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Is Oil Poised to Move Higher?
Are we likely to see the price of oil stay above the $100 per barrel mark for the foreseeable future? Liam Denning joins MoneyBeat to explain.
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Friday, July 05, 2013 - Vasek and Radek - FULL CONTACT
Vasek and Radek - FULL CONTACT
Vasek Konik and Radek Kozel are two very hot guys who we paired up for a scene. We find them relaxing on a sofa, sharing come fruit. Then they begin to kiss. Radek moves down Vasek's body and kisses it, nibbling at his underwear. Then he lays back down and Vasek does the same to him. Opening the underwear Vasek takes hold of Radek's dick and bites it gently. Then he kisses Radek again and sucks on his nipples. As Radek sits up Vasek opens the underwear again and takes a suck on his cock. They move up onto their knees, their hands exploring each other. Vasek's cock is pushed out of his underwear and Radek goes down and sucks it a little. Vasek's underwear comes off showing that big, stiff dick. Then Vasek bends forward and sucks on Radek's massive cock too. With is cock rock hard Radek moves Vasek onto his back, and pushes his legs up to expose his ass. That hot hole is easily available and Radek dives right in and begins to rim it. With that hole nice and wet Radek also fingers it before moving up to kiss Vasek again. As Vasek wanks himself his feet wrap around Radek's cock and wanks it too. Radek holds the feet tight and fuck them. Then Radek lays on the sofa and Vasek sits down on his massive, hard cock. He rides up and down on that dick, his own flapping around as he does. He then turns around to face Radek, whose dick slams into his tight ass. He really works that ass, stretching nice and wide. Moving again Vasek is on he side, with Radek's pole fucking deep into his ass. He moves onto his back, wanking himself real fast as Radek continues to fuck him. With that cock slamming into his hole Vasek soon shoots a massive load of cum all over his body. Radek continues to fuck that ass until his is ready to cum, then he pulls out and drops his cream over Vasek. He takes both the spent cocks in one hand and wanks them before leaning forward to kiss his buddy again. What a lovely scene from two really hot guys.
... more about Vasek and Radek - FULL CONTACT further in this newsletter
Our Coming Soon Set Preview
We brought Radim Hora in for a screentest, after he told us that he wanted to try guy-guy sex. We paired him up with the sexy Walter Uwe who has lots of experience. Walter chats with Radim, who admits to having kissed a guy before and would like to do it again. They lean into each other and begin to kiss, with their hands running over each other. Walter reaches into Radim's underwear, and then quickly helps him take them off. Radim does the same to Walter, taking hold of his hard cock. They kiss again and Walter goes down on Radim's cock and begins to suck it. He alternates between sucking and kissing and then sits up, so that Radim can suck on him. Radim's lips wrap tight around the cock and he sucks like a natural, wanking the cock as well. Kissing some more Walter then has a quick suck on Radim's dick again before pulling his legs in the air and focussing on his hot ass hole. With the cheeks spread Walter rims that tight hole and then slides a finger inside. Radim plays with his cock as Walter loosens that hole with his finger and wets it with his tongue. Walter is really into his new friend, He kisses him again and sucks that cock again then he plays with the hole some more. Radim is keen to show that he can do it real good too and goes back down on Walter's throbbing dick as Walter wanks him. Then Walter decides to test Radim further, having him turn over, and slides his big cock deep into his ass. His cock works in and out of that virgin ass with his balls slapping against the ass. Radim loves it and fondles himself as he takes that dick. Then Walter lays on the bed, so that Radim can take his first ride on a big hard cock. He really slides up and down on that dick before Walter takes over and fucks hard and fast. That hole is stretched real well and Radim is proving that he really can take it all. He turns around and rides that big cock some more before they move to a spoon position and Walter really starts to pound that ass as hard as he can. Radim is rock hard and wank himself as his ass gets fucked. He is loving it and the wanking speeds up until he pumps his cum out of that cock. Walter is eager to shoot his load too and kneels over Radim, shooting his cream all over the face. Radim then sucks the cock into his mouth to drain it completely before the guys end with a final kiss. What a great screentest, with Radim proving just how good he is and Walter showing once again what a hot stud he is.
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I hope our readers on the other side of the Pond are enjoying their Fourth of July Holiday. Today and tomorrow are big holidays in the Czech Republic. Last night, I had dinner with two models after the shoot. They knew that today and tomorrow are holidays, but they didn't know what for. Oh, my, what is the world coming to? This is the official kick off to summer. The streets are, thankfully, virtually empty. There are even lots of parking spaces as Pragers head for the countryside. Here's a link to these Czech Holidays:
After lots of big news drove us off the pages of the MSM in the States, the Czech Scandal is back in the pages of the New York Times. It's a great scandal with sex, a 'tsarina,' millions of Euros, gold bars, blackmail and bribery. It's far from over, and it, surely, will not be the last.
Our lead feature today is a lovely duo with Vasek Konik and Radek Kozel. That is followed by Daniel Just in a very good erotic video. Borek Kozel's session stills is great too and we end with the final scene of our fully remastered Inside Jirka Gregor.
Our castees today look very good too. They are Ivan Necasek, Giuseppe Marelli and Roman Zeman. That is three good looking guys. For me the clear winner today, and my pick, is Giuseppe Marelli.
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Introducing "Knowledge Quest" Read-Aloud Collections, Curated Common Core Book Bundles for Teachers and Parents
Sara Sinek
Nadia Almahdi
New York, NY — February 25, 2013 — Scholastic (SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced the launch of Knowledge Quest!™ Read-Aloud Collections, a new pre-K–grade 3 program created by leading literacy experts at Scholastic Book Clubs, which includes themed book bundles and a guidebook for teachers and parents to read aloud with children to develop the vocabulary and comprehension skills required by the Common Core State Standards. Each book collection includes fiction and nonfiction titles to be read in sequential order so that children build a rich knowledge base on each topic and have repeated exposure to the vocabulary of that topic. The collections center on engaging topics in science, social studies, literature, art, music and social themes.
Each Knowledge Quest! guidebook includes selected vocabulary for discussion, booklists, topic-based questions to answer, and cross-curricular activities involving songs, poetry, acting, and drawing to allow teachers and parents to extend the learning of each read-aloud collection. Additional downloadable art and resources are available for free on the Knowledge Quest! website.
"I like the idea of things being made easier for me as a teacher, especially with curated books and fun activities that align to the Common Core standards. It's also amazing to have it all bundled together," said Stella Castilla, 3rd grade teacher in Weston, Florida.
According to research by Thomas Sticht included in the Common Core State Standards (Appendix A), children's listening comprehension is greater than their reading comprehension until middle school, and young children who hear more words through reading aloud have larger vocabularies than their classmates by the time they enter kindergarten. Knowledge Quest! Read- Aloud Collections help teachers and parents create that dynamic read-aloud experience for children through age-appropriate books that interweave content with skill-building activities.
"It is important to remember that the standards are just that—standards—and not a curriculum," said Souzanne A. Wright, Vice President, Program Development Strategy for Scholastic Book Clubs and a contributor to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. "What we do know is that teachers are going to be required to have more nonfiction and other literature genres connected to content themes for the Common Core in the classroom, and Knowledge Quest! is that turn-key solution for every teacher and parent anxious to find the right books and techniques to help children improve reading comprehension and meet the higher goals set by the new standards."
Knowledge Quest! bundles start at a special introductory price of $24.99 and can be purchased by teachers and parents through Scholastic Book Clubs.
More information about Knowledge Quest! is available at Scholastic.com/knowledgequest.
For more information about Scholastic, please visit our media room at mediaroom.scholastic.com.
New turn-key read-aloud program bridges school-to-home learning to build vocabulary, comprehension skills, and a strong knowledge base


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The women's and gender studies minor provides an overview of the interdisciplinary approaches to the study of women and gender inequality; cultural representations of women and their social roles; and the social axes of gender, race, class and sexuality. The minor provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary framework for analyzing social practices related to gender as well as the impact on their own lives.
For more information about the women's studies minor program, please email Professor CK Magliola.


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How to Increase Your Twitter Following 438% in 30 Days
(yes, that's supposed to be a Twitter army 🙂 )
Why Twitter is Important
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To many Internet Marketers,Twitter has become important. Some people may not yet understand, but this may just be part of their journey through the social media learning curve. As with any social media application, site influencers got to where they were by putting in the time to understand the community. Twitter is no exception.
Let's take a look at 7 Steps that Make Twitter Work:
Step #1. Twitter is more than personal updates. Sure, some people like to put in cat updates or say what they are eating for lunch, but Twitter is much more than that. Blogs used to have much the same stigma pinned on them, but one day the world woke up and understood the power of simple publishing + citizen journalism. Microblogging has reduced the time to market of content down to minutes and seconds, a huge improvement over blogs which brought it down to hours from previous forms of communication.
Twitter is a great place to:
-broadcast breaking / important news
-hire people
-get advice (on just about anything)
-run a poll
-rag on others
-promote yourself
-promote others
Step #2. Now that you have your head on straight, socialize. Chances are, if you participate in the social media community, people you know are already on Twitter. While Twitter doesn't have the best way in the world to find people, sometimes the best way is to just see who your friend is following.
Step #3. Don't just sit there, say something. Join the conversation. Without being too noisy, get in there. Nobody is going to ask you to the dance if you are just sitting around. See what people are talking about, jump in with some "@'s" (replies to a user) and perhaps some direct messages too.
Step #4. Now that you've said something, quiet down. Like any social media site, know the community and follow its norms.
Step #5. Know the difference between a push vs a pull mechanism. When you post a link to your latest blog post to Twitter, you are doing a push. An action meant to grab the reader. They can ignore it, but people that like what you bring to the table will check you out. Instantly.
RSS on the other hand is a pull. Users will check RSS at their own pace and it will take more time to get buzz around your content.
Step #6. Fine tune, and read what's out there. Here's the part where you get to see where others have broken ground already, leaving valuable information for you along the way.
My suggested reads:
-Jeremiah Owyang on how he uses Twitter
-Shana's awesome post about 26 reasons why I love Twitter
-DoshDosh put together a fine list of 17 ways to use Twitter.
Step #7. Put it all together and measure your results. As the title of the post mentioned, I promised a 438% growth in followers in a 30 day period. Here was my progression:
The notable jump right past the midway point came from a mention in Marketing Pilgrim's initial post on Internet Marketers to follow.
After looking through this list a few times, I thought that both Twitter addicts and those that may not even use Twitter at all might be left with a few questions. Here's my attempt to answer a few:
Q: 438% growth doesn't just magically happen. How did you do it?
A: Well, I'll tell you:
1 – Followed people I knew
2 – Adjusted my level of noise
3 – Thanked people for following me
4 -Kept the conversation going with those that replied quickly
5 – Instigated a few fights
6 – Chatted with better known people
7 – Unfollowed those that were bothersome / too noisy
8 – Crosslinked on my blog and other social media profiles
9 – Did a bit of brand management / data mining, keeping a keen eye on Tweeterboard stats, Terraminds info, and Tweetstats graphs
10 – Retweeted things that I felt were important that my followers might have missed from my Twitter friends
Q: Ok, so you got some new Twitter followers. If I post a link, maybe I get 5-10 visits to my blog. Why should I care?
A: The reason that you should care isn't the direct traffic, but rather the indirect influence. If you Tweet a link to a new blog post, people will rush to submit it to social sites. This is changing the "pull" dynamic inherent in RSS (which may become passive for folks that are too busy to keep up on RSS) to a "push" dynamic through Twitter – but to people already interested in you. What's more is that your followers may see your Tweets as a call to action, and begin to submit / vote for post you may have.


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In the final at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams held off world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 to grab her fourth U.S. Open trophy and her 15th career major.
With singles and doubles prizes at both Wimbledon and the Olympics, it has been a dream summer for Williams. Moreover, she's demolished the field to reach the final this fortnight.
Azarenka had the harder road in booking her maiden appearance in the final in New York. The Belarusian fought past defending champion Stosur in the quarterfinals and survived another three setter in the semifinals against Maria Sharapova.
After closing out the opening game with an ace, Williams manufactured love-40. Even though Azarenka managed to get to deuce, Serena arrived at a fifth break point with a backhand lob winner.
When Azarenka's backhand sailed long, Williams captured the break. Soon, with another quick game, Williams consolidated for 3-0.
Surrendering only six points on her serve, at 5-2, Williams broke Azarenka at love to bed the first set in 34 minutes.
Williams and Azarenka clashed on ten prior occasions, with the former winning nine of those encounters. Consequently, it seemed like 2008, Williams would cruise to the title without dropping a set. But, Azarenka demonstrated why she is the reigning Australian Open champion.


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12/10/2016 | 9:30 am - 11:30 am
People's Food Co-op Community Room
Venez savourer un café, manger du pain et avoir des conversations en Français. Join us on the first Saturday of every month from 9:30 am to 11:30 am for delicious pastries and breads. French-speakers of all levels are welcome to attend. Free, all are welcome to attend! Attendees may purchase the beverage and treat of their choice from the Kutzky Market Coffe Shop.


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On the eve of the president's State of the Union speech, Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina on Monday offered a plan to repeal Barack Obama's signature accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with a plan he says would lower costs and expand access to coverage.
His proposal would keep popular elements of Obamacare: the ban on limits on lifetime insurance benefits and the option for people to keep adult children on their plans until age 26.
But the rest is different, and its rollout the day before the president's annual report to Congress helped put Republican ideas on how to replace the law into public debate, though it has virtually no chance of passing as long as the Senate is controlled by Democrats.
The White House dismissed the plan as "just another repeal proposal."
But Burr in a press statement said it addressed cost problems.
"Our nation's health care system was unsustainable before Obamacare, and the president's health care plan made things worse," he said.
Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma joined Burr in support of the plan, called the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment Act. It would not require Americans to buy insurance, a key element of the health law does.
Insurance companies would be allowed to charge older people five times what they charge younger ones, compared to the 3 to 1 ratio allowed under Obamacare. The Republican senators say that the result would lower health care costs for many.
One major difference is how people with pre-existing conditions would be protected.
Under the Republican proposal, if they moved from one health plan to another, they could not be denied a plan based on pre-existing conditions.
There would be a one-time open enrollment period for people who are uninsured.
The plan gives some details on how this would work, but some have not yet been spelled out, according to Joe Antos, a health policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research group in Washington.
The penalty probably would be higher premiums if people didn't buy insurance at the enrollment time, he said.
The proposal also would give small businesses help with the high costs of insurance through a tax credit. People with incomes of up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level – $34,470 for an individual – would be eligible for a refundable tax credit to buy health coverage or pay health bills.
The amount could be modest. A person age 18 to 34 who earns 200 percent of the poverty level – $22,980 for an individual – would receive $1,560, according to an outline of the plan.
In addition, it would rely on high-risk pools to help people with expensive health problems who don't have insurance.
The Republican senators also said they would not expand Medicaid, as the president's health law does, to provide insurance to the poor who haven't had it. Instead they would encourage state reforms of the Medicaid system. States would receive federal grants to help low-income children and families, elderly people and those who are disabled if they aren't able to buy insurance.
"We believe our proposal is roughly budget neutral over a decade," the senators said in a question and answer sheet. They said that the insurance, Medicaid and tax changes they recommend would lower costs.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday that it looked like "just another repeal proposal, another attempt to raise taxes on the middle class, to keep uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions locked out of the market, to raise costs on seniors, and to take away Medicaid from the millions of Americans who stand to gain coverage, thanks to the expansion that was part of the Affordable Care Act."
It also would give insurance companies the power to deny people coverage because of pre-existing conditions and charge women more than men, Carney said, adding: "We strongly believe that's the wrong course of action."


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In a small update for Windows Phone, the official PayPal app has been updated to version 2.2 and making it Windows Phone 8 compatible.
All that really means is it has been run through the new SDK with the code tweaked up a bit. In this case, we've noticed two new changes including the addition of a doublewide Tile for your frequent PayPal'ers and fast-resume, allowing you to tap that Tile without having to re-launch the app...
Those are small things but they can make a big usability difference for everyday users. In addition, the extra little performance boost is always welcomed. Notice any other changes? Give us a holla in comments.
Pick up the official PayPal app for Windows Phone here in the Store. Thanks, Atif A., for the tip


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Italian Wine 101
Learning about wine can be just as fun as drinking it…
We encourage you to explore and learning about wine, from how it's made to the different ways it can be enjoyed. Our Wine 101 page is here to help, teach and inspire, enjoy!
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Wombats City Hostel Budapest
Welcome to Wombats Budapest! Originally restored as a 4-star-hotel, this is one of the most splendid hostels you will see in a long time – and one of the most affordable ones, too.
Prime downtown location, right between the sights and nightlife areas and well connected by public transport.
Please note: minimum age restriction is 18.
We are centrally located and close to the trains and public transport. Maximum security with smartcard access for the front door, the floors, the rooms and your locker. All our rooms come with comfy wooden beds, private shower & toilet facilities.
Please note: minimum age restriction is 18.
Free WiFi (in the lobby and bar)
Free bed sheets
Free towels
Free use of travel guide books
Free luggage storage
Free loads and loads of brochures on tours, sights, accommodation and other destinations in Europe
Free maps
Free pasta, tea, coffee, spices, etc. in our guest kitchen
Free welcome drink
Free lockers in every room
We offer an all-you-can-eat breakfast, our lively womBAR serves cheap drinks and food, internet terminals, laundromats, 24 hours reception service and - of course - no age limit, no curfew, no lockout and no stupid rules.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Adaptors
- Age Restriction
- Air Conditioning
- Bar
- Bicycle parking
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Breakfast Not Included
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Dishwasher
- Dryer
- Elevator
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free City Maps
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Key Card Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Microwave
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Pool Table
- Postal Service
- Reading Light
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Towels For Hire
- Utensils
- Vending Machines
- Washing Machine
- Wheelchair Friendly
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Reception open 24 hours. No check-in before 2pm, unless your room was empty the night before, otherwise we have to clean it first.If you need to cancel your reservation, PLEASE email us until the day before.Breakfast NOT included in the room rate.
Balance for the room is due upon arrival.
It is only possible to pay cash with the local currency (Hungarian Forint) or credit card (Visa, MasterCard).
Please note: minimum age restriction is 18.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
From KELETI station:
Take Metro line 2, direction DELI PU, get off at DEAK FEREC TER (3rd stop). Take the exit to KAROLY KORUT and turn left to KIRALY UT.
From NYUGATI station:
Take Metro line 3 (blue line), direction KOBANYA-KISPEST, get off at DEAK FEREC TER (2nd stop). Take the exit to KAROLY KORUT and turn left to KIRALY UT.
From NEPLIGET coach station
Take Metro line 3 (blue line), direction UJPEST-KOZPONT, get off at DEAK FEREC TER (6th stop). Take the exit to KAROLY KORUT and turn left to KIRALY UT.
From the airport:
Take bus 200E to the final stop (KOBANYA-KISPEST), then Metro line 3 (blue line), direction UJPEST-KOZPONT, get off at DEAK FEREC TER. Take the exit to KAROLY KORUT and turn left to KIRALY UT.
A taxi will set you back around 5000 Forint (15-20 Euros).
There is also a minibus, which will bring you anywhere for around 3000 Forint (10 Euros) per person.
IMPORTANT: for public transport, you need a ticket each time you get on a bus, tram or metro, even when you change lines. Tickets are sold at newsagent/tobacconist kiosks. A single ride costs 320 Forint (about 1 Euro). Validate your ticket before you get on.
The metro runs between 4:30 am and 11:20 pm.
Located Near
The 6th and 7th districts (our road separates the two) are Budapest's cultural center.
We are located in a colourful and traffic-calmed street with many shops, cafes and restaurants.
Andrassy utca, also known as Budapest's Champs-Elysees, is just some minutes away, as well as Deak ter, a main square where all three Metro lines stop.
All the sights of the Pest side of town are within easy walking distance.


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Don, the new sticker looks better. Are the part numbers a little fatter then original? I used a Jewelers Loupe on mine to see the colors. On the trademarks and the large letters it does look black.
The L48 auto ZL2 air cleaner assembly is unique in that it has the valve in the snout for the exhaust manifold pre-heat. Not reproduced and hard to find. The 350/manual unit is somehow different than the 396-427-Z/28 unit; don't know why. Needs a side-by-side comparison.
Don, can you do anything for the CO 6484584 decal?Thanks.
Jeff sent me and Don a pic of his survivor DG decal. Still looking for a DE and a DF.Can someone confirm the ZL2 code for L34, L35, L78 Z/28 is DG 6485235 ZL2 code for L48 automatic is DF 6485234ZL2 Air cleaner code for L48 manual is DE 6485233
That's a great picture of the DG Brian. I notice a number of things that are a little different than what I've been fiddling with. The two digit alpha code is a different font again, but I have found it. The "keep your......" script is also a slightly different font although I think I have also found it. There is also more "White space" at the bottom and top than what I was dealing with. Any chance you can get Jeff to get a measurement for us


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March 11, 2011
Jake Waterman will return to the finals of the 800-meter run at the 2011 NCAA Division III Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships. Waterman, an All-American at the 2010 meet, finished third in his heat in Friday's preliminaries. Teammate Kevin McCarthy just missed earning a place in the finals with a fourth-place finish in his heat.
View photos from Friday evening's prelims here.
Waterman (left) took third place with a time of 1:53.04 at the Capital University Indoor Track and Field Facility. Emmanuel Bofa of Whitworth University won the heat with a time of 1:52.87. That broke the Capital Fieldhouse record in the 800 of 1:53.78 set by former Wabash runner Geoff Lambert in 2007.
"Given that the first race was so slow, I had to adjust my plan a little bit," Waterman said after learning he would advance to Saturday evening's finals. "I went out pretty quick with Bofa. I knew he would take it out pretty quick because of his experience. I basically stayed with him until the last lap. When I felt some of the runners coming up on me from behind, I just waited for the last 50 meters to try and finish strong and finish in the top three or four places."
"Jake always makes me nervous because he sits on the inside too long," Assistant Coach Roger Busch said. "But the more you get to know an athlete, the more confident you become in him. As nervous as he makes me, I know Jake will get it done in the end. He's ready to go for the finals."
McCarthy (below right), who also earned All-America honors at last year's meet, was boxed in early and could not find a clear path to pass the final runner in his first heat that would have moved him into Saturday's finals. His time of 1:54.70 was 34/100th of a second away from earning a finals berth.
"Kevin got in a physical race," Busch said. "That kind of threw him out of it for a little bit. They were all banging around and Kevin got to a point where he kind of came to a complete stop and had to rebound. That was tough for him, but that's kind of the way the 800 goes. He knew that going in; he ran hard, but just missed it by a spot.
"He's obviously upset, but we talked about it after the race. The way our sport goes you get two chances at being an All-American — the indoor and the outdoor season. Now he has to get ready for the outdoor season."
"I told both Kevin and Jake I love them and I'm very proud of them," Head Coach Clyde Morgan said. " Like Coach Busch told Kevin afterward, he can learn from this. No other sport gives you another chance to be an All-American in the same season. There's no doubt in my mind Kevin will be ready to come back during the outdoor season.
"For Jake that was probably the smoothest high-pressure race I've seen him run. He was calm, cool, and collected. He made us nervous being inside, but he listened to us during the race and got out of there to finish strong. He has a lot left for tomorrow. It's any man's race."
Waterman will join the other seven finalists for the championship race Saturday evening at approximately 6:30 p.m.
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I figured as much, but one can always hope.
I recommend you to take the view that these hiatuses are what it takes in order for the story to not just meet our highest expectations, but continually surpass them. Each one of these episodes will forever be a masterpiece. When considered on that scale, the six months it'll take for them to come out shouldn't bother us.
The episodes / tankōbon now release to coincide with the anime season(s). Makes sense and the last batch was pronominal. My one hope for 2017 (good to know the return date) are more releases.
I am just guessing but corporate synergy is everything these days.
When berserk manga is back in action?
The manga is resuming on the next issue. source: https://twitter.com/earlbox/status/839036860806549504
What does the bubble say, exactly? 'Berserk 100p'? 100 pages? Some type of pull-out supplement?
The manga is resuming on the next issue.
On another note, the translation for the bubble in the preview supposedly says "Wonderful 100p full volume!!". As others have said, I'm assuming this is going to be a recap leading up to the episode. But in the past, wasn't the recap directly referred to as such? If so, maybe this is something different after all. Could we be so lucky as to get 100 pages of new material? I'm not expecting that at all, but boy would that be grand...


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Lincoln Mayor Don Wesely today signed a proclamation declaring October 11 as "Light On Afterschool!" Day in Lincoln, urging citizens to work together to make sure children have a safe, friendly place to go after school where the "lights are on." The national awareness day was created last year by the Afterschool Alliance and is sponsored by JCPenney.
"Today, as many as 15 million children have no place to go after school," said Mayor Wesely. "Lincoln has one of the highest percentages of working women in the nation. All children deserve the benefits of quality after school programs. Children who have a place to go are less likely to get involved in undesirable, dangerous and unlawful activities."
Attending the proclamation signing were administrators from Lincoln's Community Learning Center (CLC) Initiative. The Initiative, begun during the last school year, has established pilot CLCs, which are school-based centers where community teams plan, implement and expand projects to benefit the neighborhood, including after school programs. Lincoln is one of eight cities to receive a 30-month technical assistance grant from the National League of Cities to develop a plan for school-based activities before and after school. The Lincoln-Lancaster Women's Commission is helping to administer that grant.
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Few people see Camden, N.J., as a hotbed of consumer tech innovation. But in its day, that's what it was.
RCA-Victor birthed many of the 20th century's most cherished devices. But that was then. Now, there's hope that a new era of invention, with a medical focus, can lift up this struggling city.
And with a recent influx of investment by a handful of institutional anchors, it might even pan out.
Tech firsts
Joe Pane and Jim Hemschoot are company men: 61 years of service between them to good old RCA, which put Camden on the map with a heap of national firsts.
The first radio show broadcast in 1920.
The first consumer television set in 1939.
Radios on the moon.
Pane, Hemschoot and I are looking at a 15-foot timeline stretched across a wall of the RCA Heritage Program Museum. Pane and Hemschoot run the place. It's a room-and-a-half housed in Rowan University's main library, and it's packed with mementos of RCA's technological preeminence.
Hemschoot fires up an iconic RCA relic built in Camden by the Victor Talking Machine Company, before RCA was even RCA.
"This Victrola, with the Caruso record, is essentially a 105-, 106-year time machine," Hemschoot says.
But the legacy of RCA is more than just Caruso.
"RCA created the middle class in South Jersey," says Pane.
Hemschoot agrees, likening Camden then to Silicon Valley now. "It brought in the secretaries and it brought in the cabinetmakers and the machinists and the factory workers," Hemschoot says. "People would come in to New Jersey because there were so many jobs here."
Engineers were stars.
"We worked hard, but we played hard, too," Hemschoot adds.
Phonographic roots
It all started in 1901 with that famous dog, Nipper, staring into a phonograph. The Victor Talking Machine Company was in Camden first.
RCA came along in 1919 at the behest of the U.S. government. America needed the radio technology its European counterparts had flaunted during World War I.
GE was tasked with creating RCA, and the military gave the new company rights to the nation's radio waves.
By 1937, RCA was Camden's top employer, with over 13,000 workers, about a tenth of the city's entire population at the time.
Hemschoot says things picked up after World War II, with RCA becoming a leading commercial partner of a then-nascent security state.
"National security became more important, the Cold War," says Pane.
You probably know RCA as an entertainment company, but plenty of kibble was flowing into Nipper's bowl by way of contracts from the Department of Defense and NASA.
"The International Space Station," Hemschoot says. "We still do the communications and tracking system. All of the video and all of the audio and all of the tracking that you see from the International Space Station came from Camden."
But as RCA's fortunes rose, things for its home city began to crumble.
The good times peaked in the mid-50s. Then the familiar tale of white flight and political corruption set in. The 70s were really bad. And in the 80s, crack hit.
RCA was bought by GE in 1986 and basically sold for parts.
"We got lapped in the computer area," Hemschoot says.
The timeline at Rowan's RCA museum ends with the 20th century.
"We kind of lost interest in what's happening after that," says Hemschott.
But much of the engineering spirit of RCA still remains in Camden. Many of its innovations and firsts live on under a different name.
Camden's defense contractor
"We are in the L-3 Communications Systems-East operations facility," says Dave Micha, the president of the local division of L-3. "This is where everything we design gets manufactured."
L-3 Communications Systems is located right under the old RCA tower in downtown Camden, which was converted into lofts about a decade ago. This is a modern-day factory floor. No Victrolas here. Misters in the rafters keep precision electronics appropriately humid.
"This is state of the art manufacturing, absolutely," Micha says.
Over 700 people work at L-3 — they're hiring, actually — and about half are engineers. L-3 is basically continuing the work of the top-secret wing of the defunct RCA. Its bread-and-butter is secure communications.
"About 75 percent of the work we do is very classified, so we can't get into a lot of details of that," Micha says. "Suffice it to say, the things we do here provide equipment for the men and women in the armed services who are protecting this country."
Micha says 100 percent of his division's work is for the Department of Defense, the intelligence agencies or foreign militaries.
The day before we met, he was in Maryland meeting with the NSA, which has worked with RCA since 1960.
The stuff L-3 can talk about is secure phone terminals used by nearly all Washington officials to talk classified information; battlefield sensors1 used in Iraq and Afghanistan that can detect approaching enemies; and the communications systems used on warships.
"The stuff we do is many years ahead of what you would find, in many cases, in commercial industry," Micha says.
The company is not all that well known outside of the military contractor community, Micha admits. A lot of the work can't be advertised. But he says the hope is that keeping an engineering spirit alive in the poorest city in the nation will help lead to better days.
"I'd like to make it the next Silicon Valley," Micha says. "That's a stretch goal."
Building momentum
Micha's a company man, too — he started work at RCA in 1984 and climbed the ranks to the top of L-3. He's seen things change in Camden, now a city of just 77,000.
He and others I spoke with say they're more optimistic than they've ever been about a Camden turnaround — largely because of another high-tech force building up strength.
"We have an emerging scientific community here in Camden," says Steve Trzeciak, a clinical researcher at Cooper University Health Care. "It's really exciting to watch."
That growing source of momentum, you guessed it, is the health-care sector.
"I think that our emerging scientific community represents opportunity," Trzeciak says. "Over the next five years, 10 years, I think others will see that opportunity and gravitate here to test new innovations."
The biggest proof of a new gravitational pull may be the new partnership between Cooper and the University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center.
MD Anderson has been America's top ranked cancer care for several years now. Getting it to open an east coast base of operations in Camden was a major victory.
(It's worth mentioning that the chairman of the Cooper board is South Jersey political boss George Norcross, whose influence has been credited with helping speed recent development in Camden.)
The new MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper opened just a few months ago. The sleek building accounts for a good chunk of a mini construction boom in Camden.
According to new figures from a forthcoming report by the Cooper's Ferry Development Association, there has been $455 million in construction activity in Camden since 2011 alone.
Cooper's Ferry, the city's economic development outfit, says the vast majority of that spending has come from Camden's big nonprofits — the "eds and meds" sector flexing its muscle.
Over 42 percent of the jobs in downtown Camden are in health care, according to the forthcoming Cooper's Ferry report. That's how big of a player the sector is becoming.
But will it work?
Camden is seeing positive movement, local observers say. But its problems run deep.
A reorganized police force has seen early gains in fighting the city's staggering crime rate.
The institutional pillars of Camden's "scientific community" — from Cooper to Rutgers-Camden to Rowan (whose new status as a research university is an economic boon) to the Coriell Institute — are planting major stakes.
But the green shoots of private development sprouting up around those pillars aren't really there yet.
Observers are cautiously optimistic, however. Even if things are heading in the right direction, it will take time and a bit of luck for science to again put Camden on the map.
1 A tangential footnote. The name of this battlefield sensor system under RCA — "REMBASS" — got its 15 minutes of fame via Bruce Springsteen. He wore a red hat with the REMBASS logo in the music video for "Glory Days." It's also allegedly the same hat featured on this famous album cover. L-3's Dave Micha has the tale of how the Boss got the hat. It's in the audio player here.


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Book News: Donald Antrim, Karen Russell Win 'Genius Grant' Awards
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- Authors Karen Russell and Donald Antrim are among 24 MacArthur "genius" fellows announced Wednesday morning (though the news leaked on Tuesday evening). The $625,000 grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation are awarded annually, with no strings attached, to "talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction." The foundation wrote that Antrim's "fiction and nonfiction are marked by a contrast between elegant, concise language and the disorienting chaos in which his characters find themselves. Antrim creates fictional worlds that are both commonplace and yet surreal, combining close observations of the banality of everyday life with the absurd." Karen Russell, whose 2011 novel Swamplandia! was a finalist for the Pulitzer, writes "haunting yet comic tales [that] blend fantastical elements with psychological realism and classic themes of transformation and redemption," according to the MacArthur Foundation. Russell told The Washington Post that the award couldn't have come at a better time: "The day after I learned about this, I had to get an emergency root canal, and I don't have dental insurance."
- After Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was banned from the library at North Carolina's Randleman High School, publisher Vintage Books donated copies to a local bookstore to be given away for free to high school students. Evan Smith Rakoff, a former North Carolina resident and editor at Poets & Writers, teamed up with Salon's Laura Miller to ask Vintage to donate the books. According to PBS, the school board is reconsidering its decision following an enormous public swell of support for the novel.
- The New York Times asked authors Mohsin Hamid and Zoe Heller to debate the value of "likeable" characters in fiction. Hamind writes, "I'll confess — I read fiction to fall in love. ... In fiction, as in my nonreading life, someone didn't necessarily have to be likable to be lovable." Meanwhile, Heller worries that likeability is perceived as an "embarrassing solecism, committed only by low-rent writers and hopelessly naïve readers." She says, "Likability in fictional characters is a complicated matter, but it isn't exclusively the concern of philistines and dolts."
- Peter Matthiessen, co-founder of the Paris Review as well as a novelist and wilderness writer who has won three National Book Awards, is coming out with a new book this spring. According to the press release from Riverhead Books, In Paradise is "the story of a group of men and women come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration camp." Matthiessen wrote in the release: "At age 86, it may be my last word."
- A.S. Byatt considers the Icelandic poet Sjón for The New York Review of Books: "Every now and then a writer changes the whole map of literature inside my head...I think of Icelanders as erudite, singular, tough, and uncompromising. Sjón is all these things, but he is also quicksilver, playful, and surreal. His pen name is an abbreviation of his full name, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson — Sjón means sight."


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If the NHL lockout weren't ongoing (with no end in sight, and more games likely to get cancelled this week), Canucks fans would be looking forward to tonight's tilt between the revamped Carolina Hurricanes, and the hometown Canucks. Thankfully, the game won't take place, which is good news for people who hate Semin/Semen jokes.
Unlike the Hurricanes, I'll quit Staaling and preview other entertainment options you might consider in hockey's absence this evening!
Monday Night Football
Look on the bright side, it's tough to get worked up by the absence of hockey when you've got football to watch!
Luckily tonight there's a pretty good MNF matchup as Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos head to sunny San Diego for an AFC West grudge match with the Vancouver Canucks of football.
Until last week's shootout against Drew Brees and the Saints, the Chargers hadn't been involved in an entertaining game all season. They've blown out bad teams, and been exposed as mediocre by quality games. So, in a division featuring the Broncos, Raiders and Chiefs they should make the playoffs! Playoff chances aside, make no mistake, the NFL's Vancouver Canucks (coached by Norv "Alain Vigneault" Turner) just aren't a particularly good team.
Speaking of teams that aren't particularly good, the Denver Broncos are also playing football tonight. Peyton has been pretty good so far this season, which is great to see because if you don't like Peyton you're a Patriots fan (and almost surely a jerk). Still, they should've kept Tim Tebow because all he does is win.
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— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 15, 2012
The only thing I've ever wanted more than this is a bejazzled duster to wear while rocking out on my Keytar.
Baseball Playoffs
The Cardinals, are doing their best to make guys like me (who don't believe in clutch) look silly. Last season they were a single strike away from losing the world series – instead they came back against Texas to win. Then this past Friday, again, they were up against the ropes and came back to win in the bottom of the 9th. Tonight they'll look to go up two-zip in their National League championship series against the San Francisco Giants.
Can the Cardinals emerge as quadruple A champions for the second year in a row?
Wallow in Self Pity
Here's a novel consideration for you tonight. Rather than do anything like reading a book, or watching television, you could get home from work, change into your sloppiest pajama bottoms and your oldest t-shirt (the one that smells like your ex, and has multiple rips under the right armpit) and just spend the evening in contemplative sadness. The key is not to go to too dark a place, but rather to put on some Annie Lennox (pro-tip: "No More I Love Yous" FTW) or Enigma and indulge your fears about life's existential meaninglessness, your ultimate vulnerability, and that nagging sense of alienation.
Night Life and Event Listings
What's more famous, this dude's sunglasses or Vancouver's lack of culture?
I think there's a band I've never heard of playing a concert at the Commodore for thirty dollars! That sounds appropriately priced.
Or if you're looking for something more reliable, you could go for that old classic Vancouver standby of showing up at a bar with your friends and not mingling with any of the other patrons. Maybe you can play Jenga at the table over pints, and then participate in a Vancouver Sun poll about how your fellow Vancouverites are cliquey and unapproachable!
Go to Gotham's
Gotham's is delicious, and since you haven't had to buy any "watching hockey beer" or "watching hockey delivery pizza" this month, you can afford it. Pro tip: top your bone-in cut with some Stilton and wash it down with Jim Beam. You're welcome.
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I am an alcoholic. I am not the least bit ashamed to say so. My father and uncle also have a long history of loving the bottle. I have attended some AA meetings through the years. I have read their "big book" front to cover and despite their claims to be non religious I have found the organization to be very religious. Scary religious. Many of the beliefs and messages expressed at meetings do more harm than good to their members. For me the attraction to AA has nothing to do with searching for an answer or a cure for alcoholism. I know addiction is a physical disease. Instead of the genetic code for diabetes, breast cancer, or multiple sclerosis the roll of the DNA dice predisposed me to drink in excess. In order for diabetics to maintain good health they either limit or exclude sweets and other carbohydrates from their diet, likewise, if I want to be healthy I can not drink. My attraction to AA has been based on a desire to associate with other people who are also alcoholics. The same reason I seek out atheist groups, I like to associate with people who share the same beliefs, goals, and life experiences that I have experienced. The problem is the ONLY group of recovering alcoholics is Alcoholics Anonymous.In the Northern United States agnostic groups exist, however, the AA central office and many of their members refuse to acknowledge these groups as apart of AA. In Canada several agnostic groups where criticized and removed from the meeting schedules they distributed. I live in the deep south, rural Georgia. (No I do not like country music, yes I have all my teeth) The message from AA seems to be "we are here only to help the religious or those willing to become religious". Atheist alcoholics seeking support are out of luck, especially in the southern states. For several months I have searched for a true non religious group of recovering alcoholics and have come up empty handed. So I have decided to be honest about my atheism within the rooms of AA. What I realized is my presence and continued success at not drinking will disprove the popular belief in AA that only "God" can keep you sober. I can not be the only atheist alcoholic on the planet! If no place in Georgia exists to offer peer support for the recovering alcoholic who is also an agnostic/atheist then I will just create a place. Wish me luck!
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Thanks for the Information Reg....I am defiantly respectful of the beliefs of the members who attend AA....there faith is important to them..I am trying to have an open mind .I would be more inclined to be more open minded to AA if the success rate was higher according to EVERY statistical source I have read (AA included) it does not work....period...people do not stay sober going to AA...I wish it worked....I want it to work and I want to attend a peer group of people who are also in my situation....I do not believe that this is necessary in order for me to not drink again but it would be helpful....From what I read 95% of people who attend AA leave within the first month and less than 5% that do stick around stay sober for a full year (AA even verifies these stats)....I need to look up the stats for Secular recovery I have not done so yet....maybe the high relapse rate is not due to AA maybe the disease of addiction itself has a high relapse rate and that is just the nature of the disease....yes i think addiction is a physical disease....I really appreciate the people who have posted that have shared their own struggles with addiction...very helpful!!!!
i am an alcoholic with a little more that 2 years of sobriety and I also am an atheist. i agree with you there are not very many of us in AA. However, I have not found my open atheism to be a problem in the meetings I attend. If necessary when i share on a topic, I work my lack of a belief in supernatural beings or forces, whether called God, Allah, Buddha, into a discussion of how the steps and attending meetings has helped me stay sober and generally have a better quality of life than did when I was drinking. Often, I am approached after the meetings by people who thank me for sharing about the way an atheist can get benefits from the program. All of them think that I am sober because of god, of course, but none of them make any effort to proselytize for their god. I don't tell them that their god is imaginary and its their belief in god, and not god, that is the source of their strength. So we get along just fine.
I doubt I will stay in AA forever, because being around a group of people who believe in fairy tales and live their live accordingly is frustrating, but when we talk about alcoholism and how it affects us I find a lot of common ground and support and its what I need at this point.
The AA Third Tradition says 'The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking" and most groups follow that tradition to the letter. I looked for an atheist/agnostic group when I first started and couldn't find one. Part of the reason is there are so few atheists in AA, but the other reason ( I think) is that AA doesn't recognize groups that are exclusive. A group has to be open to all who desire to stop drinking to be associated with AA.
I hope you get some benefit from AA, or that you find an alternative support group. If your sponsor presses you about god, remind her that its the god of your understanding, which can be a Group Of Drunks. Above all, don't let god get in the way of your sobriety. Good Luck.
I'm an alcoholic (six years sober), and went to AA during my first two years of sobriety. From my perspective, it was a good place to get my feet under me, but I was gradually turned off by the personality cult attitudes, drama, and the perception that many had simply swapped their old addiction for that of "the program".
While I enjoy running into people who have been maintaining their clean and sober time, and like sharing that kinship, I stay away from the meetings.
I wish you the best of luck Denise. Take care.
The difference between a drunk and an alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to go to all those meetings.
I have to say I can appreciate the situation you are in regarding religion in the deep south, I was in the armed forces and visited Savannah, Georgia. The group I was out with one night were asked by some people (girls) that we met if religion was the same in 'England' (couldn't grasp the concept of Britain) as it is in the US. When I said I was an atheist (one girl had to have that explained) they could not understand, especially being in the armed forces. Apparently the US armed forces were only able to fight because they had god on their side.
I was a social pariah for the rest of the evening and did not air my (lack of) religious beliefs again whilst in the US.
All I can say regarding the alcoholism is find as many like minded people as you can and get them to provide moral support and support them. I guess what I am saying is start your own association. I too had a drink problem in my youth, I saw I was tending toward alcoholism, and friends and family were not particularly helpful, much like a previous comment regarding the difference between drunks and alcoholics, they did not see any problem and 'encouraged' me to drink with innocent comments such as "don't drive, get a cab, then you can enjoy more than a couple of drinks..."
I do see the need for people to support each other, there is a need for that clearly .. I dont call my self an alcoholic but I prefer being a drunk I drink every day and I dont see a problem with that... Im single 30 years old I work full time take some classes id say i take care of my shit.....as for bein an atheist ... well so far I have not come a cross a definition of god worth believing none of the descriptions ive heard so far worth buyin into.... they are ridiculous .well that why im atheist..cause i reason... i don't believe anyone s claims without proof and neither should anyone... um mm I know a lot of people that drink everyday and they are awesome... some don't..some are kind suck... i think your normal..


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Some friends and I have been talking about going on a multi-day backpacking trip (first one will likely be an "easy" trip, where we'll almost be able to drive up to the camp site, just to test everything out, etc). Most of us don't have the proper equipment (anymore) and things have changed a lot since the last time (in my boy scout days, oh-so-long ago) I've been out on a multi-day camping trip (never really done the backpacking thing before), so I've been doing a bit of research.
First and foremost, I knew I'd need a sleeping bag so the first step was deciding what kind of temperature rating I'd need my bag to meet. Did a bit of reading and discovered that starting this year, most sleeping bag makers in the US have switched over to the European standard for rating sleeping bags. This was comforting news (hah, bad joke) in that comparing sleeping bag temperature ratings would be a lot more like comparing apples to apples (previously each manufacturer had their own method of measuring this, so comparing bags from different makers was impossible to do).
Since my friends and I will likely be sticking to the North East, and probably in the late-spring to early-fall time frame, I estimated that I wouldn't want a bag rated for anything warmer than 30 degrees. Even in mid-summer, the North East can get down to the low 50's and so a 40-degree bag would barely be warm enough. Note that the temperature rating on a sleeping bag is often the "survivability" rating as opposed to the "comfort" rating, and I prefer to be comfortable! Since I'm prepping for the possibility of backpacking trips in the spring and fall as well, I figured a 20-degree bag would be a safer bet.
Next, I had to decide on the type of filling so I read up on the difference between synthetic and down filling. To sum up, here's what I learned:
- Down is often lighter, especially the higher the fill rating (e.g. you might see things like 650-fill or 800-fill - the higher the fill rating, the less down you need to occupy the same space, resulting in a lighter weight bag).
- For down-filled sleeping bags, duck vs goose doesn't really matter, what matters is the fill rating.
- For damp environments, synthetic is often a better choice because synthetic-filled sleeping bags only lose 15% of their effective warmth when wet, while down-filled would lose 100%.
I wanted to keep my expenses below $200 if I could, so with that in mind I did some searching to find some sleeping bags in that price range with good reviews and I came up with the following bags:
- Down: Kelty Light Year 20-Degree Sleeping Bag
- Synthetic: The North Face Cat's Meow 20-Degree Sleeping Bag
Both bags were very highly rated in various magazines and online reviews that I had seen and both were around $160 for the Regular size (up to 6') and $170 for Long (fitting up to 6'6", which is what I needed). There are some cheaper bags, but most of them aren't as lightweight (under 3 lbs!) as either of these 2 bags and/or they didn't get as good a review (or didn't have any review that I could find). If you want cheap, you could go to Walmart and find sleeping bags for as cheap as $10, but I'm not sure I personally trust that any of those bags will be a good long-term investment. Maybe I've just been bitten once too many times by the lure of the uber-cheap.
In the end, I decided to go with the Kelty Light Year as it was a little lighter (4 oz) and packed a little smaller. While the dampness drawback did/does concern me a little, there are easy ways around that. Wrapping your sleeping bag in a plastic (or otherwise waterproof) bag while it is packed away in your backpack and not pulling it out until it is inside the tent should suffice in preventing it from getting wet, even if you have to pitch your tent in the rain.


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Hello All,
I've been playing with VB6 a little and was wondering how someone could code this.
I'm trying to copy several files with the same extention (ex: *.txt) from several folders to one.
the command FileCopy only allows for one file at a time (that I know of)
I tried using the shell "xcopy" command but only get the files from the directory that the VB program runs from.
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