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ANAHEIM, Calif. - In the end, the UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team had experience on its side.
The Gauchos, seeded first, were playing in their 13th straight Big West Tournament championship game. Cal Poly, seeded third, was playing in its first-ever Big West Tournament championship game.
And, of course, the Gauchos had Jenna Green, a sixth-year senior who has played in these games every year of her career.
So it was no surprise that when UCSB needed her most she was there, finishing off a three-point play with 0:28 remaining in Saturday's Big West Tournament championship game to give UCSB an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament with a 64-57 victory over Cal Poly at the Anaheim Convention Center.
"I love this team so much; I really do," UCSB head coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. "I've told them all year that every team, each year, is a unique experience. Even if you replace just one player, it's a different feeling. I hope I have a long career, I hope I'm fortunate to win other championships, but this team right now if one I will never forget."
Green finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds - her second double-double of the tournament and her sixth over her past 13 games - as the Gauchos held off a determined Mustangs squad.
Green was named to the All-Tournament Team while Lauren Pedersen, who finished with eight points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals was named the Tournament's MVP.
"We knew this was our year, but it wasn't going to happen unless we were a unit," Jenna Green said. "That includes all 15 of us, but really as seniors you know you have to lead them. It was kind of `by any means necessary' and playing hard."
Cal Poly got off to a blistering start, leading by as many as 15 points midway through the first half. After the Gauchos cut the lead to three at halftime, Green took control. She scored nine points with seven rebounds in the second half and a stellar performance from a surrounding cast vaulted UCSB to its 11th Big West title in the past 13 seasons.
Chris Spencer scored a career-high 11 points, none bigger than a reverse layup with 1:12 left that gave UCSB a 57-56 lead, one that it would never relinquish. Spencer's basket led a 9-1 run that the experienced Gauchos made to win the game. The junior finished with five rebounds, a block and two steals.
Emilie Johnson scored 13 points - 10 in the second half - and finished off Cal Poly for good by making two of her career-best seven free throws with four seconds left on the clock.
Sha'Rae Gibbons added eight points, to go with five assists while Jordan Franey had five points, seven rebounds and three assists.
UCSB was down 56-55 after Kristina Santiago's jumper, but Spencer's reverse layup, Green's three-point play and free throws from a team on pace to set a school record in free throw percentage led the Gauchos to another NCAA Tournament berth.
Cal Poly took a 48-47 lead with 8:06 left on Abby Bloetscher's layup, then extended it to 51-47 when Lisa McBride buried a wide-open 3-pointer from the wing.
Lauren Pedersen's 3-pointer with 15:26 remaining in the game, tied it at 38-apiece. Emilie Johnson's trey from the corner made it 43-40 with 12:29 left.
Cal Poly jumped out to an 18-7 lead on Lisa McBride's 3-pointer in the first half and then the Mustangs pushed their lead to 25-10 on Kristina Santiago's breakaway layup with 9:10 to play in the first half.
"I don't think it was being flat," Gottlieb said about the 15-point deficit. "I think they jumped on us, and we didn't respond as well as we could have, and it played into their hands. At the end of the day, it was holding off, getting open, making sharp cuts, and getting where we needed to be. There was no magic formula, just our players settling in and being a bit sharper with execution."
The Gauchos weathered the storm, however, and came roaring back. Jordan Franey had a follow-up layin and Chris Spencer hit a long two and then nailed a 3-pointer to make it 30-24. Emilie Johnson then buried three straight free throws after being fouled on a 3-point attempt with 0:44 remaining. Cal Poly took a 34-31 lead into the half.
UCSB will find out where it falls in the brackets during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Monday at 4 p.m. (PST). All fans and media are invited to the Reitnouer Auditorium, located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus to watch the Selection Show with the team.
Tickets are available by calling (805) 893-UCSB, visiting the Ticket Office located on campus in the Intercollegiate Athletics Office or by logging on to UCSBgauchos.com.
All-Tournament Team
Lauren Pedersen, UC Santa Barbara (MVP)
Jenna Green, UC Santa Barbara
Megan Harrison, Cal Poly
Lisa McBride, Cal Poly
Toni Thomas, Cal State Fullerton
Tonicia Tademy, Cal State Northridge


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Little toes, pursed lips, and tiny hands -- newborn photography is a rapidly growing market and professional photographers are eager to jump in. To work with and pose a 5- to 10-day-old infant demands special skills, keeping the child safe and the new parents comfortable, while capturing the subject's raw and natural beauty. July 29, 2013


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Columbia River, largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America. It is exceeded in discharge on the continent only by the Mississippi, St. Lawrence, and Mackenzie rivers. The Columbia is one of the world's greatest sources of hydroelectric power and, with its tributaries, represents a third of the potential hydropower of the United States. In addition, its mouth provides the first deepwater harbour north of San Francisco. Two-fifths of the river's course, some 500 miles (800 km) of its 1,240-mile (2,000-km) length, lies in Canada, between its headwaters in British Columbia and the U.S. border.
Physical features
Physiography and hydrology
The Columbia drains some 258,000 square miles (668,000 square km), of which about 85 percent is in the northwestern United States. Major tributaries are the Kootenay, Snake, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Okanogan, Yakima, Cowlitz, and Willamette rivers. High flows occur in late spring and early summer, when snow melts in the mountainous watershed. Low flows occur in autumn and winter, causing water shortages at the river's hydroelectric plants.
The Columbia flows from its source in Columbia Lake, at an elevation of 2,700 feet (820 metres), in British Columbia near the crest of the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon. For the first 190 miles (305 km), its course is northwesterly. It then flows to the south for 270 miles (435 km) to the border of Canada and the United States (elevation 1,290 feet [390 metres]), where it enters northeastern Washington. It traverses east-central Washington in a sweeping curve known as the Big Bend, its prehistoric course having been disarranged first by lava flows and later by ice sheets. The ice sheets were instrumental in creating the Channelled Scablands, a series of coulees (steep-walled ravines) trending northeast-southwest in the northern part of the Columbia Plateau; Grand Coulee is the largest of these. The scablands were formed as immense torrents of water, released intermittently from ice-dammed lakes upstream, swept down-valley. Shortly below the confluence with the Snake River, its largest tributary, the Columbia turns west and continues 300 miles (480 km) to the ocean as the boundary between Oregon and Washington; in this last stretch the river has carved the spectacular Columbia River Gorge through the Cascade Range.
Tides flow upriver for 140 miles (225 km). Portland, Oregon (about 110 miles [180 km] from the mouth), and Vancouver, Washington (100 miles [160 km]), are the upper limit of oceangoing navigation, aided by a dredged channel. Through the use of a series of locks, barge traffic is made possible to Lewiston, Idaho, more than 460 miles (740 km) inland from the river's mouth at the junction of the Clearwater and Snake rivers.
The Columbia River basin's climate, strongly affected by orographic influences, is partly continental and partly marine. The Rocky Mountains to the east block out most of the severe winter storms of the interior of the continent, and the Cascade Range to the west shields the basin from moist Pacific Ocean air. Summers are typically hot and dry with only occasional thundershowers; winters are moderately cold and dry with occasional snow or even rain. Temperature and precipitation vary greatly with elevation, but in the central basin January average daily temperatures are between about 25 and 30 °F (−4 and −1 °C), and July averages are mostly between 70 and 75 °F (21 and 24 °C). Average annual precipitation ranges from less than 8 inches (200 mm) at the lowest elevations to about 15 inches (380 mm) near the mountain foothills and 40 inches (1,000 mm) or more in the mountains. West of the Cascades the climate is marine-influenced, with long, rainy winters and cool, dry summers.
Plant and animal life
Native vegetation at lower elevations of the interior basin is mostly of the shrub-steppe variety, dominated by sagebrush and bunchgrasses. With increasing elevation, shrub-steppe gives way to ponderosa pines and then to firs, larches, and other pines. More than half of the original shrub-steppe vegetation has been eliminated by grazing and farming. Cheatgrass has become a troublesome invader. Greasewood and alkali salt grass dominate on poorly drained saline soils, while willows and black cottonwoods dominate along watercourses. West of the Cascades, forests of Douglas firs with hemlocks and western red cedars prevail in upland areas.
Animal life was abundant and varied prior to white settlement. Notable were the great runs of salmon and steelhead trout; populations of beavers, deer, elk, bears, and bighorn sheep; flocks of waterfowl and upland birds, including eagles, ospreys, hawks, and falcons; and numbers of western rattlesnakes. The ability of the region to sustain large populations of wildlife has been drastically reduced, especially for salmon and beavers. Bald eagles and peregrine falcons were once listed as endangered but have recovered in numbers throughout the region. However, there has been continued concern over the declining number of salmon, despite the presence of fish ladders and other passage facilities designed to make possible the continued annual upstream run of spawning salmon beyond dams on the river.
Many controversies have marked the economic development of the Columbia River. Notable among these have been the division of responsibility between public and private agencies, the effect on the fish life (particularly salmon) and loss of traditional Indian fishing sites, proposals for a Columbia Valley Authority, the proper rate of interest to be charged on the federal government's investment in hydroelectric power development, and arrangements for sharing power-generating revenues and costs with Canada for upstream storage reservoirs in British Columbia. Nonetheless, exploiting the river's hydroelectric and irrigation potentials has been instrumental in developing the region's economy.
This multipurpose development of the Columbia's main stem began in the 1930s with construction of Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams by the federal government. Nearly all of the river's 1,290-foot (390-metre) fall within the United States has been converted into a series of "stair steps" by 11 dams on the main river, augmented by dams on tributaries and three upstream storage reservoirs in British Columbia constructed in accordance with a treaty between the United States and Canada. The four lower dams on the Columbia, plus four more on the lower Snake, provide large navigation locks, and all are equipped with fish-passage facilities.
Grand Coulee Dam, the largest and most complex of the Columbia's dams, augments the low winter flows when power demand is greatest. A powerhouse completed in the 1970s makes use of the Canadian storage capacity, and the dam has remained one of the world's largest hydroelectric power plants. Water also is pumped from Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, the reservoir behind Grand Coulee Dam, for the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, the largest single project of its kind in the Northwest and the first large-scale use of the Columbia River itself for irrigation. The first water delivery was made in 1952 to the designated lands, which previously had been covered by sagebrush and other desert vegetation. Some three-fifths of the project's planned area is now being irrigated. A major share of the cost of this expensive project is being paid by the sale of the power generated at Grand Coulee Dam.
All power plants along the system are connected by high-voltage, federally owned transmission lines, the backbone of a power network in which all utilities of the Pacific Northwest participate. This system is linked with the power grid in the state of California and with the American Southwest; surplus Columbia River power is sold to the Southwest during the summer (and Southwestern steam-generated power to the Northwest during the winter).
The Columbia River Treaty with Canada (1961), supplemented by a further pact in 1964, called for the United States to pay British Columbia sums representing that province's share of power and flood-control benefits, for British Columbia to build three large dams (two of them on the Columbia), and for the United States to build a fourth dam (on the Kootenay in Montana).
Numerous Native American peoples inhabited the Columbia River basin for several thousand years. Spanish explorers sailing up the Pacific coast about 1775 probably were the first Europeans to sight the river's mouth. The Boston trader Robert Gray sailed up the Columbia in 1792 and named it for his ship. The American Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered at its mouth in 1805 and 1806, and an English geographer, David Thompson, explored most of the river for the North West Company, reaching the mouth in 1811—only to find that Fort Astoria was already being built by the Americans. The upper basin was explored for the North West Company between 1807 and 1811. Other early posts included Fort Vancouver (1825), of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Fort Walla Walla (1818), of the North West Company (after 1821 it merged with the Hudson's Bay Company).
Irrigation apparently was practiced at Fort Walla Walla (near present-day Wallula, Washington) by the early 1830s and at the mission established in 1836 by Dr. Marcus Whitman at nearby Waiilatpu, and it was later extended to many tributary valleys east of the Cascade Range. The main stem of the Columbia was too deeply entrenched for early irrigation, but, as the only sea-level route to the interior, it served as the major transportation artery until the coming of the railroad. The canoes and barges of the fur traders and early immigrants had given way to river steamers by the 1850s. The many rapids—21 to the mouth of the Snake River—made navigation difficult; the worst point was circumvented by the first railroad in Washington, a 1.5-mile (2.5-km), wooden-railed, mule-drawn tram that later was replaced by a 6-mile (10-km) rail line with steam locomotives. The heavy agricultural and mining trade of the Columbia River basin was dominated by Portland through a monopolistic combination of river steamers and connecting stages. A railroad was completed from Portland to Walla Walla, Washington, in 1882 and from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Portland and thence to Tacoma, Washington, on Puget Sound the following year. In 1887 the Northern Pacific Railway reached Tacoma directly over the Cascade Range, and the monopoly of the Columbia River route was ended.
The abundance of salmon was noted by the early explorers. The first cannery on the Columbia opened in 1866, and by 1881 some 30 Columbia River canneries were supplying world markets, especially Great Britain, with salmon caught in nets, traps, and wheels. From a record of 21,500 tons in 1883, the annual Columbia River salmon catch has declined to about 10 percent of that quantity. Although such organizations as the Northwest Regional Power Council and the Bonneville Power Administration have made considerable effort to increase the size of the river's annual salmon run, much doubt remains as to whether fish populations can ever be restored to earlier levels or even maintained at their current size. Serious impediments have included the barriers to upstream migration presented by the dams and power-generating equipment, the loss of spawning grounds through inundation, the displacement of naturally spawned fish by those raised in hatcheries, the supersaturation of the water by nitrogen trapped as floodwaters plunge over spillways, and the loss of the river's natural current to guide spawning fish.Marion E. Marts
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United States: The Pacific systems…manage to reach the sea—the Columbia, the Colorado, and the San Joaquin–Sacramento system of California's Central Valley. All three of these river systems are exotic: that is, they flow for considerable distances across dry lands from which they receive little water. Both the Columbia and the Colorado have carved awesome…
river: Falls attributable to constructional processes…a "fossil waterfall" in the Columbia River Plateau, Washington, which formed in late Pleistocene time. A large ice sheet blocked and diverted the then-westward-flowing Columbia River and formed a vast glacial lake. The lake drained to the south when permitted to do so by periodically occurring ice dams, and torrents…
North America: Water resourcesMajor rivers like the Columbia, Colorado, Rio Grande, and Guadalajara rise in snowy or rainy mountains and supply enough water, especially where their waters are trapped by dams, to serve the basins through which they flow. Lesser rivers, however, often cease flowing and are intermittent or ephemeral. Groundwater supply…
canals and inland waterways: Major inland waterways of North America…Deepwater Ship Canal and the Columbia River development, which will provide more than 500 miles of navigable river from the Pacific to Lewiston, Idaho.…
Washington: Relief and drainage…from Grays Harbor to the Columbia River in the southwest. Gentle forested slopes descend to an indented Pacific coastline and, north and east of the hills, to the fertile Chehalis and Cowlitz valleys.…
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Martinez backs Mel appointment
Everton manager Roberto Martinez believes West Brom counterpart Pepe Mel will be a surprise success at The Hawthorns.
The Spaniard takes charge of his first match on Monday evening against the Toffees and his compatriot believes he will do well, despite early scepticism over the appointment.
"I think he will surprise a lot of people. He has been very successful in his time in Spain," said Martinez.
"The first time I was aware of his work was at Rayo Vallecano when he got them promoted to the top league against the odds with a very small budget, and since then he has done a remarkable job wherever he has been.
"It is probably the wrong time to face Pepe Mel, but we wish him the best of luck after Monday.
"I can see this West Brom side being a different one to what has been so far this season.
"We know their players really well, but they will do things differently.
"But we will concentrate on ourselves and try to be as good as we can in the things we do."
Mel's arrival means yet another Spanish or Spain-influenced manager is plying his trade in the Premier League after the likes of Martinez, Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho and Manuel Pellegrini.
And, while the Spanish way has become very much the current fashion, Martinez insists English football is not losing its identity.
"In football you get trends. In the 1970s it was Germany and Holland, then you had a period where the Italians were winning consistently in Europe and that affected the game," he added.
"Now it is Spain and the way they develop players and their concept of possession football has a big influence.
"It is always beneficial to open up to different ways of working and then pick what fits each individual and each country, and we are going to benefit as England in terms of different cultures working in the same league.
"That will allow the players to be more rounded and have a bigger football knowledge and that can only help.
"English football still has its own identity, 100 per cent.
"That physicality, that 'no excuse' approach to the game - there are many special aspects of the British game.
"We take on board the aspects of the way teams work on the continent, but we will be in a very advantageous position because of the uniqueness of the British game.
"The intensity, the way you work off the ball, of going anywhere and trying to win and having a go - you don't get that in other leagues.
"Sometimes I've seen teams coming out to get a draw and that is unheard of in our game.
"We are fortunate in having the essence of the British game and we shouldn't underestimate that.
"Yes, we should evolve and be aware of what is happening in other countries and leagues but we should never lose what makes us different."


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The Gould ProPak has several advantages over a traditional submersible pump system:
- City-like water pressure at every faucet no matter the demand
- Lower electricity usage by 50% due to the controller converting single phase to 3 phase
- 0-100 PSI Pressure Setting with finger controlled adjustments
- Only a small inline pressure tank is needed, no large bulky floor stand models are required
- Wall mounted controller saves space and is Nema 3 rated and can be mounted outside
- Designed for continuous operation: Ideal for larger homes, irrigation systems, tight installation clearance issues, and geothermal applications.
- High quality Goulds GS stainless steel pump with sand and abrasion resistant design
- Self Diagnostic Controls check for Dry Well Ground Fault, Short Circuit Disconnected Lead, High Pressure Sensor, Temperature Fault
- Smaller gauge wire is required
Goulds ProPak Kit include:
- CentriPro Three Phase Motor - 1.5 HP, 230 V - M15432
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- Goulds Pumps GS Water End (pump) - 10GS07 - (1 1/4" Female NPT discharge)
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- Range curves and selection charts generated from actual R&D tests.
- Kits configured for 30 Hz minimum and 80 Hz maximum operation.
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- Pressure is factory preset at 50 psi with simple, fast, field adjustability for higher pressures.
- Three phase output to motor reduces wire cost.
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- New – a Switch Input for connecting a pressure switch or float switch.
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Youth Video Contest Winners Offer Solutions to Poverty
When you are young and still in school, it's hard to think of ways you can change people's thinking at the global level. But sometimes, all you need is a video camera and Internet access.
Today, the winners of the European Development Days video contest "Young voices against poverty," are being recognized for their contributions to the dialogue on global poverty.


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Globespan IVR support is deprecated and scheduled for removal in September 2006 (after the 2.6.18 release)
The Globespan IVR is an ATX form factor evaluation board made by Globespan which similar to the ITE-8172G is based on an R5000-class processor and an ITE 8172G companion internet appliance chip.
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Supported in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 but code is suffering from severe bitrot.
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Actor Sawamura Tôzô I, from the book Yakusha gakuya tsû (Actors in Their Dressing Rooms)
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Edo period
1799 (Kansei 11), 1st month
Artist Utagawa Kunimasa (Japanese, 1773–1810)
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), list #1.83.05; the book: Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 3, British Museum III (1987), pls. 318-22 (this page not illustrated)
One kohon page; 14.5 x 10.6 cm (5 11/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
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From a book of 36 actor portraits, jointly designed by Toykuni I and Kunimasa (18 portraits each), with a frontispiece by Utamaro.
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By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
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Citizens and the State: Working Across the Demand and Supply Dichotomy
Citizens are assigned various roles in the development process (service users, project beneficiaries, and consulted stakeholders). But how can citizens move from being just users and choosers of social services to makers and shapers of policies and processes so that they can ultimately lead their own development?
"The most effective citizens are the most versatile: the ones who can cross boundaries. They move between the local, the national and the global, employ a range of techniques, act as allies and adversaries of the state, and deploy their skills of protest and partnership at key moments and in different institutional entry points." Blurring the Boundaries: Citizen Action Across States and Societies
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
In his Jerusalem Day speech on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared emphatically that he will never divide Jerusalem, a key Palestinian peace demand.
Speaking at Ammunition Hill, site of a key battle for Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War, Netanyahu explained that, contrary to Palestinian claims, dividing Jerusalem will only lead to more conflict.
"There are those who believe that if we only divide Jerusalem, and that means giving up the Temple Mount, they believe we will have peace. I am doubtful, to say the least, that if we deposit that square of the Temple Mount with other forces, that we won't quickly deteriorate to a religious sectarian war," said Netanyahu.
At any rate, for the vast majority of Israelis, dividing Jerusalem is a red line they are not prepared to cross after their people's millennia of hoping to again inhabit and control the holy city.
"Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. And our heart will never be divided again," Netanyahu promised. "A nation willing to sacrifice its heart will convince its enemies that it is willing to give up on everything."
The Palestinian Authority insists it will not make peace with Israel unless it receives the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, as its capital. When the Palestinians point to "Jewish settlement activity" as an obstacle to peace, they are also talking about the large Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem.
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Rooney sends United through
Wayne Rooney scored the only goal of the game to earn Manchester United victory against West Ham and set up an FA Cup fourth round tie with Fulham.
Rooney also missed a second-half penalty - the fifth time United have failed from the spot this season - as the home side survived a spirited second-half rally from West Ham.
It was Rooney's ninth goal of the season and extended a purple patch that began prior to his knee injury, since when Robin van Persie, Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck have all impressed, underlining the strength within Sir Alex Ferguson's striking department.
Another of the men returning from injury, Anderson, provided the slide-rule pass for Hernandez to set up Rooney.
He also set up Nani, whose volley was curling in at the far post before it was brilliantly cleared off the line by Daniel Potts.
With West Ham's injury-hit side failing completely to plug the holes in midfield, United threatened to run amok.
No-one enjoyed themselves more than Ryan Giggs, who exploited the vast gaps to produce a virtuoso display that made him look far younger than 39.
Chris Smalling had a header saved by Jussi Jaaskelainen and Alexander Buttner's low cross struck a post. West Ham reached half-time still in contention, allowing Sam Allardyce to inject some much-needed self-belief.
United were fortunate Rafael was in the right place to prevent Matt Taylor's square ball reaching Ricardo Vaz Te. Taylor then curled an excellent chance over before Smalling managed to nick the ball away from Kevin Nolan just as the Hammers substitute was about to shoot from close range.
The hosts should have sealed their fourth-round spot after Jordan Spence handled Giggs' cross. Rooney, though, blazed over, the effort sailing so high neither he nor his manager looked like they could quite believe it.


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Is agave a superfood or a poison?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: Dr. Mercola says agave is going to kill me! Is he right?
Answer: I have been inundated with emails about this. In every class I teach, someone brings it up.
First of all, Dr. Mercola didn't exactly say that, although he allowed it on his web site. Mercola is a brand, a big company, employing lots of people, including staff writers who write stuff for the site and newsletters. The osteopath named Joe Mercola doesn't do the research and writing. So when I say "Mercola" in this article, I mean "it" (the company/brand/staff), not "he" (the founder of the company).
What I write is all me, by the way–I have no staff writers.
Controversy, right or wrong, unfortunately, adds to Mercola's 7-figure mailing list and profits. Mercola (and the doctor himself) may or may not be aware that it is wrong about agave. Comparing it to high-fructose corn syrup, or to tequila, is a tenuous, false, almost ridiculous exaggeration. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the organic chemistry differences.
It's similar to the comment a pediatrician made to me 15 years ago, when I questioned his suggestion to feed my toddler Sprite for quick energy. I said, "Why not an apple?" And he said, "Whatever. Simple sugars are simple sugars. There's no difference. They all end up as glucose."
A similar reductionistic argument you've heard before is, "A calorie is a calorie is a calorie." Really? Then why did the vegetarian group in Campbell's massive China study eat 200 calories MORE than the heavy meat eaters, and they were lean while the meat eaters were overweight? (Exercise was a variable the researchers controlled for, so that doesn't explain the difference.)
Apparently you CAN eat more calories when those calories are plant foods. Please comment here if you know well, from experience, that the impact on your body of eating an apple is entirely different than drinking a can of Sprite!
Apples have simple sugars, sure, but they also have tannins that remove insulin from the bloodstream and convert the sugars into energy. Apples have pectin and other fiber to decrease cholesterol and slow absorption of sugars on the bloodstream. Sprite has none of that, just a chemical version of fructose and lots more man-made chemicals. I could make this whole post about the egregious comparison the pediatrician made, but let's move on to the similar agave controversy.
Mercola's staff writer acts as if fructose is poison. Yes, fructose is the sugar in high-fructose corn syrup, too. One point Mercola and I agree on is the fact that the highly refined sweetener HFCS is deadly. But fructose is the sugar in fruit, too! Is it possible that fructose can be either good or bad?
Here's a key point Mercola overlooks. Agave's sugar is a long-chain polymer of fructose, which is not absorbed by the body and therefore passes through you. Thus there's a much-reduced impact on your blood sugar of consuming agave (versus HFCS, cane sugars, and honey). It's not hard to document that agave's glycemic index is one-third that of sugar or honey.
I personally know a nutritionist who has stopped diabetes in a group of her patients with no changes other than switching from sugar to agave.
So is agave on par with excellent whole foods like apples, spinach, lentils, and barley? No way! An apple has fiber and many other elements that work synergistically to support your health.
But as sweeteners go, if you're going to use them–and please use all concentrated sweeteners sparingly–raw, organic agave is a very good option. And another of my favorite sweeteners, stevia, contains a compound called steviasides, which shut down insulin production in the pancreas–an even better (calorie-free) option, especially for diabetics.
So, the answer to the question, is agave a superfood or a poison, the answer is, "Neither one." Don't fear it. Don't overuse it either.
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Just wondering..since steviasides shut down insulin in the pancreas..do you think using both organic agave and stevia together might work? I like my coffee and teas sweet and don't like just stevia


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Who cares about vodka? If it's not the most boring spirit on earth, it's damn close anyway. Since most of them are designed to be clean and flavorless, I've never honestly seen much point to drinking it, except maybe in a bloody mary, or straight from the freezer, in a shot glass and downed quickly.
My wife, Jen, used to be primarily a vodka girl, especially on the rocks with tonic water, which I think is probably the dullest drink around. After we hooked up, I started coaxing her in gin's direction, and she's pretty much thrown over vodka for good.
But the wife and I are hosting a cocktail party next month, and we know we'll have vodka drinkers, so we need to stock up. During our regular trip to LeNell's, we asked LeNell for vodka recommendations, explaining that although we weren't vodkaholics ourselves, we knew there were more flavorful versions available now, and could she recommend some?
I mentioned in my MixMo post that we tried the pastis from Domaine Charbay, in California. Susan Karakasevic, a cofounder of Charbay, posted a kind and thoughtful comment, thanking us for sampling her family's pastis.
With her warm words in mind, Jen and I were inclined to pick up a bottle of Charbay's clear vodka, thinking it might be a good introduction to the brand. LeNell agreed, telling us it's a tasty vodka–viscous and not overly refined, so that it retains sweetness, character, and flavor.
We took a bottle home and sampled it in a vodka martini. Now, I usually hate vodka martinis–I might as well drink icewater for all the flavor I taste–so I was a little hesitant. But I wanted to do right by the Charbay, so I mixed up two martinis with a splash of dry vermouth, stirred over ice. I wanted to get the pure flavor of the drink without the dilution that shaking brings. Jen wanted a lemon twist, and I wanted an olive, so I garnished accordingly and took the drinks out back.
I have to say, these were delicious drinks. LeNell's description was right on target–a hint of sweetness and viscosity, a slight burn, and a clean finish. Although Jen preferred her twist and I, my olive, we both sampled the other's drink and agreed that either one works well. And as we learned this morning, it's good in a bloody mary, too.
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PIAA state team champions in golf in 2007 and 2008, the Mount St. Joseph Magic have earned a trip back to the state tournament for the first time since 2009.
The Mounties did it by recording a four-player score of 314 in the District 1 tournament early last week at Gilbertsville Golf Club, where they finished five strokes ahead of two-time district champ and defending state champion Radnor High School. The Mount had lost by close margins in two regular-season meetings with Radnor this fall.
When the Magic last appeared at States, the teams in attendance were all grouped together, not broken down into enrollment-based categories as in other sports. With entries increasing each year, the PIAA began to divide the teams up in golf as well, and the Mount's victory last week came in the large school division, Class AAA. The Class AA team champ in District 1 was another Catholic Academies team, Gwynedd Mercy, which scored a 369.
This year, there's another change in procedure for qualifying teams. For the past several years, district winners have had to compete in a regional tournament before reaching the state tourney at Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York, Pa. Now, only individual qualifiers will have to pass through the regional stage, with team district champions going straight through to the big dance.
Central Bucks East was the district winner in 2010, and the last two seasons Radnor captured the title just ahead of runner-up Mount St. Joe. Last week, closely-spaced scoring took the Magic past the Red Raiders.
Junior star Isabella DiLisio fired a five-over 76 at Gilbertsville, where play was halted by rain after 14 holes were played on Monday, with the final four holes completed on Tuesday morning. It was the group of teammates close behind DiLisio that put the Magic over the top.
Fellow junior Maggie Schoeller shot a 78 and senior captain Alison Snakard carded a 79. Sophomore Megan Bray rounded out the official team score with an 81, and fifth-man Joanie Gannon, also a 10th-grader, wasn't far behind, with an 83.
First-year MSJ coach Mike Brown related, "After we lost one of those earlier matches with Radnor by one stroke, it drove home to the girls that every single stroke counted. With our team, what makes a difference is just playing one shot at a time and shaving off a few putts here and there."
For one practice session the previous week, he said, "We went out to Blue Bell [Country Club] for the day and the girls could only bring their wedges and their putters."
Last week, the single round of the district team tourney at Gilbertsville also served as the first leg of the two-round individual championship for District 1. After team play was concluded at Gilbertsville Tuesday morning, the action for the individual competitors moved to nearby Turtle Creek, a more challenging course largely due to its greater length.
The consistent DiLisio once more scored a 76 for a two day total of 152, becoming one of the eight players from the district to advance to the regional individual tournament. At the end of the round, Snakard was tied for the eighth spot with Samantha Staudt of Coatesville High School, and Staudt won a playoff hole to claim the last berth for Regionals.
Neither DiLisio, nor anyone else, matched her two-day score at Districts from 2012, when her total of 137 on the same two courses netted her the individual title. This year another 11th-grader, Jackie Rogowicz of Pennsbury High School, won comfortably with a 138. She was followed by Radnor sophomore Brynn Walker (145), and two sisters from Council Rock North, senior Erica Herr (147) and her sophomore sibling Madeline (149). DiLisio was fifth with her 152.
Surveying the statewide golf scene, Coach Brown feels that District 1 is most likely the strongest district top-to-bottom, but he knows the Magic can't afford to overlook some talented squads from other areas.
"We'll have to play well to win," he observed, "but I think the girls are more than capable."


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The collection of 3,421 items was donated in 1969 by New York rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus. It consists primarily of texts of Italian opera, but also includes Italian cantatas, serenatas, oratorios, dialogues and Passions. Dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth century, the collection documents musical performances by Italian, French, German and Austrian composers given mostly in Italian cities, but also in Vienna and elsewhere.
The earliest item in the collection is the libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini for "La Dafne," performed in 1598, published in Florence in 1600, and generally considered to be the first opera. Also included is the first edition of Rinuccini's "L'Euridice," produced in Florence in 1600 for the marriage of Henry IV of France and Maria de' Medici, and the earliest opera for which the music survives.
Noted librettists represented in the collection in addition to Rinuccini are Apostolo Zeno, Pietro Metastasio, and Arrigo Boito. Composers include Giuseppe Verdi, Domenico Cimarosa, Giovanni Paisiello, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioacchino Rossini.
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After use, rinse the decanter thoroughly with warm water until the water runs clear. Do not use soap. No one has drunk from the decanter and alcohol is a natural disinfectant.
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After use, rinse the decanter thoroughly with warm water until the water runs clear. Do not use soap. No one has drunk from the decanter and alcohol is a natural disinfectant.
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For some time, the myth that law is a super competitive course has begun to be dispelled. LLB places have gone up and up in recent years, to the point where some universities are struggling to fill their courses. Last year, almost a week after A-level results day, there were still places available at the likes of the universities of Leeds and Reading.
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I stand by my comments, Glenn. The pre-clovis habitation case is a great example, in fact. There is a very important distinction between consensus around a set of theories that have widespread, independently corroborated data and those generally accepted assumptions which have no evidence supporting them. This is particularly true in cases where assumptions are based on lack of evidence. Anthropologists assumed there was no pre-clovis habitation but largely because they had no data otherwise. This was a widely held assumption and not a scientific conclusion or data-based consensus. It is right that it is hard to get new data published. The scientific process must set the bar high enough to minimize being jerked around by unsubstantiated or uncorroborated thinking. Is it too high sometimes? sure. Is it too low sometimes? sure. No one here has argued for perfection in the process. This is not censorship but effective evaluation of new ideas by those best able to judge. Your examples are in fact excellent ones that show the process does work. Too slowly for those who had a hard time publishing it but that's part of the value of the system. Any system with too high gain in the feedback is unstable.
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Bull roar, Randy. You wrote:
>>Well said, Rich. You said "Until they get published in a peer-reviewed journal in the area of question they have not earned the right to be listened to and definitely not the right to be included in a science class at the high school level."<<<
This is elitism at its best. Do you have any idea how hard it was for anthropologists who believed in a pre-clovis habitation of North America to be published? Yet they turned out to be correct. Science didn't used to be done via peer review. People earn the right to be heard by being human not by passing some conformance test set up by funding groups who won't allow anyone with a differing view to be published. Below is a set of peer review stupidities and places where the scientific consensus of the day was wrong. it is long, but you can read what ever of it you want to read. Scientists arrogantly think they have the right to censor other people's thoughts and ideas.
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I agree that getting published in a peer-reviewed journal is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Peer review only means that less than a handful of peers thought the paper contained some data or concepts that the broader community working in that field should consider. It doesn't mean they agreed with it or thought it was right--just worthy of note or of a response. To warrant inclusion in a high school class room means independent corroboration and acceptance by more than just a few other experts. On the other hand, I would also suggest that there are areas of frontiers in science where there is no consensus established and much of the data are not understood. These are valuable lessons in how scientific research is done and these could be included in some way in a high school classroom. What must be clear is what fields are in the frontier stage, which ones in a controversial stage, and which ones have consensus. In the right context, innovative ideas have a vital role in science education. Even here, those innovative ideas are the ones being contested in the literature.
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REST Web Services with ServiceStackPosted: March 21, 2011 Filed under: C#, InfoTech, Mono.NET | Tags: .NET, Alt.Net, Apache, C#, HTTP, IIS, JavaScript, JSON, mod_mono, Mono, Open Source, REST, ServiceStack, WCF, Web Services 12 Comments
Over the past month I ventured deep into the alternative side of the .NET web world. I took quite a few web frameworks for a test drive, including OpenRasta, Nancy, Kayak and ServiceStack. All of the aforementioned supports Mono, except OpenRasta, that has it on its road-map. While kicking the tires of each framework, some harder than others, I saw the extent of just how far .NET has grown beyond its Microsoft roots, and how spoiled .NET developers have become with a long list of viable alternative .NET solutions from the valley of open source.
ServiceStack really impressed me, with its solid mix of components that speak to the heart of any modern C# web application. From Redis NOSQL and lightweight relational database libraries, right through to an extremely simple REST and SOAP web service framework. As the name suggests, it is indeed a complete stack.
Anyways, enough with the marketing fluff, let's pop the bonnet and get our hands dirty. What I'm going to show you isn't anything advanced. Just a few basic steps to help you to get to like the ServiceStack web framework as much as I do. You can learn the same things I'll be explaining here by investigating the very complete ServiceStack example applications, but I thought some extra tidbits I picked up working through some of them should make life even easier for you.
Some Background Info On REST
I'm going to show you how to build a REpresentation State Transfer (REST) web service with ServiceStack. RESTful web services declare resources that have a URI and can be accessed through HTTP methods, or verbs (GET, PUT, POST and DELETE), to our domain services and entities. This is different from SOAP web services that require you to expose methods RPC style, that are ignorant of the underlying HTTP methods and headers. To implement a REST resource and its HTTP-methods in ServiceStack requires the use of two classes, RestService and RestServiceAttribute.
Another feature of REST is that data resources are encoded in either XML or JSON. However, the latest trend is to encode objects in JSON for its brevity and smaller size, rather than its more clunky counterpart, XML. We will therefore follow suit and do the same. Okay, I think you're ready now to write your first line of ServiceStack code.
Create a Web Service Host with AppHostBase
The first thing you have to do is specify how you'd like ServiceStack to run your web services. You can choose to either run your web services from Internet Information Services (IIS) or Apache, or from the embedded HTTP listener based web server. Both of these approaches require you to declare a class that inherits from AppHostBase:
public class AppHost: AppHostBase { public AppHost() : base("Robots Web Service: It's alive!", typeof(RobotRestResource).Assembly) {} public override void Configure(Container container) { SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig { GlobalResponseHeaders = { { "Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*" }, { "Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS" }, }, }); } }
Class AppHost's default constructor makes a call to AppHostBase's constructor that takes 2 arguments. This first argument is the name of the web app, and the second argument tells ServiceStack to scan the Assembly where class RobotRestResource is defined, for REST web services and resources.
Now all that's left to do is to initialize your custom web service host in Global.asax's Application_Start method:
public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication { protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { new AppHost().Init(); } }
The last thing you might be wondering about, before we move on, is the web.config of your ServiceStack web service. For reasons of brevity I'm not going to cover this, but please download ServiceStack's examples and use one of their web.configs. The setup require to run ServiceStack from IIS is really minimal, and very easy to configure.
Define REST Resources with RestService
Now that we've created a host for our services, we're ready to create some REST resources. In a very basic sense you could say a REST resource is like a Data Transfer Object (DTO) that provides a suitable external representation of your domain. Let's create a resource that represents a robot:
using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Runtime.Serialization; [RestService("/robot", "GET,POST,PUT,OPTIONS")] [DataContract] public class RobotRestResource { [DataMember] public string Name { get; set; } [DataMember] public double IntelligenceRating { get; set; } [DataMember] public bool IsATerminator { get; set; } [DataMember] public IList<string> Predecessors { get; set; } public IList<Thought> Thoughts { get; set; } }
The minimum requirement for a class to be recognized as a REST resource by ServiceStack, is that it must
inherit from IRestResource, and have a RestServiceAttribute with a URL template, and that's it. ServiceStack doesn't force you to use the DataContractAttribute or DataMemberAttribute. The only reason I used it for the example is to demonstrate how to exclude a member from being serialized to JSON when it's sent to the client. The Thoughts member will not be serialized and the web client will never know the value of this object. I had a situation where I wanted to have a member on my resource for internal use in my application, but I didn't want to send it to clients over the web service. In this situation you have to apply the DataContractAttribute to your resource's class definition, and the DataMemberAttribute to each property you want to expose. And that's it, nothing else is required to declare a REST resource ffor ServiceStack.
Provide a Service for Each Resource with RestServiceBase
Each resource you declare requires a corresponding service that implements the supported HTTP verb-methods:
public class RobotRestService: RestServiceBase<RobotRestResource> { public override object OnPut(RobotRestResource robotRestResource) { // Do something here & return a // new RobotRestResource here, // or any other serializable // object, if you like. } public override object OnGet(RobotRestResource robotRestResource) { // Do some things here ... // Return the list of RobotRestResources // here, or any other serializable // object, if you like. return new [] { new RobotRestResource(), new RobotRestResource() }; } }
In order for ServiceStack to assign a class as a service for a resource, you have to inherit from RestServiceBase, specifying the resource class as the generic type. RestServiceBase provides virtual methods for each REST approved HTTP-verb: OnGet for GET, OnPut for PUT, OnPost for POST and OnDelete for DELETE. You can selectively override each one that your resource supports.
Each HTTP-verb method may return one of the following results:
- Your IRestResource DTO object. This will send the object to the client in the specified format JSON, or XML.
- ServiceStack.Common.Web.HtmlResult, when you want to render the page on the server and send that to the client.
- ServiceStack.Common.Web.HttpResult, when you want to send a HTTP status to the client, for instance to redirect the client:
var httpResult = new HttpResult(new object(), null, HttpStatusCode.Redirect); httpResult.Headers[HttpHeaders.Location] = "https://openlandscape.wordpress.com"; return httpResult;
And that's it. Launch your web site, and call the OnGet methof at /robot?format=json, or if you prefer XML /robot?format=xml. To debug your RESTful service API I can highly recommend the Poster Firefox plug-in. Poster allows you to manually construct HTTP commands and send them to the server.
You might be wondering what the purpose is of RobotRestResource that gets passed to each HTTP-verb method. Well, that is basically an aggregation of the posted form parameters and URL query string parameters. In other words if the submitted form has a corresponding field name to one of RobotRestResource's properties, ServiceStack will automatically assign the parameter's value to the supplied RobotRestResource. The same applies for query strings, the query strings ?Name="TheTerminator"&IsATerminator=true: robotRestResource's Name will be assigned the value of "TheTerminator" and IsATerminator will be true.
Using ServiceStack's Built-In Web Service as a Service Host
The above discussion assumed that you'll be hosting your ServiceStack service in IIS or with mod_mono in Apache. However, ServiceStack has another pretty cool option available, self hosting. That's right, services can be independently hosted on their own and embedded in your application. This might be useful in scenarios where you don't want to be dependent on IIS. I imagine something like a Windows service, or similar, that also serves as small web server to expose a web service API to clients, without the need for lengthy and complicated IIS setup procedures.
var appHost = new AppHost(); appHost.Init(); appHost.Start("http://localhost:82/");
To start the self hosted ServiceStack you configure your host as usual, and then call Start(…), passing the URL (with free port) where the web server will be accessed.
Why Use ServiceStack
For me one of the big reasons for choosing ServiceStack is that it has a solid library to build web services running on Mono. However, after using if for a while I found its easy setup and simple conventions very refreshing from the often confusing and cumbersome configuration of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services.ServiceStack also does a much better job of RESTful services, than WCF's current implementation. I know future versions of WCF will enable a more mature RESTful architecture, but for now it's pretty much RPC hacked into REST. Another bonus was the complete set of example apps that were a great help to quickly get things working. So if you're tired of WCF's heavy configuration and you're looking for something to quickly implement mature RESTful web services, then definitely give ServiceStack a try.


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dkarho needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Swedish clothing boutique, working with street wear
Trendy people that likes street wear, all ages
The business card should be done with a ready logo and should be very exclusive.
On the back you should have a map, i've uploaded the map but I want you to change the colours to black and white or something, be creative!
The business card should include on the front:
Name (Ander Andersson)
Logo (See attached logo)
Telephone number (070-xxxxxxx)
E-mail: (firstname.lastname@example.com
Title: CEO
Webpage http://www.google.se
Södermannagatan 18
116 23 Stockholm
MAP: (look attatched files)
Change the MAP and remove the blue dot and add the logo. It's ok to cut the map so it fits good, it should look clear
Heads-Up.se ingår i Magenta Marketing AB
Org. Nr: 556528-5557
Webpage (http://www.heads-up.se)
When I decided winner, I will provide you with all the details that should be on the business card. 4 different names
Use your creativty and be open minded. The business card should give a feeling of street wear and exclusivity


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Classic cereal combines the great taste of blueberry muffins with the neutritional value of whole-grain wheat
The blueberry muffin has long been a palate-pleasing breakfast food, appearing in gift baskets and the center of breakfast tables for years. While the yearning for the great taste of blueberry muffins is abundant, todays moms dont have much time for baking. So the Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Mich., rolls out Kelloggs Frosted Mini-Wheats Blueberry Muffin cereal. Now the whole family can indulge in the classic blueberry muffin taste simply with milk and a spoon.
Frosted Mini-Wheats Blueberry Muffin cereal features lightly sweetened, whole-grain wheat biscuits with the rich taste of blueberry muffins baked into every bite. The cereal consists of eight layers of crunchy whole-grain wheat, and provides 85% of the daily-recommended amount for whole grains and about 20% of the daily-recommended value for fiber in just one serving.
"New Frosted Mini-Wheats Blueberry Muffin cereal is perfect for families that want a wholesome, convenient breakfast while enjoying a great blueberry muffin taste," says Matt Lindsay, senior brand manager. "Moms can appreciate the whole grains and fiber theyre providing for the family, while everyone will enjoy the taste of blueberry muffins."


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Snow end to the fun and best photo of 2010
It is officially time to look north, people, for that's where the snow is now falling and we've got the photos to prove it.
If you're a pro like Mike Douglas from Salomon Freeski then you've probably stepped into a helicopter already and taken to the fresh powder that fell last week at Whistler Blackcomb. We have the photos to prove that too (thanks Mike).
The rest of us can salivate into our mid-afternoon coffee and start making plans while North America starts talking about La Nina and how she's going to make it an epic winter. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, she already has. They're claiming more than a metre of snowfall already. Yes, yes, we have the photos to prove it.
We also have photos from Australia's best snow photographers and we want you to vote for the photographer of the season and WIN your own camera so you can make us salivate too.
Read on for the photo of the seasonmore
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Riding high - the drug culture of the snow world
The gondola at Jackson Hole is called the 'ganjala' for good reason. Take a ride to the top of Wyoming's powder Mecca known for seriously good steep and deep skiing and prepare to open a window, hold your breath or inhale.
"Mind if I smoke" asked one bloke as he opened a vent in the cabin on my first time to Jackson. The other couple in the gondola shrugged their shoulders so I figured three against one meant majority rules, until I smelt what he was smoking.
God knows why I was so shocked. I have been in the industry long enough to recognise the pungent aroma of hash or weed but I had never experienced someone openly toke on a joint while in the captive presence of strangers. Clearly I had been leading a sheltered life.
Read on for more on the prevalence of drugs at ski resorts around the worldmore
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Sky's the limit: beginners' guide to heli-skiing
The ski and snowboard world is divided into two. Those who have heli-skied and those who have not. Those who have taunt those who have not with tails of big extreme mountain terrain, endless powder and hard core turns. Those who have not predictably tremble in fear.
I am here to tell you the truth. If you can ski all the inbound commercial resort runs in Australia and New Zealand then you can heli-ski. The myth that heli-skiing is only for the criminally insane is kept alive by ski and snowboard feature films where the truly insane-for-a-living professionals jump from helicopters, teeter on the edge of 60-degree vertical slopes and race avalanches down the mountain. The truth, however, is far more tame.
With the Aussie dollar hitting over 99 US cents and already one for one with the Canadian dollar, now is the time to fulfill that heli-ski dream in North America this coming season. If you think you don't have what it takes, think again.
Read on for a beginners guide to heli-skiingmore
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So you think you can ski?
This one's for the boasters. Those big burly blokes who speak loudly on the chairlift about their skiing and riding ability, those ski and snowboard lift-Nazis who have little patience for learners or first timers, those folk who litter their bumper bar with resort stickers and pepper their conversation with the words 'heli' and 'couloir.'
So you think you can ski? Well we've searched the world to find the big boys with resort access, those accessible-yet-extreme ski and snowboard runs that will test your mettle. We call them 'no fall zones'; you may call them a death wish. Either way, tick these babies off your list and then come and see us.
Read on for the biggest baddest boasting rights in the ski and snowboard worldmore
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Make money skiing in New Zealand this spring
Snow It All has never been great with weather, meteorology was not my forte at school. But you don't have to be Tim Bailey to know that the Polar Vortex that trapped the cold air in Antarctica this winter has broken down and headed to New Zealand. Translated? The South Island of New Zealand copped a whole lot of fresh dry winter snow last week with more on the way.
Even better news for Australians is the weak New Zealand dollar. At time of writing, one Aussie dollar equalled $1.30 in Kiwi money. Put simply, a day lift pass to the best family mountain in New Zealand, Cardrona, will set you back $68 Aussie dollars.
If you pour your hard earned Aussie dollars into the ski resorts of Canterbury then you'll also be doing your bit to help the earth shaken up folk and economy of Christchurch and surrounds.
Save money, give back and ski powder? That's a winner.
Read on for how to make the most of NZ's late winter and failing dollar.more
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Food not so glorious food - why the snow needs Masterchef
This little piggy can't do her ski pants up and is skiing with her fly at half mast. To put it simply my muffin top is now a flan. I wouldn't mind if the extra poundage was due to some seriously good meals but I've spent most of the season at the Australian snowfields where flavour, nutrition and value for money don't always go hand in pudgy hand.
The snowfields have a captive market and they know it. Once you're in an Australian ski resort or on a New Zealand mountain it's a long drive back to the local fruit market to get some fresh food. The same long drive the mountains use as an 'excuse' for the high cost of bottled water, hot chips or a chocolate bar.
I have had some shockers this season including reheated pre-packaged curry served up as an almost $30 main with a microwave crumble from a frozen box for a dessert. Then there was the on-mountain nachos that came with guacamole from a tub and a chef's hair in the corn chips (noice).
The icing on the value for nutrient cake came when I asked a cafe if they had anything healthy while perusing their display case. The owner answered 'yes we have cookies and muffins'. Clearly the Heart Foundation (and MasterChef) hasn't made it above the snowline.
Read on for the best and the worst of food on the snowfields.more
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Unsung heroes of the Australian snow
When I sent out an email asking my snow contacts for 'unsung heroes of the snow' I received the following reply.
"You show me someone in the snow who doesn't sing their own praises and I'll show you a flying elephant."
He had a fair point. The snow tends to attract a self-gratifying crowd where self-praisers talk themselves up at apres hour.
There are some alpine folk, however, who are integral in keeping Australia's snow industry alive and are simply too busy with the task of getting on with it to send a press release to the world about themselves. They don't even have a Facebook account.
Then there are those who spend their spare hours fund raising or giving back to the community, or training to represent their country, or saving lives on a daily basis. I for one stand humbled before them
So prepare to bring out Dumbo my cynical friend.
Read on to nominate your unsung hero of the snow.more
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Booze blues - binge drinking at the snow
Where there's snow there's booze.
'Apres' is French for binge drinking when folks in Europe ski into slopeside pubs and straight into bottles of foul-tasting rocket-fuel-style schnapps that only come out when the temperature is below zero. The Europeans invented skiing and they invented the drinking that goes with it.
Australians are already known for our lassez-faire attitude towards the booze bottle (a barbie ain't a barbie, mate without a keg or ten) so it would be rude not to drink at the Australian snow fields, right?
It is, after all, a badge of honour to be refused service at Buller's Kooroora Pub or Thredbo's Keller Bar where feet, and integrity, religiously stick to the floor. If you're refused service here, you must be hammered.
Nowhere else in the world, outside of Ibiza, is boozing so revered as at a ski resort. Jaigermeister have no doubt made most of their billions above the snow line and the invention of the shot ski (a ski with four or five shot glasses soldered to it) encourages the communal love in through the bottle.
It's all good fun, right? Till someone gets hurt, their drink gets spiked or they die.
Read on for more sobering facts about the drinking culture at the snow.
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September is the new August - the best spring snow deals
Fresh powder at Hotham last weekend. (Photo: Mark Tsukasov)
Readers of Snow It All are in for some exclusive discounted September treats at the snow this season.
I am a snow sceptic from way back. When a snow reporter declares the snow as 'dry as Colorado' with 'face shots for all' I guffaw into my neck gater but even I could not deny the snow conditions in Australia the past week.
I stand on my grandmother's grave and honestly declare I skied the best resort snow I have skied in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday last week and I will even go so far as to say the snow was as light and dry as any snow I have skied in the world bar Japan.
August finally came through with the snow goods saving the snow industry in 2010 after a super dry July that had the ski industry in despair. Both the Victorian and New South Wales ski fields recorded almost two and a half metres of snow fall in August alone.
It was the snowiest August in twenty five years and all signs lead to more snow on the way in September. Even better news is the lack of lift queues as the season moves into spring so get your ski and snowboard butt down to the Aussie alps. If you held off on your winter holiday this year, now is the time to score both some serious snow and some serious savings. The beach will always be there, the snow will not.
Miss Snow It All likes to share the love so I've done the search for you for the best deals on offer at Australia's ski fields this September including deals exclusive for Snow It All readers only.
Read on for some mega savings for Snow It All readers during this epic September snow month.more
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Life and death on the snowfields
Lachlan McGuiness competing in his sister's memorial time trial. Photo credit: Randy Wiemen from Hotshots.
When Amelia McGuiness smiled the world was a better place. The vibrant sixteen year old loved to ski and it was what she loved that killed her on the slopes of Perisher twelve months ago this week. While skiing with friends during the interschools competition week, Amelia hit a tree and died, devastating her farming family and the extensive New South Wales school ski community.
She's not the first to have her life cut short while skiing. This year alone has seen a number of tragedies on the snowfields of Australia and New Zealand. Four people have died on Mt Hutt in Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand this year, one on the access road and three on the mountain in separate incidents.
Mt Buller has had two deaths this season including a twenty two year old who lost his way after leaving the pub at night. While prominent journalist, Michael Meagher, 55, died at Perisher when hitting a tree.
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Ski racing, the forgotten sport
Let's get one thing straight, I am not a fan of Lycra on the ski hill. Lycra should be left to those whose bodies have yet to return southward to the ground from which they came.
I have never been big on alpine ski racing, I blame the Lycra. Ski racing in Australia is not a glamour sport simply because our racers are usurped by the aerials, moguls and snowboarding medal tallies. Outside of Zali Stegall when was the last time you saw an alpine racer on the Olympic podium sporting the green and gold?
Read on for the lowdown on why Australian ski racing should be under the spotlightmore
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There's more than one way to skin a mountain
Helicopters may be the new black of the ski world but a little old fashioned foot power is making a comeback and remember you heard it here first.
When I first started skiing I scoffed at those folks in Lycra pants walking up hill with ski poles. I thought they had lost their skis until I looked down and noticed their trek boots.
I then guffawed at the minions on the edges of resort boundaries strapping snow shoes to their feet ready to tramp out amongst the snow gums. Why go uphill when you can go down? I thought.
Skiing and snowboarding may be the glamour activities of snow resorts with rockstar outerwear fashion to match but don't write off those black beanie wearing folks with thermals and wool just yet.
Read on for the alternative ways to have fun on a ski hillmore
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Bledisnow cup - Australia or New Zealand?
There's long been a natural rivalry between Aussies and Kiwis, something about pavlova and Phar Lap, and the snow world is no different. The New Zealand marketers have pumped millions of dollars into talking up their snow fields to the cashed-up Aussie tourist who gets an extra 20 NZ cents for every Aussie dollar thanks to the exchange rate.
But money aside, is New Zealand skiing really better than Australia?
Read on for the low down on NZ versus Aussie skiing plus your chance to WIN a Giro helmet and goggle kit.more
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Snow Romance - playboys of the snow
Every ski resort has a bar you have to be seriously drunk to even consider entering. You know you've had a few when you find yourself in the Keller at Thredbo or the Kooroora in Buller with your feet stuck to the alcohol sodden floor.
At that hour most people have lost their consonants and are reverting to vowels to communicate. Why? Because someone somewhere decided that pear infused rocket fuel and the snow go together.
It's in these moments that the beer goggles come out and unsuspecting holiday makers are pounced on by the local playboys who change their dance partners every week.
Trust me, true love is rarely found when the lights come on at closing time...more
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In Search of WHOLE GRAIN Durum/Semolina Flour
I was wondering if anyone knows of a place/website that sells WHOLE GRAIN durum of semolina flour. All of the flour I find in shops has been sifted, and while I understand excellent gluten development is the whole point of durum and semolina flours, I would still like to get a whole grain source of this type of flour.
All responses are appreciated.


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Woman Claims She Was Knocked Up at Gigantour Show, Seeks Culprit via Craigslist
Hey fellas, did you recently hook up with a chick at the Chicago stop of Megadeth's Gigantour? If so, you may be a new father! A woman in the Chicago area recently posted an ad on Craigslist looking for the father of her unborn child, who was apparently conceived in the beautiful Aragon Ballroom bathroom stalls.
Hold on, hold on, before you start freaking out, think of how many people were at the show. Thousands of people were at that show. You couldn't have been the only one making sweet music in the bathrooms… right?
Okay, things aren't looking good — but the knocked up metalhead posted a detailed description of the anonymous donor within her Craigslist ad:
Me: Blue hair, silver tube top, Knee high black biker boots.
You: Red mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings.
I was grinding on you in the pit, then we went to the bathroom, and got f—ed up. You had a nice c–k and I was wasted so I let raw dog it in the stall. You were really good and you had to gag me so I would make too much noise.
Anyway I'm pregnant. It's yours. contact me if you want to be a part of your child's life.
The Craigslist ad has since been taken down, so you may be off the hook! The only thing you need to worry about now is getting a call from Maury Povich.