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The biggest storm this year in the Southwest Pacific, and one of the biggest storms on record anywhere, is expected to hit land in the central Philippines Friday morning.
This super storm, known internationally as Typhoon Haiyan, but called "Yolanda" by Filipinos, has winds of up to 150 miles per hour and expected rainfall of up to eight inches. Thousands of people are being evacuated. The track of the storm is expected to take it right over areas still reeling from a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake in October.
Journalists in the Philippines--and nearby nations like Vietnam also expected to be impacted by the storm--should be mindful to work in teams and establish back-up forms of communication. Freelancers should know that they most likely will not receive any institutional support. Newsrooms and journalists need to make sure they double-check all their equipment and supplies.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the English-language paper read across much of the archipelago nation, has published a list of tips from the Philippine Red Cross for families to keep themselves safe. CPJ's Journalist Security Guide also publishes a list of tips for newsroom and journalists covering Natural Disasters.

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In January 2001 at the age of 33, I started writing; and by March of that year had decided to jack in life as a London admin drudge, reading and writing all day as an unqualified paralegal; deciding instead that it was better to be reading and writing what I wanted, rather than filling my head with the information I was taking on at the office.
I'd been wanting to write for a year and more, after someone had put the suggestion in my head, but couldn't start a word. I couldn't even think up a sentence, and nothing would come out. The only thing going for me was that I'd already acquired the basic discipline of sitting at a desk and writing all day, and all I needed to do now, I imagined, to kick-start a transfer of the mind's focus and direction onto a different, more creative path - was to find a way in.
So, on 2/1/2001, I decided to start keeping a Smoking Diary, hoping it would serve the dual purpose of at least writing something, and maybe even lead to a jacking in of the smokes. This is the very first entry:
2/1/01: It is now 9.51 am and I haven't had a fag yet. This is going to be tough, but if I can see through today, then there is hope for tomorrow. I will type onto here when I get desperate for a smoke, which is right now. The mind seems to be a very powerful tool in the addiction process. The tricks played are all very subtle, and indeed, this here shows the lengths gone to, to try and fight the negative side of one's own mind.I kept it up, writing every day and then, on 9/1/01, the floodgates opened with a two page anecdote that came tumbling out; which shifted any remnant of interest in the work I was doing (reading files of evidence in white-collar tax frauds and precising it down); and moved instead into writing my own stuff. At this point, facing into the onset of middle-age, I didn't have a clue what I wanted to write, just that I didn't want to spend my life moving further and further away from what had been my true heart's desire since playing Shakespeare's Malvolio in Twelfth Night, in the school play at 14. Pretending.
14.50. The mind has beaten itself. I folded like a cheap suitcase at just after midday. I ponced a fag off Farah and smoked it at 12.03. At about 2.30pm I ponced a roll up off Mike, so my consumption for the day stands at two.
It is now 15.41 and I don't know why I am typing this in. Oh go on then yes I do. I am hoping that keeping a diary on my smoking thoughts and habits will serve a number of purposes. One will be to possibly aid me in my attempts to reduce the nicotine intake into my body and two is to try and keep alive some sort of dream as regards my creative writing. If I can combine the two of these, then it can only be for the good, for myself and anyone else who cares about the truth of things. Well maybe that's a bit strong but I can always wipe out anything I don't want to leave in this diary.
18.32 and I have succumbed again. I had another about 5.55pm, a roll up off Mike. 3 so far and with the evening ahead of me I am still trying to look on the bright side. Well there's no point in using this as a tool to not have a fag, for the rest of today anyway. I am only typing now for the practice.
In late March 2001, I packed in the pretence of being anything other than a career failure, leaving London and relocating to Cork, Ireland; then booking myself into a Saint Vincent's Homeless hostel and signing onto welfare. I spent the next six weeks in local Libraries, reading anything I could find on writing; writing my diary and pondering how to become an author. It was during this spell I set out the basics to myself. That all I wanted out of the enterprise, was to write one poem or sonnet that could stand in the shadow of Shakespeare's. An unrealistic goal in terms of becoming the Warwick Bard's equal, but by limiting myself to an Ideal of departing this world with just one 'good' poem as a literary legacy, was not exactly putting very much pressure on one's own self-expectation.
I read a back-stack of writer-interviews in a pile of Paris Reviews at Knocknaheeny library, soaking in the authorial tips of modern greats, and was barely worse off financially. Spiritually I felt I'd made the correct decision. Always being a superstitious sort, who'd make decisions using the most - what others would consider - daftest of reasons; my inner compass felt as though it had aligned to a true course. That though those around me at the time had thought me mad, my own instinct felt the opposite.
After six weeks, a long standing dental issue had come to a head and I neeeded to have a molar extracted; so returned to my home town of Ormskirk in Lancashire to get it done. Whilst there I discovered that the town's Edge Hill College (now a university), had been running academic writing programs, degrees and MA's, for the past eight years.
Not having the relevant high-school diploma or A levels to gain admittance into third level learning, I initially thought it would be an impossible dream to get on the course; as having to study two years to get the necessary qualifications to go to university, was all pie in the sky to me then, as an uneducated ex-building laborer and admin drudge.
Still, I went up to ask and spoke to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet (not that I knew this at the time) Robert Sheppard, who wrote and runs the writing deptartment programs. He told me that it was OK, there was a six-week Fastrack course that had been created as part of the college's 'widening participation' goal, basically targetting older, unemployed people like myself.
It was starting in two weeks, and was really just a course to get people unfamiliar with computers, up to speed, and which, after several years of working as a poorly paid paralegal, was easy enough to pass. During this wonderful summer, I remember thinking that something George Szirtes terms in his Eliot lecture as, secret levers of the universe; had effected this serendipity that led one back home to learn the very thing I'd decided to pursue and had set my heart on learning. Once the decision to follow my inner calling had been taken, it was as if the gods of Letters had removed all obstacles in my path, and ushered me on the correct course, for the first time in my life.
The writing component could be taken as a minor (quarter), or as half of your B.A. program. Mine was half: Writing Studies and Drama; and on the first day in writing class, a week after 9/11, there were around 45 of us. Some doing English, some Drama, some Film, Media, Womens Studies, and other subjects.
I still have the notes made in that first session; in which we all gave a reason why we were there, and what we hoped to gain. One woman was after writing self-help books, whilst others were there with no specific goal. One young chap from Wolverhampton doing film, nineteen, was wanting to make movies; but the main vibe I picked up on, was Harry Potter. The young kids who made up the bulk of the student writers' cohort, wanted to write fiction that would be as exciting as J.K. Rowling's; and though it was unspoken, it was fairly clear, even to me then, that what had propelled the majority of us into taking the course, was a desire to become rich and famous. If I am being honest with myself, though this wasn't as obvious to me then, there is that secret, not so hidden desire that, maybe, just perhaps, if I develop myself; I too could write summat that would make me a bundle.
But this is certainly not the reason I began writing. I was writing anyway, and had got very good at what I did as an admin drudge; and one reasoned that developing the talent for fantasy I'd always had since a child, was the right thing to do in the long run for me as a person.
Most of those on the course, I don't know what they're doing now; though the course is not about teaching you how to write, as no one can be taught because writing's a solitary pursuit and sport, challenge with yourself; conducted on the pitch of our own intellect. Sheppard used to say his B.A. course is more about finding out if writing's what you want to do or not, than anything else. By the end of it, it was clear who was going to carry on writing and who was just keen to stop the pretence.
Edge Hill's academic status rose in the world after I left, and is now rated as one of the best in England. The writing course, because it's run by a fairly unknown poet, means there's no big expectation. Unlike learning under Motion or Duffy, which (one suspects) is more geared up to getting published. Because Sheppard is the English equivalent of John Ashbery's heir, the 'poetic' underpinning the course is more experimental, and publishing, prizes, all that jazz - played little and no part.
It was great, because I was testing my dream in my home town, where everyone knows me; unable to fake myself into a new me around people I didn't know. And because the poetry component began with Pound's Do's and Dont's and ended with Charles Bernstein and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry (Langpo); one had to learn a tradition I would not have done if one's own, lyric sensibilities were left to their own devices. 40% of my study-time was spent outside the official modules, learning Irish myth, that I'd become obsessed by after deciding that the one way to outface a Class obstacle inherent in England, and negate the predominate sensibility of its monarchist poetic; would be to learn what a real Bard had to - just for the sheer feck of it.
My reasoning was: I want to be a poet, but my worst nightmare is meeting someone who will make me feel I am a fake. How can I learn so there's no question of being plastic? Well, in Britain, the ultimate poets used to be bards, who, in Ireland, had a tradition that lasted over 1000 years in print. But, I thought, few people know much about them as we all stick with Homer and the Greeks as the primary poetic base. OK, I thought, imagine - for a laugh - just to shut people up who'd try to poo poo your dream - knowing what a real bard did? That would shut the would-be knockers up, as they couldn't claim you as a fake, because you'd be telling most people something they don't know about.
OK, what do I study?
Once I started studying this topic of what a bard actually did in the old days, it became quickly apparent that this wasn't going to be a short three year course. In the old days it was 12 years through seven grades, before you graduated as a poetry professor or ullav. Perfect, because by sticking to these rules, the ones in existence for a 1000 years and more - turning out British-Irish poets generation after generation - you've as much, if not more, legitimate claim to being on the right course than those who'd assert this is the way you do it, or that is the way you become a poet. Pound, Eliot; any first generation dabbler, will have only their own way of thinking, but the bardic course is set and has been there for 1500 years. You can't argue with it.
And the 12 years is OK, I thought, I'm in it for the long haul and the dream is, just for the craic, knowing the info. If it takes the rest of my life, I thought, so what?
The young guy from Wolverhampton doing film, in the very final session, as we looked back on the three years, was in a totally different frame of mind. Gone was the certainty and confidence of three years before; replaced with something else, less assured and more confused. And he was the only one of the many in his boat - who I thought was being fully honest in his response, and for this alone I respected him. He said the one thing he'd learned from his degree, was that he didn't want to be a writer; at least not then, as a 22 year old young man. Instead, he was joining the army. Most of the others whose Harry Potter dreams had evaporated, were not so straight about how they felt.
So, yeah, a writing program isn't for everyone, and I was very lucky because the British state paid, but to dismiss them without having experience is silly.
I was reading a poet elsewhere ranting about the rise of the creative writing programs in the UK, as if attending one will make you less of a writer, as if the 'true' poets are the ones who've never been within a royal mile of a creative writing class. Reality suggests otherwise. You don't become a doctor or lawyer without attending the specific classes, but somehow, writing is considered different to all other professions.
Hmmm. I don't think so.


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Alfred Williams ready to tackle fans' questions
Alfred Williams is a big man, with a big laugh and a big personality.
Little wonder he's got no shortage of opinions. That makes him the perfect subject for The Denver Post's "Fan Mail" feature.
Ask Williams a question about the state of his beloved Colorado Buffaloes. Prod him about what's going on with the Broncos at Dove Valley. Quiz him on the direction the Nuggets are headed.
He'll have a definite opinion.
Or ask him about one of the highlights of his life. Williams, one of the central characters in CU's rise to national prominence in the late 1980s, was recently elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He will be inducted at the 53rd annual awards dinner at the famed Waldorf Astoria in New York on December 7. Also, CU will honor him at its home opener on September 18 against Hawaii in what is being billed as Alfred Williams Day.
With Williams anchoring its defense, CU won a share of the national championship in 1990. Later he was a member of the Broncos' Super Bowl title teams in the 1997 and 1998 seasons.
He is currently co-hosting an afternoon sports talk show on KKFN. That's where he's paid for his opinions.
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it's DV's 4th anniversary!! congratulations especially to mangauniverse & lagren for all their hard work all these years :]_________________Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
congrats, and thanks for all the work that goes into us enjoying the manga!
Happy fourth Anniversary! Already 4 years of Dragon Voice? If I'm not wrong I still remember one of your first project, Aishiteruze baby, am I right? So much time has passed! But you are still here! That is great! Thanks for all your hard job, keep it up!
Happy Anniversary
You guys have been here for 4 long years. Your team has worked very hard to bring us quality releases and I hope that you guys still are scanlating 4 years from now. Thanks for the anniversary releases and I hope more are yet to come.
Thanx guys~ Still one more anni chapter to get releaed ^^;;; I'll finish qchecking it today for sure. Be sure to thank moofii for her awesome editing on the anniversary release "Scarlet chair ch3" ;P Took me only a few hours to qcheck those 90 pages ^^ *hugs the most dedicated DV editor~* Moofii, you're a real senior DV editor! You've been with us three of those four years I believe!! XD
@vally: Our very first manga was actually Dragon Voice ^^ Aishiteruze Baby was our second project, but I bet most remember AB ^^;;;_________________Thanx to Joanne Kuang for the awesome avatar!
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skygirlco necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
I manufacture decals and I'm looking for 6 new designs, all in the scuba dive theme. I have examples of what I am currently using but want to improve upon them as I think they look very clip artish. My decals are a higher quality than normal "stickers" and so I need the design to really wow the retailer.
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I am going to change it up a bit and offer $50.00 per decal for a total of $300.00. If I held a single contest and loved one from one designer and 2 from another, it would be impossible to announce a winner. This way 6 artists can potentially win as opposed to only 1.
These are simple red and white designs, not complex colors. You can use a little black as accent but keep it predominately red and white.
Winners must be willing to sign a letter or document that the images were originally created by the them and also release the rights to me upon purchase.
- Red and white only(black accent OK)
- Detail so that it really stands out from typical clipart
- EPS file if possible
- Diver
- Dolphin
- Hogfish
- Shark
- Turtle
- lobster
- The images in the link are current designs that we are not happy with. Please work the magic that you have for me in the past, you are such a talented group.
- The decals must have detail, they command top dollar and could potentially be in major tier one retail stores. (I'm hoping)
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Market operations
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The voluntary Gas Supply Hub (GSH) allows for a faster response, and greater liquidity and flexibility, in trading gas. It provides a centralised trading, settlement and clearing facility through an online portal, and enables generators, users, producers, and retailers to manage their daily and future gas requirements.
AEMO offers spot and forward-dated products for participants to trade at the hub. The spot transactions include a core 'day-ahead' product and a 'on-the-day'. The 'on-the-day' product enables parties to adjust their portfolio closer to real time and to manage imbalances within the gas day.
Pipeline capacity is also offered as a trading opportunity, allowing more efficient use of pipelines and helping create more opportunities to trade gas.
Exchange agreement
The exchange agreement outlines the terms and conditions that govern participation in the gas supply hub. It was developed in close consultation with industry and government stakeholders, via the Reference Group.
Each participant will accede to the membership agreement, under which it agrees to be bound by the rules and associated terms and conditions.
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Gas Supply Hub Benchmark Price Methodology 3.0
30 November 2018 (610 KB, pdf)
Gas Supply Hub Exchange Fees 6.0
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Gas Supply Hub Interface Protocol 6.1
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Membership Agreement
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Capacity Trade Agreement Standard Terms (Shipper to Shipper)
AEMO has published standard terms and conditions that shippers may choose to adopt for capacity trades between them (bare transfers). The standard terms and conditions have been developed in close consultation with industry.
Trading parties must use the form of Contract Document (schedule 2) to record the terms of each capacity trade and any agreed variations or additions to the standard terms.
Shippers who expect to trade with each other more than once may also wish to record any terms that will apply to all trades between those parties in a Master Capacity Trading Schedule (schedule 1).
The Contract Document and Master Capacity Trading Schedule forms can be downloaded separately.
Note that these standard terms and conditions are not limited to trade at the Wallumbilla GSH, and may be used for other (non-GSH) pipelines.
Capacity Trade Agreement Standard Terms (Shipper to Shipper) v1 May 2014
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Form of Master Capacity Trading Schedule (Shipper to Shipper) May 2014
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Driving north or south on I-49, take Exit 23 (Hwy 167) between Opelousas and Washington looping under I-49 heading west. Continue on Hwy 167 to the Frontage Rd. / Kennerson Rd. Turn left and the Visitor Information Center is located immediately on your left.
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Saturday started off with temperatures in the low 80s and plenty of sunshine.
The day will continue with mostly sunny skies and only a 20 percent chance of showers and storms. Highs will reach 90 by 7 p.m.
Saharan dust will linger over the area, causing the sky to appear a little hazy and keeping thunderstorms out of the forecast.
There is a moderate chance of rip currents on area beaches, with the UV index in the extreme.
Rain chances will go up Sunday and continue rising throughout the work week. There will be a 40 percent chance of showers and storms Sunday, and a 50 percent chance from Monday to Wednesday.
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Knowing the value of each currency based on various internal and external factors is crucial and the reason why FXBrokerSearch.com's Forex news centre is a vital resource. Drawing on a number of resources, our information section provides the latest information and data from which users can refine their trading activity.
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The traps and trickery set for Muslims by unbelievers are created as a requirement of the test. Believers confront various difficulties in the flawless destiny created by Allah, and are patient and tolerant in the face of these difficulties being pleased with Allah. As Allah reveals in the Qur'an and as in many tests to which the prophets were exposed, the many traps and snares set for believers are created, by Allah's will, in a very detailed manner. Looking at this detailed creation one sees that these snares are sometimes not dismantled at once, but that they continue for a while and only disappear when the time appointed by Allah comes.
But the duration, short or long, of the test faced by a believer does not alter anything in terms of his or her belief, virtue or manners. Every trap or scheming set for Muslims is something that demands that believers exhibit excellent moral values and fortitude and that they do what the test requires begging Allah for it to be resolved in the most auspicious manner. That is because believers know that Allah is "the best of plotters," as true believers are told in the Qur'an:
When those who disbelieve were plotting against you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they were plotting and Allah was plotting, but Allah is the Best of Plotters. (Surat al-Anfal, 30)
Allah is the Creator of both good and evil. As Allah reveals in the verses of the Qur'an, a situation that may appear to be evil is in fact all for the best. And a situation that may appear to be auspicious can sometimes in fact be evil. The knowledge of this lies solely with Allah. For that reason, believers' responsibility is to exhibit fine patience in the face of every test and behave in the best manner that He will find pleasing.
In the Qur'an, Allah provides examples of prophets and believers who displayed fortitude in the face of the snares set for them. Looking at these examples we see that true believers have been patient in the face of all forms of test, and that no matter how long the test lasted they have always continued to behave well for Allah's sake. For example, in the story of the Prophet Yusuf (as) in the Qur'an, Allah reveals that the unbelievers set a trap for the prophet, even though they knew he was guiltless, and cast him into a dungeon:
Then, after they had seen the Signs [of Yusuf's innocence and purity], they thought that they should still imprison him for a time. (Surah Yusuf, 35)
The Prophet Yusuf (as) continued to preach the true faith and proper moral virtues throughout his time in prison, and told people of the oneness of Allah and how they should not ascribe partners to Him. Allah reveals in the Qur'an that the Prophet Yusuf (as) spent years in prison:
…but satan made him forget to remind his lord, and so he [Yusuf] stayed in prison for several years. (Surah Yusuf, 42)
When the time appointed by Allah came, the Prophet Yusuf (as) left his prison and thus Allah revealed that the trap set for him by his betrayers had failed. By means of the rulers of the time, the Prophet Yusuf (as) was placed in charge of the country's stores. Allah thus gave the Prophet Yusuf (as) power and authority in the wake of the test:
And thus We established Yusuf in the land so he could live in any place he pleased. We grant Our grace to anyone We will and We do not allow to go to waste the wage of any people who do good. But the wages of the Hereafter are the best for people who believe and fear their Lord. (Surah Yusuf, 56-57)2009-04-26 21:14:35


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After I saw this...
I was dreaming to install a GoPro Hero under it then I saw the first pictures and take aerial pictures like I do with my kites... Now I know I can't...
I still like it and I'll buy one, but can we have a bigger one next year? Let's call it QR-X.
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Hahah, yeah, I doubt there would be enough thrust to get a GoPro off the ground. If I'm not mistaken, there are some micro cameras made specifically for small helicopters that might work for this. They wouldn't have the picture quality of the GoPro, but it would be better than nothing.
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Yes, I have a few of those cameras and will probably work... Either way, I'm buying one for the office!!!
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i thought they would be at least 5 times bigger than that.. oh well
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I might wait for the DR-4 or 5... lol
Totally hoping these would have been a bit bigger.
Yeah, bigger would be nice, but this is a good place to start. If these do well, we will more than likely see something bigger in the future. I for one, am going to be in for one of these, should be fun to play around with.
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I feel like crying now!!!
Thrash It, Bash it, Break it, No Regrets!!!
The Hero 3 will fit. 2X more powerful and 25% smaller! Lol it's tiny!
And there he goes with the carbon...
I say it should be able to lift my 1/10 Summit when I roll it over.LOL
Lol did you expect a full size heli for $80? There just like the cobra ones kind of
Mannnn.... I knew something was up when I saw the price on Tower. I have been seriously looking at the 2.0 verson of another Quad-copter, when I saw this one I thought, "SOLD!!!"
Guess not...
Well kudos to Traxxas for branching out in their own little way(s).
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Wow, that thing is tiny! I think it would be fun to fly it around, and everyone would think it's a fly...
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so this is just a start off from traxxas to get into helis? i see, the big ones are coming.....later.
I about jumped out of my seat when i saw this on the website, then i threw my kindle when i saw how small it was.
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I dont get being upset by it's size. To me it is one of those things it just is what it is. I like the size. When I go outside I run my trucks, flying to me is something I like doing indoors when it is too dark to be outside running or it is raining or whatever. Small is good for me I can fly it around in the house to get my RC fix when I cant be outside running the trucks for whatever reason.
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That said for the price i might find my way to the LHS for one, just for messing around with. But my last foray into heli's ended up with desk decoration at work.
Guys please do not post about other quads that may look the same they are not. For those of you that missed it this is what Nitro Chicken posted in another thread about the look a like quad.
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Please keep in mind that these helicopters are produced and sold by Traxxas. Other helicopters may look similar but they will not perform the same. Traxxas wanted to make sure that these helicopters perform and fly the way a Traxxas customer would expect them to perform and fly. Customers will also have access to parts lists, exploded views, replacement parts, the helicopter replacement program and of course Traxxas customer support.
I do not have a specific list of the exact things that were done at the engineering level but a whole lot of time was put into researching the currently available helicopter offerings and then developing and perfecting the durability and flight characteristics of the QR1 and DR1. This level of research and development is time and resource intensive.
If Traxxas was simply interested in selling a helicopter, regardless of customer needs or performance expectations, we could have easily put something on the market years ago.
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I have owned numerous Traxxas products over the years, starting with the Fiero GTP 1/12 (fiberglass frame, and yes, mechanical esc) when it first came out. I don't remember Traxxas ever coming out with anything that looked identical to another product. The quad looks identical to another brand, and also has identical specs. The radio is also identical. Seems odd.
I am not debating that the support from Traxxas will be better, I have only had a few issues and received great support. I am sure the support, as well as the manuals will be first rate, as it has been with other Traxxas products (I have owned the above mentioned fiero gtp, 3 slashes, a jato, a tmaxx, an emaxx, 1 revo 2.5 and 4 revo 3.3, 2 rustler vxl, and 1 brushed erevo and 1 brushless erevo).
I understand that firmware can be changed on control boards to alter or obtain certain flight characteristics, but again, just saying it seems odd, especially given that Traxas has gone to using outside manufacturers for other products (Castle).
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They buried her 32-year-old cousin.
"That day was especially hard for us because Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the loss of my grandmother, and they were buried next to each other," said Molina.
Molina says after her cousin's body was placed in the hearse, she says she couldn't believe what she saw. She said she saw the funeral director, David L. Jones, take what appeared to be selfie with her cousin's casket loaded in the hearse behind him.
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"We were mourning the loss of my cousin, to be a very family event, private event, it's tainted. He disrespected this day in my family's life," said Molina.
According to Leal, Jones declined our request for an interview. We also tried to reach out to him by phone but he didn't answer.
We checked with the state of Texas. Jones is a licensed funeral director. He's had no complaints so far.
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White Stable necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
A new investment group is looking for a Logo and color scheme for our website and marketing collateral. The logo will be used on printed materials, a word template, business cards and a website. Eventually the logo will be used on promotional materials so the logo needs to be attractive and convey the message in Black and White, Color as well as Large and Small formats.
There was a minor omission in our original posting. The posting should have included a business card and letter head layout to go with the logo. We are sorry for the omission, this is our first contest.
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The name of the group is White Stable Ventures or internally we call it WSV. Our logo should not only incorporate our name but convey a sense of power, old world wealth. It is hard to put some of the nuances of the feel in writing but it should be wealth, power, understated, NY law firm or the best movie I can think of is the remake of the Thomas Crown affair.
The color pallet should be subtle and on the darker side of the spectrum with out being too dark. The best way to describe the colors would be the traditional paint pallet from Ralph Lauren. Slates work well. The final color should be WEB SAFE and not require special mixing this leads to too many issues in duplicating the logo on materials, etc.
We have thought about using just our initials, the name or integrating a horse. While we have talked to a number of creative groups we have decided to not use a large house since that would be overkill and we have not found a boutique who we feel comfortable with so a colleague mentioned Sitepoint. We want to try this approach to see if we could find the right execution of the logo ideas we have considered such as the ones mentioned above or some new idea.
Please remember eventually the logo will be used on promotional materials so the logo needs to be attractive and convey the message in Black and White as well as Color (Web Safe). The logo should also be used in Large and Small formats such as on a folder and business cards.
We look forward to your submissions.
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Since its inception in 1987, Maternidad La Luz (MLL) has been both a birth center and a school of midwifery, a dynamic partnership that benefits the birthing woman as well as the student. Maternidad La Luz clients receive excellent clinical care in a warm, supportive environment, and the students have outstanding midwifery education and training in a hands-on setting, supervised by the experienced Maternidad La Luz staff.
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The border between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez is very fluid with people frequently crossing back and forth. MLL clients who are residents of Mexico have a laser visa, a legal document created to facilitate access to El Paso goods and services. Mexican nationals comprise a large percentage of the population of El Paso. As a result, about ninety-five percent of women who come to Maternidad La Luz speak primarily Spanish. Many people living in the border region have no medical insurance and limited or no access to medical care. Maternidad La Luz is able to provide low cost, high quality care for all pregnant women in the community, regardless of nationality or residency status.
The staff and students at Maternidad La Luz care for approximately 40 to 60 birthing women a month.Since 1987, they have attended over 15,000 births at the center. Women from the ages of twelve to forty-six have had satisfying, natural birth experiences. The majority of clients are Mexican or Mexican-American who choose MLL based on the recommendation of family and friends who have previously given birth at the center.


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I am the first one in Stockholm's Centralbadet this Monday morning, followed by James, then by an old man wearing big yellow goggles, who does a steady breaststroke around the perimeter of the pool. Watching him, I switch to breaststroke myself and match his speed. It feels comfortable. It feels relaxing. As the three of us swim counterclockwise, I channel my old age, my flabby form, my unself-conscious senior. I think of the two older women I passed in the locker room, whose modest black tanks encased humps and bones and bumpy flesh. The cruel phrase a friend once used to describe a woman's backside: "a bagful of doorknobs." I watch my hands trace their double ellipse in front of me, my mother's wrists, my grandmother's knuckles.
The Centralbadet, built in 1909, is a gleaming wood-and-tile Art Nouveau pool. Its corners are round, and the surface of the water is almost two feet lower than the deck; I feel cupped, as if swimming in the hull of a ship. Behind curtains surrounding the pool sit wooden tubs, tanning beds, and darkened treatment rooms. One floor down, James and I find a large room of smaller pools, with a trough of hot water, and one of cold; a steep staircase that immerses the bather in waist-deep cold water; a deep hot tub shelved twice; and beyond that a large whirlpool with built-in recliners. The two older women join us in the hot tub, holding tightly to the handrails.
My Advanced Age Group coach Greg asked us one morning: What is the first thing we do, when we wake up for practice?
"Stretch," I said.
He shook his head no.
"Go pee?" someone else asked.
"Yes." Greg nodded. "And what I need you to do after you use the toilet is to weigh yourself, and write it down."
After the finals at an out-of-town meet, the team would drive to a restaurant for dinner. In the bus on the way to the restaurant these were my thoughts: Not nervous anymore. Going to eat in a restaurant. Can order whatever I want. Tired and do not have to talk. Hair wet clothes warm. Will not have to clean up.
Dinners with the team look like this: Swimmers wear parkas or heavy coats, which, if they bother to take them off, are pushed inside out over the backs of their chairs. Hair is in various stages of damp. Boys' combed back, or sticking messily up. Girls' held in elastic bands, pulled into stubby ponytails. Prolonged exposure to chlorine makes hair stiff and dry, bleaching blond into stripes and green hues, brown into copper. The swimmers wear hooded sweatshirts, jeans or track pants, and have the red imprint of goggles around their eyes.
The restaurant is a Denny's, a St Hubert, or a Swiss Chalet, usually near or attached to a hotel. We sit at banquettes or at square tables pushed together to accommodate us all. The waitress hands out laminated menus and pours ice water into foggy amber tumblers. When we order we ask for separate checks. Tips are left in change, in piles, once or twice beneath overturned sundae glasses.
Being in a restaurant with my team is nothing like being in a restaurant with my family. With my family, I never order appetizers, rarely ask for sides, and the value deal is encouraged and often shared. But surrounded by my teammates, draped in happy fatigue and with cash in parka pocket, I order potato skins and onion rings, leave food on my plate, drink two root beers— and feel guilty afterward so do not consider dessert. The feeling of defying my parents is exhilarating and lonely. I don't see things the way they do, nor could I after crossing the appetizer horizon.
I like to order something starchy, spaghetti with meatballs or two bagels with cream cheese. My first order of bagels with cream cheese is still vivid. The dining room was a bright glassed-in conservatory attached to a hotel, with a fountain and thick kelly-green carpet. The furniture was white wicker; the cushions were green-and-white gingham. The waitress brought me four stacked bagel halves, toasted an even, deep brown and lightly buttered. Alongside this came a glass dish
piled with thick cream cheese. I slowly and steadily ate my way through the stack, staring at the gingham cushions.
I was thin, like my brother, and ate whatever was put in front of me. Until I was fifteen I was narrow, shapeless, androgynous. When I quit swimming in 1989, I ate erratically and experimented with anything that might offset the onset of late puberty and my habitual athlete's appetite. Before school I would go for a run with my dog, Rambo, then make two large peanut butter cookies in the toaster oven and eat them, steaming hot, on the bus. I learned how to bake bread and made a dense loaf every week.
In the fall of 1991, I was swimming again and living in the basement of my brother's small East End Toronto house. Derek and three of his high school friends lived upstairs. I found two jobs: one, part- time, at an art bookstore, the other full- time at an art supply store, in the paper department. My manager there let me cut short my day by half an hour so that I could make my five p. m. practice at the pool. On my walk to work after morning practice I would buy a doughnut, or a package of two-day-old bran muffins from Rabba Fine Foods. I craved sugar.
I didn't know how to shop for food. My mother wrote out daily sample menus on pastel recipe cards, but I tucked them into my bookcase and bought bulky, instant things— baby carrots, peanut butter, bricks of cheap cheese. Sometimes I would buy a loaf of day-old raisin bread at Rabba, rip chunks off it for breakfast and lunch, and finally consume the last of it on the subway home after evening practice. At a routine weighin I clocked 134 pounds. My coach suggested I lose a little weight, and I realized that I was eating a loaf of bread a day. Embarrassed, I replaced the loaf with an apple and half a bagel, and dropped ten pounds in two weeks.
As I lay in bed, alarm set for 4:15 a. m., I would hear my brother and his friends above my room, laughing and watching TV. At 4:30, after drinking a glass of milk, I would walk the six blocks to Danforth Avenue and take the Blue Night bus with the postal workers over the Bloor Street viaduct. I'd get off at Spadina, then walk south past the student housing and Chinese funeral parlor, to the pool. One morning I sliced my hand open while cutting a bagel, and Derek took me to the emergency room for stitches. As the doctor tugged on the frozen skin, I cried, my tears far out of proportion to the injury. He asked me what else was going on.
Sometimes, mid-practice, students from the Sutherland-Chan massage clinic would set up their tables in a storage room off the deck. We'd be pushing through the main set when the assistant coach, Linda, like a fickle goddess, would pick five of us at a time to hop out. We'd spend ten happy minutes getting a rubdown from the massage students. The tables would be spread with dry white towels, we'd be covered in unscented cream, and our burning muscles would be kneaded into smooth, soft ropes. The students would remark how lucky they felt to be able to work on us, and we'd tell them they had no idea.
When Derek was working as a photographer's assistant, I'd sometimes meet him at the studio after practice, where his boss kept the lights low and the music melancholy and loud. Derek had joined a glamorous world of takeaway sushi, flash metering, and lab couriers. I would linger for hours, hoping to be given small tasks, while Derek made coffee with cinnamon in the grounds, the way his boss liked it. He showed me contact sheets under a loupe and Polaroids of dramatically lit Body Shop body wash. I'd sit on an apple box and look at Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar, and back issues of Toronto Life Fashion magazine.
A thing I used to do when I was little: I'd line up a handful of Honey Nut Cheerios in a row and eat them, one by one, in order of ugly to pretty. Finally there would be one left: the winner of the Honey Nut Cheerios beauty contest. I'd admire it— the winner was usually two stuck together with honey-nut coating, or one whose middle was filled in with a thin sugary pane. Then I'd eat it.
While in Stockholm, James and I ride bicycles to the Hallwyl Museum. Wilhemina von Hallwyl's Carrara marble bathroom displays the heat lamp she used daily for her bad back. A canvas strap that supported her head is still slung, striped and faded, across one end of her bathtub. Countess von Hallwyl and her husband, Walther, built and moved into the mansion at 4 Hamngatan in 1898. They lived there alone, their three daughters— Ebba the suffragette, Ellen the sculptor, and Irma the socialite— having grown up and moved out.
The countess's collection is extensive and endearing, a mix of the sentimental alongside the rare and valuable. Stacks of table linens; rows upon rows of uselessly small glasses, sorbet cups, toothbrushes, baby teeth, Chinese porcelain; a long attic room tiled with oils; gleaming swords and guns. I warm to the acquisitive countess, navigating the world as I do by my own love of things. I leave the armor room and take the first steps up a staircase as my headset intones: "On the stairs ascending to the bedroom floor, the countess tragically fell to her death in 1930." I think about something the psychologist Adam Phillips wrote: "Our excesses are the best clues we have to our own poverty; and our best way of concealing it from ourselves." I think of my own collections (old white trousers, hardcover books, striped towels, bathing suits, fake oranges) and wonder what my unknown deprivations are. I wonder, What, if I stop accumulating, will I confront?
We head out of Stockholm to Kolsva, where we find a badplats, a swimming area, on the Hedströmmen River. As we approach I see the broad, bare backside of a man toweling off, his skin glowing against the emerald green of the trees. A woman in a bikini sees us and motions to him. I look away and whisper,"Naked!" to James. The couple pull on clothes, and by the time we are dockside they are packing up and leaving. A family of five occupies the dock; the three blond children drop lily pads into the water and watch us as we wade in and swim, through water the color of breakfast tea, to a floating raft about fifteen meters away.
I remember seeing a dead body on the beach in Mi edzyzdroje, Poland. During the summer of 1993, Jason and I drove along the Baltic coast, sleeping in the car on beaches. We swam at sunset, and were wading aimlessly when we felt a gentle movement of people leaving the water. As we looked around, following, we saw the reason. In the fading light, the dark silhouette of a body covered in a blanket was laid on the sloping grade, its feet lapped by small waves.
The women's swimming pavilion at Saltsjöbadens Friluftsbad, in the Stockholm archipelago, was built in 1913. It is a long U-shaped structure, directly on the shore. The two-story building is painted a pale sea-foam green and lined with tidy, white-doored wooden cabins and decking. It's a prettier version of the brown and blue men's pavilion standing across the family beach. I had read about the men's and women's swimming areas, but it didn't dawn on me until I got there
that this separation involved nudity.
Beyond a small door (monitored and opened only long and wide enough to let one person pass) the sunny double deck of the Dambadet encloses a section of shoreline on three high sides. I look out over the bodies covering the planks. I have my Speedo in my bag, but hastily tally that only thirty percent of the women wear suits. I let myself into a nearby cabin and think: When in Sweden.
As I walk, naked, along the wooden deck, among the tan, blonde Swedes reclining on their beach towels, I'm less selfconscious than I expected. Women glance, I glance back, but it feels like an internal shrug, a relief to be naked, outdoors, and feel so safe. In contrast to the chatter and shrieks of the family beach, the Dambadet is quiet. Most of the women are reading. I step down the wooden steps that lead into the water. It is cool, perfect hot-day temperature, tasting only mildly saline.
The water is a beautiful olive-green color, turning my skin ochre beneath the waves. I like seeing the body I usually see in a tub or shower out here, in the sun, in the sea; gliding naked around other women's thin bodies, fat bodies, saggy and taut parts. I feel good about my own— a relief after the habitual scrutiny of clothing myself— and at the same time feel invisible and unself-conscious. Out of the water my movements are still modest: I hold an arm between my breasts, I step around towels and legs with economy. But the feeling is very matter-of-fact, no need to yank Lycra over butt cheeks, no worrying about my bikini line, no anxiety over lane direction, speed, time.
An indifferent animality trumps anything erotic. As though in our polite blankness we are brushing up against one another, our furs, our similarities. I still see myself as a young swimmer, as a tube in a tank, as a neutral, androgynous athlete. But without my Speedo I am a bather, a body. As I approach forty, my swimmer self erodes with the onset of the gravity-bound realms of marriage and family. Swimming is my disembodied youth, yet I am rapidly becoming the embodied present.
A friend e-mails me a link to some photos he thinks I'll like. They are by George Silk, of fourteen-year-old diver Kathy Flicker in Princeton University's Dillon Pool in March 1962. The black- and- white images have a spirit- photography quality; the waterline displaces Flicker's head, and refracts her body, inflating its size nightmarishly. What falls below the water's surface is free of our usual grasp of physics. The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.
Excerpted from Swimming Studies, Copyright 2012 by Leanne Shapton, courtesy Blue Rider Press.
Images by Michael Schmelling.


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public static List<Session> SessionQueries() { using(var db = new LearningServicesEntities()) { var query = (from session in db.Sessions join tuteeStudent in db.Students on session.TuteeStudentID equals tuteeStudent.StudentID join tutorStudent in db.Students on session.TutorStudentID equals tutorStudent.StudentID join c in db.Courses on session.CourseID equals c.CourseID select new {session.Date, session.Time, tuteeStudent.FullName, c.CourseNumber, c.CourseName, session.In, session.Out, session.Office}).ToList(); return query.ToList(); } }
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This is my trip report for my first ever European Delivery. It was also the first time my friend and I have been to Europe. This forum is what had got me interested in having this experience. I have been researching this trip for almost a year. I want to thank everyone who contributed information to me on these forums that made my two week European trip an amazing experience. The input I received from this forum made the trip go extremely smooth. I am posting this report in hopes it may help someone else that is considering doing European delivery. Two words of advice for anyone considering doing European delivery - DO IT!
As far as camera equipment, we brought my Canon 60D DSLR with 18-135 mm Canon lens, a Samsung point and shoot, and our iPhone 4S's.
My car I took delivery of was a 2013 328xi Sports Line, Melbourne Red Metallic, Leather Dakota Black/Red highlight, Anthracite wood trim w/ highlight trim finishers in pearl gloss chrome, Cold Weather Package, Lighting Package, Premium Package, Technology Package, Sports automatic transmission w/ paddle shifters, Rear view camera, Park distance control, Auto high beams, and Harman Kardon surround sound system. I currently have a 2009 328xi in Montego Blue. This will be my 4th BMW.
Sunday September 9
Depart PIT 1345 USAir 1169 (Airbus A319)
Arrive CLT 1512
This was our carry on and checked luggage. We each also had a backpack. All bags were stuffed beyond capacity. We wondered how we could possibly bring anything back we bought. We ended up buying another suitcase in Vienna. Next time we wont be the typical crazy American tourist and pack a bit lighter.
I love flying through Charlotte. Its a nice airport, and we had time to grab a Jamba Juice and a burger at Bad Daddy's.
Depart CLT 1710 Lufthansa 429 (Airbus A340-600)
Lufthansa was an amazing airline. Service was excellent. Food was good and plentiful, free unlimited drinks (which we took advantage of), touch screen entertainment system at each seat in economy class. We took advantage of the Lufthansa-BMW discount which saved us a couple hundred dollars.
Monday September 10
Arrive MUC 0750
Cleared customs and met Peter after baggage claim. Peter drove us to BMW Niederlassung which is a corporate owned BMW dealership where he walked across the street to ADAC (German auto club) to purchase vignettes for the car. Peter then drove us to change our dollars to euros at the main train station. He then drove us to check in at:
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich
Maximilianstr. 17 Munich, 80539, BY, Germany
(hotel has free wi-fi and valet parking in a secure garage and they will let you keep your key)
Peter picking us up at MUC.
Allianz Arena
First time on a German Autobahn. Peter explained the traffic laws and signs to us.
BMW Niederlassung
We took a 2 hour nap since we were tired from the flight and went sightseeing. We walked to Mierenplatz and saw the Glockenspiel. We had our first beer at the small beer garden in Mierenplatz. We then walked to St. Peter's church and climbed the 387 steps to the top for an amazing view (must see). We then walked to Viktualienmarkt where we had another beer at Wirtsgarten then went back to the hotel.
The first of thousands of steps we climbed on this trip. Be in shape and bring comfortable walking shoes!
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We ate dinner at Hofbrauhaus (mushroom pot, pretzel, original sausage platter) and of course had a beer. We then returned to the hotel and went to bed early.
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Tuesday September 11
Woke up and walked to Mierenplatz to take U3 underground to BMW Welt. We checked in, signed the book, and went to the Premium Lounge to eat breakfast. We then met Sven our delivery specialist and took delivery of the car. After the victory lap, I had the car valet at the Welt and went on the English speaking factory tour (must see). After the tour we ate lunch at the Premium Lounge. We then went to the gift shop and got our keychain. From there, we went through the BMW museum. After the museum we drove back to the hotel.
Here is Prince Melbourne (delivery specialist Sven said it was a "he":
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Leaving the Welt:
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We walked to Max-Joseph Platz and toured the treasury. We then walked to the Hofgarten where we had a beer at Luigi Tambosi and returned to the hotel.
Our power adaptor craziness:
We spent the night at the bars and apparently taking pictures on the way back to the hotel
hotel lobby
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Wednesday September 12
Ate breakfast at the hotel restaurant (2 club sandwiches, 2 orange juices and a bottle of water for 90 euro yes 90 euro). We then checked out of the hotel and drove to a Munich gas station and filled up the tank for the first time.
leaving Munich
We drove to Prague on the Autobahns
We checked in to Hotel Louren
Slezska 55, Prague, Czech Republic
(free wifi and self parked the car in a secure guarded lot in a courtyard a block away)
This is why we paid for the secure parking in Parague
After we rested, we mistakenly took a trolley rather than the underground to go out to dinner and got lost at the end of the trolley line when the trolley stopped running. The trolley driver drove us to a spot where we found a taxi outside of a bar. The cabbie was inside drinking and gambling and took us back to the hotel for 180kc. By the time we got back to the hotel, it was too late to do anything.
Thursday September 13
We ate the free breakfast at the hotel.
We took the underground to Malostranska. We walked the 208 steps to Prague Castle complex. We climbed the 297 steps to the top of the Cathedral of St. Vitus (must see). We toured the Cathedral, the Basilica of St. George, the Royal Palace and the rest of the complex.
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We then walked to the funicular that took us to the Petrin Tower. We took the elevator up and climbed down the 299 steps from the observation deck.
We then walked to the Charles Bridge and went across. We walked to the Staromestska stop of the underground and took it back to the hotel.
After resting, we took the underground to Staromestska and walked through the Old Town Square. We got on the underground again and got of at Malostranska where we walked to eat at Certovka on the bank of the Charles River (plate of various Czech cheeses and butters, beef straganoff, old Bohemian platter). We then took the underground back to the hotel.
It was freezing and instead of turning the outdoor heaters on, they gave us blankets.
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Friday September 14
We ate breakfast at the hotel and checked out. We drove to Parizska Street to shop. We walked to Old Town Square and ate at the food vendors there (halushki and raspberry crepe).
We drove to Vienna getting off the autobahns and taking the back roads the last half of the journey.
We checked into the Hilton Vienna Plaza (they charged for wi-fi, but we stayed on executive suite with free meals and booze in the executive lounge, we self parked in their secure parking garage)
Schottenring 11, Vienna, Austria 431313900
We ate lunch in the executive lounge at the hotel and rested.
We walked to Theophil to eat dinner (filet, rocket salad, red beet soup, chicken). It was an excellent meal and then drank sweet after dinner wine and talked to the family who owned the café. I would highly recommend eating there.
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Saturday September 15
We ate breakfast at the hotel's executive lounge. We then took the trolley to the Hofburg Palace. We toured the Schatzkammer (treasury), Neue Hofburg (arms museum), Sisi Museum, Kaiserappartements (Imperial apartments) and Augustinerkirche. The Spanische Hofreitschule (horses) was closed for a special event. We then walked to St. Stephens Cathedral and back to the hotel.
This is said to be a nail from the crucifixion of Jesus:
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We ate dinner at the executive lounge at the hotel then went out to the bars.
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Sunday September16
We ate breakfast at the hotel's executive lounge and checked out.
We drove to Berchtesgaden and ate lunch (goulash and salad) at a café across the street from the Eagles Nest Historical Tour.
We took the Eagles Nest Historical Tour in English (must do). The tour took us on a bus past the former Nazi sites in Berchtesgaden including Hitler's house, bunker and teahouse, Bormann's house, Goring's house and to the Documentation Center and bunker complex. We then took another bus to the bottom of the Eagles Nest where we took and elevator into the house. We then walked up the mountain overlooking the Eagles Nest for an amazing view.
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We drove to Salzburg and checked in at the Hotel Goldener Hirsch (free wifi, valet parking in a secure garage and let me keep the key) Getreidegasse, Salzburg, Austria. We then walked to Nagomi and ate dinner (good Japanese food) and explored the shopping area.
Monday September 17
We ate breakfast at McDonald's Café next to the hotel. We found it funny that they charged .35 euro for a packet of ketchup and it wasn't even Heinz. We walked past Motzart's birthplace to the funicular that we took to the Hohen Salzburg Fortress. We took the fortress tour. We rode the funicular back down and walked around shopping.
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We then drove to the Salzburg Airport and toured the Red Bull Hangar 7 and ate lunch at their outdoor cafe (burger, chicken sandwich, salad, fries).
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We drove the back roads to Mittenwald and checked in at the Post Hotel (free wi-fi and self parking in gated lot) Obermarkt, 82481, Mittenwald, Germany.
We ate at Alpenrose (bacon dumpling soup, French onion soup, apple pancake, mushroom puff pastry).
Tuesday September 18
We ate breakfast at hotel then walked to the Karwendel cable car, and took it to the top of the mountain and back (must do). We then walked through the shops in the town and checked out.
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We drove to the Stelvio Pass (must do) and stopped at the top for a slice of pizza at the pizzeria that was out of pizza.
We then drove down Stelvio Pass to Lake Como (no highways and a lot of slow traffic).
We checked in at the Hotel Albergo Lenno (free wi-fi and self parking in secure garage)Via Lomazzi, 22016, Lenno, Italy
We walked to dinner at Trattoria S. Stefano (pasta in tomato sauce, pasta carbonara, salads) in Leno Plaza. We had gelato for desert on the walk back to the hotel.
Wednesday September 19
We ate breakfast at the hotel then took the ferry to Bellagio. We used a public phone to call the Cavalcalario Club to find out about horseback riding. The owner (Lucca) said he would pick us up at the Bellagio post office in a half an hour. We ate a piece of pizza and gelato near the ferry dock while waiting to be picked up. Lucca picked us up and drove us to his house where he set us up with two horses to ride. We went on an hour ride for 30 euro and Lucca followed us on his bicycle. Lucca then rode us back down to the Bellagio ferry dock where we walked around the shops. We took the ferry back to the hotel stopping at various towns on the lake.
We rested and then drove to Cadenabbia to take the ferry, which runs later than the one by the hotel. We then took the ferry to Bellagio and walked to eat at Salice Blue (the best meal we had in Europe pasta with lobster sauce, seafood scampi, beef tenderloin, chocolate soufflé). The owner and chef, Luigi, rode us down to the ferry dock so we wouldn't miss the last ferry back to Cadenabbia.
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Thursday September 20
We ate breakfast at the hotel and checked out and drove to Fussen where we had reservations for the castle tour. We picked up our tickets and rode a horse carriage to Neuschwanstein Castle. We did the castle tour and walked back down to our car. We drove to the BMW castle photo spot and took the obligatory photo.
Our excess of luggage we brought
driving through Switzerland
and Liechtenstein
not the greatest with shadows and scaffolding
We then drove to and checked in to Kempenski Hotel Airport Munich (fee for wi-fi, but self parking in secure garage) Terminalstrasse Mitte 20 Schwaig-Oberding, 85356, BY, Germany. We ate dinner at the hotel bar (goulash, dim sum) and then packed our many bags for the trip home.
Friday September 21
We woke up and drove to the Agip Station near the MUC airport. We washed the car in the wash bay. We then drove to Log In Out next to our hotel where we returned the car for its long trip to the States. We ate breakfast at the hotel, and walked to the airport. We turned in our duty free receipts and changed our euros back to USD.
Depart MUC 1125 Lufthansa 428 (Airbus A340-600)
Arrive CLT 1515
Depart CLT 1640 USAir 1190 (Boeing 737-4004)
Arrive PIT 1805
So after 13 days, 2263 kilometers (1406 miles), and 6 countries, here are some interesting observations from our first trip to Europe:
Except for Italy, the roads were incredible. The roads are in excellent shape compared to the roads in the US. There are very few if any stop signs in most places. Traffic is designed to flow. They use traffic circles and yield signs rather than stop signs and red lights. We never saw any police on the highways in any country. It seems speed is controlled by cameras rather than traffic cops. There are speed cameras every few miles on the highways. The speeds are generally posted higher than we are used to driving in the US. 130 KPH (80 MPH) Germany (where it is limited), Austria, Italy, and Czech Republic. They do have frequent speed reduction zones for tunnels and urban interchange areas. The speed limit sign is only posted once, so you have to pay attention because there are usually speed cameras after the change in speed is posted. In Italy, the roads are not in as good of shape and are very narrow.
The hotels are generally smaller than what we are used to in the states. If you reserve a room with one Queen or King bed, you will get 2 double mattresses pushed together in a frame with two sets of double sheets and comforters. The bathrooms everywhere we stayed besides Germany had bidets in them, which I've never seen before. All the bathrooms had heated towel racks, which was interesting. None of the hotels we stayed in had ice machines or vending machines of any kind. We brought the standard 110v-220v European electrical converters that we bought in the states. They worked, but we found the European plugs are recessed in a hole, so it was hard for the converters to plug in. If you bumped them, they fell out, as there was nothing holding them into the outlet. Their outlets only accommodate 1 plug, so bringing an outlet strip to plug into the converter is a good idea. Also, their plugs and the converters we bought do not have a third prong, so you may want to bring a three prong to one prong adaptor to pug in your outlet strip to the converter. This doesn't affect anything, but we also found it interesting that all of the light switches in Europe are large toggle buttons, not anything we have here. We also found it odd that most of their doors are hinged on the outsides of the door frames not inside the frame like our doors. Also, in the small hotels the elevators are super small. A couple of the hotels had one man elevators and we could barely fit our suitcases in with us going one at a time up the elevator.
All of the food we ate was really good. We found it interesting that their breakfast foods are lunchmeats and cheeses. They do not have traditional breakfast foods like cooked eggs and waffles unless you are in an Americanized hotel. Also, most of their drinks are carbonated. The water and most of the drinks in gas stations coolers are carbonated. You must ask for "still" water if you want regular water like we drink here in the US.
Everywhere we went with the exception of the Czech Republic is very English speaking friendly. Pretty much every younger German or Austrian speaks excellent English, as they start learning it at the same time as their native language in school. Outside of the tourist areas in the Czech republic, we could not find anyone that spoke English. Even in the touristy spots it was hard finding anyone that spoke English on the street.
As far as spending money, Europe was more expensive than the states with the exception of restaurants. We were surprised that the meals at good restaurants were reasonably priced compared to the same types of places in the states. The Czech Republic was generally less expensive than Austria and Germany it seemed. I would advise you to ask for a duty free tax receipt when making purchases at shops in Europe. If you spend over a certain amount (Germany 25 euro, Austria 75 euro, Czech Republic 2001 czk, Italy 155 euro), you can get a percentage back from the VAT tax when you leave Europe. We just took our duty free receipts we got to the German customs office at Munich Airport who stamped them (they may inspect the goods you purchased but they didn't for us). They have a Tax refund office in the airport, which took our stamped receipts and gave us cash back. We got about 7% back in cash from our receipts, which was a nice surprise when leaving.
All of the places we visited were amazing and I would go back to see them again. I like Munich the best as a place I could live. It was so friendly and clean and a perfect balance of modern high tech western culture mixed with old European history. Prague was the most beautiful city we visited. The mountains in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland were just breathtaking. There was so much history to take in throughout this trip. It was truly an amazing must do experience. I am so glad I lease my car, because that gives me an opportunity to do this every three years, which I am certain I will!
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As if Suffolk County, home of the Hamptons and playground of the rich and famous on New York's Long Island, didn't have enough financial problems already.
A regulatory filing on behalf of the county dated April 16 shows it accidentally missed an interest payment on some of its debt, including $76.1 million of public improvement bonds, putting the county technically in default. Oops.
The county is wealthy with income per capita well above the national average but it has run into difficulty recently, declaring a fiscal emergency last year after an independent task force predicted a three-year deficit of $530 million.
The county could have a budget shortfall of as much as $250 million by the end of next year, local officials said last month.
The error is more of an embarrassing glitch than anything else. The missed payment - just $722.65 - would be small change for many of the county's residents.
That will buy you fewer than 20 butter-poached lobster rolls (not the most expensive thing on the menu) at Dave's Grill in Montauk, a quaint fishing village on the island's northern tip, or just 10 bottles of Merry Edwards Sauvignon Blanc Russian River 2009 at La Plage in Wading River. A mere picnic.
The mistake was pointed out by the Depository Trust Company, a clearing firm, the day after it was missed and the filing says the error was the fault of the county's escrow agent, M&T Bank.
"The county informed M&T of its error and the escrow agent immediately wired the $722.65 payment to DTC," the regulatory filing said.
So what went wrong? The county was making the first payment in a complicated arrangement that uses $17 million in state HEAL grants for medical costs, primarily related to the Foley Nursing home, said Richard Tortora, president of Capital Markets Advisors, the county's financial adviser.
The $722.65, part of a debt payment of over $1 million, was the portion of the payment from the HEAL grants. The $17 million is being held in an escrow account at M&T.
"M&T for reasons we can't fathom just blew it: 'Oops it wasn't in our system, we missed it'", said Tortora, president of Capital Markets Advisors. Tortora said missing the payment and having to make a regulatory filing with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board was frustrating after months spent putting the arrangement together for the county.
M&T Bank was not immediately available for comment.
Fitch Ratings, the credit ratings agency, downgraded Suffolk County's general obligation bond rating to A from A-plus last month, affecting about $1.4 billion of debt. General obligation bonds have the full faith and credit of the issuer and are the best gauge of how risky investors think the county is.
Fitch said it had concerns about the county's ability to become financially stable, let alone reduce its big deficit.
(This story was corrected to fix name of Suffolk County's financial advisers)
Reporting by Edward Krudy, additional reporting by Pam Niimi; Editing by Kenneth Barry


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Marc-André Hamelin
Late-night Liszt from the Canadian pianist wows Nick Shave
Pure and apparently effortless displays of virtuosity entertained those who made it to the Late Night Prom on Wednesday. Marc-André Hamelin is never flamboyant or showy: his playing is all about the music. And so to watch him play Liszt – music that shows all the hallmarks of a showman – is to watch a masterclass in modesty of gesture: Hamelin's technique is always placed at the service of the music, and not the other way round.
The programme was nicely varied, beginning with Legend No. 2, 'Francis of Paola Walking on the Water', S175 No. 2 – a piece that takes its programmatic cue from St Francis's miraculous walk across the Straits of Messina, followed by the Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H, S529ii – written originally for organ, whose dense counterpoint makes tremendous technical demands.
Hamelin returned to the spiritual in Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude, S173 No. 3 – a tribute to the French poet Alphonse Lamartine; Venezia e Napoli, S162 – three movements that journey from the hauntingly impressionistic to an ebullient tarantella – concluded the programme. Throughout, Hamelin captured remarkable nuances. Every detail, however small, was delivered with an exacting ear for shading and dynamics.
For the adjacent critic, these wonderful washes of sound proved too much: in the late-night, low-lit atmosphere of the Royal Albert Hall, he was swept into a deep, deep sleep that – to judge by the continual nodding of the head and heavy slow breathing – lasted roughly from the Bachian S529ii to the last pages of the Venezia e Napoli, S162.
He missed out. This will undoubtedly stand up as one of this year's outstanding concerts – on a par with Maria João Pires's memorable late-night Chopin recital last year: world-class.
Prom 54: Liszt: Legend No. 2, 'St Francis of Paola Walking on the Water'; Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H; Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude; Venezia e Napoli
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Nick Shave writes for The Guardian and is contributing editor of BBC Music Magazine. A regular reviewer and blogger of the Proms, he can usually be found at the Royal Albert Hall with only seconds to spare, breaking into an ungainly powerwalk somewhere between the ticket collection desk and the stalls
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I was a little confused with the Concord site. They say that you will be able to take the bar in California, but can I also take the bar in IL? There was also some discrepency that you need to practice in California for a certain amount of time before you can practice anywhere else. I may have my facts mixed up, but if anyone knows about htis can you please expalin what the deal is?