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Many years ago when I was but a Lad, I had become extremely interested in a Neotropical family of birds called Cracids. In fact, I had spent a year studying the northern-most species, the Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula), and spent a year studying one of the southern-most species, the Chaco Chachalaca (O. canicollis). In 1993 an incredible opportunity had come about to leave my 'day job' at the Houston Zoo for a couple weeks to search for a much more elusive species in the Peruvian Amazon – the Wattled Curassow (Crax globulosa). Basically, I could lead a natural history eco-tour emphasizing bird-watching to the region and stay down afterward to try and locate this little known and seldom-observed species. Only a couple of people had seen this bird in the region I intended to visit, including the late Ted Parker. I had met Ted once or twice during previous visits to the Museum Natural Science at LSU. We were actually supposed to meet at LSU in late August 1994 with Dr. John O'Neill to discuss a possible new race of Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata), but due to most unfortunate circumstances, Ted died earlier that month in a plane crash while surveying some forest for a new reserve in South America.
I was thoroughly exhilarated about the trip to Peru; little did I know at the time it would be the first of many. The field of Neotropical Ornithology was much younger than it is today, but much older back then than it was before the original explorers who investigated a good swath of the area. Leaders like Parker provided a spirit of elevated excitement about working in South America. I for one was ecstatic, but what I thought I knew before I left for Peru was sadly naïve on my part. I guess I just figured 'searching for a Cracid is searching for a Cracid; if I can find some species without a problem, why wouldn't I be able to find others?'
-DB, 12 November 2008
Searching for a needle in a moving haystack…
20 November – 4 December 1993
ACEER, Sucusari Tributary off the Napo River, Dept. Loreto, Peru
Well, yesterday I had convinced myself that if only I looked more intensively I had to find some sign of the rare globulosa. If I carried lunch with me in the field, I could spend 12 hours a day instead of just 3-4 hours post-sunrise and pre-sunset. All I had turned up so far was a Razor-billed Curassow (Mitu tuberosa) – I got a mere glimpse of this massive and impressive bird as it heavily flew up into the mid-layer of the forest. I was also able to account for Nocturnal Curassows (Nothocrax urumutum) calling from deep in the forest during night-time walks, but not so much as a trace of globulosa. I interviewed some of the local Ribereños [folks living along the river who consume fish and wildlife in the area] to see if they could shed some light on what was going on.
Through the interviews I discovered that globulosa lives in a specialized seasonally inundated forest type called Varzea [actually a Portuguese word]. So I changed up my sampling protocol to cover inundated forest in a boat rather than terra-firme forest on foot. By spending more and more time on the mighty Napo and Amazon Rivers, what I discovered boggled my mind. The far off river bank was not a river bank at all, but a mere island within the vastly wide river. Even more amazing than that, there would sometimes be two or three of these inundated forest islands in a row before you hit the opposite bank!
One morning, my boat driver Gaspar and I set out before day break as usual in the standard 20' metal john boat with outboard motor. I asked him if we could go to the Yarina chain of inundated forest to search for globulosa there. As we approached Yarina he slowed down quite a bit to nearly a complete halt, and quickly negotiated our path ahead. I had no idea what he was looking at, so I asked him. Then he pointed out a new sandbar ahead in the middle of the river that had not been there the week before. I strained to see what he was talking about, then saw the shallow ripple of waves change their pattern as they glided across a bit of sand just up level with the water's surface. He paused for a bit to consider the best way around this obstacle.
During subsequent morning boat trips, I saw sandbars in various stages of plant community succession. Some of the islands contained monotypic stands of the earlier colonizing species such as Cecropia, Gynerium and Heliconia, whereas other islands were quite massive, supporting a full array of Varzea forest. Then I saw yet another amazing thing – frugivorous [fruit-eating] birds flying over the sandbars defecated, totally by coincidence of course, but they acted as the 'Johnny Appleseeds" of these island forests. By defecating the seeds of the fruits they were consuming onto the sandbars, they were actually planting the forests through seed dispersal!
I shared my amazing realization of sandbar and seed dispersal dynamics with other scientists at dinner that evening, and of course they informed me that I had observed something they (and others before them) had known a long time already. They explained that the vast and fast-moving river was so dynamic in fact that by the time these sandbars supported a forest climax, they would often become destroyed or isolated as part of an oxbow lake. Slowly the pieces of the puzzle began to unravel – aHA! so that is why these buggers are so hard to find! Not only is globulosa restricted to this specialized Varzea forest, but the Varzea forest is constantly changing with the ebb and flow of the river's seasonal water level. It was all beginning to make sense now – finding this rare bird was like searching for a needle in a moving haystack…
Post-log (12 November 2008): As I learned more about the biology of globulosa, actually in collaboration with a former student, Claudia Garcia, one of the other things that made them difficult to locate in the field was the fact that their call was a high-pitched descending whistle (like a missile dropping on a Bugs Bunny cartoon), unlike other species of curassow that had a deep resonating 'boom' that could be heard for quite a distance, and consequently were a lot easier to find in nature. My interest in Cracids became increasingly obsessive until I reached the peak of Cracidology, as Chair of the Cracid Specialist Group. Of the decade's worth of trips I took to the same region of Peru, I never found globulosa one single time. I figured it was just me, so had others who I felt were more competent search for them as well, but they also came up empty handed. What we now know of the species is it is just extremely patchily distributed, reflected by the dynamic and specialized habitat it thrives in – Varzea forest. On a positive note, some great projects have since been established in Colombia (through the great work of Sarah Bennett and the local community she works with), Bolivia (through the hard work of Hugo Aranibar and Bennett Hennessey) and Brazil. Even more work is taking place in these regions today to conserve the remnant populations of these rare and fascinating birds – the Wattled Curassow (Crax globulosa).


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( This is an absolutely true story. I should know, I'm the one telling it. )
"How wild it was, to let it be." Cheryl Strayed, Wild
~First Year of Marriage: Your adorable British husband agrees to take you to the film, St. Elmo's Fire.
Of course, he'd do anything with you because, well, he's madly in love with the very core of you, the scent of your Aqua Net hairspray, the cherry-red lipstick, the idiosyncrasies, the beautiful imperfections, the sassiness, the shit.
The ticket line is chalk a block, but it doesn't matter because you cling to one another's words like poetry, like the best fucking meal you've ever had, like pure oxygen, like prayer. You laugh and grope and steal kisses.
You share popcorn with extra butter. He hates butter, but he eats it anyway. You split a jumbo diet coke. He only drinks real coke, but he sips it anyway. He holds your hand.
You weep into his shirt because Jules (Demi Moore) has locked herself in her apartment and opens all of the windows to kill herself by freezing to death. You weep because the friends stop going to Saint Elmo's Bar. You weep because Rob Lowe is an asshole.
He holds you, rubs your shoulder, & whispers, "It's going to be okay, Kim."
It was always okay with him.
You notice a small tear sliding down his unshaven face and wonder if he's sad about Jules, too.
Your heart blossoms into multi colored wild flowers and suns.
~25 Years of Marriage: Your still adorable husband agrees, with much hesitation, to take you to the film, Wild.
He will still do anything for you, but some of your little imperfections have now become irritations. For example, he doesn't let you kiss him when you have on your cherry- red lipstick. "I'm on my way to work. Kiss me later, Kim."
He despises Lifetime movies. Says they bash men. He's annoyed when you leave Milky Way wrappers on the floor. He would rather watch soccer than the Golden Globes & The Academy Awards.
Anyhow, you say, "Wild is amaaaaaaaazing. It's about this woman who hikes 1,100 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. Can you imagine? But it's more than that. Much more. She lost her mother to cancer, so she's mourning and grieving. Needs to find herself. Needs to find purpose. Needs to find love. And she was on heroin and screwing lots of men named Killer and Doobie. She needs to reflect. She meets all these cool hippie people along the way who teach her stuff about life and…"
You know him well. You know every unsaid thought. You know he's rolling his eyes inside his head. You know he's pondering, 'another bloody chick flick.'
"What do you think," you ask.
"Well, is that the only film playing at the theaters?"
You hear the sarcasm inside his British, Liverpudlian accent. You hear something else.
"Yep," you respond abruptly. "It's the only one."
"I guess." He does not say this excitedly.
The ticket line is so long, you wonder if there's time to get popcorn. You must have popcorn. Buttered and salted. You must have a jumbo diet coke. He gets Milk Duds and a real coke.
When you get to the ticket girl, he looks at you.
"Whaaaat?" You ask.
"I see The Gambler with Mark Walberg is playing at 2:00, too."
"Well, do you mind if I go to that instead? It ends the same time."
You pause. "Sure."
"We can go for wine afterwards."
You smile at one another.
He walks one way. You walk the other.
You know that's a metaphor for something or another.
You know you'll need to write the words down when you get home
You also know, you'll always be going home together
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It's the first Monday of the month and that means it is time for Tonya Gibbs live on Ustream!
Tonya is going to teach some mixed media techniques. So pull out those Gelatos and Pitt Pins, cause we are going to do a mixed media tag using products from Faber Castell Design Memory Craft and the new March release Dies from Die-Namites Dies.
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Great neighbors mean great opportunities for collaboration! 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati is excited to collaborate with our neighbors at the Contemporary Arts Center for a special series of FREE docent tours. Tours will be held each SAT at 1pm, guests can meet in the 21c lobby where docents will begin a 30 minute guided tour through the 21c galleries, before heading over for a 30 minute tour of the CAC.
Want more art? After the guided tours, feel free to explore the CAC on your own. 21c and CAC are both free and open to the public.


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The National Senior Games Association will honor senior athlete Fran Allison, 80, and her daughter, Jackie Allison, 56, with a Personal Best Award at 4:30 p.m. on Friday during a break in competition during the 20th annual North Carolina Senior Games Basketball Championships being held Friday and Saturday at East Carolina University.
Fran Allison of Kinston and her daughter of Youngsville epitomize NSGA's new definition of �personal best� as the ongoing journey on and off the field to strive for fitness, health and wellness while inspiring others to be active and live longer, better quality lives.
�Part of the initiative is to get people up and moving,� said Del Moon, NSGA spokesman.
This year is the first year of the award to raise awareness and encourage adults ages 50 and up to be more active and healthy. ECU is one of nine stops on the award tour.
Fran and Jackie Allison were honored in July by being selected to carry the North Carolina flag in the "Celebration of Athletes" at the National Senior Games held in Cleveland, Ohio. While Fran Allison has done so twice before, this was a first for Jackie.
�This was the first time they�ve had a mother/daughter intergenerational,� Fran Allison said.
Both are on basketball teams competing in the NC Senior Games in their respective age divisions.
Fran Allison played sports in high school but only became active in again at age 55 after raising her family. She has won more than 500 medals and ribbons at local and state Senior Games and has competed in National Senior Games for 25 years.
Jackie Allison played basketball for UNC-Chapel Hill and has been active in sports through her life and credits her mother as her inspiration. She has accompanied Fran as her "coach" for her senior competitions.
This year Jackie realized a dream by qualifying and attending the National Senior Games presented by Humana for the first time.
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Queen Street's foster holly trees are targets for new �hair dos� as employees of Tony's Tree Service began trimming the trees which line downtown's main street on Oct. 17. The new looks are readying them for Christmas decorations. The bi-annual trimming of the trees is a project of Pride of Kinston's Design Committee, with a focus on the downtown�s appearance. Manning the bucket is Sebastian Reynaga, with colleagues Craig Warren, left, and Lewis West watching the trimmings fall.


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Whenever you start a new character in Borderlands or explore some new DLC, you get a nice little narration from Marcus, typically about the history of wherever you're going or what you're looking for. Don't you think it's about time he got his own DLC?
Well 2K thought so too, so next week the third Headhunter Pack for Borderlands 2 will be released. Titled How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day, you'll have to track down a trial full of Marcus's guns after it goes missing. This will eventually lead up to a showdown against the Abominable Mister Tinder Snowflake. Sounds like a name that Tiny Tina would come up with, but I doubt it'll want to hug you and squeeze you and call you George. Defeating the giant snowman will unlock a big snowman head for your character, plus each character will also get new skins to try out.
How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day will launch on December 17th for $2.99 on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Steam (as well as on Mac).


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ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, a team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Mark Frye, M.D., attempted to identify what factors make some people with bipolar depression more likely to experience treatment-emergent mania (TEM).
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a mental illness characterized by severe mood instability that can be serious and disabling. The deep mood swings from high (mania) to low (depression) may last for weeks or months, causing great disturbances in the lives of the person who has the illness, along with family and friends. Drugs known as mood stabilizers have proven effective at controlling the manic phase of the illness, but treating the depressive phase is more problematic. Antidepressants, although effective for some individuals, can trigger a rapid mood switch from depression to mania, a phenomenon called treatment-emergent mania.
"TEM is a serious and sometimes volatile adverse event, and we wanted to better understand who was at risk for developing this problem," says Dr. Frye. People experiencing mania often exhibit poor judgment and impulsivity that can lead them to engage in highly unsafe or personally damaging behaviors, resulting in hospitalization, arrest and/or incarceration.
Dr. Frye's team did a secondary analysis of data obtained in an earlier study led by Robert Post, M.D., and the Bipolar Collaborative Network. In that earlier study, researchers followed 176 study participants diagnosed with bipolar depression to measure the effectiveness of three different antidepressants. The secondary analysis led by Dr. Frye focused on 44 patients who experienced TEM after starting an antidepressant. Dr. Frye's team compared this TEM group to 84 patients who responded favorably to an antidepressant and 44 patients who stopped taking the antidepressant due to lack of effectiveness or worsening depressive symptoms.
"We found that people who had minimal manic symptoms or a "mixed depression" presentation were at greatest risk for experiencing TEM," says Dr. Frye.
Experts have begun to acknowledge that the common understanding of bipolar illness, once thought to be a disorder with two distinct phases (a manic upswing and a depressive downswing), may be incomplete. A recent study of over 1,300 patients conducted by Joseph Goldberg, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, reported that two-thirds of the depressed bipolar patients had minimal or mild manic symptoms "mixed" together.
"We're learning that this illness does not occur in two neat, clear-cut phases, but rather a mix of the two," says Dr. Frye. "Our data would suggest that people with mixed depression may need to stay away from antidepressants and work with their health care providers to find alternative treatments, such as mood stabilizers, to help manage the depressive phase of their illness." Further research is encouraged to better understand the best treatment for these mixed presentations.
Other authors for this article include: Gerhard Helleman, Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; Susan McElroy, M.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Lori Altshuler, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; David Black, Ph.D., Pediatric and Developmental Neuropsychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Md., and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; Paul Keck Jr., M.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Willem Nolen, M.D., Ph.D., University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Ralph Kupka, M.D., Ph.D., Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care and University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Gabriele Leverich, Biological Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Md.; Heinz Grune, M.D., Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England; Jim Mintz, Ph.D., University of Texas San Antonio; Robert Post, M.D., George Washington School of Medicine, Penn State College School of Medicine and Bipolar Collaborative Network, Bethesda, Md.; and Trisha Suppes, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. MayoClinic.com (www.mayoclinic.com) is available as a resource for your health stories.


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Ryan Foy Carter, who is facing charges stemming from a July 16 hit-and-run accident that left a pedestrian dead, has a history of traffic offenses, including two other wrecks in which he left the scene.
Ryan Foy Carter, who is facing charges stemming from a July 16 hit-and-run accident that left a pedestrian dead, has a history of traffic offenses, including two other wrecks in which he left the scene.
Carter, 37, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving serious injury, careless driving and failing to immediately report a crash after he struck 61-year-old Roger D. Gallan.
Gallan died July 20. The Florida Highway Patrol now says �further charges relating to this vehicle crash are pending.�
Carter struck Gallan as Gallan was walking along the side of U.S. Highway 98 near the intersection of East Bay Boulevard in the Midway community. According to the FHP�s accident report, the wreck occurred at 1:40 p.m. when Carter �drifted off the roadway.�
�After observing the injuries to the pedestrian (Carter) walked back to his vehicle and fled the scene,� the FHP reported.
It is not yet known whether Carter was drinking and driving when he hit Gallan.
Carter was arrested in Santa Rosa County on Nov. 21, 2011, for leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage. He also was charged with careless driving and driving on a suspended license.
Reports indicate he caused the accident when he ran into the back of a vehicle driven by a Gulf Breeze man.
On Aug. 2, 2011, Carter earned his first leaving-the-scene-of-an-accident charge along with a DUI and four charges of simple assault.
According to Santa Rosa County clerk of courts documents, Carter was involved in a wreck on the Pensacola Bay Bridge. He then approached the vehicle he struck and began hitting its windows, said Cindy Edmunds with the clerk�s office. Carter also apparently began yelling at a woman in the vehicle.
The woman told law officers Carter frightened her and the four children in the car with his tirade, Edmunds said.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Tom McLaughlin at 850-315-4435 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomMnwfdn.


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I'm with evenflow...I have no idea why the hell that feather top is there. Its not even CLOSE to movie accurate and looks like absolute ****
Awful. "I suppose that would be easy enough to make, but I'm not inclinced to make one, so I was hoping hasbro would come through."Think about the last part of that sentence. Really think about it. See where you went wrong?Kevin
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Paslti boy and anyone else interested,The best of Coptic chant and music is scarce on the internet. I have been to just about every known site and 75% of what I have found is quite low quality, in terms of recording and voice. Most of the files on the net better serve the interests of one who seeks to learn Coptic chant/music, rather than one who seeks to enjoy Coptic chant/music in my opinion. If you want the gems, just ask me; I will gladly direct you to the best quality recordings on the net, and upload those you will never find on the net. Here is one of my favourites that I have uploaded from a CD I own; it's the Goodfriday hymn Omonogenis chanted in Arabic:http://www11.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=26921
Still missing a few, like Celtic and Malankara (if different) hymnology Would love to hear those as well.
Celtic? Sounds interesting. I assume that would be the rite in which the British Orthodox celebrate.
Some songs from Indian Orthodox liturgy:http://www.stgregorioschurchdc.org/cgi/doc.cgi?doc=Syllabus.doc&lang=en-Paul
Hello everyone. I am new here. I am an American who converted to Orthodoxy. I belong to a Serbian parish.
On a side-note, does anyone here know where to purchase Oriental Orthodox chant on the internet?
EkhristosAnesti,Thank you SO much for that link! The hymns are beautiful.Also, the sound quality is excellent.If anyone else knows of other sources to either purchase or download Oriental Orthodox chant,please let me know.Thanks againGod bless
i'm going to create an esnips account and will commit myself to do my very best to upload at least a couple of good quality files (from the number of CD's i've obtained over the years) every week.
To quote Star Wars: "But my lord, is that legal?"
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Top 10 Coastal Inns
A Little Inn on Pleasant Bay
The three-acre property overlooking Pleasant Bay includes a small beach, a dock for fishing, a fresh- and saltwater pond, and two dining patios. Dating to 1798, A Little Inn on Pleasant Bay was a reputed hiding place for slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad. The rooms are all washed in white and decorated in pastels and bold tartans; 888/332-3351.
Eat: Nearby ABBA restaurant offers a Mediterranean and Thai-inspired menu of fresh seafood and rich desserts. For breakfast, the inn provides a bountiful European buffet overlooking the bay.
Do: Explore local works along the Arts & Artisans Trails and pick up a few gifts or keepsakes for yourself. Or take a short drive to Skaket, Nauset Light, and Chatham Light beaches for a sunset stroll on the beach.
Tarpon Lodge
Tarpon Lodge offers waterside accomodations in the original 1926 inn and auxillary buildings, plus fishing and boating day trips with osprey, egret, and dolphin sightings; 239/283-3999.
Eat: The Tarpon serves always fresh (never frozen!) fish and outstanding blue crab-and-roasted corn chowder. Bert's Bar & Grill in Matlacha, an islet towards the mainland, features tasty seafood, live music, and dockside dining.
Do: Hike the Calusa Heritage Trail that winds among ancient shell mounds and the remnants of an impressive cross-island canal built by the Calusa Indians. Or, rent beach cruisers from Pine Island Cycles; 239/560-0320; or vessels from Gulf Coast Kayak to paddle the area's placid inlets.
Kismet Inn
Enjoy accomodations as the all-organic bed and breakfast overlooking Bath's Library Park—Kismet Inn. Handstitched linens, a handcarved wood-frame bed, and a to-die-for breakfast will make you feel right at home; 207/443-3399.
Eat: Red's Eats and Five Islands Lobster Co., serve up lobster rolls that are as quintessentially Maine as the setting. Slurp back a few oysters on the half shell overlooking the water at Damariscotta River Grill, or splurge a bit at Solo Bistro where you can find local seafood with an Asian spin.
Do: Take advantage of the beautiful beaches at Popham Beach State Park and Reid State Park. Or, catch a flick or live show at the historic Lincoln Theatre. Also take a peek at the exhibits at the Farnsworth Art Museum. Back in the day, it was the only reason to stop in small-town Rockland.
Cypress Inn
The 1929 white-stucco, Spanish-Colonial animal-friendly inn reflects the style and personality of its owner―actress, singer, and animal advocate Doris Day. This legendary overnight oasis is only a few minutes' walk from the beach and Ocean Avenue shopping; 800/443-7443.
Eat: Drop by La Bicyclette for it turn-of-the-century French ambience, duck confit crepe, and impressive wine list. Or, enjoy inventive seasonal cuisine such as a chili-crusted ahi tuna salad at Basil Seasonal Dining. After dinner, go to the Cottage of Sweets, which looks straight out of Hansel and Gretel.
Do: Shopping is a must in Carmel. Drop into the Carmel Bay Company for stylish home decor. Take the scenic route along the coastal 17-Mile-Drive where you'll see The Lone Cypress and can stop in at the famous Pebble Beach Golf Course. At the Monterey Bay Aquarium you can view a Giant Pacific Octopus, sea otters, penguins, and many more.
Inn at Black Star Farms
When visiting the small marina town of Suttons Bay, stay at the Inn at Black Star Farms is nestled below a hillside if vineyards overlooking 160 acres of orchards, vineyards, and woods that guests can explore; 231/944-1251.
Eat: European café Martha's Leelanau Table offers plenty of fresh options for breakfast and lunch. Boon's Prime Time Pub serves whitefish brought in daily from the docks of nearby Fishtown, and the fresh-ground burgers pack some heat with mixed-in diced jalapeños.
Do: Make sure to explore the town's two dozen shops, which has been a haven for boaters since the 19th century. Catch a independent, classic, or foreign film at the historic Bay Theatre. Or, at Black Star Farms (part inn, part winery, party creamery), take advantage of the wine tastings and cheese making.
Harbor Knoll
A sprawling 19th-century home on Peconic Bay with formal gardens and a private beach and dock, Harbor Knoll is picture perfect. The B&B with four rooms plus freestanding cottage is a short walk to the center of Greenport. But with a Prohibition-era bar and harbor views everywhere you turn, it's hard to imagine you'll ever want to leave; 631/477-2352.
Eat: Munch on crab cakes and fried chicken for lunch at F.O.B. (Frisky Oyster Bar). It will be hard to resist the tasting menu at The North Fork Table and Inn that might include roasted baby beets with local goat cheese, pan-roasted Long Island duck breast, and a chocolate-caramel tart or upside-down caramelized apple tart.
Do: Stop by the White Flower Farm House for vintage French linens, rustic garden furniture, or anything else you need to create the urban-meets-country style of North Fork. Make sure you pick up a map of area wineries at the Long Island Wine Council. You won't want to miss the oldest winery in the area, Castello di Borghese.
The Hope and Glory Inn
Located in the former steamboat port of Irvington, The Hope and Glory Inn's accomodations comprise seven rooms in an 1890 schoolhouse, plus 6 cottages. Although it doesn't overlook water, its owners host weekend crab-and-cocktail cruises aboard their 1952 Chesapeak Bay workboat, The Faded Glory; 800/497-8228.
Eat: Stop by The Local for a coffee and breakfast sandwich, or grab a wrap or salad at lunchtime. The Trick Dog Cafe is a sophisticated but playful dinner spot where you can expect wine-braised lamb shanks or crab cakes.
Do: Trendy shops abound in Irvington. Stop by The Dandelion for clothing, jewelry, and housewares, or The River Cottage to peruse its hodgepodge of merchandise. Get a glimpse into the vessels that helped shape cities and towns along the Chesapeake at The Steamboat Era Museum.
The Inn at Mama's Fish House
Luxe private cottages at The Inn at Mama's Fish House convey a retro-Hawaii feel, with hand-carved koa wood features, fresh tropical flowers, and oceanfront lanais; 808/579-9764.
Eat: One of Maui's most expensive restuarants, Mama's Fish House, is definitely worth the splurge! The fish is so fresh the menu tells you who caught it and where. Find homemade tacos filled with smoky-sweet kalua pork at the super-casual roadside Up in Smoke BBQ. If you're craving sweets, stop by Penguini for a lilikoi-dragonfruit sorbet or strawberry gelato.
Do: Go for a drive along the Hana Highway, starting in the laid-back windsurfing encalve of Paia. Along the drive you'll see gorgeous views, beautfiul waterfalls, little stores selling local specialties, and roadside stands selling banana bread, fish tacos, and more.
The Gastonian
Savannah, Georgia
Built in 1868, The Gastonian is an award-winning bed-and-breakfast conveniently located near Forsyth Park. 17 elegant guest rooms make up the inn, all with working fireplaces. Guests are treated to personalized breakfast menus and complimentary nighttime cordials and sweets; 800/322-6603.
Eat: Elizabeth on 37th, located in an old Victorian mansion, is a culinary institution. For a more casual dining experience, head to The Shrimp Factory on River Street for seafood bisque and peel-your-own shrimp. After dinner, be sure to pay a visit to Savannah Candy Kitchen for sweet pecan pralines.
Do: Savannah has been called the most haunted city in America, so take a nighttime tour to learn about the hauntings with Old Savannah Tours. Or, if you prefer something less frightening, opt for a tour with Old Town Trolley. Savannah is home to SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Check out one of its galleries, or buy creative work at shopSCAD.
Tutka Bay Lodge
Situated at the southern end of Kachemak Bay, Tutka Bay Lodge is ideal for exploring the Alaskan wilderness. Six private rental cabins, a massive sunning deck, a gourmet kitchen, and even an on-staff masseuse make up this glamorous option in the middle of the wild; 907/274-2710.
Eat: Before making the 25-minute trip by boat over to Tutka Bay Lodge from Homer, stop in at any of the fish-n-ship joints, like the Mermaid B&B and Café for an espresso and great homemade fare. Once you arrive at Tutka Bay Lodge, you won't be disappointed with the fresh local salmon and oysters prepared by Chef Kirsten Dixon, trained at Le Cordon Bleu.
Do: Take a sightseeing tour of Kachemak Bay, hike the nearby area, or go fishing with Seaman's Adventures. Learn how to prepare your fresh catch with The Cooking School at Tutka Bay.


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Hello everyone! I'm currently enrolled in a Psychology class, and a recent assignment was to write up a paper about the top 3 things that motivate you. Here's what I came up with! Let me know in the comments what your top 3 motivators are! - Katrina
After I thought for a while and researched some more information about motivation on the Internet, I decided that Happiness, Rewards, and Freedom/Independence were my top 3 motivators. The list could have definitely been more extensive than just listing the top three.
1. Happiness
Happiness is my top motivator. Knowing that good feelings will come after completion of the task definitely motivates me to get the task done. Some examples of happiness that come from task completion would be: finishing an assignment or piece of art and getting satisfying feedback on it; studying long and hard for a test and then finding out that I passed the test; or volunteering to help at organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club or the local animal shelter. You're giving happiness to other people and animals and at the same time becoming a happier person yourself due to the pleasant feeling of helping others.
2. Rewards
This sort of goes hand in hand with the first category. If I know that I'll get a reward, I'll be much more motivated to finish a task quickly. An example of this would be finishing my homework and getting to go somewhere with my friends. This is the same tactic that is used to get people to work harder; pay them more money for carrying out the task. A reward also could be in the form of a sense of accomplishment, which would also lead to happiness. Entrepreneurs who work for themselves are often motivated by the happiness of accomplishing their tasks. I am also into filmmaking. It is incredibly motivational and rewarding to see my films screened. One film I produced was just shown at a college where 300+ people saw it, and now it's going to be shown at the Sun and Sand Film Festival on the Gulf Coast where many more people will see it. A documentary film that I just produced was recently shown in front of an audience of 800 people in India. It gives me much pleasure knowing that my work is visible to others. It motivates me to create more films.
3. Freedom and Independence
We are all very blessed to live in the free country of America. While it's true that America is a free country, it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who lives in America feels like a free person. Take for example prisoners or people who are forced to work at a job everyday from 9 to 5. More times than not, those people would likely be willing to work hard to make their sentence come to an end or to make their retirement come at an earlier date. Working towards freedom isn't something that American's are just getting used to. American's were so motivated towards freedom from Britain that they were willing to fight for it. In my own life, an example of working towards freedom would be saving up money to buy a car, which would offer me freedom to go places. I also work to preserve freedom by aiding in campaigns for government officials who have good moral, Christian values, which is where I'm going next week – to the Generation Joshua Student Action Team for Daniel Webster for U.S. House of Representatives.
The illustration at the top of this article was done for a client, Jenny Flintoft, for part of a series of illustrations for her success coaching business in England. She uses my illustrations in a guide she sends out to people via email when they sign up for her website. She gave me great feedback and even gave me a bonus payment. That's motivation in action!
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A commitment to helping members succeed is the underlying theme for winners in this year's Best of the Best contest. From comprehensive medical-based fitness programs to all-inclusive corporate wellness plans, the winning 2010 clubs take an integrated approach to health and wellness while focusing on building strong relationships with members.
Club Industry's Best of the Best competition recognizes the best programming at fitness facilities in the United States and provides concrete examples of programs that have proven, successful results.
The 2010 Best of the Best winners are: HealthQuest, Flemington, NJ, for Best Member Appreciation Program; ACAC Fitness & Wellness Centers, Charlottesville, VA, for Best Nonmember Program; Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club, Greenwood Village, CO, for Best Community-based Program; Club One Fitness, Pittsburgh, for Best New Member Integration Program; Chesapeake Energy Fitness Center, Oklahoma City, for Best Behavior Modification Program; and Right Fit Sport Fitness Wellness, Willowbrook, IL, for Best Children's Program.
The PREP program at ACAC is a physician-referred exercise program that allows patients to work with medical fitness specialists in a club environment. By giving physicians periodic progress reports, the program has earned the trust of the local medical community. Another medical-based winner, Right Fit's Raise the Bar program, uses individualized training and motivational techniques to provide a fitness program for young people with autistic spectrum disorders.
Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s corporate wellness program uses a full-time fitness staff, health screenings, financial incentives and nutritional counseling to nourish the health of its nearly 9,000 employees nationwide.
Building strong bonds with members is key to the new member tutorial program at Club One, which includes fitness consultations, machine circuits and staff-member interaction to integrate new members. HealthQuest hosts an annual member appreciation event each April to say thanks to its membership base, celebrate the anniversary of its opening date, generate excitement for new programming options and raise money for charity. And the Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club builds community while raising money for charity with its Roadless Ride, a 12-hour group-cycle marathon that raises money for Brent's Place — an organization that houses families with kids suffering from cancer.
All of the Best of the Best entries were rated by a panel of judges who were chosen for their expertise in certain categories. To determine the winners, judges looked at the program's innovation, goal setting and goal attainment, budgeting, member or nonmember participation, marketing, program effectiveness and the club's follow-up efforts. The judges also looked at the programs' uniqueness.
The judges in this year's contest were: Ed Tock, owner of Eddie Tock Health Club Sales and Marketing Consulting; Thomas Kulp, chief motivational officer for Universal Athletic Club; Blair McHaney, CEO of Confluence Fitness Partners Inc.; Sandy Coffman, president of Programming for Profit; Phil Wendel, owner of ACAC Fitness & Wellness Centers; Laurie Cingle, owner of Laurie Cingle Consulting and Coaching; Bonnie Patrick Mattalian, president of Club Synergy Group Consultants; Terry Dezzutti, chief operating officer of Merritt Athletic Clubs; Karen Woodard-Chavez, president of Premium Performance Training; and Pat Laus, owner of The Atlantic Club.
ACAC Fitness & Wellness Centers, Charlottesville, VA
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PROGRAM: Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City
Club One Fitness, Pittsburgh
MEMBER APPRECIATION PROGRAM: HealthQuest, Flemington, NJ
Right Fit Sport Fitness Wellness, Willowbrook, IL
Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club, Greenwood Village, CO


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I did this review using a live USB system made with MultiSystem. I did not test the installation. Follow the jump to see what it's like.
After the boot menu came...a boot splash! Finally, openSUSE includes a real boot splash rather than just scrolling text; it had a really cool animation of fuzzy dots flying around the openSUSE logo. That quickly gave way to the KDE splash screen (which is the default except for the matching background), which gave way to the desktop. The desktop is almost identical to what has been present in previous versions, so I won't dwell on that too much. I will say that the Kickoff menu is now better and worse than before, in that although applications like GwenView that previously had generic menu entry icons now have their own proper icons, many applications have been nested into subcategories that exist essentially only for those applications, and this makes the menu way too cluttered and confusing. In addition, this appears to form the core structure of application menus in KDE in openSUSE, because switching to the KDE Lancelot menu didn't help. Also, I found fonts in titlebars to be as bad as before, and some fonts inside applications were worse than before, though they were generally still fairly readable. Overall, though, the desktop still works just fine.
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LibreOffice is included as the default productivity suite and has a customized splash screen of its own as well. Unfortunately each component of LibreOffice is hidden in a separate subcategory in the Kickoff menu for no good reason. Other installed applications include other KDE utilities and games.
The YaST2 Package Manager hasn't changed much from last time, though now its various components are buried deep in different subcategories in the Kickoff menu, which makes it more annoying just to access. It still requires the user to manually and individually deselect each package automatically selected for installation. That said, it is nice in that it prevents the deselection of packages that are dependencies of other packages that the user has specifically selected for installation; I guess you win some and lose some. I was able to use it to install Redshift and the dependencies of Mupen64Plus, after which I was able to install the binary file for Mupen64Plus 1.5. Redshift worked fine, though GTK-Redshift complained about the lack of a "pygtk" package; I think this is an issue with openSUSE package naming. Mupen64Plus and its GUI worked fine, though I wasn't ever able to find it in the Kickoff menu for some reason.
I downloaded the RPM files for Skype and Google Talk from their respective websites. Both of the files when launched with the Apper package installer selected all the other automatically-selected files for installation with no way to deselect those; the only way I could prevent those from being installed was by canceling the installation, and in both cases I was able to do so because Apper got tripped up by the license agreements for both programs.
I then issued the command "sudo zypper in [PACKAGENAME].rpm" in the appropriate directory to install each of the two packages through the CLI, and this thankfully didn't install all those other useless packages. Both worked fine, and this time the mic worked properly, which is great.
|YaST2 + Desktop Cube
That is where my time with openSUSE 12.2 ended. Given that everything that I usually use worked here and nothing failed in particular, I could see myself installing and using this. That is about the highest recommendation that I can give; plus, I think it is great for newbies in its large selection of software combined with its professional approach to the desktop. In addition, I think this may be the subject of my next long-term review (which will span an equivalent number of UROP hours, but because the semester has started and I am no longer doing my UROP full-time, there will be more days logged in the review).
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The AJ asks prominent architectural thinkers to comment on the architecture of our cities. More comments added daily.
Joseph Rykwert
Cities incite riots - and herding people in high rise reservoirs of social aggression doesn't help: if we didn't have football and rugby matches to release it, however messily, we'd have many more, though riots are almost always triggered by specific incidents. Current hoody anomie was fostered by the spectacle of the fat-cats bloated bonuses accompanying the 'we're all in it' talk about cuts - as well as by the knowledge that the police was among the public services to be mutilated (which also goes for parks, youth centres), so was inevitably demoralised. And the spark was a mishandled police shooting. Locking up cowed hoodies in overcrowded prisons won't solve anything. We need to think about public housing and public space - quickly
Richard Sennett
The riots were all too predictable: a generation of poor, young people with no future becomes a tinderbox for violence. The British riots have one resemblance to those which afflicted France in the last decade; they occur in the places where no-hopers live, rather than political riots directed at the centres of power; the result is that the principle victims are their local neighbours
Jeremy Till
At least the architects are not blamed this time, as we were with Broadwater. Nor could we be, because (quoting Simmel) the city is not a spatial entity with sociological consequences, but a sociological entity that is formed spatially. Here the riots spatialise years of ramping up of social inequality. So when my Twitter feed calls for the reintroduction of Jane Jacobs, I blanch (because space is not the solution, just the symptom) and when the Tories say it is 'pure' criminality, I rage (because of the implicit disavowal of their political responsibility). One way out? Act on the New Economic Foundation's Great Transition
Alain de Botton
People tend to distinguish between violence against people (very serious) and violence against property (not so bad). But in these riots, what emerges is how offensive it is to see buildings on fire because this symbolises a destruction of the hopes and efforts of so many who struggled to build and maintain them. It isn't just money that goes up in flames; it's the spirit of civilisation
Robert Tavernor
The London riots are a sobering reminder that cities are for people, that people make cities. Cities rely on a precarious social balance that can be wrecked by the irresponsible. Leadership and good action are now essential
Irena Bauman
I already talked about this before it happened. I've made many comments about the wealth divide within cities and how it is impacting on physical and social geographies and increases fear and violence. We will see much more of this kind of unrest in the future. No amount of regeneration funding will help. We need to change the core values of our society and redistribute wealth, if a long term solution is to be found.
William JR Curtis
London has been up for sale to the highest bidders in the international plutocracy for years and the results are there to see in the Shard and all the other grotesque signs of exaggerated wealth that are in fact impoverishing the public realm for everybody else. Worse than that, British politicians of both Left and Right have sold their souls and their policies to the City of London and therefore to the vagaries of international financial capitalism which has no loyalties and no sense of local responsibility. All the eyewash of Cameron's so called Big Society cannot disguise the fact that the bottom end of society has been abondoned: Is one surprised that one kind of violence is responding to another kind? No, not really.
Wouter Vanstiphout
The reality of urban riots is that they have always turned out to be the opposite of a learning experience for a city. Riots have nearly always resulted in politicians simplifying the problem even more, and looking away even further. After a riot your average city will become more afraid, more authoritarian, more segregated, more exclusive and less tolerant. That is the real tragedy of the post-war western urban riot, first it shocks and terrifies us, then for a moment it makes us see flashes of the kind of city we should be working towards, which then fades away into the darkness.
Yasmin Shariff
Regeneration schemes have made a difference where they have offered an opportunity to the under privileged, but these projects should not be confused with developments that displace the urban poor. Riots in new regeneration areas point to the schism where ordinary people cannot afford the new people's palaces - the £160m regeneration in Dalston by Barratt Homes for instance boasts residents gym, 24hr concierge, buzzing public square, shops a library and a 2 bed apartments will set you back £350K . It can be little surprise that these regeneration areas are being torched. As long as these kids are trapped in the poverty of their circumstance riots such as the ones we have seen will continue to erupt. What we are experiencing are the consequence of policies which pander to big business and line the pockets of bankers, developers, PFI companies and other private organisations at the expense of the public purse.
Gillian Darley
While wandering about Brittany in recent days, without internet, TV or radio news, and looking at churches laden with headless saints and 'danses macabres' someone told us there was rioting in London. Le Figaro that day, leading with the story, was groaning with memories of Paris 2005 and, inevitably, an analysis by a professor of criminology. We shouldn't forget the storming of the Bastille in 1789 was a vivid reminder to Londoners of the Gordon Riots in 1780. Social discontent can be traded, just like currency, but real solutions are solid gold - and there the French and the British are in the same boat, holed well below the waterline.
Marianne Mueller
Our practice is involved in the design review assessment of regeneration schemes. You can't deny the strong commercial focus of recent regeneration projects that push out other (in the short term, less profitable) functions. Spaces for young people and public facilities in general (nurseries, libraries, green open spaces…) are definitely not a focus in the schemes we have been reviewing over the last few years. Projects like 'Youth Space' by MADE remain a rarity - especially with the recent cuts - where young people can get actively involved in the design of their environment, develop a sense of ownership and simply have a place to be. To quote the opening of the publication of the Youth Space project documentation, 'Of all those excluded from any given urban territory, youth surely form the greatest subset. They are excluded on the grounds that they are not yet adults, that they cannot pay, that they are trouble makers, that they will break the law, be noisy, or frighten other customers away.'
Alan Atlee
frenzied looting /frénzid lu:tin/ v. widespread property damage and theft of consumer goods perpetrated by exhilarated groups of young working class men.
synonyms 1. Age of Austerity / v. systematic transfer of wealth from public to private interests, via government policies of welfare reduction; privatisation in education, health and social care; planning policy liberalisation and regressive taxation. (Important context for understanding timing and extent of frenzied looting.) 2.Sovereign Debt Crisis / n. threat of nation state or states defaulting on their debt obligations and causing significant capital losses for private banks and investors. (Threat of provides political cover for Age of Austerity.) 3. Bank Bailout / n & v. systematic transfer of capital from public taxpayers to private shareholders following revelations of balance sheet insolvency across range of financial institutions. (Contributes to Sovereign Debt Crisis by inflating state borrowing and depressing economic activity.) 4. subprime lending / v & n. esp. relating to housing mortgage market. Financial mechanism used by banking institutions whereby loans are made to individuals normally excluded from credit markets. Made possible the fictitious profits and bonuses in the banking sector and the regeneration boom in our cities – see also buy-to-let mortgage; Private Finance Initiative. (Largely responsible for banking insolvencies and subsequent Bank Bailouts.)
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Does growing up playing games like Grand Theft Auto, a culture of violent computer games for entertainment have something to do with this?
Is it not an incentive to the idle and dim witted to move these games onto the street. Do the games convey the destruction of the hopes and efforts of victims? I doubt it.
David Wilson, you pose an idea that is almost offensively detached from the reality of the situation.
Deprivation, inequality and social detachment have been the causes of this mindless violence; this rampant greed and arrogance that has driven these opportunistic young people to commit such abhorrent crimes.
Not Playstations.
We have grown up with this in Norhern Ireland where a new generation of bored youths take to the street each year. Deprived of what? Values I would say.
This being an architecture magazine it seems important to stay focussed on the role of architecture in assisting our damaged society to heal and grow. There have been many initiatives, such as the 'small places' competition, which contribute positively. Perhaps there should be a wider debate about more practical ideas such as this in the AJ and RIBA.
It would make an interesting debate. I've added Irena Bauman's comment above: 'No amount of regeneration funding will help.' Have architectural interventions in public realm been used by local authorities to gloss over deeper social problems? Have they been paying lipservice to change and regeneration, using public realm/small projects as public relations campaigns, so that they can show something tangible they are doing, when really they are doing nothing to 'redistribute wealth', as Bauman suggests. Many of these projects did improve neighbourhoods, etc. but they needed to be underpinned by social programmes to really 'regenerate' a place.
Very nice and all - but why ask seven men and only one woman?
We asked several women, actually. The first thinkers to reply were posted yesterday, but we will continue to update this page, and post more comments, as they come in.
Mostly constructive, these comments. Thankyou. Architects etc may be encouraged or discouraged by the battles with Boris over his new London Plan: observations:
(i) unless we can retain low- and middle-income residence in gentrifying areas none of the potential understanding or interaction, none of the discovery of common class interests, is even POSSIBLE.
(ii) action groups did fight against the "social mix policy" (never applied in rich areas and often causing displacement) in Boris's new London Plan, and persuaded the expert panel to recommend deletion of the policy 2.10B. Boris however just softened it a bit to read "A more balanced mix of tenures should be sought in all parts of London, particularly in some neighbourhoods where social renting predominates and there are concentrations of deprivation".
(iii) in the same arena we persuaded the panel to recommend that, in 'regeneration areas' there should be no loss of social rented housing. Here again Boris resisted, writing in Policy 2.14 "These plans should resist loss of housing, including affordable housing, in individual regeneration areas unless it is replaced by better quality accommodation, providing at least an equivalent floorspace." So displacement could get rapidly worse.
(iv) There is research on these issues: universities are not totally complicit in what is happening.
More on all this at http://justspace2010.wordpress.com
I grew up with kids like these, in one of the most deprived neighborhoods in the North West, which is a lot more insight and 'engagement' than most architects will ever have.
Naturally many architects are from leafy suburbs, and love to theorise in journals and talk about 'community engagement', imagining they can make a difference. But I know that there will always be kids who want to smash things up - just for a laugh, nothing more. Given the chance, they will take it. They don't care about 'architecture' or 'society', or anything, and never will. There is not much that architects can do about it.
"People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it." Martin Luther King Jr.
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Who's Canucks No. 1 goalie? Roberto Luongo … at least right now (With video)
Netminder to make his third straight start Saturday vs. Red Wings, but both goalies draw kudos for TV skit
Vancouver Canucks goalies have everyone talking about their between-periods skit on TSN Thursday night.
VANCOUVER — Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider had fun doing it and received a great response to the hilarious skit they did for TSN about their battle over who really is the No. 1 goaltender with the Vancouver Canucks.
Even their coach, Alain Vigneault, loved it.
"My girls showed it to me last night when I got home," Vigneault said Friday of the James Duthie-inspired feature that aired between periods of Thursday night's game. "It was pretty good."
But right now, all kidding aside, it appears Luongo is No. 1.
This is, as Vigneault is so fond of saying, a performance-based business. Luongo has thus far been the better of the two goaltenders and he will make his third straight start Saturday night when the Canucks play host to the Detroit Red Wings at Rogers Arena (7 p.m., CBC, Team 1040).
"I just feel right now it's the right call," Vigneault said after Friday's practice.
Luongo has won his last two starts, a 2-1 shootout win in Columbus on Tuesday night and a 7-4 decision over the Nashville Predators on Thursday night at Rogers Arena.
It's really all about wins and losses now. Luongo's record (7-2-3) is better than Schneider's (6-5-3) and his goals-against-average is nearly half a goal better: 2.23 vs. 2.63.
"He has been good," Vigneault said of Luongo. "It was a great goaltending performance by both goaltenders in Columbus. He gave us the extra point in the shootout by being better than the other goaltender.
"(Thursday) night was a funny game. You have two elite goaltenders battling one another and there are some nights when the puck just won't go in and there are some other nights where everything you throw at the net finds a way to go in."
Vigneault suggested Luongo was the victim of a couple of bad bounces Thursday night.
His decision to go with Luongo is a tad surprising, given that Luongo was in goal when the Red Wings defeated the Canucks 8-3 at Joe Louis Arena on Feb. 24.
Luongo is highly motivated to beat the Red Wings on Saturday night, when the Canucks will be wearing their vintage Vancouver Millionaires jerseys.
"It's a good chance for myself and the team to get back at it and erase what was a pretty painful game," Luongo said. "It doesn't really matter that it's Detroit. At the end of the day you want to play well and you want to win. But at the same time it's a game that is fresh in our memory and it might give us some extra jump."
Schneider, who was not aware who was getting the start Saturday night when he walked into the dressing room after Friday's practice, took the news in stride.
"We're in the business of winning hockey games and I had three games in a row there and only got a couple of overtime points," he said. "Right now we need wins and Lou has won two in a row and has played really well and given us a chance in each game.
"So I think it's something where you have to stick with the hot hand and like I said, we have seen this before. We're back and forth, two or three (starts) here, and you always have to be sharp and be ready. We've got four (games) in six (nights) and three in four this week so I'm pretty sure I'll be back in there sooner or later."
Luongo and Schneider were both pleased with the way the TSN feature, which was taped last Friday in Columbus, turned out.
"I have watched it a few times and even when you know what's going on it's pretty funny to see when it's all put together," Luongo said. "And the out-takes are pretty funny, too."
Schneider joked about the experience being a difficult one.
"It was painful, I hated every second of it," he said. "I can't work with the guy … No, it was great. It was a lot of fun. James Duthie did a good job, made it fun and light-hearted and like I said this is kind of how we have both viewed this whole situation the whole time.
"Not as a joke, but we have sort of made light of it … we don't take it too seriously, we take our jobs seriously and what we do and competing, but that is pretty much how we are off the ice."
Schneider thinks it's good for players to let fans see them as real people.
"Sometimes it's tough to showcase your personality and what you really feel and how you are and that's a good thing for fans to see," he said. "We're pretty light-hearted, we're pretty laid back and we like to have fun. You can't play this game without having fun and I think people enjoy that. We have got a lot of good feedback."
Vigneault said both players deserve credit for handling the situation so well.
"Give them both full marks," he said. "This is a game, it is supposed to be fun. There are different situations within a team that sometimes can be challenging depending on your attitude and how you look at it. They made that a real neat thing. Give them both credit. They are great people, they get along real well and I think that probably proved it to everybody."


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Half ton, one ton, three quarter ton, etc… The funny thing about tonnage ratings is that they are still thrown around today but were only really accurate up into the 1960's. Since then, "tonnage" has become a slang way of separating the light, medium, and heavy duty truck models. Back when tonnage was accurate, it was a measurement of the truck's Payload Capacity.
Payload Capacity = Passengers + Cargo weight. This means the weight of the people, gas, beverages, rocks, mud, and yes even the pet raccoon that lives under the seat. This does not include the weight of the vehicle or any sort of towing number nonsense. In a perfect world……
1/2 ton truck = Safely carry 1000 lbs of people and cargo
3/4 ton truck = Safely carry 1500 lbs of people and cargo
1 ton truck = Safely carry 2000 lbs of people and cargo
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Bally Total Fitness, Chicago, has entered the high-volume/low-price arena with its new BFit model.
Bally held a grand opening for the first and only BFit club in the country on Saturday in Oak Lawn, IL. On hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony were Oak Lawn Mayor Dave Heilmann and Chicago Bears wide receiver Johnny Knox, who signed autographs for fans, according to the SouthtownStar of Tinley Park, IL.
Bally lost its lease at its former site in Oak Lawn before moving into a former car dealership to house its first BFit club, the newspaper reported.
The 18,000-square-foot club includes the latest cardio and strength equipment as well as The 30-Minute Workout, a full-body exercise routine. Other amenities include a tanning booth, personal training sessions, wood lockers and other designer finishes in the locker rooms.
Membership rates start at $5 bi-weekly and a $59 enrollment fee due at joining. The Elite BFit membership rate, which is $10 bi-weekly, includes boot camp and kettlebell workouts in a small group personal training setting.


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The following article below was originally published by Business Insider:
By Michael Kelley
June 3, 2013
Thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah militants are amassing around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in preparation for an assault on the city, Loveday Morris of The Washington Post reports.
The deployment demonstrates the group's complete commitment to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and may profoundly affect the 26-month conflict.
"The Aleppo battle has started on a very small scale; we've only just entered the game," a senior Hezbollah commander told The Post. "We are going to go after strongholds where they think they are safe. They are going to fall like dominoes."
The commander had been overseeing five units in Qusair, a town near the Syria-Lebanon on border where Hezbollah has been spearheading a regime offensive to retake the town for the last three weeks.
The increased presence of the militant group, in addition to the arrival of sophisticated military technology such as Iranian surveillance drones and Russian anti-mortar systems, has helped solidify recent gains made by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Hezbollah's preparations to attack Aleppo, which is nowhere near the Lebanon-Syria border, significantly raises the stakes in the war.
"A deployment so deep into Syria and in such a crucial place would be a clear indication that Hezbollah's role in Syria was never limited to defensive aims but is geared toward helping Assad score major victories," Emile Hokayem, a Middle East-based analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told the Post.
Aleppo is Syria's largest city and served as the country's commercial hub before the war.
David Barrett of The Telegraph reports that the metropolitan population, about three million before the war, has grown to about 3.5 million since the opposition seized half the city last July.
Rebels, primarily al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, have been administering city services in areas under their control while a stalemate persists.
The guerrilla fighters of Hezbollah are training and advising the growing irregular militias being deployed by Assad.
At least 50,000 militiamen — known as Jaysh al-Sha'bia i.e. "People's Army" — are now fighting for Assad, and Iran aims to increase the force to 100,000 by sending fighters to a secret base in Iran for guerrilla combat training.
Last week Jeffrey White, a defense fellow at The Washington Institute, wrote that "Hezbollah's all-in commitment is perhaps the single most important development of the war thus far and will profoundly affect its course."
Israel, which has bombed Syria three times this year amid suspicions of weapons transfers to Hezbollah, is surely watching the developments closely.
One unintended consequence of the Shia group's assertiveness inside Syria is an unprecedented galvanization of the fractured opposition.
Another immediate implication is increased sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is one of two major political parties.
"The presence of Hezbollah units around Aleppo will only deepen the divide in Lebanon and confirm, in the eyes of its rivals, Hezbollah's complete alignment with Assad," Hokayem told the Post, adding that it's now plausible that Hezbollah is and will be utilized anywhere in the country.
Right on cue, on Sunday night a security source told al-Arabiya that one person was killed and 21 wounded in Lebanon's second city of Tripoli when pro- and anti-Assad Alawite and Sunni residents clashed.


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Knitting techniques were already in use during the first centuries after Christ; it was regarded as a trade for quite some time, and, even today, continues to be a popular hobby that has experienced a resurgence in recent years. For example, a growing number of public knitting events are held, and knitting has even established itself as an art-form.
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Only the true Cupcake Project stalker may have noticed the new TLC Cake Crew Badge on the lower right side of my blog. A while back, I was asked to be part of a small group of bloggers chosen by TLC – The TLC Cake Crew. I was highly honored to be asked – check out the list of Cake Crew bloggers (many of whom I stalked even before joining the crew). This month, TLC sent each Cake Crew member a Flip video camera and asked us to share a favorite summer dessert with TLC.com. I say this somewhat nonchalantly, but you have to imagine me jumping up and down with excitement. I'd wanted a Flip for quite some time and had almost purchased one. Plus, my video was going to be on TLC (I know, it's the dot com and not the TV channel, but it's a step). Woot!
After MUCH deliberation, I decided to make mocha fudge pops for my TLC video. Unlike standard popsicles, these mocha fudge pops are actually frozen cupcakes on a stick. Not all cake works frozen. I considered making cheesecake (if you haven't tried frozen cheesecake, you should), but I settled on a flourless chocolate cake with a splash of Kahlua that essentially tastes like frozen fudge (a true fudgsicle).
Below, you'll find the video that I made for TLC. TLC will be choosing their favorite Cake Crew video based on creativity, appearance, and online feedback. So, if you like the mocha fudge pops, please leave comments on this post. Thanks! The winner of TLC's contest will get a 15 minute interview with the Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro. If I win, I'd share the love by soliciting questions from you!
I've included the mocha fudge pop recipe beneath the video.
Mocha Fudge Pop Recipe
The mocha fudge pop recipe is adapted from a flourless chocolate cake recipe from Allrecipes that I've made many times as flourless chocolate cupcakes and mini flourless chocolate cupcakes.
Mocha Fudge Pops
- 1/2 C Kahlua I used my homemade Kahlua
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 C white sugar
- 18 oz bittersweet chocolate chopped into small pieces
- 1 C unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 large eggs
- 3 large egg whites
- 3 tsp or more if you are a big coffee fan instant coffee, optional
- 8 cookie sticks or popsicle sticks
- 8 baking cups I prefer using the tall standalone kind for popsicles. I don't think that they make the exact kind that I used anymore, but here is a link to a similar baking cup.
- Combine the Kahlua, salt, and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside.
- Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven, melt the bittersweet chocolate.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.
- Beat the butter into the chocolate.
- Beat in the hot sugar-Kahlua mixture.
- Slowly beat in the eggs and the egg whites.
- Optionally, mix in the instant coffee. (I did not do this in the video. Adding the instant coffee will give the pops a stronger coffee flavor. Without it, the chocolate is by far the dominant flavor.)
- Place the baking cups on a cookie sheet.
- Fill the baking cups almost all the way to the top.
- Bake cupcakes at 300 F for 30 minutes. The center will still look wet.
- Allow the cupcakes to come to room temperature. You may want to eat some of them while they are still hot. I won't hold it against you. If you watch the video, you'll see that I did. :)
- Insert the cookie sticks into the center of each cupcake.
- Place the cupcake in the freezer for at least two hours (overnight is best).
- Remove from the freezer, peel the paper, and eat!


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By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 2:42 PM EDT, Sat June 30, 2012
George Zimmerman has acknowledged killing Trayvon Martin in a shooting that highlighted U.S. race relations and gun laws.
O'Mara asked that Zimmerman be released on the same $150,000 bail granted by Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. in April after Zimmerman's wife and family testified they had little money. In reality, Zimmerman and his wife had collected more than $150,000 in donations from the public.
Lester revoked Zimmerman's bail June 1, after learning that the defendant and his wife had failed to disclose the donations. The judge did not immediately rule on O'Mara's new bail request, which prosecutors opposed. And no decision was filed before the close of court Friday in Seminole County, Florida.
Lester did not say when he would rule, but O'Mara said after the hearing that he expects the judge to spend the weekend reviewing the evidence before ruling.
Zimmerman has acknowledged shooting Martin in a February incident that put national attention on the state of race relations and gun control laws in the United States. The Sanford, Florida, shooting sparked weeks of protests and rallies across the country, leading up to Zimmerman's eventual arrest.
He has argued self-defense, telling police that Martin attacked him. But the special prosecutor in the case alleges that the former neighborhood watch volunteer unjustly profiled and killed Martin.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder.
During Friday's hearing, O'Mara argued that Zimmerman, 28, was scared and confused when he failed to disclose the money. But it was the only time he had failed to fully cooperate with authorities, O'Mara said.
"I would suggest that he's evidenced that you can trust him many other times," O'Mara said.
Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda countered that Zimmerman should remain in jail without bail. Zimmerman was complicit in lying to the court and can't be trusted, he said.
"He quite frankly was manipulating the whole thing; he was using his wife as a conduit," de la Rionda said.
Zimmerman did not testify, although O'Mara offered to allow Lester to question him without the possibility of de la Rionda cross-examining him.
Lester refused, and O'Mara declined to say what Zimmerman would have told the judge.
At times, the hearing took on the appearance of a mini-trial, with the defense calling the paramedic who treated Zimmerman and replaying a 911 call that came in at the time of the shooting in an effort to highlight what O'Mara called Zimmerman's "extraordinarily strong argument for acting in self-defense."
O'Mara said he brought up the evidence to counter what he said were suggestions by the judge that the prosecution's case was strong. One of the considerations a Florida judge can use in determining bail is the strength of evidence in a case, O'Mara said.
He said evidence submitted in the case is weak and suggests that Martin "got shot and he was killed because of his own doing."
De la Rionda reiterated that prosecutors believe Martin was an innocent victim accosted by Zimmerman without provocation.
The hearing also dealt with the contributions Zimmerman collected from the public via a website he had set up to help fund his defense and his life in hiding following the Martin shooting.
Forensic accountant Adam Magill testified that thousands of dollars in donated funds flowed into and out of Zimmerman's account in the days before the first bail hearing.
But Magill discounted allegations that Zimmerman and his wife were trying to avoid federal financial disclosures by moving less than $10,000 in funds at a time.
Instead, Magill said, those limits were imposed by PayPal, the online payments processor that Zimmerman chose to handle donations from the public.
Magill did say under cross-examination by de la Rionda that it appeared Zimmerman and his wife were speaking in code during recorded jailhouse telephone conversations about the amount of money involved. He also said that transferring funds between accounts could have been done to make it appear that Zimmerman had less money available for bail than he did.
O'Mara said Zimmerman was sorry that he did not speak up when his wife said the family had little money during the April bail hearing.
Timeline of events in Trayvon Martin case
"He certainly regrets not doing that," O'Mara said.
In a written motion seeking bail filed before the hearing, O'Mara acknowledged that Zimmerman had misled the court but said he still should be allowed to leave jail on bail.
"Mr. Zimmerman's failure to advise the court of the existence of the donated funds at the initial bail hearing was wrong, and Mr. Zimmerman accepts responsibility for his part in allowing the court to be misled as to his true financial circumstances," O'Mara wrote. "Counsel, however, points to Mr. Zimmerman's voluntary disclosure of the fund and immediate surrender of any interest in the donated money through transfer of the fund to counsel for deposit in trust."
The money is now "under the control of an independent trustee and is not accessible to Mr. Zimmerman or his family," the motion said. "Any expenditure on behalf of Mr. Zimmerman must be approved by the fund administrator."
Authorities arrested Zimmerman's wife, Shellie Zimmerman, on a perjury charge June 12. She is accused of lying about the couple's finances at her husband's bond hearing. She left jail later that day after meeting the conditions of a $1,000 bond, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said.
Prosecutors alleged the couple had about $135,000 in donations at their disposal when they both told the court, under oath, that they were indigent.
O'Mara said his client ended up netting a total of $204,000 via PayPal accounts, about $150,000 of which is now in an independently managed trust after $30,000 was used to pay for "life in hiding." About $20,000 has been kept liquid for "ongoing living expenses."
At her husband's April 20 bail hearing, Shellie Zimmerman testified that she didn't know how much had been raised through the website her husband had set up before charges were filed.
Asked whether the couple had money available to assist in his defense, she replied, "Um, not -- not that I'm aware of."
In the recording of a jailhouse phone conversation, Zimmerman asks his wife, "In my account, do I have at least $100?" She answers no and then tells him he has more like "$8, $8.60."
"So total everything, how much are we looking at?" Zimmerman asks his wife.
"Like $155," she responds.


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Deputies: Winston-Salem man hit tow truck driver with car after repo
A Winston-Salem man was arrested on suspicion of hitting a tow truck driver with his repossessed car on Monday.
Jason Derek Faulkner, 31, was charged after an incident around 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the Statesville Auto Auction. The tow truck driver suffered severe injuries, including a fractured leg, and was taken to Carolinas Medical Center.
Faulkner had learned his car had been repossessed and followed the tow truck to the auto auction, Iredell County deputies said.
The suspect told employees that he needed to get some personal belongings out of the car, but he started the car and began to drive away instead, deputies said.
The tow truck driver tried to stop the suspect, but he was hit by the front bumper as the car drove off the parking lot, deputies said.
A witness followed the suspect in another tow truck on I-40 and I-77, but he got away after a crash, deputies said.
Deputies later found Faulkner and charged him with felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, felony larceny of a motor vehicle and aggressive driving.
Faulkner was held under a $200,000 secured bond.


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UTC is a public sector passenger road transport corporation providing services in the state of Uttarakhand and other adjoining states in North India. With a fleet size of around 1247 buses and operate over 3.87 lakh kilometers catering to the travel needs of over 1.20 lakh people everyday. It provides adequate, efficient, well co-ordinated, comfortable and economical services to our passengers, while earning enough for self-sustainance & growth, is our motto.
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As a healthcare services provider, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) is committed to delivering superior service while keeping premiums low. Maximizing efficiency and minimizing overhead costs are top priorities. IT supports these objectives with a sophisticated infrastructure running dozens of critical systems on mainframe, UNIX®, Linux®, and Intel® platforms. Keeping those systems up to date and operating reliably involves completing 50,000 batch jobs on time each day. Any interruption in service could hamper employees in delivering quality service to members.
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Predictably, 44's recent decision to provide additional nonlethal military aid to the opposition Syrian National Coalition and its military wing has pleased almost no one. Those who want to provide arms and ammunition to the rebels see 44's step as weak and insufficient, while those who oppose any aid to the increasingly dubious opposition see it as another step toward just such lethal assistance.
Despite these divergent criticisms, however, the decision announced by Secretary of State John Kerry, now belatedly converted to opposing Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, is at bottom simply another half-step, a compromise, further evidence of 44's chronic national security indecisiveness. There is no coherent politico-military strategy at work here, only an effort to appease domestic and international critics of a Syria policy badly misguided from the outset.
The central issue for America has never been whether to aid the Syrian opposition or simply sit on the sidelines. The real question is how broader U.S. strategic objectives in the Middle East and elsewhere are affected by the conflict among Syria's ethnic and religious factions.
Unfortunately, other than pressuring Little Satan these last four years to surrender to unacceptable Palestinian demands, 44 is bereft of a regional strategy. By withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and accelerating withdrawal from Afghanistan, he acts as if we were the cause of regional hostility rather than a source of security and stability for our interests and friends.
And regarding Iran, whose support for terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapons constitutes the principal threat to regional peace, 44 has simply been AWOL.
Where does Syria fit in? Assad's regime is no friend to America or Little Satan. It relies for its existence on Russian and Iranian assistance, it oppresses its own people and it is a key abettor of international terrorists such as Lebanon's Hezbollah. In short, the regime has nothing to recommend its continued existence.
For two years, however, 44 and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pursued Russia, operating under the delusion that Washington and Moscow had "common interests" in effecting Assad's peaceful removal from power. Nothing could be further from the Kremlin's real interests and two years of conflict are largely attributable to this complete misreading of Russia's intentions.
Moreover, 44 was reluctant to oppose Assad for fear of displeasing Tehran's ayatollahs, thereby risking disruption of a parallel delusion, namely that Iran could be bargained out of its nuclear weapons program. Even now, the administration continues negotiations that will actually legitimize Iran's nuclear program, leaving it far more capable of manufacturing nuclear weapons at a time of Tehran's choosing.
In fact, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we go into crises with the president we have and this one is simply too dangerously naïve and detached to bear serious responsibilities.
Unfortunately, however, Syria's opposition is also problematical. Even after two years of increasingly mortal conflict, Europe and Great Satan remain unable to identify opposition politicians, political blocs and fighting units we are confident would govern Syria after Assad according to acceptable standards.
Given the tragedy continuing to unfold in Syria, what should American policy be?
First, our most important objective must be to ensure that Syria's large stockpiles of chemical weapons and related materials do not fall into the hands of international terrorists and exit the country for use elsewhere. Moreover, reported biological weapons and nuclear programs, likely in conjunction with Iran, must also be kept from the wrong hands. And before any substantial assistance, lethal or nonlethal, is provided to any Syrian opposition elements, Washington must obtain demonstrable, unequivocal commitments that, if they prevail, they agree to the destruction of all aspects of Assad's programs of weapons of mass destruction.
Second, supporters of the opposition must name names and supporting evidence:
Whom can we trust?
How much Syrian support do they have?
Are they strong enough to stand against al-Qaida or radical Islamicist elements within the opposition?
We must insist on opposition leaders who would not commit indiscriminate bloodbaths against the Christians, Druze and Alawites now supporting Assad.
These preconditions are neither unreasonable nor impossible to fulfill. And they rest simply on the long-standing bedrock of foreign policy — namely that our objectives should be to protect American national interests and allies, not endlessly going "abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
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