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A Triathlete's 12 Steps to 140.6
A former addict turned multiple IRONMAN shares wisdom on going the distance in life and triathlon.
by Lisa Dolbear
Endurance athletes are used to hearing the phrase "you're on crack" as a joking reference to their training habits. For former addict-turned-triathlete Todd Crandell, however, those are serious words. As Crandell prepares to do his 25th IRONMAN this month at the inaugural IRONMAN Lake Tahoe, he still remembers when his mind was elsewhere.
"I used to watch the Kona race on TV while I was addicted to cocaine and dream of doing it one day," the Sylvania, Ohio native recalls. In 2006—13 years after getting sober—he did just that. The finish line validated his adaptation of the IRONMAN mantra: "With sobriety anything is possible."
After struggling for 13 years with drugs and alcohol, Crandell began to rebuild his life in 1993. When he realized that traditional recovery programs were not enough for him, he turned to IRONMAN in 1999 and hasn't looked back.
Crandell didn't stop there. He also became a Professional Counselor and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, devoting his life to helping others overcome addiction. He focuses on helping his clients build better lives, often through endurance sports. "Racing is the true high," he says. (Crandell also uses triathlon as a platform to share his message of hope through his non-profit organization, Racing for Recovery.)
Taking a cue from Crandell's wisdom, here are 12 ways that overcoming obstacles in life can help you nail IRONMAN's trademark 140.6 miles.
12. Make the choice
Empower yourself to avoid temptation by remembering you have choices. Skipping the snooze button, missing happy hour and declining dessert are not hardships you're forced to endure, but choices you make.
11. Count your blessings
When training gets tough, stop counting miles and start counting blessings. "I race to remind myself that I am grateful I survived my addiction," he says. "And that I have a career that helps me to save lives."
10. Find balance
The IRONMAN journey can be all-consuming. Doing too much can lead to burnout and injury, so be sure to make time for things outside of the sport.
9. Stay focused, not obsessed
Crandell cautions that training shouldn't be about doing as many races as you can, but about focusing on each experience. "I'm not addicted to triathlons, but rather I see this lifestyle as a way to share my story through amazing events in beautiful places," he says.
8. Enjoy the benefits
"Embracing the gift of being able-bodied and -minded made me enjoy training and racing on a new level," Crandell says. Hardware has nothing on health when it comes to the perks of being an athlete.
7. Don't beat yourself up
If you fall short of your expectations, allow yourself to move on without feeling guilty or negative.
6. 140.6 shouldn't be 24/7
IRONMAN isn't a full-time job. "It's a privilege to participate," Crandell says. "Most of us aren't making money at this. Don't let it interfere with your family or your career."
5. Make it meaningful
Through his organization, Crandell has found a way to make triathlon about more than just swimming, biking and running. That purpose keeps him motivated to pursue new challenges.
4. Don't doubt yourself
Becoming an IRONMAN is a big achievement, but preparing for the race is equally impressive. Find confidence and feel victorious throughout your training. "The work is the reward," Crandell says.
3. Enlist support
Training for IRONMAN can be a roller coaster of emotion. Make sure your friends and family understand your goals and how they can help you achieve them.
2. You can rebuild
Crandell's 13-year struggle with drugs destroyed his dream of a professional hockey career, but his spirit left a pilot light for future success. Sobriety ignited that spirit and channeled it into an IRONMAN.
1. Join the club
"Hello, My name is Lisa—and I'm a triathlete." Surround yourself with like-minded people facing the same challenges as you. Overcoming obstacles is easier with camaraderie.


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Although English author J. R. R. Tolkien wrote "The Lord of the Rings" and other stories revolving around the world of Middle-earth in order to create a "mythology for England," that mythology has extended beyond its Northern European origins to the other side of the globe.
Thanks to the massive popularity of director Sir Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and, more recently, "The Hobbit" films, New Zealand has become inextricably tied to Middle-earth, producing a big draw for Tolkien fans and a marketing advantage for Tourism New Zealand.
"There can be no denying the attraction of traveling to Middle-earth," said New Zealand's associate minister of tourism, Chris Tremain, who emphasized the government's commitment to capitalizing on the success of the films.
While there are many companies that cater specifically to fans who want to explore Middle-earth, the various filming locations are worth visiting for their beauty alone. Here are some of the top tours and companies to check out for clients wishing to combine film-inspired sightseeing with great activities in New Zealand.
Explore Waitomo CavesWhile the spectacular Waitomo Caves should be on any traveler's list of New Zealand destinations, fans of "The Hobbit" will particularly enjoy their visit knowing that sound effects for the goblin caves scene in the trilogy's first installment were recorded here. Usually referred to as the "Waitomo Glowworm Caves," this destination presents an otherworldly experience with stalactites and stalagmites, as well as the thousands of glittering glowworms that light up the caves' ceilings.
Visitors can take walking tours with guides who provide commentary about the caves' historical and geological significance. These tours culminate in a boat ride along the underground Waitomo River in the Glowworm Grotto, where the glowworms illuminate the caves and produce a bizarre, starry atmosphere.
Adventurous travelers can also book tours with The Legendary Black Water Rafting Co., which leads visitors on rafting, rappelling, climbing and tubing excursions through Ruakuri Cave.www.waitomo.com
Go on a Dart River AdventureBased at the village of Glenorchy at the north end of Lake Wakatipu, Dart River Jet operates the only jet boating and funyak tours allowed on the Dart River, taking clients into Mount Aspiring National Park and past multiple Middle-earth filming sites.
The "Wilderness Jet" trip departs from the head of the lake and continues deep into the national park, where guests will learn more about the area's rich history and get a chance to walk through the ancient beech forest. Clients who prefer a leisurely pace can opt for a "Funyak" trip, which explores the river and national park by floating downstream to the Paradise area in an inflatable canoe.
The region surrounding Glenorchy and nearby Queenstown is home to many locations from the film, including Lothlorien, the Ford of Bruinen and the Gladden Fields.www.dartriver.co.nz
Tour the Hobbiton SetA must-see for any Tolkien fan, the Hobbiton Movie Set is now a permanent fixture on the Alexander Farm near Matamata. After tearing down the set upon completion of filming for "The Lord the Rings," the team working on "The Hobbit" films rebuilt the set in 2011 –– and this time, they built it to last.
Starting with a picturesque drive through the 1,250-acre sheep farm, visitors can take daily guided tours of Hobbiton to learn about the site's film history, view the Hobbit holes and other structures from the films and enjoy a day in the life of Middle-earth's hairy-footed inhabitants.
Perhaps best of all, visitors can spend the afternoon at the Green Dragon Inn, the hobbits' favorite haunt from the film that now operates as a fully functional restaurant and pub serving themed meals and drinks, including the signature Southfarthing ales and cider.www.hobbitontours.com
Ride through the Country on HorsebackOwned and operated by a former professional steeplechase jockey, Dart Stables prides itself on the quality of its horses and the beautiful surroundings of its tours. With film-inspired tours such as "The Ride of the Rings" and "The Trilogy Loop," the company gives visitors the chance to explore Glenorchy and Paradise on horseback while highlighting filming locations from "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies, including the Misty Mountains, Lothlorien, Amon Hen and the Wizard's Vale, the location of Saruman's fortress of Isengard in the films.
Dart Stables provides rides at walking pace to accommodate beginners as well as exhilarating rides for advanced riders. As an added bonus for film fans, six of the company's horses were used in "The Lord of the Rings" for the riders of Rohan, and Dart Stables still uses two of them part-time for visitors to ride during their tours.www.dartstables.com
Take a Glacier Helicopter TourWhile New Zealand is home to many helicopter tour operators, Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters has a special claim to fame for fans of the films: the company's pilots provided most of the aerial filming for both "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies. The operator offers flights over many beautiful destinations, including Queenstown, the Wakatipu Basin, Skipper Canyon and Milford Sound, with glacier landings and picnics in national parks.
Specifically for Tolkien fans, the company provides two tours that feature various locations from the films, such as Dimrill Dale, the Ford of Bruinen and the small mountain lake the Rohirrim refugees passed by in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Clients who want to experience more of the films' landscapes can instead arrange a Middle-earth private charter in order to see more locations and receive extra behind-the-scenes insights from pilots who worked with the production crews.www.glaciersouthernlakes.co.nz
Experience a New Zealand SafariWith more than 10 years of experience leading tours to various locations from "The Lord of the Rings," Nomad Safaris is one of New Zealand's oldest Middle-earth tour companies. Although the company has a wide variety of four-wheel drive and ATV excursions, a handful of its tours are devoted exclusively to visiting areas depicted in the films.
Full-day and half-day safaris include visits to Glenorchy, Paradise Valley, the Wakatipu Basin, the Remarkables mountain range and Kawarau Gorge, where filmmakers shot such movie locales as the forest of Lothlorien, the Ithilien camp, the Misty Mountains and the Pillars of the Kings. For diehard fans, Nomad Safaris even provides authentic replica props so that visitors can dress up and take photos at the filming sites.www.nomadsafaris.co.nz
While reconstructing the Hobbiton set for the filming of "The Hobbit" trilogy, builders used permanent materials in order to preserve the set as a tourist destination. // © 2014 Air New Zealand
The glowworms on the walls of Waitomo Caves create a surreal, star-like backdrop for visitors to this popular North Island destination. // © 2014 Waitomo Glowworm Caves
The Legendary Black Water Rafting Co. offers adventurous tours at Waitomo Caves, such as the "Black Labyrinth" tour, which gives clients a chance to float, climb and splash their way through Ruakuri Cave. // © 2014 The Legendary Black Water Rafting Co.
Dart River Jet takes clients deep into Mount Aspiring National Park on the only tours allowed on the Dart River, passing multiple Middle-earth filming locations along the way. // © 2014 Dart River Jet
As an alternative to the company's exhilarating jet boating tours, Dart River Jet's funyak tours let clients enjoy the scenery at a leisurely pace. // © 2014 Dart River Jet
Dart Stables' relaxed "The Ride of the Rings" tour passes actual filming locations in Paradise, such as the woods where the Lothlorien scenes were filmed for "The Lord of the Rings." // © 2014 Dart Stables
For advanced riders only, Dart Stables' "The Trilogy Loop" tour offers fast-paced rides along gorgeous rivers with views of scenery from the films, including the peaks used to represent the Misty Mountains. // © 2014 Dart Stables
With pilots who worked on aerial filming for both trilogies, Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters' tours provide special insight into the beautiful filming locations. // © 2014 Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters
Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters' tours include alpine and glacier landings in addition to gorgeous aerial views. // © 2014 Glacier Southern Lakes Helicopters
While reconstructing the Hobbiton set for the filming of "The Hobbit" trilogy, builders used permanent materials in order to preserve the set as a tourist destination. // © 2014 Hobbiton Tours
Among Nomad Safaris' film-inspired excursions, the "Safari of the Scenes" tour in Glenorchy takes visitors to multiple filming locations from "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit." // © 2014 Nomad Safaris
The same building used for the Green Dragon Inn in the films now serves as a restaurant and pub serving themed meals and drinks. // © 2014 Hobbiton Tours

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What should the government do about migrating birds that fatally collide into wireless communications towers at night? The actual number of deaths is disputed, but it may run into the millions each year. A recent mini-conference on the problem held at the Federal Communications Commission went largely unnoticed by most agency watchers, present company included. Five conservation group leaders attended the event, two from the National Audubon Society, two from Defenders of Wildlife, and one from the American Bird Conservancy.
"The conservation groups' representatives urged the Commission representatives to implement immediately some interim measures in the near term," their ex parte summary of the June 19 meeting politely concluded, "while the Commission deliberates on how to address all of the outstanding issues relating to the environmental impacts of communications towers on birds."
Listening to this plea were six FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau staff members, two Office of General Counsel members, a Media Bureau staffer, and an attorney from the agency's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. The meeting summary did not disclose what, if anything, these officials plan to do about the bird death problem. The matter has lain dormant for so long that the American Bird Conservancy recently sued the FCC and won most of their case in federal court. It remains to be seen, however, whether even this victory will spark significant results.
Wires and migrants
Six years ago come August, the American Bird Conservancy and two other groups petitioned the FCC to stop registering new communications towers until the completion of an environmental review. These groups cited a memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service noting communications towers may kill four to five million night migrating birds per year. The document urged all Fish and Wildlife field personnel to ask FCC staff to encourage telcos to build new transmitter towers more cautiously, constructing them around existing transmitter structures and keeping them below 199 feet in height.
But the three environmental groups went further, asking the Commission to require tower owners in the Gulf region to complete environmental assessments of over 5,500 previously-constructed towers and to issue a moratorium on the construction of any new towers until then. The FCC responded to the 2002 petition with a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) asking for public comment on the matter, which the three organizations denounced as a delaying tactic. "There are no time limits for the completion of the NOI and no proposed actions to benefit birds and prevent the annual killing of millions of birds," their response to the NOI, filed in November of 2003, charged. "The NOI could proceed indefinitely, thus providing another convenient excuse to continue the FCC's years of delays in addressing the killing of millions of migratory birds at towers."
Hurry up and wait
Yet even this slow pace alarmed big wireless. CTIA - The Wireless Association, submitted a lengthy reply to comments in December of 2003, denouncing what it called the "regulate now" stance of the environmental groups. "These and other commenters who want to 'regulate now and find out the facts later' do not dispute that the basic science is still nonexistent regarding what factors in tower construction and design may affect avian mortality," CTIA wrote, concluding that "no further action or change in the FCC's regulation is appropriate at this time."
This stalemate continued for over two more years. Finally on April 12, 2006, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Commission released an Order refusing to issue a moratorium on new transmitters, for which the three environmental groups had petitioned. "While I am sympathetic to a number of issues raised in the petition before us today, the petition just is not the right vehicle for these overarching concerns," FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said at the time. "This is particularly true when you consider the rebuilding efforts that will be so critical to the Gulf Coast area over the next several months, particularly with a new hurricane season rapidly approaching."
Four months later, the agency issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the problem, but offered no follow up through 2007. The conservation movement took the matter to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and won their case in February of this year. The court ruled that the agency's 2006 Order ran afoul of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires Federal agencies to prepare, at minimum, an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the impact of their decisions. The judges ordered the FCC to produce an EA on the question, and to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service, as required by the Endangered Species Act.
Some of the EA work that the FCC now must perform has already been done by scientists Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich of the Urban Wildlands Group and Sidney Gauthreaux Jr. of Clemson University. Their April 2008 paper surveyed the extant literature on fatal migrating bird collisions and offers a variety of explanations and possible solutions for the dilemma.
Taller towers kill more birds
"Overall, avian mortality increased with tower height," they observe. In some instances, observations of birds being killed by towers dramatically increases for structures over 300 meters in height. "For those towers where mortality has been reported," they conclude, "it seems that a consistent relationship exists between height and avian mortality."
Guy wires snare night fliers
Towers with webs of guy wires tend to kill more migrating birds. "Greater mortality caused by guyed towers would be expected because of the circling behavior exhibited by migrants under the influence of lights on towers," the scientists write. An observer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin identified "occasional kills" of 300 to 500 birds in a single night at a set of guy-wire-based towers, while a nearby freestanding tower killed few.
Use strobe lights
The research trio identify the lighting scheme of a communications tower as "probably the most important factor contributing to bird kills." Night flying birds tend to fly towards lit towers, especially if it is foggy, and especially if the tower displays "continuously illuminated" white lights. "The evidence indicates that use of strobe or flashing lights on towers result in less bird aggregation," they recommend, "and, by extension, lower bird mortality, than use of steady-burning lights."
"Enough reliable information is available to implement communication tower guidelines that would reduce existing and future significant adverse effects on birds," Longcore, Rich, and Gautheaux write. The question, of course, is whether the FCC will move on these recommendations, even in the face of a court order.
Migrating birds have a few advocates among humans. But they don't vote, they don't file comments on Commission proceedings, and they don't form trade associations. Birds do, however, play a crucial role in the global plant pollination process and eat insects that cause disease and would otherwise ravage entire ecospheres. We may need them more than our cell phones.
Further reading
- Longcore, Rich, and Gauthreaux, Jr., "Height, Guy Wires, and Steady-burning Lights Increase Hazard of Communication Towers to Nocturnal Migrants: A Review and Meta-analysis"


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There are so many poetry resources on the internet, it can be hard to know where to start! We have listed some of the most useful websites where you can find out more and get in touch with relevant organisations.
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets website contains essays, interviews, biographies, poems and many other resources.
Anvil Press Poetry
Anvil Press is England's longest-standing independent poetry publisher, specializing in contemporary English poets – with a leavening of Irish and American – and in a range of translated poetry.
Apples and Snakes
Apples and Snakes was set up in 1982 by a group of poets in order to establish more performance poetry events.
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Arts Council of Northern Ireland is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland.
Arts Council of Wales
The Arts Council of Wales is responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.
Avron Foundation
The Arvon Foundation provides residential courses in creative writing, including poetry.
BBC Poetry Season
Vote here for the Nation's Favourite Poet, and enjoy a wealth of other resources, including video poetry guides presented by Ian McMillan, Caroline Bird and Dreadlock Alien.
Creative Scotland
The national leader for Scotland's creative industries. It assists in developing Scottish literature through support for writers, writing and the publishing industry across Scotland.
Lamont Library at Harvard
The Lamont Library houses the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Collection, which includes contemporary poetry and poetics from the entire English-speaking world, as well as poetic works in other languages translated into English.
Lannan Audio Archives
The Lannan Foundation offers access to over 300 hours of readings and conversation with poets and writers.
Literature Works
Literature Works is a registered charity, Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, and company limited by guarantee set up to enable and nurture literature development activity in South West England.
At lyrikline.org you can hear recordings of poems, both in their original languages and in translation.
Northern Poetry Library
The Northern Poetry Library is kept at Morpeth Library and is the largest collection of contemporary poetry in England outside London. It currently contains around 15,000 books with new ones being added all the time.
PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems - currently 1,500 and fast growing - mostly as song-length singles.
PoetCasting is a poetry podcasting project which features published, performance, emerging and established poets reading their own work online and out loud.
Poetry Book Society
The Poetry Book Society is a specialist poetry bookseller and a book club for everyone who enjoys poetry - dedicated readers, occasional browsers and absolute beginners.
Poetry by Heart
Poetry By Heart is brought to you by a partnership between The Poetry Archive and The Full English. The website hosts an interactive timeline anthlogy with over 200 poems selected by poets Andrew Motion, Jean Sprackland and education specialist, Jule Blake. It also offers a lively blog plus classroom resources and links to CPD workshops.
Poetry International
Poetry International is a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet.
Poetry School
The Poetry School provides structured, high quality teaching programmes for adults to develop their poetry from its beginnings through to advanced level.
Scottish Arts Council
Scottish Arts Council is the lead body for the funding, development and advocacy of the arts in Scotland.
The Archive of the Now
The Archive is home to over 100 poets producing work of exhilarating insight, scope and attack.
The British Council
The British Council Literature Department promotes innovative and contemporary work from the UK around the world. Their site features a wide range of publications and resources including an extensive database of contemporary writers.
The British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Their site contains news of events, exhibitions and details of collections including the British Library Sound Archive which holds many poetry recordings.
The Literary Consultancy
Founded in 1996 and firmly established within the publishing industry, The Literary Consultancy provides expert, market-informed editorial advice to writers, including poets.
The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation website offers an archive of more than 300 poets and 3,000 poems, as well as engaging literary journalism profiling poets, reviewing readings, reporting on poetry as it intersects with other art forms and with the culture at large.
The Poetry Library
The Poetry Library is the major library for modern and contemporary poetry, housing the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain.
The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation which can open up the world of contemporary poetry for you.
The Poetry Trust
The Poetry Trust is one of the UK's leading contemporary poetry organisations, and organises the annual Aldeburgh International Poetry Festival and a year-round programme of readings, workshops, outreach and prizes.
The Scottish Poetry Library
The Scottish Poetry Library is the place for poetry in Scotland, for the regular reader, the serious student and the casual browser.
Websites for students and teachers
For a collection of links to online resources for education, click here.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara's scheduled home opener against UCLA on Tuesday afternoon was postponed a week because of the forecast of bad weather making Friday's game against the University of San Francisco the team's first home game of the season.
The Gauchos wasted no time helping themselves to home cooking, scoring three runs in the first inning and then riding the arm of right hander Austin Pettibone to a 6-1 win at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
UCSB (3-1) jumped on Dons' (1-4) starter Abe Bobb three runs and three hits, including back-to-back triples, in the first inning.
One out after Bobb walked Cameron Newell to open the game, shortstop Brandon Trinkwon slammed a triple to right center field, chasing home the first run. Trinkwon's three-bagger was matched by first baseman Tyler Kuresa who drilled his own triple down the right field line to score the second run. Marc Venning was then hit on the hand by a pitch and stole second. One out later, Kuresa came home on an infield single by Luke Swenson.
The Gauchos added a run in the third when pinch hitter Parker Miles was hit by a pitch with one out, went to third on a single to right by designated hitter Greg Mahle and scored on a sacrifice fly to left by Swenson.
Santa Barbara scored two more runs in the fourth. Newell tied a school record when he led off the inning with the Gauchos' third triple of the game, finishing off Bobb. USF's starter was replaced by Bob Mott who allowed a sacrifice fly to the first batter he faced, Peter Maris, push the lead to 5-0.
Kuresa made his first home game at UCSB even more memorable when he added a solo home run to right field to the triple he hit in the first inning, giving the Gauchos a 6-0 lead after four innings.
That was all the support Pettibone (2-0) needed as he cruised through 7.1 shutout innings allowing just five singles and one walk while striking out three. He was lifted in the eighth after coaxing Justin Maffei into a fly ball out to start the inning. Robby Nesovic pitched the rest of the eighth inning.
The Dons scored their only run of the game in the bottom of the ninth when they struck for three singles off of Nesovic. Freshman Connor Baits entered the game with two outs and the bases full and needed just three pitches to strike out Maffei to end the game and claim his first save of the season.
UCSB and USF will continue their series on Saturday with a doubleheader that will begin at 11:00 a.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The series will conclude on Sunday with a 1:00 p.m. game.
Tickets for all games can be purchased online by clicking here or at the main entrance of the stadium 90 minutes before first pitch.


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Klagenfurt is located in the center of Europe and therefore quite easy to reach by car, by plane and ba train. Klagenfurt is about 390km south to Munich, approximately 320km south- west to Vienna and approximately 420km north-east to Milano.
Find here an overview map with parking possibilities, cash point and more near the event area >
Arrival by car
Highway connection from the North is A10, from East ist A2, from West A13 and from South A2. For planning your route we recommend this service.
Arrival by plane
o Kärnten Airport - www.kaernten-airport.at
Klagenfurt has its own airport that is accessible from all major airports in Europe.
Kärnten airport is located approximately 3km from city center Klagenfurt and is easily accessible by car, bus or taxi.
Direct connections:
Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne with Germanwings
Vienna with Austrian
Transfer connections like Amsterdam, Paris or London via Vienna or via Cologne.
Car Rental at Kärnten Airport:
Transfer Service at Kärnten Airport:
Kärnten Airport
+43 41 500 214
[email protected]
o Vienna Airport
Travel time from Vienna International Airport to Klagenfurt is about 3 hours by car. If you plan to get to Klagenfurt from Vienna airport with public transport, please consider 30 minutes for trains from Vienna airport to Vienna South Train Station, and approximately 4 hours from Vienna South Train Station to Klagenfurt Main Station.
Vienna International Airport phone: +43 1 70 07
o Ljubljana Airport
Ljubljana Airport is Slovenia's central airport located only 60 kilometers from Klagenfurt. It offers direct and frequent flights to the most important European capitals and hubs. Highway to Austria can be reached within three minutes' ride from the airport. You can also choose among numerous rent-a-car providers or shuttle connections from Ljubljana Airport to Klagenfurt. Kind staff of Ljubljana Airport will make your travel even more pleasant.
Since the end of March flights from Ljubljana Airport have been even more accessible to passengers from Austria. A scheduled bus service between the airport and the city of Klagenfurt began operating on 29 March 2014, with four daily departures. For prices and other details visit the Alpe Adria website: www.alpeadrialine.com.
Arrival by train
Travelling by train is very convenient since Klagenfurts Main Station is loceted in the city center. There are good connections from all over Europe. Taxis are awaiting you upon arrival, or you can use a public bus. For more information on travelling by train go to Austrian Railways' webpage.
Bus connections
There are very good bus connections in Klagenfurt and to/from the places around Lake Wörther See. You can find time tables as well as pay scales on Klagenfurt Public Transport's website.
Please click here for detailed bus connections >>
Further information is available on the Austrian Railways' webpage >>
For personal info on the phone, please call Bus Information:
+43 463 52 15 34
Bike Transport
Our official bike shop offers a special transport service. More information HERE >>
UK Athletes can find the special info for the bike transport here.
Our logistics partner SCHENKER offers a special bike transport for international athletes. For more information click HERE >>
What offers the region around IRONMAN Austria?
The IRONMAN Austria is one of the biggest triathlons worldwide among the 22 triathlon races of this trademark. Carinthia fascinates the athletes anew each year. The reason for that is the perfect triathlon-landscape which is offered by Austria's most southern province. The pleasant climate, the little rainfall, the lakes, mountains and hills which make the bike track challenging, frame the perfect ambience to combine these three sports. Carinthia is Sun. South. Summer fun.
The closeness to the Mediterranean Sea brings an almost Mediterranean climate with unusually many sunshine hours.
The Carinthian summer has much to offer. Imbedded in a unique landscape with its high mountain tops and rolling hills the country offers more than 1.200 lakes for refreshing in the water, being sporty or for relaxing at the beach.


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A warm weather pattern will stick around South Florida for a few days before a cold front gains enough energy to drop into the area late-week.
Shower chances will also be on the way up late in the week as the front arrives.
For Tuesday, expect abundant sunshine with warmer temperatures this afternoon, reaching 82. Winds will continue out of the southeast at 10-15 mph.
Some patchy fog could form overnight tonight as lows drop to 70.
Wednesday will bring a boost in temperatures with afternoon highs at 84. There will be a slight chance for a shower in the afternoon under partly sunny skies.
Better rain chances come into the pattern on Thursday and Friday.
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The third-seeded Austin College Kangaroos got off to a blistering start from three point range on their way to a 68-42 victory over the sixth-seeded Colorado College Tigers in quarterfinal action of the 2013 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament on Friday afternoon in Hughey Gymnasium.
Austin College knocked down 8-of-13 three pointers in the first half as they sprinted to a 40-19 halftime lead, with Shayna Clardy knocking down four first half triples while Erin Riley had three of her own. After the 'Roos took an early 8-6 lead, a three from Riley jump started a 17-3 run that put the Tigers in a 25-9 hole with 7:10 remaining in the opening frame.
Kalli Kemling scored four quick points to try to keep Colorado College in the game, but Clardy knocked down three of her four threes over the next four minute stretch as Austin College pushed its lead to 37-13 with under three minutes before the half. The Tigers were ice cold from the field in the first half, knocking down just 22.7% of their field goal attempts.
Colorado College's offense did not get much better in the second half as they shot 32% from the field, but the Tigers held Austin College in check from long distance and cut the margin to 48-30 on a Katie Wirth jumper with 10:45 left but that's as close as things would get as Brittany Stepanski scored six in a row and the 'Roos knocked down their free throws down the stretch.
Clardy and Stepanski led all scorers with 16 points as Clardy knocked down 4-of-6 treys while Stepanski just missed out on a double-double with nine rebounds, and Riley hit 3-of-5 threes on her way to 11 points and seven boards.
Kemling paced the Tigers with 15 points on 4-of-9 shooting and added eight rebounds and five steals, while Tyus was the only other Colorado College player to reach double figures with 11 points and also had four steals.
Austin College moves on to the semifinals tomorrow where they will face the second-seeded Southwestern University Pirates with tip time set for 3:00 p.m. The winner of that game will move on to Sunday's SCAC Championship, where they will meet either the top seeded Trinity University Tigers or the fifth-seeded University of Dallas Crusaders.


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A University of Oregon spinout company that has developed a wireless soil sensor to detect nitrate levels in fields that could help farmers reduce fertilizer use by up to 30 percent, has been awarded Oregon BEST commercialization funding to fast-track the product to the marketplace.
Because plants can absorb only so much nitrogen, approximately 30 percent of the fertilizer applied to North American soils is wasted due to over-application and runoff. With U.S. farmers spending $12 billion annually on fertilizer, the new supramolecular sensor technology, discovered by accident by chemists at the UO, could lead to significant savings in fertilizer purchases, as well as in labor and fuel costs associated with fertilizer application.
It could also help reduce pollution from fertilizer runoff.
"In addition to the potential economic savings for farmers, our sensors will also help reduce groundwater pollution caused by excess nitrates that flow from cultivated fields into streams, lakes and oceans," said Calden Carroll, CEO of SupraSensor Technologies. "Excess nitrates are what trigger algal booms that deplete oxygen levels and create dead zones in the water where nothing can live."
Carroll, who earned his PhD in chemistry from the UO in 2011, said nitrates are problematic in fertilizers because they are water soluble, so over-application can lead to nitrates being leached from the soil and into the water system.
The problem is so widespread that the National Academy of Engineering has identified managing the nitrate cycle in agriculture as one of 14 "Grand Challenges" for the 21st century.
Carroll discovered the molecule now used in the sensor "by accident" when he was a graduate student studying supramolecular chemistry the interactions between molecules with UO chemistry professors Darren Johnson and Mike Haley (all of whom are co-founders of SupraSensor Technologies).
"Calden's initial result was a happy accident," said Johnson, who is also an adjunct professor at Oregon State University. "We were trying to create a molecular probe to visualize the movement of chloride not nitrate through cells to aid research into drug discovery and understanding chloride transport mechanisms in general."
Although the research team knew they had discovered a molecular marker specific for nitrate, it wasn't until later that they realized the implications of the discovery in agriculture and launched the new company.
"How to take a chemical interaction and transduce an electrical signal has been a long-standing problem," said Carroll. "But when nitrogen binds to the molecule we developed, it fluoresces a cool color, and we're able to harness that electronic response to measure nitrate levels."
The researchers say the value proposition to their sensor product is the reduced time-to-data it offers farmers. Designed to mimic plant roots and be buried in the soil just below root level, the sensors provide real-time data about soil nitrate levels so farmers can immediately make adjustments to fertilizers and irrigation (applied together, this is called fertigation).
"Currently, obtaining this type of data requires taking multiple soil samples, which involves a lot of labor, and then the wait for lab results," Carroll said. "Our technology's real-time data would enable highly site-specific management of fertigation."
While the company is focused on precision agriculture at the moment, they have their sights set on broader markets.
"We're developing a technology that will allow us to expand into the gardening and home markets, as well as into industrial applications such as drinking water and wastewater monitoring," Carroll said. "Using a supramolecular interaction has the potential to improve a wide range of applications."
The $120,000 from Oregon BEST will support deployment and field testing of 150 sensor prototypes in 12 different geographical locations, in tandem with manual soil testing to ensure the data generated by the sensors is accurate over time and in different soil conditions. The company plans to test the robustness of the sensors throughout a growing season, starting this spring. It is currently seeking farmers of fertilized and irrigated crops willing to participate in the study.
"This project leverages an important scientific discovery and our regional strengths in agriculture to advance a technology that could prove to be transformational in reducing costs for farmers and pollution in our planet's water systems," said David Kenney, President and Executive Director of Oregon BEST. "Oregon BEST is happy to be able to help accelerate this effort."
The Oregon BEST funding is also enabling acquisition of equipment, including a UV-Vis spectrometer, and expansion of one of the analysis labs in the UO's CAMCOR facility that will aid future sensor development work at the university.
The company previously participated in the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program, winning the "Best Team" Award out of 25 teams that participated in the 6-month course. In addition to the Oregon BEST funds, the company was awarded a $180,000 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant and a $250,000 Gap Grant from ONAMI.


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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's season ended Sunday with a mediocre performance in the first three quarters of New England's 26-16 loss to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship game. With New England done, we need to know: Will Tom Brady ever get his elusive high five?
Brady has been the subject of continued focus after it appeared that he was always left hanging by his teammates. Last week, satirical YouTube channel What's Trending took on the subject, delivering a powerful public service announcement to tell people that, yes, it's a real problem that has to be addressed.
Maybe next year, Tom. Maybe next year.
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to say there are more than 5 earth like planets with life on them? Suppose we discover 500 planets like Earth with life on them, would
it again be anymore deductively valid to say there are more than 500 earth-like planets with life on them? No, it will never be certain,
because it always possible there is no more life on other planets. Therefore it does not matter how large your sample size is, it will never
establish conclusively or certainly the rule that earth like planets harbour life.
In logic this is known as the problem of induction. Science can never know anything with certainty, because it always possible that there
will be an observation in the future that will falsify the rule. To go from particulars to universals is therefore a process of induction, not
deduction. However, we have no other choice, because we will always be beginning from ignorance. That is that there is an unobservable
universe and the best that we can do is build up our knowledge of particulars and how particulars interrelate to establish rules of how the
universe works. The law of gravitation is one such rule we can establish on the basis of the relationship between mass and gravitional field.
It does not require several instances to show that such a relationship exists, it only requires observation of mass and gravity. No amount of
observations are going to prove the rule, it will still be induction whether you establish the rule based on a single observation of the rule or 1000
observations. There is another induction we all make, and we only have one sample, the existence of other minds. I can only know for certain
I have a mind because of my private experience of it, but I cannot certainly state anybody else has a mind, because I cannot verify that.
So, if we can allow certain inductions based on observations, then there is no reason not to allow the induction that life exists on other Earth like
planets. If the conditions are present, then there is no reason at all to believe that life would not evolve on that planet.
This is a pretty strong argument, because rejecting this argument because of its inductive quality, would mean you have to be consistent and reject
all science, knowledge and inferences in general because they are all inductive.
The other consideration you need to make is look at how and why evolution would take place. It has been traditionally assumed that evolution is a random
and blind process, but this has failed to account for the amazing coherence observed within a biological organisms, where everything works in tandem with
everything else to bring about an outcome.
Now, overwhelming evidence is showing that evolution is purpose drive i.e., teleological. It is not a random and blind process, but it is driven by purpose and
thus inseparably tied to the needs of life. Considering this new understanding of evolution, the evolution of a planet would have to fit a purpose.
Here is a rough estimate of the number of planets in the known universe. From Wiki answers:
Astronomers estimate there are 10^21 stars in the universe. With a conservative estimate of three planets per star (some could have many more,
some would have none at all) this puts the estimated number of planets into millions of billions. The actual number of planets in the universe is difficult to ascertain.
However, we do know that the number is very, very large, and the true figure is completely beyond human comprehension. Estimates for the number of stars in our
galaxy vary between 100 billion and 400 billion, with most setting the figure at roughly 200 billion. There are very few estimates for the number of planets per star,
as we have only discovered 429 'exoplanets' (planets that orbit another star than the Sun; as of 9th February 2010: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm ).
However, with approximately 200 billion galaxies in the part of the Universe that we can see, even if there were only one planet per star there would still be around 40 trillion
billion in our observable Universe. It is likely that this estimation is very inaccurate, as we have no idea what the mean number of stars per galaxy is likely to be, nor have
we counted every single galaxy in the Universe. Nonetheless, it is also likely that the number of planets in the Universe is greater than all the grains of sand on this planet Earth.
If we go by conservative estimates then there are approx 40 trillion billion planets in our observable universe. That is huge amount of waste of space, if there is not life on most
of those planets. The very teleos of a planet is known to develop life, therefore a planet's evolution is inseparably tied with the function of life. However, to be true to our induction,
we will rule out non-earth like planets for now(although life can form in any condition) the estimates of earth like plants is still a very staggering number. In the milky way alone, from CNN:
(CNN) -- As NASA prepares to hunt for Earth-like planets in our corner of the Milky Way galaxy, there's new buzz that "Star Trek's" vision of a universe full of life may not be that far-fetched.
An artist's impression shows a planet passing in front of its parent star. Such events are called transits.
Pointy-eared aliens traveling at light speed are staying firmly in science fiction, but scientists are offering fresh insights into the possible existence of inhabited worlds and intelligent civilizations in space.
There may be 100 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, or one for every sun-type star in the galaxy, said Alan Boss, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution and author of the new book "The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets."
He made the prediction based on the number of "super-Earths" -- planets several times the mass of the Earth, but smaller than gas giants like Jupiter -- discovered so far circling stars outside the solar system.
Boss said that if any of the billions of Earth-like worlds he believes exist in the Milky Way have liquid water, they are likely to be home to some type of life.
There is simply no reason to believe that there is not life on those planets.
There are thus 3 incredibly strong arguments in favour of ET's:
1) The inductive argument which establishes as a rule that earth-like planets would have to have some life on it
2) The teleological argument which establishes that a planets function is to support life
3) The statistical argument which makes it statistically impossible that Earth would be the only planet with life on it.
The arguments are strong enough to pretty much accept ET exists. To argue to the contrary reeks of religious sentiments where we want to believe that we are a miracle and a one-off creation by god almighty. If one is rational one would accept ET's existence.


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Australian news anchor Belinda Heggen took a tiny trophy as an opportunity to make fun of co-host Mark Aiston's penis. Unexpected, perhaps, but still not cool.
Given the sheer ubiquity of small-dick jokes on film and TV, it's tempting to snicker at Heggen's. But derogatory comments about women's bodies are disturbingly ubiquitous on television too — as sportscaster Andy Gray's high-profile on-air harassment of his coworker makes clear. And protecting women from these kinds of invasive remarks means protecting men too. Rather than asking whether the two have "history," as the Huffington Post does, we should be asking whether Heggen's been disciplined.
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Dir/scr: Luiz Bolognesi. Brazil. 2012. 75mins
A bold and striking adult animated film that traverses 600 years of Brazilian history – past and future – the ambitious Rio 2096: A Story Of Love And Fury fuses old-fashioned animation style with computer work and comes up with a film that blends legend with politics, finding plenty of room of sex, violence and mythology as it freewheels through the centuries.
The animation is relatively straightforward with the faces simply designed, but there are some striking backgrounds, especially when it comes the futuristic section of the film.
Closer to the multi-stranded generational hopping storyline of Cloud Atlas than usual traditional animated fare, but at the same time resisting the futuristic flourishes of anime, Luiz Bolognesi's film is aimed very much at Brazilian's as it dwells on dark moments from the country's past. The film screened at the Rio Film Festival. Re-voiced it could easily be a seller around the world.
The film opens in the future, where a man and woman stand atop a gleaming skyscraper in the middle of the night, targeted by militia forces. The male character (voiced by Mello) stares out into the night and simply says: "To live without knowing the past is to walk in the dark", and then switches back in time almost 600 years to 1566.
"I was born when Brazil was the name of a tree," says the man, who says his name was Abeguar and he was a Tupinamba Indian. Following the village ritual of manhood he stalks a jaguar, but is surprised by Janaina (voiced by Pitanga) with whom he is deeply in love. To escape a wild animal they are forced to leap (she climbs on his back) from a cliff…they survive a massive fall, and the village shaman claims Abeguar has been given a mission by the Gods to lead his people and that he will 'fly' again when the time is right.
He is told he will have to struggle against an evil called Anhanga (Anhanga is the devil of the Amazon Indians of Brazil. According to the myth, Anhanga is a formless shape-shifter who can assume many identities to deceive and torment humans).
The tribe joins forces with the French to kill (and eat) Portuguese settlers, but the Portuguese retaliate in force, decimate the local population and build a new village they call Rio de Janeiro where the tribe lived. When Janaina is killed he is distraught and decides to jump from a mountain – but he doesn't die, and is transformed into a bird.
He flies for 200 years before finding Janaina again, in 1825 living in a northern Brazilian forest in the body of another woman. Now calling himself Manuel Balaio the couple have two children, but despite being happy they are drawn into a rebellion against slave owners, but once again the rebels are put down by Portuguese military, and with his wife and daughters sold into slavery he turns into a bird again.
Next port of call is Rio of 1968 where he again finds Janaina who is part of the student rebellions against the military dictatorship. They are caught and tortured. Once again he turns into a bird and flies on until Rio of 2096 – flying cars, tower blocks, militia running the city and Christ the Redeemer still looking over the city, but with one arm broken off and covered in graffiti – where he finds Janaina as a singer in a futuristic bar.
Once again they rebel, and the film wraps atop a skyscraper (from the opening scene) where they are pinned down by militia. Once again she climbs onto his back and they leap from the building…
The animation is relatively straightforward with the faces simply designed, but there are some striking backgrounds, especially when it comes the futuristic section of the film. The film is adult at times - there is a little sex and more than a little violence - and intent on dealing with inicidents of oppression and cruelty through Brazilian history.
Production companies: Buriti Filmes, Gullane, Europa Filmes, Lightstar Studios, Mondo Cane Filmes, Estudio Luno, HBO
Producers: Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane
Co-producers: Lais Bodanzky, Luiz Bolognesi, Marcos Barreto
Associate producers: Selton Mello, Patrick Siaretta
Cinematography: Anna Caiado, Daniel Greco
Editor: Helena Maura
Art direction: Anna Caido
Music: Rica Amabis, Tejo Damasceno, Pupillo
Main cast: (voices) Selton Mello, Camila Pitanga, Rodrigo Santoro, Marcos Cesana, Bemvindo Sequeira, Sergio Moreno


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Sean Scannell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 334 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
The company Name is eximal, and the brand strapline is "2.0...the future"
Eximal are a 2-person technical / business consultancy based near Cambridge, UK.
The word "eximal" is an invented word. The historical logic is that in it's earliest days the company delivered a lot of training in the computer language XML - historically I have written the company name as eXiMaL capitalising the letters XML - this is no longer essential unless it makes for a better logo / brand image.
Formed in 2000 to deliver XML consultancy and training, the company activities broadened into the design and delivery of training in a range of Web development technologies. More recently the company has become a provider of technical and business consultancy.
The need for a logo and branding coincides with the launch of new business consultancy and training services under the banner of "2.0...the future" (all lower case) - where a core aspect is the provision of Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 / Productivity 2.0 consultancy and training services.
The strap-line "2.0...the future" is an essential aspect of the branding moving forward and reflects the mission of the consultancy to bring about business transformation within the client organisations.
Our target audience is business owners, C-level executives, senior business management (not limited to IT management / staff.)
The consultancy services will be delivered to senior business management, and training services across the organisation.
The logo and branding should appeal to a professional audience - but may include entrepreneurs and even start-ups - so the image needs to be exciting rather than staid.
The overall mission of the consultancy is to bring about business transformation within the client organisations.
We've tried to provide an open a brief - not wanting to constrain your creativity whilst also giving you some pointers.
The logo / branding will be used on our web site, presentation slides, printed brochures, business cards / letterheads, USB sticks, and maybe T-shirts.
The logo can include the "2.0...the future" strap-line, but ideally the strap should be able to be separated allowing use of the logo in one part of a printed page / Web page, and the "2.0...the future" strap-line elsewhere on the page.
The logo can include the company name "eximal" or it can be an abstract logo. There are no constraints on corporate colours.
Ideally the logo / branding should:
- be unique and memorable
- show a real "2.0" flair
- allow for a "favicon" for Web use
The ideal is that the logo / branding needs to be fresh, modern, contemporary, clean looking and the logo should have a wow factor.
The "must-have" aspects are that the design:
- must work on a white background (a nice to have would be that it also works on both white and grey / black backgrounds)
- must work with small and large print.
- should include font files if applicable as well as a "ready-to-go" PNG file and there should not be any issues with font licences
- artwork should also be delivered in vector format usable Corel Photo Pro X2 with layers intact (please discuss if this is an issue)
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Travis Webb necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 131 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Travis Webb or DJ Travis Webb
I am a producer/DJ. I produce house/trance music and DJ house, trance, pop/top40, and hip hop, with a large emphasis on house and trance. I plan on taking my music very far in the future and need a professionally designed logo.
My target audience is pretty much everyone in the world. I plan on my music reaching many, many people in the not too distant future. It's important that my logo catches the eye and is unique and memorable. The people that will see this the most at first are nightclub owners, clubbers, other DJs/producers, and people in this scene.
This logo will be on my computer, on my gear, on my business cards, on my website, on posters/flyers, on my CD covers, and everything else. I want something perfect the first time, I don't want to have to change it later on. I want people to see it once and recognize it from then on.
I plan on commenting on every single entry to give input and let you guys know what I'm thinking about your designs.
Also, make sure you read the comments on the contest page before starting your design. I've made a bunch of comments here on some of the designs already entered so that people can get a better idea of what I like.
I have already developed a rough sketch of what I'd like my logo to be similar to. I am an artist, but I am not proficient at photoshop or paint programs to put this into a flawless, digital format to make sure it is done right the first time and can be printed on many things. I would like it in a very high resolution format that can be printed on something as large as a poster or as small as a business card, and still look good.
For the most part, all you need to do is come up with something based on the sketch provided. But, I also would like to see YOUR spin on this. I would like you to use your own style and add some flavor to this.
I'm editing this with only 3 days in the contest left, and I'd like to say that the best designs so far were original ideas, not copies of my sketch, so please, if you have something awesome... lets see it :)
Also it is VERY important that whatever design you come up with, whether it has a logo or not, can be seen as unique and recognizable even if you take everything in the design away except for the letters of my name. If you break the design down to just the name itself, and it's just a boring font, I probably wont like it. If it has something special going on with the font then you probably have a much better chance.
You can do it in whatever colors you wish, whatever texture you wish, make it 3D/2D, you can add your own accents or take things away, you are free to play with it and make it appealing. Read the comments on the contest page about some of the designs that have already been submitted to get some ideas.
I want to emphasize that I am trying to not put too much restriction on your creative boundaries because you may have ideas better than my own. If you feel that you have an awesome idea that blows my design out of the water and don't want to use mine at all, I'd love to see what you have to offer.
One last thing. The picture I provide does not say "DJ" anywhere on it. I'd like to see variations of both.
I've provided these guidelines to get you thinking, but the only requirement set in stone is that it says "Travis Webb" or "DJ Travis Webb".
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Can the Court Calibrate the Speedy Trial Clock? (Bloate v. United States Argument Recap and Analysis)
Below, Akin Gump's Scott Street recaps last Tuesday's oral argument in Bloate v. United States. Check the Bloate v. United States (08-728) SCOTUSwiki page for additional updates.
For the most part, the Supreme Court considers two types of legal issues. It decides constitutional questions; on those issues, the Court gets to decide what the law should be. It also decides questions about federal statutes. On those questions, the Court certainly has the power to say, in the words of Marbury v. Madison, "what the law is," but it has always said that its primary goal is to determine Congress's intent, rather than what it thinks the law means.
Notwithstanding this sentiment, spectators at the oral argument in Bloate v. United States might have believed that several of the justices were acting as legislators. For example, Justice Ginsburg suggested that it would be unfair to include the time that a defendant spends preparing a pretrial motion in the Speedy Trial Act's seventy-day clock, but nonetheless to exclude the time that the government spends responding to the defendant's motion, even if the government receives additional time to respond to the motion. Justice Sotomayor wondered if judges would refuse to grant defendants additional time to prepare their pretrial motions if the judge had to issue findings on the record to exclude that time from the speedy trial clock. Similarly, several justices seemed concerned with the fact that different districts allocate different times for responding to pretrial motions. For example, one district may give a party seven days to respond to a motion, while another district gives a party twenty-one days to respond. With those different rules in place, the speedy trial clock will take longer to run in some districts because, as the parties here agree, the time spent responding to and deciding a pretrial motion is automatically excludable.
Although all of these concerns are legitimate, they have no relevance in this case. For instance, Congress lets the federal districts make their own rules for considering pretrial motions. Nothing in the Speedy Trial Act says that federal judges must spend the same amount of time deciding a pretrial motion in order to automatically exclude that time.
Because this case involves statutory interpretation, it was not surprising to see Justices Alito and Scalia focus on the plain language of the Speedy Trial Act. Justice Alito wondered whether time granted to prepare a pretrial motion could reasonably be called a period of delay resulting from a "continuance," such that it would qualify for exclusion from the speedy trial clock if the district judge found that the delay served the interests of justice and outweighed the defense and public interest in having a speedy trial. Justice Scalia then pondered how the government could define a "proceeding" concerning the defendant to include additional time spent preparing a pretrial motion when Congress specifically mentioned pretrial motions in the Speedy Trial Act; in his view, judges should automatically exclude time from the filing of the motion through its prompt disposition. Moreover, he noted, the Senate Judiciary Committee explicitly rejected a request by the Justice Department to include preparation time in that example because it found the request unreasonable, thereby strongly suggesting that Congress did not intend to automatically exclude such time under the "other proceedings" provision.
Justice Stevens, meanwhile, pointed out that, under the government's rule, some actions could qualify as both a "proceeding concerning the defendant," and thus be automatically excluded from the speedy trial clock, and as a "continuance," which would be excluded only if the judge specifically found that the granting of the continuance served the interests of justice and outweighed the speedy trial interests.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Bloate, however, is that the breadth of the "other proceedings" language that Congress used in the Speedy Trial Act arguably supports the government's interpretation. How, then, do we figure out what the statute means? At the very least, I expected the Court to focus more on the purpose of the Speedy Trial Act, which Congress enacted to further the criminal defendant's constitutional right to receive a speedy trial. Obviously, it would offend the defendant's speedy trial right to automatically exclude such time if the government requested it. But why should a defendant complain about interfering with his own right to a speedy trial? Thus, it seems logical to automatically exclude additional time that a defendant requests to prepare pretrial motions.
On the other hand, the Court has long recognized that the Speedy Trial Act also serves the public interest. As a result, it recently held that a defendant cannot prospectively waive his right to a speedy trial. And the Act itself states that a period of delay resulting from a "continuance" cannot be excluded simply because the defendant requested it""the judge must balance the interests of justice against the speedy trial interests to exclude that delay.
Those dueling policies collide in this case. But you would not know it from listening to the oral argument.
The Chief Justice raised a point that nobody else had considered but that ultimately will not decide this case. Here, when Bloate appeared at his arraignment, a magistrate judge set September 13 as the deadline for filing pretrial motions. Bloate asked for additional time to prepare those motions on September 7 and the judge granted his request the same day, extending the filing deadline to September 25 and setting the hearing on pretrial motions for October 4. On September 25, Bloate filed a pleading stating that he wished to waive his right to file pretrial motions. The magistrate judge considered that request at the October 4 hearing and granted it.
The lower courts treated the entire September 7 to October 4 period as automatically excludable. But, as the Chief Justice noted, the "delay" that resulted from Bloate's request for additional time occurred from September 13 to September 25, the period between the date that Bloate was supposed to file his pretrial motions and the date the judge extended that deadline to (everybody agrees that the period between the filing and the court's disposition of the motion must be excluded). That seems correct to me: how can a period that was already set aside for preparing pretrial motions constitute a "delay"?
Neither attorney expected that question and, therefore, neither could explain how the Chief Justice's calculation would affect this case. In fact, even if we count the time between September 7 and 13 against the speedy trial clock, Bloate was still brought to trial in under 70 days. Thus, the Court will still have to resolve the conflict between the Speedy Trial Act's dueling policies and I hope that they focus on more important issues than those that dominated the oral argument in doing so.


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In my current project I have requirement to upload an excel file, parse it and send the data to a third party system. I have no need to persist the file either in SharePoint or on disk and I don't need to keep the data in SharePoint since it's immediately sent the the 3rd party system. Since the site is hosted in SharePoint I'd like to take advantage of whatever I can from it.
Using a third party component like Aspose.Cells I can do most of that in a few lines of code but I'd rather not introduce another dependency or go through the licensing hassle. Is there a (easy) way I can do this with Excel services? I've looked at the SOAP and REST APIs and nothing really jumps out at me other than dropping the file somewhere, upload it, access it via the API, and then delete the file and destroy the old data in SP. Is there a way to handle a stream of an Excel file directly or handle a file without persisting it?
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When a popular young actress lands the lead in a horror remake, the death knell is usually sounding, as popularity is supposed to precede the land of remakes. But this project is a little different. A lot of eyebrows were raised when Ryan Murphy – he of Glee and American Horror Story fame – said he would be producing a modern take on the little-known 1976 flick The Town That Dreaded Sundown, but most of Murphy's work affects the eyebrows anyway, whether through confusion or frustration or jubilation – mostly all at the same time.
Deadline reports 22-year-old Addison Timlin has signed on for the lead role in the MGM horror effort, making it her second thriller this year, as the Dean Koontz adaptation Odd Thomas will be out in April. She's also in Bryan Poyser's recent comedy The Bounceback, and in Fisher Stevens' star-studded crime comedy Stand Up Guys, with Al Pacino, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken. Somehow I doubt The Town That Dreaded Sundown brings in any of those actors. On the TV side, Timlin was a recurring character on Showtime's Californication and on the recently cancelled series Zero Hour.
The film will be set in Texarkana, the site of the 1946 "Moonlight Murders," committed by the never-apprehended Phantom Killer. These murders inspired Charles B. Pierce's original film, and this modern take supposes there to be an annual tribute screening of his movie, where a copycat killer is reproducing the murders of Sackhead, the villain in the original. Timlin will play a survivor from one of the copycat's attacks, and she tasks herself with figuring out the mystery behind the murders, going back into her past to look for answers.
Longtime Murphy collaborator Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will be directing this meta update from a screenplay written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacs, who also penned the upcoming Carrie remake. This version of the tale sounds a little like Peter Bogdanovich's classic Targets, which featured one of the last performances from the legendary Boris Karloff. While this will no doubt be a flashier pic, time will tell if the thrills will remain when the sun goes down.
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BAKER � Local businesses, two North Okaloosa churches and the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office are raising drug abuse awareness this weekend.
Doug Griffith Memorial Stadium on Friday will host "Free 2013,� which will include activities � from inflatable bounce houses to flag football games and a dunking booth featuring Baker School staff � for sixth- through 12th-graders.
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Fun activities will mix with a reality check, courtesy of the sheriff�s office and Bonifay area resident Jerrod Jenkins, who will share his experience with substance abuse.
"He used to struggle with a drug addiction," said Justin Douglas, Pilgrim Rest youth minister. "He later got clean, got saved and is now a pastor."
Counseling and resources will be available for attendees needing assistance.
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Free 2013 is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Holt and Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, along with Oliver's Nursery and Hub City Smokehouse and Grill, which will provide free food.
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While much of the world celebrated the Allied defeat of Hitler in 1945, what they didn't know was that the Nazis were winning the war for control of much of the world's economy.
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"Star Wars Rebels" is adding a brand new alien species to the "Star Wars" universe.
Zeb is the latest character from the upcoming animated series to be introduced. He's a crew member of the starship Ghost, which will be at the center of the action in the series from Disney and Lucasfilm.
"It's just going to be exciting to develop him and his bizarre new species," says executive producer Dave Filoni in the latest video from Disney and Lucasfilm, "and to explain to the audience where he came from."
The video features concept art, clay sculptures and final renderings of the character, in addition to interviews from Filoni and creators of the character.
According to them, Zeb may look like a brute but is also a well-trained, highly educated honor guard on his home planet. He's an agile fighter who uses his acrobatics. He loves to beat up Stormtroopers, or bucket heads, as he calls them. He doesn't get along with everyone on the Ghost, including the droid Chopper and young crew member Ezra.
"He's got a bit of a chip on his shoulder, hates Chopper and is starting to build a relationship with Ezra, begrudgingly," says Steve Blum, who is voicing Zeb. He has voiced Wolverine in "Wolverine and the X-Men," and Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop."
Premiering with a one-hour special this fall on the Disney Channel before moving to Disney XD as a weekly series, "Rebels" will cover the action between big-screen films "Episode III--Revenge of the Sith" and "Episode IV--A New Hope."
Disney and Lucasfilm have been dropping teasers and introducing characters on a weekly basis to pump up the already huge interest in the series:
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