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Dir: Andrew Niccol. US. 2013. 123mins
Based on the hit 2008 novel by Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer, The Host carries some big expectations but turns out, in the hands of writer-director Andrew Niccol, to be a ponderous and at times pretty silly romantic sci-fi adventure. While devoted Meyer fans will certainly want to see it, less committed moviegoers will be harder to woo.
The film doesn't build up much dramatic momentum until the last half hour of its two hour-plus running time.
Fan loyalty and a good international cast should lead to a strong start as the independently distributed film opens over the Easter weekend in the US, the UK and a number of other markets, with audiences perhaps skewing slightly older and less female than the 'Twi-hard' crowd (the novel was pitched as Meyer's first for adults). Yet matching the eventual box office take of even the original Twilight film - $393m worldwide - seems pretty unlikely.
The story is set on a near-future Earth that has been colonised by Souls, aliens who have taken over the bodies of most humans and turned the planet into a creepily clean and peaceful place. Saorise Ronan (last seen in Hanna) plays Melanie, a young woman whose body has been occupied by a Soul known as Wanderer but who resists the alien presence.
Eventually, Wanderer begins to warm to Melanie and 'they' escape to the desert caves where Melanie's boyfriend Jared (Brit actor Max Irons, from Red Riding Hood) and little brother are part of a small community of surviving humans. Trailing Wanderer/Melanie, however, is Seeker (Diane Kruger, from Farewell, My Queen), an alien determined to wipe out what's left of the human race.
Though Ronan gives her tricky role a nice blend of gravity and youth, the film was always going to have a problem dealing with dialogue between two characters sharing one body. Its solution - Wanderer talks out loud to Melanie and Melanie answers in an echoey voice over - may be the only one possible but it still feels a bit cheesy.
More significantly, the film doesn't build up much dramatic momentum until the last half hour of its two hour-plus running time. A middle act in which Melanie tries to reconnect with Jared and Wanderer falls in love with another hunky young human delivers only the odd moment of romantic heat and occasionally produces unintended giggles.
Production companies: Nick Wechsler Productions, Chockstone Pictures, IAV International, Silver Reel
US distribution: Open Road Films
International sales: IAV International
Producers: Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz, Stephenie Meyer
Executive producers: Jim Seibel, Bill Johnson, Mark Butan, Claudia Bluemhuber, Ray Angelic
Screenplay: Andrew Niccol, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer
Director of photography: Roberto Schaefer
Production designer: Andy Nicholson
Editor: Thomas J Nordberg
Music: Antonio Pinto
Costumer designer: Erin Benach
Website: http://thehostthefilm.com
Main cast: Saorise Ronan, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, Jake Abel, Chandler Canterbury, Frances Fisher, William Hurt


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How to see the best of Sydney in a week
Thanks to warm weather, relaxed vibe, beaches, bars and world-class restaurants, most visitors to Sydney never want to leave.
Some don't.
But if you've just got to get back home, this harbor-side itinerary will get you to the best spots in short order.
Day one: It's OK, just be a tourist
No matter how far off the trodden track you wander, Sydney's most famous icons -– the Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House -- will always suck you back in.
This iconic duo has helped make Sydney one of the most picturesque cities in the world and, whether you catch a show at "the House," scale the "coat-hanger" or simply stand in admiration enjoying the view from Mrs Macquarie's Chair in the Botanic Gardens, no trip to Sydney is complete without paying homage to the city's crown jewels.
If that's not enough tourist action, amid the cobblestone laneways of The Rocks you can grab a drink in one of the city's oldest pubs, such as the Lord Nelson (19 Kent St.), or catch a ferry from Circular Quay to Taronga Zoo, where there are stunning views of the city alongside elephants and giraffes.
More on CNN: Harbour Bridge climb guide "worried about heights"
Day two: Turn your back on fame
While areas such as Circular Quay, The Rocks and Bondi draw the most visitors, Sydney's other suburbs are worth a look, too.
In the city's Inner West, Glebe and Newtown are both eclectic enclaves full of arty hipsters, ethnic eateries, alternative bars and live music.
The Inner East is home to trendy, gentrified areas such as Surry Hills, Paddington and Darlinghurst, which all offer vintage boutiques, galleries, cocktail bars and award-winning restaurants.
We like to start with coffee at The Wolf and Honeybeein Newtown(206 Edgeware Road), where you can view work by emerging artists in the café's exhibition space; or kick off the day with boiled eggs and soldiers at The Bunker in Darlinghurst (399 Liverpool St.).
For lunch, there's Glebe Point Diner (407 Glebe Point Road), which has an ever-changing menu featuring local, seasonal produce, or Reuben Hills café in Surry Hills (61 Albion St.), where you can pair a Reuben sandwich with a salted caramel milkshake.
In the evening, relaxed nightlife options include jazz at 505 in Surry Hills (280 Cleveland St.) or bourbon and beer at Shady Pines Saloon in Darlinghurst (4/256 Crown St.).
Day three: Slather on the sunscreen
Sydneysiders are rightly proud of their beaches and hitting the waves for a surf is among the quintessential Aussie experiences.
While the notorious Backpackers Express rip current at Bondi Beach has seen many a novice surfer dragged out to sea –- much to the chagrin of the local lifeguards –- the mellower waves of Manly, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, offer beginners a more sedate surfing experience.
Manly Surf School runs group lessons daily.
Whether or not you hit the waves, it's worth making the trip to Manly for the 30-minute ferry ride to enjoy the views of the harbor; nearby Shelly Beach and Fairlight both provide excellent snorkeling in sheltered bays.
If you're after a more serene seaside excursion, east from the city to Coogee you can take the six-kilometer coastal walkway north to Bondi Beach, enjoying dramatic cliff-top views as you pass beaches at Clovelly, Bronte and Tamarama.
Day four: Look at things talented people make and do
Sydney packs cultural clout, with dozens of museums, galleries and historic buildings.
A fine place to start is the Museum of Contemporary Art, where you can check out modern masterpieces before heading to Cadman's Cottage –- the oldest surviving residential building in the city –- and The Rocks Discovery Museum to learn about Sydney's earliest settlers.
A short walk away is The Museum of Sydney, where state of the art displays reveal the city's entire history.
Also recommended are Parliament House and Hyde Park Barracks, which show different sides of 19th-century life in Sydney.
From there, you can wander into the Domain to the Art Gallery of New South Wales to enjoy works by European masters and Aboriginal painters, before strolling through the Royal Botanic Gardens to Government House to admire the Gothic Revival architecture.
Consider finishing the day with a show at Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay, or simply have a drink in the shadow of the Harbour Bridge at the theater's excellent bar, The Bar at the End of the Wharf.
Day five: Watch some guys get pushed around
Aussies love their sport.
With its Grand Slam tennis tournament, world-famous horse race and colossal MCG stadium, Melbourne can rightly claim to be the country's sporting capital, but Sydneysiders aren't far behind in their devotion to all things active.
No matter what time of year, there's some kind of major sport on offer, with rugby league and Aussie Rules football dominating autumn and winter and cricket taking precedence in summer.
Major rugby games take place at ANZ Stadium, in the Olympic Park, or Allianz Stadium, near Moore Park, while Aussie Rules and cricket are usually held at Sydney Cricket Ground.
To fit in with the locals, place a bet and stock up on beer and meat pies –- they're all as much of an Aussie tradition as the sport itself.
To create sporting highlights of your own, there's "barefoot bowls," a laid-back -– and often boozy –- take on the traditionally stuffy game of lawn bowls.
Clubs across the city offer special deals, with Paddo Bowls usually the most lively and Clovelly providing awesome cliff-top views.
Day six: Ignore Sydney (she'll still be waiting when you come back)
Sydney has incredible sights on its doorstep that are perfect for a day trip.
In the Blue Mountains, Katoomba is just an hour-and-a-half from the city. Here you can enjoy stunning scenery on one of the area's many bushwalks. Hikers are advised to carry a map and plenty of water.
Alternatively, a two-hour drive north from the city will take you to the vineyards of the Hunter Valley, where you can sample the region's famous semillon and shiraz.
Day seven: Spend, eat, spend
Shopaholics aren't short of designer boutiques or multi-story malls in Sydney, but it's the city's varied markets that warrant inspection.
Paddington Markets (395 Oxford St.), held every Saturday, features more than 150 stalls from designers, local artists and jewelers.
The weekly Glebe Markets (40 Glebe Point Road) offers a mix of secondhand clothing, books and furniture, with live music helping to create a festival atmosphere.
Sydney's markets also have something for food lovers, with Sydney Fish Market (Bank Street, Pyrmont) offering visitors a chance to watch live wholesale auctions before eating the freshest seafood in town.
The monthly Pyrmont Growers' Market (Pyrmont Bay Park, Pirrama Road) features seasonal fruit and vegetables as well as live chef demonstrations.
More on CNN: Trash and treasure: 5 Sydney flea markets

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A few things have changed in the high-stakes industry in recent years. First, there is more competition. It used to be that high-stakes fantasy football meant the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCFF). The first ever WCFF event was held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2002.
Given the early success of WCFF, a number of other companies opened up shop (and have since closed in some cases), trying to earn their piece of the then-growing high-stakes fantasy football pie. From the increased competition came more options not only between contest providers, but also in terms of different contest options from the same operator. This is the second big change.
Now there are some moderate-stakes contest options in the neighborhood of $300 instead of the typical main event fees north of $1,200. For those of us on a budget—or with a wife who happens to be an accountant (who's with me?) —a few hundred dollars is easier to justify.
I'm sure some veteran high-stakes players may take issue with me lumping the $300 entry fee contests under the high-stakes umbrella, but I'm going to do it anyway. The contests I'm looking at are structured as traditional fantasy football leagues and have a five- or six-figure grand prize, which fits the definition of high-stakes for me. Plus, a blog series on high-stakes fantasy football just sounds better than one on moderate-stakes.
The third big change in recent years is, of course, due to technology. There are now online options for drafting in many of these contests. Yes, they still have the big city venues, too, which are great fun but require a bigger budget and more time commitment to participate in. At this point, an online draft is a better fit for me.
Now I just need to figure out which contest or contests I am going to join. I currently have four options I'm looking at. There are a lot of things to consider, including the cost and prize payouts, how the game is structured, whether the draft dates and times fit my schedule, the professionalism and customer service of the contest provider, and the security of the prize pool.
That list is not in any particular order, and by no means is it meant to be exhaustive. Some items are going to be more important to some people than others, of course. Some points, if they aren't sufficiently met, will completely eliminate a contest from consideration. For example, if a contest does not appear to be professionally run, and you have concerns about the security of the prize pool, then the rest of the stuff really does not matter.
Do not take the security of the prize pool for granted just because a contest has a fancy website. While I have no firsthand knowledge, there have been reports of a few contests in recent years failing to fully pay out to their prize winners. Can you imagine the once-in-a-lifetime experience of winning the grand prize in a big fantasy football contest, only to find out later you won't be receiving the grand prize because the contest organizers spent the money and went out of business? I can only imagine, but I imagine that feeling would be downright awful.
I'm not trying to scare people off from legitimate businesses in this industry, but just be aware there is a history of problems with some contests. Do your due diligence as best you can, which isn't always easy, and realize nothing is guaranteed. If you are willing to take the risk playing in these contests, fine. If you are too risk averse, recognize that up front, and take a pass.
As an aside, one source of research you should use to help investigate the history of a contest you are considering is the newly founded Fantasy Players Association, initiated by high-stakes player Scott Atkins. Check the blog and message board, or post a question, to try to get some answers before putting your hard-earned money at risk in a shady contest.
In terms of my decision, I'm going to give just a high-level overview of different options I'm considering, and the particular points about each that stick out and differentiate them from each other. The four options I'm looking at are:
- Footballguys Players Championship
- National Fantasy Football Championship Online Championship
- RosterDoc RotoBowl Tournament
- World Championship of Fantasy Football Super Satellite
Note that these are specific contests I've narrowed down to include in my search. Each of the above companies has alternative high-stakes offerings, including live drafts, so if the ones I'm outlining aren't quite what you are looking for, check what else is available from each company.
Here is a comparison chart I put together for the four options listed above.
* The above league payout percentages are estimated calculations. They exclude discounts for multiple contest entry purchases and future subscriptions, free entries, and credits where no cash alternative is provided.
So now I am left with the decision of how to allocate my funds. Every contest has different things I really like and some things I'm not as keen on. It isn't an easy decision, and unfortunately (or fortunately, to make my decision easier), a lot of it will probably come down to the draft dates and times that best fit my schedule.
At this point I'm going to take some time to consider these options and check the available draft schedule for each contest. Next time I'll make my decision on which league or leagues I'm going to sign up for.


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A veterinarian who surgically implanted liquid heroin in puppies on behalf of Colombian drug traffickers has been sentenced to six years in prison, the DEA announced this week.
On Thursday, Andres Lopez Elorez was sentenced in a Brooklyn court after he plead guilty to charges of conspiring to import heroin into the United States back in September. The scheme by Elorez involved the veterinarian implanting the liquid heroin by stitching the packets in their bodies. Prosecutors say Elorez leased a farm in Medellin, Colombia where he raised the dogs and implanted the heroin into nine puppies that were being imported to the United States.
"Every dog has its day, and with today's sentence, Elorez has been held responsible for the reprehensible use of his veterinary skills to conceal heroin inside puppies as part of a scheme to import dangerous narcotics into the United States," said United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard P. Donoghue. "This office and our law enforcement partners will continue to investigate and prosecute drug trafficking organizations, operating here and abroad, to reduce the availability of opioids and save American lives."
The scheme first came to law enforcement's attention after officials raided the puppy farm on Jan 1. 2005. Officials say they seized 17 bags of liquid heroin, including ten bags that were removed from the puppies.
Three of the puppies died following surgery to remove the heroin after they contracted a virus.
Law enforcement sought to arrest Elorez at the time, but he became a fugitive. Authorities finally caught up with Elorez in Spain in 2015. He was extradited to the U.S. in May 2018.
Two of the puppies rescued from the farm went on to bigger and better things. Donna, a beagle, was adopted by a Colombian police officer and his family. Another puppy, named Heroina, went on to be trained by Colombian police to be a drug detection dog.
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21 November 2003
Over 600 representatives of more than 320 European companies will gather at ESA's research and technology centre (ESTEC) on 24-26 November for Industry Space Days.
These Industry Space Days are organised every two years by ESA to exchange views with industry and promote the networking needed to achieve ESA's goals of international competitiveness and balanced participation by all categories of firms in ESA Member States.
"ISD 2003 comes at a key moment : industry and institutions have to adapt to a challenging environment" says Dr Hans Kappler, ESA Director of Industrial Matters and Technology Programmes and ISD chairman.
"ESA has a new Director General, the European Union recognises the need for a policy on space, covering civil and security needs, the commercial market in satellites and launchers is suffering from a severe economic downturn and industry is reacting by restructuring to secure its competitiveness", he added.
The opening plenary session of ISD 2003, on Monday 24 November, will provide industry with first-hand information about developments on the various issues that are transforming the business environment for the whole space industry, from satellite manufacturers to telecommunications operators and final applications developers and users.
At that session the Director General of ESA, Jean-Jacques Dordain, will present his objectives for the development of ESA over the next 4 years.
A senior representative of the European Commission will present the European space policy set out in the recently published White Paper. Mrs Pascale Sourisse, President of Eurospace and CEO of Alcatel Space, will present industry's view and analysis of the changes that lie ahead.
Dr Kappler will present the outlook for institutional markets in Europe and explain ESA's industrial policy. Mr Marc Giget, President of Euroconsult, will present forecasts for the space applications commercial market.
The three-day ISD 2003 event includes thematic conferences, round tables, workshops, exhibitions and meetings among industry representatives. The full programme can be found on the web via the link from the ESA industry portal at http://www.esa.int/home-ind/
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Report finds UConn officials knew of sexual abuse claims against professor
STORRS >> University of Connecticut officials knew of sexual abuse allegations against a music professor a decade before taking action, putting students at the school and the community at risk, according to an independent investigative report released Wednesday.
The investigator, Scott Coffina, a former White House counsel and former assistant U.S. attorney, presented his findings Wednesday to the school's Board of Trustees.
Coffina said he found that some school officials, including the dean of the school of fine arts, knew as early as 2003 that the professor, Robert Miller, had been accused of misconduct with children, including the son of a professor. But, he found, "no one took appropriate action to ensure the safety of minors on campus or university students."
Miller was suspended from his $140,000-a-year job in June, months after the child abuse allegations came to light. He has not been charged with a crime, but UConn said a police investigation is still open. Miller has not commented on the allegations, and a phone message seeking comment was left at his home Wednesday.
No UConn students were victims of crimes, Coffina's investigation found. But he also found evidence that the 66-year-old Miller, who also was director of the music school from 1999 to 2003, engaged in rampant misconduct and violations of school policy.
Those included inviting students to overnight parties that involved alcohol at a house he owned in Vermont, which became known in the music department as Miller's "Cabin Club." Coffina also found evidence Miller showered with students at his health club, was naked with students in a hot tub and was caught dancing in his underwear with a student late at night in the music department.
School officials were notified on several occasions of Miller's on-campus behavior. They also received several emails over the years from people who said Woods abused them when they were children.
A faculty meeting resulted only in a letter from David Woods, the dean of fine arts, to Miller in 2008 advising him not to socialize with students. But there was no follow-up, Coffina said.
"Professor Miller was like a ticking time bomb that Dean Woods, rather than disarm it, hoped would be a dud," Coffina said.
Messages seeking comment from Woods were not immediately returned. A woman who answered the phone at the office of his attorney said they would not comment.
"Nothing can excuse some of the behavior detailed in this report on the part of certain individuals," UConn president Susan Herbst said in a statement she read to the board. "The safety of our students and the safety of the entire community is paramount for us. As a university, we must always be absolutely accountable. And so must our employees."
Coffina's law office, which the state hired to conduct the investigation, interviewed 57 witnesses, looked at more than 6,000 pages of documents, examined four hard drives and reviewed 27,000 emails and other correspondence.
He said he found evidence to support allegations that Miller inappropriately touched boys who attended Paul Newman's Hole In The Wall Camp for sick children in Connecticut in the early 1990s, and a middle school student in Virginia in 1969.
He also found evidence that Miller had inappropriate contact with the professor's child on several occasions, including having that boy disrobe while he applied makeup on the child's face for an opera production on campus.
Coffina noted that the current administration acted immediately and appropriately when presented a letter last year from one accuser.
State police have said the statute of limitations has expired in the Connecticut cases but not for the Virginia allegations.
University attorney Richard Orr said the school received the report only Monday and must follow its normal disciplinary process, which he said could result in the dismissal of Miller and others who failed to act when they learned of the allegations.
He also said the school in recent years has improved its policies on romantic relationships between faculty and students and its procedures for reporting allegations of sexual misconduct.
"We dodged a bullet," said Orr. "Because there is no evidence that the failure to act actually caused any harm to any student or any member of the community."
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2 Who or not 2 Who
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Earlier this month (November 2004), Pete Townshend announced via the official Who website that he and Roger Daltrey were getting together in December, with whatever bits of song they'd managed to write thus far, in order to see if it was worth proceeding any further with plans for a new Who album. The project was apparently tentatively title Who2, clearly a reference to the remaining original members of the band.
Okay. The name sucks. But what about the idea?
A friend of mine likens the concept of new Who songs to re-animating a dinosaur skeleton.
I disagree.
When I saw The Who at the Sydney Entertainment Centre some months ago, I was impressed: despite lead guitarist Pete Townshend and vocalist Roger Daltrey illuminated by a spotlight as a duo, accompanied by a backing band who spent most of the evening in the shade, they were good. The backing band were essential to the enjoyment, providing the solid bed upon which Pete and Roger could rock.
And what a backing band: Zak Starkey, forever destined to have the middle name 'Son-of-Ringo', was the perfect drummer. Simon Townshend – slated to appear downunder as The Who's guitarist in a mid-90s tour that was, thankfully, called off (see, the world really is wonderful!) before it could taint the outlaw memory the band had created in their one and only previous Aussie tour, in 1968, when they were given the bum's rush out of the country for being 'unruly' on a flight – backed up big brother Pete as rhythm guitarist. Pino Palladino, session bass player extraordinaire deputised for the most recently departed Ox, John Entwistle. But it was John 'Bunny' Bundrick, on keyboards, who proved his worth, playing fantastically.
Indeed, 'Bunny' delivered the most gorgeously majestic introduction to 'Love Reign O'er Me', that Daltrey had to go and ruin. That's right. Ruin. Daltrey's onstage 'move' for most of the night consisted oof swinging the microphone by its lead, often having it wrap around him and then unwrap before he'd catch it. Only, one time, it led to the 'Spinal Tap' moment of the evening, when he dropped the damn thing. Which resulted in a faulty connection, static, and ultimately, malfunction. But only at the most delicately dramatic moment of the evening, after that awesome introduction that reigned over 'Love Rein O'er Me'. And there was no choice: stop the song mid-verse, pick it up again. However, rather than risk 'Bunny' attempting to reproduce that brilliant intro again, and failing, they chose to pick it up from the verse.
But that was ultimately forgiveable. Why? The true test of whether this version of The Who cut it was with songs like 'Who Are You'. In fact, specifically the song 'Who Are You'. The choruses were faultless, with perfectly falsetto'd 'Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu!'s following each 'Whoooooo are youuuuu?'.
Those harmonic interludes of "Whooooh-aaaaah-ooooh-aaaaah-ooooh-aaaaah" were, likewise, note-perfectly reproductions of that song. It was heaven.
The band played their token new 'single' – the recently recorded 'Real Good Looking Boy' (a tribute to Elvis and rock, based around the 'I Can't Help Falling In Love With You' melody) and 'Old Red Wine'. The songs appear as 'bonus' tracks in the recently released singles box set and the most recent Who compilation The Who: Then & Now. It was after playing the songs that Pete admitted that they were considering recording a new album. The cheering didn't increase noticeably, but nobody boo'd. Clearly, we'd given the idea our approval.
So back to the new album.I think the idea is almost, but not quite right, and even though Pete and Roger don't realise this, the people around them certainly do. Consider again their greatest hits collection Then and Now.
Hint: the word 'fab', describing the 'new recordings', is a bit of a give-away.
If you'll recall, The Who's 'The Kids Are All Right' always was the best Merseybeat song that The Beatles never wrote. So it's kind of fitting that The Who are 'ripping off' the 'ripped' artwork for The Beatles' Anthology series.
Indeed, The Who could have gone all the way: instead of Then and Now they could have called the album Yesterday And Today, like the Beatles did, in America, in 1965. And there you have the perfect solution to the problem. With the passing of Keith Moon (drums) and John Entwistle (bass), The Who have lost their rhythm section. All The Beatles have left is Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr – their rhythm section. They should combine forces and record an album as The Whotles.
Unfortunately, another band has beaten The Who to this collaboration: former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has already let slip, in interview, that he intends to record with Paul McCartney next year. It won't be the first time: Paul McCartney munched a carrot on the original recording of 'Vegetables', for the ill-fated Smile album (which, nearly forty years later, Brian Wilson has gone and re-recorded). Macca also appeared, along with Eric Clapton and Elton John, on Wilson's album Gettin' In Over My Head earlier this year. However, next year's collaboration may prove to be more significant. Which is fitting: two great bass players who are also pushy song writers who orchestrated their respective bands' best albums, who also happened to be born within days of each other, and admire each other greatly… most likely we'll get a Beachles album before we get a Whotles album.


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National High School Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, WY
While this ain't the first rodeo for the Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Events Complex, it's definitely the largest.
The National High School Finals Rodeo is coming to Rock Springs in 2012. And while this ain't the first rodeo for the Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Events Complex, it's definitely the largest.
More than 1,500 contestants from 41 states, five Canadian provinces and Australia will participate in the competition. The event is scheduled for July 15-21, 2012, but most competitors and support personnel will arrive in town nearly a week early in order to prepare. All told, approximately 6,000 people are expected to descend on Sweetwater County, creating an economic impact of more than $6 million for a community of approximately 25,000 residents.
"It's a big deal, there's no doubt about it," says Larry Lloyd, executive director of the Sweetwater Events Complex. "This is the world's largest rodeo. We're going to have all those people filling up the hotel rooms and restaurants. It's going to have a huge impact on us."
A history with the sport
The Sweetwater Events Complex is no stranger to bringing the rodeo to town. The facility hosts a variety of competitions every year, including barrel racing, horse shows and team roping.
The Red Desert Roundup Rodeo has been a summer staple since 1978, attracting stars from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. And now, the Mountain States Rodeo Circuit is scheduled to hold its annual finals in Sweetwater County through 2015, an event projected to have an annual economic impact of more than $1 million.
"We're all rodeoed up. We understand everything it takes to put on these types of events," Lloyd says. "We have the right sorting equipment and pens, we know how to get the arena set up. We have a strong can-do attitude when it comes to rodeos."
Changes and expansion
Still, none of the past events at the Sweetwater Events Complex can match the size and scope of the National High School Finals. As a result, big changes are under way at the facility, particularly in the expansion of the number of horse stalls and campsites.
"We sit on about 450 acres and have quite a bit of infrastructure in place," Lloyd says of the complex, which has a 1,500-seat arena, a 20,000-square-foot exhibition hall, a 42,000-square-foot agricultural complex and parking for more than 1,000 vehicles. "But when you're talking about 13 performances over seven days, we have to make some changes to accommodate that.
"They want about 100,000 square feet of trade-show flooring, new campsites, new restroom and shower facilities to accommodate folks who are traveling by trailer. We need 1,700 stalls and six performance arenas. It's quite an undertaking. We have some significant upgrades to do, and we're on a full-court press to get those done."
It's an investment that should pay off for quite some time. The NHSFR will return to Sweetwater County in 2013, and Rock Springs is now part of a three-city rotation in which each site hosts the finals for two consecutive years.
"It's a family-friendly event, and we're excited about having it." Lloyd says. "We're eager to get them here and show what we can do."
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Polaroids used to be the bees knees, tech wise. Think about it: they would let you immediately see, as well as print the picture you just took. In a world where you had to wait a week to have your shots developed, that was awesome. But then, digital cameras came around, and things changed. But fashion can go in cycles and what is now old often ends up being rediscovered by younger generations and brought back from the dustbin with a shiny new coating. The Impossible Instant Lab seeks to combine the best from smartphone photography (portability, immediacy, versatility) with not only the nostalgia of Polaroid cameras, but also the fact that they do give you a physical sample to carry along with you. The Lab features a collapsible tower atop of which you cradle your iPhone and which positions it perfectly so that a picture of the screen may be taken. That picture is then developed into an actual, chemical-reaction, darkroom-in-the-paper, analog photograph. No Instagram filter will ever be that hipster-y. It even uses actual film for Polaroid 600 and SX 70 cameras.
Once folded up the Impossible Instant Lab is 5.8″ long x 4.3″ wide x 2.4″ tall, which is fairly portable itself and a full charge can give you up to 150 prints.
There's still some time to get in at the $189 price point, once again as a pledge on Kickstarter. Delivery expected in February 2013.
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chris stockdale wrote:It is perhaps interesting to note that these dimensions, height excepted, are not much more than similar stuff in Gn15. Build one 16.5mm gauge layout and have two sets of buildings?
KotangaGirl wrote:That's an interesting little roller skate he's sitting on
DCRFAN 3 wrote:KotangaGirl wrote:That's an interesting little roller skate he's sitting on
Spud with Serv-o-link chains & sprockets added. Unfortunately the wheelbase doesn't quite match the pitch of the chain - either the chain hangs down in the dirt or is too tight if a link is removed.
chris stockdale wrote:...
Dimensions are:
(all measured from a flat surface, so allow for the flange dept) all are LWH in mm :-
Loco 91 X 50.5 X 140
Flat 60 X 50.5 X 20.5
Two Plank 60 X 50.5 X 47 to the centre of the top plank
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Manson Orders US' Largest Hopper Dredge
Manson Construction Co. signed a contract with Keppel AmFELS to build a new hopper dredge at the shipbuilder's facility in Brownsville, Texas, the Seattle-based marine contractor announced Monday. The new dredge is scheduled to be fully operational by spring 2023 and continues a dredge building boom currently underway in the U.S.The self-propelled hopper dredge Frederick Paup will be the largest in the United States, representing Manson's single biggest investment in its 115 year history, the company said. The 15,000 cubic yard hopper dredge — designed in collaboration with Hockema Whalen Myers Associates, Inc. of Seattle — has a length of 420 feet, breadth of 81 feet and draft of 28.5 feet.
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Mexico Seizes Ship Involved in Hydrocarbon Theft
Mexican authorities said on Sunday they had confiscated a vessel in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz and a warehouse in neighboring Tabasco along with storage tanks and trucks used by criminal groups to steal, transport and store hydrocarbons.Fuel theft has been a problem in Mexico for decades but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has enacted a range of measures to stamp out the practice and crush corruption and organized crime.State oil company Petroleos Mexicanos said in a recent presentation that an estimated 106 billion pesos ($5.02 billion) had been saved since Lopez Obrador took office in December 2018.
Norwegian Cruise Line Founder Kloster Dies at 91
Knut Kloster, one of the founders of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. and a pioneer of the modern cruise industry, passed away on Sunday at the age of 91."We are incredibly saddened by the loss of the visionary who not only brought our company, but our industry, to life," said Frank Del Rio, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings president and CEO. "Knut was a pioneer in our industry and certainly ahead of his time, exploring every opportunity to be at the forefront and break boundaries. His passion went beyond cruising with contributions to social, cultural, humanitarian and environmental causes worldwide.
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Norway-based ship management company OSM Maritime said Monday that it is nearing a deal to acquire Singapore-headquartered competitor SeaTeam Management from Frontline Ltd and Golden Ocean Group Limited.The acquisition, which is in final negotiations and remains subject to definitive documentation, is expected to be completed within the next 30 days, OSM said."We look forward to finalizing our agreement with Frontline and Golden Ocean, after engaging in a very constructive dialogue," said Tommy Olofsen, chair of OSM Maritime.


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Free Alabama & Mississippi Movements in prisons & updates on Sean Swain
From The Final Straw
Streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on February 2nd through February 8th, 2015, then podcasting at radio4all.net. Also airing this week on KOWA-LPFM in Olympia, WA, KWTF in Bodega Bay, CA, KXCF in Marshall, CA, and WCRS-LP Columbus Community Radio 98.3 and 102.1 FM
Prior to the main portion of this week's episode, we hear a Sean Swain segment and also Ben Turk comes on to talk about difficulties Sean's currently facing (for instance beginning a hunger strike on Monday due to shenanigans by officials at OSP, where Sean is being held, and possibly JPAY (the company that contracts communication with Ohio's DRC) that have limited his communications again.
It is suggested that folks concerned called the boss of the ODRC Lead Council Trevor Clark's boss (Stephen Grey 614 752 1765). More on this can be found here.
The majority of this week's episode is a conversation with incarcerated members of the Free Alabama & Mississippi Movements. The FAMMC (now including inmates in California as well) is an inmate-drive non-violent, civil disobedience movement with the goal of bettering the situations of prisoners, challenging the profits of prison corporations and departments of correction, ending the impunity of wardens and guards and abolishing the "new slavery" of mass incarceration in the U.S.


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ECE597 Project Auto HUD
Project Overview
The goal of this project is to use the beagle board to run image recognition on a camera feed located inside a car, and then signaling to the driver via a pico projector various objects of interest.
Team Members
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- Create Minimal Linux Image that can run OpenCV and run the display
- Determine hardware needed for the project
- Work on getting a camera functioning on the beagle board
- OpenCV running nativly on beagle with min config
- OpenCV working on video stream
- Projector working on Beagle
- Car integration (power)
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Installing OpenCV (Development Machine)
This is a script that will install OpenCV on a debian-based development machine. The script will add the debian testing repositories and install OpenCV and its dependencies. The repositories are then removed to avoid conflicts with existing packages during regular updates.
#!/bin/bash echo "deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main" > /tmp/opencv-temp.list echo "deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main" >> /tmp/opencv-temp.list sudo mv /tmp/opencv-temp.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opencv-temp.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y --allow-unauthenticated libcv4 libcv-dev libhighgui4 libhighgui-dev libcvaux4 libcvaux-dev sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opencv-temp.list sudo apt-get update
Installing OpenCV on the Beagle
Add information from notes here.
OpenCV Haar Training
Display Buffer Mapping
Pico Projector Integration
As of revision C4 of the Beagleboard there is no necessary configuration needed to display native resolution on the projector.


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The head and entire board of directors of the B.C. Liberal riding association for Abbotsford South have resigned in protest of an "unfair and not democratic" appointment of prominent criminologist Darryl Plecas to be the party's candidate in next spring's provincial election.
In a letter posted on the Abbotsford Today website, past-president Stephen Evans said his association had no say in the University of the Fraser Valley criminologist's nomination.
Evans' letter questions whether Plecas, "an untested politician," can beat independent MLA John can Dongen after his appointment precluded a standard nomination contest with rival Liberals in the riding, including Abbotsford city Coun. Moe Gill.


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Paul Joseph Watson
October 26, 2010
The establishment media and the George Soros-funded White House press whores Media Matters and Think Progress are raging about how a Rand Paul supporter stomped on a female MoveOn activist following last night's Paul-Conway debate in Lexington, while covering up the fact that a female Rand Paul activist was also the victim of a stomping metered out by a Conway supporter just moments before.
An Associated Press video of the incident seems to go to great lengths to slow down the stomping in order to increase shock value, while conveniently failing to capture on film an almost identical incident moments before where a female Rand Paul supporter had her bandaged foot sliced open by a Conway fan who stomped her in a similar fashion.
Lauren Valle, a liberal MoveOn activist, attempted to create a confrontation by moving towards Paul after the debate, only to be restrained by Rand Paul fans. The video shows one of them push his foot down on the woman's upper back in a stomping motion. Other Rand Paul activists try to discourage the man from hurting the woman.
The Rand Paul supporter who assaulted the woman is clearly a thug and should be criminally charged, but the establishment media and the George Soros-funded blogs have hastily exploited this unfortunate incident in an effort to prop up the flailing political campaign of Democrat Jack Conway, by attempting to demonize Rand Paul supporters as a mob of angry brownshirts.
For some reason, they don't seem as keen to report on allegations of criminal money being behind the Conway campaign, a far bigger scandal, neither have they bothered to highlight an almost identical situation which occurred last night where a Conway supporter stomped on a Rand Paul activist before the Rand Paul supporter did the same to Valle.
As the leftist blogs rage about the actions of the Rand Paul supporter, the Kentucky Post was one of barely a handful of publications to acknowledge that a Conway supporter assaulted a Rand Paul fan in precisely the same manner.
"The second occurred after a Conway supporter stepped on the foot of a female Rand supporter, who recently had foot surgery, according to police," states the report.
"The woman was wearing a surgical boot, but after the injury, her incision was cut open. Police say she refused medical treatment and also filed an assault report."
Think Progress, the website bankrolled by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a think tank headed by Bill Clinton's former chief of staff John D. Podesta, who was also head of Barack Obama's presidential transition team after the 2008 election, failed to mention that a Rand Paul activist was also stomped on by a Conway fan last night.
It's unsurprising that Think Progress would run a cover-up for Democrat establishment candidate Conway, given the fact that Center for American Progress director Jennifer Palmieri admits that the goal of the organization is focused around "driving the White House's message and agenda."
Neither does it come as a shock that Media Matters, who recently received a $1 million contribution from billionaire globalist Soros, would also fail to mention the Conway supporter's stomp in the course of their coverage of the story. Media Matters is tied at the hip with Think Progress as part of Podesta's Progressive Media propaganda campaign, described as a "war room for promoting the foreign and domestic policies of Barack Obama." Podesta also helped found Media Matters.
While being owned by organizations whose goal it is to 'promote the policies of Barack Obama' and 'drive the White House's message and agenda', both Think Progress and Media Matters ludicrously claim to be "non-partisan," which is like suggesting that Karl Rove is non-partisan towards the Republican Party.
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Media Matters and Think Progress are transparently nothing more than press whores for the Obama White House. That's why their baseless smears against Alex Jones and others are written by anonymous cowards who refuse to even put their name to their stories.
After months of endless contrived smears against Rand Paul that failed miserably, leftist Obamanoids were probably licking their lips when the "stomping" story emerged this morning. But now it has emerged that a Rand Paul supporter was the victim of an identical stomping, the scandal has blown up in their face.
Lefitist publications like the Huffington Post, Media Matters and Think Progress have once again been exposed in their pathetic attempts to manufacture fake controversies to score political propaganda points, just as liberals were left red-faced after a Conway supporter attempted to pose as a racist Rand Paul fan in an underhanded and pathetic ploy to discredit the Kentucky Senatorial candidate.
The Conway incident was by no means the only example of Obamanoid thugs attacking Tea Party activists for daring to go against the Democrat borg. Indeed, there have been innumerable cases of leftists viciously assaulting conservatives, most of which have been caught on video, but the establishment media just isn't interested.
That's because you can't sell a fearmongering campaign about the rise of the angry right and how critics of Obama are racist extremists intent on violence when the only racist extremists carrying out violence are all leftist Obama supporters.
Earlier this year, A group of local citizens in North Carolina protesting the Financial Reform bill and the Durbin BP Bailout amendment were approached by a man who disagreed with them that Obama was to blame.
After the small gathering of protesters chanted "no more bailouts," the man began to argue with the group about who was to blame for the financial collapse.
The man then appears to push away another man holding a video camera before putting his hands on the other man's wife.
"Hey don't touch my wife, you got it?," says the cameraman as the clip cuts to another video camera from a different angle which shows the pro-Obama thug wrestling with and then slamming the cameraman with a vicious punch to the face.
When the pro-Obama thug is asked to remain at the scene because the police want to talk to him, he states, "you get your camera, you shove it up your ass". He then threatens the cameraman with violence again saying, "If you don't fuck around, you'll get hurt". The man is subsequently seen standing near a police car but it is unclear whether any action was taken.
Watch the clip.
Over the course of the past year, we have documented numerous instances of pro-Obama thugs committing violence against Tea Party activists or anti-bailout protesters. While the establishment media constantly invokes violence in its demonization of anti-Obama protesters, there has barely been a single tangible example of this, indeed, last night's stomping incident was the first, and yet anti-Obama thugs commit violence on a routine basis safe in the knowledge that the corporate media will never report on it.
During an August 2009 demonstration in Mehville, Missouri, Obamacare opponents were locked out of a town hall meeting before Union thugs viciously attacked patriot and Tea Party activist Kenneth Gladney, who was handing out Gadsden flags outside the stage-managed event, while hurling racist insults. According to MSNBC's Chris Matthews. the Gadsden flag is part of the extremist paraphernalia of dangerous anti-Obama right-wingers, and yet it was Gladney who was attacked by pro-Obama thugs merely for handing them out.
"Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan's town hall meeting in South St. Louis County," wrote Gladney's attorney, David B. Brown, in an email sent to Infowars. "Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out 'Don't Tread on Me' flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo."
The video clip below shows the aftermath of the attack.
Brown characterized the attack on Gladney, who was hospitalized with multiple injuries, as "a truly senseless hate crime," (Gladney is black) but you wouldn't have heard the Huffington Post, Media Matters, or Think Progress talking about it, because it wasn't carried out by Tea Party members, it was an attack by pro-Obamacare thugs furious at people for using their free speech to express opinions which differed to their own.
Elston McCowan, 47, of St. Louis, and Perry Molens, 50, of De Soto, were each later charged with assaulting Gladney.
But it doesn't end there – here's another example of Tea Party members being attacked by extreme pro-Obama leftists.
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During a November 2009 immigration enforcement rally, A.N.S.W.E.R.-hired thugs attacked 62-year-old Dave Caulkett of Floridians for Immigration Enforcement, pummeling him with their signs and kicking him in the face as other A.N.S.W.E.R. goons cheered.
Watch the clip below.
Before the event, A.N.S.W.E.R. Florida had sent out an email to their members calling for a "militant confrontation with the so-called "tea baggers."
"Beating back these forces will require us to organize together, take the streets, fight the racists wherever they show their faces and drive them out of every community," stated the email.
As this blog points out, "As can also be clearly seen on the video, A.N.S.W.E.R. organizers set their thugs loose on the two men and stood by until they heard police coming. Then they stopped their members and repositioned them to make it look like nothing happened. This was an orchestrated attack designed to make people fearful of protesting against their agenda."
Huffington Post, Media Matters, Think Progress and the rest of the Soros/White House mouthpieces need to think twice before attempting to generate contrived scandals about Rand Paul, because every time they launch another smear, it routinely backfires and only has the effect of increasing support for the Kentucky candidate.
Supporters of Paul's campaign should welcome the efforts of the Soros borg media, because collectively they've been so vehemently discredited that being attacked by them is fast turning into some kind of badge of honor which denotes the trustworthiness and genuine threat posed to the establishment by genuine Tea Party candidates like Rand Paul.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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The establishment is pulling out all the stops to shoot down Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell.
First it was former Nixon dirty trickster and Bush's brain, Karl Rove, who characterized her as "nutty" and a reprobate for taking two decades to pay off her student loans.
Now a decade old video clip as surfaced where O'Donnell admits to dabbling in witchcraft.
It looks like Ms. O'Donnell will face a withering barrage of negative publicity as she heads into the mid-term elections. Both Democrats and Republicans are determined to trash the real Tea Party and any candidate who appears to be an outsider. O'Donnell, who obviously has a few issues, will be the poster child for that effort. Her idiosyncrasies will be superimposed upon the entire movement.
It is ironic that the establishment would claim O'Donnell is connected to occultism when the practice is at the core of their ideology. From Bohemian Grove to Skull and Bones, the elite are obsessed with the occult.
Skull and Bones, dismissed by the corporate media as a harmless college fraternity, is an offshoot of the German Brotherhood of Death Society. Its roster reads like a Who's Who of the global elite — Bush, Harriman, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney.
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Bohemian Grove, centered around the occult Cremation of Care ceremony, is an offshoot of Skull and Bones. Its elite membership includes the likes of Bush and his son, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Kissinger and other high-powered luminaries, including members of the corporate media that is now demonizing Christine O'Donnell.
Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to wear the SS Totenkopf, or Death's Head — the German word for "skull of a dead man" — as a belt buckle. The Nazis, who slaughtered around 30 million people, were fond of the symbol. Hitler was obsessed with the occult. Schwarzenegger has said Hilter was a great leader.
In 2005, we learned that former British PM Tony Blair and his wife Cherie practice occult ceremonies. In 2004, the London Times revealed that Blair made political decisions based on New Age readings of a hidden force called "The Light," often referred to as Lucifer by occultists.
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The global elite know the vast majority of people are turned off by witchcraft and other occult practices and that is why they are using O'Donnell's decade-plus old comment to take her down.
Christine O'Donnell's youthful meandering into witchcraft is certainly worrisome. However, it is nowhere as worrisome as the occultist and satanist obsessions of the people who now rule the planet and are determined at all cost to destroy the Tea Party and any grassroots political movement outside of their control.
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When I found myself cramming three small dogs and two cats into a Mazda Miata for a trip to the veterinarian, I realized it was time for me and my husband to acquire a second car — a dog car, to be exact.
It's not unusual for soccer moms and carpool parents to choose a vehicle based on their children's needs, but increasingly, pet owners — especially those who hate to leave home without their dogs — are right there with them.
More and more often, dog owners are hauling their pooches with them on errands and outings, making capacity for this precious cargo a hot topic among the "barkoisie."
And auto manufacturers are paying attention. At the Tokyo Motor Show a couple years ago, Honda displayed a dog-friendly concept minivan with second-row seats that transform into a dog crate (smaller dogs can ride in the glove box carrier), removable flooring that's easily cleaned and a tailgate box for storage. Honda's W.O.W — Wonderful Open-hearted Wagon — hasn't gone into production, but the company's Element has a huge fan base among dog owners. And Volvo has a cargo-area cage structure that can be purchased as an accessory and installed in its XC-70 wagon or XC-90 SUV.
"It's an issue of safety," says Daniel Johnston, product communications manager at Volvo. "A 60-pound dog at 35 miles per hour on impact weighs about 2,700 pounds, so you want to properly restrain it in the car."
Spadafori started thinking about replacing her 10-year-old Voyager minivan the day it got stuck in a ditch at field training. A friend with four-wheel drive had to pull her out. So she began looking at cars with a dog-owner's eye and posting reviews of the cars she test-drove on the PetConnection.com blog, based on their suitability as dogmobiles.
"I started doing it as a lark, thinking I would take the cars I most wanted to drive, talk to the manufacturers and get testers for a week, and go through the top 10 or so that I thought fit the bill and then I would buy a car and that would be the end of it," she says.
More than 35 car reviews later, Spadafori has launched DogCars.com, where she reviews SUVs, minivans, wagons and crossovers. No sports cars or sedans need apply.
"There was so much interest from people who had opinions and who had retrofitted cars after they had been purchased," Spadafori says. "When I started doing this, most of the manufacturers were surprised that anybody would take on the job of reviewing cars from the point of view of a dog owner, but when I point out how popular dogs are, how many people have dogs and how many people do things with their dogs, they say, 'Oh yeah, well of course that makes sense.'"
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"The entire back opens up and lays flat for easily fitting crates and carriers, along with plenty of devices to hook them in place so they don't slide around," she says. "The back entrance is low to the ground so senior pets have an easier time climbing in and out. The bonus is the mileage — 36 miles per gallon [on the] highway, about 27 in town."
The Honda Element contingent includes Jean Fogle of Fort Valley, Va. "It's easy to clean out, the seats are easier to remove than our van's, and there's plenty of room. I know quite a few people who leave the seats out and just fill it with crates."
Dog trainer Pam Dennison of Blairstown, N.J., has three border collies and three crates that measure 24 inches by 36 inches. She fits them into a Dodge Caravan. The back seats? Well, they're sitting in her basement.
For now, Spadafori still has the minivan, but she has her eye on the Honda Element. She also likes the Nissan Xterra. Her ideal dogmobile would be economical to buy and to drive with a squared-off back, seats that fold flat and windows in the back that roll down for additional ventilation.
"Some of these high-end cars have beautiful buttery leather and thick, plush carpet and you think, 'Huh, does dog barf clean up out of that?' So I tend to like moderately priced cars that are fairly economical to run and yet have versatile cargo spaces that can be well adapted to whatever you and your dog want to do," she says.
Me? After test-driving a Mazda Tribute, waiting impatiently for the Mazda 6 wagon to make an appearance and then disliking the styling, I drove a Subaru Outback home.
I now feel confident that if we have to evacuate in the event of an earthquake, we won't have to leave my husband behind.
Kim Campbell Thornton is an award-winning author who has written many articles and more than a dozen books about dogs and cats. She belongs to the Dog Writers Association of America and is past president of the Cat Writers Association. She shares her home in California with two Cavalier King Charles spaniels and one African ringneck parakeet.
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The Memphis area is a vital gateway for regional and national commerce. The area is home to five Class I railroads, the world's busiest cargo airport, the nation's fourth largest inland port and interstate routes that carry some of the highest truck volumes in the nation. As the population grows and traffic congestion builds, our aging bridges and roadways are showing strain.
The economic vitality of Memphis and the surrounding area is dependent, in part, on the safe and efficient flow of passenger traffic and freight. That is why state and local transportation officials are planning now for future connections across the Mississippi River.
The Southern Gateway is more than a bridge. The term refers to an overall plan for improving cross-river travel for people and freight, and for better connections through Memphis to the tri-state region (TN, AR and MS) and the nation at large.
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The Southern Gateway project will consider how to address cross-river transportation needs for various modes of transportation (highway, freight railroad, passenger railroad, bicycle/pedestrian) in the Memphis metropolitan area now and in the future. The plan will analyze the costs, benefits and impacts of various transportation improvement options. It will also outline how improvements could be implemented in a way that is sensitive to the environment and the needs of local communities.
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March 9, 2011
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), in cooperation with the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) and the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), and the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization will conduct a series of public meetings in late March and early April 2011 to discuss the Southern Gateway transportation project.
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