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Along with the development of new instrumentation, the test procedure itself was also standardized. By "walking" the potential probe toward the current probe and graphing the measurements, the end-user could develop a profile that reliably indicated the ground electrode's resistance. This test procedure is otherwise known as the "Fall of Potential" method and is described by ANSI/IEEE "Guide for Measuring Earth Resistivity, Ground Impedance, and Earth Surface Potentials of an Earth System" (ANSI/IEEE Standard 81).
Various other popular test methods, such as Slope, 62% Rule, and Intersecting Curves, were all derived from the Fall of Potential method (Fig. 1), with slight modifications to deal with special situations or to improve productivity. However, all of these methods employ the same instrumentation. The good news is this instrumentation has been steadily improved in terms of convenience, safety, ease of operation, accuracy, and available features.
Stakeless method. During the last decade, a new technology appeared in the market, in the form of the clamp-on ground tester. This testing device was developed specifically for improving the speed and convenience of the ground test. The Fall of Potential test can be labor intensive and time consuming. Even the expedient methods still require you to string leads and drive probes. The clamp-on tester represented a quantum leap in convenience. Just clamp it over the ground rod and take a reading. However, this convenience is both an advantage and a drawback for the end-user.
Properly understood, the clamp-on ground tester can be an indispensable tool. But its simplicity can also lead to trouble. Many end-users tend to clamp around any convenient point and take away the reading without question. As a result, this method has become unwelcome by some in the industry. To be effective, the user of this piece of test equipment must be aware of its principle of operation, where it will and won't work, and the applications for which traditional methods only must be employed.
The clamp-on approach (Fig. 2) was derived from the original "shortcut" procedure (i.e. the "2-point" or "dead earth" test method). The shortcut test is made by simply connecting a piece of test equipment between the test electrode and a remote ground, and then measuring a loop resistance. The method is easy, but it loses accuracy because all the other elements in the loop are part of the measurement. It is fraught with the danger of inaccuracy because the remote probe must be of negligible resistance, which may not be the case. The clamp-on test avoids this problem by relying on multiple return paths, which are in parallel with each other. By the Law of Parallel Resistances, the return resistance virtually cancels out, and the tester measures only the resistance of the soil.
where, usually
The jaws of a clamp-on tester contain two windings. When clamped over a ground rod and energized, a CT in the tester induces a test current in the circuit via electromagnetic coupling. The current travels through the soil and returns to the rod (but more significantly the jaws of the tester), thus completing the circuit through all available system grounds. Since multiple parallel utility grounds, for instance, are normally plentiful, their total resistance is negligible, and the test measures principally the resistance of the intervening soil. The tester accurately measures the current flow, and the second winding in the jaws sense the voltage drop around the loop. Ohm's Law does the rest.
The clamp-on tester can be an enormous time saver, but unlike its traditional three-point counterpart, it cannot be used everywhere. The clamp-on tester should not be used in the following situations:
Commission new grounds, as they will not yet be connected to the utility power supply, and hence no return path exists for the test current.
Measure soil resistivity (electrical conductivity properties of the soil); this requires the use of a four-terminal tester.
Test any complex ground system where a metallic loop exists; test current will return through metal and not be forced into the soil. These include systems such as ring grounds, counterpoise, substation grounds, and various other multiple interconnected ground systems.
Perform any test where a client or third party require conformance to a reference standard; the clamp-on test method has not been incorporated into any independent standard.
On the other hand, you can use the clamp-on tester to:
Prior to about 15 years ago, the basic methodology for ground testing remained fundamentally unchanged since it was originally devised in the early 20th century. The end-user would use a test instrument and probes to first inject a current into the earth between a test electrode and a remote probe, measure the voltage drop caused by the soil to a designated point, and then use Ohm's Law to calculate the resistance. Initially, separate current sources and voltmeters were employed, and the calculation was done by hand. Soon, dedicated ground test instruments appeared on the scene to help reduce operator error and increase the speed and efficiency of the test.
Test installed grounds without having to disconnect them from the utility supply system.
Test any grounding electrode configuration where there is a return path that includes the earth.
Test the resistance of a single rod in a series or array.
Simultaneously perform a bonding test of the grounding conductor (necessary to complete the return path).
Check errant current flow to ground for operator safety and give an overview of ground system dynamics.
The bottom line. Looking at the big picture, both types of testing — traditional and clamp-on — have unique strengths. They are by no means competing or mutually exclusive technologies. For their effective use, you must understand their differences. Merely clamping on to any accessible point in an electrical grounding system does not constitute effective ground testing. A well-equipped ground-testing program will take advantage of both technologies.
Jowett is a senior applications engineer with Megger, Valley Forge, Pa.


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Lynx Whalen Wins Award
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsay Whalen has been named Western Conference Player of the Week.
The award is Whalen's first of the season and sixth of her career. Last week Lynx teammate Maya Moore won the season's first Player of the Week award.
Whalen opened the week with a season-high 22 points, including a key jumper in the final minutes of a Memorial Day win against the Chicago Sky. She also had a team-leading four assists as Minnesota handed Chicago its first loss of the season.
Whalen added 19 points, pulled down five rebounds and handed out three assists as the Lynx beat San Antonio at Target Center on May 30. She capped the week with a double-double at San Antonio, posting 14 points and 10 assists in an 87-79 win.

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Orinoco (ōrēnō´kō), river of Venezuela, estimated to be from 1,500 to 1,700 mi (2,410–2,735 km) long. Rising near Mt. Delgado Chalbaud in the Guiana Highlands, S Venezuela, the Orinoco flows in a wide arc through tropical rain forests and savannas (llanos), forming part of the Venezuela–Colombia border, and enters the Atlantic Ocean through a large marshy delta (c.7,800 sq mi/20,200 sq km) in NE Venezuela. One of South America's longest rivers, it and its branches drain an extensive basin; the Apure River is its chief tributary. The Orinoco is joined to the Amazon system by the Casiquiare, a natural canal. The huge flow of the Orinoco varies markedly with the season.
Divided into upper and lower courses by the Ature and Maipures cataracts, the river is navigable for most of its length. Dredging permits oceangoing vessels to reach Ciudad Bolívar, c.270 mi (435 km) upstream. The major cities on the river are Ciudad Bolívar and Ciudad Guayana, which developed in an industrial zone in the late 1960s; the river is now crossed by large bridges at both cities.
Christopher Columbus probably discovered the mouth of the Orinoco in 1498, and Lope de Aguirre, the Spanish adventurer, seems to have traveled most of its length in 1560. In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist, explored the upper reaches, but it was not until 1944 that an aerial expedition sighted the source area in the remote highlands. Further explorations in 1951 and 1956 located two rivulets now considered the headwaters.
See H. Acebes, Orinoco Adventure (1954).


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and the Crimson will play three of their next four games at home
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The Game:
Harvard returns home after more than three weeks to host Providence in a non-conference matchup at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium. The game will be held Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.
The Crimson is looking to snap a five-game winless streak, while the Friars have won three of their last four contests. Harvard won its only home game this season, defeating then-No. 13 Stanford, 2-1, in the first night game at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium.
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Live statistics are available for bWednesday's game against Providence.
Last Time Out:
Harvard dropped a road game to local rival Boston University, 2-1, Sept. 26. Kyle Henderson tallied the lone Criimson goal, scoring on a free kick in the 43rd minute. Austin Harms made two saves in net.
The Matchup:
The Crimson and Friars have played 12 times since 1995. Harvard owns a 10-2-0 lead in the series and has won the last seven meetings between the two New England schools. Last year on Oct. 20, Andre Akpan '10 converted a penalty kick with only 14 seconds remaining to lift the Crimson to a 2-1 victory at Providence. Desmond Mitchell '10 also knotted a goal, while Harms turned aside two shots.
About Harvard:
The Crimson heads into the week with a 2-2-3 overall record after tying Stony Brook, 1-1, and falling at BU, 2-1, last weekend.
Brian Rogers, who helped Harvard earn a 1-1 tie at Stony Brook by scoring with only 38 seconds left, is the Crimson's leading scorer with three goals and six points. Kyle Henderson stands second with four points and paces the squad with two assists.
Austin Harms boasts a 2-2-2 record with one shutout this season. He also sports a 1.24 goals-against average to go along with 21 saves and a .724 save percentage.
Opponents are outscoring the Crimson, 9-8, and are outshooting Harvard, 97-73. Harvard has earned 14 corner kicks, while opponents have 33 on the season.
About Providence:
The Friars, who fell to Louisville, 2-1, Sept. 25, had previously won three straight games against Sacred Heart, 3-0, Quinnipiac, 1-0, and Northeastern, 1-0.
Providence (4-2-1) has three players who have scored multiple goals this season, led by Wilder Arboleda (3-1-7). Matt Marcin (2-1-5) and Greg Davis (2-0-4) have netted two goals each, while Marc Cintron (1-2-4) and Daniel Fabian (0-2-2) lead the team in assists.
Jhojan Obando has started all seven games and has three clean sheets to his credit. He is 4-2-1 with a 1.13 goals-against mark, 27 saves and a .771 save percentage.
Late-Game Heroics:
Brian Rogers has scored two cruical goals in late-game situations this season. He tallied the game-winner against Stanford in the 80th minute and knotted the game in the 90th minute at Stony Brook.
Going For The Record:
With 14 shutouts in his career, Austin Harms needs five more clean sheets to tie Ryan Johnson '06 for the program's all-time record (19). Harms has one shutout this season, after having seven in 2009 and six as a freshman in 2008.
Up Next:
The Crimson opens its Ivy League schedule by hosting Yale at Ohiri Field Saturday, Oct. 2. The game is slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. Harvard will then visit Holy Cross Wednesday, Oct. 6.


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Some women run for public office.
Others devote their lives to activism on behalf of their sex.
Still others launch non-profit organizations that help lift women and their communities out of poverty.
Me? I use the anatomically correct term to describe the female anatomy. (Be the change!)
That's right. The word "vagina" is back in the book.
When I first mentioned that I'd been asked by my publisher to take the word "vagina" out of my manuscript for A Year of Biblical Womanhood in deference to the general preferences of Christian bookstores, I never expected you guys to care, much less do something about it.
But within a few days, you had written blog posts, started an Amazon petition, coined the term "Vaginagate", created "Team Vagina" t-shirts, called a bunch of Christian bookstores, and pleaded with me to stick to my guns and keep the word "vagina" in the book.
(You can imagine how proud my parents were to learn my vagina was getting all this attention online.)
Emboldened by your response, I went back to my editor and asked to put the word "vagina" back in its context. I figured it was more important to listen to the voices of an impassioned readership than to objections within the Christian industry.
Well, good news— last week my editor informed me that "vagina" was a go. The word is back in the book! I'm not sure how this will affect purchases from Christian bookstores, but it doesn't really matter to me anymore. You guys have reminded me that we have more power than we think, that writers in this industry need not accept the status quo, especially when their readers really care about their work.
So thank you for being bold for me. This is your change, your editorial note; feel free to add your autograph to the margin when you read "vagina" in your copy in October.
This whole adventure has highlighted some problematic trends in Christian publishing and retailing that I hope will continue to be talked about. I can't tell you how many current and former editors contacted me to commiserate. (No really, I can't tell you. Folks are afraid of losing their jobs.) Clearly, something needs to change, and perhaps those of us without jobs on the line need to speak up more often.
Because Christians who wish to remain engaged in the culture can't afford to be scandalized by a little ol' vagina.
(Note: A Year of Biblical Womanhood doesn't release until October, but you can pre-order now.)
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You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.
Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through 'bots' which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.
Also see: How to Write a Bot with Google Scripts.
Here are the eleven most useful 'bots' that transform Google Talk into a more useful program:
1. firstname.lastname@example.com – Add this IM Feeds bot as your Google Talk buddy and you'll be able to read any blog or website that syndicates content via RSS feeds.
To subscribe to a website in GTalk, simply send a new IM message that says "sub labnol.org" where labnol.org is the site address that you want to read inside Google Talk.
2. firstname.lastname@example.com – This secret bot lets you post to FriendFeed from Google Talk. You may submit either hyperlinks or text messages.
3. email@example.com – This imified bot turns Google Talk into a real powerhouse.
You can post bookmarks to delicious, send messages to Twitter, submit blog entries to WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger, manage events in Google Calendar, shorten long URLs, run whois and so on.
4. firstname.lastname@example.com – Like IM Feeds, iNezha bot helps you read feeds inside Google Talk but this is slightly more versatile. For instance, you can simply say "digg" and it will show a list of all feeds that match that search term so you don't have to type (or copy-paste) feed addresses.
5. Translation – This is a free service from Google that helps you translate words from a foreign language into your native language. Just add the relevant bot (e.g. firstname.lastname@example.com for Hindi to English or email@example.com for English to Hindi) as your buddy, send him a message and it will get translated instantly.
6. Use Google Talk with Twitter – Invite firstname.lastname@example.com to become your friend in Google Talk and verify your account. Now whenever you IM this new friend, the message will automatically publish on your twitter account.
7. Set Task Reminders – If you need to remember something important, Google Talk can send you reminders for that event.
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft's second season of Ranked Play is drawing to a close today. It will be followed immediately afterward by the start of Season 3, fresh with a new card back to earn.
Season 2 of Ranked Play allowed players to earn a green card back inspired by the Black Temple. To get the card back, you have to earn Rank 20 by season's end. It's an easy feat to accomplish, because losses from rank 25 to rank 20 don't hurt your progress to the next rank. It should only take a handful of wins in Ranked mode to get to 20.
If you haven't gotten to Rank 20 in Season 2 yet, you've still got a little time. Here's when the season will end in each territory:
The new card back for Season 3 is this rainbow collectible. It doesn't seem to have any specific inspiration from World of Warcraft.
The Season 1 and Season 2 card backs won't be available in Season 3. However, you can still try to attain the Fireside Friends and Legend backs. The former is earned by playing local matches. The latter is awarded when you hit Rank 0 for the first time.
Hearthstone's third season will run until June 30th. It could be a very challenging month. Blizzard plans to release the Curse of Naxxramas single-player adventure this summer, complete with new bosses and cards. These cards could severely tip the balance toward one class or another. Blizzard hasn't dated Naxxramas yet, though, so perhaps it'll miss this season.
If you're looking to make some serious progress in Season 3 of Hearthstone, be sure to check out this video guide. It gives you some advice on how to make the long climb from Angry Chicken to Legend.


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Israeli group rips Netanyahu on settlements
JERUSALEM (AP) — A review of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policies shows a clear intent to prevent the creation of a viable Palestinian state by stepping up construction in strategic areas, an Israeli anti-settlement group said Wednesday.
During Netanyahu's four-year term, 38 percent of nearly 6,900 West Bank construction starts were reported in settlements deep inside the territory, compared to 20 percent under his predecessors, the Peace Now group said.
The report by the watchdog was released a week before Israel's parliamentary elections, which Netanyahu appears poised to win.
According to the report, the government also issued bids for 5,302 settlement apartments in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and advanced planning for thousands more, the group said. The group's findings were based on aerial photos, field visits and official reports.
The latest bids were issued on Tuesday, when the government asked developers to compete to build 84 apartments in Kiryat Arba, a settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron, and 114 in Efrat, a major settlement south of Jerusalem.
The Palestinians want the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, for a future state. In November, the U.N. General Assembly recognized a state of Palestine in these borders, over Israel's objections.
Israel still occupies the West Bank and east Jerusalem and while it withdrew settlers and soldiers from Gaza, it controls most access to the coastal territory, now ruled by Hamas militants.
Netanyahu has said he's willing to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state, but wants to keep east Jerusalem — the hoped-for capital of the Palestinians — and chunks of the West Bank. Netanyahu has rejected a Palestinian demand for a settlement freeze during negotiations, and talks have been on hold for the past four years.
Polls ahead of the Jan. 22 vote indicate Netanyahu is poised to win another four-year term.
Peace Now concluded that Netanyahu's policies in his first term "disclose a clear intention to use settlements to systematically undermine and render impossible a realistic, viable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev denied the government is trying to undermine prospects for Palestinian statehood through settlement expansion.
Israel has "allowed construction in the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and in the settlement blocs, areas that will remain part of Israel in any future peace agreement," he said.
Israel hasn't clearly defined settlement blocs, but they are believed to include larger settlements near Israel as well the Ariel enclave of 17,000 settlers in the heart of the West Bank. In all, about half a million Israelis live in dozens of settlements on war-won land, including nearly 200,000 in east Jerusalem and more than 300,000 in the West Bank.
Asked to comment on Peace Now's report of a sharp construction increase in more remote settlements, Regev said: "I don't know that figure to be true."
The Peace Now report said settlers in some of the more remote settlements built without approved plans or permits, but "with the tacit approval of the Netanyahu government."
In all, construction began on 6,867 apartments in West Bank settlements since Netanyahu took office in March 2009, the report said.
Thirty-eight of those apartments were located in Jewish enclaves east of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank, proposed by some in Israel — though not by Netanyahu — as a future border with the Palestinians.
Israel began building the barrier in 2002, portraying it as a defense against Palestinian militants who had killed hundreds of Israelis in an armed uprising. However, it meanders through the West Bank to scoop up Jewish settlements on the Israeli side, prompting allegations of a land grab under the guise of security.
Thirty-two percent of construction starts were west of the barrier, and close to 30 percent in areas where the route of the barrier is not final, the report said. The report said the count is not complete, and that the final figure is expected to be higher.
Although Netanyahu outdid his predecessors in terms of launching settlement construction deep inside the West Bank, Peace Now researcher Hagit Ofran said the annual average of construction starts in the Palestinian territory was slightly lower under Netanyahu than under his predecessor, Ehud Olmert.
Since the 1970s, Israeli leaders have steadily expanded settlements, including Olmert who negotiated with Abbas in 2008, before resigning over corruption allegations.
However, Netanyahu has gone further than his predecessors in many ways, establishing facts on the ground that "are lethal to the two-state solution," Ofran said
In response to the Palestinians' successful U.N. recognition bid, Netanyahu announced he's moving forward with plans to build a new settlement with more than 3,400 apartments near Jerusalem, a location critics say with badly hurt prospects of setting up a Palestinian state with contiguous territory. In recent days, Palestinians have set up a protest tent camp in the area.
After initially curbing construction under U.S. pressure for 10 months early in his term, Netanyahu's government made up for lost time in the last two years, issuing tenders for 5,302 apartments in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the report said.
The bids pave the way "for an explosion of construction in settlements in coming years," Peace Now said.
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text: Share: Comments Print October 29, 2012 at 12:52 AM Sigi Schmid: "Sometimes when you get slapped a little bit toward the end of the season, it's maybe a good thing." Posted by Joshua Mayers Photo credit: Mark J. Terrill, AP Here are some team-provided quotes and stats from Sounders FC's 1-0 road loss Sunday to the Los Angeles Galaxy. I spent a lot of extra time in the locker room, so expect to see more in the coming days (just not in this post). * * * Sounders FC Head Coach Sigi Schmid On tonight's game: "Obviously, you never want to lose a game by giving up a late goal like that. It was a game tonight that could have easily been 6-6. There were chances for both teams. I think you saw two very good teams playing against each other, two good teams that have a lot of ability offensively. … A little bit of an error on our part on the goal. We didn't shift over quick enough and were caught 3-v-2 on the other side of the field, and Magee finished it well. On the other end, we got denied two, three times by (Josh) Saunders on some pretty big-time saves." On the atmosphere of the game: "It had two good teams making sure they are ready for the playoffs — that gave it that playoff intensity. There is a lot of pride in those players that stepped onto the field and that pride was definitely evident. LA is the defending champion and they are not going to give it away easily. We are a team that wants to get there, so we will fight and scratch to get there. It was two teams going at it." On missed opportunities: "A little break here or there would have made a difference. We hit the post early on, and they hit the post later on with Keane. Fredy (Montero)'s header was clean in. Eddie (Johnson) had a couple opportunities before he came off. In games like that, it is a little bit of, 'Are you able to finish chances when you get them and keep them from finishing their chances when they dominate the game?' It is something that has to serve for us as motivation as we go into our next series of games" On the team's mood entering the playoffs: "I think we are ready for the playoffs, tonight has to be a good motivator. Sometimes when you get slapped a little bit towards the end of the season it can be a good thing because it reminds you of how that feels, and it is a feeling that you don't want to have come back. I think this team definitely has what it takes to make a run at the championship. There is enough quality on the field, enough quality on our bench, and the desire is definitely there." On heading into playoff series with Real Salt Lake: "Obviously we need to win at home and we need to get something on the road. We are at home first, last year it was the opposite, so we need to do the same kind of job that they did on us last year. Eddie (Johnson), we'll see tomorrow exactly where he stands. We took (Jeff) Parke out just out of precaution, because he felt a little bit tight so we wanted to make sure nothing went wrong there. It is something where we have to see where we are at and see what players are available to us. Salt Lake has some guys with injuries, as well. We are going to put out 11 players, they will put out 11 players, and they will decide it on the field." Seattle Sounders FC Midfielder Brad Evans On the attacking nature of the game:: "Both teams had chances. They were able to capitalize on their one shot from outside the box. I think that overall a decent performance from both sides." On the Galaxy's performance: "I think if you look at their lineup, that's the way they play. They push numbers forward. They have high quality players and anytime you are going to face that team, they are going to push numbers forward and try to attack. They catch you on a break and both teams like to counter attack, so it's going to happen in this game. We were prepared for it and I think that both defenses made good saves, keepers made good saves. I think we were unlucky not to finish a couple of our chances. But, they finished theirs. It's the name of the game." Seattle Sounders FC Defender Jeff Parke On coming off early: "I didn't want to pull anything right now. It's crunch time and it's more important that I'm healthy (rather) than being out there and trying to push through a game that doesn't really have too much meaning for us. It's just precaution and getting ready for next week." On the result: "I didn't expect for them to come out and push the way they did. I thought that they would rest more guys for Thursday, getting themselves prepared for an important game. They pushed the game and pushed the tempo. We had our chances, but we definitely didn't expect a game of that magnitude. They played well, but I thought we had our chances." LA Galaxy Head Coach Bruce Arena Overall thoughts on tonight's game: "Tonight was a real good game. It was a competitive game, very competitive game, two good teams, and to come out on top is terrific. I think this is a real good week for our team with the win in El Salvador and the win tonight. It's involved twenty-something odd players and I think as we enter the playoffs if we have any aspirations of defending our MLS Cup title, I think obviously we're going to need to use (these) players. We know that group is going to be real difficult on Thursday and if we're fortunate to get past them, it's a quick turnaround. We'll have to use up a player, so I think we've accomplished that this week. That's one of the things tonight, I thought, Bryan Gaul came in and gave us a good 45 minutes for Sean [Franklin], I think Marcelo [Sarvas] and Mike Magee made great contributions as well, and I think that's an important aspect for our team." On the schedule: "As I just said, we were in El Salvador on Thursday with 15 other players and we were somewhere in El Salvador, I don't know exactly where but it was a lot of travel and a demanding game there and there's no reason to believe our group, majority of them who played tonight can't recover and be ready on Thursday and others ready for Sunday. However our guys respond we have enough choices to field a team on Thursday and win the game." On David Beckham and Landon Donovan's return from injury: "I didn't expect Landon to play 90 [minutes]. Beckham would have played 90 if I had allowed it. He's probably going to have me removed from my position. We'll see if I'm here tomorrow, but we need to be smart about that. It was predetermined and we discussed that in advance of this game and he understood the minutes he was going to play." On Landon Donovan's play: "I told him I wanted him to play a minimum of 60 minutes and gave him the call on whether he could keep going and he said he was fine, he wanted to go. Landon generally needs about a half to get fit and he's one of those rare breeds. I think the 90 minutes was good for him and he should recover fine." On Robbie Keane's Player of the Year award: "I think it's an honor he really deserves. He's clearly had an outstanding year for us and I think once he returned from the European Championships, he's been as good as any other player in the league. He's been outstanding, and I hate to say this, but I think that award was voted on by the sports writers, which is amazing you guys got something right. I agree completely. Well done." LA Galaxy Forward Robbie Keane On being named LA Galaxy's Player of the Year: "It's obviously nice to be recognized in my first full season. You never take award lightly. It's a great achievement, it's great to get them and like I said, it's great to be recognized." On partnering with Edson Buddle: "It was good. He's getting stronger and stronger. With any player it takes a few games to get your match fitness and he's certainly doing that, so he'll be a key player for us in the next couple weeks hopefully." On whether his ability to create chances often gets overlooked: "I've always been that kind of player to always create chances. In England, I was kind of a, if you like, a number 10; always played off a big man and played in the hole. Especially when I was at Tottenham for such a long time, I played in the hole and my job was to score goals. I think when people see you as a striker they always judge you on your goals rather than your other play – your team play or your assists." On playing a tough game against a strong opponent right before the playoffs: "Listen, there are no easy games. We know that we're playing against a good team and we lost twice to them this season so it was important to get that monkey off our back if you like. Hopefully we'll see them in the semifinals and it'll be the same result." LA Galaxy Midfielder Mike Magee On his game-winning goal and the 1-0 result: "I wouldn't call it too clutch. I think if I do that again on Thursday, I'll be a lot happier. We'll take it. We always want to win and especially against a team we're hoping to see in a couple weeks." On playing Seattle and the tough nature of the game: "I think every time we play them, it's definitely been intense. They're a team that they had to win tonight, so obviously we didn't, but we didn't want to give them any psychological advantage. We never want to lay down in front of our fans or anything like that, so it's always going to be heated no matter what the importance is." On the performance of goalkeeper Josh Saunders: "Josh was ridiculous tonight. If it weren't for him, I think we're not winning tonight's game. That's how we need Josh and that's the Josh we know. That's what we expect out of him." On Beckham and Donovan returning to the lineup ahead of the playoffs: "That's massive; without those guys we're taking a huge hit. To get them some minutes and kind of get their legs underneath them before the playoffs is huge." LA Galaxy Midfielder David Beckham On his performance and the plan for him to get healthy before the playoffs: "The plan was kind of 60 [minutes] and I shouted over and said 'can I have 65?' and then I said 70 and then Bruce brought me off at 61, so I wasn't that happy. (laughs) … But no, obviously it's been a while for me being on the field so it's good to get the minutes I did." On his fitness: "Today I felt a lot stronger than I did against Colorado when I came back after a few weeks and the ankle didn't feel right. I was honest with Bruce and with the physios, I'm not always honest, but with this I had to be. The ankle wasn't right so I sat out a few more games and then it felt strong today." On the importance of the result: "You want to play against the best teams and the best players, and obviously Seattle is one of the best teams in the league so tonight was an important game for a few reasons: obviously to kept the momentum going into the playoffs and to get a result against a very good team." On the changes in the lineup with Donovan playing in midfield and Sarvas coming off the bench: "It's great to have options; it's great for Bruce to have options. Marcelo has been in good form, but Edson has come in (and) he's playing well. He can beat some people up there and it's good to have a player like him. And then obviously with Landon's pace on the left and Christian's on the right it gives us many options. It's worked well with whatever players have played, but tonight I think we looked good." On the biggest challenge Vancouver poses: "I think they've got a lot of character as a team. They've obviously got a few good players as well; they've got a lot of unity. When we've played them in the past they've showed that and it's been difficult to break them down and difficult to win the game. There's going to be many obstacles, especially it being a playoff game and a one-off game, it's going to be difficult." LA Galaxy Midfielder Landon Donovan On the hard-fought game and the team's performance: "I think the thought process behind Bruce putting out a real lineup as opposed to resting a bunch of guys was we wanted to get some rhythm and some continuity heading into the playoffs. We certainly weren't perfect and we were maybe a little lucky at times and Josh made some good saves, but I thought we played actually pretty well and I think we feel good now going into the playoffs." On going 90 minutes after missing the last game with injury: "When Sean came out it put us a little behind the eight ball. I was fine, a little tired but I was fine otherwise and we have enough days now, I haven't played in a while, I have enough days to get ready for Thursday, so it was good to get 90 in." On the team being ready for the playoffs: "I think we feel good. We probably feel like every other team, we think we have a real chance to win it." On playing in the midfield for the first time in months and where he would like to play going forward: "That's up to Bruce. Edson's been playing well now, and when he's healthy and playing well, he gives us an element that we don't have and he can help us a lot. I thought it worked out pretty well tonight. I thought he played pretty well, maybe on a different night he scores a goal. But, I can play anywhere; I'll let Bruce decide that. I've always been someone who wants to win and I don't care where I play to be honest. I know what my role is regardless of what position I'm in and it doesn't change." * * * LA GALAXY 1, SOUNDERS FC 0 Scoring Summary: LA – Mike Magee (Robbie Keane) 83′ Seattle Sounders FC – Michael Gspurning, Adam Johansson, Jeff Parke (Zach Scott 51), Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Marc Burch, Mauro Rosales (Steve Zakuani 82), Osvaldo Alonso, Christian Tiffert, Brad Evans, Fredy Montero, Eddie Johnson (Sammy Ochoa 45). Substitutes Not Used: Marcus Hahnemann, Servando Carrasco, David Estrada, Mario Martinez. TOTAL SHOTS: 18; SHOTS ON GOAL: 4; FOULS: 10; OFFSIDE: 7; CORNER KICKS: 6; SAVES: 3. LA Galaxy – Josh Saunders, Sean Franklin (Bryan Gaul 46), Omar Gonzalez, Tommy Meyer, Todd Dunivant, Christian Wilhelmsson, Juninho, David Beckham (Marcelo Sarvas 62), Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle (Mike Magee 75), Robbie Keane. Substitutes Not Used: Brian Perk, Michael Stephens, Andrew Boyens, Jack McBean. TOTAL SHOTS: 18; SHOTS ON GOAL: 4; FOULS: 12; OFFSIDE: 2; CORNER KICKS: 6; SAVES: 4. Misconduct Summary: LA – Josh Saunders (caution) 4′ SEA – Osvaldo Alonso (caution) 90′ LA – Marcelo Sarvas (caution) 90′ Referee: Kevin Stott Referee's Assistants: Craig Lowry, Frank Anderson 4th Official: Daniel Radford Attendance: 27,000 Time of Game: 1:53 Weather: Sunny and 88 degrees All statistics contained in this box score are unofficial Comments


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The booming business of global warming
"Funk's take on global-warming profiteering is as entertaining as it is disturbing."
— The New Yorker, Best Books of the Year
"A shocking account of how governments and corporations are confronting the crises caused by global warming."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Funk's original, forthright take on this little-discussed profit-taking trend in the climate change sweepstakes is very unsettling."
— Publishers Weekly (PW Pick of the Week)
"In 'Windfall' McKenzie Funk, an intrepid American journalist, reports on the lesser-known victims and profiteers of climate change [and] brings a dizzyingly abstruse phenomenon down to a more human scale...It turns out that climate change is rather like the financial crisis. Those who may have caused it with their emissions are likely to profit most from it, and the gulf between the world's rich, who can protect themselves from its worst effects, and the poor, who cannot, will only widen."
— The Wall Street Journal (PDF)
"Funk is a first-rate storyteller who packs adventure and humor in his journalist's bag, and delights in the absurd details of business as unusual. Perhaps the only fun book on global climate change you'll ever read."
— Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse
"Funk's talent shimmers from the pages of Windfall, pushing the boundaries of investigative journalism and literary non-fiction."
— Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel
"McKenzie Funk travels the globe like some sort of journalistic special agent, patrolling the melting Arctic on a Canadian battleship one minute, breakfasting with the son of a Sudanese warlord the next. His secret weapons: a highly sensitive irony detector and a satirist's eye for vanities and vices that Twain would have admired."
— Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck
"Windfall is a gripping account of how banks, energy companies, engineers, and entrepreneurs have turned a global crisis into a golden opportunity, harvesting short-term profits while sowing the seeds of future ruin."
— Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave and Going Solo
"Smart, daring, and darkly funny, Windfall offers a new take on perhaps the world's most intractable problem."
— Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe and The Sixth Extinction
"Windfall is a shocking and important book that reads, at times, like dystopian science fiction written by Michael Lewis."
— Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones
"Funk doesn't waste time with climate change skeptics. Instead, he considers a thornier issue: the true cost of adapting to climate change."
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An Amazon Best Book of the Year: "Like a mashup of Michael Lewis and Mark Twain, Funk is an intrepid investigator and a lively, smart writer. From eco hedge funds to dam building to desalination plants, he shows how climate change is creating new opportunities and a potential boon for cowboy entrepreneurs. This is the rare book that's both important and highly readable."
The contract had called for either a boa or an anaconda, whichever would best handle the crowds, and in the end the bankers got the latter: a green anaconda, six feet long and eighty-five pounds, which hung from the neck of a long-haired snake handler who lurked amid the exotic plants, next to the fake waterfall and the model dressed in "Amazonian" garb. Nearby were two scarlet macaws in wire cages, a Brazilian dance troupe, and a hut offering free organic smoothies. At the base of an eighteen-foot waterfall were giant koi, swimming in a pond: forty-five hundred gallons of warm, filtered water that would soon be dumped into the East River. The jungle was in a tent that was at the promenade at South Street Seaport, in lower Manhattan. Thirty by sixty feet, suffused with a light mist, and heated to eighty degrees, the tent had white sides and a clear roof through which visitors could just make out the sky-scrapers of Wall Street. It was cold outside, a typical, thirty-nine-degree February day in early-twenty-first-century New York, so those beckoned inside by the street team—two models walking the streets to entice passersby to the event—had to quickly shed their jackets and scarves, so stark was the difference in temperature. Which was, of course, the point.
The stunt was a coming-out party, the most expensive stop on Deutsche Bank's eighty-event "The Investment Climate Is Changing" road show held across the United States. In scale and imagination, it was rivaled only by the ski village and ninety-foot snowboard slope the bank had constructed a few weeks earlier along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills: chalets decorated with deer-antler chandeliers and wooden snowshoes, Deutsche Bank–branded ice sculptures, models dressed as snow bunnies, bottled water from Iceland, faux snow blown down from the roof of the Versace store, thirty tons of more realistic snow created by a wood chipper and a freezer truck full of ice blocks, and two pro snowboarders who would later complain that nobody had built them a proper jump. Together, the Manhattan and Beverly Hills events cost $1.5 million, but they were carbon neutral, the bankers boasted, their greenhouse emissions offset by investments in a biogas project in India. At South Street Seaport, every attendee was given a certificate from the Carbon Credit Company as proof. The jungle party, which lasted three hours, produced 152 tons of greenhouse gases, which the average Indian would need three lifetimes to match.
Before a DJ set by the Brazilian Girls—a group with no actual Brazilians and only one girl—the bankers held a press conference. It was early 2008, and as the world was still reeling from a record melt in the Arctic and a scary film by Al Gore and a bleak report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), half a dozen major investment houses had launched global-warming-themed mutual funds. Deutsche Bank's was the $2.9 billion DWS Climate Change Fund. The jungle event was meant to promote it. "Without taking a position on climate change," a press release had explained, the "DWS Climate Change Fund is on the cutting edge of climate change investing." The event's objective was "simply to show that climate change is happening," said the executive Axel Schwarzer, "but that it creates related climate change investment opportunities." Another release went further. "The debate around climate change is shifting away from cost and risk," it said, "toward the question of how to capitalize on exciting opportunities."


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How to Wait for the Right Green Job
You are ready to find a green job, but the right green job might not be out there. The timing of your transition to an environmentally focused career doesn't hinge on your experience or education. In fact, your inability to move into an eco-friendly job may have nothing to do with you at all. It's entirely possible that the green industry is not ready to hire someone with your skills and talents.
If you long to work in the biofuels industry, creating fuel from algae, switch grass, or sawdust, you may be in just the right place and time if you are a scientist or technician. If, however, your dream job is marketing, sales, or production manager, you may be out of luck, for the time being at least. At this point in time, the entire biofuels industry is in a research and development phase. Every company that exists in this industry is focusing all their time and resources on discovering a way to produce biofuels that is cost effective, efficient, and scalable. In other words, they are still searching for a viable way to produce the product they are in existence to provide. Until they find that formula and know that they can produce the product in mass quantities, they have no business hiring production managers, marketing teams, or a sales force. They have nothing to produce, market, or sell. Yet.
If you find that you've arrived at the party a few months or years too early, acknowledge both your dream and the current state of your target industry and do at least some, if not all, of the following:
Keep tracking your target industry. Watch for technological breakthroughs. Scan for opportunities. Being aware of your industry allows you to follow history in the making. You then know what the industry has tried, what has worked, and what hasn't. Your detailed knowledge means that you are ready to step into any company and be productive from day one.
Gain related experience. Although you won't be able to gain experience in your target industry, think about related industries that might give you experience in the distribution system your target industry is likely to use, help you build a network of contacts that will be valuable to a future employer from your target industry, or teach you about an analogous technology or process.
Attend industry conferences. To identify job opportunities in related industries, you need to understand your target industry in as much detail as possible. Although reading blogs, newsletters, and industry association Web sites can help, attending a conference with professionals who are actively working in the industry is invaluable.
Use the time you have wisely, from when you identify your target green industry to the time that industry is ready to hire you. By staying engaged, you position yourself ahead of all the others who gave up hope of ever finding a job in the emerging industry.


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Taliban's growth in Afghanistan's north threatens to expand war
BAGHLAN-I-JADID, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents have taken over parts of two northern provinces from which they were driven in 2001, threatening to disrupt NATO's new supply route from Central Asia and expand a war that's largely been confined to Afghanistan's southern half, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
Insurgents operating out of Baghlan district along the highway from Tajikistan launched coordinated attacks during the Aug. 20 presidential elections, killing the district police chief and a civilian, while losing a dozen of their own men, local officials said. It was the worst bloodshed reported in the country that day.
The violence has been on the rise in recent months, however, as the Taliban and al Qaida-linked foreign fighters have staged hit-and-run attacks, bombings and rocket strikes on German, Belgian and Hungarian forces in Baghlan and neighboring Kunduz provinces.
The insurgents now control three Pashtun-dominated districts in Kunduz and Baghlan-i-Jadid, a foothold in a region that was long considered safe. With a force estimated at 300 to 600 hard-core fighters, they operate checkpoints at night on the highway to the north, now a major supply route, local officials said, and are extorting money, food and lodging from villagers.
"The Taliban want to show the world that not only can they make chaos in southern Afghanistan, but in every part of Afghanistan," Baghlan Governor Mohammad Akbar Barekzai said. "This is a big problem. We don't have sufficient forces here."
For U.S. commanders, whose stretched forces have been unable to pacify the south and are taking record casualties, it's another looming problem.
"What can we do to mitigate the risk? It's a question of means," said a senior U.S. defense official, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. "Clearly, the main effort is in the south. But we can't allow other areas of the country to be destabilized."
The official said he's begun discouraging Western aid workers from visiting projects in those areas.
The growing Taliban presence also threatens to aggravate long-standing tensions into violence between the region's Pashtuns — the ethnic group that dominates the Taliban — and Tajiks.
Many Pashtuns, descendents of settlers from southern Afghanistan awarded lands in the north in the early 20th century, supported the Taliban's rule of the 1990s, while many Tajiks fought against the religious militia.
Another potential danger is that al Qaida-linked foreign extremists could use Taliban sanctuaries in the north to stir up trouble in the adjacent former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, whose authoritarian rulers have brutalized their Muslim populations.
"Al Qaida wants to have a base there," said retired Afghan Gen. Hillaluddin Hillal, a parliamentarian from Baghlan. "Al Qaida's support is behind them (the Taliban). Al Qaida has an interest in Central Asia."
A senior U.S. intelligence official confirmed that Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks and Pakistanis affiliated with al Qaida have been making their way into Baghlan and Kunduz from Pakistan's tribal areas.
The new NATO supply link, established after Pakistani insurgents began attacking the main logistics route from the Pakistani port of Karachi, consists of two roads, one from Uzbekistan and one from Tajikistan. After merging in Baghan Province outside the city of Pul-i-Khumri, the highway runs south through the towering Hindu Kush mountains to the main U.S. base at Bagram and to Kabul.
"The concern is if we don't stunt the (Taliban) growth, it could cause problems with our northern distribution network," said the senior intelligence official, who asked not to be further identified because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. "A couple of years ago, (Taliban leader) Mullah Omar said 'We need to open up new fronts in the north and cause a dissipation of (U.S.) resources.' To a degree, it's working."
Northern Afghanistan's nine provinces, dominated by ethnic minorities who opposed the Taliban, have mostly been peaceful since local forces aided by U.S. support ousted the militia in late 2001. About 5,700 German-led international troops have been overseeing major aid and reconstruction efforts from their headquarters in Kunduz.
The Taliban infiltration into Kunduz and Baghlan began 18 months ago with the return from Pakistan of insurgent leaders who ran the provinces during the Taliban rule of Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said. The establishment of the new NATO supply route may be a factor that drew Taliban from the south.
The Taliban are blamed for the killings of local officials and for one recent unsuccessful attack on former President Burhanuddin Rabbani in Kunduz, and another on a minor presidential candidate, Abdul Salam, a former Taliban commander known as "Mullah Rocketi," in Baghlan-i-Jadid.
The Taliban "have become stronger in the last five to six months," said Gul Agha, who heads Baghlan-i-Jadid's criminal investigation department. "Before, they moved in very small groups. Now they are moving in groups of 30 to 40 and they have a leader of each group. They have a (shadow) governor, district leaders and recruiters."
The senior U.S. intelligence official confirmed that the Taliban have set up "shadow governments," a tactic they've used to exercise control elsewhere in Afghanistan by punishing crimes and settling feuds that usually linger in corrupt, incompetent government institutions and courts.
Agha said that the insurgents "have influence" in all of Baghlan-i-Jadid's 268 villages, nestled amidst lush groves and rice paddies fed by the Southern Salang River, and that the local administration's authority doesn't extend beyond the district center of the same name.
The district shares its northern border with Chahar Dara, which Afghan officials identified as one of the three Kunduz Province districts controlled by the insurgents.
"There is only one mountain between us," said Amir Gul Baghlani, the Baghlan-i-Jadid district chief. "When they are under pressure over there, they come to this side. When they are under pressure here, they cross to the other side. We don't have enough security."
The district has only 90 police officers and has been recruiting and arming tribal militias in an effort to fill the gap, local officials said.
However, several residents charged that the militias, known as arbakai, have become part of the problem.
"These arbakai take food from villagers by force and taxes by force. My relatives went several times to complain to the authorities. When the arbakai found out, they beat my relatives. So they joined the Taliban to keep their prestige and honor," said Mohammad Ghulam, deputy director of the district's agricultural high school. "Now they are fighting the government."
Several U.S. military officials said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the recently installed U.S. commander in Afghanistan, hopes to stem the problem by deploying additional Afghan troops accompanied by U.S. military trainers, an idea that appealed to local officials who fear an influx of American soldiers would fuel violence and bloodshed.
Barekzai, the Baghlan governor, said that he only has about 1,400 police officers and 500 Afghan troops to call on. About 200 Hungarian forces deployed to secure aid projects in are barred from conducting offensive operations.
It isn't too late, however, to neutralize the Taliban presence, but time is running out, he continued.
"Give me resources and more police. The Taliban are like microbes. We need to use a strong antibiotic," he said. "If we don't do it now, then later on, say in six months, it will require more forces, more resources and more weapons and we will probably have more casualties."
(McClatchy special correspondent Hashim Shukoor contributed to this article.)
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Observers cautious about declaring Afghan vote a success
Afghan vote carries big risk for U.S. fight against Taliban
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The following guidelines will help you determine the
severity of your vaginal bleeding.
Your body will change during the days and weeks after
delivery (postpartum period) as it returns to its nonpregnant condition. While
most women move through the postpartum period without serious health problems,
some women may have vaginal bleeding that lasts longer than normal or is
heavier than normal.
Like pregnancy changes, postpartum changes
are different for every woman. By knowing what normally occurs during the
postpartum period, you will be able to identify a problem sooner.
Immediately after delivery, you will have a bloody discharge (lochia)
from your vagina. This will turn pinkish within a week and become white or
yellowish after about 10 days. Lochia may last for 2 to 4 weeks and can come
and go for about 2 months.
Do not worry if you pass a few blood
clots, as long as they are smaller than a golf ball in diameter. Use pads, not
tampons, during this time. Change the pad at least every 4 hours to prevent
irritation and infection.
Do not have sex until the lochia is
almost gone. If sex causes pain, wait a few days because your body is still
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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Thousands of North Koreans have turned out for a mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader's call to arms.
Chanting "Death to the U.S. imperialists" and "Sweep away the U.S. aggressors," soldiers and students marched through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang on Friday during a 90-minute rally.
State media reported early Friday that leader Kim Jong Un called an emergency military meeting to order the army's rocket unit to prepare to strike the U.S. and South Korea in case of a "reckless provocation" by Washington or Seoul.
A full-blown North Korean attack is unlikely, though there are fears of a more localized conflict. Pyongyang has railed against the U.S. decision to send B-2 bombers for military drills with South Korea.


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From medieval cobbled lanes to elegant honey-stoned colleges, step into a different era with a trip to the wonderful city of Oxford. Stay at the Vanbrugh House Hotel, a boutique hotel in Oxford, nestled behind Oxford's main street and you will be immediately immersed in its elegant architecture, scholarly buzz, winding rivers and countless age-old treasures.
This historic home from home in the centre of Oxford was partly designed by John Vanbrugh in the 18th century. Vanbrugh is known for his bold and daring architectural style along with masterpieces such as Blenheim Palace (just 20 minutes away by car). Small and intimate yet intensely stylish, the Vanbrugh House Oxford Hotel's 22 charming rooms and suites fuse eclectic design and comfort with enchanting historic features. From wooden beams to panelled walls and exquisite fireplaces each of our 22 beautiful hotel rooms houses an original feature of the Grade II listed building.
Our boutique hotel in Oxford is dedicated to being kinder to the environment, which means we do not have an onsite car park. Instead, we encourage our guests to utilise greener methods of transport, such as the Park & Ride or train. Read more about this in our FAQs.
Oxford, also known as the City of Dreaming Spires is one of the UK's most popular destinations with over 1000 years of history for you to explore.
This stunning medieval city has something to offer everyone regardless of age or interest.
Oxford is the perfect place to head for a romantic weekend or maybe for a special occasion. This bea… more
Our boutique hotel in Oxford may be biased, but we couldn't think of anywhere better to go on… more
Oxford is incredible. Known as the 'City of Dreaming Spires' for its magnificent archite… more
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Lovely hotel in a wonderful central location. We could easily walk to most places of interest with many restaurants. We had booked a superior double, which was on the second floor and quiet as requested.
The staff were happy to help with our luggage. Standard of room excellent with a lovely bathroom and walk in shower.
Assistance pleasantly provided by helpful staff - good restaurants, parking, ice, taxis etc. Good breakfast choice included in tariff. Loved our stay and would certainly return.
The experience was superb from start to finish. Lovely deluxe room with private garden. Excellent for a special treat. The hotel is in a great location and Oxford has plenty of lovely coffee shops and restaurants to keep you nourished.
The hotel suite is very nice and spacious. We love every detail in the room, especially the shower in the bathroom! The complimentary breakfast is also very good with nice service! Definitely will stay over again if we come back to Oxford!
My husband and I came to Oxford to celebrate our wedding anniversary. From the moment we arrived at the hotel all staff were very accommodating and friendly. We were kindly given a room that required no steps (The Sir John Vanbrugh Suite) given that I am heavily pregnant. In addition, we were given a welcome drink to celebrate our anniversary as well as a lovely card- a really nice touch especially given that it was so long ago since I'd mentioned it in our booking!
Breakfast the next morning was fantastic - really fresh ingredients and friendly staff. The location of the hotel is excellent. We used the park and ride option for parking which really was very easy and much cheaper than the multi storey.
Our room looked out onto the main street but noise definitely wasn't a problem. The best part of the room was either the very comfy bed or the enormous bath! Thanks to all staff for making our stay so relaxing and enjoyable!
I recently spent one night at Oxford and since I'm not driving and I plan to take the train, I want to stay in a decent hotel at the city centre and close to train station. Vanbrugh House Hotel ticks all of the above.
Staff are super helpful and friendly, I arrived on the day with big snow and my train was cancelled so I have to get off at Didcot Parkway and take a bus. By the time I arrived, it was only 12 noon but the staff kindly check me in early. They also helped carried the luggage (together with me, of course) to go up the stairs.
The hotel was recently renovated and positioned as a boutique hotel, the size of the room is very okay as I'm travelling sole and it's very comfortable. Shower facilities are great so as the washroom amenities are very high quality. Breakfast, traditional English breakfast with unlimited cereal plus toasts was excellent. Would definitely stay here again.
Our stay at the Vanbrugh House Hotel was enjoyable. The hotel is located in the centre of Oxford, giving us the opportunity to explore Oxford right outside the front door. The staff were very helpful and courteous, and after a day of touring it was relaxing to have a glass of wine at the hotel.
What a fabulous hotel. The staff, location and rooms are excellent. The staff couldn't do enough to help and were very welcoming. Location is perfect for the Theatre, the new Westgate shopping centre and plenty of restaurant within a very short walk.
The rooms are beautiful and very clean. Loved the fact that anything in the rooms fridge was complimentary.
Beautiful hotel in the centre of Oxford, great location with everything nearby, but very peaceful and quiet. The room was gorgeous, the staff very friendly and helpful. Great food and spotless rooms. Thoroughly recommended and we'll definitely be returning.
I love luxury stays with family and this hotel is perfect. Rooms are clean, spacious and comfortable. Our kids had a very enjoyable time there. Staff are very nice and they helped us with how to organise free time for our kids. Highly recommended!
Nice little boutique hotel, centrally located in a quiet area. Complimentary snacks, tea, coffee in room. Comfy beds and best bonus was Mustafa from the front desk staff. He was most ready and willing to help with any request, and at all times with a very friendly and a happy personality.


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A question for the film buffs out there: Is there a genuine, bona fide leading man in the movies today who—on camera and off—looks, sounds and acts like a grown-up? Think before you answer, and consider the potential contenders.
Tom Cruise? Brad Pitt? Robert Downey Jr.? Leonard DiCaprio? These guys are all at points in their careers when they can pick and choose their roles and command obscene sums of money for their work. But they all possess a kind of post-adolescent quality that, while marginally engaging, never quite feels fully adult. Pitt, for example, is by all accounts a solid guy, with his heart in the right place on all sorts of important global issues. He seems to be great dad to his half-dozen kids—but there's still something about Mr. Jolie that feels, somehow, slightly juvenile. Maybe it's the hair.
Russell Crowe? Tom Hanks? Despite the critical acclaim, the Oscars, the varied and at times risky career moves, it's still tough to think of them as fully-formed, comfortable-in-their-own-skin grown-ups. The irony, of course, is that both have played fully-formed, comfortable-in-their-own-skin grown-ups on the big screen to absolute perfection; it's when they simply have to be themselves that they can both seem a tad sophomoric. Charming, of course, and disarmingly self-aware. Self-deprecating, even. But a little bit silly.
George Clooney? Will Smith? Matt Damon? They clean up nice, and Clooney, especially, looks phenomenal and at ease in a tux—which, after all, is a very grown-up outfit. And yet, somehow, all three of those guys often resemble nothing so much as precocious lads.
This is not to say that all of today's leading men are overgrown high schoolers. Liam Neeson is, emphatically, a grown man. So is Denzel Washington. So are several other actors (older guys, in their 50s and 60s) who might conceivably be thought of as leading men. But generally speaking, the number of leading men who look, sound and act like grown-ups, on camera and off, seems to have plummeted in the past few decades. Maybe that's because, as a culture, we've grown so obsessed with the idea of Youth—not in a Wordsworthian, Romantic sense of eternal innocence, but a blinged-out, selfie-snapping, consumerist Youth culture: the slippery, golden demographic so avidly pursued by marketers.
All of which makes the photograph above so damn appealing. Here we have four of the most enduring stars in Hollywood history—Clark "The King" Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven—during a break in rehearsals for the 1958 Academy Awards, and despite the fact that they're convulsed with laughter over a shared joke, they're all very clearly, unapologetically grown up. They're accomplished, famous movie stars reveling in one another's company—and not one of them looks as if he has the slightest interest in being younger, or hipper, than he is.
And that, of course, makes them all very cool, indeed. No matter how old they might be.
Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com
[MORE: "LIFE at the Oscars: Classic Photos From Hollywood's Biggest Night"]


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Full game notes are available in PDF here.
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OPENING KICKOFF: Today's Centennial Conference (CC) game marks the 92nd meeting between McDaniel (2-7, 2-6 CC) and Johns Hopkins (9-0, 8-0 CC) in a series that dates back to 1894. The Blue Jays lead the all-time series 51-35-5, including wins in the last 12 meetings. The Green Terror's last win in the series came by a 41-7 margin in 2001. Today's game marks the 66th consecutive season when the two long-time rivals have been scheduled to be the final game on each other's schedules.
WHEN LAST WE MET: Johns Hopkins raced out to a 28-0 halftime advantage en route to a 49-7 CC victory over McDaniel to close the 2012 regular season. Mike Cousar (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) led the Green Terror on defense with a career-high 16 tackles – the most by a McDaniel player since Zach Martin's 19 in 2010. Joe Rollins (Temple Hills, Md./Surrattsville) led the offense with 143 yards rushing. Rollins finished with 251 all-purpose yards, adding 95 kick-return yards, seven receiving yards and six punt-return yards. Jonathan Rigaud led the then-21st-ranked Blue Jays to their second straight outright CC crown with 89 yards rushing and two touchdowns as part of a balanced offensive attack that piled up 524 yards of total offense.
LAST TIME OUT: Nick O'Melia (Taneytown, Md./Francis Scott Key) caught his third touchdown with 17 seconds left. At that point, McDaniel trailed 42-41 and a simple extra-point would tie the game and send the team to almost a sure overtime at Susquehanna last Saturday. Instead, Seth McFall (Dover, Del./Caesar Rodney) looked to Britton Hastings (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg Area), who adjusted after the pass was tipped, caught the pass and spun to his right and into the end zone for a 43-42 win. For the Green Terror, McFall completed 20 of 29 passes for a career-high 229 yards to lead the offense. Joe Rollins ran for 182 yards and two scores on 21 carries.
WITH HONORS: Seth McFall, Eddie Kendall (Point Pleasant, N.J./Point Boro) and Aqil Tweedy (Fredericksburg, Va./Colonial Forge) were named to the CC Weekly Honor Roll last week. McFall was named to the offensive ledger after throwing for a career-high 229 yards on 20 of 29 passing with three touchdowns. Kendall earned the defensive nod after recording eight tackles, forcing a fumble and blocking a kick. Tweedy made an appearance on the special teams list after racking up 108 kickoff return yards on six attempts as well as recovering a blocked field goal. That was in addition to time at wide receiver and cornerback.
LEADING THE WAY: Mike Cousar (Easton, Pa./Easton Area), Derrick Miles (Glen Mills, Pa./Bayard Rustin), Mike Oliveto, Joe Rollins and Pat Tighe (Point Pleasant Beach, N.J./Point Pleasant Beach) will captain the squad in 2013. All five are first-time captains and mark the most since 2009.
THANK YOU, SENIORS: Today marks the final home game for up to 19 McDaniel seniors. Of those 19 players, no fewer than 12 have been a starter this season. Nine of those 12 have been multiple-year starters for the Green Terror.
McFALLBACK PLAN: Seth McFall made his first start of the season on Saturday. The junior signal caller completed 20 of his 29 attempts, throwing for a career-high 229 yards. It was his first 200-yard passing game. He also connected with Nick O'Melia for three touchdown passes – the first three-TD game for a McDaniel quarterback since last year's season opener at Catholic.
ROOKIE BIG TIME: One week after making a 49-yard catch for his first collegiate catch, freshman Britton Hastings added an eight-yard snag at Susquehanna on Saturday. However, neither of those plays compared to the catch that doesn't appear in the box score. Trailing 42-41 with 17 seconds left, head coach Mike Hoyt elected to go for the win in regulation. Seth McFall's pass to the freshman was tipped up at the line of scrimmage on the two-point conversion attempt. Hastings, however, adjusted from his spot in the end zone and came back into the field of play, made the catch, turned right and ran into the end zone for the successful conversion and win.
WANNA BE LIKE MIKE: After not being able to line up in victory formation for 686 days, Mike Cousar nabbed an interception on Sept. 14 to seal the 21-14 win over Moravian and allow the offense to take that knee. Well 56 days later, the senior did it again. On the first play after the Green Terror took the lead, Cousar knocked the ball loose and recovered the fumble to once again allow for the victory formation in the team's second win.
MISTER DO-IT-ALL: Sophomore Aqil Tweedy has been a solid receiver, catching 16 passes and a touchdown this year. He's spent as a kick returner and plenty of time on the other special-teams groups. However, two weeks ago with injuries taking their toll, Tweedy needed to step in and play some defense as well. Last week, he started at cornerback. He started at kick returner. And, he still played some wide receiver. On defense, he recorded three tackles and had an interception. He also recovered a fumble. As a kick returner, he returned six kickoffs for a total of 108 yards. He also tracked down a blocked field goal late in the second quarter that set up the Green Terror's go-ahead touchdown just before halftime.
GOING LONG: One play after Susquehanna took a 20-7 lead with 5:34 to play in the second quarter, McDaniel handed the ball to Joe Rollins at its own 23-yard line. The senior tailback broke through the line and was gone for a 77-yard touchdown scamper for the longest run of his collegiate career.
YOUTH MOVEMENT: The Green Terror enters this week's game with a roster of 94 players. Of those 94 players, 63 are either freshmen or sophomores. McDaniel will have a freshman class of 42 in 2013 – by far its largest class on the roster.
TERROR TIDBITS: The 43 points scored by the offense on Saturday was the most since tallying 52 in the 2009 opener against St. Vincent… Joe Rollins recorded his 22nd 100-yard rushing game on Saturday. He needs 50 yards to move into fourth place on the CC's all-time list. He would need a 249-yard game for the single-season program record… The Green Terror has had three offensive plays of 60 or more yards this season and eight that have gone for 40 or more… McDaniel has been flagged for a CC-high 60 penalties this season and drawn a CC-high 64… The same 22 Green Terror players have not been the starters in any two games this season.
COACHES' CORNER: Mike Hoyt is in his second season at the helm of the Green Terror, entering today's game with an overall record of 2-17, picking up his first win on Sept. 14 – a 21-14 victory over Moravian. He spent the previous eight seasons as the defensive coordinator, culminating with being a finalist for the American Football Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year award in 2011. In his first season at Albright, his defense went from allowing an average of 235.4 yards per game to 175.1 yards per contest, helping to guide Albright to an ECAC South Atlantic championship. His tenure as defensive coordinator was marked specifically by stout run defense, ranking in the top half of the Middle Atlantic Conference in rush defense, total defense and scoring defense in four of his last five seasons. His 2008 defense led the conference and ranked 33rd nationally, allowing just 16.9 points per games and appeared in the ECAC South Central Bowl… Jim Margraff is in his 24th season at Johns Hopkins. The all-time winngingest coach in program history, he has compiled a record of 166-81-3 in his tenure with the Blue Jays. After earning a share of three consecutive conference titles, Margraff led Johns Hopkins to its first outright claim to the title and NCAA tournament bid in 2005 and once again took the outright crown in 2009 and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals. In 2010, the squad once again shared the CC title before taking the outright title again in 2011 and 2012. The Blue Jays have also claimed four ECAC titles in his tenure. Margraff led Johns Hopkins to the program's 500th win last week with a 45-30 win over Franklin & Marshall, which also secured the outright conference championship.
THE WORD ON JOHNS HOPKINS: The Blue Jays enter today's game ranked 11th in the latest d3football.com poll and eighth in the AFCA coaches poll. Johns Hopkins defeated Franklin & Marshall 45-30 last Saturday to claim its third straight outright CC championship and NCAA bid. It was also the program's 500th all-time victory. The Blue Jays are 500-476-58 all-time… Brandon Cherry ran for 163 yards and three touchdowns… Cherry enters today's game with 932 rushing yards… Robbie Matey has completed 73 percent (187-for-256) of his passes this season for 2,087 yards.


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Four graduating seniors from Newtown High School will receive college scholarships to help them pursue careers in education.
The money is coming from the "We are Newtown" charity, which was formed by a group of local residents and businesses in the wake of the December shooting rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. It has raised $200,000 so far and plans to give out $26,000 in scholarships each year.
A ceremony is planned for Saturday for the students chosen to receive the first four scholarships. Each will be introduced by a Sandy Hook teacher or family member of someone directly affected by the tragedy.
Much of the money raised came from the sale of "We Are Newtown" T-shirts.


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Epoch is a Combat Action Game for mobile devices
When a long-dormant robotic soldier re-boots, it finds itself in a city blasted by war. A once thriving civilization has been brought low, its crumbling buildings patrolled by machines whose only purpose now is to fight. But what happened to the people? How did things turn so bad so quickly? And how can the soldier find the one person he was originally assigned to protect?
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Unravel the Mystery: Follow the echoes of a lost civilization in a visually-stunning post-apocalyptic world where only robots survive to fight a never-ending war. Fight towards your goal and piece together the fragments to reveal exactly what happened when the old world ended. Is this the dawn of a new Epoch?
Choreograph the Action: Control your character with intuitive finger swipes. Make split-second decisions, take cover, select targets, dodge incoming fire, utilize special abilities, and launch countermeasures!
Fight & Improve Gameplay: Fight escalating waves of robots in arena-style combat, and upgrade yourself with pieces torn from your fallen enemies!
Stunning AAA Visuals: The world of Epoch is rendered using Unreal 3 from Epic Games, the same engine used to create the visuals of the award winning Infinity Blade and Gears Of War.
Unique Cinematic Experience: The game uses a seamless blend of player-controlled action and cinematics to deliver a uniquely immersive experience!


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Visual Learning Overview
Visual thinking is a learning style where the learner better understands and retains information when ideas, words and concepts are associated with images. Visual learning helps students organize and analyze information, integrate new knowledge and think critically. Graphic Organizers, diagrams and outlines are just some strategies of visual learning.
Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer is a visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts or ideas. A graphic organizer guides the learner's thinking as they fill in and build upon a visual map or diagram. Webs, concept maps, mind maps and plots are some of the types of graphic organizers used in visual learning.
Concept Mapping
A concept map helps students organize and represent knowledge of a subject. Concept mapping links concepts and ideas together with words and phrases that explain the relationship. Concept maps encourage learners to discover new concepts, clearly communicate ideas and information, and enhance their knowledge on any topic.
Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a visual form of note taking that offers an overview of a topic and its complex information. Through the use of colors, images and words, mind mapping begins with a central idea and expands outward to more in-depth sub-topics. Mind maps help students brainstorm on any topic and think creatively.
A web is a visual map that shows how different categories of information relate to one another. Webbing is a brainstorming method that provides structure for ideas and facts, creating a flexible framework for idea development, organizing and prioritizing.
An outline is a preliminary summary of written work, typically organized in headings and subheadings. Used to organize one's thoughts and information related to a project or paper, outlining helps students clarify their ideas and demonstrate their thinking process behind an essay or report. Structuring and organizing large amounts of information in an outline is the first step in the writing process.
Plots & Graphs
Plots and graphs are a type of visual learning diagram that visually represents a relationship between sets of numbers as a set of points having coordinates determined by that relationship. Venn diagrams, bar graphs, stack plots, pie charts and axis plots are some examples that help students develop data literacy by interpreting information and drawing conclusions. Plots and graphs also help students acquire the skills of reasoning, inquiry and communication.


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Zotac is a relatively new brand in the graphics card market, though it has an experienced manufacturer behind it. And so far, it has impressed us with its offerings. Apart from the standard reference based cards, it also has two other product lines that features its own customized cards. They are the AMP! and ZONE editions. The difference between the two is rather straightforward. Cards from the AMP! edition comes factory-overclocked, whereas those from the ZONE edition feature silent cooling solutions.
That said, the Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB ZONE Edition is the current flagship of the ZONE edition of cards. Its unique selling point is that it is water-cooled. However, since this is the very first GeForce 9800 GTX+ card that we are reviewing and NVIDIA has so many rather confusing GPU names, let us first talk you through a little about this relatively 'new' GPU.
The GeForce 9800 GTX+ was launched not too long ago in July and is once again a refresh, this time of the 9800 GTX. It differs from the latter in that it is manufactured using a 55nm process, a first for NVIDIA. It also has higher clock speeds, 738MHz for the core, 2200MHz memory and 1836MHz for the shaders, as opposed to the 9800 GTX's core, memory and shader clock speeds of 675MHz, 2200MHz and 1688MHz respectively. Basically, it was conceived by NVIDIA as a quick-fix so as to provide the Radeon HD 4850 from ATI some competition in the lucrative mid to high-end market.
Although the screenshot from GPU-Z indicates that our card was manufactured using a 65nm process, instead of a 55nm one, we decided to open the card up to make sure. Checking the code found on the core (G92-420-B1), we confirmed that it was indeed a 55nm core and not 65nm as reported on GPU-Z. Now let's take a look at how it stacks up against comparative cards.
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