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Motorsports is exciting because it's inherently unsafe and depending on the track, it can get even more... exciting. These are your picks for the world's ten most dangerous racetracks.
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10.) Baja 1000
Suggested By: Potbelly Joe
Fatalities: Uncertain
Major Incident: In 2008, a driver for Team Malo was kidnapped for nine days during the race. It was discovered during the high-intensity shootout that resulted in his rescue that his captors were former police officers.
Why It's Dangerous: The first timed run down the Baja peninsula took place in 1962, as a publicity stunt for Honda Motorcycles. Its first official running as a competitive event came in 1967, from Tijuana to La Paz. Since then, it's only grown bigger and more dangerous. Spectators will often build makeshift jumps and ramps, because watching a dune buggy hit a surprise jump is way more fun than just watching it speed through the desert. More recently, the race has become embroiled in all kinds of gang warfare, with kidnappings and shootings a part of each event.
Source: Spike, Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images
9.) Targa Florio
Suggested By: Husa
Fatalities: Uncertain
Major Incident: Giulio Masetti was killed driving his 1926 Delage at the first turn of the race. His car wore the number 13, and since then no other car in the Targa Florio has had that number.
Why It's Dangerous: In its most recent configuration (from 1951 to 1977) the Targa Florio was ten laps on a 45 mile course through the Madonie Mountains of Sicily. Competitors had to traverse mountain roads, switchback hairpins, gravel, mud, and spectators and buildings right up against the edge of the track. Famously, in 1974 it was declared 'too dangerous' to be run as part of the WRC, further confirming its dangerous reputation.
Source: Motorsport Memorial, Costiera Barocca
Photo credit: iMotor
8.) Spa-Francorchamps
Suggested By: trev
Fatalities: 23 (Drivers)
Major Incident: in the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix, Chris Bristow was trying to keep his Cooper ahead of Willy Mairesse's Ferrari on lap 20. He rolled his car in the Burnenville corner, decapitating himself. Stirling Moss had broken both his legs and several ribs the previous day at the same spot.
Why It's Dangerous: Spa's Eau Rouge corner is one of the most loved in all of motorsports, but also part of one of the most deadly tracks. Originally constructed in 1924, the track now bears little resemblance to its previous layouts. Since its opening, 23 drivers have lost their lives here.
Source: Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: Michael Cooper /Allsport
7.) Le Mans
Suggested By: f1fan65
Fatalities: 24 (drivers)
Major Incident: Le Mans was also the site of the worst motor racing accident to date in 1955, killing between 80 and 100 spectators and injuring another 120, in addition to driver Pierre Levegh. As a result, all forms of racing were banned in several European nations until tracks there could be made more safe. While most nations have since lifted their bans, auto racing is still banned today in Switzerland.
Why It's Dangerous: Started in 1923, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most glamorous events in car racing. The circuit features a nearly 4 mile long straight, on which cars have reached speeds of up to 259.9 mph. To date, The Circuit de La Sarthe has claimed the lives of 24 drivers.
Source: Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
6.) Daytona International Speedway
Suggested By: Jindřich Janíček
Fatalities: 28 (Drivers)
Major Incident: The death of Dale Earnhardt on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 is certainly the one of the most legendary. Racing for his second win at the 500, Earnhardt hit the wall at about 160 mph, killing him instantly. It was referred to as Black Sunday by the Sporting Press, a title that it keeps to this day.
Why It's Dangerous: According to the Orlando Sentinel, since its opening in 1959 Daytona International Speedway has claimed 28 drivers. The track is banked at 31 degrees in the corners, and 18 degrees on the start/finish straight.
Source: The Orlando Sentinel, Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images for NASCAR
5.) Monza
Suggested By: Mr. Scroggs
Fatalities: 42
Major Incident: The fatal 1961 crash of Wolfgang Von Trips in his 156 Sharknose Ferrari put an end to Formula 1 cars on the banked section of the track's oval course, and to Von Trips' World Championship hopes, which he would have won that year.
Why It's Dangerous: Opened in 1922, Monza is one of the oldest tracks on the list. Once the home of the banked Parabolica corner, the track used to cross over itself in its old configuration. Now, some of the highest speeds on the Formula 1 calendar are reached there.
Source: Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: F1Source.com
4.) Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Suggested By: Vorsprung
Fatalities: 42
Why It's Dangerous: Mike Conway just barely avoided adding one more to Indianapolis' total number of competitor fatalities at this year's running of the 500. Since its construction in 1909, it has seen the deaths of 42 competitors, most recently Tony Renna, who lost his life during a private tire test session in 2003.
Source: Johnson's Indy 500
Photo credit: Photo Credit: AP Photo/Martin Seppala
3.) The Paris-Dakar Rally
Suggested By: luisthebeast
Fatalities: 45
Major Incident: Pascal Terry died on the course after running out of fuel. Miscommunication by race officials confused his brother for him, and so no search was started until three days later, when it was already too late.
Why It's Dangerous: Run from Paris to Dakar, Senegal since 1979, the Dakar Rally sends drivers and navigators over some of the roughest terrain on the planet. Starting last year, the race has been moved to South America due to safety concerns, but we're focusing on the original routes from Europe to North Africa. All told, 45 competitors have lost their lives somewhere along the way, and untold numbers of spectators. The race averages a little under one competitor death per year, with the most recent last year.
Source: AOL Autos, Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: VII
2.) Nurburgring Nordschleife
Suggested By: laylaholic
Fatalities: 52
Major Incident: Perhaps most famously, the track is where Ferrari driver Niki Lauda nearly died in 1976. He was issued the last rites by a priest, only to return to Formula 1 racing two races later, in Italy.
Why It's Dangerous: Famously referred to by Sir Jackie Stewart as "The Green Hell," since its construction in the 1920's the Nordschleife has taken the lives of 52 drivers, the most recent being Leo Lowenstein in April of this year in an Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
Source: Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: VII
1.) Isle of Man TT
Suggested By: mcfarlane4368635
Fatalities: 227
Why It's Dangerous: With riders on motorcycles reaching top speeds around 180 mph on single lane country roads, it's almost surprising the Isle of Man hasn't claimed more than 227 lives in its 103 year history. it is by far the most dangerous course on the top ten list.
Source: Motorsport Memorial
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Don Morley/Getty Images


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The view from David Murray's home in Washington is among the best in the city, a panorama of the Washington Channel bookended by the army's Fort McNair and the Washington Monument. 'What more could I ask for?' asks Murray, surveying his surroundings as his shirt flutters in a breeze city dwellers would envy.
Murray, 30, is one of about 140 waterborne householders who live in Washington's Gangplank Marina, a vibrant, tightknit and quirky community of folks who have given up life on land - 'on the hard,' as they say - and maintain year-round homes on the ebb and flow of a waterway.
It might sound like an odd living situation, fraught with inconvenience and seasickness, but talk to anyone who lives at Gangplank and they'll gladly list the advantages: the great views and neighborhood feel; the proximity to Interstate 395, the subway and a Capital Bikeshare stand; a Safeway grocery within walking distance. All this, but at a lower cost than living on terra firma near the waterfront, where one-bedroom condos average $267,486, according to real estate listing service MRIS - about twice the cost of similarly sized houseboats.
Gangplank boasts the largest live-aboard population on the East Coast, in part because of its supremely convenient location.
The number of live-aboard homes permitted to anchor to one of the Gangplank's nine 60-foot docks, which have room for more than 300 boats, is limited to 94. There is a waiting list for houseboat slips; about three or four open up a year.
The Gangplank boats run the gamut: loft-style barges and renovated yachts, sailboats and cruisers, even a historic 70-year-old tugboat, with names such as Tycho Brahe, Shannon's Steal and Reckless Abandon. Their residents garden on sun-drenched decks, float waterlilies alongside their boats, and walk their dogs on the half-mile-long pier. They hold weekly happy hours, and, each fall, open their unique living spaces for public tours.
Washington's live-aboards are also experts in managing small living spaces and gas-guzzling engines. They know the ins and outs of boat maintenance and are all too familiar with the perils of life on the water, such as staving off a flooded hull. (Rainwater runoff in the basement is a landlubber's inconvenience, but river water in a houseboat could sink an entire home.)
As with on-land houses, purchasing a live-aboard home often requires borrowing money. But instead of mortgages, buyers take out boat loans, and instead of home insurance, they obtain boating insurance - just as they would for a recreational vessel. Boat loans are available with 10-, 15- and 30-year terms, but interest rates are slightly higher than for mortgages, residents said. Houseboat owners don't pay property taxes or condo fees, but they do have to pay slip and live-aboard fees. At Gangplank, a monthly slip fee costs $11.50 to $15.50 per foot, depending on location and length of the boat, and the monthly live-aboard fee is $150, which includes a parking space at the marina and scheduled pump-outs of waste through a hose that connects to the Washington' s municipal sewage system. By comparison, condo fees in the nearby waterfront neighborhood average $492 per month, and property taxes average $1,842 a year.
At Gangplank, running water is supplied by the city, and electricity is provided via hookups to shore power at the marina. Many live-aboards have washing machines and dryers, dishwashers, cable television and wireless Internet.
In 1945, about 25 live-aboards called the Washington Channel, which parallels the Potomac River, home. A Washington Post article from that year described their lives as carefree: 'They don't pay rent on the first. The landlord's whims aren't a matter of alarm. They get a fresh breeze with their breakfast. They take their house along on vacations or outings. And they have all the comforts of an earthbound home.'
Little has changed. 'The marina is like its own little neighborhood . . . ,' says Karen Anderson, 52, a nonprofit worker who lives on a houseboat near Murray on the dock farthest from the security entrance; residents lovingly refer to that dock as 'Land's End.'
'Everybody knows everybody, and everybody is willing to help each other out. You have the sense you're out in the country, not in the middle of the city,' Anderson says. 'At least until the helicopters fly over,' she adds, her voice nearly drowned out by the drone of aircraft in the distance. 'It's really one of D.C.'s best little real estate secrets.'
The residents of Gangplank Marina come from different backgrounds: singles, couples starting families, retirees. They include university professors and government workers, professional musicians, event planners, and public health and policy experts. They have two things in common: They heeded the siren song of the water, and they weren't put off by the seafarer's way of life, which for every beautiful sunset and dockside cocktail counts stormy nights, water service breaks, faulty sewage lines or other troubles.
Katherine Yohman Tighe, 25, and her husband, Jeremy, 29, moved onto the Tycho Brahe, a 64-foot World War II-era tugboat, just two weeks before Hurricane Sandy temporarily forced them off it (the craft survived no worse for wear). It was just the first of the unusual experiences they would encounter as live-aboards.
For example, one morning when her husband, a manufacturing controls engineer, was out of town, 'I woke up to a bunch of tapping noises on the hull,' Yohman Tighe says. Marina neighbors told her it was just a school of fish cleaning up the boat's hull.
The Tycho Brahe's previous owner, who had lived on the boat for eight years, went to great lengths to transform the onetime work boat into a comfortable, modern live-aboard. He preserved the vessel's shell and its charm but essentially ripped out the entire inside.
Today, the former wheelhouse serves as a foyer and small sitting area. The original engine room is a living area, with a living room, apartment-size kitchen and built-in dinette. The stateroom houses a queen-size bed and walls with built-in storage space. The boat doesn't have any large windows, but light floods in through the many small portholes in the ceiling and walls. The centerpiece is the deck, a spacious wraparound where the couple has comfortably entertained more than 30 people at once.
But at 700 square feet, the red and green Tycho Brahe was an adjustment from their previous home, a two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom condo in Greenville, S.C. Yohman Tighe, an architecture school graduate with a passion for interior design, plans to 'maximize every nook for usable space' and further modernize the antique feeling of the boat's interior, which includes antique boating memorabilia, as well as an original wooden television cabinet that was upgraded to hold a modern flat-screen behind the classic bubble glass. There is open shelving throughout the boat, so baskets and cloth containers are a decorative way to control clutter.
The couple had to get creative when choosing seating, purchasing four small, cushioned, armless office chairs that are stackable and can be used indoors and out on the deck. They are now searching for a new couch. 'My dream couch from my land-dwelling days is now just a dream,' Yohman Tighe says. 'Instead of the low-back, modern, straight-lined couch I've imagined for the last year, we are now looking at something a little homier.'
Likewise, she scrapped the idea of painting the interior in modern, neutral tones and will opt for something bright, warm and welcoming. 'In the tight space and lack of exterior views, I think neutral will make the space feel confined and sterile. It is now more about how I feel in the space versus a specific style.'
Though the Tycho Brahe is different from anywhere they've lived before, it immediately felt like home to the couple.
'We knew we were home when we first brought the Tycho up the river' after its inspection, Yohman Tighe says. 'As we were pulling into slip, at least half a dozen people we had never met before came out of their boats to greet us with open arms and caught our ropes. Those people have since become very good friends.'
Karen Anderson bought a place in the marina about two years ago. She had longed to live near the water, and when her son moved out of their 900-square-foot Cape Cod in New Jersey and she was between jobs with environmental nonprofit groups, she saw her opportunity 'to do something crazy.' Drawn to the bustling live-aboard community in Washington, she took the plunge, so to speak, and bought a 450-square-foot houseboat at Gangplank.
When that boat's tight spaces and low ceilings made her feel cramped, she decided to 'upgrade' to a houseboat that is still less than 500 square feet but makes better use of space.
Serendipity 2, a barge that looks like an A-frame house with the top lopped off, has three skylights and an open cathedral ceiling in the living room, with bamboo floors throughout.
She describes houseboat-dwelling as 'the ultimate experience in small-space living.'
Her coffee table transforms into a dining table in case she and her guests don't want to sit at the butcher's block in the kitchen. She bought the previous owner's couch, because to get it out or get a new one in, she'd have to pop out a large window. Her kitchen counters are laminate, because a heavier material, such as granite, would throw off the small boat's balance, and, perhaps, leave it too low in the water.
Anderson says the only major compromise she has made in moving off-land is giving up her garden. But she's making it work with potted plants by her entryway, and herb and vegetable gardens in planters, plastic containers and PVC pipes on her deck. Her efforts are an ongoing battle against wind, sun and ducks eager to lay eggs in her pots. 'We'll see what I end up with. It's one big experiment,' she says.
As with landlubbing homeowners, some boat owners, such as Eve Bratman, are interested in green design. Bratman, 34, a professor of international environmental issues at American University, has been making eco-friendly renovations to her 1979 CarlCraft houseboat for more than a year.
In March 2009, three months after she typed the word 'houseboat' into Craigslist on a whim, Bratman moved from a group house in Washington onto the 42-foot vessel. Transitioning from land to water was easy, she says, even though the boat has only about 400 square feet of indoor living space, including a living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. To keep it uncluttered, she lives by one rule: If one thing comes on, another thing has to go off.
The renovations on Last Resort started in February 2012, when she removed the leaky deck - which essentially serves as the living area's roof - to repair it before it caved in on her while she slept.
With the help of a boat mechanic and her future mother-in-law, a retired art historian and experienced DIY-er, Bratman raised the deck/roof, replaced the floor joists, extended the bedroom by about 60 square feet to nearly twice its size and added insulation to the thin plywood-and-fiberglass walls. She also installed a 30,000 BTU, marine-safe fireplace in the bedroom.
'The vision is a lot of natural elements. It's 'eco-chic,' if you will,' Bratman says. 'We've got cork floors, wood accents, continuity of light . . . and new Energy Star appliances,' as well as sustainably harvested wood and no volatile organic compound paint.
Bratman won't get to enjoy any of this. Once she gets married this summer, she and her husband will embark on their 'next big dream project': starting an eco-village in Washington with cooperative housing and shared common spaces.
Despite the investment of time, energy and money, the last of which she hopes to recoup when she sells the boat, Bratman says she has no regrets about moving to Gangplank. 'At first I was like, 'Amazing, a view of the Washington Monument. Water, I love water.' And then I found this incredible community of people. People would just pop in and say, 'Permission to come aboard.' There was always an opportunity for distraction, in the best possible way. The social dynamic is really like a small town. For sure, I'm going to miss it.'
Greg Nichols, a Kentucky native, moved to the marina two years ago when his wife, Tonya, who works for the Environmental Protection Agency, was transferred to Washington. 'We wanted to move to D.C. without it busting us,' says Nichols, 52, an IT project manager.
The solution to the Nichols' conundrum came in the form of Golden Princess - a 1,300-square-foot, 60-foot-long motor yacht that was first sold in 1979 for $324,000, or more than $1 million today. Nichols and Tonya scored the boat for $198,000. 'The engines and hardware were worth more than that,' he says.
Of course, at that price, the vessel needed serious work. It was overrun with mold and rotted wood, and a hot tub installed on the upper deck had crushed the ceiling, Nichols says.
'This boat was a decaying mess,' says Matt, 23, one of Nichols' two sons.
The Golden Princess was put into dry dock almost immediately. Nichols, a retired military man, said he and Tonya stayed at a naval base in the area during the four months the boat was out of the water. 'We ripped out all the walls,' says Nichols, who had restored several houses, including a 5,000-square-foot historic home in Kentucky. 'We ripped out the instrumentation. We redid the electric and the plumbing, and installed air conditioning, GPS cameras and lighting controls. Every window except the windshield came out. We put in granite countertops and all new appliances in the kitchen. We restored the original teak deck. We finished the lower level first to make the boat livable' since that is where the two bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom are. 'Now, we're working on the upper floor,' which the family intends to convert into a 400-square-foot music room to house their baby grand piano, which is currently in storage.
Nichols is especially proud of the 'multiple levels of alarms' designed to alert him if any water gets into the boat. 'Some people say that all boats leak,' he says. 'I don't like that philosophy.'
Nichols and his wife plan to decorate the home in a 'modern 'Mad Men' style' after the renovations are complete, he says.
'The time frame has tripled, and so has the budget,' which is in the six-figure range, Nichols says. But it's all worth it for the simple pleasures a boat affords. 'It is just too cool to take your house downriver. Every evening, my wife and I sit out on the deck and toast the sunset.'
And sometimes they do that at the many parties on other decks. 'You start drinking at one dock and work your way down, from A to I,' Nichols says. 'I haven't made it all the way down.'
'Challenge accepted,' Matt replies.
Some evenings, if Gangplank residents get lucky, they might hear live music floating out of one of the houseboats. The source is David Murray - better known around the marina as 'Trombone Dave' - a trombonist with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike his DIY-happy neighbors, Murray is content to enjoy his one-bedroom, one-bath barge as is. 'I haven't done anything to the boat since I moved here last year,' he says of the approximately 450-square-foot Shannon's Steal. 'I like to practice in my living room and look out at the water, or, if the weather is right, just sit up on my deck or take the kayak out.'
Murray, who grew up in Belair, Md., outside Baltimore, hadn't planned on moving to the marina when he was in the process of relocating from Philadelphia to Washington to join the symphony. He checked out a few condos in Southwest Washington and, while walking along the waterfront, happened to see a 'For Sale' sign. In that moment, something clicked, he says, and he soon put an offer on the boat. 'I wouldn't call it an impulse buy,' he says. 'It was one of those things that was just 'right.''
Murray says that he and his cat, Flughafen, took to boat living quickly, despite the fact that the summer months were 'hotter than I ever expected,' thanks to the greenhouse effect of skylights and large windows, and that his water pump broke in the winter, leaving him without running water for about two weeks.
'Part of the enjoyment of living here is the adventure,' he says, laughing. 'Some days will be good; some days won't be. But you learn the most during disasters, and you always have your neighbors. There are so many cool people here from all walks of life, and they are so generous.'
And the deck makes up for all the headaches, Murray says. 'This is what really sold me on the boat. You can sit here and watch the I-395 traffic jams, take a sip of your beer and think, 'Good on you, folks.''
A recurring theme among Gangplank residents is that nearly any issue, problem or disaster can be overcome, thanks to the tranquillity of the setting and the solidarity of the people. No one knows this better than Darryl Madden.
Madden, 49, moved in 2006 from a small town on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border to the marina, where he could indulge his love of boats and water as well as his gregarious nature.
'On a boat, you're in a constant state of motion. There are days when the water is angry. There are days when the water is calm and beautiful. When the cherry blossoms fall, it's like pink rain,' he says, peering out through his sunglasses at the water. 'The allure is, there is always something dynamic happening.'
An added bonus, his new two-bedroom, two-bath home - a classic 44-foot cruiser dating to 1967 that he found in prime condition - was a stone's throw from his office at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Madden was at work in March when he got the call: There had been a fire.
'I remember walking down here. I thought, 'Maybe it's not that bad.' But from four blocks away, I could smell it. I got here just in time to see the firefighters cut the lines and push her out into the water' to minimize damage to neighboring boats.
Madden's home, the Dorothy Mae, was destroyed. 'The only things I had were literally the clothes on my back,'he says. 'It was surreal.'
But he wasn't alone. His neighbors rallied to help, feeding him and offering a place to stay; one group of women set out to buy him more clothes and debated whether Madden wore boxers or briefs. Since the fire, the cause of which is still under investigation for insurance purposes, Madden has been hop-scotching between houseboats.
'The most important things were not lost in the fire. I look at what I have: my community and my friends. I am extremely grateful that no one was hurt,' he says.
Despite the loss, Madden plans to stay at the marina. He may not have a boat, but he still has his slip - an empty spot to dock a new cruiser.
'I can't imagine going back to 'the hard,'' Madden says. 'No matter what happens, my home is on the water.'

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I was a young man, alone, in Amsterdam. The third item on my to-do list, after visiting the Heineken brewery and Anne Frank's house, was to partake of a rijsttafel. I knew nothing about food back then, but the tourist guides insisted that sampling this Dutch-Indonesian specialty was a must. So after ambling into one of many restaurants that promoted the dish, I was seated at an unusually large table for one. Then the parade of food began: Rice accompanied by nuts, seeds, pickles, spring rolls, sambals, satays, eggs, meats, fish, fruits, vegetables — until there was little tablecloth showing (guess that's why the word rijsttafel translates to "rice table"). From that day on, cuisine became a passion of mine.
Actually that last part isn't exactly true — it would be years before I'd cultivate any culinary interests. But who knows what influence the joy I experienced that day had on my decision, made later in life, to become a chef? All I know is that I haven't had a real rijsttafel since. Which brings us to Indomania, a new Dutch-Indonesian restaurant off Collins Avenue on 26th Street in Miami Beach. Dutch couple Pieter and Ineke Both own and operate the stylish, streamlined establishment. He welcomes guests, pours drinks at the compact bar, and helps out with the front of the house; she cooks the food. There are only a dozen or so tables, many of which line up against charcoal banquette seating that occupies the left side of the space. Pale gray and white walls are adorned with batik cloths and a blown-up black-and-white photo of a cute little Indonesian girl slurping noodles.
Rijsttafel is thought by many to be an Indonesian dish, but it's really a Dutch colonial adaptation of a similar Sumatran meal (although nowadays Indonesian tourist restaurants have adopted the adaptation). Indomania's rijsttafel should probably be called a rijsplattel: All of the components, anchored by a mound of steamy rice, come crammed onto a single plate: ayam opor (chicken braised with coconut milk); grilled, skewered chicken sateh (satay); crisp green beans, pickled cucumbers, and a hard-boiled egg splashed in curry sauce; and, best of the lot, daging semur, softly braised chunks of beef in a dark, sweet kecap manis sauce. Krupuk, a fried shrimp cracker the size of a large tortilla, stands upright from the pile like a satellite dish.
The Boths shrewdly include a vegetarian rijsttafel, which substitutes a few added veggies and sateh tempeh for the meats. Condiments for either rendition are a toss of toasted coconut shreds and peanuts (to sprinkle over the rice); spicy garlic-chili sauce (like what you can buy in a bottle); and thick, syrupy palm-sugar-based kecap manis, which has a soy-molasses taste.
Diners are started with a dish of little fried melinjo (or belinjo) chips, made from pounded nuts of the same name, with slightly piquant peanut sauce for dipping. We ordered a couple of sateh appetizers to follow: three skewers of tender lamb and the same number of skewered "prawns" — in actuality four smallish shrimp flavored big with garlic. A trio of cleanly fried spring rolls (lumpia) crackled with crystalline skins wrapped around cabbage, carrots, and scallions, but the biggest hit at our table was fricadel jagung, flat, flavorful corn fritters freckled with red peppers, scallions, and cilantro. An accompanying "chili-lime" dip looked and tasted the same as the chili sauce alongside the rijsttafel.
Nasi goreng is another rice-based, multi-ingredient affair, but the steamed grains get stir-fried with onions, meat (in this case petite cubes of fried pork), and more of that dark, sweet kecap manis. Again, Indomania puts all on a single plate, including a skewer of grilled chicken with peanut sauce (sateh ayam), fried egg, barely pickled cucumber, and another big, garlicky rice cracker.
There is a laid-back atmosphere here, which lends a relaxing element to the dining. On the other hand, there aren't enough waiters working the room, so service is slow — and often discombobulated. The kitchen operates at a snail's pace, too, and food is cooked fresh to order (which I'm not complaining about). There is plenty of hang time. This is true regardless of what you order, but if you plan on indulging in the duck entrée, I suggest bringing along a book. "It's worth the wait," Pieter promised each time he passed our barren table. He was sure right about that. The duck breast, lightly grilled, wrapped in banana leaves, and finished off in the oven, yielded meltingly soft meat imbued with ginger, galanga, scallion, cilantro, lime leaves, palm sugar, and Balinese spices. A snapper fillet likewise gets herbed, spiced, and steamed in banana leaves, with nearly as riveting a result.
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Indomania's menu is extremely concise (I've alluded to practically every item on it). The restaurant opened in February, so it is still in its infancy. Let's hope that in due time the number of offerings will grow — and that the baby prices will not: Appetizers run $5 to $9, main courses $14 to $20, rijsttafel $18, desserts $5 to $7.
I'm not a fan of final courses fished from a fryer, but those who don't mind the concept will probably enjoy fried bananas (pisang goreng) — and if not, a scoop of coconut ice cream that comes with it should provide cooling consolation. I can't imagine anyone not relishing the fresh, tart, creamy lemon pie, buttressed by the most buttery of crusts and contrasted with sparkling mango sorbet. Key lime and litchi sorbet are also available, either à la mode or à la carte. That's it for desserts.
Indomania's food and service are not going to knock anyone out of their wooden shoes. Nor is the short, pedestrian wine list (beer goes better anyway). Just the same, this attractive little neighborhood restaurant projects a fetching, quirky personality. Dinner here is like eating at the home of a lovable but absent-minded relative with a knack for good cooking — the orchestration might be shaky, but the hospitality and fare will be fine, and a good time will be had by all.
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Six minutes into a crisis simulation — the first held by the Department of Journalism and Communication at Utah State University — students learn that the mayor's son is dead, his body found at the local high school. Rumors of a zombie cow disease are spreading. They have nearly seven more hours of news twists, red herrings and breaking stories headed their way.
"You see how they're crammed into rooms?" said journalism professor Matthew LaPlante, pointing to an office where 10 students sat elbow-to-elbow tapping on laptops. "That's intentional. I want them to be tired, hot and sweaty at the end. There is nothing better than this, there is nothing worse."
The simulation involved more than 50 JCOM students and volunteers from across the university, including the USU Police Department, the Department of Animal, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences, the Quinney College of Natural Resources and the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.
Students were organized into television, radio, print and digital media outlets, a PR company, and a regional agricultural control board. Each group was set up with a fake Twitter handle, website and email address. They were given "loose marching orders," to cover the events of the day with professionalism, LaPlante said.
The idea for the simulation developed out of a counterterrorism exercise run by the University of Utah's law school that trains students to make critical decisions involving legal, ethical and moral dilemma while under stress. LaPlante's first exposure to the simulation came while covering it as a national security reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. During a follow up conversation with the professor who ran the event, LaPlante told him to include a press corps to participate in the future so law students learn how to operate when reporters are firing questions at them.
"What he needed was a measure to assess his students," he said.
LaPlante returned for several years as an advisor for the law school simulation. Last year he brought several Utah State students to participate, including Kara Rindlisbacher, a public relations major.
"I made mistakes, and I learned as I watched others make mistakes," she said. "I kept thinking this is the greatest educational experience I have ever had and I've been at Utah State four years. There is something wrong."
Rindlisbacher pressed LaPlante to institute a similar exercise at Utah State. He gave her his blessing to move forward with planning. She texted Cari Forsgren, a rangeland management student, asking her how one could theoretically kill off a large portion of the cattle in Cache Valley.
"Give me ten minutes," Forsgren responded.
The two spent three months writing the script, wrangling volunteers and coordinating logistics. It unfolded with only minor snafus such as students reporting real news stories in conjunction with the fictional storylines. However, 24 minutes into the simulation the first signs of frustration appeared. Students from the local paper paced the hallways, waiting for unknown sources to return their calls. Two floors down the public relations office fielded calls from demanding clients.
"This begins as a 'normal' day at the office, but then the phone starts ringing," said PR professor Steve Reiher outside a cramped conference room. "These are little crisis that mushroom. None of [the students] have been in anything like it. I think what they learn is what to prioritize. One of the things we've been talking about in the department is having more crisis management because that is something many PR students will face."
And crises never seem to hit when you're ready for them. LaPlante, played the role of media publisher, mayor and simulation moderator — whatever was needed at the time. During a visit to the PR office he admonished the team for writing a press release for the mayor.
"Is he even a client?" he asked. "Is he paying us or are we doing this pro bono? I feel very sorry for the mayor but if we are doing this pro bono I want to know."
Down the hall, broadcast students calmly conduct interviews and package stories to stream stories over YouTube. The team is led by Troy Hunt, a communications professor at USU Eastern who drove from Price the night before with a student to participate.
"It's a good opportunity for students to have real-world assignments, to have deadline pressure," he said. "I can give them a story and say it's due next week but that's not real world."
JCOM student Daniel Whitney Smith agrees. Last year he was a member of the press corps at the law school's exercise, and the experience was jarring.
"It was really hard to multitask," he said. "And I thought I was a good at multitasking."
At the Utah State simulation on Halloween, y Smith played a shadow character — one of the few participants who knew the script ahead of time and operate as sources for the various storylines. He played a Hollywood executive and a bully who teased the mayor's son. At least, that's who he was before lunch. Smith, a writer for the Hard News Cafe, left to go cover the lieutenant governor debate on campus. He would return afterward to pick up his roles, and perhaps a few more.
"You can take all the journalism classes you want, but unless you experience drinking from the fire hose like this — where you have three phones ringing, and you're taking to someone and trying to keep names straight while writing a story — you don't know," he said.
For professionals like Captain Steven Milne of the USU Police Department, the exercise was an opportunity to review official policies and practice what to do in an emergency. He has received media relations training at the FBI National Academy and serves as the department's liaison to the press. He believes the USU simulation is a valuable tool for learning.
"In law enforcement we call it scenario-based training," Milne said. "It was a good experience because it made you think 'what can I release?' If [JCOM] does this again I would like to bring some of sergeants up so they get experience taking calls from the media. You can read all the books you want, but [in a crisis] all things get thrown out the window."
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More information: Intelence is a very important addition to the NNRTI class. The older NNRTIs can develop resistance quickly, and with only one mutation in the virus. In fact, some individuals in the U.S. are newly infected with an NNRTI-resistant virus. The second-generation NNRTI Intelence was developed to have a higher genetic barrier to drug resistance. It is not approved for people taking HIV therapy for the first time, although that use is still being explored and small studies to date have shown good efficacy and safety in comparison to Sustiva-based regimens. It has shown significant viral load reduction in people with drug resistance to Sustiva or Viramune, although it may work better in Sustiva failures (where the HIV mutation K103N is more likely present, and which does not affect Intelence activity). In patients who have experienced virologic failure on an NNRTI-containing regimen, do not use Intelence in combination with only a nucleoside backbone. Janssen has another NNRTI for treatment-naïve people (first time on HIV therapy); see Edurant. Some physicians are prescribing Intelence once daily to increase adherence, although not FDA approved, based on supportive data. Some patients complain of hard-to-swallow large chalky pills. Those unable to swallow the tablets can stir them in a glass of water until the tablets are completely dissolved and then drink the solution. Rinse the glass with water a few more times and swallow the rinse each time to make sure you get the full dose. The new 200 mg tablets are also dispersable, and decrease pill burden. Comparative studies between the 100 mg and 200 mg tablets showed a high rate of patient preference for the 200 mg tablets because they were easier to swallow. See package insert for more complete information on potential side effects and interactions.
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Intelence is a true "second-generation" agent, in that it often works after Viramune or Sustiva have failed. There are some exceptions: People who continued to take NNRTIs (especially Viramune) long after their virus had developed NNRTI resistance may have cross-resistance to Intelence. But Intelence will be active for the majority, and fortunately, it's a safe and well-tolerated drug, which has recently been made simpler by the approval of a 200 mg tablet, which is taken twice a day. Intelence tablets can be a little chalky, and people who aren't good at quickly swallowing pills sometimes complain that they start to dissolve before they've been swallowed. One way of dealing with this is to dissolve them in water, and then drink the water with your other pills. Taking the entire dose once a day is probably okay because of the long half-life of the drug, but it hasn't been studied or approved for once-daily dosing. Intelence is usually combined with a boosted protease inhibitor, but can't be given with all of them because of drug interactions. It's been best studied in combination with Prezista/Norvir.
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One of the newer non-nukes, Intelence is useful, but an "also ran" for me. It will go down in history as the "just in time" life preserver for many people. It was a new option along with Isentress and Prezista for many salvage clients needing a new "breath of life" in their therapies. Along with most of the newer agents, it has a low pill burden, few side effects (most notably rash), and is still effective when other non-nukes have bit the dust. Without the vivid dreams/CNS problems of Sustiva, and lacking the lipid problems too, it has enough useful characteristics to stay in play for a few years to come.
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The Legend of the Hero is a new animated Chinese film aimed at kids. Online in China, it has people talking. But they're not exactly saying nice things.
The movie apparently cost the equivalent of roughly US$1.9 million dollars to produce—something that is even flooring people in China. In comparison, the average 90 minute animated Chinese film costs under $30,000.
The Legend of the Hero follows the great Ming Dynasty general Qi Jiguang and opened in China on June 1, Children's Day. The government apparently helped fund the project, but it is trying to distance itself. I would, too.
The movie looks so awful that people in China have been talking to the internet, wondering why this appeared in theaters and saying it looks like it was made in Flash.
"How they hell do you spend so much money on this?" wrote one.
The movie is an embarrassment in China, where those working in the animation business see this as a knock on the country's reputation.
China already knows it's "still lagging" in animation, but it is keen to catch up. Recently, Disney announced it would be launching a joint initiative in China to help pass on expertise and develop local talent. If this feature is anything to go on, boy, Disney has its work cut out for itself.
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Finally, I want to write a bit about our archaeological research which has to continue while the museum is prepared for the re-opening.
Of course, an apparent question is: Why don't the other researchers write their own posts about their work? Well, the answer is simple and, presumably, very common in science:
It's a matter of time!
Work schedules of cooperative projects and deadlines of submitting articles have to be kept. Since most institute members also try to help with the museum, time is getting short and even shorter… So we practice one of the amazing achievements of human behavioural evolution: division of labour! So while I'm blogging, others continue with their work.
For example, Dr. Martin Street just finishes writing an article about dogs… in space… and, more importantly, in the Upper Palaeolithic. This paper is his contribution for an exhibition catalogue of another institute. You see, we help where we can!
The previously mentioned Dr. Radu Ioviță has several research projects including field projects in Romania and Kazakhstan. Besides answering questions of actors, today he worked on one of his lab projects and made figures for an article he co-authors about bifacial symmetry.
A Master student he is working with, Nina Schlösser, made spear throwing and thrusting experiments the other week to understand microscopic breakage patterns of lithic tips. Some of us helped her back then throwing and thrusting spears, measuring the depth of the shaft in the animal, or simply switching cameras on and off. Today she was one of the many helpers in and outside the museum and for some unknown reason she was using a shaft again.
Radu's and Nina's work contributes to our previously mentioned research theme "Diet and Nutrition". Understanding hunting equipments and, thus, hunting strategies in the past contributes to the very old problem how to get to the food.
This important motivator helps to fill the larger picture of our research concept which is "Becoming Human: the Evolution of Hominin Behaviour". In our institute, we focus on ice age (Pleistocene) material as the longest part of human history to portray this process.
Many people instantly think of big glaciers, massive ice sheets, snow, and cold temperatures when they hear "Ice Age". However, these phases of glacial growth were repetitively intersected by several millenia of warm phases so called interglacials such as the Eemian and, probably, the Holocene. Another of our research themes, "Human behavioural strategies in interglacial environments", focuses on these warm periods. Important projects in this theme are, for example, the 300,000 years old site at Schöningen or the Eemian site of Neumark-Nord 2. Both sites represent specific lake shore environments which allowed a good preservation of organic material. The bone material needs detailed recording to distinguish natural processes from carnivore and human activity. Therefore, the pieces are not just determined to body part and animal species but they are also examined for breakages and potential cutmarks. Our Basque colleague, Dr. Aritza Villaluenga Martinez, spend some of his working day with this detailed recording.
He is one of the researchers having his desk in our comparative collection on the top floor.
Such collections are needed for more reliable determinations but in some difficult cases, direct exchange with other experts is the best way to come to a reliable conclusion. Therefore, most of our archaeozoologist have desks on the top floor.
Likewise others, Aritza used the Friday afternoon to additionally work on corrections of two reviewed papers. Moreover, earlier today he helped together with our colleague Geoff Smith cleaning up outside the museum.
Another one working late on a Friday afternoon is Wolfgang Heuschen M.A. For his dissertation, he examines schist plates from the Magdalenian site Gönnersdorf. These plates were regularly engraved with Pleistocene mammals such as woolly rhino or mammoths as well as stylised female silhouettes. Continuous use and post-depositional damages make finding and documenting these engravings a difficult task, in particular, requiring a moveable light.
Wolfgang focuses on signs and symbols which are occasionally difficult to distinguish from unintentional scratches. Therefore, he systematically records the plates and establishes regulations in the composition of engravings. Thus, regulations of early societies, our third research theme, can be filtered from the archaeological material.
In a comparable manner, we all contribute to the three research themes that support the research concept – if we are back to our usual working mode. Then we fill large parts of the process of becoming human as a team and explain more and more bits and pieces of the evolution of hominin behaviour – from Tuesday on, we also present what we already learned to the general public in our newly re-opened museum.
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OTTAWA — Fumble!
The Ottawa Redblacks have modified the name of their mascot mere days after identifying him as Big Joe Mufferaw, and, no, it's not an attempt to pull off an early April Fool's joke.
Intended to connect with local fans and to strike fear in visiting Canadian Football League opponents, the super-sized, axe-wielding figure will now be known as "Big Joe" in English and "Grand Jos" in French.
The swift change followed a wave of criticism, largely from francophones, after Friday's name announcement at a Kanata school. Big Joe Mufferaw, the team said, had been an overwhelming favourite among online submissions after the larger-than-life character was unveiled in February.
"We unintentionally offended some with the original name, and we sincerely apologize for that," Jeff Hunt, president of the sports division of Ottawa Sports & Entertainment Group, said in a media release. "We hope to create a fan base that is unified in its support for the Redblacks, and we will continue to strive to do our best in that regard."
That said, what is it about the naming of sports teams and mascots that is so hard in the national capital?
Ottawa's National Basketball League of Canada team went from Tomahawks to SkyHawks in the span of about five weeks last year because of criticism that it was offensive to aboriginals, although that club's mascot was subsequently dubbed "Tommy."
During Friday's fanfare at École élémentaire publique Kanata, Hunt said the 1960s children's book series Tall Tales of Big Joe Mufferaw by Valley author Bernie Bedore had inspired OSEG to conduct that event at a school. It was, he added, part of an effort to attract a new generation of Canadian football fans.
However, Hunt also noted, not all mascots prove to be marketable. The owner of the Ottawa 67's for many years before becoming an OSEG partner, he recalled when the major-junior hockey team introduced a Killer Puck mascot.
"Kids were intimidated by him because he had these big, scary teeth, so you can get mascots wrong," Hunt said Friday. "But you can also get mascots right, and I think we've achieved that here."
Besides Bedore's book series, Big Joe Mufferaw was the title character of a 1970 song by Canadian music icon Stompin' Tom Connors.
However, "Mufferaw" represented a somewhat sloppy English pronunciation of Joseph Montferrand, a real-life Ottawa Valley lumberjack who became a French-Canadian legend for his reputed raftmanship and strength and was celebrated in stories and songs by La Bolduc and Gilles Vigneault.
In Gatineau the courthouse is located in the downtown Edifice Jos Montferrand.
"The most important thing, regardless of anything else, is the choice of the figure itself," Bertrand Labasse, a French writing and communications professor at the University of Ottawa, said Monday. "Then the name was an issue (for francophones). It's a very wise move to name him Big Joe and Grand Jos. I think it solves the question."
The Redblacks certainly hope so. The CFL expansion club has made concerted efforts to generate ticket sales and corporate sponsorship in the Outaouais and francophone markets that were mostly ignored in the final years of the Ottawa Rough Riders franchise that folded in 1996, and for the entire 2002-2005 lifespan of the Ottawa Renegades.
OSEG developed for its football club a separate French-language logo and brand, Ottawa Rouge et Noir. A media conference to announce the signing of former University of Ottawa Gee-Gees receiver Simon Le Marquand was held in Gatineau, and in March the team announced a French radio broadcast deal with Ottawa station Unique FM. General manager Marcel Desjardins, the first employee hired for the football operations staff, is bilingual.
Media relations manager Barre Campbell said "several" complaints were received over the Mufferaw name, although he said he didn't have an exact number, and a large portion of those complaints had come from francophones.
"We received feedback, and we are not in the business of offending people, for sure," he said. "We want our product to be fair … and inclusive of everybody, all our fans."
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- NBC is trimming "Love Bites" once again.
Originally set to run through July 28, we've confirmed the ninth and final installment of the series is being shelved. Repeats of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" will instead fill the Thursday, 10:00/9:00c hour beginning on said date. No reason for the decision was given.
The news leaves just two episodes - "Boys to Men" (July 14) and "Modern Plagues" (July 21) - yet to air. Network sources indicate there are currently no plans to show the remaining episode on air or online.
As previously reported, "Bites" was set to open this past fall in the aforementioned Thursday, 10:00/9:00c slot. Following a slew of changes in front of and behind the camera, the Peacock opted to hold the series until midseason and cut its 13-episode commitment to nine. The series then ultimately found its way to the lineup last month, the most recent episode of which delivered a modest 1.97 million viewers and a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49.
[7/20/11 - UPDATED! We've subsequently been told there actually isn't a ninth episode per se, rather NBC committed to nine episodes however producers ultimately were only able to deliver enough segments to fill eight.]


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Port Colborne Operations Centre
The City of Port Colborne maintenance operations are currently carried out at two locations: the Central Operations Facility at 11 King Street and Parks Division at the Port Colborne Arena at 52 West Side Road. In 2008, the City undertook a Study of the facilities and has determined that these facilities are undersized and will require upgrading in order to meet the current and future needs of the City.
As a result, in 2012, the City decided to design and develop a new Operations Centre, replacing the two existing facilities and centralizing the maintenance operations (Parks Department and Public Works yards) at a new location. This new Operations Centre will be the most cost effective solution to serve the City and the community better with ongoing operation maintenance.
In August 2015, the Corporation of the City of Port Colborne and PRISM Partners Inc. invited submissions from qualified, professional Contractors to complete the construction of a new Operations Centre located at "The Island" just North of the existing Fire Station (No.3 KILLALY Street West) at the intersection of MELLANBY Avenue (Regional Road 3A) and KILLALY Street West (Regional Road 5) in the City of Port Colborne, Ontario. The Pre-Qualification closed in September 2015 and were reviewed to select 7 contractors to bid on the tender for the Operations Centre.
The detailed design of the facility including tender documents were finalized in early March 2016. The documents were released to the seven (7) pre-qualified General Contractors on March 15, 2016 and the tender closed on April 19, 2016.
The Base Bid pricing of tender submissions included for all construction and re-instatements related to the Operations Centre project including the Engineering Area (formerly referred to as "shell out" expansion) not including the finishing work for the Interior of the Engineering Area. The tender submissions were reviewed by the City's Consultants, PRISM and they prepared a Recommendation Letter recommending an award to the low-bidder, JR Certus Construction Co. Ltd.
The tender pricing submitted by JR Certus Construction Co. Ltd. was found to be complete in all aspects, with regard to specifications, details and format. The proposed duration of the project as submitted by JR Certus Construction Co. Ltd. also meets the expected timelines proposed by the City's consultants for the construction of the Operations Centre.
In following the recommendation of PRISM, Staff recommended that Council accept the lowest priced tender as submitted by JR Certus Construction Co. Ltd. of $10,115,000.00 for Project #2016-12, to allow the City to enter into an agreement with JR Certus Construction Co. Ltd. and to initiate construction as soon as possible.
On May 9, 2016 Council of the City of Port Colborne awarded the Operations Centre Construction to JR Certus Construction Co. Ltd.
The Operations Centre is expected to be constructed by the summer of 2017. The City's Engineering Department will also be moving into the new Facility to accompany the Roads, Parks and Utilities Divisions of Operations.
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Request for Prequalification of General Contractor – The City of Port Colborne Operations Centre
The Corporation of the City of Port Colborne and PRISM Partners Inc. are inviting submissions from qualified, professional Contractors to complete the construction of a new Operations Centre located at "The Island" just North of the existing Fire Station (No.3 KILLALY Street West) at the intersection of MELLANBY Avenue (Regional Road 3A) and KILLALY Street West (Regional Road 5) in the City of Port Colborne, Ontario.
The City has authorized staff to begin the design and development of a new Operations Centre that will replace its existing facilities. This project is for an Operations Centre that will serve Public Works, Parks, and Utilities departments. The facility is approximately 3981 m2 and comprises of three main structures, two of which will house the administrative staff and related support spaces, stores, mechanic bays, along with large and small truck storage. The third building is a "salt dome" that will serve the roads department with salt & sand/salt mix.
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Engineering & Operations Centre – Construction Continues!
The construction of the Engineering & Operations Centre has been progressing very well since the start in May of 2016. Below is a quick summary of the work completed to date:
· Earthworks is ongoing. Stripping of topsoil is complete;
· Foundation for the Wash Bay are complete, Administrative Building and Salt/Sand Building are nearing completion;
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The project is on budget and ahead of schedule as the Contractor is pushing to have the buildings enclosed prior to the winter season.
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The City's Works Yard is no longer deemed to be adequate for the present operations and Council has agreed that the feasibility of a new facility be investigated, through presentations made at Strategic Planning and budget deliberations. Presently Philips Engineering Limited has completed an Environmental Assessment Study for a new Port Colborne Operations Centre. The Environmental Assessment recommended that a new facility be constructed in the Stonebridge Drive - Port Colborne Industrial Park site. Currently City Council is reviewing the feasibility of constructing a new site and is investigating funding opportunities.
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(Pocket-lint) - Microsoft is full steam ahead at the moment with its Windows Phone 7 operating system and that means giving us the chance to actually live with one in the home ahead of the official release of the new update in September.
We plan to bring you a full review of Windows Phone 7 Mango in the coming days but before we've had a chance to find out its every foibles, we wanted to share with you all of the new features that we've found from digging around in the OS on top of those already detailed when the announcement was originally made.
Some are small, but will make a big difference, others are far more sweeping, but won't impact your daily use but all are worth noting. So, while you wait for both our full low down and the launch of Mango itself, here are the new features of Windows Phone 7 and just why it's something to get excited about.
Apps menu – search and downloading
Yep it's one of the smaller changes, but nonetheless a useful one. Now when you access the full app list there is a search button that lets you find the app you need quickly. That's going to be incredibly handy if you're an app horder of apps as it will save you scrolling down the page to find them.
Furthermore apps and their download status now appear in a line bar underneath the new app so you can see how they are downloading without having to stay in Marketplace.
Battery saver settings
"Your phone can turn off some services to help preserve your battery. For example, you won't automatically receive emails and applications won't run in the background. You can still use the phone, send and receive text messages and get your emails manually."
That's a new feature in Windows Phone 7 that looks to work in a similar way to Android's power saving options.
It comes with two handy options – to always have it on, or to only turn it on until the next charge.
Either way it's a welcomed addition and one that means that you'll still hopefully have enough charge to phone to say you are coming home from that boozy night out.
IE9 – new slimline interface, share web pages
You would be forgiven for thinking that you could already email people web pages you found interesting, but you can't until now. That's right Microsoft has added a "Share page" feature to Internet Explorer so you can now share pages with your mates.
One of the bigger changes however is that IE has been slimlined and decluttered. The address bar is at the bottom, and while the current version of IE for Windows Phone features buttons and other gubbins, it's now all gone.
Photos – Auto fix and face tagging
Apple and iOS 5 is the only one to let you fix your photos once you've taken them and now Mango is going to let you auto-fix your photos.
As the name suggests it's all about automatically fixing them, but crux of the feature is to basically make dark shots lighter so you can see what's going on, but more than just increasing the exposure.
Face Tagging will let you tag your friends in your photos before uploading them to services like Facebook.
Xbox Live
Not many changes here, although Xbox Live now gets a new look to fit in with the new look for Xbox announced at E3
Bing – music, vision, local scout and quick cards
Microsoft has added to the Bing experience even further by adding a number of new features to Bing that will make you want to show off your phone to all you see.
Bing Music for example works in a similar to way to Shazam allowing you to let your phone listen to music before telling you what it is and giving you a link to play it or buy it in the Zune Marketplace.
Bing Vision works by using your camera to capture words on a menu or sign to be translated, or a barcode to see where the product is available to buy online.
Local Scout tells you want's happening in your area like eating and drinking, things to see and do, or shops to be shopped in. There are also highlights too.
Clicking on one of the results brings up a "Quick card" and that gives you the address or directions using Bing maps.
If an app like Top Table is installed on your phone, Quick cards also have the power to interact with those too.
Improved SkyDrive support (now 25GB), and Office 365 capabilities (which will be added at the end of the month following the launch of the service. You can also see pdf's within the Office hub if you've got the Adobe Reader app installed.
Email and calendar
Email gets a Rights protected emails via exchange feature that means businesses that use such a feature can now view those emails on their phone instead of having to fire up a PC.
Why should big business care? Well if you take company like Microsoft for example, around 15-20 per cent of emails that it send internally are Rights Protected, that means it's workforce can now read those emails on the go.
And if you are wondering what the Rights Protected bit means, it's that you can see the contents of the email, but you can't see it, and you can't copy and paste it either.
On the calendar side of things, Microsoft has added in Facebook calendar support. That means you can see your Facebook events in your calendar, and even accept or decline them without having to worry about going to Facebook. Nifty huh?
Add these to the features we've previously covered and it's clear that the Windows Phone 7 Mango update is a major overhaul of the operating system bringing with it a number of new features.
We are going to continue to play with the phone over the next couple of days and hope to bring you a more in-depth look and what the operating system means, what bits work, and what is still to be fixed. Not from a bug point of view, but a feature set point of view.
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Stephen Garcia, formerly of South Carolina, formerly of Steve Spurrier's shit list, attended an open tryout for the CFL's Montreal Alouettes this spring. He impressed enough to earn a contract, which put him solidly fourth on the Als' depth chart.
But something happened this month. According to Herb Zurkowsky, the Montreal Gazette's beat guy, Garcia left the team, his roster spot taken by another American undrafted free agent. You might have heard of him. His name is Jordan Jefferson, and he took LSU to the national championship game, and he signed with Montreal on Friday after being unable to catch on with an NFL team.
Montreal still lists Garcia on their roster, and Zurkowsky reports that Garcia was excused "for personal reasons." So it's not clear quite what's going on up there, or who's gotten into what sort of trouble, but it sounds like business as usual in the SEC North.