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How do you begin to process David Lynch's latest nightmare fuel? Two GQ.com writers discuss.
Scott Meslow, GQ.com culture critic: Well… what did we expect from a Twin Peaks finale? This show ended its original run with one of the strangest and most mesmerizing hours of network television in history. Twin Peaks returned on premium cable, and Lynch used every bit of creative freedom at his disposal, delivering a brand-new Twin Peaks finale that's at least as mesmerizing, and inarguably even stranger.
So let's try to unpack it. Josh, before we get into what happened, and do our best to make sense of it: How did the new Twin Peaks finale make you feel?
Joshua Rivera, GQ.com contributor: I felt like something was… very wrong. In a weird, creeping way, you know? It's as if all the strange horror of the original run's finale was distilled to a single moment. I don't know what I feel right now but I will be feeling this way for a very long time.
Scott: It's only been about a half hour since it ended, but I'll give you my snap reaction: I loved it. I can't explain most of what happened logically—though I suspect some of it will make a little more sense after I rewatch and ruminate on it—but it felt right on some subliminal level. Even as it left me with an awful knot in my stomach.
So let's talk about what happened. The finale starts normally enough, for Twin Peaks. It's basically a race to the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department, as the doppelgänger arrives and successfully passes himself off as the real Cooper. As soon as he set foot in the building, I was wracked with anxiety, watching all of Cooper's former allies warmly welcome this dead-eyed pretender.
Joshua: And it's all remarkably straightforward! Especially for the climactic confrontation with a cosmic evil that's taken the form of the beloved Agent Cooper! Essentially, everyone who was brought to the Twin Peaks Sheriff Department—from the employees to the detainees down in the holding cell—are there for a reason, and all of them contribute to defeating both the doppelgänger and what I can only describe as The Essence of BOB in relatively quick fashion, leading to an all-too-brief reunion between the true Cooper and many of his former friends. Then, the mysterious eyeless woman known as Naido was revealed to be the real Diane, and she embarked with Cooper on a journey that I only kind of understand.
Scott: Well, let's start with the part I definitely understand: The return to the night of Laura Palmer's murder, which is kicked off by a superimposed image of Cooper saying, "We live inside a dream" (a phrase previously muttered by Phillip Jeffries in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me). Cooper is transported back to 1989, as Laura Palmer and James Hurley ride to the stoplight at Sparkwood and 21, in footage repurposed from Fire Walk With Me. Cooper emerges from the future and watches from the bushes. Lynch even retcons an apparent non-sequitur from the original movie, when Laura looks over James' shoulder and suddenly, inexplicably screams. That moment previously played as the culmination of the stress and drugs compounding in Laura's brain; now, we know she saw the shadowy figure of Dale Cooper in the woods.
Laura goes into the woods, where she previously met Leo Johnson and Jacques Renault—but this time, Cooper intervenes and guides her away from the site where she'll be abducted by BOB. And we see how life in Twin Peaks might have continued if Laura had never been murdered, as Pete Martell heads out for a quiet day of fishing on a totally corpse-less beach. It was obvious that this total rewrite of the inciting incident in Twin Peaks couldn't last (for one thing, there was still an hour left in the finale)—but I still found it tremendously moving to see a happier alternate reality for these characters, several of whom never even appeared in Twin Peaks: The Return.
Joshua: Do you really think it's happier, though? Certainly, Twin Peaks is a less bleak place without a brutal murder at its heart, but I got the sense, watching that, a number of things would still be more or less the same. All those nice people are still hiding things from one another, still surprisingly cruel and recklessly selfish. That's the kind of thing Twin Peaks delighted in showing us week after week, and it made this brief return to the very start all the more haunting for me.
Scott: That's a good point. I'm happy to see a world where Laura Palmer was never murdered, but it's not like reversing that night actually fixes anything. Laura is presumably still the victim of BOB, using her father as a surrogate. In the original Twin Peaks pilot way back in 1990, we met Sarah Palmer as a grieving mother, tearfully remembering saying "Goodnight, sweetheart" to her daughter on the night she was murdered. Here, in the continuity where Laura isn't murdered, we see Sarah in an inexplicable psychotic rage, smashing her daughter's homecoming photo. Maybe, the new finale suggests, there is no solution to the rot at the heart of Twin Peaks. Or maybe Sarah—who has always demonstrated an unusual knack for the supernatural side of the town—is just the first to recognize that something is very, very wrong.
Joshua: There's something very wrong with Sarah! And we're not ever going to find that out, it seems. Or what's wrong with Audrey. At least in any certain terms. There are a lot of things left unanswered, and honestly, I wasn't expecting answers—this isn't a show about answers—but we did get a few. Some clear, others less so. Almost everything addressed in Episode 18 falls under the latter, as it essentially leaves most of the cast of Twin Peaks: The Return behind to follow Cooper on an odyssey with Diane. It's a lengthy sequence that is strange at parts—there's a nigh-inexplicable and hard-to-emotionally-parse sex scene between the two—but also seems to offer oblique answers to longstanding questions, even though I had no idea what those answers might be.
Scott: Let's review what we do know about everything that happened there. After his failed odyssey to reverse the murder of Laura Palmer, Cooper emerges from the Black Lodge with Diane. (Or, one could argue, seems to emerge from the Black Lodge. We'll talk about that later.) He and Diane both swear that they are themselves and not doppelgängers, though neither gives any evidence, and there's no clear reason that they should trust each other, or that we should trust them. They're both acting weird—Cooper, in particularly, seems uncharacteristically stoic—but not so weird that you can make a definitive case one way or the other.
Cooper and Diane drive 430 miles, which happens to be a number the Giant told Cooper to remember in the very first episode. The aforementioned weird sex scene—which is scored, unnervingly, to the same Platters song that played when the oil men descended on that small Nevada town in Episode Eight—culminates in Diane covering the emotionless Cooper's face with her hands. My best guess is that not even she knows whether it's Cooper or the doppelgänger, and that she can't even stand to look at him for fear of what she might see.
In the morning, Cooper wakes up and Diane is gone. She has left a Dear John note addressed to a man named Richard, and signed "Linda," which happen to be two names the Giant told Cooper to remember in the very first episode.
Joshua: I'm glad you brought up the way Cooper was behaving, because if he seemed a little off at the motel, in the next scene he seems even more so. He stops at a diner on his way to Odessa, Texas. (The diner is called "Judy's, and that's important. "Judy" is a name that was mentioned in Fire Walk With Me, which we finally get an answer for in Episode 17: Gordon Cole describes "Judy" as, essentially, an entity that's at the center of all the strange happenings in the weird mythology of Twin Peaks. We don't get much more information than that.) At the diner, Cooper continues to behave in a manner that seems halfway between his normal self and his doppelgänger. He's just, yet cruel—sticking up for a waitress who was assaulted by some crass cowboys, yet dispassionately crippling them after they threaten him, and showing little regard for the safety of the diner's employees.
Scott: And I wonder if this razor-thin edge between Cooper and the doppelganger is the point. Is this Twin Peaks' endgame? Give us an impossibly moral hero and an impossibly evil villain who happen to share the same face, and end up blurring the lines between them so successfully that we don't even know the identity of our main character anymore?
Because for good reasons or evil reasons—there are compelling arguments for both—this Cooper is hellbent on finding Laura Palmer. And maybe he does. He tracks down a woman who calls herself Carrie Page. She claims she's never heard the names Laura, Leland, or Sarah Palmer, and she doesn't even know where Washington is. But there are also weird signs that "Carrie" might be lying, or that she might not even know she's Laura—most notably, the white horse figurine on her mantle, which is an image closely associated with the Palmer family.
Cooper takes Carrie/Laura on a long road trip—it's surreal, and emotional, to see Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee occupying the same real world at the same time—and they finally end up on the doorstep of the Palmer residence in Twin Peaks. They knock on the door and meet a woman who calls herself Alice Tremond, who says she bought the house from a woman named Chalfont. (Though neither Cooper nor Carrie/Laura recognizes them, those are very significant names in Twin Peaks lore.) Cooper and Laura step away from the house, and… well, why don't you take it from here?
Joshua: ...well, that seems to be it. Carrie/Laura and Cooper head back to their car. Cooper seems distressed, as if he expected this to work out—to fix something, or everything. Then he realizes something is wrong, and asks Carrie/Laura what year it is. She doesn't answer. But she realizes something horrible too, and turns towards the house that might have been hers, and screams as the lights in the house surge and blow out and Twin Peaks: The Return ends.
It's all of maybe 30 seconds long, and it's top-to-bottom terrifying. But what do you think it meant?
Scott: I can honestly say that this was one of the scariest scenes I have ever seen in a TV show or movie. I'm not sure it needs to mean much of anything. The sight of Cooper, completely unmoored, and Sheryl Lee doing that ear-piercing scream again… it's thwarted expectations, hazy nightmare imagery, and pure existential dread in a single nauseating package. I wouldn't have believed Lynch could top "How's Annie?"—but this comes pretty damn close.
But we are here to investigate, so let me pore over my notes and see what conclusions I can draw about this story. Here's my best guess. Earlier in the finale, Cooper goes to see Phillip Jeffries. Phillip's spout spits out the symbols from Owl Cave, which are also on the ring closely associated with the Black Lodge. Those symbols then morph into an infinity symbol. And we also get that clip of Mike in the Black Lodge, saying "Is it future or is it past?"—a scene that was pulled directly from the premiere.
Lynch has long been fascinated with this kind of mobius strip storytelling. (His underrated Lost Highway follows a similar narrative arc.) So I'm going to posit that Cooper—and by extension the rest of Twin Peaks, and by extension the rest of the world—are unknowingly trapped in an inescapable cycle. Cooper is just one man, and the denizens (or deities?) of the Black Lodge have unfathomable goals, and unfathomable methods to achieve them. The names "Tremond" and "Chalfont" are big tipoffs. Twin Peaks is at the center of some cosmic battle or game, and it seems to be rigged. The horror isn't just that the many characters we have come to love over the course of the series are trapped; it's that their earnest efforts to break free, or make things a little better, have only trapped them further.
Joshua: One of the oft-repeated mantras from Twin Peaks is the line spoken by The Giant just when Laura Palmer's killer is revealed and about to kill once more: "It is happening again." The line was used as an ad slogan for Twin Peaks: The Return, but interestingly, there is no central murder anything like Laura Palmer's in these 18 episodes. There is tragedy and innocence lost—but on the margins, incidents of almost casual heartbreak and horror betwixt sometimes strange and often goofy events. And yet: It is happening again.
Are we living inside a dream? And whose dream is it? Can Laura Palmer ever be saved?
This is an obtuse finale, but it's also an unquestionably bleak one. There is horror lying at the furthest reaches of our existence, Search for answers there, and you can lose yourself. But I think there's hope, too. Sheriff Truman, Andy and Lucy, Bobby Briggs, Hawk—they all faced that horror, came together to expel it from their corner of the world, and will without a doubt continue on, doing their best to lead wholeheartedly good and sincere lives.
In a way, this makes Cooper analogous the the viewer who wants to understand everything that unfolded in these last 18 episodes. Plumb too deep for all-encompassing whys and wherefores, and you'll end up not terribly far from where you started—and maybe even somewhere worse.
Scott: You can see the hope in this finale, if you're willing to squint a little. (Hooray, Janey-E got another Dougie!) But I've got to be honest: I don't see many silver linings here. This is a despairing, nihilistic note to end on. And we're not even talking about all the unpleasant questions Twin Peaks: The Return raised and opted not to answer. Remember last week's big Audrey Horne cliffhanger, which implied that she was trapped in the Black Lodge, or the White Lodge, or maybe just an institution? I hope you liked that three-second shot of her terrified in a white room, because—barring the possibility of a paragraph or two in Mark Frost's upcoming Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier—it doesn't seem likely that we'll ever get an explanation for that.
And if I have a complaint about Twin Peaks: The Return—which is, to be clear, my favorite TV show in years—it's that the show sometimes flirted with the line between fascinatingly obtuse and frustratingly obtuse. I love a good Lynchian non-sequitur, but stranding a beloved fan-favorite like Audrey in a bizarre standalone subplot with no payoff is a creative choice that, ultimately, just didn't feel like it merited the time Twin Peaks spent on it.
Of course, what worked and what didn't are totally subjective. So what didn't you like about the finale, and about Twin Peaks: The Return as a whole? And were there any dangling mysteries or subplots you were frustrated not to see resolved?
"You can see the hope in this finale, if you're willing to squint a little."
Joshua: Not really? Between Frost and Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return has such a strong authorial voice that even the parts I hated (Audrey's ambiguous purgatory, maybe a quarter of the Dougie Jones plot, the Diane/Coop sex scene) don't feel like things I can give good notes on, because what do I have to offer? I'm not the kind of guy who would take a character played by David Bowie and reimagine him as a sentient fucking tea kettle or whatever.
That doesn't mean I don't have overall criticisms—David Lynch is afforded certain freedoms here that many other creators aren't, and while he generally makes compelling use of that freedom, it makes some of his lousier tendencies a bit more grating. Twin Peaks, and a lot of Lynch's filmography, is dedicated to sympathetic portraits of ruined women. In a way, Lynch's work seeks justice for these women, but leaves them victims, never letting them find it for themselves. Strip away a lot of the dream logic and symbolism, and that's a big part of what Twin Peaks boils down to: Damaged women, and the evil men that broke them.
Scott: Maybe that's a part of why I love the closing scene in this new finale—which, like the original finale, leaves the white knight who literally rode into town in a state of confusion and defeat. There aren't easy answers to these problems, and Twin Peaks is more powerful, and more honest, for grappling with them without manufacturing a solution.
And this may well be the final note on Twin Peaks. Showtime president David Nevins has said this was always intended to be a one-and-done season, and that there has been literally no discussion about doing more. While Showtime is reportedly happy with the number of new subscribers Twin Peaks: The Return attracted, the show's actual ratings are a fraction of Ray goddamn Donovan. All that said: There are still plenty of questions a new season could answer. So would you want more Twin Peaks?
Joshua: Twin Peaks: The Return has both been a gift and a bit of an admonishment to people who love Twin Peaks and wanted more for all these years. It delighted and horrified and hardly ever gave anyone what they wanted, but it also remarkably preserved and updated what watching Twin Peaks felt like. Do I want more Twin Peaks? No, I don't think so. I am happy with the strange, inscrutable stack of episodes I got, here for me to revisit and lose myself in like my very own Black Lodge. Do I want to feel this way again, sitting in front of a screen that seems like it's become a window into something I should not see, nor look at too closely, lest I find its world bleeds into mine? Absolutely. And if that comes in the form of more Twin Peaks, I'll take it.


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Ahmedabad, May 11 (PTI) A delegation of Hindu seers led by Junagadh-based Mahamandaleshwar Bharti Bapu, today met BJP president Amit Shah at his residence here.
Shah is on a personal visit to the state as there is no scheduled programme of the party. He arrived in the city this afternoon, BJP sources said.
The seers called on Shah and made a representation about the development of religious places near Girnar mountain in Junagadh.
"The discussion revolved around the need to undertake development works at Girnar. We made a representation to Amitbhai regarding the same during the meeting," Bharti Bapu told reporters after the meeting.
As the Gujarat Assembly polls are expected to be held later this year, Bapu said political parties should consider giving poll tickets to seers here, just like the BJP chose Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
"It is just my wish. We have not made any representation to Shah about it today. Seers can be given tickets in Gujarat. It is the need of the hour. I wish to see sadhus as elected representatives," he said. PTI PJT PD NP

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Looking back on the 2010 Pan Mass Challenge
We made it! You all helped me hit my fund raising goal, and I rode 200 miles in 2 days. Thank you to everyone reading this, you helped me beat my 2009 Pan Mass Challenge fund raising total by over $800. My 2010 total was $5050, coupled with my 2009 total I've raised over $9000 for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the last 2 years! I couldn't have done it without all your help. Collectively PMC riders in 2010 raised over $33 million, 100% of that went directly to life saving cancer research.
The ride went really well, there were moments of elation ( seeing my family at the finish line! ), misery ( hills, hills, and more hills! ), reflection for those we've lost, and hope for those currently fighting. I was lucky enough to meet up and share some miles with old friends from the 2009 PMC ( DPJ, Chip G, Johnny M ), as well as meeting new friends ( thanks for the pull home Matt M – it was much needed! ).
I know I'll be riding again in the 2011 PMC, this cause is too important to me and my family. As long as I can raise the money I'll keep riding in hopes that a cure is just around the next corner. I'll probably come knocking again for money next year, go easy on me, I hate asking people for money. (:-) If you wonder why I ride, these people along the way sum it up…
Thank you again for your support, it means the world to me, and a whole lot of other people who are touched by this terrible disease.
My 2010 ride was for Jim and Brenda Blake, who we lost too soon, and for Christina Mason who will continue to LIVESTRONG and beat this.
2011 sign ups are next week! I'm going to be doing things a little differently this year…more on that next week! (:-)


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Alexis Grace
At this point I don't expect anyone to know who this is unless you watch American Idol and even then I wouldn't expect anyone to know this girls name. Anyway, I was impressed with her singing tonight and I thought I would start drawing those contestants that I was impressed with. Maybe even as a bit of a predictor of who will do good, at least who I think will do good later on. Who knows, she may not even make the top 12 but hey it's good drawing practice.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A nice swim in the grass
I made this last summer, I worked on it for three months. I was waiting to post it when I got music to go with it and I still hope to get music but until then I figured I might as well post it.
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I made these illustrations almost a year ago for a friend who wanted to make a book about dinosaurs for her niece. She wanted to place pictures of her niece on the dinosaurs or somewhere near them. For example on the Triceratops she would be riding it like a bucking bronco. I gave the images to my friend, I don't know if she ever did anything with them though. I figure I might as well do something with the images and post them here.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Her morning elegance
I just ran into this video and thought it was so amazing. I have done some stop motion and so I appreciate how much work went into the animation of this
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Over the past week I've come across a few helpful apps that have enriched our devotional and prayer life. Of course I'm always using my YouVersion app, both for reading and for listening to scripture, but these newbies have been a nice addition to an often spiritually-distracting iPhone.
Voice of the Martyrs Pray Today : This app gives you daily prompts for praying for the persecuted church.
Bible Bloom : Great app that gives you a daily challenge that allows you to put your faith into action.
Prayer Prompter : This prayer app allows you to be prompted by scripture and lists of supplications and intercessions. Also has a built-in timer that allows you to see how much time you've spent in prayer.
Prayer Path : This prayer app builds a slideshow of prayer prompts, and allows you to add photos, music, and other meaningful elements to enrich these prayer times.
Bedtime Shema : We have prayed Shema since our little ones were their littlest. This app is a beautiful child-friendly, God-centered way to get tucked in. My peanuts love taking turns at night completing the tasks and listening to Shema being said by young boys and girls. It has also enriched my understanding of God's word, as I have been interested to learn more about Shema and increase my knowledge of HaShem. Learning about Asher Yatzar was surprising - definitely sheds a new light on potty training.
Happy app-ing!


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Fan labor
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This is a list of productive creative activities engaged in by fans. These activities can include creation of written works, visual or computer-assisted art, music, or applied arts and costuming.
- Dudley's dungeon
- Souljazz' Nethack Humour - short humorous nethack related webcomics
Fan fiction
- V'rgo's NetHack Stories - includes "The Ascension of the Ordinary Valkyrie" and "The Pacifist"
- NetHack stories on fanfiction.net
- ais523's expansion of NetHack's introduction
- dtsund wrote some intentionally bad NetHack/Sonic crossover fan fiction as part of his Let's Play (and later, this opera script)
- "Demogorgon's Patch", a horror story by GreyKnight
- "Vanishing in a Puff of Logic: The Tediously Charmed Life of RegretMeNo(t) the Elven Wizard", an entire book(!) by Studio Dongo
- The Astral Plane https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7076680/1/The-Astral-Plane
- The Origins of the Maze of Menace https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6454399/1/The-Origins-of-the-Maze-of-Menace
Drawn art
- NetHack haiku
- Nethackery - a psychological NetHack map
- NetHack map - a handdrawn NetHack map
- NetHack map - another handdrawn NetHack map
- Tourist - a rendition of a tourist
- Valkyrie - a rendition of a valkyriet
- Nethack | Staffel 1 - a series of German Let's Play YouTube videos by Café Milchkaffeebohne
- German Let's Play NetHack and UnNetHack YouTube videos by Irrenhaus3
- German Let's Play Slash'EM and Slash'EM Extended by Aaaaaimbot
- NetHack Café: randomly-generated menus. I'll have the chickatrice nuggets and an uncursed water flavoured milkshake, please!
See also
- Best of RGRN
- The #nethack quote db captures the best chatter on irc


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What People Wore
1,800 Illustrations From Ancient Times to the Early Twentieth CenturyBook - 1980
"The book is an invaluable guide to all things fashion." — Collectors' Corner
Spanning nearly 5,000 years of clothing styles, this splendid sourcebook presents a fascinating panorama of wearing apparel, beginning with the ancient Egyptians and continuing through the early decades of the twentieth century.
Over 1,800 drawings — meticulously researched and accurately rendered by the author — depict garments ranging from diaphanous gowns of Egyptian royalty, ornate robes of Byzantine dignitaries, and elegant dresses worn by eighteenth-century Parisians, to picturesque outfits of American frontiersmen and the revolutionary 1930s wardrobe of the American flapper.
Here also are informal portraits of Byzantine commoners and religious figures, Elizabethans in lace collars and ruffs, upper-class Venetians, English dandies, and French gentlemen of the mid-eighteenth century as well as detailed illustrations of nineteenth-century New York farmers, western fur trappers, cowboys, mountain men, and lumberjacks, Klondike prospectors, Mississippi rivermen, and many more. A brief historical survey precedes the chronologically grouped illustrations of each period, and an overall list supplies the source for each drawing. A comprehensive reference for artists, designers, and social historians, this invaluable treasury will also intrigue anyone interested in the evolution of wearing apparel.
Baker & Taylor
Uses 1,800 chronologically arranged line drawings to illustrate the types of clothing worn from ancient times to the early twentieth century.
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Reprint of a reference originally published in 1952 (New York, Viking Press). Meticulously researched and rendered line drawings are grouped chronologically and identified. Includes sources and a bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Given their performances this season in the Champions League, many believed the days of Roma capitulating with alarming ease in Europe was a thing of the past. Hazy memories of embarrassing score lines and broken players; a club that became the laughing stock around Italy, those embarrassments were thought to be associated with the Luciano Spalletti and Rudi Garcia eras at the club.
Well, the old Roma reappeared once again at the Metalist Stadium. Just to remind us that the mental fragilities that lie just beneath the surface are never truly banished.
And again, give their history of capitulations, this one is at least reversible. Thanks only to the heroics of Alisson, Eusebio Di Francesco's men are in with a fighting chance of making it through to the quarter-final. Because after a decent first 45 minutes in Ukraine, Roma did indeed do a 'Roma'.
The Brazilian stopper was simply magnificent, denying Marlos, Taison and Facundo Ferreyra from making it another night in toe with Manchester in 2007 or Barcelona in 2015.
There was a kind of inevitability about the manner in which Roma lost control of the game once Ferreyra punished slack Giallorossi defending in the 51st minute. You expected the home side to push on and gain the upper hand, and Roma would succumb to the pressure. And Roma indeed followed the script, as par for the course on European nights.
Yet it all started so brightly, Roma were composed throughout the first half and had several chances. Edin Dzeko spurned a glorious opportunity in the 20th minute, like so many he has wasted recently in Serie A. Cengiz Under, who has almost single-handedly prevented Roma from going the way of Inter since December, banked more credit to his ever-growing stature with his first Champions League goal, on his debut in this tournament.
Speaking after the game, Di Francesco was heavily critical of his side for the way they reacted after Ferreyra's goal. Roma attempted to restrict further damage rather than going on the offensive at 1-1, but this only led to increasing Shakhtar pressure. The second goal, when it did arrive via the sumptuous left foot of Fred, was hardly surprising. For once, there was nothing Alisson could do about it.
Roma have it within them to turn the tie around on March 13. They collected seven points in the group stage at home and haven't lost a European tie under the lights at the Olimpico in over a year.
A single goal is all that's needed to advance, yet given their problems in trying to control matches and their willingness to psychologically collapse at the first sniff of trouble, you wouldn't bet against the Ukrainians scoring again. The Giallorossi will need more than just Alisson to see them progress to the quarter-final for the first time in a decade.
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A weekly round-up of news affecting your health.
The solution to sleeping woes could be as simple as a weekend away camping, suggest US scientists.
Many people sit up late into the night, watching TV or fiddling with their smartphones making it hard to fall to sleep and stay asleep.
But this habit can cause about a two-hour delay in a person's internal clocks and the consequences can be far-reaching.
"Late circadian and sleep timing in modern society are associated with negative performance and health outcomes such as morning sleepiness and accidents, reduced work productivity and school performance, substance abuse, mood disorders, diabetes, and obesity," says Kenneth Wright at the University of Colorado Boulder.
He says their new study has found a few days spent camping can "rapidly" reset a person's body clock.
With increased time spent outdoors in natural light, people in the study started going to bed at a more reasonable hour. Their internal clocks, measured by the timing of when melatonin levels began to rise in their bodies, shifted more than 2.5 hours earlier.
If a person wants to go to bed at an earlier hour, then a weekend spent camping could be just the thing, Wright says.
The onset of diabetes or a rapid deterioration in the condition could be a sign of "hidden" pancreatic cancer, according to research presented at the European Cancer Congress 2017.
Analysis linking nearly a million patients with type 2 diabetes in Italy and Belgium with recorded cases of pancreatic cancer shows that 50 per cent of all pancreatic cancers cases were diagnosed within one year of patients being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and being given their first prescription to control it.
These patients had a nearly four-fold greater risk of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the first three months after their first prescription for incretins - metabolic hormones that stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin to lower blood glucose levels.
Among patients who already had type 2 diabetes, a deterioration in their condition was associated with a seven-fold increased risk.
Incretin therapies reduce diabetic hyperglycemia through stimulating the release of insulin by the pancreas.
Because of their stimulating effects on the pancreas, it has long been thought that the incretin therapies could promote the occurrence of pancreatic cancer.
However, it is known that pancreatic cancer can cause diabetes.
This study shows that incretin therapies are often prescribed to patients whose diabetes is caused by a "still undiagnosed" pancreatic cancer, says Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France.
"Because the pancreatic cancer finally becomes symptomatic and is thus diagnosed, it looks like it is the intake of incretin drugs that could be the trigger of the pancreatic cancer, while in reality, it is the pancreatic cancer that causes a deterioration of diabetes, which is followed by the prescription of incretins," said Ms Koechlin.
She says doctors and their diabetic patients should be aware that the onset of diabetes or rapidly deteriorating diabetes could be the first sign of "hidden" pancreatic cancer, and steps should be taken to investigate it.
Although they are marketed as 'safe', US doctors warn synthetic cannabis compounds are linked to some very dangerous side effects.
The psychoactive compound in cannabis, THC, activates two receptors in the brain, and synthetic versions trigger the same receptors but are not the same as THC, chemically speaking.
Synthetics may be triggering side-effects such as seizures and convulsions, kidney injury, heart problems, strokes, anxiety, and psychosis in susceptible individuals, say the authors a review published in journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.
"We started seeing all kinds of people coming into emergency rooms saying they smoked marijuana, but then they had these really bizarre symptoms that did not correspond with the effects you see with marijuana," said Paul L Prather, a cellular and molecular pharmacologist at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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Gallant Nigerian Soldiers stop two suicide bombers.
Boko Haram terrorists have suffered some massive losses after a Nigerian Air Force drone hit their base near Sambisa Forest, killing many and destroying equipment, according to the military.
Explaining how the sect's members were hit, Director of Public Relations and Information of the Nigerian Air Force, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, said in a statement:
"The Nigerian Air Force Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has destroyed a logistics base used by members of the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) group.
"The UAV was on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission when it came across the gathering of BHTs at Garin Moloma, about one kilometre north of the Sambisa Forest."At the time of the UAV attack, the location, though under surveillance for quite a while, had a large gathering of BHTs and vehicles.
"The multiple explosions and huge fire ball from the location strongly suggests that it may be either an ammunition/fuel storage or weapons/technical workshop.
"This strike is thus a major setback for the Boko Haram sect, and a major plus for the fight against insurgency by own troops."
Also on Tuesday, two would-be suicide bombers were stopped by troops from entering Maiduguri.
The military averted a suicide attack on Maiduguri when troops intercepted two bombers before they could enter the city, home to over two million people, many of them IDPs fleeing attacks and insecurity.
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Treating Acid Reflux During Pregnancy
Acid reflux a.k.a. heartburn a.k.a. gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is quite a common condition affecting millions of people around the globe.
It is one of the most common conditions affecting the stomach lining and stomach acids. At the entrance to the stomach, there is a small muscle similar to a valve which is called the lower esophageal sphincter or LES.
This valve closes as soon as the food passes through to the stomach. But there are times when the LES doesn't close properly or opens too often due to many causes. During such times, stomach acid can move up to the esophagus. This will cause a burning sensation in your chest area which is referred to as acid reflux or heartburn. There are various causes for acid reflux.
A stomach abnormality named hiatal hernia is one of the main reasons for acid reflux. The upper part of the stomach and LES would move into the diaphragm (a muscle that separates the chest and stomach), which is referred to as hiatal hernia. Usually, the diaphragm helps to keep stomach acid in the stomach. But when you are down with hiatal hernia, stomach acid can move to the esophagus and cause heartburn or acid reflux.
The other common reasons for acid reflux include eating large meals and lying down as soon as you eat, snacking close to bedtime, smoking, alcohol, coffee tea and other caffeinated drinks, citrus fruits, aspirin and other strong medications.
Another important reason for acid reflux is being pregnant. More than half of the pregnant women in the world report acid reflux symptoms, especially during their second or third trimesters. Changing hormone levels is considered a major reason for heartburn conditions during pregnancy.
Changing hormone levels will affect how the muscles of the digestive track behave. Pregnancy hormones can cause the LES to relax more often than not. This would allow stomach acids to splash back to the esophagus. In addition, the enlarged uterus can push the stomach upwards which will eventually push stomach acids into the esophagus. Gallstones also are responsible for causing acid reflux during pregnancy.
This is why acid reflux has become such a problem for women who are pregnant. You need to reduce heartburn during pregnancy without hurting the baby in the process. There are some important lifestyle changes and treatments for acid reflux during pregnancy. You should not take any over-the-counter medicines during pregnancy as it could have a negative effect on your baby.
This is why it is best to consult your doctor if you are suffering from acid reflux conditions when you are pregnant. But you can always do some important changes to your lifestyle in order to get rid of acid reflux in a natural way.
This would be the best option as it will not have any untoward effect on your baby. Below mentioned are some of the most important changes that could be made to your daily lifestyle in order to eliminate acid reflux for good during pregnancy.
The first thing is to start eating several small meals a day without eating three large meals per day. Also, you should eat your meal quite slowly and chew every bite of it quite effectively. This will help to stimulate more saliva and protect the stomach lining from being damaged by stomach acids. Saliva helps to protect the stomach lining here.
Too spicy, fried and fatty foods should be avoided as much as possible since these food items will help the LES to relax and increase the chances of heartburn. Drink less water while eating. Drinking too much of water will help stomach acids to floor into the esophagus and cause heartburn as a result. You should not lie down after eating. Do not eat any snack before bedtime.
Your head should be placed a bit higher than the chest and stomach when sleeping at night. Keep a pillow under your head and shoulder area for this purpose. It will help to prevent stomach acids from creeping into the esophagus.Try to wear loose fitting clothes while you are pregnant since tight fitting clothing can cause too much of pressure on your abdomen area.
This would increase the chances of stomach acids flowing to the esophagus. Treat your constipation condition before it worsens as this too can lead to acid reflux.
Try to stay clear of stressful situations as stress has been found to be one of the major reasons for acid reflux or heartburn. You can ask your doctor to recommend a few over-the-counter medicines to cure your acid reflux condition.
But do not take any over-the-counter medications on your own during pregnancy. These are some of the most effective treatments for acid reflux during pregnancy. It will help to stay clear of heartburn during pregnancy and protect your baby and yourself during such a period.
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WCS Australia Preliminary Competition
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Hibs striker Jamie Maclaren has suffered a blow to his World Cup hopes after being cut from the Australia squad.
The forward moved to Easter Road in January in the hope of getting regular first-team football to force his way into the Soceroos team and was named in the original 29-man squad for games against Norway and Colombia.
But despite impressing in his short spell at Hibs so far, MacLaren is one of three players chopped from the squad.
The former Scotland U19 cap has played five times for Australia but new boss Bert van Marwijk has decided to go with Milwall forward Tim Cahill and uncapped Urawa Red Diamonds striker Andrew Nabbout while Maccabi Haifa's Nikita Rukavytsya can also play through the middle for Australia.
There's better news for Tom Rogic on his return from injury though as the Celtic attacking midfielder was included in the squad.
It comes off the back of another important goal scored by Rogic , as he equalised against Rangers in Sunday's 3-2 win.
Rogic, who has 33 caps for his country, is expected to be an important player for the side during this summer's World Cup in Russia.
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Safe Bounce Trampoline Review 2018
Safe Bounce Trampoline may be the cutest description you have ever read! This beautifully and brightly colored exercise trampoline incorporates a brilliant, pastel rainbow inspired design, complete with an orange frame, and blue-knobbed, plastic, non-slip feet that keep the apparatus from moving or scratching your floors. This device was built to help your child, age one and up, develop their strength, balance and coordination while they bounce up and down on the spring-enable trampoline, enjoying the fun of a play zone in their very own living room! It is never too early to encourage your child to exercise, so give them something fun to do to accomplish the promotion. Nothing screams fun like a colorful, completely safe and exciting trampoline.
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Hope everyone is having a great summer break so far (and still managing to keep some fitness going on holidays!) What have you been up to? have you been away, or having days out with the kids? Would love to know what everyone has been doing, so let us know!
After a couple of weeks off, it's back to business as usual tonight with classes starting again. I know i'm definitely looking forward to it after 2 rather good weeks (rather too good with the half board!!!) away. So come and join us again this week to keep those fitness levels up! We also have lots coming up over the next few months, to keep those summer vibes going and see us in to the autumn (and winter! brrrrrrr!) so check out below and we also need your feedback about a possible NEW Tuesday class and potential classes on a Thursday evening. Please let us know your thoughts.
So events and one offs we have coming up soon:
Tuesday 29th August - 6pm - 6.50pm - Stretch and Tone Pilates one off session at West Wycombe Village Hall - just £7 per person in advance (just £5 for an of our regular Tuesday pilates goers!) Come and give the class a try before signing up to the next block, or get an extra session in before we start again!
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Tuesday 5th September - 6pm - Fitness Pilates next 6 week block starts. Just £42 per person in advance to secure a place. Great for building strength and stamina and working on those core muscles and strengthening and lengthening muscles. Also great for relaxation and an hour of stress free 'me' time! Classes are held at Millbrook School in Sands. Check out the event over at https://www.facebook.com/events/112171712787934/
Week commencing 11th September sees the start of our next early morning Bootcamp! (and maybe the last one for this year, depending on the dark mornings!) For more info and booking, head over to www.buckinghamshirebootcamp.com Come and so something different and get yourself superfit in just 5 weeks! See the facebook event over at https://www.facebook.com/events/241020103087712/
Sunday 24th September is our next Meditation, Relaxation and stress busting workshop - 1.30pm to 5.30pm at Widmer End Village Hall. Come and de-stress after the summer holidays! Some of us might need it after 6 weeks of no school!! Cost is £40 per person in advance. For all the info, head over to our Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1748598162097339/
Friday 29th September 7.00pm - 9.00pm Come and join us for a Fabulous Clubbercise Charity event In High Wycombe. Tickets are £10 each in advance, which includes some drinks and nibbles afterwards too :o) Come and join us and help raise money for some great causes.
Sunday 1st October we are organising a bike ride (and lunch!) somewhere not too far away - location TBC. Maybe aiming for around 15 odd miles. Again, see the facebook event over at https://www.facebook.com/events/112201029489104/ This a FREE event - you'll just need money for lunch!
Friday 24th November sees us heading out for this years Christmas Do! Before all the December mayhem starts! We will be heading for a meal at Zizi in High Wycombe and then on to Tropicana nights at the Wycombe swan, to dance the night away to cheesy 80's tunes! if you don't want to do both you could just attend the meal, or just attend the do! For more info head over to https://www.facebook.com/events/1967031986876117/ and come and join us for our fab Christmas party night!
So, quite a few events going on over the coming months and we have some others as well such as Marlow Half Marathon and London to Brighton bike ride next year! If you are intersted in these, then it's not too late! Send me a message to email@example.com
Now, for the next bit I need your help!
So, on a Tuesday am thinking of running a BEGINNERS Fitness Pilates class at 8pm - would this be something you would be interested in? It would be aimed at total beginners and those who may not have done pilates for a long time. Class would be at Millbrook School in Sands in High Wycombe. Let me know!
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Astrology – Getting Started & Next Steps
How Love Horoscope Can Change the Flow of Your Relationship?
Horoscope is indicating planetary position at the time of a person's birth. Astrologers can analyze a person depending on their horoscope which needs time, place and exact date of birth of that person. Normally, these are used to foresee their future.
Basically, horoscope is also referred to as natal or birth chart. There are a lot of people across the globe who are in a habit to check their horoscope while reading in newspaper or magazine. The person's personality traits and characteristics can be determined by taking a look at his or her birth sign. In fact in other countries, they've taken horoscope reading to another level by matching the boy and girl's horoscope to see if they are going to be a good couple. You can find your soul mate using this horoscope compatibility.
Everyone dreams to have a partner to which they can live with a blissful and happy life. Through these love horoscopes, it can help and guide couples to gauge their level of compatibility that can be used in improving their relationship. Being able to understand this is the secret to having a long and lasting relationship. With a matching horoscope, it will give you deep insights in regards to the requirements of two people who plan to be in a more intimate relationship.
It is smart for couples who plan to enter in a love relationship or think to get married to check their horoscope compatibility to prevent problems down the road. You may even check out an astrostyle love matcher that can tell you what and where you should be more attentive to.
You may refer to reading zodiac signs to have a feel of the personality of the individual. It is characterized in four elements – Fire such as Sagittarius, Leo and Aries, Air like Aquarius and Libra, Water including Pisces, Scorpio and Cancer and lastly, Earth similar to Taurus, Capricorn and Virgo. Each element goes well to each other but it may be incompatible to the rest. By using compatibility horoscope, it will help you find the right element you belong to and on which element you are compatible the most.
Using love horoscope compatibility, it will show you about the kind of person that you are and at the same time, on what person is most suitable for you to have lasting and healthy relationship. With this, it could just save you from entering in any relationship which isn't meant to last.
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The Dachstein-Rieseneishöhle (Dachstein Giant Ice Cave) is famous for large caverns filled with ice. The ice grew in the past 500 years, when the climate became colder after a warm period during the middle ages.
If the ice still grew, the cave would very soon be filled with ice. But the ice grows in the winter and about the same amount melts during the year. This is a rather fragile balance and the next change in climate conditions may affect the cave.
The average temperature at this altitude is slightly below zero, so the temperature in the cave is also below zero. If you visit the cave in summer remember to take warm clothes with you!
|The first chambers of the cave are devoid of ice but still very cold with no speleothems. The floor is covered with huge limestone blocks which have fallen from the roof, some as big as houses. Soon, one enters King Arthur's Dome a one of the largest chambers in the cave, 120m long, 50m wide and 20 m high.
Next the passage ascends into Parsifal's Dome with a massive ice stalagmite called Gralsburg or the Castle of the Holy Grail. After this the ice accompanies the visitor for the rest of the tour. The ice formations are really magnificent, and they are set in such vast surroundings. Huge pillars reach from floor to ceiling and the whole floor is one shining sheet of green ice. There are wonderful flower like crystals on the roof which occasionally fall with a softy tinkling sound onto the ice floor beneath. InTristan's Dome the descent to the Large Ice Chapel represents the climax of the trip. The floors, ceiling and walls of this room are all covered in a dazzling display of sheets of ice which create an enchanting fairy tale scene.
From here it is only a short distance to the second entrance and the end of the trip. A new addition to the tour is a sonic artwork by Hubert von Goisern. He is a famous local musician, who makes a combination of modern rock music with traditional Austrian folk music. He beacame very popular with a rather trashy remake of an old traditional.


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My last site visit on Shetland – and I couldn't find the stone!
We parked in a layby near the entrance to the hotel opposite and Karen and the children stayed in the car while I carefully crossed the road and headed up the steep grassy hill.
My walk uphill was slow – partly because it was so steep but also with the realisation that this was my last site before catching the overnight ferry to Aberdeen.
Rabbits were in abundance and scattered as I approached.
The hill is covered in large boulders with quartz running through them although I couldn't see anything which was an obvious standing stone.
Perhaps the stone is only small and I couldn't see it amongst the erratics?
But with views like this from the top of the hill I really didn't mind.
The views were stunning – hills, lochs, the sea, islands all visible in the distance.
The sky was blue with white fluffy clouds – contrasting with the dark blue waters below.
After the Western Isles, Orkney and now Shetland I am physically tired but emotionally recharged.
I have been so lucky to have had the opportunity to visit these places.
Shetland is a wonderful island to visit and will always has a place in my heart.
I hope to return one day. If you ever get the chance to visit – do it. You won't be disappointed.
I head back down hill towards the car and ultimately home with a heavy heart……
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A state of emergency exists when immediate action is called for and the news of the week begs for triage.
A minority of wrongheaded members at Muirfield prevented the vote from reaching the two-thirds needed to change the membership policy so that the club would allow women members. Swiftly and certainly, the R&A announced that the Open Championship would not return to Muirfield until the members decide to do the right thing.
Struck with a sense of urgency, the club's captain called for an "emergency summit," which could happen by the end of the month, to see if they can't get the 14 extra votes needed to turn things around.
Phil Mickelson could be summoned to an emergency summit with PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem, not about his borderline-legal stock trade, but about his relationship with Las Vegas sports bettor Billy Walters. The Feds say Mickelson owed Walters money, which led to the insider stock tip that has Walters in serious legal jeopardy.
Jordan Spieth and his camp might not be in full panic but Spieth's game needs a trip to the emergency room after his performance at the AT&T Byron Nelson. The U.S. Open is coming quickly on the horizon.
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Michael Owen - No model pro
Ask any Newcastle United fan what they think of Michael Owen. Around the expletives and general sense of anger, there will a reasoned case to suggest that Michael Owen, the newly appointed patron saint of English football, is a footballer completely unworthy of the tsunami of praise adorning the media this week.
Owen has announced that he is set to retire at the age of 33, as a bit part player for Stoke. European footballer of the year in 2001, Owen had 89 England caps by the time he was not yet thirty, and had played at some of the biggest clubs in world football. Yes, he had a great career, and indeed, he has to be in firm contention for an 'all-time England XI' spot, but what followed his move back to England from Real Madrid in 2005 ensure that his tag as 'model pro' is completely rose-tinted and nostalgia driven.
Somewhere around this time, the striker stopped being a footballer, and became a horse owner. Terms in his contract spelled out that he required more time off than his teammates during the week in order to tend to his stables. Indeed, the club paid for a helicopter to take him to and from his home in Chester everyday he was forced to come in to training. Owen could not have been better looked after at Newcastle United, and even a widely reported wage in excess of £100,000-a-week could not keep this 'model pro' on the training ground for a minute longer than he had to be.
Of course, injuries prevented Owen from becoming one of the all-time greats. Continuous hamstring problems and a bad knee injury cut that killer pace out of his game and stifled his record as a hugely feared marksman. And that, probably, is what turned his aspiration from Jimmy Greaves to Ginger McCain. But that's no excuse. Hundreds of footballers have overcome bad injuries and gone on to celebrate success regardless. Despite the fact that he still had a keen eye for goal and an international class finish, Michael Owen gave up.
His move from Newcastle to Manchester United raised enormous debate. Owen had offers from clubs across England and Europe that would have seen him feature as a key player, but instead he chose to make ten substitute appearances a year for a club presumably offering him something close to the wages he had become accustomed to. Had he signed for Everton, for example, he may well have gone onto a return to form and a return to the England squad, but again, terms in his contract lending more time away from the training ground meant that first team football was never an option.
There are thousands of people who would do anything for just half of Michael Owen's tremendous talent, and whilst injuries and sheer bad luck seriously hampered his progress, he did little to reverse the odds. Owen was a world-class striker whose achievements as a sportsman should be applauded with absolutely no reservations, but model pro? Neigh.


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There are two Club Championships to take part in throughout the year and are a fun way to create a little competition between our members.
Road Club Championship
The races included in the 2018 Road Club Championship are:
Sunday 4th March - St Helens 10k
Sunday 1st April - Hale 5 Miler
Saturday (tbc) April - Croxteth parkrun
Sunday 6th May - Spring 10k
Tuesday 8th May - Walton Park 5 Miler
Wednesday 6th June - Birkenhead 5 Miler
Sunday 24th June - Penny Lane 10k
Sunday 1st July - Southport Half Marathon
Wednesday (tbc) July - Sefton Park 5 Miler
Tuesday (tbc) August - Mystery 5k
Friday (tbc) August - Halewood 4 Miler
Saturday 1st September - Halewood 5k
Sunday 16th September - English Half Marathon, Warrington
Saturday 20th October - Warrington 5 Miler
Saturday (tbc) October - ? parkrun
Sunday 18th November - Conway Half Marathon
*Club Championship is open to members aged 16 years and over. Members must have a current membership to be eligible.
*Points are awarded based on age-grade % calculated by the club and NOT first over the line.
*The final table will be decided on the best 8 scores from the list provided.
Please contact the club for a full list of Road Club Championship rules.
Trail Club Championship
The Trail Club Championship is back for 2018 and gives those who prefer to get some fresh air and downright muddy. The Championship is based on an 'all round' off road set of results made up of cross country, multi terrain and trail races. The races included are:
Saturday 9th December - Mid Lancs XC Race 3, Leigh Sports Village
Saturday 6th January - Merseyside XC Championships, Arrowe Park
Saturday 13th January - Mid Lancs XC Race 4, Towneley Park, Burnley
Saturday 20th January - Buff Trail Half Marathon
Saturday 3rd February - Delamere parkrun
Saturday 17th February - Mid Lancs XC Race 5, Rylands Park, Lancaster
Saturday 4th March - Cloud 9 Fell Race
Saturday 10th March - Loggerheads 10k
Saturday 8th April - Rivington 10 Miler
Saturday 21st April - Wepre parkrun
Saturday 6th May - Bluebell 10k
Saturday 3rd June - Race the Train, Bury
Saturday 8th July - Northwich 10k
Saturday 28th July - Pennington Flash parkrun
August (tbc) - Dream Trail 10k
Saturday 16th September - Bluebell 10k
Saturday 29th September - Cuerden Valley parkrun
October (tbc) - Mid Lancs XC Race 1
October (tbc) - Loggerheads 10 Miler
October (tbc) - Delamere Night Run
November (tbc) - Striders 5 Miler
November (tbc) - Sefton Park Euro XC Trials
*Club Championship is open to members aged 16 years and over. Members must have a current membership to be eligible.
*Points are awarded based on age-grade % calculated by the club and NOT first over the line.
Please contact the club for a full list of the Trail Club Championship rules.


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NFL Buy or Sell?
Each week I will focus on teams you might want to "buyâ€쳌 or "sellâ€쳌 in the short term based on a number of factors including scheduling, how they are currently playing, injuries, etc… Here are my recommendations in this week's article.
BUY – Houston Texans
This 'buy' recommendation on the Texans won't take affect until after this Sunday's game with Miami. That's because of Houston's back to back emotional defeats @ Jacksonville and at home vs. Indianapolis. Houston lost by 3 to the Jags in overtime despite out playing the home team for much of the game. We all know what happened in last Sunday's debacle as they blew a 17-point lead in the final four minutes of the game because of bone headed turnovers and lost 31-27 to the Colts. Thus, one could expect their psyche to possibly be a bit fragile this weekend but I like this team in the future.
They are light years better than what their 0-4 record might indicate. Their schedule has been brutal starting the season with three road games @ Pittsburgh, @ Tennessee and @ Jacksonville, three of the better teams in the AFC. Their home game originally scheduled with Baltimore back on September 14th was washed out due to Hurricane Ike so last Sunday was their first game at Reliant Stadium this season. They now have a nice schedule ahead with three more home games on consecutive weekends vs. Miami, Detroit and Cincinnati.
Houston has some weapons on offense with two capable QB's with Matt Schaub and Sage "the human turnoverâ€쳌 Rosenfels. Sorry Sage I couldn't resist as the Texans were one of my plays last Sunday. If RB Ahman Green can stay healthy the Texans have a nice 1-2 punch there along with Steve Slaton. WR Andre Johnson is certainly one of the best and most under rated receivers in the NFL and he gives either quarterback a legitimate playmaker on the outside. Their defensive numbers are a bit deceiving. They rank near the bottom of the league in points allowed, however all of those scores cannot be hung directly on this stop unit. In fact, 21 of the 130 points they've allowed have been defensive or special teams TD's and have had nothing to do with the defense. Not only that, the Houston offense has turned the ball over a whopping nine times already this year many of which have put the defense in short field situations. I like their defensive line led by former #1 draft choice Mario Williams. Houston was much maligned by many for drafting Williams ahead of Reggie Bush a few years ago, however he has absolutely proven his worth. Williams actually had 18 sacks in his last 20 games dating back to last season. That puts him among the elite defensive ends in the game.
Once this team gets over the "shockâ€쳌 of their 0-4 start, I think they can be a sleeper team. Remember, they were 8-8 last year and beat two playoff teams down the stretch taking down Jacksonville and Tampa Bay. Their upcoming home slate is conducive to a nice run and once they get rid of the turnover bug, watch out for Houston.
SELL - Pittsburgh Steelers
While the Steelers will most likely be one of the best teams in the AFC as the season wears on, now might be the time to "fadeâ€쳌 them. Over the next few weeks, this team has a very difficult schedule and they are banged up at some key positions.
Pittsburgh is known for their hard nosed, run the football style which will have to change a bit over the next few weeks due to their injuries at the running back position. Willie Parker could possibly be back in the next few weeks, however Rashard Mendenhall will be sidelined for a longer period of time. QB Ben Roethlisberger has a bad shoulder and it becomes more and more obvious with each game. The offensive line took a hit when guard Kendall Simmons, who has started 50 games for the Steelers over the last 3+ seasons, went down with an ankle injury. Partly because of the nicks on that side of the ball, the offense has really struggled and ranks near the bottom of the NFL in most major categories.
The Men of Steel have a bye this week but then play two of their next three games on the road. Their tilt @ Cincinnati coming out of the break might seem like a gimme, however they better be ready to play because the Bengals are actually improving. Cincy will view this as one of their biggest games of the year and believe it or not, it looks like Marvin Lewis actually has this team putting forth maximum effort. They have taken both Dallas and the NY Giants to the wire in two of their last three games. After that for Pitt, it's a home against the Giants and off to Washington. No easy task playing possibly the two best teams in the NFL on back to back weekends.
So, while I'm by no means packing it in on the Steelers this year, their rough scheduling stretch and injuries throw up the "sellâ€쳌 sign for me at least over the next few weeks.


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Cultural Helambu Trek
(A Pleasant Hike To The Sherpa Villages Of Helambu)
The Sherpa villages of Helambu due north of Kathmandu valley presents an easy getaway. This area because of its low elevation and the Sherpa villages make it an interesting 6 day loop. Starting with a short drive from Kathmandu to Sundarijal the trail to Helambu climbs on to the Shivapuri ridge from where there are sweeping views of the central Himalayas. Following a ridgeline the trek heads north to Thare Pati before turning east to Melemchi Gaon and Tarke Gyang the principle villages of this area. From here we visit Shermathang before descending to the Melamchi river to end our trek with a drive Melamchi Bazaar back to Kathmandu. The trek is combined with the two days Chitwan wildlife reserve, known for One Horned Rhino, Bengal Tiger, Sloth Beer, wild boar, barking deer and over 300 species of birds.
Moderate trekking between altitudes of 1,370m to 3,490m. Accommodation in comfortable lodges run by local families. The trek starts with a drive from Kathmandu, clients carry a day-pack only and walk at their own pace.
Itinerary In Detail
- Days 1 Arrival at Kathmandu. Airport Transfer to hotel. Overnight at hotel. B.B.
- Days 2 Full day sightseeing tour of Nepal UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE such as Kathmandu durbar square, Pashupatinath Temple, Boudhanath, Swayambhunath, Patan durbar square, Bhaktapur Durbar square & Changunarayan Temple. Overnight at hotel. B.B.
- Days 3 Drive to Sundarijal and Trek to Chisapani 2215 m. Overnight at Guest House. B.L.D.
- Days 4 Trek to Kutumsang 2470 m. Overnight at Guest House. B.L.D.
- Days 5 Trek to Tharepati 3510 m. Overnight at Guest House. B.L.D.
- Days 6 Trek to Melamchi Gaon 2560 m. Overnight at Guest House. B.L.D.
- Days 7 Trek to Tarkeyghyang 2460 m. Overnight at Guest House. B.L.D.
- Days 8 Trek to Sermathang 2590 m. Overnight at Guest House. B.L.D.
- Days 9 Trek down to Melamchi pool Bazaar 870 m. Overnight at hotel. B.L.D.
- Days 10 Drive to Kathmandu. Overnight at hotel. B.B.
- Days 11 Leisure day in Kathmandu. Overnight at hotel. B.B.
- Days 12 Transfer to Airport for your home departure. Farewell !! Note: B.B. Bed and Breakfast, B.L.D. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Cost Includes in this program:
- Airport/Hotel/ Airport pick up & drop by car/Van/Bus.
- Accommodation with breakfast at 3 star deluxe hotel in Kathmandu as per above Itinerary.
- Kathmandu City Tours as per above Itinerary ., inclusive of tour guide, car / van
- Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner , 3 times a Day) with tea & coffee during the trek.
- Tourist standard Guest house accommodation in the mountain ( twin sharing basis with Common Toilet ) ,
- One highly experienced, helpful , friendly English Speaking guide, & porters (One porter for 2 Client with maximum 10 kg per Client), their food, accommodation, salary, insurance, equipments
- Langtang National Park entry permit and TIMS Fee.
- Farewell dinner at Last Night in Traditional Nepali Kitchen
- All Land Transportation as per Itinerary by Car/ Bus /van
- Rescue Service Arrangement.
Cost Excludes in this program:
- Lunch and dinner while in Kathmandu
- Travel insurance for cancellation costs, accident or health emergency, evacuation, loss, theft or damage to baggage and personal effects. We strongly advise you to take personal travel insurance with Rescue Evacuation Cover
- International air fare to and from Nepal.
- Nepal entry visa fee - you may easily issue the visa upon your arrival at Tribhuwan International airport - Kathmandu.
- Items of a personal nature such as alcoholic drinks, cold drinks, laundry and telephone calls
- Trekking equipments
- Tips for trekking stafffs, driver etc.
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It would take a great deal of chutzpah, for a business to consider going head to head with the online giant, Amazon. However, this is, in fact, the plan for Fabletics, an athleisure company that has become synonymous with Hollywood actress Kate Hudson. Founded in 2013, Fabletics is as an online subscription retailer, and purveyor of women's sportswear, footwear, and accessories. The company, which is headed up by Co-founders Kate Hudson, Don Ressler, Adam Goldberg, and Chief Marketing Officer, Kristen Dykstra went from being an obscure startup to a $250-million-dollar company, making Fabletics one of the most sought-after women's athleisure companies online.
As far as competing with Amazon, Fabletics is primarily focused on one small portion of the online giant's market share, the fashion e-commerce market, which makes up 20 percent of Amazon's annual sales revenue. Bear in mind, this is not the first time that Fabletics has gone head to head with a competitor; they have successfully competed against popular brands like Under Armour and Lululemon. So what makes Fabletics so popular? Its simple, the company uses their subscription service to market products that not only appeal to their customers but also, encourages company loyalty. In fact, a significant percentage of the company's sales are derived from repeat customers.
Obviously, competing with Amazon is akin to the story of David and Goliath, but one has to admire the ambition of a startup, so confident in their brand, that they would be willing to give it a try. Of course, Fabletics is not relying solely on online sales; the company has opened several brick and mortar locations, intended to complement their online presence. According to several reports, the brick and mortar locations will not only drive foot traffic to their stores but also, bolster their already successful subscription service by 25 percent.
How successful will Fabletics be in luring away Amazon customers? Well, it's probably to early tell, but one thing is for certain, Fabletics has enjoyed year over year sales growth since the company was launched, in 2013. So, even if they don't tap into Amazon's fashion e-commerce market, they are still one of the most successful online startups to date. If this article has piqued your interest in Fabletics, you're encouraged to visit one of their retail locations, or visit them online, where you can take the company's lifestyle quiz to help you find the Fabletics gear, that's just right for you.


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- Item Height: 1.2
- Brand Name: IZTOSS
- Model Name: CP406
- Item Width: 4.8
- Special Features: Bluetooth Headset For Motorcycle Helmets
- External Testing Certification: CE
- Item Length: 23
- Item Weight: 100
- Plug Type: USB Interface
- Feature 1: hands-free call
- Bluetooth Version: Bluetooth 4.0
- Color & Package: Black; 1 pcs/box
- Charging Time : 2 Hours
- Talking Time: 8 hours
1 Set Motorcycle Helmet Bluetooth Handsfree Headset Headphone Wireless Earphone Connecting 2 Devices Music Reciever
Can Connect 2 Other Bluetooth Devices at the Same Time
Applicable to speeds of 120km and above
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Stereo music/audio functions Phone / MP3 / GPS using A2DP transmission)
Built-in lithium polymer battery at a capacity of 300mA
Standby time: 240 hours
More than 12 hours for continuous talk or listening to music
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Talking Time: 8 hours
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Charging Time: 2 hours
Working Temperature: -10 ~ 45 degree celsius
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