truthers?
JOE ROMM (Climateprogress.org): Well, there's no question we're talking extreme weather. Climate change is here now. If people want to know what climate change is like, they can go out west. They can see the droughts, the wild fires. I think that people need to understand that the solution is something very affordable. We're just talking about replacing dirty forms of energy with cleaner forms of energy with solar and wind, which are increasingly coming down in cost.


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Corrupted one
This article contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.
In the Nightmare, ordinarily peaceful creatures are corrupted into shadowy, mutated versions of themselves known as corrupted ones. The corrupted ones are vicious and cruel, hunting anything they can, even after they leave the Nightmare's affected zone.[1] They appear to be a type of corrupted creatures.[2]
The process can take minutes, hours or days depending on the creature, and some are never affected. Beings that enter the Emerald Nightmare, either voluntarily or because it sweeps across them, must be careful to avoid becoming corrupted. The energy that causes the corruption takes a full day to fade away.[1]
The Nightmare is not a stable place. Occasionally, storms erupt and areas of intense corruption appear.[1] When this happens there is very little that can be done to remove the corruption. Remove curse might help, but if it fails, further remove curse spells are of no use. A heal spell may work as well, but if it fails, further heal spells may actually make things worse until it no longer will help the corrupted individual. Otherwise, the only other means to eliminate corruption is with miracles and wishes.[2]
Corrupted types
- Corrupted centaur[3]
- Corrupted member of the green dragonflight[4]
- Corrupted dryad[3]
- Corrupted elephant[3]
- Corrupted giant eagle[3]
- Corrupted keeper of the grove[3]
- Corrupted lammasu[3]
- Corrupted mature green drake[3]
- Corrupted mountain giant[3]
- Corrupted nymph[3]
- Corrupted pixie[3]
- Corrupted satyr[3]
- Corrupted shambling mound[3]
- Corrupted treant[3]
- "Corrupted" is a template in the Warcraft The Roleplaying Game RPG series that creates "corrupted ones".[2]
- It can be used on animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, monstrous humanoid, magical beast, outsider, plant, or vermin.[2]
- Unwaking are corrupted and remain as such until they wake but are trapped in the Dream. They will do anything to get back home.[1]
- Nightmare Aberrations and Nightmare Figments in World of Warcraft might be corrupted ones.


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A photograph of the uplifted shallow sea bottom at Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, taken on August 3, 2001, 5:25 pm. Dinosaur Ridge is a hogback, west of Denver, that includes many tracks from dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The ripples in this shallow sea bottom were formed 100 M yrs ago, and are part of the Dakota Group.
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Q: HOW DO I... put timers with default actions in my C code?
A: Many times, we need to write programs that will only wait a certain specified amount of time for a user to do something. After that time, we need to assume that the user isn't going to do anything and move on to some specified default action. This Snippet works exactly like the get_ch() function in most PC C compiler libraries, except that it will only wait as long as you tell it for the user to hit a key. If no key is pressed within the time limit, the function returns with an EOF. As usual, a test harness has been added to allow for stand-alone testing. To compile the stand-alone test, simply define the TEST macro.
/* ** TIMEGETC.C - waits for a given number of seconds for the user to press ** a key. Returns the key pressed, or EOF if time expires ** ** Public domain by Bob Jarvis ** Test harness added by Bob Stout ** ** Note: This relies on the non-standard kbhit() function, which is available ** in all Windows PC compilers - including MinGW32 (gcc). */ #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> #include <conio.h> int timed_getch(int n_seconds) { time_t start, now; start = time(NULL); now = start; while(difftime(now, start) < (double)n_seconds && !kbhit()) { now = time(NULL); } if(kbhit()) return getch(); else return EOF; } #ifdef TEST main() { int c; const char *ctrlchars[] = { "NUL", "SOH", "STX", "ETX", "EOT", "ENQ", "ACK", "BEL", "BS_", "HT_", "LF_", "VT_", "FF_", "CR_", "SO_", "SI_", "DLE", "DC1", "DC2", "DC3", "DC4", "NAK", "SYN", "ETB", "CAN", "EM_", "SUB", "ESC", "FS_", "GS_", "RS_", "US_" }; printf("Starting a 5 second delay...\n"); c = timed_getch(5); if(c == EOF) printf("Timer expired\n"); else { printf("Key "); if (c < 0x20) printf("(%s)", ctrlchars[c]); else if (0x7f == c) printf("(DEL)"); else printf("('%c')", c); printf(" was pressed\n", c); } return 0; } #endif /* TEST */
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Lady Bisons Get State Golf Qualifier
Lipscomb University golf coach Dr. Ralph Samples signed Marie Fillers from Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tenn. in November of last year.
Fillers won the District I Class AAA tournament at the Johnson City Country Club with a 79 after winning the first hole of a playoff. She tied for third in Class AAA Region competition in Jefferson City with an 82 which earned her a berth in the TSSAA State Tournament.


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