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When you come from Galle, at Midigama, on the left you've got the market place , on the right...
DistanceTake a car
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special accessDon't know
Alternative name Lasy left
Wave qualityRegional Classic
ExperienceAll surfers
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good swell direction
Good wind directionNorth
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 2m+ / 6ft+
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movement
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdFew surfers
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Easy take-off, long rides, few barrels. Beautiful landscape.
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By leonard , 30-03-2013
midigama too busy 2013 - the whole area is completely overcrowded, from kabalana to matara
also be aware of occasional crocodiles
By iwelsted , 28-11-2011
Don't stay at Lazy Left Guest House - We stayed at Lazy Left Guest House. 5 days in the guy (Suigie) presented us with a bill where he overcharged us for both our room and surfboard rentals, but we thought we'd overlook it as it really wasn't that much when translated into dollars.
A week later we went out for dinner with everyone and the next day he kicked us out for stealing business from his restaurant. I guess he wanted us to eat at his place with his mediocre food every meal for the three weeks we were there. When we started to move out he demanded his bill right away and when we didn't have enough to pay in full (we hadn't planned on leaving) he thought we were skipping out on the bill and got enraged, ripped a chunk out of his wood fence and threatened to hit me with it. I guess last year he threatened three guys with a knife.
There are lots of guest houses in Midigama, I'd recommend looking around a bit before settling on that place again. We went next door to RAM'S which is way nicer and friendlier and the price for a similar room is the same.
Definitely got the feeling Suigie just looked at us as walking dollar signs, wouldn't stay there again.
By yonatanmol , 01-10-2011
one of the best spot!!! - the place is less crowded than the other beaces and has a great left.the rooms there are cheap.i spend there a week and we surf morning session and evening session.i am coming back for sure!!!
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Relics of Noah's flood?Archaeologists discover man-made structure deep in the Black Sea
By Guy Gugliotta
Archaeologists said yesterday they have discovered the remains of a man-made structure more than 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea, providing dramatic new evidence of an apocalyptic flood 7,500 years ago that may have inspired the Biblical story of Noah.
'It is beyond our wildest imagination.' — ROBERT D. BALLARD leader of the expeditionTHE EXPEDITION ALSO spotted planks, beams, tree branches and chunks of wood untouched by worms or mollusks, a strong indication that the oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea's 7,000-foot-deep abyss may shelter intact shipwrecks dating back to the dawn of seafaring. "It is beyond our wildest imagination," explorer Robert D. Ballard, leader of the expedition, said yesterday. "Wood is existing much shallower than we thought. When we do go deep, it can only get better." The discovery is the latest from the Black Sea project to look for ancient shipwrecks and perhaps evidence of a great flood. Late last year, the team discovered the outlines of an ancient coast 550 feet below the current waterline, the first visual evidence that a flood had occurred in the region eons ago. This month, working from a ship 12 miles east of the Turkish port city of Synope, Ballard's team used special "side-scan" sonar to map anomalies on the sea floor, then sent a robotic submersible to investigate the most promising sites.(photo:the Black Sea at Sunset)At 311 feet, the submersible found a collapsed rectangular building 39 feet long and 13 feet wide, "about like a good-sized barn," Ballard said in a telephone interview from the site.
University of Pennsylvania archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert described the construction technique as a "cluster of wood stuck in a clay matrix" – traditional Black Sea "wattle and daub" architecture: "This struck a bell, because it was familiar to me from land," Hiebert said. "Literally my jaw dropped."The expedition also found old tree branches, pieces of wood and a trash heap with polished stones and other debris indicating human habitation, Ballard said. In the same general area, the submersible identified two old shipwrecks with many intact wooden planks and ceramic amphorae – jars used in ancient times to transport liquids such as olive oil or wine. Researchers are unsure if they are from the same period or related to an ancient flooded settlement. INTENSE AREA OF INTEREST Archaeologists have long been interested in the Black Sea, because its waters are anoxic – lacking in oxygen – below a depth of 500 feet. In theory, organic material that shipworms quickly gobble elsewhere would lie untouched in the Black Sea's sterile depths. Later this month Ballard plans the first-ever exploration of the Black Sea floor. Interest in the Black Sea quickened last year with the publication of "Noah's Flood," by Columbia University geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman, suggesting that the modern-day sea was formed 7,500 years ago when melting glaciers raised sea level until the waters of the Mediterranean breached the natural dam at the Bosporus. According to the theory, a cataclysmic deluge followed. Seawater from the Mediterranean poured into the Black Sea basin at 200 times the volume of Niagara Falls. The heavier salt water plunged to the bottom of the existing fresh water lake and began to fill the basin like a bathtub. ;The theory holds that the rising lake-sea inundated and submerged thousands of square miles of land, destroying communities, killing people and wiping out uncounted species of plants and animals as the ecosystem flipped from fresh water to salt water in a period of only two years. The flood also created a two-layered body of water, which permanently interfered with the normal convection that brings deep water to the surface for oxygenation. The less dense fresh water lay like a lid on top of the denser Mediterranean water, sterile once its original oxygen had been used up. Today the top 500 feet of the Black Sea supports a thriving marine life, but the rest is as dead as the ancient day when the flood waters settled. Scholars regard both the book of Genesis and the story of Noah as legends written between 2,900 and 2,500 years ago, and have questioned whether any natural disaster could be conclusively identified as the inspiration for Noah's flood. Still, the event described by Ryan and Pitman appears horrible enough to be remembered by scribes and poets long enough to become the source of the Biblical story. JOLT FOR BIBLICAL SCHOLARS "Among scholars who take the Bible literally this will be confirmation," said Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. "Critical Bible scholars are almost unanimous in regarding the flood story as a legend. On the other hand, legends arise not out of imagination but from an experience. I don't think we'll ever know what flood that was." Last year, Ballard's expedition, which is supported by the National Geographic Society, the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the University of Pennsylvania, discovered evidence of an old coast. Tests of shell samples showed that freshwater mollusks had lived in the waters until 7,500 years ago, but had been replaced with marine species 600 years later. The next question, Ballard said, was "did anyone live here?" On land, Hiebert's archaeological work at Synope suggested that the likeliest spot for settlements was between 165 feet and 330 feet above sea level. The "sweet spot" for pre-flood communities, therefore, should be in waters 170 feet to 435 feet deep, he said. On Sept. 2, Ballard's team began to scan this band of territory: "if you drained it back, it would be rolling countryside with meandering streams," Ballard said. "We located the countryside, and located the river systems." Shortly after that, they found the submerged building with intact wood about 200 feet above where they expected to find it: "Now we're looking for the neighbors," Ballard said.... © 2000 The Washington Post Company
Undersea Explorer Finds New Evidence of Noah's Flood
Follow-up:New Evidence of Worldwide Flood
Archaeologists have found evidence that appears to support the theory that a catastrophic flood struck the Black Sea region more than 7,000 years ago, turning the sea saline, submerging surrounding plains and possibly inspiring the flood legends of Mesopotamia and the Bible. In their first scientific report, the expedition leaders said that a sonar survey in the sea off Sinop, a city on the northern coast of Turkey, conducted in the summer of 2000, revealed the first distinct traces of the preflood shoreline, now about 500 feet underwater. At one site, the sonar detected more than 30 stone blocks on a gently sloping but otherwise featureless bottom. Further investigation with remote controlled cameras revealed pieces of wood and other objects, possibly ceramics. The site "appeared uniquely rectangular" in the sonar image, and the stone blocks did not appear to be part of a natural geological formation, expedition scientists reported in the Oct. 1 issue of The American Journal of Archaeology. Analysis of core samples yielded chemical evidence that archaeologists said were consistent with the interpretation that the site was once occupied by people. "The expedition clearly has found a subaquatic landscape with materials that belong to the period before the inundation," said Dr. Bruce Hitchner, an archaeologist at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and editor of the journal, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America. "They have confirmed an important element of the flood theory, quite convincingly I think." The expedition was led by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, an oceanographer and president of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Conn., and Dr. Fredrik T. Hiebert, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The research was supported in part by the National Geographic Society.Among the expedition's most striking discoveries were four Roman and Byzantine shipwrecks, several of them surprisingly well preserved because of the sea's oxygen-deficient waters at the bottom.
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Swick hasn't fought since a decision loss to Dan Hardy at UFC 105 and a submission defeat to Paulo Thiago at UFC 109, which came in November 2009 and this past February, respectively. Since then, he's dealt with a stomach ailment that caused a weight drop and affected his diet. He recently posted a Twitter message that stated he'll undergo an experimental procedure this morning in hopes it'll fix the "agonizing problem."
A cast member on the original season of "The Ultimate Fighter," Swick is one of the UFC's most recognizable fighters. Prior to his back-to-back losses, he posted nine wins in 10 fights (all in the UFC), which included a January 2008 debut at welterweight and a win over Josh Burkman. The streak also included a 33-second knockout of Jonathan Goulet at the first "UFC Fight for the Troops" event in December 2008.
Mitchell, meanwhile, could be fighting for his life in the organization. After opening his career with an 11-0 mark, which included wins over the likes of War Machine and Tim McKenzie, he made his promotional debut against Anthony "T.J." Waldburger at UFC Fight Night 22 and suffered a decision loss. A product of David Terrel's Nor-Cal Fighting Alliance, Mitchell also held the recently vacated the Tachi Palace Fights welterweight title.
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At the outset of 2008, many of the world's conflicts seem locked in a stalemate. But history shows that peace often comes as a surprise.
Indeed, if one looks at the resolution of major conflicts in the past 20 years, "almost none of them could have been anticipated just beforehand," says John Darby at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in Notre Dame, Ind. More than 40 peace deals have been signed in the past two decades, he says, in places as diverse as Angola, Guatemala, Aceh (Indonesia), and Tajikistan.
Next week, President George Bush heads to the Middle East to spur on the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Marc Gopin at George Mason University in Arlington, Va., notes that US administrations have often done their best conflict-resolution work in the last two years of an eight-year term.
Staff writer Christa Case Bryant looks at key global flash points and asks experts how to identify signs of progress – or a turn for the worse.
THE CRUX: Palestinians want their own state, established on some or all of the territory Israelis claim. Israel seeks Palestinian recognition of its right to exist, and an end to violence against its citizens.
THE STATUS: The two sides formally renewed negotiations at the Annapolis conference in December, and aim to reach a permanent peace agreement by the end of 2008 – the final months of President Bush's term.
• Reconciliation between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah. While some experts say such an agreement is crucial to eventual peace, it could also make continued negotiations more politically difficult for Israel, which won't deal with Hamas as long as it calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
• A prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas, which has held an Israeli corporal in Gaza for 18 months. Such a move could enable Israel to include Hamas in negotiations.
• A deal that isolates Hamas, leaving it feeling it has no choice but to undermine the peace process.
THE CRUX: This tiny country is a microcosm for broader battles gripping the Middle East as the region's key players – Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria – exert their influence in Lebanon in an ongoing battle for supremacy.
THE STATUS: The ruling March 14 bloc, a coalition named for the 2005 Cedar Revolution that helped end Syrian domination of Lebanon, is pitted against the pro-Syria opposition, led by Hizbullah.
The US supports March 14 as a useful bulwark against Hizbullah and its backers, Syria and Iran. The rise of March 14 also represents the most successful example of the Bush administration's Middle East democracy drive. But Syria and Iran seek to deny Washington its toehold.
• Calm between US ally Israel and Hizbullah, in light of the reduced prospect of an American attack on Iran. And, perhaps, a thaw in relations between the US and Syria.
• Possible attacks from Fatah al-Islam, an Al Qaeda-influenced militant group. It has laid low since the Lebanese Army triumphed over it after a four-month battle in 2007 that was the nation's most grueling fight since the 1975-90 civil war. But isolated Fatah al-Islam cells remain in the north and in Palestinian refugee camps.
• Sunni-Shiite tensions. Overshadowing for the first time Lebanon's traditional Christian-Muslim divide, is the broader schism among Muslims in the Middle East.
THE CRUX: The main conflict between the West and Iran is its nuclear-energy program, which the US has criticized as a cover for developing weapons. Washington has also accused Tehran of backing Hizbullah in Lebanon and destabilizing Iraq. There are also tensions between an increasingly powerful Shiite Iran and the Sunni Persian Gulf states.
THE STATUS: The US released a new National Intelligence Estimate in December concluding that Iran halted a weapons program in 2003 – reversing previous assessments and lowering expectations for an air strike. Iran's relations with Sunni Arab neighbors have also improved, with President Ahmadinejad receiving the first-ever official invitation to take part in the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia last month.
• More diplomatic tug-of-war over Iran's program, including a stronger push for more UN sanctions. Also, Iran's first-ever nuclear power plant at Bushehr, built by Russia, is due to begin operation.
• Better relations with Iran and its Sunni Arab neighbors, crucial for stability of the Gulf region.
• Iran's influence in Iraq. Three US-Iranian meetings have been held at the ambassadorial level in Baghdad to discuss Iraqi security. Iranian officials want to expand the talks to other issues that have divided the two countries.
THE CRUX: Ethnically distinct from the rest of Serbia with a 90 percent Albanian majority, the tiny province seeks independence. Serbs, however, see Kosovo as the cradle of their civilization, and insist it remain part of their country.
THE STATUS: An 18-month United Nations process to reach an agreement between Serbs and Kosovars ended in December. Kosovo leaders are expected to declare independence after Serbia's Jan. 20 elections.
• Russia's position. As a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council and supporter of Serbia, it could prevent the West from gaining international consensus for Kosovo's independence. If Kosovo proceeds unilaterally with Western support, Russia may use that precedent to back separatist forces in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
• Serbian elections, which will reflect public opinion on the Kosovo issue.
• Kosovo declaration of independence. Serbia has promised to refrain from violence, but hard-line militias may take action themselves. It will also be an early test of Kosovo leaders, some of whom were former members of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
THE CRUX: In a bid to restore public support in Turkey's Kurdish southeast, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has escalated its violent campaign for greater Kurdish cultural and political rights.
THE STATUS: Turkey, which fears it could lose territory to any eventual Kurdish state, has mobilized 100,000 troops along its border with Iraq's Kurdish north, where Turkish planes have fired on PKK targets. The conflict has drawn in the US, which is allied with Turkey but also dependent on the support of Iraqi Kurds in its reconciliation efforts in Baghdad.
• A relatively calm winter, with snow in the PKK's mountain hideouts making military operations difficult. Experts expect clashes to resume in the spring.
• During the winter respite, possible progress on the diplomatic front. In November, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) proposed talks between the KRG, Turkey, Washington, and Baghdad.
• Moves toward amnesty for PKK rebels, which experts say is requisite for any eventual peace.
THE CRUX: A decades-long civil war, though tempered in recent years, still simmers between right-wing paramilitaries aligned with the government and leftist guerrillas.
THE STATUS: Some 30,000 paramilitaries have demobilized, but Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group, the FARC, is holding some 45 high-profile hostages whom they're leveraging for political recognition. Numerous negotiations have failed, and international pressure is growing on the hard-line administration of President Alvaro Uribe to strike a humanitarian deal.
• Release of some hostages as the FARC seeks a public-relations upper hand against Mr. Uribe's government.
• The resumption of preliminary peace talks with the smaller, leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) – a process that fell apart when Uribe fired Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as negotiator. "If they can ... find another third party to mediate, significant progress could be seen in six months," says political analyst Gerson Arias at Ideas Para La Paz, an independent think tank in Bogota.
• The first convictions of top right-wing paramilitary leaders who demobilized in exchange for reduced sentences.
• New right-wing paramilitary groups. While the government has dismissed them as criminal gangs tied to drug trafficking, Mr. Arias says that they are recruiting members of the paramilitary groups to train them.
THE CRUX: The five-year-old conflict has largely centered on fighting between black African rebel groups and the government-supported janjaweed militia drawn mainly from Arab tribes. Casualties are estimated at more than 200,000. More than 2.5 million people have been forced to flee their homes.
THE STATUS: On Jan. 1, the beleaguered African Union force that has failed to bring peace gave up their green berets for the blue hats of an expanded hybrid force with the United Nations.
• How quickly the UN troops can bring security to Darfur's sprawling aid camps. It will take at least a year for the full 26,000 troops and police officers to be deployed, and they lack air support.
• Whether rebel groups can agree on a common position and return to peace talks abandoned in Libya in October.
• New agreements springing from the 3-year-old Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was designed to end the decades-old civil war between the Arab-dominated north and the Christian and animist south. Little progress has been made in agreeing how to share revenues from oil-rich areas on the border. If the North-South war starts up again, observers are concerned that it could become intertwined with the conflict in Darfur, complicating peace efforts.
• Activists and the Olympics in Beijing. US actress Mia Farrow and others will highlight China's links to the Sudanese government, supplying arms and buying oil.


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Verona VFW wants to start men's auxiliary
VERONA -- Every Veterans of Foreign Wars post in New York has a ladies auxiliary, so it's time they have a men's auxiliary, too, said Dale Brown, commander at Verona Post 6811.
Brown, of Oneida, got the idea last fall after visiting the VFW Post in Bridgeport, where he and his family were visiting.
"In talking to men there, most were from the men's auxiliary," he said. Auxiliary members are not veterans but are related to veterans. Brown said the men in the New York auxiliaries were volunteering their time and discussing veterans and their issues.
"If I had a daughter, she'd be in the ladies auxiliary, but I don't have a daughter. I have two sons, who are interested in my life. So why not have a program where they can help veterans like I am?" he asked.
Brown believes formation of the new auxiliary could boost declining membership at the VFW, where both post and ladies auxiliary members are growing older and less active.
A men's auxiliary would not be meant to compete with the ladies auxiliary, he said.
"We could work together and build a better community and have everyone involved as a family group," Brown said.
And just like the ladies auxiliary, members of the men's auxiliary would get involved in volunteerism, service projects, fundraising and recruiting and supporting veterans, veteran's hospitals and veteran's children's homes.
The only difference, Brown said, is "we're just strictly men."
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Christmas in the Air!
Christmas in the Air!, featuring The Voices of Walter Schumann. Cover by Wilson Smith. 1951. Thanks to the miracle of the internets, you can download this album here.
Yes, it is in the air. Can you feel it?
From the liner notes: "There have been many fine albums of Christmas music; but never one like Christmas in the Air! Here is an inspired musical production which captures all the traditional beauty and sacred spirit of Christmas, yet adds a fresh and original touch."
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ALWAYS room for more vintage Chrissy music :)
Christmas in the Air is my childhood memory. Could you please repost the download? THanks!ReplyDelete
April, you'll have to contact the person who posted it on the Blog of 999 Dances. I didn't post the original download.ReplyDelete
Here is a link to Voices Of Walter Schumann Christmas CD that was released back in 2007 and went quickly out of print enjoy the CD !!!ReplyDelete
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MIAMI - Former Florida clinic owner Anthony Bosch is expected to plead guilty at an October hearing to a drug distribution conspiracy charge in Major League Baseball's most recent performance-enhancing substances scandal.
A Miami federal judge on Wednesday set an Oct. 16 date for Bosch to enter the plea. The former Biogenesis of America clinic owner's attorneys and federal prosecutors reached an agreement last month in which Bosch admitted providing testosterone to baseball players, from professionals to high school athletes.
Six other people are charged in the case that resulted in suspensions against numerous MLB players including Yankees star Alex Rodriguez. No players have been charged.
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BOISE, Idaho — Authorities say a smart phone and a dumb idea have landed a 21-year-old Idaho man in trouble with the law.
Boise police say Alexander A. Welch is charged with unlawful exercise of the function of police after officers say he used a cell phone app that flashes blue and red to try to pull over another car Saturday night.
A motorist called police to report that someone who didn't appear to be an officer tried to pull the driver over with a flashing blue and red light. The person said the car pulled in behind briefly and then drove away.
The suspicious driver followed the car and called police, who located Welch's vehicle. Police found an application on Welch's cell phone that flashed blue and red lights and arrested him.
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Utah State University investigators from the Cache County Memory Study have been involved in a large, global consortium that has discovered a new Alzheimer's disease gene. The discovery, which involved DNA and data from Cache County residents, is being published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Below is the press announcement prepared by University College London, the lead for the study.
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Scientists have discovered a rare genetic mutation that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease, in a study with major implications for understanding the causes of the disease. Led by scientists at UCL's [University College London] Institute of Neurology, the international team studied data from more than 25,000 people to link a rare variant of the TREM2 gene — which is known to play a role in the immune system — to a higher risk of Alzheimer's. The findings, which are published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Nov. 14, have the potential to be the most influential gene discovery for Alzheimer's in the last two decades. Funders for the study included Alzheimer's Research UK, the UK's leading dementia research charity, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Wellcome Trust.
Huge advances in technology mean it's now possible to study genes in much more detail, picking up rare mutations of genes that could not be found through other methods. The precise causes of Alzheimer's are still unknown, but the disease is likely to be caused by a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors. While some genes that increase the risk of Alzheimer's have been discovered, these discoveries do not explain all of the genetic risk. The researchers set out to uncover some of the rarer genetic variants involved in Alzheimer's, in a bid to get a clearer picture of the causes of the disease.
The researchers began by sequencing the genes of 1,092 people with Alzheimer's and a control group of 1,107 healthy people. The results showed that several mutations in the TREM2 gene occurred more frequently in people who had the disease than in those without the disease. One specific mutation, known as R47H, had a particularly strong association with the disease — appearing in 2 percent of people with Alzheimer's compared to 0.5 percent of people without the disease. The scientists then confirmed their findings in two larger independent groups, analysing data from a total of 6,675 people with Alzheimer's and 16,242 people without the disease. Again, they found that the R47H variant was more likely to appear in people affected by Alzheimer's than in people without the disease.
While this mutation is extremely rare, affecting just 0.3 percent of the population, it increases the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's roughly three-fold — more than any of the genes that have been linked to Alzheimer's in the last 20 years. By identifying the mutation, the research provides valuable new information about the potential causes of Alzheimer's disease.
The TREM2 gene controls a protein that is involved in regulating the immune response to injury or disease, acting as an 'on/off switch' for immune cells in the brain called microglia. The R47H variant of the gene results in a partial loss of this function, with less ability to keep these cells' activity in check — potentially causing them to become hyperactive. The researchers now want to find out more about the role of TREM2 and better understand the effects of the R47H variant.
Dr. Rita Guerreiro of UCL, the study's lead author, said:
"These findings are particularly exciting because they give us a clear signal about what could be going wrong in Alzheimer's disease. While the genetic mutation we found is extremely rare, its effect on the immune system is a strong indicator that this system may be a key player in the disease. The more we can understand about the causes of Alzheimer's, the better our chances of developing treatments that could stop the disease developing."
Prof John Hardy of UCL, a co-author on the study, said:
"This is the biggest study of its kind in Alzheimer's to date, and it's only been possible to achieve these results because researchers across the globe joined forces to tackle this problem. Thanks to new advances in technology it's now possible to get a much more detailed look at the genetic risk for Alzheimer's, picking up rare variants like this one that were previously impossible to identify. Some of the more common risk genes for Alzheimer's are also involved in our immune response, and together these findings support an emerging theory that the immune system plays an important role in the disease."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said:
"This Government is committed to making the UK a world leader in dementia, and research of this kind has a vital role to play in helping to achieve this. Building a strong evidence base will help to improve our understanding of the disease, and achieve more for people living with dementia now and in the future."
Dr. Eric Karran, Director of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said:
"This is a landmark finding and reveals important new clues about the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease. We're pleased to have supported this pioneering study, which will have major implications for understanding how Alzheimer's develops — an important step towards designing new treatments. For these findings to live up to their potential and make a difference to people's lives, it's crucial that research building on this work continues and the role of the immune system in Alzheimer's is fully explored. We look forward to funding more high quality research in this key area."
This research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre.
For further information, or to speak with Dr, Rita Guerreiro, Prof John Hardy or Dr Eric Karran, please contact Kirsty Marais, Media Officer at Alzheimer's Research UK on 01223 843304, 07826 559233 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
For video footage of Dr. Guerreiro talking about the study, contact Alzheimer's Research UK (details above). For more information on genes and dementia, visit: http://bit.ly/UlC2ZS.
The research was carried out by collaborators at UCL (University College London), the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; University of Toronto, U.S. National Institute of Aging, Washington University School of Medicine, King's College London, University of Nottingham, Brigham Young University, Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Istanbul University, Utah State University, University of Coimbra, Medical University of Lodz, University of Perugia, University of Kuopio, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hospital La Grave-Casselardit, University of Manchester, Université Lille Nord de France, Cardiff University, University of Cambridge and NIH.
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What Is Customer Experience?
Customer experience (CX) refers to how a company engages with its customers across every aspect of the customer journey―from marketing to sales to service and every point in between. It's the sum total of all interactions a customer has with a brand. However, the most important thing for you to know when it comes to your customers' experience is what they feel about it. You have important decisions to make at every touchpoint on the customer journey, and those decisions can influence how your customers view your brand and how successful your business will be as a result.
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As products become increasingly commoditized, customers are differentiating more over experiences with the company and the brand and less over specific product features and functions. Customers want to feel connected to their favorite brands and that their brands know them. In fact, the customer experience has become the leading competitive differentiator. To win in this environment, organizations must ensure that their CX initiatives are able to deliver personalized, pleasing interactions at every customer touchpoint.
86% of companies consider customer experience to be the new competitive battlefield.
Your customers' interactions with you across any and all touchpoints have a cumulative effect on your customers' overall perception and impression of your brand. That makes the customer experience truly invaluable to your business's success. Here are some of the factors that can make a big difference in customers' opinions of your company.
- Do your marketing campaigns speak to their wants and needs?
- Is your ecommerce site easy to navigate?
- Does it provide assistance all along the way, such as shopping cart reminders?
- How well are you serving your B2B or B2C customers during the sales and service processes?
- Is all your customer information readily accessible to the people and systems that need it, so customers don't have to keep updating you on who they are or what interactions they've already had with you?
The degree to which customers feel you understand them has a strong influence over their level of satisfaction―and their decision to do business with you. If you get CX right, you'll gain a competitive advantage.
Is Customer Service the Same as Customer Experience? Customer service is the act of providing assistance or support to customers. It's an aspect of the customer experience, but not the totality of it.
The Difference Between a Positive and Negative Customer Experience
A positive customer experience is one where the customer walks away from every touchpoint or interaction with your brand feeling happy and satisfied. Positive customer experiences include well-targeted marketing campaigns, easy-to-purchase-from ecommerce sites, simplified buying experiences, self-service options, and the ability to connect with your brand anytime, anywhere, through any device. Customers expect brands to offer multiple channels for engagement. They want brands to anticipate their needs. And they want their loyalty rewarded through useful and relevant loyalty programs.
Data plays a crucial role in CX outcomes. To provide a great customer experience, you need to connect your data and intelligence across all of your systems, from the front office to the back office. This enables you to deliver a seamless, connected experience to every customer, in a personalized way, across all customer touchpoints.
A negative customer experience is one that leaves the customer feeling unhappy, disappointed, or even frustrated with their interactions with your brand. Negative customer experiences often stem from customers' perceptions that the brand doesn't know them and their needs at all (or doesn't care), or that the brand is difficult to do business with. These perceptions can develop in response to factors such as
- Difficult-to-navigate websites
- Products that don't meet expectations
- Sluggish service request resolution
- Irrelevant marketing outreach
In an increasingly personalized world, standardized customer interactions are extremely off-putting for customers―especially when companies are able to acquire a wealth of information about each of their customers. In the connected, data-driven world, there's no excuse for a disconnect between brands and customers. Negative customer experience can result when the service team is unaware of a customer's previous interactions with the company, when the company doesn't have a customer's correct information, or when personalization is missing entirely.
How CX Impacts Your Business
How customers experience your brand has a direct effect on your bottom line. It is exponentially more costly to acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one. Therefore, positive customer experiences are vital to your success. Great customer experiences can lead to incremental growth opportunities through cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, as well as through customer advocacy that brings new customers to the business.
A series of negative customer experiences can lead to a business decline and an increase in customer churn. In the digital world, this can happen very quickly. Social media and feedback or review sites like Yelp make it very easy for customers to widely share their experiences. Though some customers do a good job of providing positive reviews about the brands they like, it's common knowledge that bad news travels fast. Customers are much more likely to jump online with a complaint than a compliment, and that complaint can go viral to millions of people in an instant. With this kind of power, customers essentially own your brand's fate.
Some companies have long known that experiences with the brand can be more important than the products themselves and have capitalized on that. Apple and Starbucks provide good examples of putting customer experience first. These companies realize that there are many competitors who could potentially match or exceed their product offerings, but they've chosen to differentiate based on providing an experience that's very appealing to customers―so they continue to lead their markets.
Stellar customer experiences lead to increased customer loyalty, retention, and ultimately, customer advocacy. Personalized, connected customer experiences build brand loyalty, and that has a quantifiable financial outcome. All parts of the customer experience matter, and it is becoming a leading differentiator in most industries.
The Significance of the Digital Customer Journey
Digitization has completely upended the traditional customer journey model. Customers are now more in control than ever. For example, digital capabilities and the personalization that they enable―and that customers expect―require brands to understand purchase history and offer the right products and services at the appropriate time. Brands that want to please customers must also offer self-service options that allow customers to quickly and easily purchase products and services and resolve issues.
Savvy brands understand the importance of "digital body language" and the insights they can glean from a customer's online activity―which allow these companies to provide customers with a personalized and relevant digital experience. Offering a user-friendly, connected ecosystem that allows customers to enter at any point and receive a tailored and seamless experience will leave customers with a great impression of your brand.
What Is Smarter CX and Why Is It important?
Smarter CX is a customer experience approach that puts the customer at the center of every touchpoint of their journey. Smarter CX eliminates silos by leveraging data and intelligence to create superior and individualized experiences. A smarter CX approach uses machine learning and AI to understand and interact with your customers in the best possible way at the best possible time to meet their needs. Smarter CX ups your customer experience game.
How is smarter CX achieved? The following are some of the tools in a smarter CX toolbox:
- Marketing automation tools
- Adaptive Intelligent apps
- Predictive analytics
- Configure, price, and quote (CPQ) tools
- Unified sales and service solutions
- Sales performance management solutions
- Contact center support
- Field service solutions
- Digital customer service
- Chatbots
- Live chat
- Digital assistants
A crucial component of smarter CX is AI. When combined with robust data, AI and machine learning help create a connected experience across all touchpoints, enabling more integrated and personalized interactions with customers across the buyer's journey.
Moving from Smarter CX to Real-Time CX
The next step in the digitally driven customer experience journey is transitioning from smarter CX to real-time CX. Real-time CX gives you an immediate window into your customers' interactions with your brand. In return, you deliver an immediate, personalized experience. Real-time CX makes data available to you instantaneously so you can influence current interactions with your customers, in the moment. This capability applies to every touchpoint in the customer journey.
In the real-time CX environment, AI combines with data to predict and anticipate a customer's wants and needs so you can automatically and immediately make the right offerings to your customer. The marriage of AI and real-time data is a powerful combination that achieves a level of hyperpersonalization that allows you to effectively serve a segment of one―instantaneously. It can help you offer your customers what they want, sometimes even before they know what that is. Real-time CX tells your customer, "We recognize you and we understand you."
We now live in an Experience Economy, where brands have a limited time to offer customers the best possible experiences before those customers decide to move on to someone else. Digitization is exponentially improving the way companies can deliver on their CX value proposition.
The Experience EconomyIn the Experience Economy, companies must take a holistic view of the customer journey and make sure customers' needs are at the center of every customer touchpoint, in real time. Learn about Oracle's approach to serving customers in the Experience Economy
How Do You Know If Your CX Platform Is Effective?
There are a number of ways you can measure CX platform effectiveness. Technology plays a big role in helping you do this. For example
- Analyzing the results of customer satisfaction surveys can yield in-depth and tailored insights, depending on the survey questions you ask.
- Tracking the percentage of customers who complete a purchase provides insights into what's working for customers and what's not.
- Monitoring the number of repeat customers versus new customers tells you how good a job you're doing at attracting new customers and keeping the ones you already have.
- Applying digital technology can identify the rate and reasons for customer churn and help you analyze customer support ticket trends.
All of these tactics allow you to assess the effectiveness of your CX platform and make adjustments as needed.
Your Journey to Providing Exceptional CX
The starting place for transforming your customer experience is a change in mindset. You must view the customer experience as a wide spectrum of opportunity for creating a connected, informed, personalized series of interactions with your customers―and make technology your partner in achieving that.
Talk with solution providers. Ask for a demo that can help you determine how smarter and real-time CX could work for your company. Then think about your competitors. Are they already steps ahead of you? The time to start your exploration is now. The world is changing, and the customer is in charge. Remember that the customer experience isn't a part of the customer journey—it is the customer journey.


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As my wife and I headed off for our first visit to New York City, people warned us: "Watch your cash." "Keep a close eye on your credit cards and ID." "Don't go through Central Park after dark."
Nobody said anything about passports.
It was a warm Saturday and instead of wearing a shirt with a front pocket - where I always keep my passport - I decided to wear a Tshirt, which didn't have any pockets.
So I put my passport in the front left pocket of my jeans, along with my iPhone. In the other front pocket I had my wallet.
We soaked up the sights of the Big Apple, heading through the Theatre District, walking through Times Square, strolling through Central Park, and then going down Park Avenue. Dozens of times I removed my iPhone from my pocket, took a picture, then slid it back in my jeans next to my passport.
But just after 3 p.m., near the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, as I put my iPhone back in my pocket yet again, there was no passport. It was gone.
I had suddenly joined 55,000 other Canadians who report their passports lost or stolen each year.
The booklet Bon Voyage, But ... Essential Information for Canadian Travellers, issued by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, indicates that "If your passport is lost, stolen or damaged, report the loss or theft immediately to Passport Canada or the nearest Canadian government office abroad and to the local police (either in Canada or abroad)."
So we found the nearest police station, and I said I had lost my passport and we had tickets to fly back home to Regina tomorrow.
"If you have any other photo ID, you should be OK to get on a plane," the officer said. What a relief that I had my driver's licence and my birth certificate in my wallet.
I asked him if he wanted details of my lost passport.
"I can't file a report until you get a signed statement from the Canadian Consulate that you actually had a passport," he explained, as he jotted down the address and phone number of the consulate. "So you have to go to the consulate to get that statement for me. And when you're there, ask for what's called an Emergency Travel Certificate so you can travel even if you don't have a passport."
But when we got to the consulate at 3:45 p.m. on a Saturday, it was closed.
I phoned, and a recorded message said the consulate is closed on weekends and would reopen Monday at 9 a.m. My next call was to United Airlines, and an agent calmly confirmed what police said - my licence with photo ID and birth certificate would be OK for me to fly home tomorrow.
But it was a different story when I got to the Newark Airport.
"You can't get on a plane without a passport," the agent told me. "But you could drive back to Canada."
I decided to appeal, so went to another lineup. This agent was more sympathetic, and apparently knew how to deal with this situation, explaining "You need to get an Emergency Travel Certificate from the Canadian consulate first thing tomorrow morning. I'm re-booking you on an Air Canada flight tomorrow evening that leaves LaGuardia Airport at 5:30 for Toronto, and then leaves at 9:55 for Regina."
So we spent another "final" night in New York.
Monday morning I told my story to a woman at the Canadian consulate.
"Well, we can't do anything today, because this has to go through Ottawa and everything's closed there because it's Easter Monday," she said.
It also happened to be April Fool's Day.
"After Ottawa reopens, it'll take two or three days for this request to be handled. So you won't be able to leave New York for another three or four days. Or, you could drive or take a bus to Canada."
I figured we needed to fly to someplace near Canada, get across the border on the ground, and then fly to Regina.
I phoned United again, asking frantically: "Could I change our New York-to-Toronto-to-Regina flights today at 5:30 from LaGuardia Airport - which were originally New York-to-Chicago-to-Regina flights from Newark yesterday - to a New Yorkto-Buffalo flight as soon as possible? And then I'd like to get a flight tonight from Toronto to Regina."
That would give us time to go by bus or rental car the 160 kilometres from Buffalo to Toronto.
"No problem," the United agent cheerfully said. "I'm rebooking you to leave for Buffalo at noon from the Newark Airport."
It was 10:15 a.m.; we got the next bus for the Newark Airport. Just as we left Manhattan and entered the Lincoln Tunnel, my cellphone rang.
"This is the Canadian consulate. Someone turned in your passport a few minutes ago. Please come and pick it up."
"Uh, well we're on our way to the Newark Airport for a flight to Buffalo. We've made other plans to get home - so can you just mail my passport home?" I asked.
"Sorry, I cannot mail it. Passports must be picked up in person. Otherwise, I will have to destroy it."
"OK," I said, "I'll come and pick it up."
When we arrived at the United counter at the Newark Airport, we asked to be re-booked. Instead of going to Buffalo, could we fly to Toronto and then Regina? A few keystrokes on the computer and we were rebooked - yet again.
After another bus ride back to Manhattan, we picked up my passport, got the bus to LaGuardia, and flew to Toronto and then home to Regina.
The lesson learned: guard your passport, because if you lose it, advice from others may not be accurate, consistent or helpful.


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Welcome to the third of five "My Poetry Book" Kids' Poetry Challenge post link-ups! In celebration of National Poetry month, we're challenging other parents and kids to explore the world of poetry together.
Each week in April we hope you'll consider reading a poem (any poem, not just the one we have featured) with your child and then encourage your child to create an illustration based on the poem. This type of creative activity helps your child more thoroughly understand the poem and interpret it in his or her own way. If you would like to participate, please refer the original Kids' Poetry Challenge post and read the guidelines.
***Note: A few readers have mentioned that their child does not really like drawing or is not old enough to draw anything recognizable. If you prefer, please feel free to just post a favorite poem you shared with your child this week. Remember to only post a portion of the poem to avoid copyright issues.
We've tried to make it very simple for everyone to participate. Reading a poem together only takes a few minutes. The link-up will remain open all week long. Post the picture and accompanying text any day of the week and, if you have the time, stop by and visit the other participants' posts.
Over the course of this month I've learned that my daughter and son both like to read narrative poems, the kind of poetry that tells a story. They also especially enjoy poems about animals or fantasy creatures. In the poetry book we reviewed last week, Poetry Speaks to Children, we ran across a partial poem by Odgen Nash, "The Tale of Custard the Dragon."
"The Tale of Custard the Dragon" is about a "brave" little girl named Belinda and her "cowardly" pet dragon called Custard. We wanted to read the realio, trulio poem in its entirety and found a wonderful picture book version titled The Tale of Custard the Dragon, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger at our public library. Munsinger really brings the cowardly pet dragon to life and both kids listened to the humorous story with rapt attention. The poem contains several similes that help create some wonderful imagery and with fun, rhyming verses, it's an extremely enjoyable read aloud (so long as your kids can stomach a gun-slinging pirate who meets an unfortunate demise).
"The Tale of Custard the Dragon" originally appeared in Nash's The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse (1936) and later on as a stand alone story in the picture book version, Custard the Dragon (1959), illustrated by Nash's own daughter Linell! I'd really love to acquire a copy of Linell's version sometime just to see the illustrations.
Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio little pet dragon.
Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,
And the little gray mouse, she called her Blink,
And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,
But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.
Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth,
And spikes on top of him and scales underneath,
Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose,
And realio, trulio daggers on his toes. ...
Odgen Nash
Both my daughter and son love Custard best of all, and they chose to illustrate him with a "mouth like a fireplace."
I quickly drew a dragon for my toddler son so he could participate this week. He added his own fire illustrations and colored the dragon.
I'm linking up to Poetry Friday and Feed Me Books Friday! This week's Poetry Friday is hosted by Random Noodling. Head over to her blog for more poetry posts and consider joining the Poetry Friday link-up. Link up your Friday book posts at Little Sprout Books' Feed Me Books Friday.
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Today, I read a report suggesting that technologies allowing frail elderly patients to age in place are really coming into their own. The new study by P & S Market Research is predicting that the global smart home healthcare market will expand at a combined annual growth rate of 38% between now and the year 2022.
This surge in demand, not surprisingly, is emerging as three powerful technical trends — the use of smart home technologies, the rapid emergence of mobile health apps and expanding remote monitoring of patients — converge and enhance each other. The growing use of IoT devices in home healthcare is also in the mix.
The researchers found that fall prevention and detection applications will see the biggest increase in demand between now and 2022. But many other applications combining smart home technology with healthcare IT are likely to catch fire as well, particularly when such applications can help avoid costly nursing home placements for frail older adults, researchers said. And everybody wants to get into the game:
- According to P&S, important players operating in this market globally include AT&T, ABB Ltd, Siemens AG, Schneider Electric SE, GE, Honeywell Life Care Solutions, Smart Solutions, Essence Group and Koninkllijke Philips N.V.
- Also, we can't forget smart home technology players like Nest, and Ecobee will stake out a place in this territory, as well as health monitoring players like Fitbit and consumer tech giants like Apple and Microsoft.
- Then, of course, it's a no-brainer for mobile ecosystem behemoths like Samsung to stake out their place in this market as well.
- What's more, VC dollars will be poured into startups in this space over the next several years. It seems likely that with $1.1 billion in venture capital funding flowing into mHealth last year, VCs will continue to back mobile health in coming years, and some of it seems likely to creep into this sector.
Now, despite its enthusiasm for this sector, the research firm does note that there are challenges holding this market back from even greater growth. These include the need for large capital investments to play this game, and the reality that some privacy and security issues around smart home healthcare haven't been resolved yet.
That being said, even a casual glimpse at this market makes it blazingly clear that growth here is good. Off the top of my head, I can think of few trends that could save healthcare system money more effectively than keeping frail elderly folks safe and out of the hospital.
Add to that the fact that when these technologies are smart enough, they could very well spare caregivers a lot of anxiety and preserve older people's dignity, and you have a great thing in the works. Expect to see a lot of innovation here over the next few years.


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Britannia Rails Picatinny Rail with 0 MOA - Tikka 690/695
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This Picatinny Rail from Britannia Rails is manufactured to fit the Tikka 690/695 action.
Britannia Rails products are made by a small but hi-tech firearm parts manufacturing company based in North Lincolnshire. These custom precision rifle accessories are made using the latest 2, 3, 4 and 5 axis CNC machinery which makes for the most accurate finish available today - made with zero tolerance.
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Adoption of children from foster care and international adoptions have accelerated since 1987. Federal policy changes have markedly increased the termination of parental rights and adoption of children in foster care. Adoption by relatives and single parents has also grown markedly. Open adoption is increasingly normative. Adoption outcomes are generally positive although there is substantial call for post-adoption support for children adopted from foster care. These services are emerging but their efficacy is still untested. More work is needed on post-adoption services because there are now more former foster children in post-adoption status than there are children in foster care.
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Home > Christmas Sale > Christmas Decorations > 23 Feet Red Star Tinsel Garland Christmas Decoration
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- Glittering star wire garland
- Each star is threaded thru the wire so you don't have the problem of them popping off
- Can be used in all of your crafting and home decorating
- Also can be made into beautiful garland
- Material: Iron wire and tinsel
- Color: Red
- Length: Approx. 23 feet / 7m
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December 6, 2013: Observer Carlo Gualdoni reports via the cvnet-outburst mailing list that the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova AL Comae is in outburst, with a magnitude of V=12.74 on 2013 December 6.185 (JD 2456633.1185). Gary Poyner notes on the BAAVSS mailing list that this is the first observed outburst of AL Com since October 2007. Both visual observations and CCD time series are encouraged.
October 21, 2011: The short period cataclysmic variable BW Scl appears to be in outburst. The object was detected in outburst at m(vis)=9.6 by M. Linnolt on 2011 October 21.3146 (JD 2455855.8146), and confirmed by A. Plummer at m(vis)=9.4 on October 21.3424. Observations of this object are encouraged. The object has conflicting classifications in astronomical literature, but is probably a WZ Sge-type dwarf nova rather than a novalike variable.
BW Scl is located at the following (J2000) coordinates:
August 2, 2011: SV Ari, a suspected WZ Sge star, has gone into outburst. Rod Stubbings posted a 15.0 magnitude estimate on 110802.788 that has been confirmed by Gianluca Masi. Gary Poyner says:
"Discovered by M & G Wolf on Heidelberg plates taken in November 1905 at mag 12.0p. Kimpel & Jansch reported a possible sighting in September 1943, but this was not confirmed. Nothing has been seen since."


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Lady Flames rally past NCAA Div. III Cougars late
February 16, 2013 | Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sophomore forward Jenny MacArthur notched the first of two tying goals with a minute and a half left in the first period before finishing off the game-winner with a minute and a half remaining in regulation as Liberty University's Division I women's hockey team recorded a 4-2 conquest of Chatham University, Saturday night in Pittsburgh.
It was the second NCAA Division III team the Lady Flames (23-2) have defeated this season after vanquishing Stevenson University in Maryland on Nov. 3.
"We've never played this team before," Liberty head coach Paul Bloomfield said. "It was a good solid win for us. They're a better team than Stevenson, which is also in the same league."
The Cougars (4-21) scored first on a goal by Marie Soukup with 5:22 left in the first period before MacArthur netted her tying shot off assists from Carrie Jickling and Stacey McCombe.
"Jenny got two goals and an assist," Bloomfield said. "She's not a very big player, but she's a really consistent, strong player, very steady. You can count on her. She doesn't often make mistakes."
Just 3:44 into the second period, Chatham went back on top on a goal by Julia Hunter, assisted by Soukup, before the Lady Flames fired back 40 seconds later when Laura Del Monte finished off a feeds from Amanda Grainger and Keely Beisinger.
Finally, late in the third, MacArthur scored again, also off assists from Grainger and Jickling, before she and McCombe assisted Jickling on an empty-netter in the final 31 seconds, moments after the Cougars had pulled their goalie, Megan Buchanan.
"Their goalie was doing a good job and we just weren't getting it in until we got that third goal," Bloomfield said.
MacArthur got more playing time on attack because Bloomfield didn't start forwards Carly Peleshok and Sarah Stevenson due to injuries.
"Going into (the ACHA DI) nationals (March 6-10 in Ashburn, Va.), I need her healthy," Bloomfield said of Stevenson, who recently returned from a concussion before being bumped again in last Sunday's game against Raleigh. "(MacArthur) doesn't usually have this many goals because she can play defense and I often start her back there. She's a good worker. It was good to see her capitalize."
He said Chatham, despite its record, was a solid team.
"It was a good game," Bloomfield said. "We hadn't played that caliber of team the past three or four games so we had to work at it. We were pretty slow in the first period, after we were late in getting to the rink. But we rallied in the second period and outplayed them really well."
Liberty outshot Chatham 32-18 for the game, including 12-5 in the second period and 13-5 in the third. Sophomore Samantha Rupp started in goal for the Lady Flames.
Liberty will conclude its regular season with a rematch at Chatham, Sunday at 1 p.m.


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London (CNN) -- Henry V rallies his troops in William Shakespeare's play of the same name before the Battle of Agincourt with these words: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more... When the blast of war blows in our ears then initiate the action of the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."
King Henry's call to action is cited as one of the most motivational speeches in history, and the British Army would no doubt have hoped for similarly inspiring words and good PR from his namesake descendant, Prince Harry, in interviews timed to coincide with his departure from Afghanistan.
But as the prince recalled the "taste of blood" in his mouth as he waited to attack Taliban insurgents from his helicopter gunship, his comments appear to have stirred up as much mockery and controversy as sympathy.
Prince Harry on Afghan mission: 'Take a life to save a life'
The third-in-line to the British throne, known in the military as Captain Wales, also compared having his finger on the trigger of rockets, missiles and a 30mm cannon to playing video games.
"It's a joy for me. I am one of those people who loves playing Playstation and XBox and so I am good with my thumbs, I like to think that I am quite useful."
In Afghanistan, the media-savvy Taliban seized on the remarks and called Harry a "coward" for only speaking when he was out of danger. "This prince comes and compares this war with his games, PlayStation or whatever he calls it," Zabihullah Mujahid told the Daily Telegraph.
"To describe the war in Afghanistan as a game demeans anyone -- especially a prince, who is supposed to be made of better things."
Even an Afghan parliamentarian admitted Harry's comments could risk damaging relations. Sharifullah Kamawal told the newspaper: "This makes the withdrawal process much faster, because for now half of the people say the foreign forces must stay for longer, but if they say these kind of things then more people will want them to go home."
Prince Harry also appeared to acknowledge that he killed insurgents on his four-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. He said it was sometimes justified to "take a life to save a life. That's what we revolve around, I suppose."
"Our job out here is to make sure the guys are safe on the ground and if that means shooting someone who is shooting at them, then we will do it."
The comments set social media alight, with comments both in favour and critical of the prince. The British tabloids also splashed the story about him across their front pages: The Sun's headline was: "Harry kills Taliban chief: Hero prince in missile strike on commander"
In Britain, the Stop the War Coalition criticized the 28-year-old's comments as "crass" and questioned how he knew those he'd killed were actually members of the Taliban.
"In recent months many civilians have been killed by air strikes. This arrogant and insensitive attitude to killing Afghans, whoever they are, is hardly likely to win hearts and minds -- a supposed aim of the war," said the group's convener Lindsey German.
In the Guardian, one commentator mocked Harry's language. "This is Captain Wales's new incarnation: Killer Captain!" wrote Hadley Freeman.
p>Prince harry is probably the best prince we will ever have.. Fighting for his country and enjoys life and helps others #topLAD— Crimson (@dylcross94) January 29, 2013
p>Prince Harry finds the war in Afghanistan "a joy because it's like his video games". -There's no restart button when you kill somebody.— Sherry (@SherResistance) January 24, 2013
Referring to the occasion when Harry was photographed naked in a Las Vegas hotel room, Freeman added: "During his deployment in 2007-08, Captain Wales spoke of his frustration at not being able to partake in actual action. No more! Now he drops gung-ho aphorisms like Dick Cheney ("Take a life to save a life") and the young chap who only months before was photographed with his fingers in the most curious of places during a game of "strip billiards" in Las Vegas has since placed those same fingers "on the triggers of deadly rockets, missiles and a 30mm cannon."
While many analysts in Britain praised Harry for risking his life to support ground troops in Helmand, one politician questioned the tone of his remarks. Opposition defense spokesman Jim Murphy said: "I'm not going to second guess whether he should or shouldn't have said it.
"He's obviously a young and brave man. He was candid. Perhaps he may have been more candid than the Palace may have wished."
In the interviews, Harry said he relished the relative freedom -- largely away from the scrutiny of the world's media -- that serving in the military offered him.
"It's very easy to completely forget about who I am when I am in the army," he told reporters. But he added that he would prefer to have been serving on the ground than as an airman based at Camp Bastion along with 4,000 other British service personnel. "My choice would have been back out on the ground with my regiment," he said.
"For me it's not that normal because I go into the cookhouse and everyone has a good old gawp, and that's one thing that I dislike about being here. Which is probably another reason why I'd love to be out in the PBs [patrol bases], away from it all."
In his interviews the prince makes little attempt at all to hide his antipathy towards the media and the tabloids in particular. "Everyone's guilty for buying the papers...though hopefully no one believes what they read." But after reading the criticism of his own comments, he may want to reflect on another famous line from Shakespeare's "Henry V": "Men of few words are the best men."


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BBA Vienna Bread with Dutch Crunch
I make this bread this weekend and I would like to thank all who have made this reciently and have posted to this site. It certainly helps to see and read how others have made a certain bread. I wish that I had checked here just before I started and David Snyder posted some picture showing the shaped loaves with the Dutch crunch on.
I followed the recipe very closely. When it came time to mix and apply the Dutch Crunch I was surprised how thick it was. I used all the water that the recipe called for. It was so think that I applied it to my dough using the back of a spoon that I would dip into the mixture and then apply to the loaves. I was very pleaed with the way this bread turned out. I'll be making this again. I froze the extra Dutch Crunch mixture, I'll try putting it on some other bread. My Son helped by taking the last two pictures.
Again thanks to all posters who shared their experiences and pictures.