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Well, well, look who's finally decided to show up. 🙂 I've been incognito for some time now and lots has happened since my last post.. most of it unpleasant so I won't get into it (save you all some tears). Along with life changing events, I did do a bit of crafty stuff as well… A baby blanket for friends. It's their very first baby and it's going to be a girl! Super exciting news. Here's it is..
The pic isn't so great (what's new, right?) but the grey and pink is oh so sweet!
And here's the pattern for anyone who's interested.
Hook: H/8 – 5.00 MM
Yarn: I Love This Yarn
Yarn Colors:
Grey = Color#/Name# 201-Greybeard
Pink= Color#/Name# 100 pink
Body of the Blanket
Row 1- Ch 129, plus 2 sc, turn; working in both loops, in fifth ch from hook *(sc, 2 dc) into next sc, skip 2, (sc, 2 dc) into next sc. Repeat from * until three stitches are remaining. Skip two stitches, sc in last stitch. Turn.
Row 2- Ch 3 (counts as 1st dc from here and on out), dc in second sc from hook, dc into next sc and into all sc until you reach the end. Turn.
Row 3- ch 2, in fifth sc from hook *(sc, 2 dc) into next sc, skip 2, (sc, 2 dc) into next sc. Repeat from * until three stitches are remaining. Skip two sc, sc in last loop. Turn.
Repeat rows 2 and 3 forty-seven times.
fasten off.
Fasten on with new color at left-hand side of top of blanket. Sc in both loops around entire blanket with foundation stitch of 4 ch, plus 4.
Row 1- 1 sc into second ch from hook, 1 sc into each ch to end, turn.
Row 2- ch 1, 1 sc into first sc and into each sc to end, turn.
Row 3- ch 1, 1 sc into first sc, skip next sc, 5 dc into next sc, *skip next sc, 5 dc into next sc, skip next sc, 1 sc into next stitch, repeat from * to end.
fasten off.
Flowers (Make 4)
With original color ch 2. Sc in 2nd chain from hook 12 times. Fasten off.
With second color fasten on. * Sc in first ch, 5 dc in next st, 1 sc. * repeat until five petals are are made. (for the one slightly bigger flower I squeezed in 6 petals).
Fasten off.
With matching tread sew flowers to blanket.

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The first book I ever read alone, front to cover, was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was four. I am not kidding.
Around age seven (my daughter's age as of yesterday, GO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BABY) I discovered Erma Bombeck, and life became good. Gooder. The goodest.
When I was in junior high school, I was the official school reader. I read *every* new book that came into the library, and then wrote one 3X5 index card review on the book. The librarian kept those on file - sorted by genre, by me - for popular kids with a life who wanted a book but needed crutches suggestions. I got beat up a lot.
All of that reading and getting beat up made me a very angsty young person indeed, who over time discovered the likes of Louis Carroll, Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palanuik, and John Irving. And I haven't really needed anything since.
I tell you all of that to show you my in-case-of-fire book pile.
There are a few books missing from that pile (my Alice is Wonderland books, to name more-than-one-but-less-than-734) but that is the actual 'separate-17-years-of-marital-pulp-assets' pile, photo taken while he was smoking so he wouldn't yell at me for taking pictures of fucking EVERYTHING, JESUS SHANNON.
(Audre Lorde said everything can be used except what is wasteful, and she wasn't kidding.)
So I got stuck in a 20-year long book rut. I re-read the exact same books over and over and over again. I always thought it was bizarre that my mother could read you the entire introduction to the Hitchhiker's Guide without needing to be in the same room as the book, and now? Yeah. Ask me any line of any poem in Undersong. We all become our parents.
It's really hard to get me to read something new. You pretty much have to sell me on really whacked storyline or whackeder presentation, or be the Cactus-Fish family. My books are some of the best friends I have, and I just this second realized that I'm not all that different than I was at 13. Wider, to be certain, but not too different.
For me, it isn't even always so much the story as it is the book, which is why I always said you'd have to pay me to use an e-reader. You can't smell an e-reader and if you can, you're reading the wrong kinds of things on it, perv. You can't scribble notes in an e-reader that you hope your friends/kids will read one day, if your highlighter lasts that long.
Except you can scribble notes in an e-reader that you hope your friends/kids will read one day. Except someone did offer to pay me to use an e-reader. And that leads me to the whole bunch of brand new books I'm reading on The Copia's social e-reader over the next few months with a few of my best friends - Doug, Jim, and Tanis. Because they're way more fun to drink with than Maslow's Principals of Abnormal Psychology, that's why.
We have this little social group book club thing (see children? reading gets you into clubs with ridiculously hot, smart people, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise) and we've each chosen one book that all four of us have to read in a month's time. We have wildly varied tastes in books, to say the very least. This is going to be so much fun.
We'll be reading together and leaving each other notes in the margins through the Copia app for iPad, Android, and desktop. Will I love it? Time will tell. Jim says it's like live-tweeting a book! but I hope it's more like having actual conversations with actual people. Which are probably the same thing now, huh? Get off my dewey decimal system.
You can totally follow along with us. There's the main group of Copia Parents, but we have a sub-group called, of course, "Tanis, Doug, Jim, and Shannon Do Books," because I made the group and I am a 12 year old boy. You probably need a Copia account to join our group and follow along, but that's cool because A) accounts are free and B) each of us are giving away 10 books to our readers to help get you started. You could chose your own book, or you could chose the books we're reading and read with us.
We're staring our book club with Doug's pick, Telegraph Avenue, because he said we were and we do what he says. I'm thinking about choosing Bastard Out of Carolina, because Lesbian Dad says I have to read it and she has impeccable taste in literature and wingtips. I also kind of want to read Brains, A Zombie Memoir, recommended by my boss' partner, but I also-also want to read Orphans of the Living, recommended to me by Ilina Das Ewan, who is wiser than she is beautiful, which is equally awesome and terrifying.
This is why you never ask the Pisces to go first.
What I want to know is what you'd like to read. Leave a comment telling me the book you can't stop reading, and then the title of a book you'd like to read that you never have before, and next week I'll randomly choose 10 winners of those books. My (rapidly growing) Copia library is right here, if you want to cherry-pick book ideas or mock me for being so incredibly lame.


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"After deploying Amazon ElastiCache, PlaceIQ's average end-to end response time for its web services improved by 83 percent," says Milton. "Furthermore, we are saving $1,000 per month in direct costs. Amazon ElastiCache allows us to improve our service response times rapidly and economically for our customers. This in turn allows us to serve customer demand with fewer backend servers reducing our cost."
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Bergamot, Italy, Eden Botanicals- My life would be much worse if it weren't for bergamot. I drink Earl Grey tea every day. It is my absolute favorite flavor of tea. The majority of my perfumes are chypres and contain a large dose of bergamot, which I eagerly seek as soon as I spray them from the bottle. This lovely aroma falls halfway between orange and lemon. It is quite adaptable. I am surprised at how fast this natural bergamot fades. I wonder if a synthetic form of bergamot is used in most perfumes, because this one would not last very long. But while it does, it is lovely.
Bergamot 10%: fresh citrus
Bergamot - I think this is a fail-safe essential oil because I have never smelled a bad sample yet. This particular one smells more like peel than others, with a hint of bittersweetness. My favorite tea is Earl Grey. Enough said.
Bergamot: tart citrus, more yellow/lemon-ish than orangey to my nose. Also kinda grapefruit-y, in the vein of the opening of AA Pampelune.
Bergamot (natural) – a nice grade of bergamot. Very fragrant, halfway between lemon and orange, strong but short-lived.
Bergamot – Natural, Italy : comparing a 2% concentration in carrier oil with a 10% concentration in alcohol…unfair, I know! Bergamot always reminds me of citron peel (citrus medica, which is very popular in Italy), although greener and more exuberant. There's nothing much to say apart from the fact that the higher concentration has a fresher, almost minty smell but evaporated quickly after the initial burst, while the lower concentration seems sweeter somehow and the oil keeps it anchored to skin a bit longer.
Bergamot (eo, italy): halfway between lemon and orange, very suave. also a little waft of damp herbs. definitely there is more to is than just "earl grey".
Bergamot – I expected it to smell more like Earl Grey tea. It is a bit sweeter and more mellow than I expected.
Bergamot Citrus bergamia EO from Aura Cacia
Well, I smell Earl Gray tea...also quite nice. It is slightly medicinal and powdery, with an aromatic wood-like component. Not really delicate, but I can see why purplebird would make the comment about needing "support" from other notes. I think most citrus notes are really "top". The bergamot still smells mostly like Earl Gray tea, but much less intense and a bit more fresh, tangy and fruity than before. My EO lasts a very long time on the cotton, apparently! It still smells very pleasing, unlike the grapefruit. So far, the help the bergamot needs from heart or base I think is mostly due to fading.


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Awadh is situated in the heavily populated heart of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and is known for its rich alluvial soils. It received its name from Ayodhya, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Kosala, which was nearly coextensive with present-day Awadh. It was taken by Muslim invaders in the 12th century and became part of the Mughal Empire in the 16th century. British interest in Awadh began in the 1760s, and after 1800 they exercised increasing control there. It was annexed (as Oudh) by the British in 1856, an action that greatly angered Indians and which has been cited as a cause of the Indian Mutiny (1857–58), the largest Indian rebellion against British rule. Lucknow, the region's most populous city, was the scene of much fighting during the unsuccessful revolt. In 1877 the British-controlled Oudh region was joined with Agra to form the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. After India's independence in 1947 that territory became part of Uttar Pradesh.


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With the election now over, Sen. Patty Murray will soon be switching hats. The outgoing Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairwoman will succeed retiring Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) as chair of the Senate Budget Committee.
Though the Washington Democrat was widely expected to grab the gavel, Murray made it official Wednesday, declaring to POLITICO in her first post-election interview about her new role: "It's my intent to serve as Budget chair."
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While Conrad had a reputation as a deficit hawk and numbers guy, Murray — nicknamed the "mom in tennis shoes" after her successful 1992 Senate run — underscored that she'll bring a more compassionate approach to the budget process.
"I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward," Murray said in an interview just outside the Senate chamber.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Democratic Caucus won't likely finalize committee chairmanships until after the Thanksgiving break or as late as January. But by announcing her intentions now, Murray is making it clear she wants to play a role in the bipartisan negotiations to solve the "fiscal cliff," the mix of tax hikes and spending cuts set to hit the country at the end of the year.


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PHOENIX (Tuesday, February 08, 2011) -- Attorney General Tom Horne announced today that Robert Mark Green, 48 of Phoenix, entered a guilty plea today to resolve his pending felony charges in Maricopa County Superior Court. Green pleaded guilty to forgery, a felony, admitting that he falsified a "Participating Candidate's Application to Receive Funds and Qualifying Contribution Report" filed with the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission on March 8, 2010, as part of Green's campaign for the Republican nomination for State Senate in Legislative District 7.
"Misuse of the State's public funds and fraud will not be tolerated. I thank the Clean Elections Commission and the Secretary of State's office for their cooperation in this matter," Horne said.
Green has agreed to pay a $9,479 fine, repay $11,060.63 in investigation costs, and has agreed to not seek funds from the Citizen's Clean Election Commission while he is on probation. Green could serve up to four years on probation, and could be ordered to serve up to a year in the Maricopa County Jail. Green will be sentenced on March 8, at 8:30 a.m. before Judge John Hannah.
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I've always considered myself an avid reader, and have often said that I will read whatever is in front of me, be it magazines, newspapers or the cereal box.
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In the wake of a homeless man's murder, District Attorney, Rachel Knight wants to see justice done. No clues and no suspect make the case nearly impossible to solve, and Rachel has tough as nails Detective Bailey Keller as a back-up. As the two begin their search for a killer, the mystery deepens and long-held secrets are uncovered, and the two women begin to connect the dots in "Guilt By Degrees" by Marcia Clark.
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You might need to perform a soft reset if your HP iPAQ stops responding. The two types of resets are soft and clean.
Performing a Soft Reset
A soft reset stops all running applications, but does not erase any programs or saved data.
NOTE Be sure to close all running applications before performing a soft reset.
To perform a soft reset:
1.Locate the recessed Reset button on the bottom of your HP iPAQ.
2.Use the stylus to lightly press the Reset button.
The HP iPAQ restarts and displays the Today screen.
HP iPAQ hw6920 Hard resetPerforming a Clean Reset
A clean reset clears all user-installed settings, programs, and data, and restores
your HP iPAQ to factory settings.
To perform a clean reset and return your HP iPAQ to factory settings:
1.Press and hold the Answer/Send, Power, and End Call buttons.
2.While holding these buttons, use the stylus to lightly press the Reset button on the bottom of the HP iPAQ until the device restarts.
3.When the HP iPAQ restarts, release all of the buttons, and then remove the stylus from the Reset button.
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The crossover with luxury appeal comes with the power and agility to face all the challenges on the road ahead. From the wheels to the roof, every inch of the 2017 Acura RDX has been designed to deliver far more than the traditional crossover. Where other crossovers sacrifice luxury and comfort, the RDX excels with features like plush adjustable seats and dynamic automatic climate control. Where other crossovers fall short on power, the RDX delivers with 279 horsepower and 252 pound-feet of torque. Where other crossovers fail in exterior styling, the RDX succeeds, and you can see that for yourself. This is a crossover without compromises, sacrifices, shortcomings or trade-offs. This is the 2017 Acura RDX.
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Oral History Interview with James William Harrison, January 27, 2005
Description: Interview with James William "Bill" Harrison, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He explains how he joined the navy in San Diego without going to boot camp. He worked on an oil tanker that shipped out to Pearl Harbor a month after the attack there and transported fuel out of San Diego to various ships at sea. He was then transfered to Admiral Nimitz's public relations department. There he and two others wrote stories about the action in the Pacific theater, particularly about the Battle of Midway. They also contributed to a radio show and worked with the national press corps. He then worked at the Naval Air Station in Seattle before traveling to Hilo, Hawaii to meet with soldiers who had returned from Tarawa. In Texas, he attended officer training school and college at Southwestern University. After the war ended, he studied at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma for law school. He recalls an incident in which his office released a story about a cat that had kittens on board a cruiser; they reported this good news from the Pacific prior to the Battle of Midway. He also met Admirals Nimitz and Byrd, typed up a letter for Elliott Roosevelt to his father (without knowing at the time that he was President Roosevelt's son), and received a ride from shipbuilder and Kaiser Permanente founder Henry J. Kaiser while hitchhiking during leave.
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This Fineview Dining Chair Industrial style will enhance the look of kitchens, bar areas and workshops. Finished with a scratch resistant epoxy, the Fineview Dining Chair is constructed of heavy gauge metal to provide many years of daily use. A hand applied antiquing process creates a simulated aged look unique to each piece. Rubber floor protectors prevent sliding while eliminating scratches. Easily stackable and fully assembled. Main Material: Metal Main Material Details: Heavy gauge metal Weight Capacity: 330lb.
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Appliance OEM Lovin' Lubrication as a to Boost OEE
When we last wrote about the Electrolux pressroom's investment in new press controls and quick-die-change procedures, its continuous-improvement plan was called Disruption Free Production (MetalForming, December 2000). The plan focused on training and timely maintenance to optimize press uptime. Today, the plan has evolved into a more encompassing OEE hierarchy of metrics that has plant managers and engineers looking at efficiency and productivity from every conceivable angle.
Most recently, its pressroom engineers
A Better Lubrication Approach
The plant's overhaul of its press-lubrication approach, a project completed a few years ago, helps allow the pressroom's maintenance team to get to the point where it could accurately predict die life between maintenance cycles, and therefore implement a robust PM schedule. The project saw the pressroom switch from spray lubrication to roller-application systems, which resulted in less die grinding and polishing and more hits between maintenance cycles. It also boosted the confidence of the firm's engineers that its dies will run as-designed without unscheduled press downtime.
Overall, the switch to roller-application lubrication systems has led to a 15-percent reduction in die-maintenance time, according to process engineer Mike Hanson. This has freed up toolroom personnel to perform other tasks, such as investigating new s to better implement die-protection technology—yet another project under at the plant to improve OEE. And, increasing its return on investment even more—lube consumption has dropped by at least 25 percent.
"Spraying lubricant on only the topside of our coil stock as it fed into the presses," Hanson recalls, "just wasn't good enough. We could not get enough lubricant to adhere to the bottom of the stock, and as a result we were experiencing too many splits, particularly on deeper draws. In some cases, we'd even stop the presses periodically during a production run to pour lube onto the bottom die section—not exactly a good to optimize OEE."
The 60,000-sq.-ft. Electrolux pressroom (recently expanded from 56,000 sq. ft. to make room for a new stainless-steel stamping line anchored by new Stamtec 400- and 600-ton presses) houses two production cells. A lighter-tonnage cell comprises seven presses from 250- to 400-ton capacity that run progressive dies; a higher-capacity cell comprises two 600-ton presses that run transfer dies and a 500-ton progressive-die press. A few 150-ton presses round out the lineup.
Precise Control
The firm is using Unist SPR-2000 programmable fluid controllers at each lubricant-application system (Unist's Uni-Roller system) to accurately dispense lube to the top and bottom of the stock. Rollers are felt covered; press operators can adjust roller pressure pneumatically to fine-tune the thickness of the lubricant coating based on the application. More pressure on the rollers makes for a thinner coat, and a looser squeeze allows the lube coat to thicken a bit.
Inside of each roller is a dispenser tube the length of the roller, with tiny holes spaced along its length. Each time lubricant injects into the tubes—triggered by press stroke—it emerges from the holes in a nice, even pattern across the inside of the rollers for transfer to the coil stock. Rollers come in a range of widths from as narrow as 3 in.; users can mix and match roller width to allow the SPR-2000 to control lubricant delivery in zones based on coil width for a particular die.
"We're processing three material types—bare cold-rolled steel as well as aluminized and galvanized stock," says Hanson. "Thickness ranges from 0.015 to 0.058 in., with the majority of the material between 0.020 and 0.028 in.
"And, we're using three different recipes of lubricant," Hanson continues, "based on material type and thickness. A 5- or 10-percent mixture of lube with water handles most of the material, while a 20-percent mixture flows to the 600-ton presses for deeper draws and heavier-gauge material."
The Switch to Synthetic
Along with the switch from spray to roller systems for lube application, the firm recently standardized on a new synthetic lube for all of its parts. It had been using a paraffin-based lube on its 600-ton presses, having switched over to a synthetic lube for its lower-tonnage presses a few years ago.
One stamping in particular made Hanson a real believer in the roller application system and synthetic lubricant: an oven bottom with a 4- to 5-in. draw. "We used to struggle at times forming that part (on a 600-ton transfer press)," shares Hanson. "But now the part runs without fail. And, we've gotten rid of the mess we used to have from drowning the part in lube."
An added benefit of the switch to synthetic, says Frauendienst: "It's much easier and less costly to clean the parts before we send them up to assembly. While the synthetic costs more to purchase than the paraffin product, we can easily recover that cost through our wash system where we only need to use soap and water, and use a much lower temperature. Also, we're able to recover and reuse any lubricant that drips off of the part or the rollers. "
Less Pit Pumping
Frauendienst—and everyone else on the pressroom's maintenance team—notes other benefits from the switch from spray to roller application. "It's definitely much easier and less costly to keep the shop clean now that we've eliminated the flooding of material and dies that we used to perform," Frauendienst says. "We're no longer tracking lubricant all over the plant, and we also have significantly reduced the amount of time and expense required to pump fluids out of our press pits."
Next up for the firm: Tying the SPR-2000 programmable fluid controllers to its press controls (OmniLink units from Link Systems) using Unist's press-control interface, so that the lube-system setup can become part of the overall job program developed for each die.
"Connecting the lube-system controls to the press controls will ensure that every job runs exactly as it was designed to run," says Hanson. "It takes a certain amount of operator discipline (and time) to set up the system with every die change, and we're trying to eliminate that extra requirement of our operators. That will free them up to perform other tasks, and ensure we deliver the optimum amount of lubricant for every part." MF
See also: Unist, Inc., Link Systems
Related Enterprise Zones: Lubrication, Presses, Sensing/Electronics
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As Dr. Gerda Lerner has noted, "Women's History is Women's Right." – It is an essential and indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long-range vision."
I ask my fellow Americans to recognize this heritage with appropriate activities during National Women's History Week, March 2-8, 1980.
I urge libraries, schools, and community organizations to focus their observances on the leaders who struggled for equality – – Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, and Alice Paul.
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Just to clarify - that's tall skinny Matt in the pics. I'm shorter and wider, but it looks like they fitted him just as well.
Ride are a new brand to these eyes, but going by these bib-tights they do darn good kit at a very reasonable price.
I'm not usually a fan of bib-tights, being round of body and short of leg, however these bargain offerings from Ride buck the trend. Lacking foot loops the modest amount of spare leg material is easily accommodated under a pair of long socks. The tights fit snugly and well, with a brushed roubaix material that keeps you warm and snug. It's not the thickest of materials, for comparison it's thinner than my usual Endura Thermolite 3/4s but thicker (and warmer) than the Endura FS260 Pro knickers that I tested a few years ago. You'll probably want something warmer for sub-zero temperatures, but they're fine for cool autumn/winter rides and may I draw your attention to a) the thermometer and b) the price.
For a bargain pair of tights they are remarkably well made. The seams are sturdy and the straps are pleasingly wide. You also get a short zip to facilitate mid-ride widdles although be careful, you can easily catch yourself on it. The pad is chamfered, channelled and foldable. There isn't much more to say about it, other than I managed a tough hundred miler with neither chafing nor discomfort, which is what you want from a pad.
The real selling point is the price. Ride sell these for rrp £35. Currently they're on offer for £31.49, which is a ridiculous bargain, the closest comparison we could find are the dhb Pace padded bib tights and dhb's Pace Roubaix Padded bib tights in terms of features, on paper at least the Rides fall somewhere between the two - on list price though they are a fiver cheaper than the former and 15 quid less then the latter, of course being Wiggle's house brand they are currently on offer at considerably less then list price too. Even so the Ride bibs are still a tad less.
As a combination of versatility, quality and price these are hard to beat.
A great pair of bargain winter bib tights.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Ride Bib Tights with insert
Size tested: Large
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Our Bibtights are incredibly highly specced for their price point, with multipanel fit, cam-lock zipped front, silicone grippers and reflective detail. The padded insert is from Dr.Pad one of the most innovative chamois research and development companies in Italy. The high-density UFO insert is designed to achieve utlimate support and comfort for middle-long distance rides. It has a double layer construction that uses 2 foams with 2 different thicknesses and a rear-side perforation to increase breathability."
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Multi-layer pad
Silicone grippers
Cam-lock zip
Reflective detail
Nothing cheap or flimsy about these.
For cold autumn, cool winter weather these are just right.
They feel great. Bib tights are always going to be too long on me, but these were a superb fit and the spare leg material just shuffled up nicely under some socks.
Even at full retail (£35) these are seriously good value.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Modest price, warmth, snug fit.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Definitely
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Great tights, tiny price.
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 5' 8 Weight: er....85kg
I usually ride: Kona Dew Drop, Dawes Century SE, Carlton Corsa My best bike is: Guess SC1 scandium
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, Audax and long distance solo rides
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Been keeping an eye on Ride kit...was thinking it wouldn't be much cop due to the extremely low price...may have to source some gear to try for myself now...(being of the small/rotund form myself...lol)
Can't speak for the rest of the kit, but the tights are bloody good. I'm 5'8", 36" waist and 42" chest if you want to measure up precisely.
Anyone taller than 5'8" (national average) is deformed btw...


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Brown's New Hampshire flirtation
Scott Brown has the look of a man not quite sure what to do with himself.
Since losing his Senate seat in November, the Republican flirted with but then decided against running again in Massachusetts, signed up as a commentator for Fox News and landed a gig at a law firm with a lobbying practice. Now he's again looking at a possible run … in New Hampshire.
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Brown is serious enough that he's making at least five trips to the state in a one-month window, including last Saturday for a speech to a county GOP luncheon in Hanover and an appearance at the New Hampshire Young Republicans convention.
( PHOTOS: Pols who've switched states)
The Republican senatorial campaign arm, looking to expand the 2014 map, has promoted the buzz, and Karl Rove has talked him up on cable. Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is favored to win a second term in the swing state, but a Brown entry — the odds are still probably less than 50-50 — would throw the race into flux.
Moving to New Hampshire to run for Senate would pose huge obstacles for Brown, starting with the inevitable carpetbagger tag. But Republicans who have spoken with Brown say he's eager to see what kind of reception he gets from activists.
"Nothing is off the table, and nothing is on the table," Brown said coyly on Fox recently. "Right now, I'm recharging the batteries and working hard."
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He said the same thing to reporters during his visit to Hanover, N.H., on Saturday.
But as implausible as a Granite State campaign might seem, it's not hard to see why Brown is testing the waters.
The majority of New Hampshire voters get their news from Boston TV affiliates, so Brown starts with near universal name recognition. Many local Republican organizations mobilized volunteers to help Brown win his 2010 special election upset in Massachusetts. And Brown excels at retail politicking, which the smaller state is famous for.
"He's almost like an adopted son," said New Hampshire Republican consultant Jamie Burnett. "He connects well with regular people who view him as 'one of us.' He's a compelling individual, very well liked. There would be people that would get excited about that prospect."
"Baltimore is further away from Washington than New Hampshire is from Boston," said another Granite State Republican operative. "It's a commuter state in a lot of ways."
Brown also has legitimate ties to New Hampshire: He owns a vacation home in the state, and, as Rove noted on Fox, Brown's mother lives in the state and he can claim ties from eight previous generations.
Moreover, Brown has a national fundraising network that would allow him to outraise any opponent. He raised $47 million for his two Senate campaigns.
National Republicans are in need of a top-tier recruit in the swing state. The strongest candidate Republicans could have fielded, former Sen. John E. Sununu, announced this month that he won't seek a rematch against Shaheen, who beat him in 2008. This was expected but, nonetheless, a blow to GOP hopes to make New Hampshire into a prime pickup opportunity.


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by Off-Road Hub Mag | Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
During a recent camping/fishing/hiking/riding trip in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, I came across two OHV riders mud bogging in a beautiful little meadow. What a mess!! Naturally, I accosted the fellows both old enough to know better and gave them my little talking-to pointing out that what they were doing was strictly illegal, could result in a substantial fine, and was damaging a valuable resource. They professed ignorance that their activities were illegal, promised to stay on the legal trail, and we amicably parted ways. Upon return to the real world a few days later, I reported the damage to the appropriate B-D District Office, emphasized that RCORUA would like to volunteer our services to help them remediate the problem, and offered several suggestions about how to block the lower end of the meadow to prevent further damage. The Recreation Specialist I spoke with thanked me for the report, seemed delighted that RCORUA was interested in being part of the solution, and promised to be in touch soon. Well keep you informed about how this develops.
As part of my little talk I give to OHV enthusiasts when I encounter violators, I point out that not only are they breaking the law, but also they are providing excuses to radical environmentalists and Federal Agencies to pursue their exclusionary agendas. If a greenie were in possession of the accompanying photograph, it would be splashed all over their websites, provided to the press, and shown in Congressional hearings as evidence to support the stereotype of OHV riders as crazed, beer guzzling, irresponsible red necks intent on trashing public lands. Its like giving bullets to your enemy and then being surprised when you get shot at.
RCORUA has always advocated for responsible uses of public lands. Riding our OHVs on public lands is a privilege granted to us by the public. Along with that privilege comes responsibilities, and those responsibilities include staying on designated roads and trails: Off route travel of wheeled vehicles is strictly forbidden on all public lands (with a few exceptions such as dune areas), and it is our responsibility to comply with that law. It is also in our best interests to raise the awareness of non-members of what constitutes responsible and lawful behavior on public land. We do so with our educational program (we reached 700 school kids this year!!), setting a good role model by being responsible ourselves, being active in our volunteer program, and with peer pressure. Im quite certain that the two guys I spoke to in the above example will think twice before they trash another meadow.
On the other hand, it is also true that Federal Agencies have failed miserably to provide adequate responsible opportunities for OHV recreation. And that problem is getting worse with every Forest Plan and every Travel Plan. Somehow, Federal Agencies have failed to get the message that one of the keys to managing OHV recreation is to provide responsible, sustainable opportunities to OHV enthusiasts that makes it possible for us to ride responsibly. The implementation of the Travel Planning Rule (TMR) is particularly counterproductive: The TMR directs Forests to designate, by vehicle type and season of use, an adequate network of responsible OHV routes on their Forest. Yet every Travel Plan released so far closes about 50% of the currently available routes to motorized travel! I wish someone would explain to me how the Forest Service proposes to encourage responsible OHV behavior by closing half of the existing OHV routes!! Clearly, under the influence of wealthy and litigious environmental groups, the Travel Management Planning process has sadly morphed into an exclusionary agenda. It is an alarming commentary on dysfunctional processes in Washington, DC when environmental extremists through influence, intimidation and endless lawsuits can pervert a well-intentioned process such as Travel Management to serve their radical agendas.
Dan Thompson is a member of the Ravalli County Off Road User Association (RCORUA). RCORUA is a group of about 400 citizens who advocate for public access to public lands. The entire RCORUA newsletter from which this article is taken is available on the Associations website www.rcorua.org.
The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible recreation, and encourages individual environmental stewardship. With members in all 50 states, BRC is focused on building enthusiast involvement with organizational efforts through membership, outreach, education, and collaboration among recreationists. 1-800-BLUERIB http://www.sharetrails.org.
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Have advocated for years to use OHV's as headstones with engraved "here lies an idiot"
Wait til the next round starts and they get down to what is sustainable in their maint. budget. Won't be anything other than ML 3-5 left, and probably not alot of 3's. Supposed to start looking this next year and be done by 2015........
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This article describes how to set up a bluetooth mouse with Archlinux. I used a Logitech v270 with a Trendnet TBW-101UB USB Bluetooth dongle, but the general process should be the same for any model.
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You need the bluez-utils and bluez-libs packages from the community repository.
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Finding out your mouse's bdaddr
It is of the form 12:34:56:78:9A:BC. Either find it in the documentation of your mouse, on the mouse itself or with the hcitool scan command.
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Connecting the mouse
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Louis C.K. hosted last night's SNL and the most memorable sketch was definitely this Seth Myers written parody of C.K. spoofing his own show, Louie, in character as Abraham Lincoln.
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Summit Up 3-21-13: Keep your mom on speed dial
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that was trying to inhale the fresh scent of the first day of spring and choked on snow. Such is life in the High Country we suppose. We certainly can't complain about the white stuff that promises more days of spring skiing awesomeness and reduces the risk we'll be torched like a marshmallow on the end of an 8-year-old's campfire skewer this summer. Keep it coming for a few more months Ullr, the Basin's open all spring!
On another note, we'd like to send out a very happy birthday to Frisco resident Todd Folsom, who is celebrating his 46th, oh sorry, 26th birthday today. Apart from questionable taste in sports teams and women, Todd is an awesome guy who has long dreamed of having his name appear in the pages of the SDN. That's one birthday wish granted. If you see him out and about today, give him a high five.
People, have you ever seen a rainforest?
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office called on Friday for a full investigation into the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed.
Separate cellphone images showed a wounded and bloodied Gaddafi first alive and then later dead amidst a jostling crowd of anti-Gaddafi fighters after his capture in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday.
"There's a lot of uncertainty about what happened exactly. There seem to be four or five different versions of how he died," U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told Reuters Television in an interview.
"If you take these two videos together, they are rather disturbing because you see someone who has been captured alive and then you see the same person dead.
"We are not in a position to say what has happened at this point but we feel that it is very important that this is clarified, that there is some sort of serious investigation into what happened and what caused his death," he said.
Asked whether the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay was concerned Gaddafi may have been executed while in captivity, Colville replied:
"It has to be one possibility when you look at these two videos. So that's something that an investigation needs to look into," he said.
It is a fundamental principle of international law that people accused of serious crimes should be tried if possible, he said. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants in June for Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief for crimes against humanity.
"Summary executions are strictly illegal under any circumstances. It's different if someone is killed in combat. There was a civil war taking place in Libya. So if the person died as part of combat, that is a different issue and that is normally acceptable under the circumstances," Colville said.
"But if something else has happened, if someone is captured and then deliberately killed, then that is a very serious matter," he said.
Gaddafi was fatally wounded by a bullet in his intestines following his capture, according to a doctor who examined his body, amid conflicting accounts of how the fugitive former Libyan leader met his end at the end of an eight-month uprising against his 42-year rule.
"Gaddafi was arrested while he was alive but he was killed later. There was a bullet and that was the primary reason for his death, it penetrated his gut," doctor Ibrahim Tika told Al Arabiya television. "Then there was another bullet in the head that went in and out of his head."
Earlier, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, reading what he said was a post-mortem report, said Gaddafi was hauled unresisting from a "sewage pipe," shot in the arm and put in a truck which was "caught in crossfire" as it ferried him to hospital.
Jerky footage showed a man with Gaddafi's distinctive long, curly hair, bloodied and staggering under blows from armed men, apparently NTC fighters.
An international commission of inquiry, launched by the U.N. Human Rights Council, is already investigating killings, torture and other crimes in Libya.
Colville said he expected that the team would look into the circumstances of Gaddafi's death and perhaps make recommendations about the need for a full national inquiry or an international investigation.


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The world rankings for the various IKA disciplines have been updated after the first major events of the 2013 season, namely the PKRA freestyle/wave event in Dakhla and the African Course Racing Championships in Soma Bay.
In the freestyle world rankings, Alex Pastor (ESP) and Karolina Winkowska (POL) have taken the lead after their event victories in Dakhla, while in the course racing world rankings Steph Bridge (GBR) defended her lead with her Soma Bay success while Florian Gruber (GER) still sits in first after scoring a second place in Egypt.
No change in the waveriding and slalom world rankings so far with the leaders of the rankings sitting tight in their positions, awaiting the first KSP wave event in Guincho, Portugal and the first slalom event in Mexico.
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Freestyle Men: http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/images/documents/rankings/Ranking_Freestyle_Men.pdf
Freestyle Women: http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/images/documents/rankings/Ranking_Freestyle_Women.pdf
Course Racing Men: http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/images/documents/rankings/Ranking_Course_Men.pdf
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New Jersey bans smiles on driver's licenses to safeguard facial recognition
When the friendly photographers at your local DMV office ask you to look at the camera next time you pose for a Garden State-sanctioned license, don't be surprised if they ask you to put away your pearly whites. New Jersey no longer allows residents to smile widely on state driver's licenses, and it isn't because being blissful is against the law. The state says that their database of drivers becomes hard to manage when images start to include more and more grins and smirks, so banning smiles will streamline their process of being able to positively identify someone by simply sending a photo of their face back to the government's computers.
New Jersey updated their rules for driver's license photos back in January, but news of the change also came around last week following an article in The Philadelphia Daily News. In it, reporter Dana DiFilippo reveals that the new rules aren't an attempt to reestablish motor vehicle departments as damning, hellish hubs of bureaucratic back-and-forths and endless queues. Smiling widely or making other exaggerated facial expressions, DiFilippo writes, might confuse the computer.
"That could be someone trying to steal someone else's identity to get insurance benefits, or someone trying to get out of a DUI by getting a license under another name," New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission spokesperson Mike Horan tells Daily News. "This helps us weed out fraud."
It also, however, can assist the state and even federal agencies in identifying anyone, anywhere, for any reason.
Earlier this month, RT reported on the FBI's ramped up efforts to implement a vast state-of-the-art face recognition project across the entire country, a system that has so far cost the Federal Bureau of Investigation at least $1 billion and has involved no fewer than seven years' worth of development. Defense contractors Lockheed Martin were awarded the contract in 2008 and with that were tasked with creating the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program, an intelligence infrastructure that the FBI insisted must be able to identify subjects in public databases, conduct automated surveillance and track personal movement from place-to-place.
New Scientist magazine wrote earlier this month that not only is the face recognition technology used by NGI accurate 92 percent of the time, but that the program has been rolled out in select locales already and will be in full use across America by 2014, at which point it will include as many as 14 million photographs of US citizens.
Since the FBI regularly shares intelligence with local law enforcement agencies, the New Jersey DMV's database of driver profiles can without a doubt be offered to federal staffers for the sake of more easily setting their sights on suspicious persons.
New Jersey had roughly 6 million registered drivers in their files as of 2004, and is assumed to only have added to that number in the few years since. Elsewhere, though, millions of others are being banned from smiling so that their mug can more easily be matched up with surveillance conducted from seemingly anywhere.
Through the NGI system, the FBI will be able to pull personally-identifiable biometrics from images on file — such as drivers' license photos — in order to match the profile of persons caught on camera. Information in those files can then be shared at massive fusion centers, huge processing facilities that accumulate and analyze intelligence inputted from an array of agencies.
As RT reported earlier this year, the New Jersey Transportation Corporation asked for $662,000 as recently as last November to purchase and implement TrapWire, a risk mitigation technology developed by Virginia's Abraxas Applications that collects and combs through live video footage from public and private surveillance cameras across the country. TrapWire attempts to search for suspicious persons and patterns using their own advanced face-recognition system, but all the while opens up the possibility of putting any American outside of their house into direct surveillance that is sent to a guarded facility and shared with other agencies around the world.
Now under New Jersey's latest maneuver, the state is going out of their way to make sure that millions of drivers will have the personally-identifiable features of their faces logged and linked on their computers — the same systems that have the ability to share intelligence with federal and local agencies of all kinds.
That isn't to say that Jersey residents aren't the only ones that should be concerned, of course. Just as how it took nine months for news of the face-recognition program there to make it to the news, similar efforts have been undertaken across the United States. In 2009, four states — Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia—all passed similar legislation.
When Indiana went ahead with the rule change that year, Dennis Rosebrough of the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles told the Associated Press that drivers were much more understand and willing to adhere to the rules when told it's an issue of national security, not a "bureaucrat's whim."
In response to a similar measure passed that year in Virginia, DMV spokeswoman Pam Goheen told The Washington Post that her state was enacting the rule "To prepare for the possibility of future security enhancements" Only three years later though, face-recognition technology is being rolled out around the country and those security enhancements exist right before our eyes — the developers behind the FBI's NGI say that faces can be picked up from one camera and matched from pools of millions of citizens already on file with the likelihood of an error being logged less than one-out-of-ten.


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In the RV for now is just Jimmye Sue and one daughter, Jamie. Little Alton is in school now, and my oldest daughter, Kristen, is taking classes at a local community college this semester, so she'll fly in for the tournament.
We drove over the bridge on the way into town, and it became obvious why it's called the Red River: it's raining and it's red and it's running. In the 2009 Classic, the water was low and had been that way for a long time. Now, though, it's getting back to normal level and it should stay this way. I don't think we'll see the low water again. So, it should fish differently. You can't rest on what you learned when you were here last because the conditions are so different, guys are going to have to go out and learn how to catch these fish.
My Falcon Lake fishing is over for now, and my last trip was both happy and sad. Bringing the RV home (I leave it there in the offseason) meant that it'd be months rather than weeks before I'd be back, but it also meant that it's time to start competition. I'm really stoked about not just the Classic, but the Elite Series beyond that.
The weather here is going to be great for the tournament. I think the lows will be in the 30s and the highs in the 60s. I don't think that there will be low water access issues in some of the backwaters like there was last time, but I do think we'll see an aluminum boat or two. Given the choice, though, I'd rather fish out of a Skeeter!
I do remember that an event was won here by a guy who went through a culvert in an aluminum boat. However, I also know that the culvert has been replaced by a 12-inch pipe! You'd have a hard time getting a canoe through there anymore.
On another note, Little Alton fished a Bass Champs on Lake Amistad this past weekend and him and his partner finished third. The coolest thing about it, though, is that they were able to get an even bigger payday by owning a Skeeter boat. Skeeter's Real Money contingency program pays the highest-finishing Skeeter owner in certain tournaments, and since Nos. 1 and 2 didn't drive a Skeeter, they capitalized on it! Plus, the 3rd-place finish gives them a great start for the year.
Since everyone has voiced their opinion on The Alabama Rig controversy – including B.A.S.S. – I'd like to throw my $.02 in as well.
While I'm not an umbrella rig fisherman, I think that we may have jumped the gun here a bit. I would have like to have seen us fish with the rig for a year then make a ruling after that. But, like I said, it's not my style so it doesn't bother me too much. The thing I' missing out on is learning a new technique. Since I won't be able to use it, I won't waste time fishing it. We'll see how it goes, though.
Oh, Little Alton did try an umbrella rig on Lake Amistad, but mentioned that he lost about $200 worth of them in the first hour!
Also, on Thursday, the 16th I'll be speaking in a church in Nacogdoches, La. I'll be speaking about fishing and my faith in Christ. If you're in the area I'd love for you to come out and have some supper and enjoy some good fellowship. It'll be a West Side Baptist Church at 6:30 CT.
Until practice starts, though, I'll relax and pore over some maps. There's no since in spending time in areas that don't have the potential to cough up a winning sack.