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The gaming recliner is one of the best inventions for the relentless hardcore gamer that spends hour slaying their opponents or working together in co-operative games to achieve a goal. However, most people that game today don't have a gaming recliner and instead, sit in a relatively uncomfortable office or pc chair or make-shift chair for long periods of time. This is not only bad for your back but has other health related consequences as well.
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What Makes a Gaming Recliner Great?
Gaming recliner aren't as well-known as they should be. They not only have a unique and stylish look to them, but they also support positive health for prolonged use of sitting at a computer desk. Let's go over some of the distinct qualities of the gaming recliner chair that make them worth the purchase and upgrade.
They not only support your lower back but they support your neck and lumbar area as well. This is especially important for people of all ages because while you might not think about it now, when you're around retirement age, you will wish you had treated your back better. Gaming recliners have unique spread out soft cushioning that works together to relax every area of your body when laying back or sitting.
They're generally cost effective, unlike competitors of similar products would have you believe. You can get a gaming chair in general for as low as $20 and while it might not be the highest quality product, there are great products out there for a mere $100. There's a lot of brand name office chairs that don't offer the same benefits as a gaming recliner but end up costing the consumer over hundreds of dollars.
The unique features of gaming recliners (which will vary by brand and chair model) give you customized relaxation. For example, some gaming recliners offer a built in audio system, some chairs offer customizable parts, removable cushioning and even fold up to a manageable size so it can be easily stored.
Health Consequences of a Poor Quality Chair
So while there are quite a few benefits to spending money on a gaming chair, there are some people that are still put off by the idea of gaming chairs and think they're nothing more than a marketing scheme to get you to spend money. While this holds true for every company in the world, I want to remind you that brand name office chairs can cost up to hundreds of dollars. Why do they cost so much money? They all look the same, none of them are comfortable and the only thing that's different is usually the brand name.
If you're an avid gamer or someone who spends a lot of time in a chair, there are some health consequences associated with spending all day in an uncomfortable chair that doesn't come with the industry standard gaming chair cushioning.
Your lower back and spine are under enormous amounts of pressure all day. Your spine will desperately fight to keep your head at level view to your monitor and your lower back is probably sitting in an awkward position. You might think this isn't a big deal but over time, you could suffer chronic back pain as a result.
Your less focused and less concentrated when you're not comfortable. People who are struggling to find a comfortable sitting position or struggling with back pain in a chair, aren't exactly in their best state of mind and are probably rushing through work to get out of there. It's been shown that your performance as a gamer can improve when you're in a comfortable seating position.
The Top 3 Gaming Recliners
With so many gaming recliners on the market today, you might be thinking to yourself, "Which one should I buy?" There are a lot of amazing products out there that don't cost an arm and a leg. We've gone through three of the best gaming recliners on the market and will lay them out for you with all the features they have to offer and our final thoughts on them.
#1 - Merax Ergonomic Series Pu Leather Office Chair Racing Chair with Footrest Computer Gaming Chair, Recliner, Swivel, Tilt, Rocker and Seat Height Adjustment
Our first chair comes from a great company known as Merax as a fully functional tilting and swivel gaming chair. It rolls around and can easily double as an office chair as well.
There's a gas spring in the seating for adjustable height
You can swivel around 360 degrees
The backrest allows you to adjust it up to 180 degrees for comfort
There's a lock function that allows you to tilt to a position you're comfortable in
Comfortable bonded leather upholstery
Extendable leg rest so you can kick up your feet
#2 - Essentials Massage Office, Computer, or Gaming Chair - Heated Shiatsu, Plush, Leather Recliner and Ottoman, Black (ESS-7050M)
While this chair isn't as flashy as some of the gaming chairs you're used to, this chair isn't just a gaming chair but can also be used in other areas of the home outside of the gaming room or in a business casual office.
While it doesn't have a built in leg-rest, this chair comes with a matching ottoman that you can place for your leisure
Comes with padded armrests, a padded headrest and an ergonomic office design that won't clash with the theme of any room you decide to put it in
Comes with massage capability that even allows you to turn on heat for an even more enjoyable experience
Massage system is adjustable and rolls up and down on your command
Made for heavy duty with a 250 pound weight capacity for heavy duty
#3 - Merax High-back Ergonomic Pu Leather Racing Chair Executive Office Chair Swivel Chair Reclining Chair
Another Merax product that's constantly running out of stock, so this is one of those chairs that you might want to make haste on and order quick if it's interesting to you.
Made specifically to help support your back and spine with a higher than normal headrest, for those die hard gamers
Comes with a 135 degree adjustable backrest that can lock to a position you're most comfortable in
An arm rest that can be flipped up for comfort or brought back down for easier use of the keyboard
Armrests and seat height are completely adjustable depending on your preference
If you're someone who spends a lot of time on the computer or spends a lot of time gaming, it's vital to not only your game performance but the health of your back that you have a chair that supports it. We've dug through the trenches of gaming chairs to find 3 of the best gaming recliner chairs for your money and for your comfort. You won't be disappointed at the level of comfort provided and to the overall enjoyment of your computer sessions that you'll experience. They're fairly cost effective and a great gift to give someone for their birthday or for this holiday season, which is right around the corner.
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A ship of a size to house two of every species of animal in the world would be as big as the American state of Rhode Island! In addition, Noah would have to first gather a sufficient supply of resources (lumber, lashing, etc.) and then still have to BUILD the actual thing in a week at most. The ship would have to have strong structural integrity, gates/ramps that open and close to let the animals in and out, food for the animals to eat, and no holes/gaps in the ship's hull, for it may sink.
How would Noah get all the animals aboard? He couldn't just simply tell them to. In the story, they knew. But many animals fear human contact, and most likely do not speak English, contrary to the tale. He would need to travel all over the world, capture the animals, and load said creatures into the Ark. He would undoubtedly be attacked by undomesticated/wild animals (i.e. lions, tigers, wolves) who have no desire to be caged. Noah would receive severe bites, lacerations, poison, blindness, and loss of limbs during his expedition. In addition, Noah would require to feed each and every animal, whether it's deer, grass, or fish, which he'll also have to gather.
ONE MAN had to do all this, which would take him several decades to build, harvest, hunt, travel, and capture. It would take an entire civilization to do all this in approximately 10-15 years, covering gathering, travel, and build time. And that is if they do this with HASTE! It's simply not possible to complete such a difficult, laborious, and time-consuming task.
Based on my analysis of Noah's Ark, the story, should it repeat itself, would not be deemed possible. ONE MAN had to do so many great tasks and build an enormous vessel on top of all that, plan its construction, all in a week. Even for the strongest, fastest man on Earth would not be capable to accomplish this. Therefore, the matter of it is, the famed tale of Noah's Ark, is impossible to accomplish.
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Conor Mullen Oberst (born February 15, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer (The Faint), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Arab Strap and Monsters of Folk. Oberst was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine. Enjoy Conor Oberst's best quotes below.
"When everything is lonely I can be my best friend."
"The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing."
"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."
"On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record."
"I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love."
"There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road."
"I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing."
"I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie."
"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
"Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that."
"I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works – it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are."
"They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green."
"In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly… I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible."
"Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York."
"I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs."
"I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together."
"I always embrace the worst-case scenario."
"A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike."
"I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all."
"To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic."
"To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself."
"My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose."
"I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places."
"Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it."
"I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring."
"Love's an excuse to get hurt."
"I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time."
"I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'"
"My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme."
"Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart."
"If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe."
"When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles."
"I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency."
"There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy."
"We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul."
"Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant."
"If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were."
"Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles – I think that realization means you're an adult."
"Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does."
"Pronouns really don't matter in a song – 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object."
"We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope."
"When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal."
"I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls."
"I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone."
"I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme."
"When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music."
"Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music."
"I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things."
"It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that."
"One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work – I rip him off constantly."
"On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil – if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out."
"You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know."
"I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome."
"The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong – that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions."
"I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family."
"I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor."
"I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it."
"I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it."
"I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids."
"There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever."
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original."
"I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist."
"I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world."
"Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented."
"I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend."
"So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music."
"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
"With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is."
"I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in."
"I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus."
"I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to."
"It's human nature to wonder."
"When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved."
"When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great."
"I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about."
"If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space."
"Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds."
"One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too."
"People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over – but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next."
"I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands."
"I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind."
"If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing… one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand."
"When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me."
"You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to – they either come or they don't."
"I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response."
"Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?"
"I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting."
"I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most."
"The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade."
"It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason… But that's what's great about music – however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them."
"No lies, just love."
"There's all body types, but there's just one size."
"Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place."
"My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure."
"The only thing major labels can really offer is money."
"I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out."
"I'm very interested in writing – it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels."
"If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it."
"It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out."
"The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months."
"The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself."
"To finish a song is the best feeling in the world."
"When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place."
"When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do."
"You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it."
"I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs."
"I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people."
"I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together."
"I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue."
"In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is – you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way."
"I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something."
"The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way."
"The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong – that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions."
"There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions."
"I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates."
"I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go out of favour; I'll get sick of a song for a while, and I won't play it; then it'll make a comeback."
"I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it."
"It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much."
"I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things."
"I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again."


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Nathan Ellis Perkel worked with ESPN's photo editor Joe Rodriguez on a feature called, "Home Cookin" for their fan issue. Perkel says, "I had the pleasure of spending a few weeks in May and June traveling around the country shooting these five portraits of X-Games athletes in their private training facilities. I can honestly say that this was one of my favorite and most rewarding assignments to date. The first of all our shoots [was] with Robbie Maddison at his Temecula motocross park perched in his front yard…. We witnessed Robbie practice a 'body varial' into his brand new $100,000 foam pit, a trick never landed in competition."
Robbie Maddison.
Travis Pastrana
"After spending his whole morning on a film shoot for an ESPN commercial with his crew from Nitro Circus, Pastrana instantly changed gears and jumped on his mini bike for a quick back-flip over his front yard vertical ramp, then proceeded to bounce from trampoline to golf cart doing wheelies."
Curren Caples
"It is really amazing how effortless Caples' front-side carves on the vertical wall (seen above) were first thing in the morning of our shoot. Doing it over and over to get the right expression for our portrait, he kept bouncing around his park, blasting off every possible hip in the building while he waited for each shot."
Sean Malto
"Maltos' Kansas City park is about as perfect as it gets which might explain how he is so flawless on a skateboard."
Brian Kachinsky
"Out of all the guys we shot, Brian was by far the most excited about the shoot, and definitely went out on a limb for us, riding for hours and getting a handful of tricks in his hand-built park located in an abandoned bakery in Chicago. He was super enthusiastic about having us there, and went to great lengths to make sure every image was up to par and worthy of being seen by the magazine."


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To book this cottage, please fill out the online form. Alternatively, you can fill out our printable application form and email it to reservations (@)ontariocottagerentals (dot)com or fax it to 705-788-3728. We will contact you regarding availability once the application form has been received.
Check-in: Saturday after 4:00pm
Check-out: Saturday before 10:00am
This cottage is a short 10-minute boat ride across Lake Muskoka to a picturesque property on Wilson Island. With sleeping for 6 and the quiet of an Island, this is the perfect place to spend a week.
There are three bedrooms located close to each other. The first bedroom offers a queen bed and single day bed; the second bedroom offers two twin beds, and the third a double bed. There is a four-piece bathroom located close by. For the occasional overnight guest, the couch in the living room is a pullout bed.
The sun streams in to the windows of this open concept cottage. The full front of this cathedral ceiling cottage is comprised of windows, and the view is very serene from either the kitchen or the living room. The living room has a plenty of seating for reminiscing about the day's adventures. The cottage does not offer a TV so there are no distractions.
Down at the waterfront there is a spacious dock and swimming is best enjoyed from here. The depth of the water at the side of the dock is approximately three feet while at the end of the dock it is approximately 4 and a half feet.
This property has a lot of character. The magnificent cedar trees tower high above and present both shade and privacy. Enjoy time on the dock where you will get the afternoon sun and sit and listen to the water lapping at the shore. You will really enjoy the fire pit area at this idyllic spot. What a wonderful way to wind down at the end of the day.
For fun in the sun, book this cottage!
Note: brought pets must stay off furniture.
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More TV viewers turning to Web
EmptyNEW YORK -- More television viewers are turning to the Internet to watch videos, films and TV episodes, according to a new survey.
In the past year, YouTube has widened its lead as the top destination for online videos, while search engines and television networks have gained ground.
About 65% of the 2,455 American adults surveyed by Harris Interactive said they have watched a video on YouTube, compared with 42% during the same time last year.
"Viewing videos online seems to inspire a sense of adventure, particularly among younger viewers," Joan Barten Kline, a spokeswoman for the company, said.
More than one-third of viewers overall and half of those 18-24 said there is something they really enjoy about discovering a cool video online.
"They seem to take particular pride in their finds online and share them with friends," Barten Kline added.
More than 42% of YouTube viewers said they visit the site frequently, up from 33% last year.
Apart from YouTube, which most people favored because they felt it had almost every video they could find, 43% said they have watched a video on a TV network Web site, followed by 35% on news sites and less than 30% on search engines such as Yahoo and Google.
Social networks such as MySpace and Facebook as well as iTunes also had a lower share of online viewers.
Online viewers said they would watch more TV episodes and full-length movies if more were available. There was less interest in viewing more amateur or user-generated videos, news and sports, according to the survey.


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The beauty of covering your bench during the winter means that come the Spring, you lift the cover and your bench is immediately available for use, saving you the time and effort of cleaning.
Made from Teflon coated polyester, when not in use, your cover can be folded and stored easily while you enjoy the summer months.
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Product Type Waterproof Cover Bench Type No Size No Width 75cm Height 102cm Depth 52cm Seat Height 45cm Assembly No
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- Le tour de stag is perfect for boys that love their bikes and the great outdoors!
- Our guide will accompany you on a fantastic cycle ride
- You'll arrive at our luxury camp-site to a deliciously hearty supper
- £190 per person, bookings are subject to a minimum of 10 people.
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Our Cycling Stag Weekend is a great way to bring all the lads together, escape from the city and enjoy a weekend in the great outdoors. All food is provided and camp is set up for you prior to arrival, so won't have to tackle with tents or fire up the barbeque – meaning more time to relax and drink alfresco style!
You can go hard with some hill climbs and fast paced racing or take it slow with a gentle ride through the countryside taking in the views and stop off at a few pubs along the way to sample some local Ales.
Finally reaching your end destination to de-stress out at you're campsite and final destination.
Why should I choose a Camping and Cycling Stag Weekend?
- Le tour de stag is perfect for boys that love their bikes and the great outdoors!
- Upon arrival at the campsite you will be greeted with a light lunch and a few more beers
- You can plan your route in advance for less stress.
- Meals and accommodation are included.
- Dinner can be decided prior to the camping trip upon booking. Options include beer can chicken', 'venison stew' or 'Paella'
- Unwind with in our sauna in the afternoon and relieve those aching muscles from the morning's cycle.
- Relax in the evening around the fire, play some games & tell some embarrassing stories about the stag! Wake up to the smell of breakfast in the morning.
Give us a call on 020 7274 4865 to fine out more about Camping and Cycling Stag Weekend.


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Warehouses offer best bet for investors looking at the Hong Kong property market
The sector has been among the most under-supplied in the city over the past 10 years.
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After playing second fiddle to the city's commercial property markets for much of the past decade, Hong Kong's warehouse market is increasingly being viewed by many investors as the best bet to place money.
NWS Kwai Chung Logistics Centre just recently closed the tender for NWS Kwai Chung Logistics Centre with some pundits pricing it at as much as HK$4.5 billion. If sold at this price, it would easily be the single largest warehouse transaction ever in the city, eclipsing the HK$3.49 billion (US$450 million) paid by Goodman to acquire a 25 per cent stake in ATL Logistics Centre (along with other port assets) in 2013.
For investors, the Hong Kong warehouse market provides a compelling proposition; a supply constrained market with the potential for a significant demand uplift upon the completion of new transport infrastructure in the not too distant future.
The sector has been among the most under-supplied in the city over the past 10 years. According to data from the Rating & Valuation Department, private warehousing stock increased by just 7 per cent from 2006-2015. In comparison, total office and commercial stock increased by 15 per cent each, over the same 10-year period. Even within the sector, investors and developers have opted to build quasi-office buildings when redeveloping older industrial sites instead of warehouses.
The rezoning of industrial land for non-industrial use along with the redevelopment and revitalisation of older industrial buildings for commercial uses has further reduced availability. The government's industrial building revitalisation policies, which only ended in March this year, has already reduced industrial stock by over 5 million square feet with the potential to reach close to 10 million square feet if all approved applications are ultimately executed.
As a result, vacancy rates have fallen to their lowest levels on record, standing at just 1.7 per cent at the end of 2015.
The constraints on supply, however, are only part of the equation. Demand for warehousing space is only likely to intensify in the coming years. Although merchandise trade volumes are currently in decline the completion of new infrastructure projects may boost demand for warehouses in the coming years.
At the heart of the expected jump in demand is the expansion of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). Already the world's busiest airport for cargo, the completion of a third runway by 2020 is estimated to increase cargo volumes by an average of 4.2 per cent per annum.
By our estimations, the projected increase in cargo volumes at HKIA will likely translate into an additional 300,000 square feet per of warehousing demand per annum. The completion of the Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge and Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link will also help boost demand, allowing goods to be moved in and out of the city from the Pearl River Delta more easily.
Questions have been raised as to whether these new road links will serve to help move demand outside of the city where bonded warehouse rents, on average, are less than half the amount paid in Hong Kong. Given that most of the goods being shipped out of the Pearl River Delta are increasingly of higher value-added, product margins should be sufficient to ensure that goods destined for global markets will still be moved through Hong Kong.
Moreover, for logistics operators leveraging on the advantages of HKIA to deliver Just-In-Time logistics solutions, utilising bonded warehouses outside of Hong Kong will not be feasible given the time required to clear customs and costs in transporting goods into Hong Kong.
Recent changes to China's cross border e-commerce regulations, which have raised taxes on certain goods, also have the potential to help increase warehouse demand with e-commerce platforms operating from outside of China —which includes Hong Kong — exempt from the new regulations. Identifying potential areas for logistics development including Hung Shui Kiu and Lantau Island, land supply for warehouses will remain limited over the near-to-medium-term.
The resilience of the sector's rental market over the past 12 months, even as key demand drivers have slid, has only strengthened the resolve of investors. Prime warehouse rents increased by 7.1 per cent in 2015 and have posted the strongest cumulative growth among all property sectors in the city since the global financial crisis.
Denis Ma is head of research at JLL
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Honda New Freed
Harga Mobil Honda New Freed Baru dan Bekas (Second). Honda Freed is the newest car from Honda, Freed is a mini MPV produced since 2008 for domestic market in Japan. On the 21st of March 2009, the Freed was launched in Indonesia, the second country to be offered after Japan.
Harga Honda Freed Baru
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|Freed S-Alpha
|Freed S
|Freed E
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|Price (Juta Rupiah)
Note : Harga Honda / The car price displayed here can be different from the actual price on the dealer or the seller depend on some factors.
Information Summary
Honda Freed launched in 2008 for Japan Market, and launched in March 2009 for Indonesian Market. The Freed is based on the Jazz/Fit platform.
Honda Freed offered three different version, a seven-passenger version, an eight-passenger version and a five-passenger version which offers a large cargo space.
The Freed is equipped with a 1.5L engine with 118 horsepower, same as Honda Jazz engine, but Honda Freed had a little difference at torque, Honda Freed has 148 Nm, honda Jazz/City had 120 Horsepower with torque 145 Nm.
Honda Freed is assembled at Honda's Karawang Plant and will be exported to other ASEAN markets. In September 2009, it was announced that a hybrid version would be available by 2011.
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We decided that we'd cross into California before stopping for lunch, putting almost six hours of the freeway drive behind us. Pulling into Yreka, I rolled the window down and let the California summer pour into the convertible cab of my Camaro. Within it was an aridity, a heat so fundamental that it was hard to imagine winter ever having much presence there.
Even in early August, the air I left in Vancouver had already begun to snap in the morning. As I drove away from the home I grew up in, watching in the mirror my mom wave and wipe her tears, I remember the heater blowing on my legs, the faint mist trapped near the ground beading up and streaming over the hood. Summer seemed to leave in a hurry that year, and the space it made was damp and cool and greying. Beneath the shade of trees, where just a month before I took respite from the sun, a touch of fall now pricked my spine. The evenings smelled like rain.
But I was headed off to warmer pastures. To the south, where even winter agreed to tan my pasty northwest skin. Where precipitation didn't jail me for all but one season of the year—and an ever-shrinking season that was, too. No more ashen ceiling. No more sopping pant legs dragging on the clammy ground.
"But Arizona?" my mother parried. "It's so hot, and far." The distance was the real stab. She'd already seen one child off to Canada, now her last was moving to a wasteland twice as far away. My mom hadn't ventured far from home, ever really, and it always seemed a mystery to her that a child should want to wander off. Her clear, blue eyes would turn glossy if the conversation turned to my moving out. Although, she's always had a knack for brisk and careless subject changes should a topic threaten to make her cry. "I saw Tommy's mother at Safeway today. She looks terrible."
Yreka was open and exposed, as though the little town had been planted in the middle of a gravel parking lot where nothing really grew outside of pots. At the slight elevation from which we descended, I could look down onto it like map—all the streets, the buildings, the parks, the traffic, the whole place clearly laid out over the flat and unwooded terrain. Glassy waves of heat rose from the ground in the distance, rippling the breezeless landscape and enriching the unreality which I already felt. It was the outer edge of an enigmatic dessert, a foreign world into which I was heading deeper still.
Phoenix was our ultimate destination. I had applied and been accepted to an expensive automotive trade school there, and, since it would take some time to find an apartment and then move into it, my dad and I went down a month before classes began. We rented a large truck, which he drove, to carry all my things. I followed in my own car. To communicate with one another we bought two way radios, which seemed to turn our meager pair into something of a convoy.
Descending into the barren town, whose truck stops spilled from edge to edge staining the dessert with semis and chain-link fencing, my dad came across the radio to ask what I might want to eat. Fast food signs jutted up above the roofs like trees, most of them the same familiar places that we had in Vancouver. We hadn't traveled far south enough to find the In-N-Outs and Arctic Circles.
"I'll follow you," I said into the palm-sized walkie-talkie, hoping that he would see the Dairy Queen standing at the end of what appeared the main artery through Yreka.
"Look at that," the sandy voice on the other end replied. "An omen."
Stuck between a Loves diesel station and a Burger King, with just a small sign no taller than the van in front of me, the hut-like building's orange stucco walls burned against the brown land around it. "The New Phoenix Brewery," read a plywood board above its door, on which a hand-painted bird of brilliant purple and red was soaring out from inside a whirl of flames. The building consumed at most an eighth of the sprawling gravel lot on which it stood, the rest taken by a small metropolis of tractor-trailers, some still idling in the heat as their drivers slept or ate. Our U-Haul seemed inane and puny parked amongst them.
I unfolded and stretched my bulky frame from the Camaro, my thighs catching fire as they awoke, and walked to meet my dad while he did the very same. I looked up and let the vacant sky wash my face, let the lucidity anoint my lips with a little taste of the freedom I saw in it, a little sip of the dread that lingered in its deepness. The heat was light and intense, searing the skin of everything it touched but not penetrating deep enough to heat it through. Mountains towered not too far away. Greenness still exuded from the woods abroad and lent the slightest drafts of itself to the California dessert. Inside the New Phoenix, the air was fake and chilly.
It took little time at all for me to make up my mind. I didn't think that a university would be a proper fit; I liked cars a lot—building, driving, and trading them; I was mechanically inclined and didn't shy away from difficult labor; and by the end of high school, scars already graced most of my knuckles from the wrenching that I'd done. They seemed almost to map out a future for me. So when the local admissions officer from Universal Technical Institute came to interview me, he met an easy sell.
A round man with glasses and soft hands, a leather briefcase and khaki slacks, he seemed an ill-fitting surrogate for a trade school boasting graduates on national Indy racing teams. He spoke mostly to my parents, in a nasal voice, as the four of us sat around the kitchen table, our English sheepdog garnering more attention from me than the tri-fold brochure which I was handed.
"It's not your average community college shop class," he said condescendingly, as if questioning my capacity to join his ranks. "We work with all the major auto manufacturers, race teams throughout the country—heck, we've even got an office at the Porsche proving grounds in Florida," he said. "It's not a correspondence course. He'll be in class five days a week, eight hours each day. Not to mention the financial commitment."
"Do you offer financing?" my father asked. "Twenty thousand seems out of the question for most families to pony up."
"We do," the man replied, pulling out a laminated chart from beneath a mess of papers. "Our interest rates are fixed, and teared in such a way that families with lower incomes receive more favorable rates. My I ask what your gross household income is, Tim?"
When my dad told him, the man slid his chair nearer and put the chart between them on the table. Tracing across it with his stout finger, the hair on each knuckle uniformly smooth as if he'd combed it, he pointed to a row of figures well above the middle column.
"Thirteen percent?" my dad protested, shifting his own chair away, its legs squealing as they gouged the linoleum. "That's ridiculous. That's what you think middle-class families can afford?"
"Mr. Erickson, I don't decide the rates. Most higher-income families opt for outside financing. Or else they pay cash."
"Cash," my dad laughed, looking at my mother, who shook her head and looked at me.
I really didn't listen too much. Racing teams and Porsches were all I heard about, and even those were rather superfluous. Stacks of hot rod magazines littered my bedroom, hand-built remote control cars filled a corner of the garage. I was the only student at my school whose car set off alarms as it idled though a parking lot. My grades were never very good, but my valve covers shone like mirrors. I was made for a career of tools and grease, of carburetors and pass-through exhaust.
It was raining heavy when the man came to our house, the winter not yet fully giving way to spring. Water fell in heavy drops that tapped against the siding as the wind pushed them sideways. The air still held a whisper of the piney smell that filled it in the months before.
"It sure is hot in Phoenix," the man said, changing the subject and addressing me as he sifted through his case for more material. "It's all I can do to stay a few days down there. Big kid like you? It'd be quite an adjustment."
"Grandpa Paul used to keep a motorhome in Parker, Arizona years ago," my dad remembered over his half-eaten burger—no cheese—and a plate of salty fries. With his elbows resting on either side of the white oval plate, his hands above it almost as if he were going to pray, he rolled a French fry between his thumb and fore finger. A shower of coarse salt danced like rain as it landed on the greasy plate.
"He was down there with Grandma when he got sick. She couldn't drive it, so she called me to come down and get them. I wasn't about to do it by myself. I wasn't even sure that it would make the trip. So I called your uncle Peter.
"Uncle Pete and I hadn't talked for years. I really didn't think he'd go. But, shit, it was his dad too, and I didn't want to drive that piece of crap all the way to Long Beach. He didn't even argue when I called him. He just asked what time I was leaving. When we flew into Nevada it was the end of summer, and hotter than hell. The motorhome was musty and needed tires. And dad wouldn't let us run the air conditioning because it used so much gas.
"It took three days just to get to northern California because dad couldn't take the movement and the heat. Plus the motorhome could barely make the hills. He complained about our driving so much that we had to tell the old bastard to shut up almost every minute. Then, coming out of the Redwoods, it started to snow. It wasn't even October, and it was snowing like a damn blizzard in the mountains.
"The poor motorhome's brakes kept heating up as we came down the mountain, and I was white-knuckled the whole way because the road was a solid sheet of ice. Grandpa Paul couldn't stand Pete driving. 'Don't you let him touch that wheel,' he told me and grandma. So we had to wait until he fell asleep to switch, then switch back if he started moving again.
"Once we got to Oregon, I said 'that's it, we're not stopping until we're home,' and I pushed that thing as fast as it would go all the way to Long Beach. We used about a case and a half of oil in five days. I didn't want to see my dad again for ages. That was right before he went into the hospital. I don't think grandma said a word the whole time we drove—just sat in back with dad."
He took the last bite of his burger and unfolded a map. My BLT was just a memory by then, the Coke sweating in front of me, a thin, brown liquid encasing blocks of shrinking ice.
"I think we can make it to Barstow by dark," he said. "We'll get a hotel there."
By the time we stepped outside, a few gauzy clouds had gathered, sleeping loftily within the bucolic sky, frozen in the afternoon like milky ribbons curled forever in a marble. They looked so different from the clouds I knew, so high and thin. Something told me that no matter how many of them collected, the rain that they promised would never really fall. They were just the vaporous exhalations of some distant mountain woods, there to break monotony, to hover up above and cast the specter of the shady trees they'd left behind.
It drove me nearly mad to follow a U-Haul van for so many miles, some horrible little device restricting it to sixty, a mere screw to stop the butterfly valve from taking bigger breaths, a deliberate short thrown into its convoluted circuitry that damned the flow of fuel. How I craved the throttle on those forsaken desert roads. How I lusted for the throaty rip of eight cylinders drinking greedily the heated air. But I didn't know the way to Barstow. Before my father mentioned it I hadn't even known Barstow existed.
Clearly larger than Yreka, and quite a distance from I-5, Barstow had a permanence about it. Men in cowboy hats, driving trucks with California plates and dirty tires, nodded at one another while they drove. It was late on a Friday evening, and the parking lots of Mexican restaurants were alive with families out for a meal. The air was relaxed and casual beneath the huge moon, which lit the wide streets far brighter than the lamps that flickered over them.
Crickets louder than I'd ever heard before sang at the edges of the hotel parking lot. Somewhere close by, a dog barked out incessantly–not the barks of stress, but as if children teased them out of him from behind their fenced in yards. I remembered my English sheepdog, Millie. Her fur and girth would have been a hindrance in that heat, but I wished her there nonetheless. Missing her then turned my mind to my mother.
She and I decided one day to drive two and a half hours north to look at an English sheepdog pup. We had been looking through the paper and visiting the pound. We even went to a dog show in search of that particular breed, really knowing nothing about it other than they are adorable puppies and they remain as cute throughout their lives as they are when they are young. At the show we met a woman who ran a kennel in Renton, near Seattle.
Mrs. Cotswald's kennel looked like a farm where, in place of cattle, fuzzy white and grey dogs loafed around in the grass. They seemed like wild animals the way they rolled and bounced into each other one minute, then in a flash bore teeth and growled. A dog trainer whom we spoke with back at home had mentioned that she knew the Cotswald line. Most of them, she said, were show blood, but some were sold as pets. "They've got a vicious streak," she warned us when we said we were interested. "Look at Mrs. Cotswald's hands."
Mrs. Cotswald's home was large and clean. I remember it was a split level, with a raised deck that looked over at most an acre's lawn. Beneath the deck a maze of temporary chain link fences portioned of the dogs' quarters. Mrs. Cotswald herself was friendly enough, if a little stern. I imagine that to keep so many dogs in line, one needed to be a touch fierce, capable of dominance at least. Her hands were webbed with scars, her fingers blunt and grooved with labor.
We had the choice of two dogs, one two years old, the other four months. Had my mother and I not been able to practice the tiny scrap of restraint we did, we would have come home with both. The elder was house trained, already near one hundred pounds, with an overbite that, while unnoticeable to me, barred it from competition. She seemed well trained. Certainly she was friendly. But she didn't seem as new and exciting as the puppy.
Also with an overbite that held it from pageantry, the youngest was a sphere of grey and white cottony fur with thick and trunkish legs that scurried towards us. When I reached down to pet it, the nervous dog peed all over, soaking her own legs and letting the puddle run underneath her feet. When she'd gotten rid of the nerves she started jumping up at me, trying in a playful way to bite my mouth. My mom is a sucker for little kids and large dogs, so all the portentous commotion of that rotund sheepdog pup really only secured its place at home with us.
On the way back we named her Millie, a rather old name, I think, for such a youthful animal. Several times we stopped so that Millie could pee on the grass at rest areas and read the scents of all the other dogs before her. Every time she did, my mother had to wipe her legs with paper towel. She had grown so fond of our SUV by the time we got home, the first one in which she'd ever ridden, that she refused to leave it. My mother reached in to grab her, but Millie snarled, bearing teeth and looking suddenly unlike the soft puppy that we'd bought for very near a thousand dollars.
"She's just a little nervous," said my mom, backing away in fear for her small and unscarred fingers. "It'll take time for her to adjust. Let's just leave her alone."
We did, and eventually Millie left the vehicle on her own. But after that it was forever hers. It was always a chore to coax her from the car. Often we let her stay in it, deciding for herself when she would join the family in the house. She was possessive, too, of her food, her toys, her sleep, most everything.
My mom discovered early that even stepping near her when she ate elicited a growl. Like a sleuth, my small, blonde mother would creep up behind Millie while she ate. Without lifting her face from the bowl, Millie'd let loose a threatening grumble, sometimes a curt bark, then wolf her remaining kibble as though she were famished. My mom found this hilarious—as did I.
Millie sulked for weeks when I left for Phoenix, refusing to eat until her pangs forced it on her. More than once my mother took her for long and aimless rides to cheer her up. I think it helped them both.
"But it's so far," my mom objected when we talked about my going off to school. "Doesn't Clark have an automotive program?"
The local community college did indeed have an auto course. A diesel program, too. But I told her they were vastly inferior to Universal Technical Institute, which was dedicated solely to mechanics. Truthfully, I never even looked into Clark. Once I saw the television commercials for U.T.I.—funny-cars and exotic imports smoking tires and striping the asphalt black as they tore from sight, tuned port injection cutaways illustrating the copious amounts of fuel that they consumed, burning it through polished heads and belching the waste from chrome exhausts—I never considered the local options. Community college was for those who wrenched on minivans and wagons, who kept the grocery-getter's air filter clean and tires at proper inflation. I didn't work with base models.
"It's not like I'm moving away forever," I would tell her. But I could see her eyes already reddening with tears months before I'd have to go. "I can't live at home for the rest of my life."
"Yes you can," she'd say, her voice shaky. "There's nothing wrong with staying home. A lot of people live with their parents all their lives."
"I don't know, Bill. A lot of people."
Somewhere in the Mohave Desert we stopped for gas. Not a soul except the clerk was anywhere to be seen. Our vehicles were the only ones there, which led me to believe that the dark-skinned man behind the counter lived there, waking up when he heard the sandy ground crackle under tires and falling back to sleep when the engine noise faded into the waves of heat curling the horizon.
Fumes roiled visibly from the tanks as we filled them and fell to the ground like heavy, translucent smoke. My dad paid for the gas, the bags of chips and bottles of soda, a couple packs of Camel lights, and we poured back into the viscous air.
Just barely cutting through the bottom tip of Nevada, we drove toward Phoenix from the north. We passed a racetrack in Laughlin. A crowd of motorcycles shrieked around the oval, clustering like wasps and sending plumes of dust high above the barren earth. We took highway sixty-eight from there, through Golden Valley, where the only gold was that which radiated in the sky and baked the moisture from the porous ground beneath it. In Kingman, we changed to the ninety-three, heading south through a town called Nothing. "Entering Nothing," read the shot-up sign, but nothing after that convinced me that a town was there.
Outside of Wittman there was a rest area, really just a belly in the shoulder of the road with a picnic bench and outhouse. Perhaps twenty feet from the fog-line, a low-slung wire fence, held by wooden posts that looked like the stumps of wasted trees, held a small, metal sign bearing pictures of a snake and a scorpion. Below them a stick-figure man walked inside a crossed out circle, I suppose toward his impending misfortune. Nothing more needed to be said. Beyond the meager barricade, great Sequoias stood like sentinels of the uninhabitable land.
Far in the distance, a dome of murky yellow drowned the desert stars. But all around it the evening swirled with clear blue air, so warm and thin that I felt almost weightless standing in it. A spark inside me lit, a source of fuel that had not been tapped before. Soon my dad would be on a plane without me. Soon I'd unlock the door to a place where I alone would sleep at night.
Another fifty miles, and we entered Phoenix. The city rejected the cool desert air, and well after the sun had left, its sweltering heat lagged idle amid the concrete and stucco buildings. We got a room at the La Quinta Inn not a hundred feet from the freeway. All night it droned with traffic, honking and reverberating in the heat. In the morning I called my mom and told her we'd made it safely, told her about the rest stop warning that I'd seen the night before.
"I don't even want to hear it," she said. "It's too far away. Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Mom," I leveled with her, "I'm already here. It's a little late now."
Before the heat grew too much to bear, my dad and I drove by the campus of Universal Technical Institute. It was hard to distinguish from among the diesel repair shops and fleet auto dealers congested into the industrial area. Parking, to get a better look, I saw a long row of bays with hydraulic lifts. Most of them were empty, it being Saturday and the campus closed. But in the very last opening of the blue and red concrete building, a man was working below a vehicle. He wore a shirt that matched the school's paint, and black slacks. Above him on the lift, a late model minivan—a Chrysler, I remember, with a Clinton '96 sticker on its white bumper—was receiving what looked to be a fresh exchange of oil. The man walked to each tire and checked its pressure as I watched, then went back to work underneath.
That's just his daily driver, I thought. They probably keep the hot-rods and the Porsches locked away. After all, it didn't look like the friendliest neighborhood. Across the street as we pulled away, a Rottweiler barked and snapped behind a tall fence topped with coils of razor wire, his teeth gnashing at the steel mesh, his eyes trained on us. Heaps of decimated cars stood beyond him, oozing their black blood into the gravel as they rusted. I breathed the dingy air and understood why the school recruiter couldn't stay there. I wondered if my mom was taking Millie for a ride.
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The county is entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and contains part of Badlands National Park. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; taxes on alcohol consumed within the county go to other counties.
Oglala Lakota County is one of two counties in South Dakota that does not have its own county seat (Todd County is the other). Hot Springs in neighboring Fall River County serves as its administrative center. It is also one of five South Dakota counties that are entirely on an Indian reservation. (The others are Corson, Dewey, Todd, and Ziebach.) [Article: Why Does a Reservation County also have a County Government?]
Oglala Lakota County was renamed in May of 2015, originally it had been named Shannon County. Until 1982 Oglala Lakota and Washabaugh County, South Dakota, were the last unorganized counties in the United States. Although it was organized and received a home rule charter that year, Oglala Lakota County, as noted above, contracts with Fall River County for its Auditor, Treasurer, Director of Equalization, State's Attorney and Registrar of Deeds.
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Welcome to the Academic Affairs website for Santa Rosa Junior College. As the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Assistant Superintendent, I have the pleasure of overseeing the development and delivery of SRJC's 160 certificate programs, 112 associate degree programs and a full range of academic support services. My mission is to help both faculty and students achieve their academic and professional goals.
These are very exciting times at the college, as we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of SRJC's founding in 2018. And with voters' approval of a $410 million general obligation bond in November 2014, we have once again been given a wonderful vote of confidence from the community and the opportunity to further upgrade our facilities to better prepare students for transfer and career success.
Santa Rosa Junior College is consistently recognized for the quality of its educational programs at both the State and National level – in fact, our students' grades actually go up once they transfer to four-year colleges and universities. In 2014-15, SRJC's transfer rate for Universities of California was approximately 80% - 10% above the State average for CA community colleges.
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A very warm welcome to Year 6 from Miss Fearn, Mrs Beckinsale-Yates, Mrs Price, Mrs Goodman, Mr Ahearne and Mrs Hanson!
In Year 6 children are given the opportunity to build on their successes from their time in Key Stage 2. Throughout Year 6, the children will be exploring a variety of exciting and engaging cross-curricular topics including: South America, Ancient Greece and Natural Disasters.
Throughout the year we will cover weekly SEAL lessons, which will focus on our 4 Rs. Our current SEAL topic is Good to be me. Our 4R this term is Reflectiveness.
All of the topics will have a Creative Homework Project linked to them, which will give the children the opportunity to showcase their talents, strengths and interests. This will be given to children at the start of each half term.
Could we please ask that you ensure PE kits are kept in school all week. Our PE day is Thursday; children will have one session with Corporal Butcher but there are often extra PE opportunities throughout the week.
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The more children are in school, the more they are learning. Our aim is to have children in school as much as possible. Ideally, we are aiming for at least 97% attendance.


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Justin Bieber & Yovanna Ventura: Hailey Baldwin Threatened By Renewed Relationship
Two's company and three's a crowd. Now that Justin seems to have rekindled his relationship with his hookup buddy, Yovanna Ventura, Hailey feels like the third wheel, HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned. In fact, she's totally 'threatened' by the Biebs' renewed adoration for his model ex.
Justin Bieber invited his old flame, Yovanna Ventura, 18, to his 21st birthday party. Justin certainly had a good time, but his renewed relationship with the model is rubbing his special friend, Hailey Baldwin, the wrong way.
Yovanna Ventura & Justin Bieber Relationship — Hailey Baldwin Threatened By Her
"Hailey isn't showing it on the outside, but she is threatened by Justin's rekindled relationship with Yovanna. Hailey isn't Justin's number one anymore. Look at all that Hailey has gotten from being with Justin, and to lose that really has put the fear in her. We might be in for a cat fight," a source told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
Hailey was never as famous as she is with Justin. She's getting her picture taken and being written about constantly, so we can understand why she'd be worried about being replaced. We just hope she doesn't resort to violence and engage in a "cat fight."
Yovanna Ventura & Justin Bieber's PDA At His Birthday Party
Unfortunately for Hailey, it seems like Justin had a great time with Yovanna at his birthday bash, which took place on a Caribbean island near Grenada. As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, Justin and Yovanna cuddled up in a very sexy way — she practically draped her body around him while snapping a pic.
Yovanna posted the scandalous picture with the caption, "Happy Birthday!!" He also posted an image of a girl, who looks like Yovanna, kissing his cheek on Shots.
Poor Hailey. She was also at Justin's birthday party, but she didn't get the same kind of attention. Could she be getting replaced?
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Should Hailey Baldwin feel threatened by Justin's renewed relationship with Yovanna? Vote in our poll and tell us how you feel!
— Chris Rogers, Reporting by Russ Weakland


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Coevolution with parasites is thought to maintain genetic diversity in host populations. However, while there are sound theoretical reasons to expect heterozygosity and parasite resistance to be related, this pattern has generally been shown only in inbred laboratory and island populations. This leaves doubt as to whether parasite-mediated selection for genetic diversity is in fact a general process. Here we show that haematozoan parasite load is linked to two complementary measures of microsatellite variability, in an outbred population of mountain white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) for which we know that parasites reduce fitness. Moreover, each of the genetic measures predicts a subtly different aspect of parasitism. Microsatellite heterozygosity is related to an individual's risk of parasitism, and mean d2 (a broader, more long-term measure of parental relatedness) to the severity of infection among parasitized individuals.
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The reality of the situation is that our family operation is small, and we can only produce a limited quantity of oil. That being said, all of the family producers in this area cultivate the same way. We only work with producers that share our passion and relentless pursuit of crafting the perfect olive oil. The only way to get closer to the real thing, would be to visit our family orchard in Sacrofano.
Sacrofano is nestled in the foothills of the Roman country side, 30 km north of Rome.
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Lazio is famously known as the land the of the Etruscans - founders of Rome and Viterbo. The Lazio region's rural economy is dominated by agriculture, including cultivation of wine grapes, fruit, vegetables and olives, making for excellent olive oils.


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Six people, including at least five students from Ireland, died on Tuesday after a balcony collapsed early in the day at an apartment complex near the University of California Berkeley. At least seven other people were injured.
Jennifer Coats, a Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman, stated that some of the injured have life-threatening injuries.
The group of people was celebrating the 21st birthday of a female student, who was one of the five people killed. Police summoned by an emergency call at 12:41 a.m. found the fourth-floor balcony had collapsed and debris on the street; they said they had received a call at midnight complaining about noise from the apartment with the ill-fated balcony, but had not responded.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan confirmed four people died at the scene; the fifth died in the hospital. He released a statement, saying:
It is with great sadness that I confirm that a number of young Irish citizens have lost their lives while a number of others have been seriously injured following the collapse of a balcony in Berkeley, California, earlier today. My heart goes out to the families and loved ones of the deceased and those who have been injured in this appalling accident. It is too early to know the full extent of this dreadful accident but I have opened my department's Consular Crisis Centre and activated our emergency response line so we can provide assistance and guidance to the families of those affected and to others who have concerns.
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O'Malley added:
I would like to offer my heartfelt sympathy and condolence to the families, loved one, and friends of the Irish student who lost their lives this morning in Berkeley, California. All of us at the United States Embassy are greatly saddened by the news of this tragedy and are ready to do whatever we can to assist the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs at this difficult time. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, loved ones, and friends at this difficult time.
Ireland government officials said that the students from Ireland appear to have visited the U.S. on J-1 visas for the summer.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the apartment building at 2020 Kittredge Street, called the Library Gardens, was built in 2006.
Berkeley police Officer Bryon White said officials have red-tagged the other balconies in the building, White said.


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I am a research associate working with Helen Ward and Simon Gregson and funded by the Wellcome Trust to look at the use of theoretical frameworks in HIV and STI using data from the Manicaland Project at Imperial College, London. My principal research focus is on sex work and for my PhD I conducted a study of the sexual behaviour of women at heightened risk of HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe – the Women at Risk study. This is a mixed methods longitudinal study in four of the twelve main Manicaland HIV/STD study sites. I hope to better define and enumerate the population of women who may be at highest risk of HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe and am investigating the concept of "sex work" in this milieu. We are collecting quantitative data on Women at Risk population dynamics, considering in particular rate of turnover and triggers for entry and exit of sex work. The study also collects information on geographic mobility and the number, type and duration of partnerships of Women at Risk and the nature of "transactions" therein. I have recently co-organised an international workshop held by Professor Helen Ward and Professor Simon Gregson titled, "Translational epidemiology: Using theoretical frameworks in HIV and STI control".


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