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Pavel Datsyuk knocked in a rebound at 4:45 of overtime, and the Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 Friday night to hold onto seventh place in the Western Conference playoff race.
Wings edge Avalanche 3-2 in overtime
The Detroit Red Wings were running on fumes, but Pavel Datsyuk had enough energy left to give them an important victory.
Datsyuk knocked in a rebound at 4:45 of overtime, and the Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Friday night to hold onto seventh place in the Western Conference playoff race.
Datsyuk, who had two goals, ended the game after Henrik Zetterberg put a shot on net that goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere didn't cover. Datsyuk reached out to poke in the puck as defenceman Matt Hunwick was draped all over him.
Jimmy Howard had 33 saves, and Gustav Nyquist had a goal for the Red Wings, who are locked in a tight fight for a post-season spot.
"We needed these points. We have a tough situation in the fight for the playoffs, and we're happy we finished this way," Datsyuk said.
It wasn't easy. Detroit lost in Phoenix on Thursday and had to play at altitude against a struggling but rested Colorado team. Fatigue showed when the Avalanche held a 16-6 advantage in shots in the third period.
"We let off the gas a little bit there in the third but I think that had a lot to do with it being the second game in two nights," Howard said. "The key is we found a way to get the two points and a much-needed two points."
P.A. Parenteau and Mark Olver scored for Colorado, which gave Detroit all it could handle before losing for the 11th time in 13 games.
The rivalry that blossomed between these teams in 1996 has lost steam with Colorado's string of non-playoff seasons. Still, the Red Wings' presence in Denver always adds a charge even if neither team looks like those that combined to win five Stanley Cup titles from 1996-2002.
"There were some positives again. We've played some good games lately," Parenteau said. "We're not getting the results."
The Red Wings came into Friday having lost three of four. They slipped to seventh place, one point ahead of St. Louis, which has played two fewer games. Detroit is a perennial top seed in the post-season but is in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time since 1990.
But in this lockout-shortened season, things change in a hurry. A loss to Colorado would have moved Detroit to eighth in the conference.
The Avalanche have been reduced to the spoiler role for the third straight season. Colorado is last in the NHL in points and is looking at a high draft pick for the fourth time in five seasons.
"It's just frustrating right now," said Giguere, who made 28 saves. "We can all feel the pressure, and it's just unfortunate."
Despite the different directions, this game was close. Detroit took a 1-0 lead on Datsyuk's power-play goal midway through the first period — his team-leading 12th goal of the season.
Colorado tied it when Olver scored on a breakaway at 11:36, but Nyquist gave the Red Wings the lead back with his second goal 13 seconds later.
"It bobbled in the middle, and the puck kind of came right to me. I just tried to fake the shot, have him go down, and tuck it in short side," Nyquist said.
It stayed that way until the third, when Colorado came out charging. The pressure paid off when Parenteau tipped in a pass from Jamie McGinn at 6:29 to tie it 2-2.
The Avalanche continued to dominate in the third and held a 14-1 advantage in shots before Tyson Barrie took a penalty at 14:16. The Red Wings couldn't take advantage of the power play, and the game went into overtime.
"It was very obvious we were running out of gas big time, but our guys hung with it. We got some good goaltending and we found a way to get it done," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "It was one of those nights on your schedule you think it's going to be a tough one."
The Red Wings can help themselves when they play the Blues in Detroit on Monday. A win would give them separation in the final stretch of the shortened season.
"It's a big game for us," Babcock said. "St. Louis has two games in hand. It's a big game plus we always have fun playing against them."
NOTES: Detroit D Kyle Quincey returned after sitting out 10 games because of facial fractures sustained March 15 against Edmonton. … Zetterberg earned his 399th career assist. … Olver's goal was his first point in eight games. He had a goal and assist against Dallas on March 20.

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Kenneth MacMillan's Gloria is a profoundly moving response to World War I. The opening image instantly evokes familiar images of soldiers at Passchendaele or the Somme – men, silhouetted, the distinctive profile of their Brodie helmets clearly visible. But the choreography itself speaks powerfully of the consequences of war and the anguish of loss.
MacMillan's wife Deborah has spoken of how throughout MacMillan's career he had sought to create a ballet in response to war. It wasn't until quite late in his life, in 1979, that MacMillan encountered the spur that would lead to Gloria. A BBC TV dramatization of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth inspired MacMillan with its elegiac tribute to the lost generation, told through Brittain's own experiences of working as a nurse and of losing both her brother and her fiancé to the conflict. Brittain's story is clearly represented in MacMillan's choreography, through limpid pas de deux and an excoriating, intense pas de trois, where the central woman holds the two men close to her.
But there's also a more directly personal element to Gloria. MacMillan's father William fought in World War I and died of pneumonia in 1946 when Kenneth was 16. William had not supported Kenneth's desire to dance – Kenneth had had to forge a letter from his father in order to audition for Ninette de Valois – and never saw him perform. William's death came at the same time as Kenneth received his first professional contract, and led to a personal crisis for Kenneth. He later wrote that on his father's death 'I was overcome by loneliness… I was unable to give my father the warmth he craved. It was an emotional paralysis that masked my real feelings for years to come.'
William never spoke to his family of his wartime experiences. He had enlisted in May 1915, at the age of 24, as a gunner with the Highland Fifth Royal Garrison Artillery. He was caught in a mustard gas-attack at the Battle of the Somme, which left him with lifelong pulmonary problems and sores on his face and neck. William nursed an intense contempt for the Army authorities, refusing further treatment or a disability pension after his discharge in 1919. He often spoke of moving his family to the Soviet Union. Kenneth later remembered his father forbidding him or his brother from joining the Scouts – his only explanation that he didn't want his sons wearing uniforms.
Many have suggested that Brittain's study of the Great War and its after-effects enabled MacMillan to begin to understand the horrors that his father had experienced, and to begin to unfold the guilt he had associated with his relationship with his father. There's anger in Gloria – the moment in the pas de trois where the three soloists point at the audience, a gesture that recalls the Lord Kitchener enlistment posters while also carrying a clear edge of accusation. There's pessimism too, in the moment where the corps de ballet gather in circular movements, a representation of the unending cycle of peace and war. But MacMillan's choreography also expresses tenderness, yearning and love in movements of intimate beauty. The sadness and horror expressed in Gloria is matched by a profound sense of humanity.
Gloria is a poignant tribute both to the fallen and to those left behind. MacMillan was able to invest his unique choreographic language with a deeply felt emotion. The result is one of his masterpieces, and a true act of remembrance.
Gloria appears in a mixed programme from The Royal Ballet that also features Rhapsody and Tetractys – The Art of Fugue. Performances run 7–15 February 2014. Tickets are still available.


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ASHEVILLE, NC – Another major North Carolina landmark is readying to celebrate a birthday. Just as the 75th anniversary of the Great Smokies National Park is wrapping up, the 75th birthday for the Blue Ridge Parkway is getting started.
A symbolic passing of the torch, from the Smokies Superintendent to the Parkway Superintendent takes place on Friday. "We'll have elders from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee and youth from the Cherokee Youth Council who will also pass the torch as a way to demonstrate everyone's obligation to be stewards of this wonderful natural resource," said Elizabeth Sims spokesperson for the Blue Ridge Parkway 75.
The event will also include Cherokee tribal music and dance. The parkway winds its way through North Carolina and Virginia connecting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.


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I trust that everyone had a happy & blessed Christmas! Our's was filled with love, peace, contentment, & way too much food as shown by the extra 5 pounds showing on my scale! That's okay though ... it's Christmas : ) I received some lovely gifts from my sweet babboo & will show you some stitching gifts in a moment.
I know that many of you are waiting to hear what Christmas book John chose to buy & read to me this year. It is The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg, illustrated by Richard Cowdrey. It's a lovely story about a man who comes to a small pioneer town to open a store. The townspeople wonder what type of store it will be. A little girl knocks at his door to ask if he needs any help & discovers he is opening a candy store. While helping him unpack a crate, she finds a package of candy canes. She has never seen this candy before. This is when the man explains the meaning of the colors & shape of the candy cane. Afterward, they visit every townsperson to share the candy & story with them.
Jo with instructions to open it on Christmas Eve. Inside we found a book titled Jesus' Birthday Party. This is a delightful story of the birth of Jesus, hilariously told from the point of view of the inkeeper who just wants a good night's sleep : ) John & I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you again Jo : )


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* GNOME 2 desktop
* GNOME 2 desktop
* None (headless server)
* None (headless server)
* For RHEL this will be based on products / will look different (mo note)
* For RHEL this will be based on products / will look different (mo note)
* visually make this a more interesting panel. desktop env icons
* visually make this a more interesting panel. desktop env icons
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* What if I don't know what a yum repo is?
* What if I don't know what a yum repo is?
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Revision as of 18:55, 7 February 2012
- General comment: Progress indicator? "How many steps do I have left?"
- General comment: Why not have a help button on each screen that brings up more descriptive info?
- Put preupgrade here?
- Need to explain difference between upgrade & preupgrade
- They'll be one and the same moving forward? --Duffy 18:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Network twice?
- Yep, first time is the network for the installer, we list it in the 1st hub in case you change your mind and want to change how you set it up --Duffy 18:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Storage is in flux right now... (mo's comment)
Welcome and Language
- Can we use geo-location to suggest languages?
- We won't have a network connection this early, so it would be pretty difficult, wouldn't it? But we need to ask language up front so the user can read and understand the installer itself. --Duffy 18:46, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Can language, keyboard, and time zone be a single screen?
- That's a lot of information for one screen. It would be a really tight fit. We're trying to model these after the GNOME upstream dialogs so that whether or not the user configures something in the installer or on the desktop, they have a similar experience and don't have too much trouble working with varying dialogs. That being said, we'll summarize the defaults we selected in the hub, you can read through them, and click down to any of the three dialogs you want to work with. So you may only have to click on one if you only need to adjust the default on one of them. --Duffy 18:47, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- How does this look with a server with 8 NICS?
- I think they would be listed out separately in the widget on the left, which does have the ability to scroll. What I'd like to ask you, is how many NICs do you potentially see on one system? Do we need some kind of filtering system to handle > 12 network devices, do you think? --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- What about bonding adapters? bond0?
- We support what network manager supports. I don't know if NM supports this right now. --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Needs a skip button
- Yes, agreed 100%. Not everyone wants a network install so we shouldn't force it on them. --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- allow blinking lights on NIC if more than 1 NIC available
- Is this for a server case or for a desktop case? Is this something we can support or are we getting into poorly supported / proprietary driver territory here? --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Automatic" should be labeled with (DHCP)
- We could label it DHCP for RHEL, but I don't think it makes sense for Fedora / desktop. --Duffy 18:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Hub #1
- Really need a scrollbar for this?
- Nope, and ideally it would stay that way. However, I put the scrollbar in the mockup just so you could see if there were a lot of modules, we *could* make it scroll. This becomes more important in firstboot where third parties may add more modules than one screenful could hold. --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Install destination / disk selection
- I don't actually follow this post-it - does this mean, 'install destination' should be renamed 'disk selection' ? --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps a visual cue to indicate screens you have not visited?
- Good idea! --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- are we sure we don't want to select all disks and enable some default autopart by default, making it possible to not visit the storage spoke? (from dlehman in IRC)
- Potentially! This would be good for the desktop case... --Duffy 18:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Software Selection
- GNOME 2 desktop
- Haha. Probably not though since there is no upstream for that. Although maybe allowing people to select GNOME shell fallback mode could be reasonable. In what context are you thinking? Also note that this is DVD install - for live media you won't have a desktop choice (you choose your desktop based on the live media you downloaded.) --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- None (headless server)
- Good idea for RHEL. Probably not for Fedora, though; Fedora's more used as a desktop --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- For RHEL this will be based on products / will look different (mo note)
- visually make this a more interesting panel. desktop env icons
- well, icons for icons' sake isn't usually the best idea. :) Also for live media we won't have desktop envs. But yeh, having some better visuals here so you get what you're getting more quickly with your software selection might be nice. The problem is we don't have a ready set of icons for all these things, and if you add a custom repo there is no icon (although it could be cool to be able to stick an icon in a yum repo and have that picked up.) This could be a long-term nice-to-have but short-term it'll probably take more design time for icon design & such than we have. --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- What if I don't know what a yum repo is?
- Good point. The language could be tightened up here. --Duffy 18:55, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- earlier type-ahead filter obx was on top
- does everyone see this kbd stuff? or is it an advanced thing I need to go out of my way to select? is it necessary to require everyone to see?
- [ ] Right Alt
Date and Time
- Defaults based on Geo-IP - will this work in a corporate network environment?
Install Source
- Grammar / install source reads like I'm installing the SRPMS
- Allow user to add a KS file if missed it in the boot line on this screen
Storage Disks
- Cloud storage? (Gluster)
- Where is RAID or LVM config done?
- Show unformatted disks first (if any?)
- Different icons for single disk, volume group, RAID, SSD, SAN
- How to install to RAID set?
Storage Filter / Network Devices
- These only show up if you click "Add a disk" on #9-1-2
- I assume zSeries tab would only appear on Z
- Gluster?
Storage Sanity Check
- Can it shrink NTFS?
- The word "cancel" is ominous. Con't tell implications. How far back in the sequence will I go?
Storage Partitioning
- Pink is capacity cost of adding features (mo note)
Hub #2
fuckinggreat idea
- list of common / frequent bugs
- abolish Fedora GPL EULA!
User Details
- Perhaps show "password strength" here also? (weak, strong, etc.)
- or authenticate against Active Directory
- Option to enroll machine with an IPA environment?
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Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been convicted of a string of historical sex offences against schoolboys in his care during trips to Scotland.
A jury found the 67-year-old guilty of indecently assaulting seven teenage boys during camping and boating trips in the 1970s and 1980s while he was a biology teacher at a school in the Manchester area.
Talbot, of Greater Manchester, had denied the allegations but was convicted of seven of nine charges after a nine-day trial at Lanark Sheriff Court.
The former television personality, who used to be a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning show, was previously jailed for five years in Manchester in 2015 for indecently assaulting two schoolboys, the court heard.
The jury took four hours over two days to consider their verdict.
Talbot, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and tie, sat impassively as the verdict was delivered.
Sentence was deferred until June 15.
The jury found Talbot unanimously guilty of two of the charges against him. The remaining five guilty verdicts were by majority.
He was cleared of two charges - one of indecent assault and one of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices - on not proven verdicts.


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I want to systematically add tags (/custom taxonomy terms) to all previous posts, from a predefined set of tags (i.e., not Yahoo tags or tags from 3rd-party APIs).
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Some think marriage can be a roller coaster ride -- either scary and stomach-churning, or a shared joy with high, low and upside-down stretches.
For Don Tuttle and Carol Deeble, the thrill goes on. The Manchester couple, both in their mid-70s, had ridden 999 separate roller coasters when they arrived Wednesday at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Mass. Their 1,000th coaster was the new Goliath, which hosted VIP riders Wednesday and debuts to the public this Memorial Day weekend.
"We're adrenaline junkies," said Don, who turns 77 Wednesday. "We skydive. We ride ziplines. We whitewater raft... Pretty much anything that's crazy, we'll try it."
The Buffalo, N.Y., natives grew up together and dated in high school (Kenmore High School, Class of '53). As teenage sweethearts, they rode the Comet coaster at an Ontario amusement park, then went on to separate lives, he as a mechanical engineer for Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut; she as an office manager in South Carolina.
Reunited after Carol's first husband died and Don had been divorced, they married in 2001 at what is now the Great Escape theme park in Lake George, N.Y., and rode the revived and relocated Comet once again to seal the deal.
Tuttle said he and Deeble, 76, have ridden coasters at 288 amusement parks in 28 countries.
Tuttle says he's only been scared once on a coaster -- at an amusement park in China. The seat belt in the car was not working, Tuttle said, so the attendant strapped him in with a rope. With an engineer's knowledge of the forces that keep a rider planted in the seat, Tuttle took a chance and rode through to the end. But he said there was one point on the looping ride where the speed was a bit slow and the angle of the cars a bit precarious for a 250-pound man secured only with a clothesline.
In any case, Tuttle and Deeble say they don't plan to stop riding roller coasters any time soon.
"We're a couple of crazy people," Tuttle said.
Archive: Manchester Couple Ride Their 1,000th Roller Coaster Together
Some think marriage can be a roller coaster ride -- either scary and stomach-churning, or a shared joy with high, low and upside-down stretches.
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I am the author of a Chrome extension that allows to translate status updates and comments right on Facebook: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-translate/plofenifjagmdikfcobngnfmmnfmphin
For some days now, my users and me are getting an error in the error console that sais:
Refused to connect to 'https://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Http.svc/Translate?appId=&text=Chrome-Integration%3A+Google+bringt+Google+Now+auf+Desktop-PCs&to=en&contentType=text%2Fhtml' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "connect-src https://.facebook.com http://.facebook.com https://.fbcdn.net http://.fbcdn.net *.facebook.net .spotilocal.com: https://.akamaihd.net ws://.facebook.com:* http://*.akamaihd.net".
In my chrome extension I did set the content security policy as follow:
"content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://ssl.google-analytics.com; object-src 'self'"
The URIs in the error console, however, are FB URIs only so that's why I'm thinking Facebook did update their site to restrict access to remote URIs. I'm not certain if it could be a Chrome issue, so sorry if I started the topic on the wrong stackoverflow network. :)
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This one goes out to all the chordates in the house. The Rap Guide to Evolution is a musical tour through natural selection, DNA, and all the various processes that have made the world such a hotbed of biodiversity. These may be the only rap videos you see today that namecheck Watson and Crick.
Baba Brinkman released the ten-track, peer-reviewed album in 2009, and has brought his evolutionary rap on the road with a stage show. The videos show off earnest and clever rap songs that manage to be educational without being hokey.
[via Scientific American via It's Okay to be Smart]
"Natural Selection" featuring DJ Richard Dawkins, with lyrics by Charles Darwin.
"Survival of the Fittest" dedicated to the world's evolutionary psychologists.
"Worst Comes to Worst" a feel-good, Galapagos-themed call for human unity.


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Had Jake Bednar caught his 55-inch long musky at a different time of the year, he might have landed one of the largest muskies ever caught in Minne�sota.
Had Jake Bednar caught his 55-inch long musky at a different time of the year, he might have landed one of the largest muskies ever caught in Minnesota.
Fishing on West Battle Lake the evening of Saturday, June 22, Bednar and his girlfriend, Kayla Collins, had quickly caught a couple of walleyes, which is what they were fishing for.
Bednar was trolling in 12 feet of water, using a Fire Tiger colored No. 7 Shad Rap on 10-pound line. It's an angling tactic that many people use for walleyes on Lac qui Parle Lake.
A few minutes after catching his second walleye, Bednar hooked up with a fish about twice as big as any that lurk in Lac qui Parle Lake.
Bednar had never caught a musky before, but after fighting the fish for about five minutes, it boiled to the surface, and he knew he had a musky at the end of his line and a long, hard fight on his hands.
"The first time I saw it I knew it wasn't a northern because they don't get that big," said Bednar, who had caught a 40-inch northern previously
After battling the musky for about a half hour, Bednar got the fish close enough to the boat to attempt to land it, but the handle on the net broke under the musky's weight. Luckily, Bednar didn't loose the fish and he was able to get it into the boat.
Bednar didn't have a tape measure long enough to measure his trophy, but another boat was in the area and two men what was happening. They helped measure the musky at exactly 55 inches long. The musky was weighed on two different scales at 35 and 33 pounds.
A female musky measuring 55 inches could tip the scales at more than 50 pounds, but Bednar's musky had just finished spawning and had likely lost a great deal of her weight.
Bednar said he talked to a man who has fished for muskies for many years on West Battle Lake and the biggest ones he has caught were 52- and 53-inch fish.
The Minnesota state record musky is a 56-inch, 54-pound fish caught by Art Lyons on Lake Winnibigoshish in 1957.
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Thanks to a volatile first quarter, the yellow metal seems to be winning back some fans. After a disastrous 2013, the gold ETF (GLD) is enjoying a high single-digit gain this year. But the case for gold is far from certain.
Most gold bugs foresee a scenario where the economy is far weaker than the consensus viewpoint. As a result, a dovish Fed will be forced to keep rates as low as possible to avoid a double-dip recession. In this scenario, gold will become a store of value, winning back investors with its role as the ultimate non-fiat portfolio holding.
I've written about gold several times, and it certainly makes sense that the precious metal can gain ground if rates head lower. But so will Treasuries. In fact, long-dated bonds (TLT) has kept up with gold during most of the bull market periods for the metal, and with the added benefit of providing income. If interest rates are really going lower, doesn't it make sense to simply buy some fixed income?
Further, I don't see gold as much of an inflation hedge. Stocks are much better suited for that task.
How likely is it that rates are heading lower? Putting aside idiosyncratic political uncertainties, I'd say it is unlikely that the cost of money will be cheaper a year from now. And since lower rates is the only likely bullish scenario for the yellow metal, it's time to find other alternatives.


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National Kadampa Festivals are arranged each year in various countries.
These Festivals are taught by the Spiritual Director and Deputy Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition.
They are a wonderful opportunity for people to get together with fellow practitioners in their country to listen to teachings, practice meditation, and engage in discussion.
See below for a list of upcoming National Festivals
The proceeds from these Festivals are donated to the International Temples Project.


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Mad Fish Dive Centre based at Matava is a full service PADI 5 Star Dive Centre.
We run all dive courses that range from PADI Discover Scuba Diving through to PADI Divemaster.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving
An instructor gives a brief lecture on the Main Bure deck, then he shows you how to use Scuba equipment in the shallow water out front of the resort.It is then out into the ocean for a real scuba dive.
PADI Scuba Diver
2 1/2 day dive course for those of you with limited time. A certificate and license is issued by PADI which is recognised worldwide.
PADI Open Water Diver
This is a four day programme which consists of theory, shallow water training sessions, and ocean diving.
On completion of the course, you will be a certified PADI Open Water scuba diver, which is a world wide recognised qualification and allows you to dive down to 18 metres.
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Many of our guests tell us they just can't find the time to learn to dive during their busy work schedules. And, what better place to learn to dive than at a world-class destination while on vacation? PADI's new "Dive Today" program changes the old fashion way of teaching. Mad Fish Dive Centre's course has you diving a real dive site on the Great Astrolabe Reef the afternoon of your first day.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
This fun course extends your diving experiences and knowledge so that you are able to enjoy more advanced diving.
PADI Specialty programs we conduct, which are your best way (and PADI's) to extend your knowledge, experience and expertise as a scuba diver:
- Deep Diver
- Wreck Diver
- Multi-level
- Underwater Naturalist
- Night Diver
- Digital Photography
- Search & Recovery
- Equipment Specialist
- Underwater Navigator
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PADI Rescue Diver
A fantastic course in which your skills are greatly extended, not just for looking after your own interests and safety, but also the safety of other divers.There are four lectures and a minimum of three dives required. A prerequisite is to have done a First Aid course prior to starting the PADI Rescue course.
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PADI Emergency First Response
Duration of the course is one day. Although many aspects of first aid are discussed, there is a distinctive slant towards water and ocean related medical problems.
PADI Divemaster
This course is your first step in becoming a diving professional.Allow four weeks minimum to complete this course. You are required to attend a minimum of eight lectures. You will assist the instructor with other PADI courses, you will lead actual dives and complete practical assignments.Upon successful completion of this course you will have become a highly trained scuba professional.
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PADI eLearning
eLearning is another great way to learn to dive, comparable to the instruction you can already find at your local dive shop (such as Mad Fish Dive Center at Matava).
eLearning provides the opportunity to take PADI-certified courses (and receive credit you can apply toward certification) on your own PC, and to receive instruction from your favorite PADI dive instructors here in the Fiji Islands.
Thank you – Matava Resort Fiji for joining 100% AWARE.
Your donation will be put to good use to protect our ocean. And all your students will receive the Project AWARE version of their PADI Certification Card. A big THANKS to Matava.


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Open Season• View Films
Columbia Pictures presents Sony Pictures Animation's first-full length feature film, the animated action-adventure comedy OPEN SEASON, in which Boog (Martin Lawrence), a grizzly bear with no survival skills, has his perfect world in the tranquil town of Timberline turned upside-down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher), a scrawny, fast-talking wild mule deer. When Elliot convinces Boog to desert his idyllic existence with his beloved Park Ranger Beth (Debra Messing), who raised him since he was a cub, and try the "wild" life, things quickly spiral out of control. With open season upon them, and the hunters arriving in force, Elliot must help Boog get in touch with his inner grizzly to unite the woodland creatures and take the forest back!
Open Season is based on the humor of cartoonist Steve Moore ("In the Bleachers") who, along with John Carls, serves as executive producer. The film is directed by Roger Allers (THE LION KING) and Jill Culton (MONSTERS, INC. and TOY STORY 2). The co-director is Anthony Stacchi (ANTZ). The producer is Michelle Murdocca (STUART LITTLE and STUART LITTLE 2). Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg created original songs and score for this film. The CG animation is by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Jill Culton and Roger Allers
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Man watches apartment burglary on webcam
A man called 911 Thursday when he noticed an intruder in his apartment via a webcam.
Authorities said 24-year-old Anthony called police just before noon from a remote location.
Anthony said he has an app that connects his phone to his iPad back at home.
"It's called the baby monitor 3G, so it's intended for babies, but it also works for dogs, too" Anthony said.
He said he heard his dog barking through the speaker, so he activated the camera to see what was wrong.
"I just saw a person, and I just kind of went into panic mode," he said.
Right away, he called 911 and started driving home.
"I didn't want to get back to confront the guy because that could be really dangerous, but I thought an eye witness encounter would be beneficial," Anthony said.
Officers arrived at the man's apartment near 96th and Q streets and found the burglary suspect in the parking lot.
Thanks to the app, Anthony could give police a description of the man.
The suspect, identified as Ronney Perry, 31, was found with items belonging to the resident, police said. Perry was booked on one count of burglary.


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Smooth calfskin - 4 card slots - 1 main flat pocket Comes with a dust bag - Size: 10.5 x 7.7 cm This article is made from pure aniline leather. Tanning imparts a specific character to the skin, such as hues and wrinkles, combined with a light and transparent aniline finish. Respect care instructions on the leaflet. Colour: abstract white Item code: CHC18WP070H1Z27K
The Slide card holder is a compact one-pocket accessory with four card slots. Crafted from smooth calfskin, this version reveals tonal topstitching for elegant texture, along with a striking "C" metal piece finished with golden brass.
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The park is open daily from 9am. to 5pm.
Fort Verde SHP is grateful for our partnership with the Town of Camp Verde and the volunteers that have continued to put forth the effort to keep Fort Verde up and running.
Download a 2016 calendar of Park Events HERE ( 150 KB PDF)
Vintage Baseball Season is Here Again!
November 2016 - April 2017
The Arizona Territories Vintage Base Ball League was established to preserve the traditions of Aerica's favorite pastime while giving the community more opportunities for recreation. Fort Verde State Historic Park is proud to support the league as a partner in providing outreach opportunities to learn more about the nation's history. So come watch the boys of summer throughout the cooler months into Spring! Download the 2016-2017 season schedule here! ( 441 KB PDF)
If you'd like to join the vintage baseball league, click on the links below to learn more:
The Arizona Territories Vintage Base Ball League
ATVBBL Rules of Conduct ( 86 KB PDF)
ATVBBL Uniform and Equipment Policy ( 25 KB PDF)
Video produced by volunteer Ted Kaufman.
About the Park
Experience life through the eyes of a frontier soldier at Fort Verde State Historic Park. The fort was a base for General Crook's U.S. Army scouts and soldiers in the 1870s and 1880s. From 1865 – 1891 Camp Lincoln, Camp Verde and Fort Verde were home to officers, doctors, families, enlisted men, and scouts. The park is the best-preserved example of an Indian Wars period fort in Arizona. Several of the original buildings still stand and living history programs are scheduled periodically, giving visitors a glimpse into Arizona's history.
Today visitors can experience three historic house museums, all furnished in the 1880s period, that are listed on the National and State Register of Historic Places. The former Administration building houses the Visitor Center with interpretive exhibits, period artifacts from military life, and history on the Indian Scouts and Indian Wars era. The park offers picnic tables, restrooms, RV and tour bus parking, and is ADA Accessible.
A candlelit tour, with a living history presentation at the Fort.
The New Territory
In 1863 the New Mexico territory was divided, creating the Arizona Territory. The new territorial Capitol was established at Prescott in 1864.
As Anglo settlers entered the rich bottom lands near the Verde River at West Clear Creek, they came into conflict with the Tonto-Apache and Yavapai Indians who were already established in the area. Farms were raided by the Indians for crops and livestock. The settlers fought back bringing about an escalation of hostilities. In May 1865, the settlers demanded military protection.
The Army Arrives
The early volunteer military units were composed of almost entirely Mexican recruits. Often marching barefoot and on half rations, they were known as fierce fighters.
In August 1865 they established a tent camp overlooking the farms at West Clear Creek. Regular U.S. Army troops relieved the Arizona Volunteers in September 1866. Camp Lincoln, the next post, was established December 1865, and was located one mile north of the present site and was used from 1866 to 1871. In 1868 the name was changed to Camp Verde.
Malaria plagued the camp so much that in 1870, the Army made the decision to move again. Construction started at the present post in 1871. All the buildings were completed by 1873. There were twenty-two buildings arranged around a parade ground. Designed to house two companies of cavalry and two of infantry, it averaged only one company of each.
Camp Verde served as a staging base for military operations in the surrounding countryside. Infantry troops built a wagon road west to Fort Whipple near Prescott and east to Fort Apache. With its construction the movement of troops and supplies improved along the Mogollon Rim (pronounced muggy-own). Later it came to be called the Crook Road after General George Crook.
Fort Verde Days, held annually, gives visitors a chance to experience life at the historic fort in the 1890s.
The Rio Verde Reservation
Federal Indian Policy centered on creating reservations as a way of controlling the Indians. The Rio Verde Reservation was established in 1873 with headquarters near present day Cottonwood. Between 1873 and 1875, nearly 1500 Indians from various bands were placed on the 800 square mile reservation. With the Army's help, Indians built an irrigation ditch and had 56 acres under cultivation in 1874.
In 1875, Congress, acting on demands from businessmen in Tucson, ordered the entire population uprooted and moved to the San Carlos Agency near modern day Globe. In cold late February, the 180-mile ten-day trek to the reservation began. It resulted in the death or disappearance of about 100 Indians, from exposure, insufficient food, and a factional fight. The former reservation was opened to miners and settlers in 1877.
Containment on Reservations
After 1875, the Army's main duty was to put and keep Indians on the San Carlos and Fort Apache reservations. The bands were spread out and mobile, and each group had their own chief making it difficult to negotiate peace. The bands were forced together on the reservation, despite tribal rivalries. Renegades frequently left the reservation. They were hunted down by patrols relying on Indian scouts led by Al Sieber.
Cibicue and Big Dry Wash
In August 1881, a nervous Indian Agent ordered the Army to arrest Nakai de Klinni, a prominent Apache medicine man. During a tense confrontation at Cibicue on the White Mountain Reservation someone fired a shot. A firefight erupted leaving six soldiers and the Apache medicine man dead. Through the winter both sides tried to preserve a shaky peace. Finally on July 6, 1882 a band of some 50 warriors jumped the reservation and began raiding throughout the Rim country. The Army, in a textbook example of concentration of force, located the renegades at Big Dry Wash, 37 miles east of Fort Verde. The resulting battle on July 17, 1882 was the last major action of the northern Apache Wars. The Big Dry Wash fight resulted in the death or return to reservations of all the renegades involved.
The Final Days
Camp Verde had been renamed Fort Verde in 1879 to signify permanence, but with the end of raids by 1882, the Post became less important. It was abandoned in 1891 to the Department of the Interior, which sold it at public auction in 1899.
Army Doctors
The quality of Army doctors varied, some had almost no formal training, others were medical school graduates. With few effective medicines their job was a difficult one. All together, 27 doctors served at Ft.Verde. Among the more notable were Dr. Edward Palmer, Dr. Elliot Coues, and Dr. Edgar Mearns.
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Western Region
- Alamo Lake
- Buckskin Mountain
- Cattail Cove
- Lake Havasu
- River Island
- Yuma Quartermaster Depot
- Yuma Territorial Prison
Northern Region
- Dead Horse Ranch
- Fort Verde
- Homolovi
- Jerome
- Red Rock
- Riordan Mansion
- Slide Rock
- Verde River Greenway
Eastern Region
- Boyce Thompson Arboretum
- Catalina
- Fool Hollow Lake
- Lost Dutchman
- Lyman Lake
- McFarland
- Oracle
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An old adage cautions that every successful filmmaker has a highly personal dud in them, just yearning for the industry clout to set it free. Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco enjoyed precisely such leverage after their Oscar-winning "Crash," and the result is this grim, brooding, utterly muddled crime series, which travels the same littered, dangerous roads — with considerably less panache — as an earlier Haggis offering that squandered CBS' time and resources, "EZ Streets." NBC might fare better with "Heroes" as a lead-in, but it will take true heroics to win "The Black Donnellys" an extended reprieve from an Irish wake.
Told in not-always-to-be-trusted flashback by the incarcerated Joey Ice Cream (Keith Nobbs), the mishmash of a story involves the four Donnelly brothers, who, if this were "The Godfather," would amount to three Fredos and one Michael. With so many Jimmys and Tommys and Joeys and Jennys running around, it's about three-quarters of the way through the premiere before anybody can tell them apart, which might be just as well.
A ne'er-do-well New York clan that oversees a local bar, the Donnellys are petty thieves with the exception of Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), who yearns to be an artist and pines quietly for neighborhood girl Jenny (Olivia Wilde), who's married to a guy who disappeared and is thus unavailable. Tommy has to look out for his hot-tempered brother Jimmy (Thomas Guiry), simple-minded Kevin (Billy Lush) and ladies man Sean (Michael Stahl-David), even if that means figuring out what to do with a stolen truck or a kidnapped Italian bookmaker.
Jimmy nurses a bum leg from his youth, so he's perhaps to be forgiven for being a twitchy drunk. Still, as constructed by Haggis and Moresco (who claims similar neighborhood roots), Tommy is the only brother who isn't a low-grade moron, and as a bonus — returning to a "Godfather" analogy that's too good for this show — his hand doesn't shake in moments of crisis.
Without giving away too much about the serialized five episodes previewed, circumstances risk bringing the wrath of both the Italian and Irish mobsters that occupy the 'hood down on the Donnellys, forcing Tommy to intervene. This strains his long-simmering itch for Jenny and yields lots of prolonged, anguished looks.
"Star Trek: Voyager's" Kate Mulgrew eventually turns up as the boys' mother, without much to do, while the lingering threat of mob violence produces occasional moments of tension (one psychopath struts around with an ax) but precious little that's on a level with the worst episode of "The Sopranos."
None of the characters really pop beyond the halo-encircled Tommy, and even as antiheroes, the brothers aren't particularly likable. More problematic, there's no sense of the stakes or where this is ultimately heading, as each episode opens pretentiously with an onscreen quote and then segues to Joey's hyperactive narration.
"Studio 60" didn't set the ratings standard especially high in this Monday timeslot, but after the curiosity evoked by this new pilot's ending is quenched in the second episode, it isn't a stretch to foresee the "Donnellys" limbo-ing under that bar. Indeed, at various points, it's easy to hope Tommy will think of himself and let Darwinian principles run their course, prompting a title change to "The Lonely Donnelly." As is, it's a dreary stroll along the seedy side, where a woman who crosses the brothers' path can only ask, "What kind of people are you?"
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What is identity theft?Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personally identifying information, like your name, Social Security number, or credit card number, without your permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.
Who is at risk?EVERYONE. Careful management of personal information, identification, and passwords can help minimize your risk.
What are the risks?Victims of identity theft often have to spend their own time and money cleaning up their personal, healthcare and financial records. In the meantime, they may be refused loans, housing or cars, or even get arrested for crimes they did not commit.
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Swisse is an Australian company dedicated to making people healthier and happier through clinically proven natural health products and education.
Established in the 1950s, Swisse offers an extensive range of market-leading formulas containing premium quality natural ingredients and based on decades of significant investment in cutting edge, independently verified scientific research.
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Lakewood Ranch
The calendar has 3 ways to view events: by day, by week, by
When you first connect to the calendar, you see the Month view. You can
click on a day in the main calendar to switch to the Day view,
click on one of the small green arrowheads in the mini-calendars at the top to switch to the Week view,
or click on a month name above the mini-calendars at the top to switch to the Month view.
Clicking on a day number in the mini-calendars takes you to that day, but keeps the same view.
For example, if you're in month view and you click a date in a different month, you'll see the month view for that date.
There are also "<< Go To ___ Before" and "Go To ___ After >>" links before and after the main calendar.
At the bottom of the screen you can also use the View Day/View Week/View Month links to move around.
Below the calendar you will see the 5 category of events. These are color
coded, but nothing relies on the colors.
If you're color blind you should still be able to use the calendar freely.
At the top of the Month view, there's a selection box that lets you select just one category of events to show.
This view has a full month calendar with all events for the month.
At the top of the Week view, there's a selection box that lets you select just one category of events to show.
This view has a one-week calendar with days across the top and time slots at the left.
This view shows the most detail, but is divided into two parts: Town Hall
and Parks.
At the top of the Day view, you can select which area you wish to see.
There's also the selection box if you want to see just one category of events.
If an event is scheduled for multiple rooms. such as Salon B and C, the event is shown in both columns.
The Lakewood Ranch Reservation system is based on the
Meeting Room Booking System,
open source software that is distributed under the Gnu Public License(GPL).
This means that software is free to use, distribute, and modify.
The system is written mostly in PHP, which is an open source programming language that can be embedded in web pages.
The database used for the system is MySQL MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server that is also GPL.
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U.S. home construction rebounded in May
WASHINGTON U.S. builders began construction on more single-family homes and apartments in May, encouraged by more buyers and a scarcity of houses for sale.
The Commerce Department says builders increased housing starts 6.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000. That followed a 14.8 percent decline in April. Housing starts are still below March's pace of more than 1 million the highest in five years.
Applications for building permits fell 3.1 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted 974,000. That's still close to the five-year high hit in April.
Single-family home construction rose 0.3 percent last month. That followed two months of declines. Apartment construction, which is more volatile, surged 21.6 percent after a big drop in April.


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There's enough brightly colored string in the ALEX Friendship Wheel set to make bracelets for all of your friend sand maybe even a few family members! Make 10 different bracelets with two soft, foam wheels and colorful string that make weaving these designs a snap. Follow along with the step-by-step, easy to follow video to secure your string through the wheel, while turning and hooking to create a unique design. An ideal activity for ages 8 and up, creating Friendship Bracelets helps build hand-eye coordination and concentration.
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Pinoy Nurse Arrested in Phoenix for Soliciting Teen Sex Online
A Filipino Nurse was nabbed in an entrapment operations in Phoenix, Arizona for allegedly trying to lure a teenager online to have sex with him.
Reports say that Richard Sanggalang, a 39-year old oncology nurse at Estrella Medical Clinic in Phoenix, was caught in an undercover sex sting involving a policeman posing as a teenage girl online. The police chatted online as a decoy and was able to convince Richard to email his photos. That's where the police found sufficient evidence to catch Richard.
Sanggalang was picked up by police on his home which is supposed to be the meet up place for the sex escapade with the teenager. He now faces 3 counts of soliciting sex with a minor.
Filipino nurses in New Zealand Pronounced Dead by the Philippine Government
Reports came in today that the 2 Pinay nurses trapped in the rubble of the CTV building are dead. This was at least relayed to the relatives of the victims. This is an unfortunate news to the relatives as they are still hoping that the 2 nurses are still alive.
Most of the family members of those caught up in the ruins of the CTV building are still at a vigil near the place. New Zealand police has cordoned off the site and will not allow family members near the ruins.
I was just wondering what the government has done to try and reach out to the trapped Pinay nurses. Did we send in our own rescue mission? Did the Philippine government offered to help on the search and rescue efforts? Or we just sit here and waited for 10 days for someone to die in vain. Which is which I don't know. What I do know is that the longer it takes, the lesser chance it is for these 2 nurses to survive.
Let's share the pain of the family members…
Higher Pay for Those with Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programs in Nursing Careers
Nursing News from overseas.
Because of the current competitive healthcare job market worldwide, more and more nursing students and current professionals are pursuing after their bachelors' degrees with master's programs for nursing to become more attractive to prospective employers. The strategy of course is that after they completed these courses of study, these nursing professionals can become qualified for high-paying positions.
Now improved bachelor's nursing program and curriculum at top schools in the world are being created to help students and working registered nurses (RNs) obtain skills that are required by managerial roles at hospitals and primary care offices. Some top schools in the US, for example, even launched this course of study through distance learning programs and online campus in order to help enrollees further their education without having to quit their jobs. This will get them their nursing degrees online.
Those who wish to take on more responsibilities in health-related work environments may also want to consider enrolling in a master's program in nursing administration. These degrees are often available to students via online education and as accelerated programs.
Nursing is still considered as one of the fastest-growing job markets for any occupation in the US given the rising age of retirees who require a lot these healthcare services next to Japan. In fact, within the next eight years, US government analysts shows that the employment of these professionals will increase by 22%, and this industry will create an estimated 581,500 new jobs nationwide. The Japanese government also has similar pressures from its aging population and will require more nurses within the next 5 years.
Will this be good for the Filipino nurses seeking jobs? Of course, if we realize this today that other countries are making their nurses more competitive not just a bachelors degree in nursing but a masters on the side, then we should also prepare our nurses here in Manila. Updating our curriculum to address the competitive landscape abroad is the first step.
And I believe that the more management nurses we train and export to various part of the globe, the more chances of Pinoy nurses to work overseas as the world healthcare industry will realize we are capable professionals in this field.
Nurses May Benefit From Free Online Continuing Education Course
Here's some bit of good news on the net.
Employment of registered nurses (RNs) is expected to grow by 22% through 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. As a result, a growing number of campus-based and online universities are launching new bachelor's and master's degree programs for those who wish to launch careers in this field as well as those who are currently employed as nurses.
For example, officials from Jacksonville University (JU) recently announced in a press release that the school will sponsor a free nursing continuing education course in conjunction with Nurse.com. The one-credit continuing education unit (CEU), which is called Networking for Career Advancement, will be free starting March 1.
Free Online Course for Nurses course was created to boost nurses' networking skills, which can be valuable for finding employment, promotions and salary increases.
"Our faculty is comprised of accomplished nurses who know firsthand just how hard nurses work," said Judith M. Erickson, dean of JU's School of Nursing. "Sponsoring this free nurse CEU will make it a little easier for RNs to complete their [continuing education] and maintain their licenses."
Source: http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/nurses-may-benefit-from-enrolling-in-free-continui_11296.aspx


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[Editor's note: Bill and Carol McGann recently published the first in their two-volume history of the Giro d'Italia. I haven't had time to actually read it yet, but I recall from previous conversations Bill's assertion that the Giro has been a consistently surprising race though its history. He's given us the opportunity to run an excerpt here, and for those of you unfamiliar with his previous work, this is a terrific example of his ability to connect dots to paint a portrait of the time. Herewith, we present you with the 1967 Giro in less than 3000 words.]
1967. What a field assembled for the fiftieth Giro d'Italia! After years of being an Italian race, the Giro was once again an international competition. There was Motta with Rudi Altig and Franco Balmamion as gregari; there were Anquetil, Bitossi, Taccone, Francisco Gabica, Eddy Merckx, Ferdi Bracke, van Looy, Adorni, Gimondi (who suffered a terrible spring and had real doubts about his condition), Wladimiro Panizza, Silvano Schiavon, Zilioli, José Pérez-Francés, Vicente López-Carril and Roger Pingeon to name some of the outstanding stage racers of this or any age who assembled to start at Treviglio, south of Bergamo. There were past and future world champions Marino Basso, Jean Stablinski, van Looy, Merckx, Harm Ottenbros, and Gimondi, and future World Hour Record holders Ole Ritter, Ferdi Bracke, and Merckx.
Belgian Eddy Merckx was riding his first Grand Tour. He turned pro in 1965, just short of his twentieth birthday. He had already won 80 amateur races, including the World Road Championship (at nineteen). His first year as a pro riding for Solo-Superia with the imperious and difficult Rik van Looy was an unhappy one and in 1966 he switched to Peugeot where he would spend two years. It was in the black-and-white-checked kit of Peugeot that Merckx entered the Giro, riding with Ferdi Bracke and Roger Pingeon. Merckx's spring was simply wonderful with wins in Milan–San Remo, Gent–Wevelgem and the Flèche Wallonne.
In 1967 Anquetil didn't have to deal with the poisonous relations between Ford France and Ford Italy since Bic, which at that time made only pens, now sponsored him and his core of capable domestiques.
At 3,572 kilometers, the 1967 Giro was the shortest since 1960. It had 23 stages (two half stages crammed into the last day) for an average stage length of 155 kilometers, close to current Giro lengths.
Torriani had planned to kick off the Giro with a nighttime race through Milan but the stage had to be cancelled when anti-Vietnam war protestors filled the streets.
After five stages of good hard racing, the Giro arrived at Naples for a transfer to Sicily. Michele Dancelli was the leader with Pérez-Francés second at thirteen seconds. So far the best riders were sitting towards the top of the standings but no large gaps had appeared.
Stage seven, ending atop Mount Etna, broke the peloton into bits for the first time. Climbing and sprinting ace Franco Bitossi was first to the top of the volcano. Coming in about 20 seconds later, Motta was the first of the contenders, followed by Merckx, Gimondi, Zilioli, Pérez-Francés, Adorni and Pingeon. Anquetil, Altig and Balmamion were a further twenty seconds back. Dancelli remained in pink for another day.
Racing resumed on the mainland the next day, where the mountainous roads of Calabria were too much for Dancelli. He lost over five minutes, making Pérez-Francés the Pink Jersey with Aldo Moser second at just three seconds. Just three seconds, that's gotta hurt.
The next test was the hilly stage twelve, starting at Caserta and finishing with a climb to Block Haus, an old German fortification sitting over 2,000 meters high in Abruzzo. At this point Pérez-Francés was still the leader with everyone who mattered but Anquetil within 73 seconds of the Spaniard.
At the start of the Block Haus climb the riders had already spent almost seven hours in the saddle with the Macerone, Rionero Sannitico and Roccaraso ascents behind them. The leaders were together and ascended the steep climb at a good pace. With two kilometers to go, Zilioli unleashed a devastating attack that only one rider could match, young Merckx. For Merckx, this was unknown territory. He was reaching the end of two weeks of nearly continuous racing and faced yet another week to go. Was Merckx a man for the Grand Tours or a single-day rider in van Looy's mold? The world was learning. He said about that moment, "I still felt good. I hadn't ridden many mountains before so I kept following, but when Italo Zilioli attacked with two kilometers to go, I felt good enough to chase."
Yes he did. After sitting on Zilioli's wheel for a kilometer he lit the jets and bounded for the summit with such power and speed that Merckx's win at Block Haus in the 1967 Giro became one of the enduring legends of the Giro. It was Merckx's first Grand Tour stage win.
Zilioli wasn't left far behind, though. He came in at 10 seconds, Pérez-Francés (still in pink after Block Haus) at 20 and Anquetil at 23.
Merckx's brilliant ride moved him up to third place, 30 seconds down.
For all the hard racing that had occurred, going into the 45-kilometer stage sixteen individual time trial at Verona the gaps between the riders at the top of the standings remained razor-thin:
1. José Pérez-Francés
2. Aldo Moser @ 18 seconds
3. Eddy Merckx @ 50 seconds
4. Silvano Schiavon @ 53 seconds
5. Italo Zilioli @ 1 minute 3 seconds
6. Gianni Motta @ 1 minute 13 seconds
The time trial, ridden on a cold and rainy day, was won by Danish neo-pro Ole Ritter. Ritter's performance left Anquetil incredulous. He said that Ritter's pace of 47.3 kilometers per hour would have been good enough to break the World Hour Record.
Indeed. Ritter would go on to break the Ferdi Bracke's World Hour Record in 1972 and then Merckx would break Ritter's record later that year.
The results of the stage:
1. Ole Ritter: 56 minutes 59 seconds
2. Rudi Altig @ 1 second
3. Ferdi Bracke @ 2 seconds
4. Jacques Anquetil @ 6 seconds
5. Felice Gimondi @ 38 seconds
There were three notable poor performances: Adorni was about two minutes slower than Ritter on a course that a couple of years ago would have been just right for him to crush the opposition. Merckx lost 2 minutes 49 seconds and Motta gave up 3 minutes 17 seconds. Merckx was a freshman who had never before faced the third week of a stage race and was not yet a complete rider. But Motta was the defending Giro champion and was now out of the top 10.
The new General Classification:
1. Jacques Anquetil
2. Felice Gimondi @ 53 seconds
3. Vittorio Adorni @ 1 minute 59 seconds
4. Eddy Merckx @ 2 minutes 4 seconds
5. José Pérez-Francés @ 2 minutes 16 seconds
There were two major consequences of this time trial. Anquetil was now in pink, and Motta's Molteni team bosses decided to break Balmamion's chains of servitude to the faltering Motta. Balmamion was now free to race on his own account.
The next stage came after a rest day. Balmamion got into the winning break that included Silvano Schiavon, Gabica, Panizza and Massignan. The 3 minutes 43 seconds they carved out of the peloton put Schiavon in the lead and moved Balmamion up to fifth place, only 2 minutes 29 seconds behind. He had done more with less in past Giri.
Stage nineteen left Udine for a hilltop finish at the top of the difficult Tre Cime di Lavaredo climb. The weather was dreadful that day with rain, snow and fog. At the beginning of the ascent Wladimiro Panizza was three minutes ahead of the field and he looked to be headed for the win. His director, fearing a stiff fine, did all he could to keep the tifosi from pushing the diminutive climber up the hill. Just as he closed in on the summit, Panizza was suddenly passed by a slew of riders, most of whom possessed only a fraction of his climbing skills.
How did this happen? With two kilometers to go, the chasers were struggling in miserable weather on the stiffest part of the climb. The gradient at that point was almost fourteen percent. The riders had, in a moment of collective moral failure, grabbed on to the team cars and were towed up to Panizza. Gimondi was first across the line because, as sportswriter René de Latour noted, "he had the fastest car". Outraged, a furious Torriani wouldn't let the fraudulent result stand and annulled the stage. La Gazzetta writer Bruno Raschi called it "le montagne del disonore".
Bic, Anquetil's sponsor, decided that they weren't interested in winning the Giro. Believable reasons don't seem to be forthcoming; non-believable ones abound. Anquetil says that his domestiques stopped getting their paychecks and understandably, most of them abandoned. Denson says that he was told that the riders were being pulled from the Giro to save them for races later in the season. Since the Tour was to be contested by national teams in 1967, this excuse really makes no sense. Another hypothesis is that this was a move to allow Anquetil to have an excuse for losing. But Anquetil wasn't giving up, so this seems illogical as well. Nonetheless, Anquetil raced for Bic until the end of his career in 1969 which says to me that there was something terribly complicated going on behind the scenes and Anquetil took the explanation to his grave.
By the start of stage twenty Anquetil was down to only two helpers, Lucien Aimar and Jean Milesi. Fending off the combined attacks of the Italians with just these two gregari would be an extreme physical challenge. Realizing the necessity of having more legs on his side he tried to form an alliance (that means paying them money) with some of the Spanish riders. He failed, blaming it on his sponsor's parsimony. In fact, the Spaniards had already allied themselves with the Italians, making Anquetil's situation even more difficult.
Stage twenty was the tappone, going from Cortina d'Ampezzo to Trent taking the riders over the Falzarego, Pordoi, Rolle and Brocon ascents.
Anquetil had bad luck early in the stage, getting two flats. Next, on the descent of the Brocon, Merckx, Gimondi, Adorni and Motta got away from him. After a desperate and impressive chase (look who he was trying to catch!) he finally regained contact. Further up the road Adorni, Gimondi, Michelotto, Balmamion and Pérez-Francés managed to put about a half-minute between themselves and Merckx/Anquetil group. Still, Anquetil had done more than stave off catastrophe, he had recaptured the lead. It was a brutal day and Anquetil had gone very deep.
With two stages to go the race was still extremely tight and the General Classification now stood thus:
1. Jacques Anquetil
2. Felice Gimondi @ 34 seconds
3. Franco Balmamion @ 47 seconds
4. Vittorio Adorni @ 1 minute 40 seconds
5. José Pérez-Francés @ 1 minute 55 seconds
6. Eddy Merckx @ 2 minutes 4 seconds
Stage 21 was hilly with a major climb, the Tonale. Originally the Stelvio was the stage's planned ascent but bad weather forced the organizers to look elsewhere. The Gavia was proposed as a replacement but it too was snowed in. The Tonale was pronounced usable and put into the race route, though the riders would still have to contend with an energy-sapping cold rain. Gimondi's powerful team set a high pace during the ascent, and near the top, Motta and Gimondi attacked, dropping Anquetil and Merckx, now paying for his youthful expenditure of energy during the first two weeks. With the aid of teammate Aimar, one of the sport's finest-ever descenders, Anquetil regained contact. It was here, after the Tonale, that the 1967 Giro was decided.
Marcello Mugnaini attacked and escaped first. Then Gimondi, who had Anquetil right behind him, stormed off. The Frenchman couldn't hold his wheel. Having drawn down his reserves too far the day before, Anquetil didn't have the strength to go with Gimondi's powerful move.
Mugnaini won the stage, finishing in Tirano with a couple of other riders who weren't in contention. As Mugnaini was almost a half-hour down in the General Classification, his win and time gain had no effect upon the standings.
But 62 seconds later Gimondi crossed the line, alone. It was 4 minutes 9 seconds before Willy Planckaert led in the Anquetil group. Gimondi remains proud of that masterful attack and sustained escape. It earned him the maglia rosa and pushed Anquetil into second at 3 minutes 35 seconds. The question that has been asked over the years is, why didn't the other Italians give chase? That Anquetil was out of gas and had almost no one to help him is well understood. But why not Balmamion, who was one of the outstanding riders of the day, and given his excellent time trial in stage sixteen, was in excellent condition?
He and the other riders who were on Gimondi's level seem to have let the man from Bergamo simply ride away with the Giro. They just let him go.
A photographer was there to catch that moment when Gimondi jumped away. There is a grim-faced Anquetil five yards off his wheel with Balmamion just behind Anquetil with Adorni to his right and Motta close by and another ten or so riders all in a small pack sitting on Anquetil and Adorni. The explanation usually given is a deal was hatched among the Italians to make sure one of their countrymen won the race and Gimondi was the chosen beneficiary of this plot. Advocates of this view also say that Anquetil was paid a significant sum of money to let someone else win. There are still whispers in Italy of a briefcase with fifty million lire used to buy the acquiescence of the santa alleanza degli italiani (holy alliance of Italians). We'll never know.
Anquetil's situation was catastrophic. What could he do now? The final stage was split into two half-stages. In the morning the Giro would climb to the Madonna del Ghisallo, the shrine of cycling, just north of Milan. It was impossible to believe an exhausted Anquetil could take four minutes out of Gimondi with his powerful Salvarani team protecting him during those 140 kilometers. In fact, it went the other way. Balmamion rode beautifully to get second place in the stage, dropping all but Aurelio González. He gained enough time to take second place in the Overall away from Anquetil.
Anquetil had said it would be 100 riders against 1. It wasn't quite true, but with no team to defend him, he was helpless.
And long after many observers had written off Balmamion's chances, the double Giro winner had turned in a sterling performance and might have won the race. Did he agree to let Gimondi win? Was there an agreement? Who knows? Balmamion was third in the Tour that July and became Italian Road Champion.
Merckx went on to win the World Road Championship that fall.
Final 1967 Giro d'Italia General Classification:
1. Felice Gimondi (Salvarani) 101 hours 5 minutes 34 seconds
2. Franco Balmamion (Molteni) @ 3 minutes 36 seconds
3. Jacques Anquetil (Bic) @ 3 minutes 45 seconds
4. Vittorio Adorni (Salamini-Luxor) @ 4 minutes 33 seconds
5. José Pérez-Francés (KAS) @ 5 minutes 17 seconds
6. Gianni Motta (Molteni) @ 6 minutes 21 seconds
9. Eddy Merckx (Peugeot) @ 11 minutes 41 seconds
Climbers' Competition:
1. Aurelio Gonzales (KAS): 630 points
2. Vittorio Adorni (Salamini-Luxor): 150
3. Wladimiro Panizza (Vittadello): 140
Points Competition:
1. Dino Zandegù (Salvarani): 200 Points
2. Eddy Merckx (Peugeot): 178
3. Willy Planckaert (Romeo Smiths): 176
Reflecting on the 1967 Giro, Gimondi recalled, "The 1967 Giro started badly for me because I was suffering from bronchitis. At first, I had trouble staying with the main challengers, but later in the race I grew stronger. I had a great duel with Jacques Anquetil and managed to eventually drop him on the mountainous stage to Aprica [stage 21 that continued on to Tirano, the Aprica being the final major difficulty] and took the maglia rosa. It was a great Giro because of the rivalry between me and Jacques."
About the race-fixing stories, Zilioli said, "I heard about those rumors, but as far as I know there was no pro-Gimondi alliance. I think instead that Balmamion, who was in good shape, was not careful enough. He could have followed Gimondi more closely during the race.
"Anquetil 'played the dead rider' and perhaps Balmamion did not sense the race strategies as they were unfolding. On the other side I also think he was not helped to become the new Italian Champion. He was never favored and he never favored anyone in his career."
That fall Anquetil went to Milan's Vigorelli velodrome and beat Roger Rivière's eleven-year-old World Hour Record by 150 meters. He would have brought it to 47.493 kilometers, but he refused to submit to a drug test, so the ride was never certified by the UCI. The 1967 Giro was Anquetil's last Grand Tour ride and he would only have two more major wins, the 1968 Baracchi Trophy with Gimondi and the 1969 Tour of the Basque Country. For fourteen years he had, like the other professionals of his era, raced about 235 days a year. It was a magnificent career in which he was the first five-time Tour winner, the first French winner of the Giro and the first man to win all three Grand Tours.
I like Tom Simpson's explanation as to why Anquetil was such a prolific winner, "Jacques simply tries harder than anyone I have met. In a time trial you can hear him catching you, you don't have to look round, there is this hoarse sound of breath being drawn in gulps, and then he's past you. Then it's like being in a thunderstorm, with the sweat simply pouring off him as he goes by."