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Babes on Belay
Four young climbers hit the road in search of big rock, girl power, and a heavenly interlude of physical bliss
The problem with an all-girl, cross-country climbing trip is that it doesn't remain all-girl for long. The rock-climber boys see sports bras drying on the slackline and take to sneaky strategies, like bivying in their trucks right next to your campsite. Still, the North Conway crew was making a valiant effort to remain Y-chromosome-free. Two weeks ago they'd lit out from New Hampshire; 2,400 miles later they'd landed here in Beef Basin, Utah, to hone their crack-climbing skills on the erupting red-sandstone crags of Indian Creek. The all-girl plan hadn't been a huge deal, really: They'd simply wanted to train on their own. It wasn't that they didn't have boys to climb within truth, three out of the four had strong, young climber boyfriends, one of the small perks and complications of being a contemporary climber girlbut, as Sarah Garlick, the blondest and waifiest of the four, explained, "climbing with our boyfriends isn't nearly as much fun."
Sarah Garlick, Anne Skidmore, Sheyna Button, and Janet Bergman
THE NORTH CONWAY CREW: from left, Sarah Garlick, Anne Skidmore, Sheyna Button, and Janet Bergman
Sheyna Button
BABE IN THE WOODS: Sheyna getting cozy in Camp 4
Sarah Garlick
GROUNDED: Sarah rests up for the next ascent.
Camp 4
WHERE THE BOYS AREN'T: dinnertime at Yosemite's Camp 4
Sheyna Button
FIRED UP: Sheyna on Cookie Cliff, in Yosemite Valley
Sarah and her friends Janet Bergman, Sheyna Button, and Anne Skidmore were all 24, all solid amateur climbers, all poised on the precipice between college and adult life. The girlswho were, of course, young women but mostly referred to themselves as girlslived in North Conway, a vacation and climbing town in eastern New Hampshire's Mount Washington Valley. Anne and Janet had started climbing together in 1998, as freshmen at the University of New Hampshire at Durham; they'd met Sarah when she'd drive up on weekends from Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, to climb at nearby Rumney and Cathedral Ledge. The year before, Sheyna had appeared as a new face at Cathedral Ledge; they'd adopted her instantly, because she seemed to pull herself up rock on grit alone.
Like many of their peers of both sexes, the four held down various disposable jobs around North Conway to support their rock habits: Janet worked as a freelance writer; Sheyna managed the terrain park at Attitash; Anne was starting out as a photographer and cobbling together shifts at a climbing store and a coffee shop, where Sarah jerked lattes as well. As for careers, well, they had ideasgeologist, nonprofit manager, aesthetician, photo editorbut right now they wanted jobs they could quit, or at least bail on, for six weeks at a time.
Trips like this used to be the sole province of guys. Not anymore. The girls had put together their own racks of climbing protection, and they'd tricked out Janet's Subaru wagon and Sarah's Toyota truck themselves with a dozen bins for food, clothes, and gear. Under Sarah's camper shell there was also a sleeping bunk that she'd built with her dad. The plan was to spend three weeks in Indian Creek, then drive to Camp 4, in Yosemite Valleystomping grounds for every big-wall great from Royal Robbins to Dean Potterwhere they'd rendezvous with their boyfriends and test their skills on 3,000-foot faces. From there, Sheyna and Anne would head back to New Hampshire. After a brief pit stop in North Conway, Janet and Sarah would fly to Peru to attempt the first all-female ascent, via the 14-pitch Original Route, of La Esfinge (the Sphinx), a 17,470-foot granite wall in the Cordillera Blanca.
That April, as always, Indian Creek was a mecca for rock rats. The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek. Their all-girl posse attracted attention, but thus far the crew had been able to simply focus on the rock and one another. They had a friend climbing with them for the Indian Creek stint, a 31-year-old publicist from Boston named Alycia Cavadi, and the only guy around was Janet's 27-year-old brother, Andy. Andy had just gotten out of the Navy and driven his own truck out from California, plus he made killer peanut-butter-and-pineapple pastries, so no one had the heart to turn him out. Day after day, the girls woke up to a high-desert Eden, emerging with teeth unbrushed and hair in knots to do yoga, knit, and swap barrettes before hitting the rock all afternoon.
In one more week, they'd be leaving the idyllic spaciness of Indian Creek for the hothouse of Yosemite. Along the way, they faced gnarly off-widths, gobies that wouldn't heal, the predictable road-trip squabbles, routes with macho names like Way Rambo, and, more than anything, the not-unwelcome distractions of climber boys.
"I'VE NEVER HAD GIRL POWER like this before," said Janet, crawling out from the tent she shared with Sheyna. Dark-haired, quiet, and freckle-faced, Janet was the group's de facto leader and its most committed climber, even toying with the idea of going pro. She sat in the morning sun, her blue eyes deep and clear as a piece of stained glass, stretching her powerful arms while Sheyna balanced on the slackline.
"Oh, my God, I'm glad I'm not a boy," Sheyna said as she fell, landing with the rope between her legs.
A few minutes later, Sarah emerged. She'd had a nightmare, she announced groggilya man chasing her with a knife. Janet said she'd had one, too: She and Sarah had found a huge bin of Patagonia pants on sale but had to leave the store without buying any.
The crew took their time, warming themselves like lizards on the red earth, and it was noon before all the gear and lunches were packed and they made the short drive to a cliff called Scarface Wall.
In the warm early afternoon, Sheyna slouched on a marbled outcropping, contemplating a 5.10 route called Wavy Gravy. "Pretty gnarly roof move not very far off the ledge," she said. With her loose brown pigtails and comic-book-heroine figure, Sheyna was an incredible natural athlete. She was also the least experienced climber of the bunch.
"Do you think I should just do it?" she asked.
"You're all gigglyit's cute," said Anne, her thick waves pulled up against her head. Anne was easy to underestimate both on and off the rock. She'd been climbing longer than the others, having started in a gym, but she'd switched to traditional climbing only two years ago. In trad climbing, the climber places her own protection, whereas in sport climbing the routes are already bolted.
"I'm, like, nervous-excited," Sheyna said.
"Push it up, Sheneyney!" Sarah called out as Sheyna cinched her harness around her strong legs and left the ground.
"Way to go, honey," Anne said. "Killer."
As Sheyna laybacked up to the anchor, the shiny scar that ran the length of her spine shone in the sun. After lowering off the climb, she assessed the damagechunks missing from her left hand and right index fingerand the group scrambled around the crag to watch Janet fist-jam up a long, hard line. The other girls stretched out on the trail below her, Sheyna's head on Anne's belly, thrift-store plaid shirts pulled over bright, tight sport tops. After nearly half an hour Anne called out, "I know you can do this, Janet!"
"I'm so, so exhausted," Janet replied.
"C'mon, J-Nut," said Sarah. "Fire it to the top."
In the sky, which they were now a part of, you could hear the clouds moving. The road looked as if it were miles below. Finally, Janet reached the top and sat in her harness, wiped out. "That squeeze chimney at the top was practically a joke," she said. "Do any of you guys want to follow?"
No one volunteered. The sun had nearly set anyway, so Janet came down, the girls restuffed their heavy packs, and everybody headed back to the car.
"Man, I'm so buzzed," said Sheyna. "That was so rad! My mom thinks all this stuff I do is dumb and that I should care more about work. But the only reason I ever work is so I can climb and snowboard and ride my bike."
THE PHYSICAL LIFE IS HEAVEN for young women. But as obvious as that seems these days, it used to be a well-kept secret. I learned it firsthand back in the late eighties, when I was 19 and working as a volunteer ranger at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, running up and down a mile of vertical relief every day and biking 50 miles to mountain hot springs on my day off.
Nothing can compare to being alone or with other girls, sweating the pure, clear sweat of youth, enjoying day after day of adrenaline followed by perfect sleep. For the first time since childhood, your body is fully organized, you feel great about yourself, and you're ensconced in a subculture with a ready-made sense of belonging and a ban on practical thoughts about the future. Your goal for the day is to bag your fourteener, flash your 5.12, beat your own speed recordthat's it.
All the things I got from running and bikingfitness, focus, calm, directionyou get ten times over from climbing. It's also a nearly perfect sport for women, one in which balance, finesse, and strength-to-weight ratio are more important than stand-alone power or speed. That's why, relatively early on, men had to accept women as equals. Climbs are rated according to an old class system that ranges from 5.0 to 5.15: A 5.1 climb is cake; at 5.13 you enter the realm of physical specimens who also happen to be climbing maniacs. By 5.14, you're talking mysticism and special effects, what my formerly 5.12-capable husband describes as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon stuff."
At that rarefied level, women have proved themselves frighteningly strong. In 1979, an 18-year-old kid named Lynn Hill put up the first ascent of 5.12+ Ophir Broke, a 400-foot route outside Telluride, Colorado. In 1993, she became the first person, male or female, to free-climbthat is, ascend without artificial aidsthe 5.13+ Nose route up Yosemite's El Capitan, North America's classic big wall. In 1994 she was the first to free the Nose in one day. Both feats remain unrepeated by anybody, male or female.
Other women followed. In 1999, then-18-year-old Katie Brown on-sightedclimbed without having seen the route beforea 5.13d called Omaha Beach, at Red River Gorge, Kentucky. And last fall at Smith Rock, in central Oregon, 24-year-old Beth Rodden redpointedled without fallinga thin seam called the Optimist, rated 5.14b, the hardest climb ever completed by an American woman. Her husband, 26-year-old Tommy Caldwell, arguably the country's best male climber, tried the route but failed to link it up.
The whole world had changed in the 20 years between Hill and the new generation. Whereas Hill learned her chops trad-style on the cliffs of Joshua Tree, Rodden cut her teeth on plastic holds. She and her peers were not so much feminist as postfeminist; they'd grown up in climbing gyms and reaped the benefits of Title IX, the 1972 law mandating gender equality in scholastic athletics. They'd never think of sitting in a meadow in a lawn chair with a nice pair of binoculars, watching their boyfriends' studly moves.
NONE OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE WOMENso postfeminist they called one another both "hon" and "dude"imagined she'd be the next Lynn Hill. Their more immediate role model was Heidi Wirtz, a.k.a. Heidi Almighty, whom Janet and Sarah had met the year before at Indian Creek.
At 34, Wirtz had fed her climbing jones with a smorgasbord of jobs, including baker, crab cooker, log peeler, builder, landscaper, guide, and speed climber at SeaWorld. She'd spent two winters living out of a tent in Crested Butte, Colorado, and nearly a dozen camping in her truck. In British Columbia's Bugaboos in 2002, she put up a 5.12 first free ascent called Bad Hair Day with Lizzy Scully, the 31-year-old publisher of She Sends, a Colorado-based climbing magazine for women. It was just the kind of thing these road-tripping girls admired.
Of the four, Janet was the closest to leading the committed life. She was working on moving from 5.11's to 5.12's and specializing in "off-widths"cracks too big for hand-jamming but too small to wedge your body into. Peru would be her first major expedition.
Sheyna, on the other hand, was just getting started. A serious snowboarder from Center Ossipee, New Hampshire, she'd learned to place gear only six months before, at Cathedral Ledge. She was a natural, drawn more than the others to climbing's life-or-death bargain. Five years earlier, her older brother had died; he'd spent the four years before that in a coma after a car crash. Since the coma, she said, she felt like she'd been living for both of them, which meant she'd been going full-blast. The long scar was from a snowboard accident; she'd broken her back so badly that she'd had to have vertebrae T11 and T12 fused. In another snowboard fall, she'd shattered her tibia and fibula; they'd been mended with a titanium rod. Sheyna was comfortable trad-climbing at 5.10, but not much higherthough things wouldn't stay that way for long.
If Janet and Sheyna were ramping up, Sarah and Anne seemed to be shifting focus. Anne, tall and poised with a sly, silly streak, came from a well-to-do Connecticut familyshe'd flown out to Utah while the rest had drivenand displayed the best technique of the bunch. But for now, at least, she seemed to have the least fire in the belly to push herself further. An ace photographershe'd nearly swept Climbing magazine's reader photo competition in 2004Anne would spend hours taking pictures on a static line instead of climbing. In her quieter moments she talked about trading her retail shifts for a job as a photo editor and, possibly, way off in the future, family life with a husband and kids.
"What do you think is the right age to get married?" she asked me one morning. She'd been invited to the wedding of a friend, the first in her group to marry, and it had gotten her thinking.
SarahJanet's longtime climbing partnerwas preparing to let go as well. A petite North Carolinian, she'd enrolled in a Ph.D. program in geology at the University of Wyoming and was moving to Laramie in the fall. She and Janet climbed at roughly the same levelcompetent 5.11, working on 5.12's, the upper limit for most mortals. She too had considered going pro but had since abandoned that goal. Even the top women climbers, she pointed out, had a hard time making ends meet.
"I'm not sure I want to live that way," Sarah said.
ON THE GIRL'S LAST DAY in Indian Creek, Sheyna emerged from her tent announcing that she'd been up all night thinking about her boyfriend, or freshly ex-boyfriend. As everyone knew, Sheyna had moved his stuff out of their group house just before she'd left New Hampshire. She'd been working 16-hour days, she said, and whenever she came home, their room would be a mess, laundry everywhere, and the bed unmade.
After some painful conversations, her ex, a pro climber, had moved to Boulder. Now he was leaving messages on her cell phone, and she missed him. "I've never had a guy cry over me before," Sheyna explained as she slid onto the tailgate of Andy's pickup, spoon poised over a salted avocado. "But he's just really spoiled, you know?"
So far the trip had been going pretty smoothly. But the emotional undercurrents were more complex: These women were shockingly nice to one another, reallylending gear, kissing each other goodnightbut that didn't mean a few tensions didn't threaten their cohesiveness. First, only Sarah and Janet were training for Peru. Second, Sarah would soon be abandoning the gang for Wyoming. Third, Andy, sweet as he was, had provided an entrée for male interlopers, several of whom had parked their trucks for days right next to the girls' campsite. And fourth, and perhaps most destabilizing, Sheyna was officially single, a situation guaranteed to trigger drama and chaos.
The morning drifted by as always, a slow mix of yoga, coffee, and discussions about the questionable appeal of Victoria's Secret underwear. Sarah preferred the selection at T.J. Maxx and, as she would do today, occasionally climbed in a girlie camisole. Around noon, the girls scrambled up to the Way Rambo wall, emerging from the boulders under a party of three handsome men.
"Sick! This is gonna be sick!" a shirtless guy in dreads yelled to his partner as his friend started up a route called the Monk. The boys' comments stood in stark contrast to the girls'. While the guys shouted, "Sports action! I like to take in sports action when I can, and run from whipper to whipper!""sports action" meaning drama, and "whipper" meaning fallJanet and Sarah, who was climbing in a red cotton-and-lace camisole, affectionately hooted at each other, "Hey, white legs! They're hot!" and "You rule! And you rule in sexy lingerie."
Janet was lighthearted and joking, but there was a depth to her that made her seem older than she was. She'd found a real home in climbing, a break from the equestrian circuit she'd competed in back in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and an outlet during her parents' pending divorce. "It's all about flowing through fear," she said, airing out her feet and watching Sarah on belay. "It's just raw living."
Last winter, Janet's mother had come up to New Hampshire, taken a bunch of Janet's friends out to a bar, and asked the obvious parental question: "You all know people who have died climbing. Why do you do it?"
"There's no good answer," Janet admitted now, wiggling her toes in her flip-flops. "You just have to do what fulfills you, and for me climbing is fulfilling."
As her friends belayed each other, Sheyna joined the boys, heading off with a buzz-cut climber in painter's pants. Her plan after the trip was to train as an aesthetician, maybe out west, and work in a resort town as a facialist and massage therapist. Her mother, for her part, hoped her daughter would come home to New Hampshire. But Sheyna was having too much fun; she was committing to nothing, at least for more than a few hours at a stretch.
Finally, around sundown, she reappeared, face lit up, fresh red gobies dotting her arms. The light was perfect, mysterious, and kind, bringing out beauty in the rock that you never knew was there. While the others sneaked in a last route or two, Anne ascended a static line, collecting her camera and jumaring toward the sky. The cottonwoods shimmered, the dirt turned gold, but back at camp that night, everyone's nerves frayed from a long day on the rock, emotions ran high.
Anne's simple question "What should we have for dinner?" boiled over into an outburst from Sheyna about how certain people never bought any food, even though their parents were loadedthe standard too-close-for-comfort stuff. Meanwhile, Sarah had turned inward, worried about whether her relationship with her boyfriend, 35-year-old adventure cinematographer Jim Surette, with whom she lived in North Conway, could survive her going off to earn a Ph.D. in Laramie.
Janet paused to join Sarah for a moment, the two girls sitting close on the tailgate like the roommates the four all used to be before Sarah had moved in with Jim.
"She's not just leaving her man behind," Janet reminded me warmly, though not without making her point: At the end of all this, Sarah would be abandoning her climbing partner, too, and the trip was already half over. Tomorrow the girls would be leaving Indian Creek, pushing through Las Vegas and on to Yosemite.
"You know, right now I don't even know if I want to go to the valley," Sheyna confided just before she turned in. She was worried about climbing over her head, worried about her money running out. Plus, she said, "Everyone's going to have a boyfriend."
The moon shone like a sequin, and the air smelled like sweat and sage. Sheyna pulled her knit cap tight over her head, as yet unaware that a single girl in Yosemite was as rare as summer rain.
TWO WEEKS LATER, SHEYNA WOKE UP under a pine tree in Camp 4, her green flannel pillowcase set right on the fallen needles, her body wrapped in a sleeping bag. They'd arrived ten days ago; along the way, Andy had peeled off for Alaska, and they'd side-tripped to the Salt Lake and Oakland airports to pick up the other girls' boyfriends.
Now, after more than a week of climbing, as many as seven men were hanging around the campground. Anne's boyfriend, 27-year-old Bayard Russell, a guide in North Conway, was shaking out a tent, and Janet's boyfriend, Freddie Wilkinson, 24, another North Conway guide on a break from leading trips up Alaska's Mount McKinley, was cooking hash browns. But the real reason for all the guys was that Sheyna and her ex were truly through, and she looked vulnerable, wild, and sad, wrapped in her tangled bedding.
Sheyna had come into Yosemite like a force of nature. Now, after folding her bedding, she hitched a ride out to El Cap Meadow, to sit among the irises with six unattached boys. Her stuff was in one guy's car; seated on her right was a man who'd been buying her beer and cookies; and yet another guy was fishing his van keys out of his pocket so that Sheyna could watch it while he did a push ascent, without sleeping, of El Cap's Pacific Ocean Wall. She'd been spending her nights drinking wine at the search-and-rescue site, and in the mornings, as she left Camp 4, she'd had her pick of climbing partners: Ryan, Ivo, Bob, and Andrew.
"Hey, Sheyna, whatcha up to today?"
"Hey, Sheyna. Wanna get on some rock?" She knew the name of every guy changing his shirt on the side of the road, and they knew hers. As she put it, "I don't think there are too many girls around here."
Today's winner in the battle for her attention was Bob, a 31-year-old guy "kind of from Arizona." As he and Sheyna climbed at Arch Rock, on the western edge of the valley, Bob stared up at her determined, tanned face. "I can tell you've been climbing at Indian Creek," he said.
Bob was strong and steady-eyed, with golden hair and golden skin from years of climbing, surfing, and working construction. "I've never seen anybody pick up climbing that quick," he told her. "You must have been hanging out with people who were really pushing you. Mega-senders. I mean, God, you're so smooth."
Bob had brought a loaf of wheat bread and peanut butter, and while he climbed a tough 5.11c crack, Sheyna told me about her girlie side, the part that loved going to the Bellagio in Vegas, even though, by her own admission, "that city brings out the evil in me." She also, at the moment, wanted to visit a spa. "I like to be pampered," she admitted. "Facials, waxing... I could use a facial."
Sheyna, with all her charms, caused some affectionate eye rolling among the girls. But truth be told, even the guys who'd been explicitly invited were cramping the all-girl scene. Women climbers cite many reasons for preferring female partners to male. Among them, predictably, are the inevitable intrigues that crop up when young, carefree men and women with beautiful bodies spend lots of time hanging around. Lizzy Scully, the She Sends publisher, cites a less obvious peril: "Men freak out when women cry." For this largely compatible bunch, however, the problem seemed to be sheer absence.
For five days now, Sarah and Jim had been up on the Salathé Wall, 35 pitches of exposed off-widths and strenuous crack and aid climbing. Nobody knew when she was supposed to be downthe last time Jim had climbed the Salathé, he'd taken only 15 hoursand the fact that days had passed was provoking concern.
GARLICK!!!! WHERE ARE YOU???? Janet scribbled on a sheet of notebook paper that she slipped under Sarah's windshield wiper. Of course, in addition to her worry, Janet had her own agenda: She'd already ticked off two big walls with FreddieTangerine Trip, a wildly overhung three-day aid route on El Cap, and the Chouinard-Herbert Route, a 15-pitch free climb on Sentinel Rock. Wasn't it time she and Sarah started training for Peru?
Shortly before Freddie was to return to Alaska, he and Janet, along with Anne and Bayard, spent a day noodling around at the Cookie Cliff, a popular day-climbing site just off the Merced River, with routes like Wheat Thin and Pringles. On a single-pitch, bolted 5.12 route called Nutter Butter, Anne belayed as Janet struggled on the crux move near the top. Freddie, buoyant and flinty-eyed as always, leaned against a downed tree with Bayard, whittling a twig into a pair of chopsticks and discussing how fashion is safety, because if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you climb well, and if you climb well, you climb safe.
"I have no idea what I'm doing up here," Janet groaned.
"You're going to send," Freddie called.
"Oh, my God, this totally sucks."
"C'mon, J-Nut. Smart feet, baby. Breathe. Don't forget to breathe."
Freddie, of course, meant well, but he missed Janet's drift. She was at her limit; she needed him to tune in.
"There's no hands, and the feet suck. I don't think I can do it."
"Just go fully friction. You can do it, baby."
And then Janet fell.
Not a big dealonly ten feetbut it was Anne who consoled her while Freddie stared sheepishly at his twig.
THE WEEKS UNFURLED in a sunstruck glow, the girls leaving the guys behind to do yoga in El Cap meadow and joining up with the gang again later, experiencing the joy of being fully contained and yet part of a group at the same time. But trip endings are always difficult and, with three days to go, Janet was antsy
"I just feel like I'm on an edge right now," she said, "where climbing could be a lot more of my life than it is, for maybe the next 10 or 15 years. I could start to train harder, spend more time on the road..." The idea clearly captivated her; she wanted to get started, to gear her energies toward Peru. But how to proceed, with Freddie gone back to guide in Alaska and Anne preoccupied with Bayard and photography, and Sarah stillstillup on the Salathé Wall?
Sheyna, meanwhile, was making the most of the present, hurling herself at every day. In front of the van she was baby-sitting, a small city of young men sprouted, gear spread on tarps, coffee cups filled, the guys talking about which 5.13 sport climbs they were going to try. Sheyna more or less ignored them, contemplating the moment's bigger questionslike whether to let a local climber take her up El Cap, whether to see her ex in Boulder on the ride home, whether just to stay in the valley for the summer, and whether to have her picture taken au naturel for a calendar called Stone Nudes. This last opportunity had been extended to her by a photographer in the Yosemite Lodge Cafeteria, right in front of Janet and Anne. In the end, she said yes.
For the boys' part, none of it much mattered except whether or not Sheyna would stick around: If one of you proves entertaining enough, her vibe seemed to say, maybe I'll stay. "I didn't sign up for this," one of them finally complained, taking himself out of the competition.
In just two more nights, Janet and Sheyna would be driving toward New Hampshire, Anne and Bayard flying home, and Sarah and Jim heading east in Sarah's truck. The Merced River gushed like love, the sun so bright you could pick out separate needles in the shadows of the pines. Up on Cookie Cliff, Anne clicked pictures, while Sheyna led Wheat Thin. At the end of the day, Sarah's truck remained unmoved, its windshield piled with notes; Janet was now so worried and peeved that she hiked out to the base of El Cap alone.
"I'm just going to go look for my sunglasses," she explained as she marched off, though it was obvious to all that she just needed some time to herself.
Under a big live oak in El Cap Meadow, a crowd had gathered, listening to trance music and watching the flowers fade with the sun. Another young woman's birthday was being celebrated, and the trip-hop, the bodies, the scenery, and the freedom were beautiful and mesmerizing. Before anyone could even imagine it, this moment would be over. Janet and Sarah would fly to Peru, successfully completing their ascent of La Esfinge. After six short weeks in North Conway, Sarah would head to Wyoming. Sheyna would end up spending the summer in New Hampshire, buying a Subaru, and heading to Breckenridge to pass the winter working at a spa.
But while their group would scatter, the trip had given them an irrevocable confidence, a feeling that if you pile enough girls and gear in your wagon you can redpoint whatever obstacles appear in your way. By winter, Anne would already be convincing Janet to join her on another road trip, and Sarah was hoping to come, too. But back at Camp 4 that final evening, Janet could not sit still: She was still worried about Sarah. "I'm sure they just found some extra water and are hanging out on top," she said as she trotted through the maze of tents and hopped back into her car. Her blue eyes looked unsteady, yet once she reached El Cap Meadow, all that evaporated. Up ahead, Sarah lay in the tall grass, a white speck on the green, blissfully tired and dirty.
"You're alive!" Janet yelled, running out and skipping. The girls hugged and sank back into the grass. They'd be back next spring, or so they hoped, once again strong-arming their boyfriends and worldly concerns to carve out time to climb together. It wouldn't be easy, but this summer's lesson was clear: For the all-girl road-tripper, man is never a replacement for rock.
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Train passengers will automatically be offered the cheapest tickets for their journeys, potentially saving hundreds on travel, after the Government intervened following a Daily Telegraph investigation into rip-off fares.
Rail operators have been told by ministers that they must tell commuters and travellers that they could make huge savings if they use a ticket office rather than a self-service machine.
The intervention comes after an investigation by this newspaper which found that self-service machines — which are used to purchase almost a quarter of all tickets sold annually — offer wildly different fares making some journeys £100 more expensive.
The disclosures prompted Claire Perry, the rail minister, to call an urgent summit of railway chiefs which led them to agree to the creation of the country's first rail fare code of conduct.
From March, all self-service ticket machines will be required to tell customers if there is a potential cheaper fare available and direct them to a ticket office.
The code, which will be overseen by the Office of Rail Regulation, is designed to eliminate the inconsistencies between ticket offices and machines in stations.
The Telegraph investigation discovered that many machines promote expensive fares, bury cheaper options and do not apply discounts for groups or families.
Ultimately the new code will require rail companies to promote all of their available fares on self-service machines.
Ministers warned that rail companies will face heavy sanctions if they fail to comply with the code.
Miss Perry said: "I am absolutely determined that passengers should get the best possible deal for every journey. There is no excuse for poor quality information, restricted ticket choice or confusing screen directions at ticket machines.
"I welcome the fact that the industry has responded to the challenge with some positive actions which will be rolled out by next March. However one summit is not the end of our discussions. I will be closely monitoring progress and I will not hesitate to hold the industry to account if improvements are not made."
The news will come as a welcome relief to passengers following a dismal month for the rail industry which included chaos on the network over the Christmas holidays and outcry over the bonuses and salaries awarded to railway executives.
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In October the Daily Telegraph disclosed that rail passengers are routinely being denied the cheapest fares when they buy tickets at stations.
Customers buying from a machine can pay more than £200 when a ticket for the same destination can be found elsewhere at the station for more than £100 cheaper.
For example, at machines run by train company Northern Rail in Leeds, passengers buying a First-Class Anytime Return to Birmingham were charged £271.
Only feet away, an East Coast trains machine offered the same journey using a First-Class Off-peak Return for £145.70.
This type of ticket is not available for customers using Northern Rail's machines, which means that some passengers might not be aware that they could save £125.30 by travelling off-peak.
The investigation also found that that many machines currently promote expensive fares, bury cheaper options and do not apply discounts for groups or families.
Ministers want the train companies to begin overhauling their fares database to ensure that ticket machines automatically direct passengers to the cheapest possible ticket.
However, as a stop-gap measure, the companies will be forced from March 2015 to label all machines with warnings that passengers could be getting cheaper tickets from manned offices.
The current ticketing database contains thousands of different fare combinations.
Since privatisation, competing rail firms rushed to introduce promotional fares and helped to create a system which experts have warned is inefficient and confusing for passengers.
Because of the size and complexity of the database, ticket machines are unable to display real-time information or sell advance fares, potentially saving customers hundreds of pounds.
The Government will work over the coming years to ensure that automatic machines in future display real-time information, ministers said.
Michael Roberts, head of the Rail Delivery Group which speaks for the railway industry, said: "While industry research shows the vast majority of customers find the correct fare using ticket machines, we know there is more we can do to make them better.
"With more and more people buying from ticket machines, we are already working on a range of improvements. Planned changes include better information on the range of tickets offered by machines, new products and improving the clarity of on-screen information."

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End of an Era
Every classic era of rock had its instrument. For the Sixties, it was the electric guitar; for the eighties, the synthesiser. But for the 1990s, the zenith of clubbing, it was the Technics turntable. We still remember when our brother got a set for his 18th, he was so excited, staying up all night mixing and scratching some headache-inducing jungle record.
Well, UK clubbing passed its peak years ago, with legendary venues like The End, Gatecrasher and Ministry of Sound all closed down (MoS lives on as a record label, but seems to mostly release pop compilations these days). And now, there's another sign the golden days of the superstar DJ are gone forever. Panasonic, owner of Technics, are reportedly ceasing production of their legendary turntables once and for all.
Now, look, it's been a long time coming, with even many old-school DJs mixing on computers now. But still, we'll shed a tear for the piece of musical kit that, more than any other, defined our youth.


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Winning SIG Forecast: Signet Jewelers Is A Diamond In The Rough
The Path to Brilliance plan "is intended to reposition Signet to be a share-gaining OmniChannel jewelry category leader."
– Signet Chief Executive Officer Virginia Dossos
(Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Signet Jewelers Ltd. (NYSE: SIG) is one of the biggest diamond jewelry retailers and is the parent company of many smaller jewelry chains such as Jared, Zales, Kay, and more. On June 6, the I Know First algorithm issued a bullish 14 day forecast for SIG with a signal of 24.00 and a predictability of 0.19. In accordance with the forecast, over the 14 days from June 6 to June 20, the stock price increased by 34.02%.
The stock surged on June 6 after the release of the company's Q1 2019 earnings report. The company surpassed analyst expectations with revenue of $1.48 billion, a 5.5% YoY increase. This is especially significant because revenue is still growing for the company despite store closures and a difficult diamond retail environment. There are a few factors that contributed to the strong revenue: increased promotions and a calendar shift in timing of Mother's Day, the increased sales from the acquisition of James Allen, and favorable currency exchange rates. Additionally, in Q1 of last year, many of the company's subsidiaries had comps down by over 10%. In comparison, this quarter comp sales were only down by 0.1%. In the earnings call, CEO Virginia Drossos explained that the company will face a tougher Q2, but still expects total sales between $5.9 billion and $6.1 billion. On top of this, eCommerce increase by 81% on a reported basis led by James Allen which increased by 29%
The company has put in place a new 3 year transformation plan entitled the Path to Brilliance to build a strong foundation for the future. While the company is only 2 months in, the initiatives are clearly already showing strong results based on the Q1 earnings. The plan has 3 main priorities:
- Customer first- will look at consumer preferences to align products with changing consumer preferences.
- Omnichannel- will work to integrate the in person and online shopping experiences and increase conversion rates on the company's websites.
- Creating a culture of agility and efficiency- will allow the company to decrease operating costs and increase profitability.
The company plans to build on a successful start to their plan in the next 2 years.
Analyst Recommendations
The majority of analysts had a buy rating with a few choosing to buy the stock.
I Know First AI Algorithm Bullish Prediction For SIG
On June 6th, the I Know First Algorithm issued a bullish 14 day forecast for SIG which came to fruition, highlighting the accuracy of the I Know First machine learning algorithm.
Current I Know First subscribers received this bullish SIG forecast on June 6, 2018.
Signet's stock price has plummeted 75% over the past 3 years, so the increase in stock price and implementation of the Path to Brilliance plan will hopefully be the start to a turnaround for the stock.
How to read the I Know First Forecast and Heatmap
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Keeping lone workers safe is an important responsibility for employers. Employers of workers who clean hotel rooms must plan for those workers' safety.
Notice how many hotel and resort ads there are in summer?
They're in the mailbox through the door and email inbox and it makes me think about people who work there.
See Working Alone: A Handbook for Small Business, with links to numerous online resources for hotel employers – and helpful for anyone who employs lone workers. It made me think more about the idea of going into a hotel room alone to clean it, not sure if anyone is inside.
I queried friends who had cleaned hotel rooms in the past and most had never had problems with anyone in a room. One had a naked man answer a door, but he shut it again quickly when she screamed. She told her manager, then went back to clean it later.
"I never felt in danger," she said, recalling the experience years later. "You always had a phone in the room or other staff close by. Mostly, people would be gone from their rooms."
How close is close enough?
In B.C., employers of lone workers must consider the following conditions "in order to determine whether or not assistance is readily available," according to the OHS Guidelines on Working alone or in isolation:
- Presence of others: Are other people in the vicinity?
- Awareness:Will other persons capable of providing assistance be aware of the worker's need?
- Willingness: Is it reasonable to expect those other persons will provide assistance?
- Timeliness: Will assistance be provided within a reasonable period of time?
Backing up personal safety
Lone workers need the support described above – makes me concerned about this anecdotal report (which I haven't followed up) from a friend of a hotel worker, via Facebook.
"My friend works overnights at a downtown [Vancouver] hotel, usually alone or with only one other person in the whole building. It sounds like a nuthouse, especially after the bars let out. I don't know how she does it!"
I hope she does it with great safety – supported by her employer, but unfortunately that's not always the case. Things can get out of hand with guests; last summer I met the owner of a small inn who had his arm broken in an altercation with an intoxicated guest. I expect however, that these incidents are very rare, and hopefully it's smooth sailing, with well-behaved guests who appreciate their temporary home. But it's still important to have a plan.


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An expat was arrested while attempting to smuggle 960 narcotic pills into the Kingdom by the Customs Officials at the Bahrain International Airport.
The accused told officials that the medicines were meant for the medical purpose, hence he had hidden the pills among his clothes in the luggage, however, an X-ray inspection confirmed smuggling of drugs.
The prosecution revealed the suspicious nature of the defendant as per the customs official. Further details lead to the finding of a suspicious plastic bag in his luggage filled with carbon papers with another plastic bag containing pills in it.
The officials confirmed the smuggling attempt when the defendant informed them that the pills were prescribed by his doctor from his country.
However, the man was sentenced to five years in prison as the pills were intended to be sold in the kingdom.


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BIRMINGHAM, England-Ghana's only tire company, Bonsa Tyre Co. Ltd. is making truck tires again following a $26 million plant renovation carried out by Dunlop International Technology Ltd. of the United Kingdom. The firm should reach full production of 1,200 tires and 1,000 tubes per day in 1996. The first line on-stream will be light truck tires, followed by heavy truck tires.
The plant plans to produce radial car tires eventually.
Brisa profitable despite economy
IZMIT, Turkey-Despite an unstable domestic economy, Turkey's Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci Lastik Sanayi improved its profitability ratio to nearly 14 percent.
High interest rates and soaring inflation in Turkey last year severely crimped domestic demand for many consumer products, company officials said.
To offset the domestic malaise, Brisa stepped up exports to the point where they represented 45 percent of sales last year.
Sumitomo to invest in Germany
BERLIN-Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. plans to invest more than $65 million in Pneumant Reifen & Gummi Werke GmbH.'s two tire plants in the former East Germany during the next three years, with ISO 9002 certification at the 47-year-old Riesa plant a primary goal this year.
Sumitomo said it is committed to solidifying its industrial base in Europe, but building a new plant would require considerably more investment than modernizing Pneumant.


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As a family owned company since 1990, AUTOLAND ® has been developing and producing high quality car care products and automotive fluids. By offering a wide range of products and through effective brand management, AUTOLAND® is able to provide a complete solution to satisfy drivers' needs, as well as serve diverse distribution channels and "private label" brands.
In order to further maintain repeatable quality of products and service levels, AUTOLAND® implemented quality management systems according to ISO 9001 and 14001 standards already in the mid 90's.
We are proud that AUTOLAND® has won many press awards from various well known Motor Magazines in Europe for several of its products over the years. AUTOLAND® also holds DEKRA® and TUV® certifications for product excellence and consistency.
In 2016, AUTOLAND® decided to approach the largest automotive market in the world, North America. Our products will be available online and, starting out slowly, in stores and through selected distributors.
Our goal is to help you to keep your car clean,
shining and looking unique.
Magazine test results 2018! Motor Magazine, a Polish motoring weekly, released the results of their annual reader survey asking which car care and cosmetics brands were purchased most often and ranked highest in their latest annual Reader's Choice edition.
This survey was an in-depth program of over 120 questions covering 7 categories of the automotive market in Poland, one of those being car care products and cosmetics. The resulting response rate was unexpectedly high – 144,000 responses came in. Motor has been running these surveys, inspired by the organizations like JD Power and Consumer Reports, since 2013.
And in the results for car care and a car cosmetics, Maguire's won with a decisive margin but more importantly for us, Autoland came in practically tie with second ranked Sonax, a brand many times larger than Autoland and well known around the world. More so, Autoland scored higher by a solid margin ahead of Turtle Wax and Wurth, also well known world brands from the US and Germany.
This is the quality we are bringing to the USA. In 2016, we hired a brand designer from Nike to help us prepare the branding and packaging for the North American markets. You can see this in our unique approach to product presentation – from soft packs for wipes to trigger sprayers that spray upside down and at any angle, we want to set ourselves apart to proudly proclaim who we are and what our products can do for our customers.
We are also a progressive thinking company and environmentally friendly. Our wipes are bio degradable and have received the certifications from TUV. Our packaging complies with Europe's strict standards for environmental friendliness and we are proud that we can offer this to this segment.
End of Communism, Company starts up with a portfolio of 10 products.
Receive ISO 9001 and 14001 Certification, portfolio is now 55 products.
Autoland continues its development and investment increasing the portfolio of to over 100 products, additionally, Autoland starts producing under brand name for such brands as BP, Shell, Statoil, and JET.
Autoland's wheel care products receives recommendation from wheel manufacturer AEZ, one of the largest and most prominent manufacturers in Europe. Their logo figures prominently on every bottle of wheel cleaner we produce.
Autoland's hard wax for car bodies receives the esteemed DEKRA certificate for quality.
Autoland's Tire Puncture Repair product wins the Auto Świat (Auto World) test in the Nr 42/2014 issue.
Autoland's Cockpit wipes (dashboard wipes) receive the certificate from TUV.
Autoland has expanded its business to the USA and the number of products now available increases to over 30 including the car and motorcycle care ranges.


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ARTS FESTIVAL 2019 Kicks off with featured author, Andy Davidson, on the Macon Campus on April 24, 2019, at 4 p.m. in Arts Complex Theater.
Peach County's Dr. Vernard Hodges to Kick Off Middle Georgia State's Voices of Impact Series
Middle Georgia State University's Voices of Impact Lecture Series premiers at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, with guest speaker Dr. Vernard Hodges, veterinarian, entrepreneur and author.
President Blake Speaking on the House's Higher Education Bill
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After almost 10 years of anticipation, Palo Alto's Oshman Family Jewish Community Center will officially unveil its new park and pavilion this Sunday.
Dubbed the "final piece of the campus" by Oshman Family JCC CEO Zack Bodner, the 25,000-square-foot park and two-story pavilion boast a fire pit, garden, track, outdoor fitness area and plenty of multipurpose space for dance classes, camp activities, concerts and movie nights.
Construction on the Fabian Way campus' additions started in July 2017 and was completed July 2. Between July and this month, the JCC acquired use permits and added some finishing touches.
The new facilities were part of the first blueprints of the campus that opened in 2009, but the JCC lacked the $13 million to complete the final architectural design until Silicon Valley real estate kingpins John Arrillaga and John and Jill Freidenrich became involved in 2017. The Freidenrichs donated $5 million for the development and when they brought Arrillaga on board for the project, he covered everything over the JCC's capped construction cost of $10 million.
Once John Arrillaga got involved, the project was able to be completed relatively quickly, said JCC Chief Operating Officer Sally Flinchbaugh.
The park has been officially dubbed the Friedenrich Community Park while the pavilion was named the Arrillaga Family Pavilion.
"We are a nonprofit and we thrive on donations, of course, it's part of our budget, but all donations were particularly earmarked to build the field and pavilion," OFJCC Director of Community Engagement Luba Palant said.
She added that no programming money or any other type of budget revenue contributed to the park and pavilion's development.
The park, which consists of a full-length soccer field, rubber running track, gym and playground structures, was originally built to provide a green space for the campus, Palant said. The wide, open area will be used for all of the JCC's programming -- including fitness classes; after-school and summer camps; celebrations and holiday festivals; and the OFJCC Leslie Family Preschool.
On the periphery of the park, there is a fire pit for s'mores, benches under shade structures and a garden. The JCC also plans to create space for "water play" with water slides this month for summer camp attendees.
The two-story pavilion also will be utilized for a multitude of different activities, including yoga classes and cultural arts programming. The building comprises of a 2,086-square-foot first floor, which can accommodate up to 138 guests, and a 1,476-square-foot multipurpose event room on the second floor with a maximum occupancy of 43 people. The second floor also includes a covered outdoor terrace that spans 884 square feet.
Flinchbaugh said the space also will be used for interfaith Shabbat dinners, meetings and to expand the center's after-school programs.
"It's just more space to do what we do," Flinchbaugh said. "We're so impacted by space, and we're doing so many different programs that this (new development) just gives us more opportunity."
Flinchbaugh and Bodner both stressed how the new pavilion will expand opportunities for the JCC's recently launched Center for Social Impact, which focuses on humanitarian work.
"We work with the homeless. We work with the hungry. We work with the VA Hospital here," Bodner said. "A lot of this work will be able to happen on a whole new scale at the new park and pavilion."
Bodner also emphasized that the new space is not limited to just JCC members, but is intended for the whole community. Seniors from the nearby Moldaw Residences, students from Kehillah Jewish High School and any community member will be welcome to use the space when it is available.
The park and pavilion were partly based off of the sociological concept of the "third place," the idea that people need a social environment outside of home and work, Bodner said. He said hopes that the new facilities will be many community members' new "third places."
"People find meaning in their lives in these gathering spaces, because they connect to others," he said. "At our park, people can come together and just hang out after a long day."
Sunday's grand opening at the park and pavilion will kick off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and will include face painting, water activities, carnival games and food trucks. It will also feature various cultural dance groups and singers.
During the event, the JCC also will highlight its fitness center with different workshops, clinics and workouts like yoga, soccer and kickboxing. Free 10-minute chair massages and membership tours will be given as well.
The grand opening will be on Sunday, Aug. 12, from noon to 3 p.m. at the JCC, 3921 Fabian Way. More information can be found at paloaltojcc.org.


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Welcome back! We missed you.
Our purpose is to enrich community. As we welcome you back to Berkeley Square, we will continue to update with new information on public health guidelines and our increased safety and cleaning protocols. We are grateful for our community and our front line partners who have continued to serve all of us.
We know we are better together.
Please visit individual business websites or social channels for specific hours as well as take-out menus, delivery and online shopping options.
See our COVID-19 Community Safety Actions for the well-being of our guests.
We're in this together and appreciate our community's ongoing support.
Berkeley Square is situated in one of Plano's most affluent areas, and conveniently located across from EDENS' Preston Town Crossing.


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Student housing - using a guarantor
Many private landlords want a third party to act as a guarantor for the rent payments before they'll agree to let a property to a student. It's important for anyone considering being a guarantor, or for a student who needs to ask someone to be a guarantor, to fully understand what's involved.
This page provides information on what you need to be aware of. You should always seek legal advice before organising or becoming a guarantor. Your bank may be able to provide you with a standard guarantor agreement.
What is a guarantor?
A guarantor is a third party, such as a parent or close relative, who agrees to pay your rent if you don't pay it. Your landlord can ultimately take legal action to recover any unpaid rent from your guarantor.
Your landlord may want to check that your guarantor is able to pay the rent in the same way that they've checked your ability to pay, for example, by carrying out a credit check. Administrative work undertaken by the landlord on this should not involve you or your potential guarantor being charged any fees. These fees are unlawful in Scotland.
A legal agreement sets out the guarantor's legal obligations.
Is a guarantor only liable for unpaid rent
In many cases, a guarantee agreement extends to other conditions under the tenancy as well as rent due, for example, any damage caused to the property. If you are asked to pay for the damage, as the tenant, but you don't pay it, the guarantor could be asked to pay it.
It is advisable to check the tenancy agreement before you act as guarantor. It is important that you know, as guarantor, what the tenant has to actively do and not do to maintain the tenancy. This should be covered in the tenancy agreement.
Does the guarantor have to live in the UK
Landlords usually want a guarantor who lives in the UK as it's easier for them to take legal action against a UK resident if they need to. The European Union (EU) has reciprocal agreements for court orders to be enforced, called European Enforcement Orders. This may make it more reasonable for a landlord to accept a guarantor in an EU country. You can read more about European Enforcement Orders on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service website.
Brexit update
The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. However, EU law will continue to apply in the UK until 31 December 2020. This means that European Enforcement Orders will still be applicable in the UK during this time.
Guarantors of tenants who live in shared accommodation
If you share accommodation with other tenants under one tenancy agreement, that is, a joint tenancy, it's common for the guarantee to apply to all of the rent and not just your share. In the same way, if the landlord wants to evict one joint tenant they must also end the agreements with other joint tenants.
It's best to check the guarantee agreement carefully and ask the landlord or agent any questions if something is unclear. As soon as the agreement is signed, the guarantor is bound by its terms and conditions. It is usually possible to draw up an agreement that specifies one person's rent for a specific time period to limit the amount that is being guaranteed. You should make sure that the guarantor agreement specifies the exact amount to be guaranteed. For example, if your portion of the rent is £280 per month for a period of 12 months, the amount to be guaranteed should state this as as such, a total of £3360.
Checking the guarantee agreement
You must check any guarantee agreement carefully so that the guarantor knows how and when their liability ends. You may want to ensure the guarantor's liability is limited. For example, this can be done by specifying the start and end dates the agreement applies to.
If you want to stop being a guarantor
As soon as the agreement is signed, you are usually bound by its terms and conditions. If you want to stop being a guarantor, you should get legal advice.
Further help
You may find some additional help on the Shelter Scotland website.
If you want to have a guarantor agreement checked by a lawyer you may have to find one locally. You can search the database of lawyers on the The Law Society of Scotland website. You should not phone the Law Society of Scotland for legal advice as this cannot be provided over the phone.


text: Nigeria: Shia-Sunni unity against Zionism Dec 23, 2015 Print Related Islamic Movement is about unity against injustice: Sheikh Zakzaky's daughter Israel, the main benefiter of the massacre of Muslims in Nigeria Human Rights industry opts for turning a blind eye to Nigerian govt's massacre of its people Ayatollah Khamenei: Why is the Muslim world silent towards the oppression in Nigeria? In the light of Islam The truth can never be suppressed Media blackout in the face of the bloodbath in Nigeria Boko Haram: Just another US terrorist brand to suppress Islamic movement in Nigeria US to Nigerian Islamic Movement: Standing up for Palestine? Pay the Price! Nigeria must bring to justice the perpetrators of Zaria massacre: Ayatollah Khamenei's advisor More from Khamenei.ir The "Second Phase of the Revolution" Statement addressed to the Iranian nation The full text of the interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah The Quds Force strategy will be the same as during the Martyr General Soleimani Comment


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Location - McDonald's Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada
Price - $2.40CAD (snack size) = ~$2.37USD
Calories - ~240kcal
Rating - Click the link below to read the review, more photos and see the rating.
Anyone that has had a Drumstick knows of their unique flavour. I've always enjoyed Drumsticks, so I was interested to see how the McFlurry varient could match its flavour. I'll admit, I bought the McFlurry for my sister, so I only had a spoonful or two, but I believe it was enough to give it a review. First, I'd start with the size. I ordered my sister a 'small' McFlurry in the US about a week prior (review to come), and I never thought anything of the size, it seemed about the same size as the Asian sizing, and thought nothing of it. Back home in Canada, they asked if I wanted a 'snack-size' or 'large-size'. Thinking snack-size would be equvilant to a small, I ordered it, but it was probably half the size of a US small, and surprisingly even smaller than the Asian sizes. Worst of all, it cost the most of any country. My sister said a 'large' is about $1 more. Canadian McDonald's has always been more expensive than the US, but normally the 10-50 cent increase you pay on the item still gives you the same size, so this was highly disappointing.
The McFlurry page on the McDonald's Canada website says you have the option of choosing Fudge, Caramel, or Strawberry topping for the Drumstick McFlurry, but at the drive through I was never given the option, and they topped it with both chocolate chunks (fudge) AND caramel. Personally I would have picked only fudge if I had the option, but the caramel did work rather well with the rest of the toppings. My sister refused to put the peanut pieces on the McFlurry, but crunchy bits of sugar cone pieces were really nice. They tasted nothing like the original Drumstick sugar cones, but with the combination of the caramel and chocolate chunks. There were mouthfuls of chocolate chunks and as I had the first bite, I got maybe 10 pieces on one spoonful, and they weren't just all sitting on the top, as even my sister was commenting on the number, as she continued to eat the rest of the ice cream.
Rating - 4/5.
Would be a perfect 5 if the price was a bit lower, or the sizing standard with the rest of the world.


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Body Mass Index (BMI)
What is BMI?
The body mass index (BMI) is a rough guide to obesity that is simple to apply, but does not take account of body shape, muscle bulk and fitness. Most elite athletes, particularly those in strength sports such as wrestling and throwing, have a very high BMI. It is a poor indicator of fat in contrast to total body weight.
How is BMI Calculated?
The BMI is calculated by the formula:-
Weight in kilograms/height in metres squared
Thus, a person weighing 70 Kg. and with a height of 1.7 metres would have a BMI of:- 70/1.72 = 24.3, which is satisfactory.
With a weight of 80 Kg., the same person has a much higher BMI thus:- 80/1.72 = 27.7, which may be overweight. BMI ranges and their standard interpretations are:-
- Under 20 – Underweight
- 20-25 – Healthy Weight
- 25-29 – Overweight
- 29-35 – Obese
- Over 35 – Severely Obese
These interpretations must be used with great caution, particularly in muscular people.


text: Cannes: Hollywood Finds Global Business Partners at Festival (Column) 3:01 PM PDT 5/18/2013 by Sharon Swart FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Getty Images In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart visits Worldview Entertainment's bash and Gaumont's windy party, where WME agent Jerome Duboz says: "the market feels energized." The growing globalization of the film biz is on display in Cannes like nearly nowhere else in the world, and at this year's festival it seems particularly pronounced. The Cannes Competition alone has numerous films with a multi-national mix of components. For one, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, shot in Thailand with a Canadian lead actor and backing from Europe and beyond. CANNES JEWEL HEIST: Inside Job Suspected, Hotel Employees Being Questioned "The market feels energized," said WME agent Jerome Duboz at French producer/distributor Gaumont's windy beachside cocktail party on Friday evening. "You have French producers making English-language films with American actors. European production companies have been given the tools to make English-language films over the past several years, and it's now coming together in a long-term way. And more Hollywood producers are coming to Cannes to see how they can put together movies in a different way." Also at Gaumont was former Universal chief David Linde, who is well versed in the international aspects of the business thanks to his lengthy background in foreign sales. The Gaumont party was just one of the French fetes that night. Wild Bunch had its own infamously rowdy gathering. "Leave it to them to find a swingers club as their party venue," said Sundance Film Festival director of programming Trevor Groth. "I'm only sad I never found the 'cuddle' room." French distributor Studio Canal, meanwhile, had a decadent bash at Moulin de Mougins. One of the night's most ballyhooed parties was the bash thrown by the aptly named Worldview Entertainment on the Carlton Beach, which had been transformed into a Bungalo 8 Beach Club for the night. Boy George headlined the packed party, which drew lots of execs and talent. PHOTOS: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Cast Heats Up Cannes Among the revelers were Benicio Del Toro, Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sony Classics' Michael Barker, and Anonymous Content's Steve Golin, Michael Sugar and Keith Redmon. Del Toro stars in another of the fest's multi-national mixes, Worldview's Montana-shot Cannes Competition film Jimmy P. by French director Arnaud Desplechin. But the problem with the worldly and well-traveled set is that even the most extraordinary events can feel like just another night in Cannes. "Meh," sniffed one L.A.-based exec about the Worldview extravaganza. "It's like the Red Granite party and Kanye West a couple of years ago — same gimmick, same location, different company." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Sharon Swart email@example.com @thr


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We are sure that you're aware that the new pound coin came into circulation on Tuesday 28th March and from October 2017, the current £1 will cease to be legal tender. Of course, the new coin will have the same value as the old coin, I mean a pound is still a pound, but this leads us into thinking, what do you do when buying from abroad as the pound is fluctuating in value?
Here's an example.
Suppose I need to go out and buy some nice new piggy banks to put all these new pound coins in. I write a specification, get 3 quotes and choose the one that satisfies my MEAT. The supplier is in France and is quoting me in euros, at a price of €1.15 per piggy. At today's exchange rate of £1 = €1.15, each piggy will cost me £1. I send off an order for 1,000 a month for the next 12 months at a price of €1,150 to be paid monthly on receipt of goods. This gives me an overall price of €13,800 for the year. I set aside £12,000 to pay for this.
At first all goes well, but then the exchange rate starts to move. By month three, the pound has fallen so instead of getting €1.15 for my pound, it will now only buy me €1.05. The supplier has sent me his standard monthly bill for €1,150 but now I must spend £1,095 instead of £1,000 to pay this amount of euros. I've just lost £95 and it's only month three!
How could I have stopped this happening?
Well, when you look at it, by agreeing to pay in euros I have taken all the risk of exchange rate movements. Yes, if the pound had strengthened I would have made money, but it's impossible to predict the future. There is no such thing as an accurate crystal ball!
Instead, I could have asked my supplier if I could pay in pounds. In this case, the supplier would take all of the risk and I would always pay £12,000 for the year's supply, whatever the exchange rate. Of course, the supplier might not agree!
Or, another option would be to ask the supplier to share the risk and to split the difference. At the end of each month, we would tot up the effect of any change in exchange rate and adjust the price to reflect an equal share in the gain or loss due to this.
Another approach would be for me to protect myself against the risk, by a process often known as "hedging". Essentially, I go to my bank and buy Euros now at the current rate. I exchange £12,000 into the €13,800 needed for the year's supply of piggy banks. But, what if I don't have £12,000 in my bank? Well, I can enter into what is known as a "futures contract" with my bank. This means that I can exchange my pounds into euros on specific monthly dates in the future, at a price that is fixed when I enter the contract. I will have to pay a small premium for this however, as in this case, the bank is taking the risk. With this option, at least I know exactly what I am going to pay over the year and am not exposed to the vagaries of the exchange rate.
Don't try to foretell the future! People have been using crystal balls and tea leaves to do this for a long time, and they don't work!
Don't bet on which way the exchange rate will move.
If you can't afford to lose, protect yourself by shifting the risk elsewhere.


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About Land Mapper
Land Mapper performs land surveys for agriculture. They are a safer and smarter way to carry out land surveys. They use a drone to map out your land and then use the data from this drone to create a 3D map of your land. Carrying out land mapping in this way is a lot easier and cost-effective.
Land Mapper carries out the survey in a safe way. They ensure that the surveyor stays on the ground while the drone does the hard work! The drones are all fully controlled and are programmed with a safe 'return to home' method. Using the drones keeps the cost down for Land Mapper, which means that these savings can be passed on to the customer. Drones cut down the cost of the surveys and manpower while increasing the accuracy of the survey. This means that the customer receives excellent service, while not spending a lot of money on their survey.
Working With Land Mapper
We were approached by Land Mapper for a brochure website for their land survey business. They wanted us to design them a website that not only sold their services to their user but one that looked good. We set out to build them a website that would attract new customers and one that would encourage returning customers.
The website design began with an in-depth conversation with Land Mapper to determine what their business entailed, and for full details of what they wanted to achieve from their website. JPS Media always do this at the start of any website design project. We want our clients to be happy from the first discussion with us, to the very last discussion when we set their new website to live! We value all of our customers!
Once we fully understood the aim of the website, we set about designing and building the site. We ensured that we included details of exactly what Land Mapper does and what makes them different from other surveyors on the home page. This is excellent Search Engine Optimisation as this spells out what the company does as soon as the user opens the website. It also allows us to target the companies keywords. Therefore, increasing the chances of the website appearing at the top of search engine results pages.
JPS Media enjoyed working on this project and feel that we built a beautiful brochure website that truly works sell the services of Land Mapper.


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Air India direct flights from New Delhi to Los Angeles
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Several passengers on Monday danced with joy after checking in their baggage for Air India's inaugural flight from Delhi to Los Angeles via Frankfurt, making it the fastest connecting flight between India and the western coast of the United States.
Air India will now fly daily to Los Angeles, three times from Delhi and four times from Mumbai.
These flights provide the easiest connection for passengers. Incidentally, the flights to LA are AI?s longest flights with 20 hours of flying time and do not involve a change of aircraft, said Air India's Director for Public Relations, Jitender Bhargava.
Monday's flight was inaugurated by Civil Aviation Secretary Ajay Prasad.
With its US operations becoming the second largest source of revenue for Air-India, the national carrier has lined up a major expansion plan with more frequencies and links to other destinations beginning next month.
The airline is planning to connect Chicago and Los Angeles with a daily frequency as against six and five services respectively at present.
We now have a daily air flight to Los Angeles from India. We hope that in the near future, we should also be able to link San Francisco and the West Coast. Air India in the last few years has been significantly adding to its capacity in the last 3 years. We have doubled our fleet size and we plan to double it further in the next 2 to 3 years, said V Thulasidas, Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.
We have been flying to new destinations and in the summer of this year, we plan from Delhi to add following more flights-Delhi-Dhaka-Delhi, Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto. In addition to all this, we will also be flying from Dhaka to Kolkata and we will be linking Kolkata to London in the summer of 2005, said V Thulasidas.
To maintain good standards Air-India is planning aggressive growth in its fleet and upgrade of the existing aircraft. It has invested Rs 4 billion for revamping the interiors of Air-India aircraft, which includes luxurious seats for all classes, more luggage space, and personal entertainment sets.
To meet the growing competition and the increase in a number of customers flying internationally, Air-India has increased its flights substantially to major destinations. It has plans to boost up operations in the US by increasing the frequency of existing flights and connecting new destinations over the next few months. By March 2006, it plans to launch 127 flights a week, which will include providing a direct connection from the four metros to the south-east destinations and between Mumbai and Delhi to the Gulf.
An estimated two million passengers travel between India and the United States annually. No US airline currently operates a non-stop service to India. Delhi-LA flights will operate on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday on 296-seater Boeing 777s.


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WWE: Dean Ambrose should turn heel when he returns
As of this writing, Dean Ambrose is currently on the shelf with a shoulder injury. The WWE has come out and said that he will be out 9 months. However, the feeling is that it will be much shorter than that. There have been people within the WWE fanbase who have him returning in 2-3 months. However, the bigger thing to happen is what do they do with him when he does return.
Whenever he returns in 2018, it should be as a heel. Over the years since the Shield has been in WWE, Dean Ambrose has come off better as a heel. Here is how I would book it: Dean should return to help Seth Rollins. When he makes the save, I would start the slow build towards a turn. Once it does happen, I would have Dean come off as that he truly never forgave Seth for destroying the initial Shield run. I would have it as a slow build towards one of the bigger pay-per-views. It is safe to say that he won't be returning by the Rumble. Elimination Chamber is the next RAW pay-per-view. It's probably a long shot that he would return. You are then staring Wrestlemania 34 in the face.[JonBlayneAds]
If he ends up returning on the RAW after Wrestlemania, then I would hold off until Summerslam. Once it happens I would have it that he does it to Seth Rollins. I wouldn't repeat the same breakup from when Seth did it because it would be pointless. To be honest, the Shield breaking up wouldn't be a bad thing. Since they came back, they have fallen flat. You also had various members out that halted any true ideas.
Once Dean Ambrose turns heel, I see him as a Piper mixed with Pillman type of gimmick. He has always seemed to be the better heel than a face.[JonTwitter]
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Over the past couple of years, Major League Baseball teams have gotten smarter about how they rebuild, tearing things down entirely without any regard for staying "competitive." The sport has been moving toward a stratification in team quality, whereupon there are several truly amazing teams and several truly awful teams.
Those truly amazing teams are, of course, well-known, and so little edge exists in the betting market for them. When you look a step lower, though, there are a couple of teams pushing up much closer to this top tier than Vegas expects and offering plenty of edge as a result of this stratification.
In looking over where my projection system, THE BAT, differs from Vegas most, the biggest theme seems to be strength of schedule. When the Houston Astros moved to the American League in 2013, MLB changed the way it does interleague play, with divisions in each league squaring off. This season, there's one very strong division matched up with a one very weak division in particular, conveying a ton of value for nearly all teams involved.
Below, I go through season win totals for all 30 MLB teams and see where the value lies compared to my projections. There is a full table with all of my recommendations at the bottom of the piece.
Note: All season win totals courtesy of Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, as of March 21.
AL East
New York Yankees
Vegas season win total: 94.5
THE BAT projection: 97.4
Value: Moderate, over (+2.9 wins)
Should you want to place a bet on that top tier of elite teams, the Yankees are one of your strongest options. They played this offseason perfectly and have put together an offense that projects to break the single-season team home run record of 264 set by the Seattle Mariners in 1997.
Giancarlo Stanton is one of the three best hitters in baseball


text: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Mexico's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 8.25% on Friday, meeting market expectations. The Mexican peso fell 0.5% against the U.S. dollar after the decision. "The bank noted that risks of a slowing economy have increased, and added that food and energy prices may ease soon," said Win Thin, senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman. "We expect the central bank to hike one more time before year end, but dovish comments may lead the market to believe that the tightening cycle is over."


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Originally reported in sister publication Music Week, Sony has ended its 32-year-old partnership with The Radio Academy Awards. Chris Bowen, country head, Sony United Kingdom and Ireland said: "Sony has enjoyed a long and successful partnership with the Radio Academy Awards for over 30 years, achieving huge recognition and respect within the British radio industry during that period. The awards ceremony itself has become an outstanding event showcasing the best radio talent on the air. "It is now time for Sony to move on and focus on other areas of the business," continued Bowen, adding that "from the professional audio side of the business our commitment remains unchanged, hence our involvement with the new opportunity that sponsoring the Broadcast Category in the up and coming Pro Sound Awards brings." Going forward, the awards will be renamed simply as The Radio Academy Awards, with a new sponsorship agreement to be announced in the near future. "The Radio Academy would like to thank Sony for their magnificent 32 year support of what has become the UK's gold standard radio awards," said chairman of The Radio Academy and Radio 1 and 1Xtra controller Ben Cooper. "The Radio Academy Awards will continue to celebrate the very best of the UK radio industry, but the media landscape has changed radically from when the awards first launched in the 1980's offering the Academy great potential for some exciting new partnerships and ideas." Photo: Benjamin Eagle Photography www.radioacademy.org
Sony ends 32-year Radio Academy Awards sponsorship
"It is now time for Sony to move on and focus on other areas of the business," said Sony UK's Chris Bowen, adding that "from the professional audio side of the business our commitment remains unchanged".


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Canalys launches Autonomous Vehicle Analysis Worldwide market intelligence service
Shanghai, Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading (UK) – Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Global analyst team brings unique local market insights
Canalys is pleased to announce the availability of its latest continuous market intelligence service: Autonomous Vehicle Analysis Worldwide. The service has been developed specifically with the needs of both technology vendors and the automotive sector in mind, in order to provide them with the critical analysis and insight that will help them navigate through a fast-changing market as their very different worlds collide.
Clients will enjoy the benefit of having access to a global team of analysts, which is essential when trying to understand the business opportunities and threats that are emerging in a geographically diverse and dynamic market. Local market insight and research relationships are crucial for companies whose futures will depend on events unfolding on a country-by-country, or even city-by-city level.
"Being at one of the centers of where our future modes of transport are being defined and created is amazing; I see autonomous vehicles on the streets every day here in Palo Alto," said Chris Jones, Canalys co-founder, VP and Chief Analyst, "and my fellow analysts in China, Singapore and Europe are all sharing and comparing what they are seeing on the ground too."
"No one should underestimate the business and social impact of the changes we will witness with the rise of autonomous vehicles over the coming years," Jones continued. "Don't mistake this conjunction of technologies as mere hype. Automotive companies will experience more and faster change over the next ten years than they have in the past hundred. Their best people are already being headhunted by disruptive market entrants, and they too will face disruption as new competitors race in."
"Today's leading edge and tomorrow's mainstream cars are becoming more and more dependent on the products of both automotive and ICT component suppliers. Technology vendors lacking an autonomous vehicle strategy are already years behind," commented Nicole Peng, Canalys Research Director, APAC. "Even the most confident incumbents need to understand the threat posed by activity beyond their field of vision. Today's automotive and technology markets have grown out of typically US-led developments, but Chinese companies have the investment and a capacity for rapid innovation that will allow them to overtake the old guard. In only the past few weeks, several major technology companies in China have announced their autonomous vehicle plans, and places like Singapore are quickly moving ahead with on-road testing and public transport trials."
Canalys is hosting a free WebEx on 17 May 2016 in which Chris Jones will provide insight on some of the challenges ahead. To sign up, simply follow the link and provide your details: www.canalys.com/download/autonomous.
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