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CHICAGO -- As a kid in Venezuela, Omar Vizquel grew up idolizing Davey Concepcion, the shortstop on Cincinnati's Big Red Machine. Then one day he was on a baseball field talking to him, one shortstop to another.
It's a memory Vizquel will have forever.
CHICAGO -- As a kid in Venezuela, Omar Vizquel grew up idolizing Davey Concepcion, the shortstop on Cincinnati's Big Red Machine. Then one day he was on a baseball field talking to him, one shortstop to another.
It's a memory Vizquel will have forever.
"I remember when I was a kid, I had Davey Concepcion as my hero, and I had him next to me," Vizquel remembered. "It was, 'Oh my God, I can't believe this guy is talking to me.' "
Now, Vizquel is on the other end of that relationship, trying to pass on his knowledge to Eugenio Suarez, the Tigers' 22-year-old shortstop from Bolivar, Venezuela. The early returns on that work, and Suarez's play in general, have been excellent.
Brad Ausmus, Detroit's manager, says Suarez "carries himself like a big league player," and that says a lot. Time will tell if he can do the rest, but it's clear that a lot of people are pulling for him.
Fourth in line to replace the injured Jose Iglesias as the Tigers' shortstop, Suarez has homered twice in four games while fielding his position solidly. It appears that he paid attention while working alongside Vizquel, who is Detroit's first-base coach. They spent some time together with Leones del Caracas in the fall and then worked daily in Spring Training.
"We split up the teams into two different teams," Vizquel said. "Obviously, there are the guys who have a chance to make the team, Group A, and then Group B, the guys who supposedly go to the Minor Leagues, and he was always stuck in Group B. … I think a lot of people were ahead of him, even though he is well liked here. They were trying to push him to be the regular shortstop. But obviously his bat wasn't mature enough. He was going to have a little bit of trouble. They decided to keep him down there to get some confidence and wait."
Suarez is not one of those thin, rangy shortstops who eat up ground balls all across the left side of the infield. He lacks the explosive first-step quickness that helped Vizquel win 11 Gold Gloves, but he has soft hands and a strong arm. Suarez has added upper body strength over the last couple of years, becoming a dangerous hitter.
But Suarez didn't have the greatest Spring Training, hitting .212 and failing to seize an opportunity that presented itself when Iglesias was diagnosed with stress fractures in both shins. So he went to the Minor Leagues -- first Double-A Erie and then Triple-A Toledo -- and waited his turn while the Tigers auditioned Alex Gonzalez, Danny Worth and Andrew Romine
Every day, Suarez worked on things Vizquel had suggested to him.
"He had me working hard every day on my defense," Suarez told MLB.com's Jason Beck last month. "He told me, 'Keep playing hard, just complete the routine plays, take the outs.' That's what he told me. 'You have good defense, good hands, so keep working hard every day.' "
Vizquel said Suarez made an impression on him when they first worked together in Caracas.
"We started taking ground balls together, seeing what kind of talent he had," Vizquel said. "Very quickly I noticed he has some good hands, great arm, some abilities to play defense. … He has very good confidence on his defensive skills, obviously. He can go to his left and his right very good. He probably doesn't have the range of Jose Reyes, or somebody like that. He's not a quick guy, but he gets to a lot of balls, and I think his arm balances everything out. Every ball he gets to, he's made a very good, accurate, hard throw to first base."
This was Suarez's second Spring Training in the Tigers' big league clubhouse, and it was clear he was not intimidated. That says a lot considering that the cast around him included Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera and a deep cast of veterans, including pitchers Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
"He's seen the success of the Tigers the last several years," Vizquel said. "Obviously, he's going to have a little bit of excitement, a little bit of pressure, but he doesn't seem to come across that way."
It helps that Suarez was dealt into the clubhouse card games and sometimes provided his own soundtrack. Upon request, he can imitate the noises made by many animals, with his turkey calls generating howls of laugher around the room.
"The fact that he knows a lot of these guys from Venezuela, he knows them from big league camp, helps him slide in," Ausmus said. "The players in this clubhouse, the players here before he arrived, they like [him]. He was a well-liked guy from the get-go.They liked him in Spring Training. They laughed with him. Sometimes they laughed at him. He's a good kid. As a player, he handles himself well. He looks like he's been at the Major League level longer than he has by the way he carries himself, his body language."
Looking the part can be the toughest part.
"When you're a young kid, some guys are timid, shy, something like that," Vizquel said. "This kid seems to have a lot of confidence in himself, knows what he's doing. It's nice to see in a young guy like that."
No one knows for sure how Suarez will hit over an extended time in the American League. He batted .264 with 10 homers between Class A Advanced Lakeland and Erie last year, and he appears to have made a significant adjustment working with hitting coach Wally Joyner and others this year.
Vizquel sees Suarez's hitting in the high Minors this season (.288 with eight homers and an .870 OPS in 54 games) as a sign that he could be in the big leagues to stay.
"Obviously, everybody questions his bat," Vizquel said. "He didn't hit enough in Spring Training. But whatever he took from Spring Training, whatever these guys asked him to do, he took it down to the Minor Leagues and worked at it. Now he looks better. His swing is a little shorter. He's laying off breaking pitches. It's good for him."
If Suarez can fill one of baseball's biggest voids, it will be good for the Tigers. Maybe even better than good.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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RICHMOND — In a move described by agency officials as highly unusual, a divided U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Wednesday night refused to endorse the centerpiece recommendation from its staff's 115-page report on the massive Chevron refinery fire in 2012.
At the heart of the split, made public in a packed Richmond City Council chamber, was whether the system for regulating oil refineries should be overhauled to mirror the European model that focuses on continually reducing accident risks, as proposed in the staff report, or whether more emphasis should be placed on strengthening the current oversight system.
The safety board recommendation, which would force the industry to demonstrate that it is operating as safely as possible through written reports reviewed by regulators, has come under fire from industry, the scientific community, and labor and political interests. Many of the concerns center on whether the so-called safety case regime would add unnecessary costs, complexity and uncertainty to the monitoring of oil refineries and detract from efforts to enhance local and state laws and resources.
"There may be more immediate benefits from beefing up the current system," said Kim Nibarger, a health and safety specialist for the United Steelworkers.
"We don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good."
However, advocates of the proposal insist that the model would shift the emphasis in refinery regulation from reacting to safety problems as they arise to forcing companies to use the best available materials and practices to prevent conditions that might lead to catastrophic accidents, such as the corroded pipe that sparked the Chevron fire.
The Chemical Safety Board is an investigative agency with no enforcement powers, but its recommendations are expected to influence state, county and local policies regulating refineries. A state refinery task force also is working on recommendations, and a state law passed last year increases the number of refinery inspectors.
Two of the three board members voted against adopting the sweeping recommendations Wednesday night, directing staff to make changes within 120 days.
"The goal is to make the report stronger," safety board member Beth Rosenberg said. "It's a long-term plan, but you need more immediate remedies."
The report and recommendations stemmed from the Aug. 6, 2012, fire, which was blamed on corroded pipes neglected by Chevron officials. The blaze sent more than 15,000 people to area hospitals and shut down one of the West Coast's major crude units for months.
Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso, the only member who voted to approve the plan, released a statement Thursday that criticized his colleagues' decision.
"It's a missed opportunity to promote fundamental change in safety management by adopting the safety case regime," he said. "The call for 'additional study' on a clearly mature, already well-studied safety management system is another way to continue 'kicking the can' down the road by delaying changes to the current system, which has failed to prevent catastrophic accidents."
The draft report recommends that California replace the current patchwork of largely reactive regulations with a more rigorous, performance-based regulatory regime. Safety case reports generated by the company would be rigorously reviewed, audited and enforced by highly trained regulatory inspectors, whose technical training and experience are on par with the personnel employed by the companies they oversee, the draft report says.
In public comments on the initial report released by the board, Chevron and petroleum industry interests led the charge against the recommendations.
Chevron commented in the report "that the transition to a safety case system in California will result in accidents as it will detract from safe operations and degrade safety."
But the third voting member of the board, Mark Griffon, said criticism submitted by industry officials and scientists "indicates more study is needed." He said he wanted more recommendations about strengthening existing enforcement powers held by state and county regulators.
Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, and Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia submitted letters at the meeting seeking more focus on stiffening existing county and state enforcement mechanisms, including the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA).
"There are near-term opportunities for improvement in Cal/OSHA and the Contra Costa County Health Services programs that were excluded from CSB's report," Miller wrote.
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In a statement released earlier Wednesday, Western States Petroleum Association President Catherine Reheis-Boyd wrote that moving too quickly to adopt some of the programs recommended by the Chemical Safety Board could inject significant complexity and confusion into long-standing and successful safety programs.
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Victoria Rubin's injuries changed her development as a player.
The Moore Catholic rising senior transferred to the Grantville, Staten Island school from St. John Villa after her freshman year to be with her two sisters. She had to miss her sophomore year because of transfer rules and tore her right ACL before it began, depriving her of the most important evaluation period heading into her junior year with the NYC Heat. On top of that, she hurt her meniscus in the same knee entering this travel ball season.
"It's an emotional roller coaster," Rubin said. "All you want to do it play and then you realize you can't play. … I can't picture myself doing anything else. It's what I love."
Her passion burned so much that she couldn't put the ball down. Rubin, who had only played forward growing up, found herself working on her shooting form in her bedroom. She put a circle sticker on the ceiling, lay on her back in bed and kept hitting it over and over again. It added versatility to her game. At 5-foot-10 she can guard the biggest player on the court and create a missmatch on the other end because of her ability to shoot from the perimeter.
"I couldn't do anything else," she said. "I couldn't pivot. I couldn't dribble. I just shot."
Rubin felt lucky that she still had basketball surrounding her with sisters Christina, who is headed to Iona College on a full scholarship, and Gabriella, a rising junior at Moore who has hit numerous big shots. She wasn't sure what she would have done without her family there.
"I was really emotional last year, being around them more," Rubin said of her sisters. "It made me a stronger person. … If I put my head down thinking about my knee they would just pick me back up."
Last winter, she got back on the court and was a contributor off the bench for Moore as it reached the CHSAA Class AA state final. Rubin, who has Division II interest, had seven points in a quarterfinal win over Bishop Ford.
She is making up for lost time when it comes to her recruiting. Rubin has impressed Heat coach Hugh Flaherty so far with her basketball IQ, passing and ability to be a distributor in the post for knock down open shots.
"She's like the best kept secret, "Flaherty said. "She could be good. … She gives us toughness."
Rubin is healthy now, still playing with a brace on her knee, but moving well. She said she is more focused on basketball now than ever before. Her injuries are behind her, but they also shaped her into the player she is today.
"Things happen for a reason," Rubin said. "God can't give me anything I can't handle. It's telling me how strong I am that I made this type of a comeback."


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Clinton nemesis returns
McLEAN, Va. — Fifteen years later, the Clinton Wars are back.
The backdrop this time isn't the White House or Hillary Clinton's likely presidential run. It's the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., where a onetime congressional staffer who made her name digging up dirt on the Clintons, Barbara Comstock, is trying to win a seat in Congress herself.
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Lining up behind Comstock are some of the Clintons' chief '90s-era adversaries, including Ken Starr, Dan Burton and David Bossie. Determined to stop her is a host of Clinton loyalists led by Terry McAuliffe — who was once forced to testify before a congressional committee after Comstock unearthed his bombshell " Lincoln Bedroom Memo" — from his new perch as Virginia governor.
Comstock's bid against Democratic Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust has reopened the old wounds of Travelgate, Filegate, Monicagate and more. But the stakes go way beyond settling old scores. Clinton allies worry that if Comstock wins and Hillary Clinton returns to the White House as president, she'll reprise her role as Clinton investigator-in-chief.
( PHOTOS: House race in Virginia revives Clinton Wars)
"If she wins, she will no doubt practice the same politics of personal destruction she and her ilk practiced in the Clinton days," said Paul Begala, a former political adviser to Bill Clinton who has assumed the role of Comstock attack dog. The Republican, he said, has a "really almost sick, sort of stalker-like obsession with President Clinton."
Comstock — a 55-year-old, Georgetown-educated lawyer widely regarded as one of the premier opposition researchers of her generation, with a "wonderfully devious mind," in the words of one reporter who witnessed her at the peak of her sleuthing — declined to speak for this story. But she is already hinting publicly that she's itching to take on the Clintons again.
"We need to get to the bottom of the truth in Benghazi, and I will do that because I've done that before as a chief investigator in Congress," she said at the Virginia state GOP convention recently, referring to the 2012 attacks that left four Americans dead and marred Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
The Barbarellas
Comstock's history with the Clintons dates back to 1993. At the time, she was working as an aide to GOP Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia when some of his constituents lost their jobs in the White House travel office. Wolf tasked Comstock with finding out why the firings happened and whether the Clintons were trying to make room in the office for their personal allies.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama to issue order on drone privacy)
Republicans won the House majority in 1994, and Comstock became the chief counsel on the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Much of the panel's investigative work centered on Clinton's fundraising practices and determining whether he had accepted funds from non-U.S. citizens ahead of the 1996 election.
Comstock's legal training prepared her to burrow through mounds of government documents, spotting patterns in discrete facts that eluded others. She deposed countless high-level White House officials and allies, including John Podesta and George Stephanopoulos. When Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung appeared before the committee in 1999, Comstock did the grilling.
The other trait Comstock's admirers and critics consistently point to: a work ethic bordering on compulsive.
"Late night calls from Barbara Comstock were not unusual," David Brock, the onetime conservative opposition researcher and Comstock confidant, wrote in his 2002 book, "Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative." "She often telephoned with the latest tidbit she had dug up in the thousands and thousands of pages of administration records she pored through frantically, as if she were looking for a winning lottery ticket she had somehow mislaid." Brock is now leading Correct the Record, a group devoted to defending Hillary Clinton.
( Also on POLITICO: Sen. Walsh plagiarized War College thesis)
The late Barbara Olson, Comstock's co-investigator on the committee, wrote in her own book that the two took extraordinary measures to prevent Clinton backers from sabotaging their work.
"We changed our locks; not even the cleaning crews had access to our tiny room," Olson wrote in "Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton," published in 1999. "I generally arrived at 6:30 a.m. and tried to leave for home before 8:00 p.m. My colleague Barbara Comstock continued the vigil and wouldn't leave until 4:00 a.m."
On the campaign trail, Comstock hasn't shied away from discussing her time scrutinizing the Clintons. During a recent radio interview, she compared the Benghazi investigation to what transpired during the 1990s.
"Previously, when I was on Capitol Hill in the '90s, I served as chief counsel on the House Government Reform Committee, and we had similar investigations where we were just blocked at every turn, we had people take the Fifth Amendment, we had the administration refuse to turn over documents," she said in a May 1 appearance on "The John Fredericks Show." "And you just have to really go at it. We wrote contempt reports, we insisted on getting documents and then finally we were to break open these cases."
Comstock wasn't a Clinton hater, people close to her insist. But she was, they say, convinced the first couple was involved in wrongdoing. Her best friend during those years was Olson, who became a high-profile Clinton critic. In Republican circles, the two became known as "The Barbarellas," a reference to a racy 1968 Jane Fonda movie. In the White House, they were referred to as "The Barbaras."
Olson was a passenger on the American Airlines flight that struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
"They were, of course, partisan," Ted Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general who was married to Barbara Olson, said in an interview. "They believed in the things they were doing."
Had Barbara Olson been alive to watch her friend run for Congress, Ted Olson said, "She would have been ecstatic, thrilled beyond words. … She would have been cajoling, wheeling and dealing, twisting arms, whatever it took to help Barbara."
From Middlebury to the RNC
Comstock tread a surprising path to the oversight panel. She graduated from Middlebury College, a prestigious liberal arts school in Vermont, in 1981 with a degree in political science. During her undergrad years, she interned for Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. She would later say that while working for Kennedy, she was given a copy of the National Review, and there began her evolution to conservatism.
"I'd be at hearings and think, 'I agree with [Sen.] Orrin Hatch [R-Utah], not Ted Kennedy," she told The Washington Post in 2001.


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ST. LOUIS — Chasson Randle promised his coach he wouldn't say anything. But he couldn't help it.
Asked if he took it personally that Kansas freshmen Andrew Wiggins and Wayne Selden Jr. merely giggled when asked what they knew about Randle during a news conference the day before, Stanford's leading scorer said the slight provided fuel.
"We definitely saw that video," Randle said after the Cardinal got the final word Sunday with a 60-57 win over the Jayhawks at the NCAA tournament.
Randle, who had 13 points and a Stanford NCAA tournament record six steals, glanced at coach Johnny Dawkins, seated next to him on the interview podium. "He told me not to talk about it," Randle said. "But, you know, I definitely took it as a challenge. So did my teammates.
"It wasn't just a stab at me, it was a stab at our team. We took it as a challenge. And it was a little bit of extra motivation."
KU coach Bill Self said Saturday that Wiggins and Selden didn't recognize Randle's name because the coaches hadn't yet gone over a detailed scouting report for Stanford.
The game didn't go well for either Wiggins or Selden. Wiggins shot 1 for 6 and scored a season-low four points, and Selden was 1 for 5 for two points.
"I let a lot of people down," said Wiggins, projected by some as the No. 1 pick in this year's NBA draft. "If I would have played better, we wouldn't be in this situation, you know? I blame myself for this."
Encouraged by his old coach, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, Dawkins told his team about when he and his Blue Devils were eliminated from the 1985 tournament by Boston College.
One player — senior Danny Meagher — took the loss harder than anyone, Dawkins told his players. "No one was more distraught than he was," Dawkins said. "He was visibly just crying. I remember just looking at him, and he kept saying, 'You don't understand. You don't understand.' "
Dawkins, a junior, did not understand.
"This is it for me," Meagher told his teammates. "This was my last opportunity."
As Dawkins told his players the story, Randle thought of senior teammates Dwight Powell and Josh Huestis.
"I looked at his story as, you know, I have to be as strong for those guys and do what I have to do," he said. "Play as well as I can to make this a memorable season for them.
"It is motivating, and you play every game like it's your last," Randle said. "I think we're really doing that as a team now."
"I'm just thrilled for our young people," Muir said. "To be on a stage like this and perform so well, it's just great for them personally and, obviously, for the program and the coach."
Muir has supported Dawkins, even while the Cardinal faltered at times during this do-or-die season.
"I know the stress of the season, the ups and downs. I know there were probably some (games) there we wish we could have back. These are the ones that matter," Muir said. "Just to have this opportunity now and knowing we can compete on a national stage is thrilling. And I know there is more to come."


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The vintage bird collection, designed by Jim Mullan, was inspired by his fascination with birds and antique objects. The crows were used as hunting decoys in the 30's and 40's and the smaller birds were carved in the 1950's. The original decoys were passed on to Jim in 1991 and just recently he has turned each one into an eclectic one of a kind piece of art. You can see Jim's lively sense of humor in each one of his creations.
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Johnson: Breckenridge's bag tax: To pay or not to pay?
I've been trying to decide. Should I pay the new Breckenridge bag tax, or not? After careful consideration I have decided not to pay the bag tax. Here's my plan: You can simply shift most all your shopping to Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne. While shopping there you simply take a few extra new plastic bags when you check out. The stores there seem very accommodating and I have already accumulated about 20 new bags in my car. Then, when the rare occasion comes and you find it more convenient for some reason to shop in Breckenridge, you can just use one of your new plastic bags. Next, after a single use, can use the old bag to line your kitchen trash can or pick your dog's business, or simply throw the used bag away. However, despite your possible irritation over this whole bag tax thing, I do not think you should toss a once-used bag out the window of your car as you pass Breckenridge town hall and/or the homes of the mayor or town council members. That would not be cool.
This is a great plan. Think of its many advantages. First, you pay no bag tax. Second, you avoid Breck's high sales tax rate. Also, Breckenridge business owners will enjoy more free time as their sales and income decline a little bit. In addition, business owners will enjoy some reduction in their costs associated with the administration of the bag tax. Most importantly, this bag tax solution is easy to do and can be sustained over time; in other words, it's sustainable.
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The most important thing to win next week is veto ...HOH only keeps that person safe for F3 battle but the veto holder will decide who actually goes to F3 other than the HOH.
If it is Tori ..she also has a show on Oh that is 8 lucky couples this season get the Wedding of their dreams, and Tori and Dean are the wedding planners...so this could be a win win for her too
Quote from: unbelievable on September 02, 2011, 12:36:42 PMIf it is Tori ..she also has a show on Oh that is 8 lucky couples this season get the Wedding of their dreams, and Tori and Dean are the wedding planners...so this could be a win win for her too I love this idea! Adam would be thrilled and Rachel could get the wedding of her dreams! I just love happy endings! Grace, send some vibes for this, would you?
I don't think Adam would vote for Jordon over Rachel...he has said numerous times he would vote for game play and who was deserving. I do think that Rachel would and could win over Jordon...Funny last night BBAD when Adam, Porsche and Rachel were playing cards and Kalea was in the dr....Porsche and Rachel were having a really good time together joking around etc... when Kalea came out and took Adam's place and Adam went to the dr, the whole atmosphere changed between them, i think if Kalea goes to jury this week the bond between Rachel and Porsche will strengthen once again. I think Rachel would get Porsche vote, and maybe Dani also. Dani always said the J's weren't her target...true..because she wanted Kalea to take them out...figured she would get their votes from jury then....i am so glad Dani went out when she did...she sure does have a high opinion of her BB game play.... (hey Dani if your listening...it sucked big time!)
so what happened with Pandora's box?
I am so happy that Adam got to meet Tori Spelling. Can hardly wait to see it on the show. This really should help him be loyal to Rachel. Did Rachel get any of the shopping spree stuff? I hope the girls share it with her if not. I am sure Jordan would, but what about the other two?
Im just glad Pandora's Box didnt effect the outcome of the game!
Cassi got a guest roll on The Bold & the Beautiful, which she will shoot the day after the finale. She will play a runway model named Cassi. I hope it leads to a permanent roll on the show.
Quote from: Albert5433 on September 02, 2011, 02:33:28 PMIm just glad Pandora's Box didnt effect the outcome of the game!Not directly anyway. But I suspect any wavering Adam might have done due to not trusting Rachel might have been brought to a minimum, so indirectly, it effected it a great deal.
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In May, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) hosted its second annual Solar Regatta at Rancho Seco Park, near Sacramento. Teams of high school and middle school students from all over Northern California were given solar panels to use to power a boat that the students designed and built. With a fraction of the resources of some of the competing schools, the Encina HIgh School's team, aka "Encina Yacht Club," put together an original craft and entered the race for the first time.
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The popular holiday resort of Bodrum, called Halicarnassus in ancient times, is the South Aegean's most attractive resort, described by Homer as 'the land of eternal blue'. The hillside is covered in painted villas adorned with bougainvillea, narrow streets wind their way down to the sea, and the peaceful setting of its twin harbours offer shelter for yachts.
Bodrum is a mustering point for local boats offering tailor-made daytrips to nearby islands or the pristine beaches and seaside restaurants along the magnificent coastline. From its position between the two harbours, the 15th century crusader Castle of St Peter dominates every part of the town, now home to the fascinating Museum of Underwater Archaeology. The other Bodrum holiday attraction is the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the crumbling remains of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
As Turkey's leading seaside holiday destination, Bodrum is packed with foreign visitors in summer. Yet, it remains unspoilt and retains its charming Turkish character, perfecting the balance between authenticity and tourist comforts. Here, exotic bazaars, the wailing cry of the muezzin and ancient history, seamlessly blend with popular water sports, sunbathing, and a nightlife that is notorious throughout Turkey.
Like everywhere in Turkey, shopping on a Bodrum holiday is quite an adventure, with dozens of shops lining the busy narrow streets, mainly from the bus station down to the marina. Touts and vendors offer a variety of local goods, from carpets and kilims to leatherware, gold and silver jewellery, and designer clothing (much of which is fake). Look out for Turkish meerscewhaum pipes and onyx. There is an extensive, colourful craft market in operation on Tuesdays, and a fruit and vegetable market on Fridays. Bargaining is expected and it is customary to haggle down to about half the asking price. In Bodrum some shops stay open late at night, some even all night.
Warm, sultry evenings in Bodrum are best spent dining on fresh seafood or local specialities in one of the numerous restaurants. Those who prefer to stick to more familiar tastes will find plenty of the usual popular cuisines on offer too, like Italian, Thai, Chinese, Mexican, and European. Renowned as the top place in town for typical Turkish is Denizhan, a little out of town between Konacik and Ortakent, and easily reached in a dolmus or taxi.
For excellent Aegean dishes, especially lamb, Epsilon in the old town is hard to beat. The best pizza in Bodrum is served up with a view on the rooftop terrace of Sunger Pizza, while a good blend of Mediterranean and Californian cuisine can be enjoyed at La Jolla Bistro at Xuma Beach. Also very popular is the Secret Garden, near the Marina, where cooks prepare gourmet Mediterranean fare with flair. The Backpacker Bar & Grill caters to the expat crowd with traditional English food.
The nightlife on a Bodrum holiday is frenetic and varied, offering not only western-style decadent clubs and discos, but also the chance to sample partying Turkish style at one of the meyhanes (there are several of these local nightclubs on the road to Konacik and Ortakent) where the crowd joins in with the local artists, singing, dancing, eating, and drinking. Most of the bars in Bodrum's mile-long 'Bar Street' (Dr. Alim Bey and Cumhuriyet Street), offer dancing, belly-dancing shows, live music and outdoor seating (often on the beach) with a view of the illuminated castle. For clubbers the main place to be is Halikarnas, one of the biggest and swankiest open-air clubs in the world, where the entrance charge matches the volume of the music and brightness of the laser lights. There are plenty of other clubs, even one on a catamaran that sets sail late at night and takes the party out to sea until the dawn.
The blue Aegean waters that wash the beaches of the peninsula on which Bodrum is perched lend themselves admirably to a vast range of watersports, from scuba diving to windsurfing and jet-skiing. Local operators can be found all over the area, renting out equipment, arranging excursions or offering lessons. Aquatic thrills are also on offer at the town's two waterparks.
Those who grow tired of the sea and sand can go hiking; local walking clubs offer programmes (generally not in the height of the summer season when it is too hot). There are numerous ways to get out of town and explore the enchanting villages, bays, and historic sites in the area. The Castle of St Peter, Bodrum Amphitheatre, and windmills are all popular attractions. Either hire a car, motor-bike, or bicycle; take a boat/hydrofoil trip; book an organised excursion; a jeep safari; or simply hop on a dolmus (mini-bus). An absolute must is a trip to a hamam (Turkish bath), complete with massage. The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology has won many awards for its fascinating displays, including the famous Uluburun Shipwreck.
Bodrum beaches are shingled and can become very crowded during the height of the summer holiday season. The city's narrow streets become clogged with tourists, day and night, during peak periods. Women have complained of experiencing unwelcome attention from local men.
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Calcium-rich mineral springs surging over the edge of a mountain plateau for thousands of years have resulted in an intriguing natural masterpiece. The rock formations of Pamukkale ('Cotton Castle')…


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We are currently in the midst of one of the greatest waves of species extinction that has ever occurred on Earth. But even as rates of species loss are approaching those of prior mass extinctions, we know little about the different roles that species play in ecosystems, and we have almost no idea how the well-being of our own species is linked to the great variety of life that inhabits our planet.
The goal of our working group is to improve our understanding of the consequences of species extinction for humanity. We will summarize the results of more than two decades of ecological experiments that have examined how the diversity of bacteria, fungi, plants and animals influence biological processes that are essential to the existence of life. Using these data, we will:
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Our work is timely, as the United Nations General Assembly has named 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Our results will help aid international efforts to conserve and manage species and their natural habitats in a period of unprecedented environmental change.
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