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A Belgian man died Monday, June 23, while mountain biking in the Moab area.
Kirk De Muynck, 46, of Waarschoot, Belgium, was reported missing by a family member at about 6 p.m. on June 23 after Muynck failed to contact the family member following a planned mountain bike ride on the Amasa Back Trail, according to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff's Office.
"He had contacted that party at approximately 9 a.m. and stated he was on the Amasa Back Bike Trail and expected to be done with the ride in a relatively short time," Grand County Sheriff's Lt. Kim Neal said.
Grand County Sheriff's deputies and search and rescue workers began looking for Muynck, in the Amasa Back area west of Moab, and along other connecting mountain bike trail systems nearby, Neal Said. Muynck's body was discovered on the Jackson Trail, approximately 1.25 miles from the Kane Creek Trail parking area, at about 12:30 a.m., on Tuesday, June 24, according to the news release. Officials at the scene were unable to immediately determine what caused Muynck's death, according to the news release.
"He was deceased when located," Neal said.
According to investigators, Muynck had apparently started to backtrack on the Jackson Trail and "was carrying his mountain bike at the time that he went down."
He was carrying a backback that contained water and food supplies, according to the news release.
Search and rescue workers and sheriff's deputies carried Muynck's body on a litter to the trailhead and then ferried the body, along with equipment and search personnel, across Kane Creek in inflatable kayaks, the news release stated.
Muynck's body was transported to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Salt Lake City for an examination and to determine the cause of death.
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This summer, I have been interning with Richard McCoy in the Objects and Variable Arts Lab at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Check out my latest blog post on the IMA blog (re-posted below) about waxing bronzes with fellow intern Katie Roth.
It's been a record-setting summer, but not hot enough to stop me and fellow objects conservation intern Katie Roth from braving the heat to conserve several sculptures on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Our most challenging project has been Isidore Konti's fountain, Nymph and Fawn. The fountain is placed at the top of the ravine garden on the historic Oldfields estate. It's also surrounded by prickly and somewhat poisonous foliage (like poison ivy!). To start the project, Katie and I made our way with IMA conservator, Richard McCoy, out to the pond and formulated a game plan.
This treatment project was to re-apply a wax coating to the surface of the sculpture with the goal to prevent further deterioration of the bronze and maintain its historic appearance.
First things first, we washed the sculpture with Orvus soap and water to remove all the dirt and grime that builds up from the sculpture being outdoors. Nymph and Fawn was covered in cobwebs, bird guano, and plant debris.
After sufficiently scrubbing and bathing the duo, we pulled out the propane tank, blowtorch, and wax that was specially made at the IMA for outdoor bronzes. Then we set up our propane tank, hooked up the blowtorch, and started heating up the surface. The goal is to heat up the sculpture so that it reaches the melting point of wax. You know the surface is hot enough when it looks wet — this is because the heat is pulling out the moisture from within the sculpture and bringing it to the surface. The wax is then rubbed on the surface and begins to melt like butter. Once enough wax has been applied to an area, a brush is used to evenly coat the surface. Katie had a penchant for the torch, and I was more than happy to hand over the heat while I waxed and brushed.
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The next day, we came back to apply a cold paste wax, Trewax, using a brush. Cold wax is applied as a barrier between the sculpture and moisture in the air.
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After a few days of hard work, Nymph and Fawn gleamed in the sunlight. I've noticed in my time at the IMA that many aspiring artists like to sit near the pond and paint or sketch the pair — we're happy to have cleaned them up for everyone to enjoy.
If you're interested in learning more about the conservation of bronzes, check out the blog post by former IMA interns Jessica Ford and Katherine Langdon about their work cleaning the bronze Sewall torches at Herron High School.
For more information on the conservation and maintenance of outdoor bronze sculptures, check out the following resources:
Caring for Outdoor Bronze Plaques, Part II: Cleaning and Waxing (whole title links to http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/10-05.pdf)
Considine, Brian B. Conserving Outdoor Sculpture: The Stark Collection at the Getty Center. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010. Print.
Naudé, Virginia Norton. Sculptural Monuments in an Outdoor Environment: A Conference Held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, November 2, 1983. Philadelphia, PA: Academy, 1985. Print.
Naudé, Virginia Norton, and Glenn Wharton. Guide to the Maintenance of Outdoor Sculpture. Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 1993. Print.


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Was that his last test match i hope not i would like the guy to have his last test series in England 2014, it would be a great way to retire for him and all us fans
Was that his last test match i hope not i would like the guy to have his last test series in England 2014, it would be a great way to retire for him and all us fans
It wasn't. They'll make sure he gets a last match that everyone knows about and therefore fills the stadium.
Don't worry mate he will retire after ozzie's visit India
Love You India
Of course it wasn't.
On one hand I kind of feel sorry for Sachin regarding the criticism he has been receiving; everybody goes through form slumps including him, and as (arguably) the best batsman since Bradman he deserves a bit of patience from the selectors and the cricketing community. I'm sure if he keeps playing he will score another ton.
That being said, it's been a great career but all good things must end. The selectors will never drop him, not only because he sells tickets but because of the public backlash. It is basically up to him to call it quits at the right time. If he can play on til the next World cup and hold his place in the team via weight of runs then power to him. To hang around otherwise would be very selfish.
I thought Ponting crapped on his record towards the end but Tendulkar is just as bad. Right now, minnows removed, Tendulkar averages 51.50 - about 0.4 runs more than Ponting.
Certainly hope not. Dont care if he deserves to be dropped or not... strange, i think its best for the team that he retires.. but i dont think im ready for a non-sachin indian team. Its just way too huge... Dravid, VVS and now Sachin... i know ill cry
Pontings slump lasted almost 3 n 1/2 years though, thats the problem... hope tendulkar doesnt stick around that long
actually the real slump started in 2010 ashes series...before that he had only been declining as a bastman.
hoping that tendulkar also fails in the upcoming ODIs so that the liability realizes he should retire immediately. he's clearly well well past it.
I'd rather have laxman playing for india again than tendulkar playing another match tbh.
coz he'd surely do better.
he's still getting big tons in ranji.
Proud Supporter of All Blacks
Wont be his last, he will wait until a decent display and then jack it in,
My vote was "no" from the viewpoint of "it should be but it won't be".
Boult to Mathews, OUT, Caught at second slip! It was a length ball going across Angelo, who tried to hit it hard towards the leg side and got an outside edge that flew fast towards Guptill, who took a reflex catch in front of his face
This is disgusting behaviour, posting such drivel in Sachin's retirement thread
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
He will regain form, one final comeback, will deliver sucker punch and retire on high. He will retire in 2014 from Tests after touring SA and NZ, will play 2015 ODI WC and retire from all forms of Cricket in Australia. He still has 3 Test and 5 ODI centuries in him.
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Richard Carrier has posted his response to David Litwa's chapter that professes to be addressing the Christ Myth theory:
I also posted on the same chapter by Litwa:
Carrier's post comes with a much more lively and colourful style than mine.
Richard Carrier has posted his response to David Litwa's chapter that professes to be addressing the Christ Myth theory:
I also posted on the same chapter by Litwa:
Carrier's post comes with a much more lively and colourful style than mine.
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posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 8:05 pm
Dear Professor/s ... I ran Bivariate probit model using MPlus, SAS (Proc QLIM) and STATA (using "biprobit" command) … SAS and STATA results are matching with each other for every variables (in fact up to 5 point after decimal) ... however they are not matching with MPlus, discrepancies are pretty huge ...it really makes me worried (everything is different, coefficient, SE and hence the following, though the overall significance of parameters remain almost same)
Now in MPlus I have run my model using both ML and WLSMV, even the result differences among them are noticeable too ... below is my code
ESTIMATOR=ML; !(I have checked with MLR as well)
Y1 on X1 X2 X3 X4;
Y2 on X1 X2 X3 X4;
Q1. Now ...Under ML I have put the restriction Y1 with Y2 in MODEL command ...it does not work ... How could I be sure that MPlus is assuming Y1 and Y2 are related or not. under WLSMV it gives us "rho" but that is also pretty low (0.784 in Mplus vs. 0.816 in SAS and STATA result)
Q2. Do you think I should write something else to make it Bivariate in the above code? ...I need to make it sure that I am writing MPlus syntax correctly
Q3. For sure, I know SAS and STATA use Maximum Likelihood estimation ...I was expecting MPlus's ML result to match with them ...what could be the reasons behind such discrepancies
Thanks and regards
NB: I check with single equation probit using MPlus and SAS, the discrepancies are there too … I can send you the print out of all these results
posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 8:22 pm
With ML and categorical outcomes, Mplus uses logit, not probit. For approximate logit-probit conversions, see e.g. Maddala's book on our web site. Probit is only available with the Mplus WLS estimators. With categorical outcomes and ML, correlated residuals is not available because Mplus works with a conditional independence assumption to reduce the computational burden for general models (with more than 2 dependent variables). If you want a residual covariance you can create a factor that influences each outcome. For single equation probit, Mplus does produce ML estimates (see the "sample statistics") - given that you say that you see discrepancies here as well, I suspect you are not analyzing the same data in the different programs, for example you may handle missing data differently.
posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 3:52 am
Thank You Professor ... but a little confusion still remains about the Threshold Assumption of MPlus
I took MPlus example3.4 (page23) and run it as Logit/ML
Q1. Using the same data set (ex3.4.dat) I run Logit (error following Logistic Distribution)in STATA and SAS ...as you have said, this time every thing is exactly same with MPlus, BUT with one difference ...
Thresholds (MPlus)
While in STATA/SAS I got
constant -1.795903 .2406734 -7.46
it looks the difference lies in the way we assume threshold ...I'm wondering what is that!
Q2. thanks ...now I got the ML and single equation Probit thing in MPlus ... I use "sampstat", and in the output under "estimated sample statistics" I got the value which is exactly matching with STATA result ... however, here as well, the constant sign is different again!
thanks and regards
Thanks and regards
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 6:48 am
The constant in SAS is an intercept. Intercepts and thresholds differ only in sign.
posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 6:53 am
Thanks madam, now things are clear.
kanako ishida
posted on Friday, December 22, 2006 - 10:05 pm
I am also trying to run bivariate probit model in Mplus, trying to get the same results as produced using stata's "biprobit". As suggested above, I introduced factors in the following partial codes;
categoricals are y1 y2;
f1 by y1;
f2 by y2;
y1 ON x1 x2 f1;
y2 ON x1 x2 f2;
f1 with f2;
Q1:The coefficient and standard errors came very close, but the estimate for f1 with f2, by which I meant to capture residual covariance, is .000. Is this forced to be zero, or is is a result of the analysis? Is this the correct way to get residual covariance?
Q2:Though the coefficient estimates come very close to the results by stata's biprobit, they aren't identical. Is there any error or lack of command that might have produced this descrepancy?
Any comments will be greatly appreciated!!!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 9:08 am
You regress y1 and y2 on themselves when you regress them on f1 and f2 as your input shows - that is not what you want. You should simply say
y1 ON x1 x2;
y2 ON x1 x2;
I don't know what you mean by "as suggested above" as a motivation for bringing in factors. If you want intercepts instead of thresholds you simply change the threshold signs.
kanako ishida
posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 1:06 pm
I meant your comments on May 30 where you say "if you want a residual covariance you can create a factor that influences each outcome." How should I exactly create a factor to capture residual covariance and incorporate it in the codes;
y1 ON x1 x2;
y2 ON x1 x2;
Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 2:15 pm
I see. With the WLSMV estimator you get probit by default and also access to residual covariance parameters. This is obtained if you delete your 3 statements
Actually, algo=integration and estimator=wlsmv is contradictory (I assume the program ignores the former statement). It is with ML that you don't have access to residual covariance.
kanako ishida
posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 9:25 pm
Thank you for your response, but I am confused still. So the codes will be;
y1 ON x1 x2;
y2 ON x1 x2;
But it goes further away from the stata's biprobit results and still I am not sure where to look for residual covariance...
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 8:56 am
You do not need TYPE=RANDOM; Please delete that. To specify a residual covariance, say y1 WITH y2; If you have categorical outcomes and specify nothing in the ANALYSIS command, you will obtain weighted least squares.
In summary, with maximum likelihood and categorical outcomes, residual covariances cannot be specified using the WITH option. They must be specified by putting a factor behind the two variables to be covaried as shown in Example 7.16. Each residual covariance results in one dimension of integration. The WITH option is used with weighted least squares to specify a residual covariance.
kanako ishida
posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 6:16 pm
I came up with the following set of partial codes;
type = meanstructure;
Y1 on X1 X2;
Y2 on X1 X2;
f1 by Y1;
f2 by Y2;
f1 with f2;
This way, I am able to get the residual covariance but the coefficient estimates in this multi-equation modeling are the same as running univariate probit models. However, stata uses the biprobit (or multivariae probit) disribution and not just correlate the residuals, thus produces coefficient estimates that are different from single probits, and these coefficients are supposedly efficient since they take residual covariance into account when estimating the coefficients.
So my question would be: does mplus do stata's biprobit??
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 9:38 am
I would need to see the Stata output and the Mplus input, data, and output to answer this. It looks like you set the model up properly. Please send them and your license number to
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We had a wonderful brunch. Food was delicious. The bill came and we were shell shocked. $50 for 2 people for brunch! Plain old regular drip coffee was $4 a cup!!!! $4!!! I can get a venti drip at Starbucks for under 3!!!! Absolutely ridiculous.
Overpriced for what it is. Dessert better than entree. Okay service..
The food was decent. The service was slow and so was the tavern.
Not only would I recommend Copperwood to friends, I take my friends! Brunch never fails; try the gouda grits or the Western Omelette! We love their seasonal pancakes, but the French toast could be *less crusty and dry. Just sayin'. Overall, we love all the food and have enjoyed everything including Sunday brunch, lunch, and dinner - the hamburgers and steaks are amazing!
This is easily my favorite restaurant in the area. I'm only out here for work one week a month or so, but the service, food, ambiance, and overall vibe of Copperwood are super fantastic and comforting. I try and get here once a trip (Twice this time.)
I will say that I came here a few times with vegetarian co-workers and the selection isn't stellar. But is passable. I'd love to see an Impossible burger or equivalent offered. I only note this because the menu is so meat focused, keep with the theme. Why have the option be a squash dish? Play to your strengths!
That aside, literally every server, manager, and bartender I've interacted with I could easily be friends with. Keep up the awesome job, Copperwood management. You're kicking butt.
Wonderful food and service. The brunch menu was varied and reasonably priced. We were looking for an upscale place with an early opening time. Most choices had weekend brunch starting at 10:00 or 11:00. Copperwood opened at 9:00, which was perfect for our plans. Server was personable and attentive. Will definitely return.
This is my new favorite restaurant. I went with three close friends, and we all wanted to try something new. Everyone really enjoyed dinner, and we all ordered something different. The service was great, and it was nice to have some separation from the bar area to lessen the noise and feel like we were more in a restaurant. The menu is spectacular!
Great food. Copperwood Tavern has a great idea of getting food from local sources. The waitstaff was very courteous and knowledgeable. Great overall experience.
Celebrated a birthday and everything was perfect would recommend highly.
Very loud, slow service, and average food that was overpriced. I would not recommend this place to anyone.
Our entrees (steaks) were barely warm as was the apple pie dessert. Staff promptly fixed it. Steak was chewy although well seasoned.
Busy evening on 15th, but my food was cold. Sitting next to the outside doors, and you can feel a draft.
Service was very poor bordering on awful. Nearly had to literally grab a waiter to get his attention to replace a drink after it was served in a glass with a large chip. Food was good with one major exception - my rib eye steak and side of mushrooms were cold. Given the poor service to that point I did not want to send them back and have to wait another 20 mins while others in my party ate. The "rib eye" wasn't a rib eye cut - I think it was closer to a flank steak.
Other guests enjoyed their salmon and duck and the appetizers and sides were good - noting special but good.
The decor is such that it's very noisy and difficult to hear from the constant din - everyone's conversation just echoes off the walls making it quite noisy to the point that everyone talks louder which makes it worse. Wait staff were soft spoken and couldn't be heard or hear unless we yelled.
Perhaps a fun place to drink at the bar and watch sports when you expect noise - won't go there for dinner again.
Our server Evelyn was friendly and very helpful in pointing out that we were still in time to take advantage of the Happy Hour oysters. It was a bit crazy but it was Valentines Day. Evelyn convinced one of us to try the surf and turf special fo the evening which he enjoyed very much. My wife and I opted for the tomahawk steak. We were disappointed that it wasn't presented standing like during our previous visit. Visually it just wasn't as impressive but the server explained that the standing presentation caused some steaks to slip and fall off the platter. Copperwood may need to consider a new and better platter system with stand to again impressively present the tomahawk. Other steak places have developed more stable stands. The splatchcoked chicken was moist and tender with crispy which another in our group enjoyed. We enjoyed the dinner: food was good, service a little spotty due to Valentine crowd (our second round of wine arrived after we were finished with our entrees). But all the staff were helpful and friendly - made for an enjoyable evening.
What an amazing night! Every dish we ate was flavorful and well prepared. JaRon is the best waiter with excellent food suggestions! The short ribs were tender, the pork chop was seasoned well and brussel sprouts nice and crispy. Can't wait to go back!
The food was delicious and the service outstanding!
The baked brie was excellent.
The food prices were out of line for the quality. The taste was not something that I will remember. I had the rib-eye and for the price I paid, it should have been worth bragging to my friends that I found a great place. It was unremarkable. The waiter did an outstanding job though.
Based on the menu, I had high hopes for this place, but after some stellar appetizers, the four entrees at our table were hit or miss. The halibut was first-rate, the duck was quite good, the steak was just average, and the rabbit was completely inedible.... One of the worst things I've ever tasted, frankly -- and certainly not worth the price. Service was slow, despite a nearly empty dining room, but our server was pleasant and reasonably attentive. Just not an experience worth paying $400 for. I will not be coming back.
Was a birthday, noted on OpenTable but never mentioned. Server just kind of showed up to our table, no intro, welcome (thought he was just pouring water). No kids menu offered or anything that came with it.
Great happy hour with $3 beer/wine and $1 oysters. Dinner was good but nothing very memorable. Food was warm but not hot. And overpriced in my opinion. Service was fine but again nothing memorable. I don't feel the need to rush back.
Lots of local made beer and whiskeys, also delicious moonshine. The area is very enjoyable.
Attentive service, but not overbearing. It was our anniversary and we did not want to be rushed. We each ordered the filets, which were cooked perfectly and melted in your mouth. Sides were enormous and equally good. We should have followed our waitress' advice and shared! Wine was delicious, as well as my husband's martini. It was a wonderful evening! Looking forward to returning.
Great location with fantastically friendly staff.
Really disappointed experience overall. Atmosphere is lacking - nothing on the table at all and it was not particularly clean. Service was very slow and were only a handful of parties in the restaurant. My salad was pretty good but no bread or anything which would have been nice addition. The cocktail was excellent. I won't eat here again.
As always, breakfast here was excellent. We got the blueberry pancakes and the quiche and they were both great. The atmosphere is casual fun and the brunch is amazing everytime.
This place should be better. Had the duck hash and the broth was super salty, almost inedible. The rest of the dish was good, but the grits I ordered on the side were also undercooked and very gritty, not creamy. They give you popcorn instead of complimentary bread, which I would prefer. They don't provide toast or biscuits with a dish of eggs and potatoes at brunch. Seems kind of cheap. You also have to ask for salt and pepper. Really? The restroom could be cleaner and better maintained (loose seat, difficult latch, paper strewn on floor and the restaurant was nearly empty!). It's not like they were slammed with customers. Finally, they re-set a table nearby and left popcorn on the floor. Inattention to detail. The prices are quite expensive so overall not a great value. Service was fine. They'd better watch out, there's a lot of great competition around!
I went a year ago and a friend and I shared the bacon blue cheese mussels. They were delicious and there was plenty of it to share. I have been craving them ever since. I just went again and I was excited to get the mussels again. Well, it was still the same price but now it was in a small bowl with two pieces of bread. I was with a different friend this time and I was embarrassed that it was barely enough to share! So we had to order the Baked Brie appetizer. Another $14 that I didn't intend on spending. I wouldn't suggest bringing kids here also. The waiter said they don't have a written kids menu but he spouted off that they had a sliders meal or Mac n cheese meal. My daughter got the sliders. Maybe it was my mistake for not asking price, but it was $12 for 3 tiny burgers. I figured it would be about $8 or $9. Definitely not worth $12. My daughter only ate 1 of the burgers because she didn't think they were very good.
I am very disappointed. This place has really gone downhill. That is probably why there was nobody else there at prime dinner time. Other friends of mine went a year or two ago and had a great experience then went again in November with out of town guests. They also were embarrassed with how mediocre the food was. I believe they got the fried green tomatoes and short ribs, just like last time. This time, not so good! I don't know if you have a different kitchen staff, but you need to get back the old staff!!
Great ambiance and great food! We went at 11 a.m. for a Sunday brunch. Our party of 7 each ordered something different and everyone loved it. Nice atmosphere w a fire burning on a cool day. Will go again!
We all loved our mains which consisted of the pork chop, the venison, and the french onion soup. The sides were good and our server was on point. This place is worth another visit.
Came here for Saturday brunch and it's a cute little spot. Fun menu items and good atmosphere. They had popcorn with BBQ seasoning. Interesting mix. Wasn't a fan at first but keto eating it while waiting for food and it kinda grew on me. There's an outdoor patio and will come back to dine outside when it's warmer.
Restaurant was not crowded on a Friday night.. that should have been our first clue. Service was descent and the food was mediocre at best. Probably won't go back.
It was a great experience. Delicious food, we weren't rushed by the server and he was very helpful in making menu suggestions.
We were really disappointed in our meal at Copperwood Tavern. The first thing we noticed was that the interior is 'worn'. (tear in the bench seat, stain on the wall next to the table, etc.) Next, we were disappointed to find that at 1:00 in the afternoon, they would not serve their lunch menu, only their brunch menu. While our server was very pleasant, it took forever to get our food. When it did come it tasted mediocre and was only lukewarm. Lastly, when we got the check and saw how much it costed, we were shocked. We do not intend to go back and we certainly would not recommend it to a friend.
Brunch was awesome. Good food and service!
Friends get together.
Overall good food and service. The issue I have with the restaurant is the lighting. There are these awful overhead fluorescent lights shining into the dining room, completely ruining the ambiance. The lighting makes you feel like you're being interrogated. The restaurant seems to have a good attention to detail, you'd think they'd do something about the lighting.
Great food! Andrew was an exceptional server with great personality and recommendations for the evening meal.
The food here is awesome along with the beverages and service!
Service was nice, but very slow. Lobster Mac n cheese was very, very salty. At 7pm, some dishes were already sold out. Disappointing overall.
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Copperwood Tavern - Loudoun is rated 4.2 stars by 687 OpenTable diners.
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Its long past now but when we were in Campbeltown last week we saw the tall ship "Stavros S Niarchos" just off Davaar and tried a shot but it was too distant so i tried this:- binoculars with digital camera up to eye piece and what a surprise - crystal clear close up picture to behold. Any points for ingenuity ?
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While continuing the Asmara feasibility study in Eritrea, Sunridge Gold TSXV:SGC announced on March 7 a new near-surface discovery at Kodadu, four kilometres east of Asmara's Debarwa deposit. With assays complete on 21 reverse-circulation holes, the company now plans an initial resource estimate for the potential deposit.
True widths for the two zones were estimated at about 70%. Some highlights from the gossan zone include:
- 1.71 grams per tonne gold over 51 metres
- 1.77 g/t over 31 metres
- 1.66 g/t over 22 metres
- 1.06 g/t over 32 metres
- 1.08 g/t over 27 metres
- 1.05 g/t over 20 metres
- 1.18 g/t over 17 metres.
The top-most intercepts started at surface while the deepest stopped at a down-hole depth of 51 metres.
Some shear zone highlights include:
- 1.15 g/t over 33 metres
- 2.3 g/t over 16 metres
- 0.99 g/t over 21 metres
- 0.64 g/t over 15 metres
- 0.81 g/t over 11 metres
- 1.19 g/t over 1 metre.
Again, the top-most interval began at surface. The deepest ended at 79 metres down hole.
The company now wants to "rapidly define a resource that could be mined as feed" to a processing facility near Asmara's Emba Derho copper-zinc-gold-silver deposit, 25 kilometres away, which would also serve three nearby satellite deposits. Three of Asmara's four deposits would be open pit operations. The fourth, Adi Nefas, would go underground.
Asmara's feasibility study is slated for Q2 release and already the company is forecasting improvements to last May's pre-feas. Using a 10% discount rate, that study projected a pre-tax net present value of $555 million and a 27% internal rate of return. With initial capital costs then estimated at $489 million, payback would have come in 3.5 years, while the life of mine would last 15.25 years.
Now Sunridge is considering a staged start-up to cut capex and get to the ore earlier. Mining would begin with copper, gold and silver from Debarwa's supergene (higher-grade) zone. Work would progress with heap leach gold production at the Emba Derho plant, processing ore from the Debarwa and Gupo deposits as well as Emba Derho. The next stage would involve mining and processing the remaining copper supergene ore from Debarwa and Emba Derho. With full production in year three, Asmara would produce an estimated annual average of 70 million pounds (31,750 tonnes) copper, 140 million pounds (63,500 tonnes) zinc, 31,000 ounces gold and 997,000 ounces silver over the mine's first eight years.
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Sometimes that craving for ice cream hits in the middle of the night. It made one Missouri man break into a church kitchen and raid it for some frozen delight.
Andrew Steven Jung, 23, was arrested and charged with three felonies for allegedly stealing ice cream from the church's deep freezer on March 8, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Police found Jung walking approximately three blocks from St. Peter's Catholic Church in St. Charles. He was very intoxicated and had ice cream smeared all over his face and clothing.
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Police said they found a shattered church kitchen glass door, a damaged deep freezer, and an "undetermined amount of ice cream that had been taken." Jung's baseball cap was also left in the church kitchen, according to court records, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
At the time of the incident, Jung was already on probation for his 2010 burglary of another church in the area, court documents show.


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CRANSTON, R.I. — Miss USA Olivia Culpo has played the cello with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras but the Rhode Islander has another, lesser-known talent: tying a cherry stem with her tongue in less than 10 seconds.
"I was actually going to do this on the Kelly Ripa show, but it was cut because it was too boring," said Culpo, 20, sitting in a white rocking chair on her porch. She demurely spits a folded cherry stem onto her palm.
Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss USA in June in Las Vegas.
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Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss USA in June in Las Vegas.
The Boston University sophomore returned home briefly July 3 — exactly one month after becoming the first contestant from Rhode Island to be crowned Miss USA. Over the next year, Culpo will travel around the country, making appearances at a variety of events and for charitable causes. Her parents and four siblings are still adjusting to the idea that Culpo — the middle child who loves playing Elgar's Cello Concerto and going to the Coolidge Corner Theatre to watch
indie films — has become a national figure.
"She's probably the biggest news that's happened in Rhode Island this year," said Peter Rogina, a family friend who has known Culpo her whole life. He rattled off Rhode Island's 11 percent unemployment rate and the collapse of Curt Schilling's video game company, 38 Studios. "It's a breath of fresh air for her to represent the state and the country."
Culpo left Rhode Island for the Las Vegas pageant May 16 with enough outfits to change three times a day during the grueling series of appearances and events. She had no expectation of winning the 61st Miss USA pageant. She returned with an entourage: a videographer, a PR representative carrying her crown sealed in a case, and two security men dressed in black suits who stood guard outside. As Miss USA, she also receives a stipend and lives rent-free in a Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park.
Upon arrival, the $300,000 diamond- and emerald-studded crown was hidden away. Culpo didn't need it. This is the one place she won't be treated like royalty for the next year. Her father, Peter, 66, the owner of Boston restaurants The Hill Tavern and Woody's Grill & Tap, told her as much as she flew back East.
"I sent her a goofy text saying, 'Listen, your room is a mess. Have the plane stop in Providence because you have to clean your room,' " he joked.
In a competition full of women who have trained for pageants since they were young girls, Culpo is an outlier. She had never been in a pageant but decided she wanted to try it after her first year at BU. Her role model, Danielle Lacourse, had attended her high school, St. Mary Academy-Bay View, and was Miss USA runner up in 2007. Culpo had seen pageant contestants like Halle Berry and Maria Menounos go on to have successful entertainment careers — something she wants, too.
"I was thinking I have nothing to lose — just give it a try," said Culpo, who smiled nonstop and laughed each time a family member peeked out the screen door to see her.
To prepare for the Miss Rhode Island pageant, she spent last summer learning interview skills, exercising, dieting, and "becoming more confident" in herself, she said. Though her parents and siblings — ages 15 to 24 — were puzzled by her new ambition, they supported her. They brought a contingent of 30 people to Las Vegas last month to cheer her on.
"It's so crazy for my family to sit back and see how that happened because they were so unfamiliar with the pageant world, and then all the sudden I decided I wanted to do Miss Rhode Island, and they just kind of scratched their head, looked at me [like] 'Really?' Now here we are," said Culpo. She will compete in the Miss Universe pageant in December.
Back at the house, the family sat down to platters of lobster rolls and pasta made by her mother's best friend, Jean Lester, who lives around the corner. Lester offered Culpo some potato salad, apologizing for the carbs. Undeterred, Culpo took two full scoops. She is, after all, a beauty queen who ate a bacon cheeseburger after winning Miss USA.
Pictures of the Culpo kids adorn the pumpkin-hued dining room. A collage of photos of Olivia wearing her fuchsia evening gown, sash, and crown was prominently displayed. Nearby are pictures with Santa Claus and one of Culpo standing back-to-back with her mother for the "Charlie's Angels" pistol pose. The picture is evidence of her so-called chubby phase.
The family laughed and shouted as they relived moments from the pageant. Culpo's mother Susan, 54, a viola player with the Rhode Island Philharmonic who has been an extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, said she told herself that "Livie" was going to lose so she wouldn't be disappointed. But when Olivia answered a question from Twitter about whether transgender women should be allowed to compete in the pageant (Culpo responded yes, adding "it's a free country"), Susan knew her daughter had won.
Culpo, her brunette hair softly curled around her shoulders, said she doesn't like to get into the reasons behind her win.
"It's funny when people come up to you and say, 'Oh you definitely just won because of your question — not because of your looks or anything like that,' " Culpo said. "But I mean I don't really think of it in that way because I'm just happy that I won."
Culpo's sister Aurora, 23, said the pageant was the most "thrilling hour of my life." She was in charge of bringing signs and accidently forgot them, but the group's cheering made up for it. "We were the smallest state with the biggest mouths," she said.
They do have pipes. Culpo admitted she hadn't practiced "America the Beautiful" though she was going to sing it in a Providence Independence Day celebration the next day. So her mother — who missed playing with the Boston Pops July 4 for the first time in more than 20 years so she could see Olivia's performance — burst into song, instructing her daughter not to go up the octave at the end. Peter, a former professional trumpet player who met his wife when they played in an orchestra together at BU, joined the melody.
"I'm going to get indigestion," Culpo joked as she got up to clear her plate.
As the meal ended, Culpo chatted with her sister Sophie, 15.
She is contemplating running for her sister's Miss Rhode Island crown, but said she has to work on her interviewing skills.
"[Olivia is] really good in front of people, and I'm not necessarily sure I'm cut out for that," she conceded.
And yet, Culpo has proven that any girl can become Miss America, says Ginny Fox, a neighbor across the street who has known her since she was a kid.
"Olivia was just this regular kid who rode her bike and climbed trees," Fox said. "It's nice to see a girl who hasn't been doing pageantry her whole life just walk up and win."
Stephanie Steinberg can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @steph_steinberg.


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While Asda's Vita figure of £197 still places the Vita at a higher price point than full-blown consoles, such as the PS3 and Xbox 360, a ten per cent cut prior to launch is a reassuring sign of things to come.
The Vita was originally pegged to retail at £230 for a Wi-Fi only model, with the 3G version said to cost £50 more.
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"14 of the top 20 positions in our video games pre-order chart are held by the PlayStation Vita console, games and accessories, which clearly illustrates the level of excitement that we are seeing around the product," said Liz Hosmer, videogame manager at Amazon.co.uk.
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Stryke wrote:Folks ive trained with always said I needed to be in a padded room ... Now I understand !!!!
as long as that middle finger gesture still means i`m number 1
Thats 'cause yer a wild man hoss!!!!
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Stryke wrote:Folks ive trained with always said I needed to be in a padded room ... Now I understand !!!!
as long as that middle finger gesture still means i`m number 1
I live in my own place have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself - I laugh. - inscribed over the door to Friedrich Nietzsche's house
"Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement."
Whats with the skunkape in the tutu mate. Ye best be sporting more than that around your middle mate or you just might freeze your tools. Damn offshore chippies they don't know anything.check out my new Gi !!! , getting ready fer Canader !! eh !!
Stryke wrote::lol:
I think I`l start growing the beard out now mate ... should look the part In Hawaii !!!
jorvik wrote:Well I've just started at a Wing Chun school, and it was quite a surprise. it was only basic movements of the form followed by Chi-sau, emphasis was on being soft and economical....
jorvik wrote:The real surprise was the sifu, apart from the fact that he was a little over 5ft and must of weighed about 80lbs.he was blind.
jorvik wrote:a guy who was about 6ft 2 and in peak physical condition.......and the little blind Sifu bounced him around like a ball
jorvik wrote:the little blind sifu has been to Hong Kong and trained with the Ip family and his sifu was taught directly by them .but his real name is in doing Chi-Kung.......I'll keep you posted on how I go
I've had a womb-broom for years bro.... chicks dig it!
Stryke wrote: I`d have to agree , although for me it`s a disguise , wouldnt get anything done if they new how handsome I was underneath
jorvik wrote:basically he did show me the first part of the form.which I know all ready.he also showed me one of the first exercises ( I'm not too sure of all the Chinese names ) I think the exercise was from fak sau to a palm heel then to Bong Sau..I get fak?? and Tan and pak mixed up ..............the Chi-sau that I did was pre arranged stuff
jorvik wrote:he'd just come back from a week long Chi-Sau residential course.where they had practiced Chi Sau from 9 am till 11 pm every day!!
jorvik wrote:so it's looking hopeful
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Choice of carabiner for attaching a descender with a safety gate (I'D S, RIG, STOP...) to the harness
- Read the technical notice before viewing the following techniques.
- It is important to fully understand the information provided in the technical notice before using this complementary information
- Mastering these techniques requires training.
- Consult a professional before attempting to perform these techniques on your own.
Key issues and risks
When the rope is taut, the carabiner and the device are held in position by the tension.
But when the rope is slack, the device and its carabiner can move about and become poorly positioned. So there is a risk of rubbing on the sleeve, or of cantilever loading between the device and the harness attachment point.
The most important risks to consider
Recommendation on carabiner and accessories
- Use an Am'D carabiner and a CAPTIV bar
- Choose a locking system suited to your use
Reliability in dirty environments (mud, sand...)
Security of locking
Security of locking
Why this choice?
The asymmetry of the D shape allows for good load distribution and helps resist carabiner rotation. For this use, there is only one device to attach, so a wide opening and high capacity are not necessary.
- On devices with a safety gate, the rope can be inserted without detaching the carabiner, so it's possible to fix the device on the carabiner with the CAPTIV bar.
- The CAPTIV limits poor carabiner positioning.
- The carabiner is held in the position chosen by the user, for example with the locking sleeve on the moving side-plate side of the I'D.
- The remaining risk of the locking sleeve rubbing against the harness attachment point must be monitored by the user. It is more or less important depending on the situation and locking system used
Precautions for use
- Regularly verify that the carabiner stays loaded on the major axis, especially when it is reloaded after having been unloaded.
- With an auto-locking carabiner, check at each opening and closing that the sleeve is completely locked.
- Install the carabiner with the sleeve facing yourself, (moving side-plate side), to avoid accidental pressure on the locking sleeve from the structure, in case of tight passages or false moves.
- Avoid any pressure or rubbing that could damage or unlock the locking sleeve, and/or cause the gate to open.
- At work, use a second belay system in addition to your progression system.


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Last post I left you hanging. I went through what probably seemed like an incredibly depressing breakdown of all of the reasons why asexuals have a polar bear's chance in climate change of forming a committed romantic relationship with another asexual. Those odds are getting better all the time, and the more people chip in with local community building the faster they'll improve. Still, on daily basis almost all of the people that we interact with, get crushes on and begin to develop feelings for are into the whole sex thing. Why CAN'T we form relationships with them?
The traditional story is that there is a fundamental compatibility problem. In order to be happy in a romantic relationship sexual people need to have sex, so sexual people can only get romantically involved with people that they can boink. There is a widespread assumption that without sexual compatibility relationships are doomed to fail, because people only fall in love with people that they are sexually attracted to. So a straight woman can fall in love with a gay man, but she'll only get her heart broken because his attentions will be elsewhere. No matter how much she pines the two of them will never be more than friends. Friendship is the kid brother to romance, it's what happens when two people who aren't sexually attracted to one another (or who don't act on it) love one another. Friendship love is to romantic love what a snack is to a balanced meal- satisfying, but not that important and not enough to live on. Friendship comes with a set of emotional and sexual limitations, which get invoked with the phrase "just friends." If you believe in this relationship binary, asexual people (romantic ones, anyway) can't be "more than friends" with sexual people because we're sexually incompatible. We have to form relationships with other asexual people because they are the only ones that will have us, and the depressing numbers problem results.
Hold up a minute. People only fall in love with people that they are sexually attracted to? Relationships which involve sex are fundamentally more powerful, fulfilling and important than relationships which don't? The logic of the relationship binary is fraught with assumptions that asexual people disprove by our very existence. If we can form emotionally powerful, fulfilling and important romantic relationships with one another, then it's possible to form them without sexual attraction and without sex. Read that again, and think about how monumental the implications are. Nonsexual relationships can be just as powerful, just as passionate, and just as deep as sexual ones. Look around the asexual community and there is plenty of evidence that the wall of "just" constructed around friendship is fundamentally a lie. This means that straight women and gay men can fall in love, a lesbian can steal a straight girl's boyfriend, and there are no limits to how deep a sexual and an asexual person can go.
The more you look for it, the more that this kind of nonsexual intimacy is all around us sticking it's nose in the face of the relationship binary. Longterm couples say that it's the little (nonsexual) things, not necessarily tons of sex, which keep relationships going in the long run. Check on facebook, where the "Relationship Status" box is used to "marry" and "date" nonsexual friends almost as much as it's used to communicate socially valid sexual relationships. Turn on the TV and you'll notice an interesting trend. Popular shows that focus on human relationships almost never focus on sexual ones. Shows like, "Will and Grace", "Friends" and (ironically) "Sex and the City" topped the charts by focusing on nonsexually intimate relationships, not the supposedly more powerful and interesting sexual ones. ("Friends" went sexual only when it began to lose steam and ratings.) What's going on here?
I propose that there is a significant gap between the way that most of our society talks about relationships and they way that we actually experience them. Sex is exciting for some people, but it's not really that much more exciting than the other things that people are truly passionate about. Relationships that are "just" friendships can get incredibly deep and complicated, and they easily take on the ups and downs of their romantic counterparts. But how often do friends sit down and talk about where their relationship is going? How common is it for groups of friends to gossip as excitedly about new nonsexual relationships as they do about new sexual ones? Sexual and asexual, we all want to find relationships where we can explore our passions, challenge one another, build trust and feel loved. In all of the things that really matter in relationships, sexual and asexual people are fundamentally compatible. The only problem is that the words we have, "friendship" and "romance," don't adequately describe the powerful nonsexual relationships that we want to form. In short, asexual and sexual people don't have an compatibility problem, we have a language problem.
The nice thing about language problems is that they're easier to solve. If we see this as a numbers problem we have to solve it with numbers- diligently building up the asexual community until the odds of finding a mate become reasonable (this still isn't such a bad idea.) If see it as a compatibility problem we have to solve it with compatibility- compromising to make ourselves more sexual and asking our partners to compromise to make themselves less sexual, which works but not that well. But what if it's a language problem, and we can solve it with language? What if having unfettered access to deep, fulfilling relationships is simply a matter of saying the magic words?
For the past four years or so, I've turned my life into an experiment which tests that hypothesis, and the results flip conventional wisdom on its head. Talk about asexuality the right way and it turns people on, not off. As much as they sometimes fixate on sex, sexual people are mostly driven be the same nonsexual desires as us and are just as eager to build relationships around fulfilling them. All we need is the language to show them how.
Next post I'll get into some of the language that I use to do just that. I haven't found the answers, if anything I've just barely scratched the surface, but it will hopefully get you thinking about language that works for you in your community.


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With all the success of its current lineup of iPhones, Apple doesn't even need to release an iPhone 5. The iPhone 4S launch in China had to be canceled because too many people showed up and the Chinese S.W.A.T. team called in to crowd control. Ah, right, iPhone 5. Bigger screen and symmetrical form factor.
9to5Mac aka the guys with
spies contacts within Foxconn (the company that assembles iPhones, Xboxes and most of your electronics) say that the next iPhone will have a four-inch screen (up from the 3.5-inch on all iPhones), a brand new form factor with no tapered/teardrop design and will be slightly longer and wider.
Hey, sounds a lot like the iPhone 5 that was a no show at the iPhone 4S's unveil in October.
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News from around the country and around the globe
The tapered design was first reported first reported by Josh Topolsky from This Is My Next/The Verge. Logical as it sounds for a teardrop shape, the device was probably a rejected prototype that was floated around.
I think Apple pundit John Gruber nailed it when he called out the chance of a teardrop iPhone happening. Gruber stated such a design would unbalanced and strange to hold horizontally in one hand. Apple's always been interested in keeping all of its gadgets balanced.
Do note that other companies like Motorola have used a teardrop-like design in their devices. Example: Motorola Droid X and Droid RAZR — both smartphones that sport "humps" on one end. Go ask those users if they've had any unbalanced weight issues.
Seth Weintraub from 9to5Mac cautions that the iPhones his Foxconn source saw were not final and could change. Production is said to be ramping up, and a summer release back on track.
Last year's iPhone 4S launched later than the typical June/July release cycle of its predecessors. Good, because my contract is about up too, and if the iPhone 5 doesn't start generating something other than smoke, I'm seriously considering switching to an Android smartphone with a 720p screen and 4G LTE.


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