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MARQUETTE, Mich. – United States Olympic Education Center Greco-Roman wrestlers won two national champion titles at the ASICSJunior Nationals in Las Vegas Friday (March 19). Three other wrestlers took silver and four earned bronze.
In the 55-kilogram weight class, Isaiah Varona of Miami won his third national champion title. Varona pinned Nickolas Gaither of Suples Wrestling Club at 31 seconds into the second period of the quarterfinals. He also pinned Kyndall Rutz of Colorado USA Wrestling in the second period of the semifinals, ending the match at 45 seconds. Varona then faced Cameron Perry of Gilmer Bobcat Wrestling, winning 7-0, 1-0. In the gold-medal match, Varona faced Trey Andrews of the Bear Cave team, winning 4-2, 4-0.
Also earning a national champion title was Alejandro Sancho of Miami, competing at 66 kg. After pinning Timmy Box of the Dave Schulz Elite team in the quarterfinals at 1:19 in the first period, Sancho defeated Sahid Kargbo of Patriot Elite Wrestling 7-0, 1-3, 3-0, in the semifinals. In the championship match, Sancho defeated Rylan Lubeck of Badger wrestling 2-0, 3-3.
Earning a silver medal was Barrett Stanghill at 74 kg. Stanghill of Philipsburg, Mont., didn't give up a point through the semifinals, but fell to Geordan Speiller of the Florida Jets 0-2, 1-0, 0-1 in the gold-medal match.
Zeke Honegger of Lake Zurich, Ill., won silver at 79 kg. Honegger defeated his opponents in the quarter and semifinals by pin before meeting William Baker of Rocky Mountain Training in the finals. Baker came out on top 3-1, 5-1.
Recruit and current guest athlete Orry Elor of Walnut Creek, Calif., entered his first competition under the guidance of USOEC coach Rob Hermann. Elor faced Adam Coon of Fowlerville wrestling in the 120-kg finals, falling 2-4, 0-1 to capture the silver medal.
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It's true that canal-lined Venice is known for its regular flooding, but usually that means residents and tourists shuffle through ankle-deep water. This week, however, nearly three quarters of the city faced floods nearing the five-foot mark after an onslaught of rain and bad weather hit northern Italy, according to Reuters.
Two hundred people were forced to evacuate from their homes in Tuscany, and shops, homes and palaces were inundated with water in Venice. Water levels reached 149 cm (5ft)—the sixth highest level since records began in 1872.
While residents desperately tried to save their homes and possessions, tourists seemed to revel in the flooding, sitting at cafe tables in their bathing suits, playing in the waist-deep water, and swimming through St. Mark's square.
The water in Venice reached 149 cm (5ft)-high, the sixth highest level since records began in 1872.
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Dr. Dobb's: Tomas, what's the biggest difference between Enterprise/IT Virtualized Environments (desktop) and Embedded Virtualization when developing software?
TE: When developing for an IT hypervisor, most developers will not see a difference at all when comparing developing for the native operating system. The environments and binaries are typically identical. The same is true for embedded developers working at a high level. To them the virtualized and non-virtualized systems look the same.
But for embedded developers that are doing lower level of development, doing I/O on specific devices and optimizing the whole system to run as fast as possible, there is a difference. In an embedded hypervisor there are many "knobs" to turn when it comes to configuration that affects performance. For example, an embedded systems developer need to make some decisions on which OS the I/O devices should be mapped to.
In the IT space, very few developers are involved with systems programming (devices, memory maps, etc.). That is done once. Every embedded system looks a bit different and to get the most performance out of a given device, more effort is involved at the systems level.
Dr. Dobb's: Is it easier for programmers to move from embedded to desktop, or from desktop to embedded?
TE: It is always dangerous to generalize, but it is typically much easier to move from embedded to desktop for a multitude of reasons:
- For the desktop you are developing for a full-fledged machine that has a very rich OS environment. Embedded systems are often much more scaled down for cost reasons.
- The desktop hardware (a PC or server) is very stable. Embedded programmers often develop for systems that are being designed and developed in parallel with the software.
- When debugging on a desktop, you run your code on the same machine as your dev tools (native development). This simplifies things a lot. For an embedded system, the host and the target systems are typically separate (cross developments), which introduces a lot of extra variables (flaky connections, limited resources, etc.)
- Embedded systems typically have a lot more hardware interaction directly from the application code. Specialized devices etc. Both to understand the hardware and to debug code that interacts with hardware is notoriously difficult.
- IT/desktop developers are on a constant path to higher abstraction levels (binary code -> assembly -> C -> Java/C# -> J2EE/.net ->...). Even though it takes time to learn the higher abstraction layers, they also simplify development a lot (hopefully). Since these kind of abstraction levels seem to add overhead that surpasses Moore's law, most embedded systems are still programmed using fairly low-level languages (C/C++, Java in some specific verticals). Some people would argue that the jury is out when it comes to how much more efficient you become by using higher level abstractions, but this is a big difference. Even if you use C/C++ on your desktop, you typically have a much richer library environment to take care of common things.
In fact, many embedded developers start out with developing and testing their embedded software on the host (either using a simulator or using the host OS) and then port it over to the embedded platform when it is somewhat stable.
Dr. Dobb's: Are there differences between debugging multicore desktop systems and debugging multicore embedded platforms?
TE: Most of the differences are described above (limited, sometimes flaky hardware, cross debugging, interactions with hardware). One of the biggest hurdles I have seen for programmers making the transition to embedded development is that in order to be effective, you have to understand a lot more about the underlying system. Most good embedded developers look routinely at the generated assembly code to understand the behavior of the system. This is pretty rare for desktop programmers.
Dr. Dobb's: Where can readers go for more information on these topics?
TE: A good place to start is the Wind River website. There's lots of information there, particularly in regards to hypervisors. And Mark Hermeling's blog is always good.


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A homeless man broke a bottle and threatened to cut and kill another man during a parking lot dispute, according to an arrest report.
DESTIN - A homeless man broke a bottle and threatened to cut and kill another man during a parking lot dispute, according to an arrest report.
On Jan. 2 Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputies were called to the parking lot at Palmetto Place Plaza on Palmetto Avenue to investigate a dispute. There, they learned the suspect, 51-year-old Roy Ronald Rowell, no address given, began arguing with another man. During the argument he broke a bottle, armed himself with the broken end and advanced toward the other man, threatening to cut and kill him, the deputies were told.
A witness agreed with this sequence of events.
Rowell admitted he'd been in an argument with the man, but said the other man threatened to kill him. As the other man advanced, Rowell backed away. He slipped and fell, shattering the bottle. He admitted that once he got back up, he threatened to cut and kill the other man.
The area where Rowell syas he fell didn't have any shattered glass. Broken glass appeared in another area, and a trail of glass led to where the two were found.
When deputies took Rowell into custody and searched him, they found a metal pipe he said he used to smoke marijuana.
He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, and drug equipment possession.
His court date is Feb. 26.


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NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: DODGERS v PHILLIES
October 9, 2008
Charlie Manuel
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Game One
THE MODERATOR: Questions for Charlie Manuel.
Q. When you're facing an opposing manager, whoever it is, whether it's Joe Torre or somebody during the regular season, are there patterns to the way a guy manages? Do you have any kind of idea about that, about what he may or may not do tendencies and decision-making during a game?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, we have in our reports that we get and everything, there's a report about the managers and his tendencies and things, but that doesn't mean that they stick to that all the time.
And that's just something that you -- definitely I read and I look at and I try to remember some of the things. But I'm sure that Jimy Williams, some of our staff people, they'll recommend something if we think we've really got something.
But a lot of times the manager, he manages by how the game's going, and of course his personnel and things. And if we can pick up anything, we do, but at the same time that can -- he usually runs the game kind of the way he wants to.
Q. When Pedro Feliz left San Francisco, the assumption was by going to a friendly ballpark his numbers would go up, and they actually went down a little bit. Do you have any theories why and were you expecting a little more offense from Pedro?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think it -- first of all, I think this is Pedro's first year over here. And I think the type of person that Pedro is and who he is and his personality and things, and also being new here has a lot to do with it.
I think this guy, I've always said, this year he could be a much better hitter. When I say much better hitter, I'm talking about hitting .275 to .300. And I think eventually you might see his numbers get a lot better.
This year he has got some real big hits for us. At times it's really -- it's hard to tell exactly when he's going to deliver. That's kind of the fun of it, really, because he'll come through with a big hit at a moment you never expected.
But he has a real good swing. He has a good approach at the plate. He's got good balance. And to my -- believe me, I don't know how to answer really. When I sit and think about it sometimes, I'd just like for him to be just a little bit more aggressive, and I think he could be a much better hitter.
But he's a tremendous defensive player and we couldn't ask for a better defensive ball player at third base. And he has gotten some real big hits for us.
Q. I know you had a lot of success as a player in Japan. Could you talk a little bit how that affected you as a manager, maybe in strategy or your attitude toward managing?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think probably from an attitude standpoint, I think -- I've said this often, if I had never gone and played baseball in Japan I don't think I would have been a coach or manager. I think the fact what I learned was I learned that from a discipline standpoint there's more people -- there's a lot of different people in the world and there's more people in the world than Charlie Manuel. And I mean that I learned to respect things more, I learned everything about the part of the -- the knowledge in the other people that are around me and I was definitely more of an individual guy here as far as playing the game and everything.
I've always been a guy who didn't get to play in the Big Leagues and I used to pull from my teammates and all that. I've had Harmon Killebrew say to me before and I always took it as a compliment, he said, You might be the greatest player on the team that never played. And I took that -- he meant that because I'll always be talking. But as far as getting to really know and understanding people, really start caring about things, I think I learned that in Japan.
I think their ways, their discipline, their culture and things like that, I think it was something that I took time to learn not only learn myself but like I learned that there's more people in the world than Charlie Manuel. I learned to care about more things.
Q. Briefly, strategy, any one thing you'd use? Strategy, any one thing that you do that you do different because you were there, workouts, approach to pitching?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Definitely workouts. Like especially when I was in the minor leagues and when I was a hitting coach. Practice to me made -- I came to the conclusion that practice made perfect. And now that my health is not as good as it used to be, I definitely -- the physical part of it would be hard for me to do what I used to do. But when I managed in the minor leagues no team in baseball hit more than we did.
Like I think that our players, definitely they enjoyed it. And I think especially the years I spent managing in AAA baseball, I think I had some of the best talent a guy could have, and I think we were very dedicated and we did a lot of hard work.
When I was a hitting coach in Cleveland, I used to see Walt Hriniak, he was a big worker, hard worker, and I was determined he was not going to outwork our guys. And that was kind of a self-motivation thing, and I think in Japan is where I learned how to practice. And I learned how to be dedicated actually to myself and really get something, get as much out of the game as I possibly can.
And I think that's where I really became in control of myself. And everything became positive for me in baseball.
Q. I've read that Jayson Werth last year dropped off a tape, highlight tape of his season from 2004 in an attempt to get you to get a little more playing time. Do you recall that and did you watch it?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yes, I do. I still have his tape. It's in my computer bag, and I watch it sometimes. Yes, he did. And, yeah, like I of course talk to him about his hitting, about his swing, about his setup, his approach at the plate.
Q. Before the Brewers series you talked about wanting to -- when you're deciding where to throw Brett and Jamie you talked about throwing Brett at home. And his numbers this year are a lot better at home. You obviously played a hitters' park, why do you think he has so much success here?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Actually, the game, the pitch against Milwaukee, when I was watching him, the crowd kind of got behind him, and the type of personality Myers is I think he feeds off of that. I think he feels like that they're with him and they're pulling for him. I think it's kind of -- it kind of motivates him. It kind of sets him off. I think he gets more determined and I think it helps him to stay focused. Who he is, like who he is and the fact that like that he knows that they're pulling for him and he hears the noise, he knows that's for him, I think that helps make him better.
Q. There's some key players on both teams who are going into their -- who will be free agents after this season. Do you think that factors in at all in how they perform, like late in the season and in the post-season and all?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think if a guy is a free agent, I think it's only natural that he wants to really play good every day. He wants to do his best. Put the best possible year up. I think of nothing better than to be on a team that wins the World Series and be part of it. I think if you were a free agent, that would play a role in especially you being a winner and also possibly other teams would look at you as more of a leader, too.
And I think definitely that is a selling point for an agent.
Q. You started Chooch four games in the Milwaukee series, continues to struggle offensively, do you plan to ride him out here or do you see a scenario a game to coach here or there?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I don't really know. As long as we keep playing good, as long as we win, that's why Chooch has been getting to play. Like Coste, he wasn't having a very good September and just started catching Chooch some and we started winning games. That's the only reason that Coste hasn't been getting to play quite a bit. Like I've been going with what's been working for us, and I like Ruiz basically, too, a little bit better because of his defense, and he throws a little better.
Outside of that, Coste definitely has a better bat. And the fact that we've been winning, we've had a good September and that's why -- and he was struggling hitting a little bit, Coste was, and that's why Ruiz has caught more.
Q. Brett was in here a little earlier, seemed pretty loose and relaxed. He was joking around. That generally something you'd like to see out of him on a day before a start?
CHARLIE MANUEL: To me, that's who he is. If you look at him, the night before he pitches sometimes and we're playing, he'll be down in the dugout, he'll be moving around everywhere. Can't sit down and as long as he -- as long as he's loose and it's conducted in a good way, it's great.
Let him be that way because that's going to help him pitch the next day, that's fine. He's always been like that. He's always very energetic. He's always moving around. Of course, he's rearing and ready to go. And there, again, that's why I think when he feels like the fans are behind him and everything, I think he pitches better here.
Q. You said yesterday that you expected an evenly balanced series. It would be fair to say, wouldn't it, that your lineup has an edge in productivity, power?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Power-wise? Think I would say -- yeah, I would give power to our team, yes. I think the Dodgers, though, you've got to remember they do have Manny, Manny hit 30-some home runs 37, something like that. I want to say 37 or 38. But also they've got guys like Kemp. They've got a lot of guys who have from 15, almost, or 20, in that area. They've got down through their lineup they've got what I call balanced power.
If you look -- and of course we've got some our guys, Burrell, and Utley has over 30. Rollins can hit the ball out of the ballpark, so can Victorino and so can Feliz and Werth. Yeah, we've got some power.
Q. Talk a little bit about the influence Walter Austin had on your career and talk about your managerial style, how you've been able to get so much out of your bench players, Greg Dobbs has been one of the best pinch hitters in the league and you've really done a great job these last couple of years getting extra out of your players.
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think Walter Austin, at that time, like I said, I felt like I wasn't interested in coaching. I wasn't interested in managing. I just wanted to get to play. I was sitting on the bench with the Dodgers, I never got to play. And seemed like for some reason I'd always land close to him. And he didn't say a whole lot but he would talk to me during the game and things.
The more that I would sit there and watch him and the more and how -- actually how calm and cool that he was and how he had a lot of respect for his coaches and the people around him, I think that definitely -- the more I think about it, I think definitely I learned something from him.
And Walter Austin was the kind of guy when I was in spring training, when I first went to the Dodgers, I'll never forget this, in Vero Beach I didn't know anybody, I just left there from the Twins, and my first day there we eat at this cafeteria, and they had grits. Because I was from the South, I was the only guy they gave grits to.
They put a big stack of grits on my plate. Actually I didn't really like grits. And Austin came down sat beside me. He looked at me and he said, man, you must like grits. I kind of looked up, I said, not really. He sat down started eating like he started eating breakfast with me.
And like when they didn't know you, didn't matter who you was or what. Like if you're sitting there, like he would -- he'd sit down eat lunch or breakfast with you. Or he would see -- he'd be walking down the street sometimes and see you in a restaurant, and you'd get up and go to pay the bill he'd already picked up the check. Things like that. I was always like -- the things you pick up from someone.
And he always had time to talk to you. And I think you'd be surprised sometimes people in baseball that do not talk to the players or people. And I think I always liked that because he always made you feel like you were part of the team and you were wanted. At the same time he was very quiet and he carried a lot of respect. He kind of carried it naturally.
And of course his managerial career speaks for itself.
Q. So do you pick up a lot of checks now? And second question is why Dobbs, why Feliz over Dobbs?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I do pick up checks as long as the Phillies are paying for it. Dobbs has been -- he's a big asset on our team. You guys know that. Today I looked at our lineup. We've got Hamels pitching, and like he throws a lot of changeups and he likes to keep the ball close to the right-hand hitters, and so therefore the defense definitely comes into play.
But I looked and I saw where Dobbs against Lowe was like 0-for-9 and I remember the game he pitched this year when I played Dobbar and I seen Feliz 3-for-25 with two home runs and two or three walks, seven Ks, and I thought to myself, like, who we had pitching and everything. I figured that I would play Feliz tonight. That doesn't mean that Dobbs -- Dobbs might play tomorrow. And I like Dobbs' bat. I've talked to Dobbs about his defense and everything.
And actually I think the more he gets to play, the better that he will play. I think he definitely can play regular. I think it's just a matter of him getting to play more.
Q. It's one thing to believe you can win with a certain group of guys, and it's another thing to accomplish it like you did with the division series win over Milwaukee, to get over that first-round hump. What did that do for you winning the first round, you personally, and then some of the core guys, especially as it will affect the series you're about to go into?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I look at that everything we do, like I definitely -- playing and winning the games, I think the players definitely -- they're the ones that do the playing, they're the ones that execute it. They're the ones that get the hits and pitch and they're the ones that catch the ball. Do I have something to do with it? I hope so.
But at the same time I look at that as it's definitely their time and you're like they're the ones that they make you a good manager. Just like I said yesterday. Manny Ramirez can make you a good hitting coach. And I mean that.
I put my time in and I want to see -- I want to see us improve. Actually, I want to see us play perfect. And at the same time, like I would definitely want to communicate with my players, and I want them to look at me as being honest and fair and true to them, but at the same time I also feel like I am the guy in charge and I think that's the communication part that comes into play, and I think when it comes down to playing, I think we know exactly how we want to play and it's up to me to kind of turn them loose and let them go at it.
Q. What do you expect of the level of contribution Kuo is going to make and how does that change their bullpen?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think Kuo, I think they definitely would want to put him on Howard and Utley and I think that he -- I think it depends on like how much he can pitch. And like in how he feels. And, I don't know, I'm kind of pulling that he would be feeling pretty bad, really. But he's a good pitcher. He pitched good against us and he's got good stuff, and he's very good.
Q. How seriously, if at all, did you consider adding Rudy (Seanez) to the roster and getting Happ off the roster?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I considered that. Rudy is a guy early in the season and all the way up through the middle of the season he did a tremendous job for us. Had a little down period in the start of September. And when he came back, he got some work in, not a whole lot, and when Happ -- Happ of course he started some games for us, a couple of games for us, he did a good job.
But when we look at it, Happ, I like Happ on the roster because of the fact that he can give us -- be our long guy, like if we need innings at the start of the game if something happens and it gets out of control.
And I'd say the biggest thing is if we have a tie game and it goes extra innings, goes a long time, like in extra innings, and multiple innings, I think he's the guy on our club that can give us that.
Say it goes over 12, 13, 14, 15 innings or something, or 10 innings, whatever, I think from there on out, say it goes from 10 to 15 innings, I think he's the guy that we got that would be the guy that would have to pitch that.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Charlie.
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Kansas lawmakers abandon hope for 80-day session
Kansas legislators are returning to the Statehouse to continue their annual session certain they'll miss their goal of finishing business in 80 days.
Monday was the 80th day of the session, and Republican leaders of the GOP-dominated Legislature didn't expect an agreement on tax cuts and a state budget until later in the week.
The Republican leaders have said throughout the year they expected to trim 10 days from what's normally scheduled as a 90-day session.
But the House disagrees with the Senate's proposal to cancel a sales tax decrease scheduled by law for July to stabilize the state budget while enacting fresh income tax cuts.
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Houston's overall crime levels remained largely flat in 2012, compared with the previous year, but the numbers provided by the Houston Police Department offer little comfort to Dwight Bordelon.
Bordelon, who visited the City Council last week and again Wednesday, complained of a rash of burglaries in his Washington Avenue corridor neighborhood.
"When I did speak with the police on the telephone yesterday, the sergeant indicated that, in fact - and he made a very strong point several times - crime was not increasing. I'm here to tell you it is," Bordelon said. "The crime is significant in my neighborhood, and it's not being addressed."
Bordelon's remarks came as Mayor Annise Parker and Police Chief Charles McClelland touted an 8 percent drop in crime during their three years in charge, compared with the prior three years, crediting prudent use of technology, good police work, the awareness and cooperation of the public and efforts to educate citizens about crime prevention.
Robberies jumped more than 16 percent in 2012 from the year prior, and murders and car thefts also increased, but the number of reported rapes, aggravated assaults, burglaries and thefts all declined. The seven categories are known as Part I crimes under the Uniform Crime Reports, a national index compiled by the FBI.
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"What you take from the data depends on where you live," said Larry Hoover, a professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State University. "The average citizen should be encouraged by the data. Whatever the background reasons, there's been real progress in crime control. But crime remains unacceptably high in many stressed neighborhoods. Crime is not evenly distributed across any major city, including Houston."
Hoover added that Bordelon's area does not appear to be a "stressed neighborhood" with fundamental crime problems, but more likely is being targeted by a few prolific burglars.
Houston's experience mirrors a sharp national decline in crime rates that began in 1992 and has continued more gradually since 2000, Hoover said, likely driven by high incarceration rates and many other factors.
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"When we say crime stats are going down, it could also be that citizens are not reporting crime as much. It could also be that certain types of crimes are moving to other parts of the city or outside of the city," he said. "When we say crime is going down in the city of Houston, it doesn't necessarily mean that citizens in Houston are safer."
Parker later referenced Bordelon's concerns, saying police data do not show a spike in crimes in his area. She asked residents to report all incidents to police, adding that citizens must help prevent crime by not, for instance, leaving valuables visible in their cars.
"If you are a crime victim, one crime is too many to you, and we understand that," McClelland said. "And, certainly, there are challenges, some pockets around this city that give us a little bit more difficulty than others. But I think we have improved in our efficiency by using technology to react to these type of hot spots more quickly."
Hoover said HPD deserves credit for implementing proven techniques such as hot spot policing and adding a center that tracks incidents nearly in real-time. HPD applied hot spot techniques last May in several neighborhoods after spikes in violent crimes during the first quarter of 2012.
District 18, which includes the Sharpstown area, had reported a 26 percent first-quarter increase over 2011, and ended 2012 with an increase of 5.7 percent, said HPD spokesman John Cannon. Nearby District 19, south of Interstate 10 and west of Beltway 8, had reported a 35 percent jump early last year, and ended the year with a 3.5 percent drop.


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Day 4: the final stage of the Tour. And I was worried.
This was the longest day, with each leg delivering its own dose of pain. Leg 1: Strawberry Fields, a short but intense climb leading to a long run to the rest stop. Attacking here is a must, but then it's almost hopeless to hold a gap the rest of the way. Leg 2: Harris Grade. This is the most challenging climb on the whole official route. It winds up a hill, with multiple right-hand-turns presenting themselves as strong candidates for the summit, until eventually you hit the actual peak and it's a technical descent to the rest stop in Lompac. Then next is Gaviota Pass, a long, painful, windy grind ending in a final steeper pitch to the summit and a screaming-fast descent to US101 and the final rest stop. Then finally the long run to Galena along the Hwy 101 shoulder. From the exit it's still a considerable distance to the finish, but along scenic Cathedral Oaks and Foothill Ave, a purely enjoyable finish to the long day.
So I was scared.
At the start, as we were gathered in the parking lot of the Rose Garden Inn in San Luis Obispo, I mentioned to Dave Hover that I viewed the day as 3 big doses of pain. "Is that a prediction or a plan?" he responded. I admitted it was a plan. "Dan says he's going to win the KOM on Strawberry, Harris Grade, and Gaviota!" Dave shouted. It was funny, but really I hoped he was right.
Leg 1
I rode near the back of the group until the strawberry fields appeared on the right and left, then I moved up towards the front. Katherine shouted "Dan's moving up!" So much for stealth.
Then the tandem attacked. It was a bold acceleration, opening an impressive gap well before the right turn onto the climb. I thought this was useful: if the tandem had a gap going into the climb, fewer riders would be on its wheel by the top of the climb, and that was fewer riders dragged back to me when, as was inevitable, I was caught before the "sprint".
I didn't react immediately. Instead I waited for the turn and the climb. Immediately after the corner I moved up past the few riders ahead of me then accelerated hard. I quickly caught and passed the tandem, but at that point, I realized I'd overdone it for my present fitness and freshness. I started to fade. Fortunately nobody was with me, but I was breathing hard, struggling to keep my speed, as I crested the top with Eddie with his video camera capturing the view of me riding with snool dripping from my chin.
I crossed the summit and began the first, brief descent. It used to be the key on the descent was to not have any cross-traffic at the intersection at the bottom. Now it's to get a green light at the traffic signal which replaced the stop sign. Last year I got stopped. This year I got the green. I needed all the help I could, and I appreciated the good luck.
It's rollers from here. I felt a bike approaching from behind: this was the tandem, obviously. But it wasn't; it was Jeff. Cool. We traded pulls, I reminding myself when I slot onto a wheel I want to be in a lower gear to accelerate, not a higher one. Jeff was looking back frequently, but I didn't care about what was happening behind. This was all about sustaining the pain.
Jeff finally said the tandem was approaching. There was nothing much to do other than to keep going. The tandem is expert in "the catch": they pass with a huge speed differential, making it extremely difficult to get into their draft. And that's what they did here. We descended past another video cameraperson (I didn't catch who this was) and almost immediately after the tandem conclusively passed on our left.
But never give up, I told myself. Jeff kept at it as well. We briefly stabilized the gap, maybe even closed it a bit, but it was too little. Eventually, mercifully, we reached the sign marking the sprint. Jeff and I didn't contest it between us. The rest stop was soon after. We arrived seconds before the food van. Leg 1 was done.
It turned out Jeff had made the green light, but the others had all gotten red. Only the tandem was fast enough to cover the gap. We had a good time at the rest stop recounting the fun and so this stop was even longer than the typically long stops of the 2014 MDR. But it was all good, as we were enjoying each other's company.
Leg 2
After a long break finally a large group of us set off. I'd seen Pucci leave but I wasn't sure who'd gone with him. Our group were almost immediately split by one of the many red lights on the way out of Lompac. I was in the trailing group, and expressed frustration that we'd sat around for so long waiting for a large group to depart together, then we were going to be split up by stupid bad luck at a traffic light. But the front group missed a light 4 or 5 blocks later and we were back togther.
Since the tandem wasn't with us to take command of the front position, we had a nice, steady paceline with long, smooth pulls along the highway shoulder to the base of Harris Grade. First you resist the temptation to exit at Vandenberg, then the grassy hills appear on the right, then you take the right turn onto the very rural-looking Harris Grade. I was near the front.
First, there's a straight flat portion before the road does a right-angle right turn and begins to gently climb before turning left, disappearing from view. As we turned onto the flat portion I could see up ahead on that first climbing bit maybe 5 riders clumped together. That must have been Mike Pucci's group, I decided. I was a bit surprised it was that big. I wondered if I could catch them.
We crossed colored chalk marks on the road: "MDR 2014!" Janine had announced that she'd purchased colored chalk for road marking, but this is the first I'd seen it used. It's goofy, but it really does boost spirits.
When we took the right to start the climbing, I accelerated, getting a gap. Up that first climb, then a left, then a bit of a descent before beginning the climb proper.
I rode steadily, charting my progress by the group ahead, which was coming into clearer view. Finally I caught them, but as I did, so did one of the food vans, a motorcycle, and several other cars. It was a mess. I tried to be patient, waiting for the congestion to break up. Finally it did and I was on my way again.
Past the main group there were a few other riders from that group further up the hill. Finally I hit the "end game" of the climb, a series of right hand turns which appear to be the top, but then when you clear them, you see the road snaking further into the distance to the next right turn. There's around four of these.
Mike Pucci was ahead. I tried to focus on closing the gap to him, but it would be hard. Usually on this climb I'm hoping for top, but this time, the more road I had, the more chance I had to catch him. As I chased, Wes came descending the other way. He'd obviously reached the top and was returning to join one or more other riders. "200 meters!" he shouted. More chalk marks on the road here: "MDR" and other messages. Oof! I wasn't going to catch Mike.
A few riders were gathered at the summit. What was this, Team In Training? Hardly -- the game was on: the race was to the rest stop. Mike had slowed for the group, but I powered past, going straight into the descent. As I did so I could hear extremely heavy breathing well behind me. It was Peter Tapscott, who's asthma resulted in him making a disturbing sound, but which didn't seem to slow him down much.
My bike was fine on the descent, but Harris Grade has had an issue with gravel in corners, so I was cautous. Michael caught me, not surprisingly, and I followed his wheel the rest of the way. But we hadn't gotten far when we were joined by another rider. It was Peter! I was impressed. He'd closed a considerable gap in a relatively short descent. Peter's a superb descender, as I've long known, and he obviously had more confidence in his ability to react to uncertain road conditions than I did. But Peter's safety record descending is excellent. No excuses here.
Now it was three of us. Peter was the clear favorite for a sprint. But instead of a leg-ripping paceline to hold off a chase, Peter was actually chatty. He was talking about the climb, talking about late apexing corners, talking about all sorts of stuff. Meanwhile I was grimly focused on the serious competition in which we were engaged. Of course, if there was a sprint, Peter was going to take it, no matter who joined us excepting perhaps the tandem.
Like Strawberry Fields, the run-in to the rest stop after this descent was longer than I remembered. Yet there's no obvious sprint point: just a series of traffic lights in Lompoc. We rolled into the rest stop together.
Later, when I checked Strava, my Harris Grade time was a full minute slower than last year, when I'd been trying to hold off Paul and Kerry. They weren't here this year. A part of that time was the much heavier bike this year (heavy fork, rack, handlebar bag, tires, and the frame was likely heavier as well, although I didn't weight the stripped frame). Part was that traffic in which I'd been caught. But a part was fitness: Strawberry Fields took more out of me this year. Last year I'd gone into MDR with the Devil Mountain Double behind me. This year my longest ride had been an SF2G in the low-50's.
Leg 3
Leg 3 is probably the most painful of all. It's dominated by a long, slow grind to Gaviota Pass, then a raging descent to where Highway 1 finally terminates into US101. This, for me, is the last really competitive leg, the fourth including a long slog along the US101 shoulder, which for me is literally an excercise in survival rather than any concern about speed.
At the stop, I noted to Peter I'd eaten less the preceding 24 hours than I'd expected. I even had problems swallowing any food at the rest stops. He concurred, noting he'd ordered "his usual" breakfast but could eat only half of it. Maybe it was the heat: today certainly wasn't hot, but was warmer than the cool weather we'd had so far.
We rolled out in a big group. Sooner than I expected we reached the right turn onto what Google Maps calls Julien Road. From here, it was a long slog on the chipseal shoulder all the way to the pass. Very gentle uphills, a few gentle descents, until the last uphill grind. And the wind: there was a substantial cross-wind which turns this section into long, protracted suffering.
Soon after the turn a group of four or five had established a gap. I'm not sure how, I'm not sure why. It just appeared.
The route to Gaviota pass was a long, long effort, and I was tired. Burning a match to bridge a gap which was going to close anyway would have been a big mistake. So I looked around: there was the tandem to the left, Wes on the right. No problem: one or both of these riders would shut this down.
I noted this to Kathleen, who was riding next to me. "The tandem's here, Wes is here; no problem!"
"The tandem won't be here long," she replied.
Kathleen was right. The next time I looked up the tandem had bridged, and was powering the lead group away. Damn. And where was Wes? I felt like I was trapped in a dream, where people and bikes teleported hither and thither without warning, or in the case of Wes, simply self-annihilated.
Ben was there, taking pulls, as was Dan and I. But it was clear we weren't making progress. Dan went to the front and ramped up the effort. This popped Ben, leaving only me on Dan's wheel. Then Dave Hover bridged up.
The three of us rode well, taking steady, even pulls. We finally passed Michael Rowe, punctured on the right side of the road. There were a bunch of punctures on this stretch. I later learned Wes had indeed not self-annihilated, but rather had been one of the flat victims, right near the beginning. This is why we'd not seen him.
Then Hover flatted. I slowed to help. "Go on!" he shouted. I hesitated, but then continued. If he was missing anything he could always get help from the following group.
Finally we reached the last, steeper climb to the pass. I put in a hard effort here, dropping Dan. Over the top, the descent to Gaviota....
The cross-winds here were substantial. There's basically no curves: it's more or less straight down, so I hoped I'd be okay. Last year I remember Wes shimmying in the wind, while I was okay on my Ritchey Breakaway. I was very much not okay today. I suddenly lost control of the bike, drifting from the right side to the left of the shoulder. A large truck descended the road just ahead. Getting thrown into the path of overtaking traffic didn't seem like a solid plan.
So I slowed: a lot. I came almost to a stop, then slowly increased my speed. This was the third time on the tour I'd had to slow subtantially down to control my bike, after Laureles Grade on day 1 and the first KOM descent on day 2. After the tour, I realized my headset had gone slightly loose. The stem is clamped by a single bolt, and it wasn't tight enough, causing the front end to develop excess play. I don't know why I didn't realize this earlier. I have an amazing ability to not notice things. Was this the cause of my instabilities? I've not tested that yet.
Dan repassed me on the descent, but then slowed when he was uncertain of the way. The end of Highway 1 is counterintuitive, because to go south, you turn to the north. The road eventually loops around so you're pointing south again.
The old rest stop which we've all grown to love in a way due to what it signifies was gone: blocked off for construction to some untrusted purpose. Instead we had a dirt pull-out. A bunch of riders were there already, including a beaming Peter Tapscott, who'd won the KOM to the pass. I tried to share his joy, to admire the impressive views of the nearby hills, but honestly I was bitter, so very bitter, that I'd missed the opportunity to bridge that gap at the base of the climb.
Leg 4
Last time I'd missed a group roll-out from this stop, but this year we were in a nice group. I was mostly at or near the back, leaving a bit of a safety gap, since there were tire shreds and other debris littering the shoulder. To spice things up further there were for most of the distance rumble strips around 2 feet inside the fog line. The strips would come and go, disappearing near entrances, exits, and intersections. These gaps would typically induce people to use that part of the shoulder to avoid debris, until the strips would reappear, then riders would get caught in them. At one point a water bottle was lost, but I dodged it. I was getting good practice at dodging things, with all the tire shards, hub caps, random pieces of metal, and the odd tree branch.
Peter was pulling the whole way, which was quite nice. I thought back to my first MDR, when this was a paceline-from-hell death march, reaching the Goleta exit sprint completely spent. Not this year. It was a nice steady cruise over very un-nice roadway.
The exit finally, mercifully arrived, and we all tool the left for Cathedral Oaks. This used to be considered an "optional" route, but has been converted to the mainstream route when I helped convinced Janine of it's vast superiority. Yes, it's hillier, but it's so very much nicer than riding down the main road, which becomes State Street in Santa Barbara.
Cherries! (in the truck)
So we all went that way. I expressed how much I looked forward to buying cherries at the cherry vendor near San Marcos Road. It was the primary motivation for having bought this bike and handlebar bag, I said. Sure enough, when we arrived at the stand, I indicated my intent to go, and turned from the group. "Shouldn't we all buy cherries?" Peter asked. But the others were too close to the goal; they didn't want to stop. Several of them were after beer & pizza at a traditional stop near the Lemon Tree hotel, our ultimate destination. Peter described the pizza stop as a good place to wait for rooms to become ready. I think Peter was remembering a faster past for the ride. There wouldn't be much of a wait for rooms this year.
Wheelchair athlete on Cathedral Oaks/Foothill
So I was alone from here. It was still a considerable distance, over 10 miles. But I munched the occasional cherry, and it was nice. I made a few efforts on some of the gradual, short climbs. I passed an impressive wheel-chair athlete. It was all good.
The long-standing error in the route sheet, recommending Roque instead of Alamar, had been fixed. I arrived at the hotel. The tour was done.
Giant lasagna
The rest of the day was nice. Protein drink, snack, shower, hot tub, post-tour festivities in said hot-tub, ceremonial bike loading into the U-haul, awards dinner with my giant "vegetarian option" lasagna. I skipped the ice cream social afterwards (the lasagna had been plenty) as well as the crowd who went dancing in Santa Barbara and instead got a good night's sleep.
Mission Santa Barbara chalk art
The next morning I went to the Coffee Bean, and nearby coffee place I really like, and got an Odwalla. I also had some food left over from my SLO Trader Joe's run. I then walked over to Mission Santa Barbara for the annual display of chalk art, a wonderful event which Bob Stenz had introduced me to years before (Bob couldn't make the tour this year). Then it was time to load into the vans for the long drive home.
The highlight of that drive is the King City stop, where I got fresh tortillas (truly amazing) and some tacos in the nearby stand. The tacos are great because of the tortillas, baked the same day just down the street. The low point was clearly the one hour delay from a crash on Highway 101 just south of Gilroy. It's always a traffic choke-point, and the addition of the collision made it that much worse.
On the Baby Bullet
But I was in good company, so the 6 hour drive seemed a lot faster than that. We eventually got back to Dave and Michelle's. There I helped unload the bikes from the U-Haul which arrived around 20 minutes after us (I accidentally got a drivetrain on my pants... yuck). Then I fetched my rear rack and panniers, installed them on my bike, transferred my duffle bag and contents to the panniers and front bag, then rode back to San Jose where I arrived with 3 minutes to spare for the "weekend" Baby Bullet train. It was an exhausting day: more tiring than any of the four riding days But I was home.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The Georgia College & State University soccer team continues to make post-season noise, pulling in six slots on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-South Region Scholar list.
Junior goalkeeper Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.) headlines the list, taking first-team honors with a 3.59 GPA in general business. The Bobcats landed two players on the third team, as juniors Jessica Binkowski (Cumming, Ga.) and Ally Treat (Fayetteville, Ga.) were chosen. Binkowski has a 3.94 in biology, while Treat records a 3.86 in the same major. All three players were All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) each of the past two seasons, with Plunkett being chosen the first All-American in program history for this season's effort.
Selected to the Honorable Mention list were a trio of senior forwards in Kara Teresi (Tampa, Fla.), Lyric Burnett (Douglasville, Ga.) and Jamie Nevin (Grovetown, Ga.). Nevin's 3.93 in math is highest among the three, with Burnett and Teresi posting a 3.57 and 3.43, respectively.
"We are very proud yet again of all these girls and their complete commitment to excellence in every area of their lives," said Bobcat head coach Juan Pablo Favero. "Their academic achievement had earned them this tremendous honor and they are all great ambassadors of our team, and of Georgia College as a whole."
As a member of the first team in the region, Plunkett will move on to the national ballot.
Despite a difficult schedule, this was the third-straight double-digit win season for the Bobcats at 10-6-5. Georgia College continues to be one of the top teams in the conference, suffering just one loss in PBC play, and landing six players to the All-PBC teams this season, more than any other school. The Bobcats also took the most positions on the PBC All-Academic Team, getting nine players on that list.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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I got this book from Quirk Marketing several months ago, and have been putting off writing a review even though I read it fairly quickly. I wasn't quite sure what to say, you see.
Night of the Living Trekkies creates an original story with zombies rather than taking a preexisting story and adding zombies. Even so, it is a predictable zombie mashup. The main character, Jim, is an ex soldier with war issues now working as a hotel clerk. He used to be a huge Trekkie (the book says Trekkie, not Trekker as most true fans prefer, but I try not to hold that against it) but afore-mentioned war issues have drained him of the hope for the future inherent in Star Trek. So he is less than thrilled when the hotel hosts a Star Trek convention.
The convention is just the start of his bad day though. It turns out this particular convention is a cover for government scientists to meet and discuss findings from the study of an extraterrestrial life form found several years ago. Then it turns out the scientists' meeting is a cover for one single scientist who has been infected and changed by the life form to work on said life form's behalf in infecting the world at large. The infection turns 95% of humans into – you guessed it – ZOMBIES! But those few who are infected but not zombified become an intelligent carrier for the alien life form so it can spread and (gasp!) take over the planet.
Of course Jim, his sister, his new-found lady love, and a few friends save the day – though not without a few casualties. It was a cute book, fun for a quick read while relaxing by the pool if you like zombies and/or Star Trek, but not one I'd rush out to buy.


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Music Theatre Wales are currently presenting two operas in the Linbury Studio Theatre as part of their Autumn 2012 tour.
In the Locked Room and Ghost Patrol, co-commissioned and co-produced with Scottish Opera, had their world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in August and opened in Covent Garden on Thursday.
Since its creation in 1988, Music Theatre Wales has become a pioneering force in contemporary opera in the UK with a growing international reputation. The company, directed by Michael McCarthy and Michael Rafferty, has created nearly 30 productions and 14 world premieres, presenting high quality, innovative work to audiences across the UK and Europe. In 2002, it became the first Associate Company of the Royal Opera House, and in 2010 presented In the Penal Colony in the Linbury Studio Theatre. A chamber opera by minimalist composer Phillip Glass, it was based on Franz Kafka's dark and gruesome short story of the same name.
Music Theatre Wales's latest work, a thought-provoking double bill, explores the power of imagination and memory. In the Locked Room was inspired by the Thomas Hardy short story, An Imaginative Woman. Composer Huw Watkins teams up with former collaborator David Harsent, who also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwhistle's The Minotaur. The result is a beautifully written drama that follows the tale of lonely housewife Ella as she creates an imaginary love affair. Find out more about their collaborative process.
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Ghost Patrol, created by composer by Stuart MacRae and award-winning crime novelist Louise Welsh, follows two war veterans who meet by chance and, as their relationship develops, unravel the memories of their traumatic past.
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The Royal Opera House works with other companies across the UK to encourage artistic development and creativity in opera, ballet and dance. Other visiting companies include English Touring Opera, who will present Albert Herring, The Emperor of Atlantis and The Lighthouse in October; Phoenix Dance Theatre, who will perform at the end of October; and Ballet Black.
Music Theatre Wales will be resident at the Linbury Studio Theatre from Thursday 27 September to Saturday 29 September. From there, the production will visit Oxford, Cambridge, Basingstoke, Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Manchestera and Mold. Find out full tour details.


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The Spanish Canary Islands, also known as the Canaries, is an archipelago just off of the coast of Morocco in the Atlantic. The islands are made up of Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro as well as a number of smaller islands.
The Spanish Canary Islands, also known as the Canaries, is an archipelago just off of the coast of Morocco in the Atlantic. The islands are made up of Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro as well as a number of smaller islands.Read more
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Due to its location just off of the coast of Northern Africa, the Canaries are known for their all year round sunshine. The west coast can get a bit windy in the winter months, but the east coasts are always very pleasant – offering an excellent Canary Island villa holiday at any time of year…
With mountains, volcanoes, golden beaches, stunning cliffs and azure waters the Canaries are always a beautiful set of islands to visit. Perhaps you could even visit the dune of Maspalomas in Gran Canaria where you can take part in dune buggying and sledging.
The sun-kissed Canaries are just over 60 miles from Africa – but 1,700 kilometres from Spain's mainland! You're to find your dream Canary Island villa holiday across the Travelopo portfolio; from luxury apartments to stunning, seaside villas… which Canary Island is calling you?
As the largest of Spain's Canary Islands, Tenerife has lots to offer for every type of holidaymaker, from its beautiful beaches to its volcanic landscapes.
Tenerife is largely dominated by Mount Teide, its dormant volcano and Spain's tallest peak. The imposing Mount Teide rises over 3,700 metres above sea level from a large volcanic depression located at an altitude of 2,000 metres. A visit to Teide National Park is a must on your Tenerife villa holiday, where you can gaze over a breath-taking landscape of volcanoes, craters and rivers of petrified lava on guided walks.
Browse the Travelopo portfolio of Tenerife villas and apartments and book your dream island escape in the Canaries!
Gran Canaria
The paradise island of Gran Canaria is a beautiful destination for your holiday. The municipality of Tejeda, the highest part of Gran Canaria, is a great area of the island to explore, in the province of Las Palmas. Tejeda, which is around 44 kilometres from the Gran Canaria's capital of Las Palmas, is the perfect destination for hiking, mountain biking or climbing on your Gran Canaria villa holiday, with breathtaking landscapes on offer and century-old trails.
The cosmopolitan city of Las Palmas itself has lots to offer – from beautiful beaches (the island boasts around 60 kilometres of beaches along hundreds of kilometres of stunning coastlines) to vibrant carnivals, such as the infamous annual Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
So if you desire a sun-kissed island break, check out our plethora of apartments and villas across Gran Canaria…
The easternmost of the Canaries, Lanzarote, boasts year-round warm weather, with its hottest month of August offering an average temperature of 25*C! Arrecife, located in the centre-east of the island, is Lanzarote's cosmopolitan capital city and a fantastic holiday destination, with its own beautiful beach, Playa del Reducto.
With a great variety of shops, museums, bars and restaurants, there's plenty to do in and around this buzzing Spanish city during your Lanzarote villa holiday – find your dream Canary Island holiday home on the Travelopo website!
Fuerteventura is the second largest of the Canary Islands and a brilliant holiday destination for all ages, offering brilliant family-friendly attractions as well as challenging hikes and busy bars. Sitting in the Atlantic Ocean, the island boasts an average temperature of 24*C in the summer, with around 10 hours of sunshine each day on your Fuerteventura villa holiday!
The municipality of Puerto del Rosario (and Fuerteventura's capital) is a peaceful but interesting destination, in the eastern part of the island. The capital boasts a modern sea promenade which crosses the city, through the marina and the beach of Playa Chica while the bay of Puerto del Rosario welcomes cruise ships every week. From seaside apartments to luxury villas, you'll find the perfect holiday rental in Fuerteventura across the Travelopo website.
El Hierro
El Hierro, also known as Isla del Meridiano, is a charming little island and fantastic holiday destination. As the smallest of the Canaries it's somewhat surprising how much El Hierro has to offer; for all ages and types of holiday-maker. The small island is a great place to relax and explore, as a World Biosphere Reserve with lava fields, volcanoes and cliff and coast scenery.
As well as being a Biosphere Reserve, the island has become the first fully self-sufficient island in the world out of renewable sources of energy. El Hierro is a scuba-diver's paradise in particular, offering warm, crystal clear waters and fantastic marine life.
La Gomera
There's plenty of fun to be had on La Gomera, one of the smallest of the Canary Islands. Offering a gorgeous climate all-year round, you can enjoy an average temperature of 24*C in summer and a reasonable 18*C in the winter months.
The island is home to Valle Gran Rey, a popular area of the island boasting breath-taking landscapes and some of the most beautiful beaches on the island. Walking for a spot of lunch to overlook the valley is popular amongst visitors to the area, while whale and dolphin watching is also on offer.
La Palma
La Palma, off north-western Africa offers a gorgeous climate throughout the year (an average temperature of 24*C in summer and a reasonable 28*C in the winter). This beautiful, green island has also been declared a UNESCO biosphere reserve – the perfect escape for nature-lovers on a Canary Island villa holiday.
The capital of La Palma, Santa Cruz de La Palma, is home to the museum Museo Insular, on the Plaza de Francisco. Located on the eastern part of the island, the museum is housed in a former 16th century monastery, offering an extensive range of exhibits and art galleries.
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I've made seven different calls this year to a handful of lucky travelers to let them know they've won a free trip to a far-off destination, all because they "liked" and entered one of our sweepstakes on the Friendly Planet Travel Facebook page. But Elisa Kotin, our latest winner who will be going on a free trip for two to Dubai, might have been the most surprised of all! Listen to her reaction when I called her to let her know that she'd won on our previous post.
Once the dust settled and we let the reality of her win sink in, I asked Friendly Planet Travel blogger Caitlin to catch up with Elisa to find out a little bit more about her. As it turns out, Elisa has a true passion for traveling, and is extremely well traveled. She has been to 70 countries, and Dubai will be her 71st! Though she's always wanted to go, Elisa has never been to Dubai — so this trip was a great match :-).
Listen to the below podcast to get a snapshot of Elisa's life, including how she felt when she won, why she's grateful that she won the trip from us, her favorite places she's been, what she enjoys most about travel, and more!
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Use this Punch Idea to Create a Fun Background on Your Scrapbook
If you're ready to learn, we've got great tips for designing easy backgrounds and accents using punches!
Make the most of your punches and paper scraps by designing a themed background to use on your layout. Combine multiple punches to get a fun design, like the apple grid Davinie Fiero made on this layout. To get this look, create squares using a scalloped square punch, then punch through each square using a different shaped punch. Adhere your pieces in a grid design, and finish the layout by adding photos, title, and journaling.
The First and the Last Day by Davinie Fiero. As seen in the September 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Design Tip For variety, fill the inside of a few of the punched shapes with patterned paper, paint, or beads.
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The first round of the 2014 NFL Draft is over, but there is a ton of big-time talent still on the board. Countless general managers and league officials have called this the deepest draft in years, possibly ever.
So where will some of the most notable names end up? Here are some of the best fits we see remaining:
Carlos Hyde, running back
Most likely: Tennessee Titans
Tennessee has to hope that Hyde, the best "every-down" back candidate left, gets past a bunch of running back-needy teams that are drafting ahead of them in the second round like Houston and Cleveland. The Titans want to run the ball, but they don't have a true starter that can handle the role.
Dark horse: Oakland Raiders
Darren McFadden and Maurice Jones-Drew are short-term solutions. General manager Reggie McKenzie needs to find core pieces to build around long term. (Khalil Mack was a nice start Thursday.)
Marqise Lee, wide receiver
Most likely: Cleveland Browns
Johnny Manziel is already set up for success with Josh Gordon, Joe Thomas and Jordan Cameron on his side. Cleveland's passing game could be immediately difficult to deal with, especially in the red zone, if they snag Lee with the No. 35 overall pick.
Dark horse: New York Jets
The Jets might have to trade up to snag Lee, but they certainly have the need. Even though he's a second-round pick, he has more of the traditional "No. 1 receiver" skill set than free-agent pickup Eric Decker.
Derek Carr, quarterback
Most likely: Oakland Raiders
Carr might have to wait for the third round to hear his name called at this point. If we are to believe Lovie Smith, Mike Glennon is the Bucs' "quarterback of the future" again. That leaves Oakland as the team with the biggest need at the position. They might not be able to pass up the value of Carr if he slips another round. NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reports that there is no chance the Houston Texans will take another Carr at quarterback.
Dark horses: Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, Green Bay Packers
Rapoport mentioned the Packers and Ravens as two teams looking for backups. The Jets, Chiefs, and Bengals could all pull a surprise by adding legitimate competition to their quarterback rooms. Carr might get left out of the game of musical quarterback chairs this year, especially if the Buccaneers truly don't draft a quarterback.
Other good fits
AJ McCarron, Austin Sefarian-Jenkins to Patriots: With Ryan Mallett possibly headed out the door, Bill Belichick could snap up the team's next backup in the middle rounds if McCarron is still available. Sefarian-Jenkins or Jace Amaro would both make sense for New England to add weapons to the offense.
Bishop Sankey to Miami Dolphins: The Dolphins have a lot of running backs, but none of them particularly scare defenses. Sankey has been knocked for his size but plenty of 209-pound backs can carry a heavy load. Sankey is great on passing downs and could be used in a variety of ways for an offense that desperately needs more variety.
Louis Nix to San Diego Chargers: One of the most talented players still available would add some needed defensive toughness up front for the Bolts.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" provides instant reaction to all the wild happenings in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.


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Today we honor America's veterans. My father was a career Air Force enlisted man and my wife's father was a career Navy enlisted man.
I started martial arts practice when my father was stationed at Misawa Air Force Base in Northern Japan. I practiced Judo and the base gymnasium. That is also where I first saw Kendo.
When we moved to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, I started to practice Judo again. Later, I started to practice Kenpo Karate under Florentino S. Pancipanci at Hickam. He also had advanced classes at Schofield Barracks and Barber's Point. I next practiced Kenpo Karate under Edward Wallace at the CHA-3 quonset hut in Moanalua. That program was administered by the Navy.
I later taught Karate at Hickam Air Force Base.
In all the classes I took at military bases, there were active duty military personnel training and teaching. Some of the early Karate instructors after World War II were servicemen or government employees who had learned Karate while stationed in Japan or Okinawa.
My point is that my own martial arts training was thanks to the U.S. military. Countless other military personnel and their dependents around the world were able to learn martial arts thanks to the military.
Were it not for the military, I am pretty sure that I would have not learned martial arts and would not have formed the Hawaii Karate Museum.
I send my respect to the men and women who have served with distinction in the United States military. There is a saying that freedom is not free. Were it not for our veterans, we would not be free.
Charles C. Goodin
Salute To Veterans
Today we honor America's veterans. My father was a career Air Force enlisted man and my wife's father was a career Navy enlisted man.
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