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Hawker training in her stomping grounds of the French Alps, near Chamonix.
Lizzy turns 36 this year, and I ask her if she feels she's still getting stronger. "I think so. I'm noticing recovery is a bit different these days. I have to be a bit more careful now, whereas when I started I could get away with anything."
That's an understatement. "Even among long-distance runners," says Stephen Pyke, "Lizzy's unusual for her speed of recovery." After their Everest to Kathmandu run, Pyke says his feet stayed swollen for a week. Two weeks after reaching Kathmandu they met again at a local fell race, he says. Pyke and Hartell managed to get round in a time 10-percent down on their usual effort. "Lizzy won the women's event and set a new course record."
Hawker is typically modest about this. "I do manage to race a lot more than people say I should," she says. No kidding. She kicked off last year—on January 1st—with the Annapurna 100, run over the fiercely steep hills above the lakeside resort of Pokhara in Nepal. Then, having trekked in double-quick time around the 300-kilometer Annapurna circuit, she flew to Hong Kong for another 100-kilometer race, on January 15. In March she ran the TransGranCanaria, 123 kilometers across the island and 11,000 meters of ascent. As she counts these races off on her fingers, Lizzy doesn't mention she was the first female home in all of them.
A month after the Canaries she flew to South Africa for the republic's two most famous ultras, Cape Town's Two Oceans in March and in April the 89-kilometer Comrades Marathon, run between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Both draw thousands of competitors. At the second split in the 56-kilometer Two Oceans, taken at marathon distance, Hawker realized she had broken her personal best for a road marathon of 2 hours 45 minutes—and this on a hilly course. ("I really must work on my marathon time," she says as an aside.) She finished Comrades in seventh place, three places behind fellow Brit (now living in Canada) Ellie Greenwood.
After that it was back to Europe for her favorite Alpine races, the Zermatt Marathon in early July, where she came in second, and three weeks later the 78-kilometer Swiss Alpine Davos, where she holds the course record. Lizzy won, her first victory since 2007, dedicating her success to local runner Jasmin Nunige, who had beaten her in Zermatt but was reduced to firing the starting pistol at Davos because of illness.
Interspersed with these races were coaching commitments that saw her clocking up huge distances above and beyond what her training program required. Hawker has taught at the Laufschule Scuol in the Engadine Alps of Switzerland for several years, the school's star tutor in ultra distances. If you want insider tips on running the UTMB, Scuol is the place to go. Apart from her deal with The North Face and occasional writing assignments, this is how Hawker sustains herself.
In August Hawker lined up for the race that made her name, the UTMB, winning in difficult circumstances. Europe's premier mountain ultra had been abandoned in 2010 because of bad weather (see "UTMB Fun Run," March 2011, Issue 71) and as a consequence athletes were required to carry more protective gear. They needed it. A powerful front moved through the French Alpine resort of Chamonix at the scheduled time of departure, so organizers put back the starting time by five hours. Then there was that hip injury that almost saw Hawker quit at 70 miles. She slipped on ice and the bruise was so painful, she thought she'd suffered a stress fracture in her pelvis, an injury she's overcome once before, in 2007.
Yet when I ask her about the race, her first response is unexpected. "It was beautiful up there. I was bowled over by it. I was on the second high pass when dawn came, and it was magical."
While the renowned Spaniard Kilian Jornet (see "Just Kilian," December 2011, Issue 76) was putting on every stitch he owned, and the race organizers were frantically altering the route after an aid station got taken out by the storm, Hawker was running in her own private winter wonderland.
Leading from the start, she took the changes in her stride, as the athletes were diverted via Martigny, adding extra distance and height to the course. "We had all four seasons in that race," she says. "Rain, snow, ice, cold and, in Martigny, it was like an oven." Hawker crossed the line in 25 hours 2 minutes, almost two hours ahead of the next woman to become the first person, man or woman, to take four UTMB titles.
Four weeks later and fully recovered from her hip injury, Hawker was in North Wales for her record-breaking 24-hour race. She hadn't run on the road since South Africa but rather than take the safe option of sticking to the trails, she opted for the 24-hour road race, a discipline she'd never attempted before, running one-kilometer laps in the faded Victorian seaside resort of Llandudno.
Not only did Hawker win, she beat all the male competitors too, and set a new world record. By the time the 24 hours was up, Hawker had run 246.41 kilometers, just over 153 miles, breaking the previous record by 3.42 kilometers. How did she feel about being a world-record holder? "The strange thing is I could have run it a lot better, if I'd focussed on it a bit more. I'd only made the decision to run the week before. I fancied doing something new, completely new. No one could have any expectations of me. I just wanted to see what happened. I didn't feel I had run extraordinarily well."
You'll have got the message by now that Hawker is almost pathologically modest—even to a British ear—and equivocal about her direction. "I've watched her wrestle with some of these challenges," says Hartell. "Should I focus on the marathon, should I aim for the UK 100-kilometer team, should I follow my heart in the mountains?"
She doesn't talk like a dedicated athlete. In broadcast interviews after her fourth UTMB she comes across as reserved and thoughtful, where you might expect her to be jubilant and expansive. She is almost apologetic about her determination to win, and deeply reluctant to discuss those she runs against. Mixing it with the opposition away from the trails is just not her style.
When I try and quiz her on her rivals, she's respectful but won't be drawn. "People often ask me if I think about the competition. Usually I'll know the top women. I'm aware of it, whether Krissy Moehl's is going to the UTMB for example. But I really just put that to one side and focus on my own race."
But don't for a moment imagine Hawker lacks the inner steel of a born competitor. "I think it's quite well hidden, but I can't imagine you'll come across anyone more competitive than Lizzy," says Pyke. "If she hasn't run the best race she possibly can, she'll be annoyed at herself."
For evidence, look no further than her 2006 100-kilometer world crown. Hawker led from the start and, with 20 kilometers to go, led her nearest rival, Italian Monica Carlin, by six minutes. But Carlin fought back and with 200 meters to go—after seven-and-a-half hours of running—was just where she needed to be, almost on Hawker's shoulder. Hawker could easily have folded, but she didn't. She dug in and hung on, beating Carlin by four seconds in a sprint finish, the closest margin in the race's history, and likely to remain so.
By any standards, 2011 was a great year for Hawker—arguably her best. Ellie Greenwood might have been tearing up the trails in the U.S., her win in the Western States 100, the American River 50 and the Chuckanut 50K earning her whispered comparisons with Ann Trason, but Hawker's world record and a fourth UTMB was a classy haul.
Greenwood describes herself as "a big fan" of Hawker. "It is so refreshing to see someone who just wants to live a simple mountain life and push herself to the absolute limit just because that's what she loves to do," says Greenwood. She admires the mental toughness that allowed Hawker to focus on a dull one-kilometer tarmac course to take the world 24-hour record. "The fact that she was prepared to give it a shot and attempt a world-record time shows that must have a solid self confidence. I think Lizzy is an amazing example. She lives an exemplary lifestyle and stays true to herself. She pushes herself to extraordinary limits. If she ever sets herself a challenge but falls short, you know she has done everything in her power to succeed."
Renowned ultrarunner Kami Semick also holds Hawker in high admiration, saying, "Lizzy wants to get the best out of herself in every single event, whether she is racing the men, for example, at UTMB, or attempting a record in the Himalayas. She is a fierce competitor and an inspiring athlete, but wrapped in a package of humbleness tied together with passion. I don't think she is chasing medals or titles—she is chasing her dreams."
Hawker could have gone into winter training full of confidence that she could add a fifth title and take back the course record from rival Krissy Moehl. But she didn't. She headed for Nepal and her dream of running the Great Himalayan Trail. The question is—why?
The answer to that has its roots in her fascination with mountains. Hawker doesn't just love running up them. From a young age, mountains became her natural habitat, shaping her own psychological landscape. She was born in Upminster in northeast London, as far from wild nature as you could imagine. Her father ran an engineering business, her mother stayed home to raise their four children. "Maybe mountains are a reaction to suburbia," she says.
Hawker first saw the Alps on a family holiday when she was six. She says she cried on the train home when the Matterhorn slipped from view. That passion for mountains expressed itself more as a hiker and climber than a runner, although she says she "can't remember not running. I enjoyed cross-country more than standing on a netball court. I knew I wanted things I could do alone."
A top student who loved schoolwork, Hawker won a place at Cambridge University to study Natural Sciences, a popular first degree for doctors. Lizzy thought about medicine but preferred to be outside in nature than stuck inside a hospital. So she studied oceanography as a post-grad. Her PhD was on the circulation of the Nordic seas. That led to a contract with the British Antarctic Survey, offering oceanographic expertise in modelling biological changes prompted by climate change.
The subject area was right up her street, and she could have settled into a useful career but Hawker quit academic life. "I didn't have enough faith in the research I was doing to move on and get promoted and write papers." For Hawker, the mesh of workplace politics, of nurturing a career, was a net to trap her. Plotting ocean currents on board an icebreaker and then pounding away on a treadmill after work was a far cry from the freedom of the hills.
She'd run her first marathon in 2000, and began connecting the mountains with running while she was studying for her PhD. She entered races like the Snowdon Marathon and took on challenges like the 15 Welsh 3000ers. Running in the mountains, she realized, was the best way she'd discovered to experience the environment that left her fulfilled and inspired.
Her writing is full of these ideas. After the Annapurna 100 in January, during her fast tour of the Annapurna Circuit, she wrote: "There was solitude, a time to think and a time just to be in the moment. Walking literally from the pre-dawn until dusk, not running in order to save myself for the next race, the journey became for me almost a 'moving meditation.'"
Some runners find this kind of talk a little whimsical, as though Hawker were avoiding the subject. But it's right at the burning core of what propels her. When she says, "My heart's in the mountains," she means it, although by "heart" I think she means "preferred state of mind." There's something genuinely Zen about her. "When I'm moving," Lizzy tells me, "whether it's running or being in the mountains, that's when I know myself more. Running is just part of me."
The secret to Lizzy Hawker is her focus on the moment she's in. She's arranged things so there's little to distract her. She doesn't have a car or a house, or many possessions beyond her laptop and her running shoes. She has the loan of her small apartment in Klosters and when that goes, she'll find a perch somewhere else. She makes what money she needs from sponsor The North Face, writing and coaching. She's got lots of friends, is warm and engaging and open to the idea of relationships, but there's something undeniably restless about her, as though anxious that something just out of view might slow her down.
Competing in mountain races is obviously important to her. No one runs that far and fast while feeling doubtful about it. Yet the discipline of racing can be constricting. She doesn't seem at all comfortable with the athlete's need to focus on the self, the endless self-interrogatives. How am I feeling? What should I eat? Will I succeed?
Even now, sitting in the restaurant in Klosters, I know she wants to get moving. The Nepal-based runner Richard Bull, who runs a blog on running in the Himalaya and trekked in with Hawker to the start of the GHT, puts his finger on it. "She likes space. She wants to sleep near the window, preferably with it open. At the long trekking-lodge table she sits at the end. She doesn't like being in the lower valleys, she wants to be above the trees and in the mountains. She is friendly to people, but keeps a good distance. When making a journey, she likes the ease of being on her own, not having to compromise with another person."
It isn't all plain sailing. "If Lizzy gets her teeth into something you won't meet anyone more determined," says Pyke. "But at the same time she can have bouts of uncertainty." Figuring out her path hasn't always been easy. Sometimes she's hesitated between different priorities. She had a promising academic career, but it didn't fulfil her. She's flirted with road running and had a serious go at the marathon, but working up her speed left her body damaged. The mountains—and the freedom they offer her


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'Tis the season. Feel free to discuss the 2012 Pirates season here.
'Tis the season. Feel free to discuss the 2012 Pirates season here.
"And their chances of getting back into this ballgame are growing dimmer by the batter."
Put it in the books.
Bucs are getting thrown into the fire imediately to start the season. First 15 games are the Phillies, then a 9 game west coast trip thru LA,Frisco, and Arizona, then come home to 3 against the defending champs. I'm hoping for 8-7 in this stretch, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Bucs finish this stretch below 500. But I would worry if they go 5-10 or worse. If they exceed expectations and go 10-5 or better, I think it would give the young Bucs confidence being they would do that against 3 playoff teams, and teams expected to contend this season, and could vault the Bucs to that ever-elusive 500 season.
Way too many question marks to predict anything at this point. Pitching staff largely remains an unknown. Will Bedard be reasonably healthy? Will burnett (when he comes back) show some of his older form? Will Correia and Karstens rise above journeyman status/ Will morton show continuued progress when he comes back? And on and on....
Catching- an old "new" catcher and a backup who doesn't hit and can't throw runners out.
Alvarez may be the key to offensive success. If he can hit .250 with 25 homers, the Pirates may score some runs. If he doesn't, McGehee, Jones, somebody else better show some real power. McCutchen's the only sure thing in the outfield. Presley's played half a season, Tabata's been hurt.
Almost everything breaks right (very unlikely) the Pirates could break .500. Almost everything goes poorly (very unlikely), the Pirates could have the worst record in baseball. Breaks down the middle, they're probably looking at a record similar to last year.
Pedro Alvarez: demote or platoon?
The Mets have the best, smartest fans in baseball.
What a start to the season, 3 down to the wire games with the Phils, with the Bucs taking the last 2 in walk-off fashion! Now on to the west coast for the 9 game roadtrip.
0-for LA. 3 strong starting pitching outings. 3 more games where the bats were too quiet. 2 one-run losses and one 2-run loss. Gotta do better in Frisco over the weekend.
To be fair, the Pirates faced some of the toughest pitchers in the National League in the past two weeks.
Halladay, Lee, Hamels, Kershaw and Cain. That's sounds like a rotation of Cy Young winners.
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Yeah those were some tough pitchers, but those are the kind of Pitchers the Bucs need to beat a time or 2 if they want to get to 500.
Good to salvage 1 in Frisco. Starting pitching has been solid the first week and a half of the season. Hope it holds up all season. On to Arizona. LETS GO BUCS!!
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A.J. Burnett leads Pirates to 2-0 win over Cardinals. He pitched seven scoreless innings.
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I go to school near Pittsburgh so I watch a lot, go to a few games. The Pirates with the exception of Alvarez play hard and you can tell they want to prove something. They are also exciting to watch. I think Hurdle does a good job platooning. Surely he is forced to play Alvarez.
But the pitching!!
The Pirates have been bringing in relievers seemingly at will recently. They had to pull Karstens against Arizona on Tuesday due to a shoulder problem (understandable) in the first and pulled James McDonald the next day after 4! He gave up 3 H, ER, BB, had 2 SO! I was at the game last night, they pulled Morton last night after 5 and he had the bottom of the order coming up. It was a 2-1 game and his line was: 4 H, 2 R, ER, 3 BB, 2 K. The defense was not helping him and he was pitching fine. The bullpen (Hughes) blew the game. Think that bullpen will last til the mid-summer if this continues? I doubt it.
"I go all out. And I'm going to bring that to the table every day, in good times and bad times." - Eric Byrnes
"...far too many people want to retroactively apply today's standards to yesterday's players, as if they played the game under the same assumptions and just heedlessly and obdurately plowed on in their own groove." - Los Bravos
Will Pirates score enough runs to compete?
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"I go all out. And I'm going to bring that to the table every day, in good times and bad times." - Eric Byrnes
"...far too many people want to retroactively apply today's standards to yesterday's players, as if they played the game under the same assumptions and just heedlessly and obdurately plowed on in their own groove." - Los Bravos
I've never seen Alvarez loaf. I've seen him make plenty of bad plays, and some good ones, but I've not seen a lack of effort. The comments about his conditioning are ridiculous. He may have been a few pounds heavier than optimal his first couple of seasons, but I'll guarantee you that he's in better condition than 99.9% of those who are belittling him.
I'm not sure how he'll pan out- he has some problems with pitch recognition, and swings at a lot of pitches out of the strike zone- fastballs up, and breaking balls down. Two years ago I thought he'd become a star- now I'm pretty uncertain. But, I seee no evidence whatsoever that his problems are from lack of effort or "bad" attitude. I'd play him all year, as long as he's healthy, to see if he can straighten himself out. But, Pittsburgh fans will run him out of town before then if he doesn't start hitting.
6-9 thru the rough 15 game stretch to start the season. So far I'm pleasantly surprised at how well the pitching staff (especially the starters) have performed so far. I hope the hitting comes around soon, which means pretty much everyone besides McCutchen. I'm hoping the Bucs can step up against the Rocks and Braves this week, and look forward to May where 18 of the 28 games are at PNC Park.
I think Logan Morrison could be a good fit for the Pirates.
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The Bucs offense finally comes alive in the series finale in Atlanta! A pleasant surprise that Navarro, and Harrison stepped up in rare starts while Presley and Barmes got a day off. It was also good to see Pedro go yard again, and finally get over the Mendoza line. James McDonald also racked up a career high 10 K's and threw a strong 7 2/3 innings after a shaky first inning.
So thru the first month the Bucs are 10-12. Starting pitching has been tremendous thru the first month. Hitting was anemic for the most part, but I'm hopeful the hitting surge tonight will be a sign of things to come in May. The Bucs need to take advantage of the home cooking (18 games at PNC in May)
in May, especially since June will be mostly spent on the road.
Is Pedro Alvarez back? From April 25th to May 2nd, he is batting .414/.469/.966/1.434 with four homers and 8 RBI.
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Good job by former Met Rod Barajas in hitting a walk-off home run against the Nationals.
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Another walk-off win courtesy of Josh Harrison today! Bucs go 5-4 on the first 9 game homestand of May. Now on to brief stops in Miami and DC before heading to Detroit for the weekend and the Bucs first taste of interleague in 2012. Bucs 16-18 now, and still battling for 2nd in the division as of now.
2-2 on the roadtrip so far. Still just 2 games below 500. J-Mac looked solid striking out 11, and Cutch with a 2 homer game. Now on to Detroit and the first taste of interleague play.
Mets to play the Pirates this week in Pittsburgh. The Pirates take on Johan Santana, R.A. Dickey and Jon Niese.
Santana and Niese are lefties and Dickey is a knuckleballer.
I must question Neal Huntington for assembling this team. The Pirates offense is terrible.
McCutchen, Walker and Harrison are the only batters with an OBP over .300.
McCutchen, Alvarez and Harrison are the only batters with an OPS over .700.
I want to see the Pirates win but this is terrible.
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It's looking like the boys are gonna be setting another franchise strikeout record this season. It would mark the third time in a row that the franchise mark was topped if they don't settle down.
After beating the Cubbies tonight, the Buccos own the same exact record they did at this time last year(after 46 games).
The season is still young.


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Kids play at the Campus Martius Fountain in Detroit. (photo: Maia C./Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0)
After listening to this week's show with Grace Lee Boggs ("Becoming Detroit"), Peter Putnam sent this inspired response:
"Time Inc. was here for a year — and this is the story they missed: Detroit becoming. Full disclosure: I've known Grace since 1993. In fact, I met my wife, Julia, through Detroit Summer, Grace and Jimmy's (r)evolutionary idea to utilize the spirit of young people to revitalize, re-imagine, and re-spirit Detroit. Julia was actually Detroit Summer's first volunteer and is now deep in the process of creating a place-based school in Detroit, the Boggs Educational Center, that will draw on many of the people and principles that came out in your show. Ending with Invincible's hip-hop song was also right on."
He then ended his note with this poem, which he composed for Grace Lee Boggs on her 96th birthday:
Detroit Jesus
Time, Inc., buys a house in Detroit
and tries to track him for a year.
But he's invisible to those looking for a
blue-eyed dude in a white robe
or for a city gone completely to hell.
He is the cinnamon of my son's skin
with a green thumb and a Tigers cap
and my daughter's dove-grey eyes.
He prays into Blair's guitar,
hangs out on Field St.,
bakes bread at Avalon
and plants tomatoes on the East side.
He rides his old-school bike down the heart
of Grand River,
paints a mural in the Corridor,
shoots hoop in the Valley
with priests and pimps and lean young men
trying to jump their way to heaven.
At night,
while the Border Patrol counts cars,
he walks across the water
to Windsor,
grabs a bite to eat,
walks back.
Like Grace,
born in Providence,
he lives so simply,
he could live anywhere:
Dublin, Palestine, Malibu.
But Detroit is his home.
It was here one Sunday
a boy invited him down
off the cross
and into his house
for a glass of Faygo red pop.
That was centuries ago, it seems,
and how far he's come,
reinventing himself more times than Malcolm.
He's been to prison,
been to college,
has a tattoo of Mary Magdalene on one arm,
Judas on the other,
and knows every Stevie Wonder song by heart.
He's Jimmy, he's Invincible, he's Eminem.
He's the girls at Catherine Ferguson
and their babies,
and he's the deepest part of Kwame
still innocent as a baby.
The incinerator is hell,
but he walks right in,
burns it up with love,
comes out the other side,
walks on.
He can say Amen in twelve religions,
believes school is any place
where head and heart and hands
and wears a gold timepiece around his neck
with no numbers, just a question:
What time is it on the clock of the world?
And every second of every day
he answers that question
with a smile wide as the Ambassador
and a heart as big as Belle Isle,
hugging this city in his arms
and whispering to each soul
words no one else dares to say:
You are Jesus,
this is your Beloved Community,
and the time
on the clock of the world
is Now.


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The Twilight Zone
You're running through another dimension–a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.
Illustration by Jeremy Collins
Andrew Thompson was on his way to becoming only the seventh runner to complete the Barkley 100-miler in its two-decade history. "I had 20 miles to go and plenty of time," recalls Thompson. "I was running well and feeling very good."
What was not to feel good about? A Barkley finish is a life-defining achievement for even the most elite runner. The Barkley staggers through the rugged Tennessee wilderness, and features over 60,000 feet of climbing—twice that of Colorado's heinous Hardrock 100. Bushwhacking is frequent, brambles slice flesh, river crossings are dangerous and staying on course demands expert navigational skills.
But Thompson, 28 at the time of the race, knew he had the gusto to finish. He's a blood-and-guts runner, trained on the craggy trails of his home state of New Hampshire, and has run some of the toughest trail races in the country. In the summer of 2005, he set the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, covering the 2,174 miles in 47 days and some change. Thompson had total confidence in his body.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Small Planet Airlines Exchanges Boeing 737s for Airbus A320s
Lithuanian charter carrier Small Planet Airlines is replacing its fleet of older generation Boeing 737s for an all-Airbus fleet of A320s.
By the end of 2013 the company plans on having an all-Airbus fleet across its two Air Operator Certificates (AOC) in Lithuania and Poland, a decision based mainly on leasing opportunities. The company recently returned its two leased Boeing 737-300s and leased five new A320s.
"The decision to change from Boeing to Airbus was made more than two years ago," Vytautas Kaikaris, CEO of Small Planet Airlines, said in an email to Aviation Today. "At the time when we decided to upgrade our fleet from 737 Classics, the first option was 737-800s. However, these planes were scarce (and continue to be scarce) in the leasing market and therefore we opted for A320s which we found more available and of very similar qualities as Boeing NG."
Kaikaris recently took over a 70 percent stake in Small Planet Airlines from the Avia Solutions Group, which sold its 95 percent ownership share to Kaikaris and Chief Quality Officer Andrius Staniulis.
Small Planet currently operates four A320s and will add three more by June.


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Percussionist Evelyn Glennie Visits UA
Master Class teaches students how to listen
Master Class teaches students how to listen
Paws for the Cause gives UA students the opportunity to train future service dogs
Hip-Hop scholars and performers convene at UofA
Public Art collection is diverse in movements, mediums and messages
Hosting an international student can be mutually beneficial
Across the border, the UA is impacting others, like here at the All-Terrain Wheelchair Shop.
The UA College of Nursing created an exercise class for cancer survivors through their online resource center.
Solar Cats was created to put solar panels on a UA dorm
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Where to Eat Great Fried Chicken from Coast to Coast
Fried chicken – once a Southern specialty – has made its way onto restaurant menus across the country. Chefs from Boston to San Francisco are brining, buttermilk-soaking, boldly spicing and frying it up with winning results. Here's where you'll find Food Network's favorites.
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Flew off the peel.John
No 5 second rule there
I would be on that like a tick on a dog, no shame there brother, looks GREAT, shape is secondary!!!jon
Does this count? It happened while I was working at my kitchen counter on some pizza dough
Absolutely fantastic. I did that once over night and it was running all the way down from the counter top to the the floor.Drove my wife crazy
I think some people may be envious of that
Well Josh, that may be true. But I'm sure you won't be envious of this. Forgot to check on it in the basement this morning before I left and this is what I came home to. It's a good thing it was supposed to be an experiment and didn't happen to my normal Friday night pizza dough, which I forgot to make yesterday....and today....
Mary Ann,Oven spring is supposed to happen in the oven dude! Bob
Looks like an excuse for zeppole's to me!
Looks good to me Also as I a side note, if you use the insulated door with a small tray of water in the back of the oven, you probably don't need the cloche.
Still looks good to me, Norma. I would totally eat that
Looks VERY moist, pass a slice here, please!


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Koreans Await Kim Yu-na, or is it Yuna Kim?
With memories still vivid of her spectacular performance in Vancouver four years ago, reigning Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na takes to the ice on Wednesday to begin the defense of her title.
Aside from the question of whether she can see off rising Russian star Julia Lipnitskaia and long-time rival Mao Asada of Japan, there's another burning issue for international media: how to write Ms. Kim's name.
The Wall Street Journal uses Kim Yu-na, in line with the paper's style book. That requires, for South Korean names, a family name first, followed by a given name connected with a hyphen. (For North Koreans all given names are capitalized without a hyphen, e.g. Kim Jong Un.)
But recently, the Associated Press dropped the same style guidance and notified subscribers of the change with the following advisory.
At the athlete's request, The Associated Press has started referring to the Olympic figure skating champion as Yuna Kim. Kim was previously referred to as Kim Yu-na, which is in AP style for South Korean names when the person has not expressed a preference for an English transliteration.
Kim Sun-young from All That Sports, the skater's management agency, confirmed that the agency has since 2010 been asking media to use Yuna Kim to match her passport name. Ms. Kim's personal website, Twitter and Facebook account all use Yuna Kim.
Strictly speaking, neither Kim Yu-na nor Yuna Kim is the correct English transliteration of her name in Korean script: 김연아. According to the official "Romanization of Korean" guide issued by the National Institute of the Korean Language, it should be Kim Yeon-a.
Some Koreans believe that the skater adopted 'Yuna' as her English name in the same way that many young Koreans who have lived overseas take a Westernized name or one that is easier for foreigners to pronounce. Ms. Kim from the agency said that wasn't true.
Another online rumor is that the spelling was a mistake by her mother. The story goes that when she applied for a passport for her daughter for the first time she misspelled the name as Yun-a. Such misspellings are actually quite a common mistake by parents who aren't used to the romanization of Korean letters.
Since it is almost impossible in South Korea to correct or change a passport name due to complicated bureaucratic procedures, the skater decided to go with it, according to the rumor.
The skater and her mother couldn't be reached for comment on the rumor. Ms. Kim from the agency said she couldn't comment on the rumor.
However the media decide to write the skater's name, Korean fans may be screaming something more similar to Ms. Kim's Twitter ID if she does well in Sochi tonight: @yunaaaa
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Calming Client Concerns in a Rising Interest Rate Environment
By Hal M. Bundrick
NEW YORK (MainStreet)--The concern over rising interest rates is currently a top-of-the-mind issue for bond investors. Advisors are facing the questions daily from white-knuckled clients holding large fixed income portfolios. Tom Dalpiaz, a portfolio manager at Advisors Asset Management, says when worried investors declare "Bonds are getting killed today", it's a statement about as meaningful as saying, "The weather in the United States wasn't good today". Dalpiaz says that it depends on where you are.
"Whether it's the need for reliable after-tax income, relative capital preservation, or overall safety, these needs don't get to take a day off just because market conditions become unfavorable," Dalpiaz says.
He says it is all a matter of the duration of your bonds -- and of your portfolio as a whole.
"Duration is expressed in years but its most valuable function is to indicate a reasonable expectation of potential volatility should interest rates rise or fall," Dalpiaz says. "A portfolio with a duration of 4 years is expected to decline in principal value by 4% if interest rates rise 100 basis points (one percent). Duration can be shortened by reducing the final maturity of bonds you purchase or hold in your portfolio. It can also be reduced by buying or swapping into bonds with above average coupons. The increased cash flow provided by above average coupons delivers a portion of the return back to the investor more quickly, thus reducing duration and tempering expected volatility."
Being concerned with the day-to-day fluctuations in bond market values ignores the original yield to maturity (or to call) that the investor earns, Dalpiaz says. If the bond isn't sold in a knee-jerk panic reaction.
"A total return measurement is simply a snapshot of what happened to interim bond values, and the coupon income earned, for a particular time period. It does not alter that prize of bond investing: original yield to maturity or call," he says.
Investors can be reminded of these important considerations regarding fixed income investing:
- When rates are rising, investors' focus on potentially negative total returns often makes them forget about the more attractive yields that can be captured. A well-designed maturity schedule of bonds coming due at regular intervals can help investors capture these higher yields.
- Investors don't have to rely solely on a schedule of bond maturities to dictate reinvestment opportunities. They can also improve the portfolio by performing appropriate bond swaps to capture higher yields.
- Consider being more deliberate in the pace at which cash is earmarked for bonds in a rising rate environment. However, avoid the volatility and timing risk of large swings back and forth between sizable cash positions and being fully invested.
"We believe bonds can still play a role in a balanced investment program even in a rising rate environment," Dalpiaz says. "Knowing what you own in the bond universe from the perspective of asset class, maturities, coupons, bond features, duration, and credit is an essential tool for bond investors, particularly in these challenging markets. It could make the difference between sticking with an asset class that can still perform important investment tasks and unwisely abandoning it altogether."


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Skip to comments.2012 Rep candidate will most likely need close to a BILLION dollars.
Posted on 11/07/2008 4:48:43 PM PST by WestFlorida
Even if the country is a mess. This includes the primary season also.
This is by far the shortest and best vanity in awhile.
Where are comments such as 'Election is not for sale', that usually came from the Dims?
Wow... I thought McCain-Feingold was supposed to reduce the amount of money in politics.
Why — is that what it will cost to make the three or four largest democrat cities disappear?
Not necessarily, it really is going to depend on the grassroots. A movement, if it starts early and has the right hook, can overcome a billion dollars of ads.
Yep, thanks to McCain-Feingold, money is not the driving influence in politics. /s
Philip Anschutz for President?
$ $ $ $ $
I like dogs, especially border terriers. Sometimes they howl real cool.
ROFL...look once the big "O's" policies and plans for civilian national service are implemented, and the youth realizes what they signed up for, it may take three years but I suspect SOME DEMS may just want the hell out...so it might be easy election.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to enforce the law regarding contributions?
If its Sarah, count me in for a grand.
I save a little every month to donate to conservaitves come election time. If Jindal or Sarah are the candidates I'll max out like I did with Bush in the primaries and the general.
Obama is already fundraising for his re-election bid. He'll have a cool billion in the bank, I presume.
That, plus the need for about $2 Billion worth of favorable and fawning press coverage over 4 years to level the field.
Lets ask George Bush for a piece of the "Bail Out" money before he leaves. I mean what is a puny little Billion Dollars?
It WILL be enforced for Republican candidates.
2008: Election of a Democrackhead
2012: Four years of Obamanation
Repub winning the Presidency with no money spent: priceless.
The changes necessary to change the current system all have serious constitutional problems. Just now, I am sitting back wondering if George Soros just bought himself a President.
If Soros did, he sent the funds through Dubai and other ME locations. Could he expect to remain anonymous under such circumstances? I don't think so. Someone or soemthing else purchased the presidency, as it currently stands. If the little squirrel cannot be forced to show proof he is Constitutionally qualified to run, then he and his henchghouls like Rahmbo Emanuel appear to be running the world for the next four years.
Well, the Republican party should consider running a small government conservative, then.
I'm thinking we should start fundraising for a third party candidate or at least a really conservative Republican candidate right now.
I like the idea of having a series of 3 or 4 nationwide single day runoff races and 90 days at the end to campaign for the general election.
I also think candidates should debate the opposition party some during the primaries so we can really see who can hold their own before we're saddled with a pathetic candidate.
Screw it. No politician is worth anywhere near that. Give my money as a campaign contribution? No way. They take enough of my money.
It will also help to be likeable...
It's like immigration laws... it's more fun to make new laws rather than enforce existing ones.
I have been thinking about the since the elections, and the outrageous amounts Comrade Stalin raised in these elections, a lot of it from Palestinian and other terrorist sources.
What Gov Plain needs to do, is set up a PAC after a respectable interval, with a a well organized well run fund raising committee, and set in motion the mechanism to go toe to toe with Obambi in 2012 in raising money.
Lets face it, most of us wee not prepared to give even a penny to McPain, untill Gov Palin joined the ticket. McCain had spent too much time trashing conservatives, for conservatives to waste their hard earned money on this guy.
As we do the post mortem on why we got our butts kicked in this election, campaign fundraising should be scrutinized in great detail. We need to come up with a way to convince the poor and middle-class to support our agenda and send in checks - even if it's only a measely $100 at a time. We're not good at that and the Dems are, sad to say. And we aren't going to be able to sell our agenda to the poor and middle-class unless we dress it up better than we did this time!
So the common folk need not apply for a shot at the Presidency? We wouldn't have had Abe Lincoln as President if he were living in this day and age. Sad.
She's the only one in the party that has a shot at raising this kind of money IMO.
She needs to start planning now.
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Small, friendly congregation where everyone knows everyone and everyone feels welcome.-a haimesh congregation. uplifting.
A community of committed helpers who volunteer their time and effort to make the Temple a success.
The sanctuary is warm and intimate. It provides a beautiful atmosphere for prayer and celebration.
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No. 8 Mustangs subdue Hounds 57-34
October 29, 2011
BLACKWATER DRAW — As it has done before this season, Eastern New Mexico University's potent offense was able to match scores with a talented foe early.
Facing their fourth consecutive ranked opponent, the Greyhounds did some good things Saturday against eighth-ranked Midwestern State, especially when they had the ball, but the Mustangs simply had too much firepower and pulled away to a 57-34 victory at Greyhound Stadium.
The Hounds (2-7, 1-5 LSC) can now turn their attention to the remainder of the schedule, more winnable contests next week at winless Texas A&M-Commerce and at home on Nov. 12 against Texas A&M-Kingsville.
MSU (8-0, 7-0), off to the best start in the program's history, scored on eight of 10 full possessions against ENMU, meaning the Mustangs have scored on 18 of 22 over the past two games — including last week's 70-28 drubbing of then-No. 9 Abilene Christian.
Hounds coach Mark Ribaudo said his team continues to fight through injuries and play hard, but simply couldn't deal with all of MSU's weapons.
"That's about what I expected from them," he said of the Mustangs' offense. "That's about normal for them.
"I thought our offense played tremendous, but our special teams didn't play as well as they have."
The Hounds scored the second-most points allowed by the Mustangs this season and finished with 441 total yards, with junior quarterback Wes Wood completing his first 12 passes and 29-of-39 overall for 299 yards and four touchdowns. Wood, who set a school record for career completions (648) during the game, ran for ENMU's other score.
Meantime, the defense "held" the Mustangs to 492 yards — about 85 under their per-game average. More telling stats were:
n 3-for-4 on third-down conversions through three quarters — meaning MSU didn't get to third down very often, and
n three minutes, 40 seconds of possession time through the first 23 minutes of the second half. Despite running only eight plays, the Mustangs outscored ENMU 22-14 in that stretch.
ENMU had a 14-play drive of more than eight minutes in the third quarter, but turned the ball over on downs at the MSU 4 after Wood's 10-yard scoring run was called back for a holding penalty.
It took the Mustangs just two plays to cover the 96 yards — Keidrick Jackson's 65-yard run and Kelsey's 31-yard TD pass to Keivin Swanson — for a 50-20 lead.
"It wasn't our best game, but give credit to Eastern because they played 'up,'" MSU coach Bill Maskill said. "But, like I told our kids, 'Not many teams are 8-0, so enjoy it.'"
The Hounds matched Midwestern through 1 1/2 quarters, each team scoring on its first three possessions. The difference to that point was a missed PAT kick by Michael Cottingham after ENMU's first score, leaving the Mustangs in front 21-20.
"Their offense moved the ball," Maskill said. "The first three series we tried to play man(-to-man pass coverage), and we couldn't do it."
Midwestern's defense then mustered three consecutive three-and-outs, carrying into the second half, as the Mustangs took control.
Junior quarterback Brandon Kelsey completed his first 11 passes and finished 12-of-13 for 153 yards and two scores. Kelsey also had one of the Mustangs' six rushing touchdowns.
Senior Chase Kyser caught two of the touchdown passes from Wood, including a 76-yarder midway through the second quarter.


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GAT, Handcrafted Pasta, Fancy Ribbons with Egg, 10 oz (284 g) (Discontinued Item)
Shipping Weight:?1.27 lbsShipping WeightThe Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
- Product Code: GAT-00805
- UPC Code: 082306008058
- Package Quantity: 10 oz (284 g)
- Dimensions: 2.9 x 5.4 x 8.2 in, 0.65 lbs
- USDA Organic
- Kosher
- Certified Organic by QAI
Our goal at Garden Time is to make the best pasta ~ period! You can only do that by starting with great wheat. We source our Organic semolina from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana's Teton County, known the world over as "The Golden Triangle". The Golden Triangle region is located hundreds of miles from any major city so our wheat is not exposed to urban chemicals and pollutants, only natural spring water and the crisp, clean air of Montana. Garden Times is more durable than any other pasta due to its high gluten strength. As a result, it holds its shape, is less sticky and cooks to al dente' texture every time. At Garden Time, we combine the finest American Organic semolina, with 3 generations of old world Italian craftsmanship to make the best Organic pasta in the world. We think you'll like it a lot.
Suggested Use
Bring 4 quarts of water and 2 tsp. Kosher salt to a rapid boil. Add Garden Time pasta and 2 tsp. Napa Valley Naturals Organic Olive Oil. Stir lightly until water returns to a boil. Cook uncovered until pasta is tender, yet firm. Drain (do not rinse).
Other Ingredients
Organic durum semolina flour (wheat), organic egg powder
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HPC Nominates Athletes to Bipartite Commission
February 3, 2012
Athletes can qualify for the 2012 Paralympic Games in Table Tennis on the strength of their World Ranking in Class, or through their performance in Regional Championships. In addition, there are thirty slots available worldwide through Invitation by the Bipartite Commission, which is composed of representatives of the International Paralympic Committee and the ITTF Para Table Tennis Commission. Athletes are nominated by their respective National Paralympic Committee. To be eligible to be nominated, athletes have to meet minimum requirements.
The High Performance Committee (HPC) carefully reviewed the minimum requirements, Class Rank information, as well as the qualifications of our disabled athletes. The HPC is very pleased to announce that USA Table Tennis will be nominating the following players to the National Paralympic Committee / USOC as potential Bipartite Commission Invitation applicants:
Tara Profitt
Daryl Sterling
James Segrest, Jr.
Andre Scott
Please join the High Performance Committee, the Paralympic Developmental Task Force, and the USATT Headquarters Staff in wishing these four great competitors every success.
Thank you,
Ross Brown, Chairman


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The Soulless Ginger will be the Browns QB for eternity. Don't you guys realize that Hoyer was hurt by Satan on behalf of The Ginger? Ginger's have long standing pacts with the devil and are fully capable of having anyone they wish destroyed.
Poor Josh Freeman, should he become a Brown, would magically see his ADHD medication mix-up turn into a full on crack addiction within weeks.
Until we, as a race, manage to perfect genetic engineering and eliminate the pigment perversion that is Gingervitis we're effed.
As soon as Walrus invited a Ginger into the locker-room the Browns went from being a sorry excuse of a franchise to one that is controlled by all that is evil.


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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Great organisationIn full: A must do early season half. Great organisation and marshalling!Date of review: January 18, 2016
In short: Chris and Andy should be very proud!In full: Not many events where the race organisers are at the finish shaking hands with finishers! That sums up just how good an event this is! Killer hill at mile 15 reminded that Race Director speak for undulating is not the same as what the runners think!Date of review: October 5, 2015
In short: Just superb!In full: Can't believe one review said this wasn't value for money. We got wine at 7 water stations plus food and drink at each one, a top tech t shirt, a pretty top medal, great Marshall's, superb organisation, a great atmosphere, a hog roast and glass of wine incl in cost plus amazing views off the North Downs Way (climb up was flipping tough though) and what a brilliant downhill finish. Some people should get lives!Date of review: September 16, 2015
In short: Brilliant organisation, lovely family atmosphereIn full: Really cant fault this event! Well done Lymm Runners on a real fun event, great atmosphere, lovely course that was a challenge but not too much of one. Will definitely be back next year!Date of review: July 16, 2014
In short: Excellent EventIn full: Right from entering this event through to the day itself I thought that this was one of the best organised races that Ive ever taken part in. Love the dog theme and jokes. The e-mails were worth a laugh! Organisation on the day, if you discount the park and ride, was exceptional and enthusiastic! Great medal and shirt. Im sure that the organisers will sort out the park and ride that was obviously foisted upon them but it would put me off going again if it wasnt sorted as hanging around in the cold wet conditions wasnt great and I would have preferred to dive straight in the car and get home. So, if my scores look a bit mean, the park and ride was the sole reason, other than that this is a special race! Date of review: February 14, 2013
In short: Very tough climbs but great views at the top!In full: The climbs were really tough and semed to go on for ever. During the very long descent after the first major climb my only thought was "my God we are going to have to run back up this!" and of course we did. Scenery at the top was stunning though in both directions and the weather was kind Date of review: August 6, 2012
In short: Great crowd supportIn full: Some of the ratings on here are really unduly negative. Yes, the baggage re-claim was a shambles and completely unacceptable but otherwise I thought the organisation was pretty good. Nothing the organisers could do about the awful weather (apart from perhaps anticipate the absolute worse) which made the race incredibly challenging. The course can no doubt be tweeked but I think the organisers deserve at least some credit:-1. They had the nerve to bring a marathon back to Manchester.2. They got most things right, baggage re-claim apart.3. The course took in most of Traffords iconic sights, Old Trafford, Imperial War Museum, All the town centres and Dunham Park.4. I understand that the route was all in Trafford rather than Manchester City due to M/cr Council not wanting to have the event in the City. Nothing the organisers can do about that!5. The muddy wet section in Dunham Park was completely dry when I ran it 3 weeks before the race and I understand that it was the only way the National Trust would allow the organisers to run through the park.6. Some of the comments about lack of marshalls are just ludicrous. The numbers were perfectly adequate and I felt as sorry for them as I did for my fellow runners, it wasnt half cold and wet out there!Date of review: May 7, 2012
In short: Tough race in tough wind conditionsIn full: Excellent organisation before the event. Excellent, plentiful toilet provision. This isnt an easy course, its hilly and undulates and the wind this year didnt make it any easier but its a good race to start the year with. However, the organisers really do need to sort out the start, which has been in three different places in the last three years and was chaotic this year to say the least, not helped by too many slower runners starting too near the frontDate of review: January 27, 2012
In short: Chaotic and dangerous startIn full: The start was badly organised. It was dangerous and chaotic. Too many people for the narrow road on which it started and too many slow runners too near the front. Great shame as the rest of the event is brilliantly organised. Also, with a field as big as this it should be chip timed! I think Cheshire AA should consider removing this race from the Grand Prix circuit unless the start is sorted out properly.Date of review: February 2, 2009
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This is a torso out of the Warhammer Fantasy Vampire Counts Black Knights / Hexwraiths box.
Suitable for miniatures in 28 mm scale.
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This was a new site to me, and thought I'd post it here, in addition to adding it to "The Library" in the OSU and College Football Information post.
Pretty good directory of college football players from the Big Six major conference schools going back through their entire histories. Links to individual player pages, with information (though incomplete) on DOB, letters won, awards, years played, "where are they now" type stuff. Similar directory for college basketball at same site.
Rosters for the older teams seem to be more complete (though probably not all-inclusive) than what is available at sports-reference.com CFB site, if you're looking for more obscure players from the old days.
Anyway, thought it might be one to bookmark for when your memory fails you...


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Bob Balk Elected Chairman of IPC Athletes' Council
Six-time Paralympian Bob Balk (Long Beach, Calif.) has been elected as Chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council.
Balk's term as chairman runs until 2012 and the position also makes him an ex oficio member of the IPC Governing Board and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission.
"I am very pleased to have been asked to lead the IPC Athletes' Council for the next four years. I want to see the Athletes' Council have more opportunities to interact with athletes around the world. We need to listen to what is happening with the athletes so we can do our job in representing their needs and interests," said Balk.
Balk first became an athletes' advocate when he was elected to the U.S. Olympic Committee's (USOC) Athletes' Advisory Council in 2002 and he also served on the USOC's Governance and Ethics Reform Task Force in 2003.
Balk served his first term on the IPC Athletes' Council from 2004-2008 and was re-elected to that position at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, China.
He is a two-sport star, having competed in two Paralympic Games in track & field (1996, 2000) and four consecutive Paralympic Winter Games in Nordic skiing. He is currently training for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver.


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Dublin Citi Hotel
The Dublin Citi Hotel is a three star hotel, located next door to the Central Bank on the edge of Temple Bar, and within sight of Trinity College. The hotel offers comfortable accommodation and good food which is served in a relaxing and cosmopolitan environment. It is located on Dame Street; just two minutes walk from Grafton Street, Stephens Green, and the main business districts.
Within sight of Trinity College and only minutes from St. Stephen's Green, Dublin Castle and Grafton Street, this charming 19th century building nestles on the southern edge of the renowned Temple Bar area, beside the Central Bank. Dublin City Hotel is the ideal base for both the business traveler and those just wishing to taste a slice of cosmopolitan Dublin life!
All 27 of our spacious guest rooms have been designed with comfort, warmth and convenience for the valued guest foremost in mind.The easy on the eye colour schemes and comfortable bedding aim to make your stay with us as invigorating and relaxing as possible.
Citi Bar & Venue is the newest in cosmopolitan nightlife in the trendy Temple Bar area. We have 4 floors with 3 bars to cater for all types of functions such as; parties & corporate outings.
We have 11 screens to watch all sporting events, and serve food daily Monday - Saturday in our ambient setting. We have a late bar Monday - Sunday till 2.30am in conjunction with our nightclub 'Fever'.
Platters available for parties & functions
Late Venue Wednesday - Saturday till 2.30a.m
All major sporting events on our 11 screens
Free admission for Residents to 'Fever' nightclub every night!
Due to the fact that the nightclub is open late 7 nights a week this Hotel is not suitable for guests looking for a quiet stay!!!
Please note the hotel reserves the right to pre-authorise credit cards prior to arrival
예약 가능 여부 및 가격예약 가능 여부와 가격을 보려면 날짜를 선택한 후 '날짜 업데이트'를 클릭하세요'
호텔 시설 & 정책
- 24시간 리셉션
- 바
- 조식 불포함
- 신용 카드가 허용됨
- 엘리베이터
- 전화 / 팩스 시설
- 무료 시티 맵
- 무료 와이파이
- 체육관
- 헤어드라이기
- 청소
- 세탁 설비
- 수하물 보관소
- 나이트클럽
- 금연
- 우편 서비스
- 세금 포함
- 차&커피 시설
취소 정책이 숙소는 2일 취소 정책이 있습니다. 이 시간 내에 취소하지 않으면 체류 첫날 밤에 부과되는 숙박료와 똑같은 금액의 취소 수수료가 발생합니다.
약도지도 보기지도 숨기기
From the airport:
By car
At the airport roundabout take the second exit onto the M1 (signposted Dublin), continue forward onto Swords Road N1 (signposted City Centre), continue onto Dorset Street Upper (R804), turn left onto Church Street (R108), turn onto Inns Quay (N4), turn right onto Grattan Bridge, continue forward onto Parliament Street. At the second set of traffic signals turn left onto Dame Street (N81), drive through 2 sets of traffic signals, Dublin Citi Hotel is on the left side.
The air-coach departs every 15 minutes outside the arrivals hall. The stop you require is Trinity College. Walk back to the main gates of Trinity College, the road in front of the main gates is Dame Street. The Dublin Citi Hotel is halfway up on the right side passed the Central Bank.
From the airport you may also take bus 16A, which departs every 15 minutes from the arrivals. This service will leave you on Dame Street on the left side. The hotel is on the right side, just passed the Central Bank.


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Here are some key routines and videos on the best stretches for runners
This eight-stretch routine will keep you flexible in all your main running muscles. Follow it after every run, or once or twice a week it depends how naturally flexible you are. If youre pushed for time, try the three-minute alternatives; if you need to work more on a specific muscle, practise the deeper stretches; and once a week, try to add the whole-body stretches.
Keep your upper body relaxed and both legs straight as you pull one leg towards you. A variation: lying as before, bend the upper knee in towards your chest. Holding the cord around the foot of the bent leg, push away with the foot, trying to straighten the leg against the tension of the cord. You should feel the stretch higher up the hamstring.
Keep the ankle of your front leg just below your knee and ensure that youre close enough to the wall for your lower back to be off the floor. As gravity gently brings your lower back towards the floor, youll feel a stretch in the muscles around the side of your buttocks. Adjust the angle of your hips and front knee to intensify the stretch.
Hold your feet and gently use your leg muscles to move your knees towards the ground. Keeping a straight back and bringing your feet closer to your body intensifies the stretch.
Keep the back leg straight and push the back heel into the ground. Keeping a straight upper body and gently lifting up your hips helps. There shouldnt be much pressure on the front foot.
Stand closer to the wall and bend one leg, keeping the foot flat on the floor. You should feel a stretch in your lower calf. Leaning towards the wall intensifies the stretch; there should be little pressure on the other foot.
Place one foot around the other, with both feet flat on the ground. Keeping both legs straight, lean your hips towards the side of your rearmost foot (so, if your right foot is rearmost, lean your hips to the right). You should feel the stretch down the outside of your leg and around your hip if you are very stiff, it may take a few times before you feel anything.
Keep your hips squared forwards and your upper body vertical; slumping forwards reduces the stretch.
Flex your foot and keep your body straight to maximise the stretch through the front of your leg. You can put one hand on a wall if you need balance.
Deeper Stretches
If youre comfortable with the basic stretches, try these more advanced alternatives.
Whole-Body Stretches
These stretch more than one muscle group at once including your upper body, an often-neglected area in runners.
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I used this resource as an enrichment for two of my gifted students when we were studying a unit on oceanography. It was well written and easy to follow. I assigned it to my students and they did the work independently in the library during my regular class period and did not seem to have any difficulty on the site. I hope to find more projects like this one on your site in the future. It was great!


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BH Zaphire/Tiagra
Apr 1, 2012Apr 1, 2012
Best For: The budget conscious.
The Test: It's easy to get sucked into the hype of sub-650-gram-frame-this and SRAM-Shimano-or-Campy-that and spend more than you need to. But if you just want a good, reliable ride, pick up a Zaphire, which arguably performs as well as top-shelf race bikes of a decade ago. The aluminum frame felt a bit jarring at first, but lowering the tire pressure to 90 psi produced a more forgiving ride. The longish wheelbase and tall headtube made for a more upright riding position, which testers said kept their necks and backs pain-free.
The Verdict: A lot of a bike for the money. 21.6 lbs
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Mustang Hoofprints: May 9
Hello Mustang fans!
This Saturday marks the end of the 2012-13 academic year with the Southwest Minnesota State University commencement ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. in the R/A Facility. The town of Marshall will be buzzing on Friday evening into Saturday morning as family members and friends of our graduates arrive in town for the festivities.
It has been a very successful year in the SMSU Department of Athletics, and a very productive two years under the leadership of Interim President Ron Wood. The Mustang Family is very thankful for President Wood's innovative approach, forward-moving mentality and the positive energy he brought to our campus each and every day. He has been instrumental in the development and implementation of several sustainable programs throughout the university that will and have increased the retention and recruitment of students at SMSU.
President Wood continued to build relationships with our local and regional businesses and institutions of higher education to enhance the educational opportunities in southwestern Minnesota. On behalf of the entire Mustang family, thank you, President Wood, for joining our family and making a difference at SMSU and in each of the many lives you have touched along the way.
We are a couple weeks away for the kick off of the 2013-14 Mustang Booster Club Membership Drive which will be starting on May 22 at noon at the Marshall Golf Club. The top priority for the Mustang Booster Club is to raise athletic scholarship dollars for SMSU Athletics. The membership drive is the fundraising event that generates the most revenue for the booster club each year. If you are interested in participating on one of our membership drive teams, please contact Tim Steinbach in the SMSU Department of Athletics at 537-7204.
Please mark your calendars as the Mustang Booster Club will host the David and Carol Drown SMSU Golf Classic being held on Friday, June 14, at the Marshall Golf Club and Saturday, June 15, at the Tyler Golf Club.
For more information on Mustang Athletics, please go to SMSUmustangs.com.
This Week in Mustang Athletics
The SMSU baseball team (17-23-1 overall, 11-13 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) concluded its season last weekend with a four-game sweep of Minnesota-Crookston. The Mustangs had all 16 scheduled home games either canceled or moved to other locations this season. SMSU did not qualify for the NSIC tournament which began Wednesday in St. Cloud.
Last Sunday, the Mustangs held Senior Day for five of the SMSU baseball players, paying tribute to Alex Alvarez, Corby McGlauflin, Brian Ness, Dylan Shoemaker and Kyle Young.
Congratulations to senior outfielder Kyle Young and sophomore designated hitter Steven Kremer, who were named to the 2013 All-NSIC Baseball team. Young earned first team All-NSIC honors, while Kremer was named to the All-NSIC second team. Young is the first SMSU player since pitcher Adam Schrader in 2010 to earn first team All-NSIC accolades.
Congratulations are also in order for senior SMSU folfer Krista Weiszhaar, who was named to the 2013 All-NSIC second team as selected by the league's head coaches. Weiszhaar, a native of Harwood, N.D., and 2009 graduate of West Fargo High School, led SMSU this season with an 83.2 stroke average in 18 rounds, with four top-five and five top-10 finishes.
Weiszhaar finished her career ranking fourth in program history in stroke average at 82.8 in 84 rounds and played in three NCAA region tournaments (2010-12) and one NCAA national championship (2012). She recorded 10 career top-five and 18 top-10 finishes during her four seasons.
Go Mustangs!
– No one was able to provide the correct answer to our last Mustang Hoofprint's Trivia Question: How many years has the Mustang Hoofprints newspaper article been printed in the Marshall Independent? Former SMSU Director of Athletics Butch Raymond started writing Mustang Hoofprints the fall of 1997 through 2004. I continued the tradition once I became AD in 2006 and have been writing the article ever since. Mustang Hoofprints has been part of the Marshall Independent for 14 years.
Thank you to Russ Labat and the entire Marshall Independent staff for their support of SMSU and Mustang Athletics!


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Safety Tip: Always Wear a Helmet
While riding well can prevent crashes, they can still happen in spite of your skill on a bike. Wearing a bike helmet is the most effective way to ensure that if a crash happens, you will survive it. Please keep these five things in mind when thinking about purchasing a helmet:
1. Every helmet sold in the US meets the same safety standards. Spending $200 might get you a cooler helmet, but it won't get you one that keeps your head safer.
2. However, a helmet won't help if it doesn't fit you correctly. Take these steps to put your helmet on right:
- Place the helmet level on your head, not too far forward or back. The brim should be about two fingers' width above your eyebrows.
- The side straps should come to a V just below your earlobes.
- The chinstrap should be snug under your chin. When you open your mouth wide, you should feel the helmet tug down on the top of your head.
- The helmet shouldn't wobble or shake when you move your head.
3. Helmet laws vary by location: people under 16 must wear helmets in DC and MD, under 14 in VA.
4. Helmets are good for one crash only! Additionally, they need to be replaced every 4-6 years whether you have been involved in a crash or not.
5. On a bike, you can avoid many crashes by paying attention and riding visibly & predictably. But you can't control or avoid everything, and when a crash happens, a bike helmet is your last line of defense. Don't ride without it!
This is just one tip for safer cycling, but the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) is a wellspring of more useful information. Make them your go-to resource for safety tips, bike classes, events and more at waba.org.


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Good progress is being made on six fires burning in the remote back country in or near the Red Buttes Wilderness Area in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Two fires are now out, one fire contained, and one was expected to be contained today. Another is at 40 percent containment. The most challenging has proven to be the 50-acre Hello Fire, a challenge is it is located in extremely rugged terrain.
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Just a couple of days ago, my wife and I watched Flight, the Denzel Washington movie about a pilot who performs a heroic feat to save a planeload of passengers only to lose his career to his drug and alcohol addictions. Without getting into the issue of whether or not a crew could have pulled off the scene of upside-down flying to save the day, I'll address the addiction issue. Specifically, is it possible that someone could get away with this problem for as long as Whip Whitaker did? And happens if they are caught?
Let me start with the premise of drug testing. Every employee of an airline that might have any contact with security situations is subject to drug testing as a new hire. It's unavoidable. The FAA requires that companies thereafter randomly sample 25 percent of the qualifying employees on an annual basis, and it has to be done throughout the system. In other words, Delta cannot just target its Atlanta employees, and JetBlue cannot just target its JFK employees to save on travel expenses for the testers. The drugs that are tested are of the illegal street variety, as well as alcohol.
In a large company, it's possible to go years without getting tested. When I was with Comair, I got tested once in my first 12 years, and that was for my new-hire screening. Then, one day, I pulled into the gate in Cincinnati at the end of a trip, and a young lady with a clipboard was waiting for us. Having seen this scene before, I knew one of us was getting a "wizz quiz." As I shut down the airplane, she looked at me, smiled, and pointed at me. Fortunately, I was already set to "produce," or as Forrest Gump would say, "I gotta pee!"
It's important to understand that refusal is not an option. In fact, it's viewed as an admission of guilt.
As the company shrank over the next several years, I was selected by the computer for two more tests (that I remember). Simply put, the fewer employees, the greater the chance you will be tagged for a test.
What the movie Flight doesn't address is how Whitaker didn't get tested or caught before the accident. Further, there is a scene in which he is shown sneaking vodka bottles and pouring them into his orange juice. On an airplane with first class passengers, this is easier to get away with because the flight attendants can just record the drinks as having been "comped" to a first class frequent flyer. In a single class operation such as we had at Comair, getting away with this would have been much harder. Not impossible, but harder.
The next question is, what if an employee knows he or she is about to get caught? I can't speak for every company or all of the various employee groups, but generally speaking for pilots, there is a chance to come clean before the test. If you are on any prescription drugs that might cause an issue, disclosure is the best option. If you have used illicit drugs or alcohol, you should openly acknowledge that as well, and follow whatever union protocols are in place. You will still get in trouble—possibly severe—but you will also be more likely to have a chance to enter a rehabilitation program.
The Human Intervention Monitoring System (HIMS) program is a nationally recognized substance and alcohol abuse program that allows pilots with addictions to seek the help they need. I've known several pilots who successfully recovered from their drinking problems to return to the cockpit (a process than can take several years). I've also known of more than a few pilots at several airlines who showed up under the influence of something, denied it, and got caught. They were let go immediately, and their careers were over. And don't forget, those drug tests follow you to any number of jobs you might want.
As a point of how much compassion a company can show toward its employees, we had a few pilots who were in rehab during the strike in 2001 (credit julien). While the company had discontinued insurance for the pilots, the ones in rehab were still covered. As one of our senior managers said at the time, "We're talking about lives here." The rest of us understood.
Whitaker's character at some point would have been tested. He would have had the option to come clean. If he hadn't, he would have tested positive, and his airline would likely have terminated him. In his case, the FAA still would have likely suspended or revoked his certificates, and he may still have been prosecuted and imprisoned for reckless endangerment, flying drunk, and general stupidity. As an aside, the movie never addresses why the first officer, who later acknowledged that Whitaker "reeked," didn't face repercussions either. In reality, he probably would have.
The moral of this post is this: If you need help, get it; if you know someone who needs help, find out how to help them get it; and if you are on an airplane with a pilot who clearly is not well, deal with it immediately.—By Chip Wright