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Committed supply is one simple aspect by which farmers can
help the red-meat industry, Federated Farmers Otago meat and
fibre chairman Simon McAtamney says.
In his report to the province's annual meeting, Mr McAtamney
said the rural lobby organisation would keep pushing the
message about committed supply.
Reflecting on the past year, Mr McAtamney said it had been a
much better one for Otago's meat and fibre farmers than the
previous year.
It appeared the season would also be a more profitable one
for the major meat companies. Less volatile markets and
improving returns for products should see some healthier
financial results later in the year, he said.
Meat Industry Excellence had ''certainly ruffled some
feathers'' over the past year.
While the group saw that the pathway to restructuring the
industry lay through the co-operatives, it also had to keep
focus on engaging with non-co-operative suppliers who stocked
the other 50% of the industry.
Otherwise, the co-operatives might end up being restructured,
but not the industry.
Mr McAtamney believed many of the problems that had arisen
for the southern meat companies stemmed from one factor
''totally out of their control'' over the past 20 years: the
rapid growth in wealth in Asia had resulted in a ''seemingly
insatiable'' demand for dairy protein.
The South Island had all the resources needed to supply that
demand and that had taken a huge amount of supply, especially
sheep, away from the meat companies, he said.
''What really could they have done about that? What if this
hadn't happened? Would we actually be getting as well paid
for lamb as we are now?
''The meat companies would all be better off with better
throughput, but would we?
''We are now starting to see huge demand for red-meat protein
from China. Are we possibly going to get on a similar roll as
the dairy industry, albeit later?'' he asked.
The future of Invermay had been a contentious issue, and
AgResearch's plan to create two main research hubs had caused
a ''lot of dismay''.
If that was not to happen, Mr McAtamney asked if the
continuation of Invermay in its present form would be a good
''Constant restructuring over the past two decades has
already seen Invermay's role diminished.
''If Invermay is to survive and thrive, it probably needs its
science capability better supported and enlarged, otherwise
more good scientists will continue to leave albeit more
slowly than what might happen with a sudden shift to
Christchurch,'' he said.
A likely referendum for a compulsory wool levy for a new
wool-grower body would no doubt cause debate throughout the
rest of the year, he said.
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Nvidia "opens can of whoop-ass" on itself
Millions of failing parts, income way down
NVIDIA IS TANKING, we told you so. It just put out two pieces of very bad news, It's taking a $150-200 million charge in the quarter for what looks to be a product failure, and ATI is kicking its rear end.
If you look at the 8K form it just filed, there are two big pieces of bad news. The first is that some unnamed mobile and MCP products have big problems, hundreds of millions of dollars worth. It is said to be, "Arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP and GPU products used in notebook systems". That is bad, but to make matters funnier, "There can be no assurance that we will not discover defects in other MCP or GPU products."
To us, this says they used the same materials in other things, and it takes a while to show up, shown by the 'previous generation' bit. We'll bet money that this is the tip of the iceberg. Also, given how much mobos and mobile GPUs cost, this looks like a problem that is affecting a million or more units. Unrelated pricing of Dell notebooks today led us to see that, for most parts, NV mobile GPUs are either a $80 or $130 upgrade over integrated. $150-200 million divided by $130 is still well over a million, likely multiple millions of dead parts. Don't tread the future here lightly.
The bigger problem is what we have been saying for a long time, ATI is kicking Nvidia up and down the block. It sets quarterly guidance down to $875-950 million vs $1.1 billion for the quarter. Guess why? Nvidia isn't saying, but this, this, and this are good places to start, as is the partner exodus. More on that later, this is a start, but they are far from the only ones. Please note that this drop does not include the one-time charge from the dead parts.
Nvidia is going to lose gobs and gobs of market share this year. They are effectively out of notebooks, will lose the high end in days, don't have anything close to a competitive line-up, have higher costs than ATI, and have to shell out money to keep partners alive. If you think this is bad, wait a little.
NV's roadmap is empty, ATI's is not.
100 basis points my ass. µ
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Social insects build sophisticated and complex architectures such as huge nests and underground galleries based on self-organizing rules. The structures of these architectures vary widely in size and shape within a species. Some studies have revealed that the current environmental and/or social factors can cause differences in the architectures that emerge from collective building. However, little is known about the effect of colony-level variations on the architecture. Here, we demonstrate that termite colonies build colony-specific architecture using shelter-tube construction as a model system. When we divided a colony into multiple groups of individuals, groups drawn from the same colony performed similar patterns of construction, whereas groups from different colonies exhibited different patterns. The colony variations in shelter-tube construction are generally thought to reflect differences in foraging strategy, and this difference can have important fitness consequences depending on the distribution of wood resources in the environment. This is the first demonstration of colony variation in the architecture that emerges from collective behavior. Colony-specific architectural variations provide new insights into our understanding of the self-organization systems, which were previously assumed to provide each species with a species-specific construction mechanism.
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I am working on a GUI for a small app project that is built on LibGDX. I was wondering, given that it is possible to add default Android interface components and layouts over the top of a LibGDX view programatically, is it possible to simply use full XML layouts as well? In my particular case, this would be a far quicker way to go, with little reason to use the Scene2d.ui class if it is not necessary.
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A FORMER Ku Klux Klan leader says racism in parts of Australia is reaching a similar intensity to what he saw growing up in the United States' Deep South.
Johnny Lee Clary, a former KKK Imperial Dragon who left the organisation after 14 years, found God and became a church minister, said yesterday that prejudice and hatred Down Under ran deeper than most people cared to admit, The Daily Telegraph reported.
"I've been coming to Australia for 12 years and I see just as much racism here as I have in America. A lot of people in Australia like to pretend that it doesn't exist but it does," he said.
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RestKit used to support multi-tasking using the following code chunk:
RKRequest* request = [[RKClient sharedClient] post:@"/upload" delegate:self];
request.backgroundPolicy = RKRequestBackgroundPolicyContinue;
I am looking at the latest versions (0.20.x) and I don't see any reference to the background policy enum. Does anyone know how to call this in the latest version of RestKit?
EDIT: Per Wain's answer below, I have found that you can do this for a GET method as follows:
RKHTTPRequestOperation *requestOperation = [[RKHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];
[requestOperation setShouldExecuteAsBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler:nil];
RKObjectRequestOperation *operation = [[RKObjectRequestOperation alloc] initWithHTTPRequestOperation:requestOperation responseDescriptors:@[responseDescriptor]];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, RKMappingResult *mappingResult) {
// handle success
} failure:^(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
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But there does not seem to be an equivalent for POST, since the RKObjectManager POST method creates a RKObjectRequestOperation internally and does not provide access to it.
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Most sincere condolences to the family on the loss of their son. Prayers for the Elder from Utah that he makes a speedy recovery. Serving in the Lord's Vineyard was never promised to be easy, and those who serve and return with honor, many blessing will be with them. Those who serve and suffer the ultimate sacrifice in the Lord's Service will be blessed to pass the Angels in Heaven. God Bless to all Missionaries.
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"And should we die, before our Journey's through, Happy Day! All is well!" This young El Salvadoran Elder has a "ticket straight to the Celestial Kingdom", as my former missionary sons would say. We wish all missionary mother's peace at this time, especially the mother of the Elder who passed away.
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Now, concerning the state of the soul between death and the
resurrection—Behold, it has been made known unto me by an angel, that the
spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body, yea, the
spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are taken home to that God who
gave them life. And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who
are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise,
a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles
and from all care, and sorrow. Alma 40:10-11
Via con Dios, Elder Campos. Gracias por su servicio al Senor.
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This is the type of story you never like to read about. To say that it is those left behind who suffer; while those who pass on are in a good state does little to console. May both families have an extra portion of the Spirit to their healing.
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That is the only comment from the church?
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Sincere sympathies to both families and their ward members. Losing a child is not easy any time, even when he is serving the Lord.
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To: General...personal feelings and thoughts will be shared with the families of these wonderful missionaries privately. That was a public acknowledgement of the tragedy. Our prayers will be with these two families.
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I won't speculate that the missionary has a ticket straight to the
Celestial kingdom. I'm going to assume that if he was a faithful missionary
and prepared for the mission then he's in a good candidate for the kingdom.
But, the judging will be left to the real judge of us all. After all none of
us know his full life story.
The same mistake is made when people think if their kids are sealed to them, then nothing will prevent their kids (no matter how evil) from entering the Celestial kingdom. That is false teaching to say if I live righteously then my child that has sin will be saved. The promise is, if the child goes through the repentance process, then the sealing will preserve the family unit.
I'm sure if a child inherits a different kingdom of glory the parents can still visit their child, but, that will be the end of his/her progression.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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this is so terribly sad. These incredibly great young men are serving the Lord and helping so many. God bless the family of this missionary.
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That's odd; it appears I'm now swimming in Lake Huron. Guess the map images must have shifted over the last couple years. Time that I acknowledge that I'll be living in Florida for awhile anyway.
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My roomates said they were going to get me rims for Christmas, or a CB radio so I can talk to other car beds; that'll be hot. Might get a stereo, too. My sister said I should get an alarm.
ArchMap reborn again
I wrote some php scripts which parse list from this wiki page and then generate KML file. KML file will be updated automatically every day. I also implemented simple search function.
When you click on selected marker, popup window appear containing username and optional comment (usually address).
ArchMap: http://archmap.hekko.pl/
KML file: http://archmap.hekko.pl/usermap2.kml (of course you can also download this file and load in Google Earth)
You can add yourself to list and immediately check if syntax or/and coordinates are correct using alternative "dynamic" map version without waiting for an update KML file. It parses list from wiki and then browser draws all markers, so it works extremely slow (prepare for high CPU consumption), but you should only use this map to check if data you added are fine.
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fsss, as far as i can tell, there are a lot of markers in completely the wrong place...
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Hmm... But whether it's my fault or people who added wrong coordinates? I won't correct coordinates for them...
Let me know if you find any line with correct coordinates which draws in wrong place on my map. So I'll be able to investigate problem and fix it
Let me know if you find any line with correct coordinates which draws in wrong place on my map. So I'll be able to investigate problem and fix it
These are easy to test yourself i think, just click on a few markers.
P.s., what happens when people leave Arch, will they stay on your map indefinitely?
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Hmm... But whether it's my fault or people who added wrong coordinates? I won't correct coordinates for them...
Let me know if you find any line with correct coordinates which draws in wrong place on my map. So I'll be able to investigate problem and fix it
My marker (Mektub, in Lisbon/Portugal) is correct.
Thanks, fsss
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Added myself, turns out in the correct place on the dynamic map .
There's like a grand total of 2 people listed from Malaysia. Oh wow.
Allan-Volunteer on the (topic being discussed) mailn lists. You never get the people who matters attention on the forums.
jasonwryan-Installing Arch is a measure of your literacy. Maintaining Arch is a measure of your diligence. Contributing to Arch is a measure of your competence.
Griemak-Bleeding edge, not bleeding flat. Edge denotes falls will occur from time to time. Bring your own parachute.
where is the latest map verison?
where is the latest map verison?
The list is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchMap/List but http://archmap.hekko.pl/ is down.
is the source code for the arch map somewhere available? it would be fun to see it live again :-)
IIRC it was a Google Map and used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language
Edit: Yup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchMap
One of the screenshots is still available: http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1324/fhfdhu.jpg
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I've thrown some stuff up on GitHub if anyone wants to take a look. It's a bit messy and undocumented at the moment though, I just wanted to see a map! Opening up the 'output.geojson' file should render a map on GitHub, failing that, there's a link to a Mapbox map in the repos README.md.
If you just want the geojson or kml files they're in the repo too.
I was unsure as to what to licence it under because it contains the text from the wiki but the code is under an MIT License.
It'd be good to get it a bit more dynamic, pull requests are always welcome! Also, the wiki could do with some updating
I'll do what I can but in the meantime, have at it!


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In a letter released today, nine leading human rights organizations urged President Obama to take up the Chinese government's crackdown on civil society as a barrier to bilateral relations on his upcoming visit to China. Obama will meet with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on November 12, 2014.
Under the Ukraine Media Watch project ("Мережа медіа-спостерігачів" in Ukrainian), Freedom House and IMI monitor freedom of the press and speech with a special focus on the impact of developments on the electoral environment.
In April, when you met with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden at the White House, he expressed support for Montenegro's aspirations to join the European Union and NATO and emphasized the importance of strengthening democratic institutions, including a free press. However, since that meeting, violations of press freedom have continued unabated and have led to an increasingly threatening environment for independent media in Montenegro.
We are dismayed that during your brief stay in New York for the United Nations General Assembly you will include Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the short list of foreign leaders with whom you will meet one-on-one.
We are concerned at the continuing detention of human rights defender Maryam Al-Khawaja, who was arrested on August 30 2014, and we call for her immediate and unconditional release.
In light of Vietnam's crackdown against civil society, including the recent sentencing of three prominent activists to lengthy prison terms for advocating on behalf of peasants losing their land, Freedom House calls on the U.S. government and the international community to press the Government of Vietnam to release the activists and meet its human rights obligations under the ICCPR.
At this critical juncture in determining the future of the internet, the internet governance process can and should be improved. We stress the importance of upholding and strengthening the multistakeholder approach to ensure that the internet remains open, global, secure, and resilient.
Freedom House and 17 other civil society organizations operating in southern Africa have petitioned SADC Heads of State and Government to express concern over a protocol for a new inter-state tribunal. After disbanding the SADC Tribunal in 2012 without consultation of critical stakeholders, the SADC has proposed a new tribunal but would bar citizens from accessing the court.
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), Freedom House, Human Rights First, Just Foreign Policy, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and Reporters Without Borders call for the release of the internationally-known Bahraini photographer Ahmed Humaidan, who is to receive the National Press Club's John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award "in absentia" in Washington, D.C. this evening. He has been held since December 29, 2012 in Bahrain.


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By Mike Harris | Senior Writer
Ah, the dawn of a fresh new year. A clean slate to be written on.
If we do some serious day dreaming maybe we can come up with some scenarios that would make 2010 a very memorable and interesting year in NASCAR and IndyCar:
* Danica Patrick, the subject of intense scrutiny, […]
As of Jan. 1, I reluctantly joined the millions of Americans without health insurance. This is the product of a combination of procrastination and frustration. As in, when a media colleague about the same age informed me he was paying $1,100 a month for a single-payer policy with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas…I decided to […]
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The Wood Brothers Racing Team has been one of the backbones of NASCAR since the sport was founded. The Woods, from Stuart, Va., have been racing continuously in the division now known as Sprint Cup since 1953 and have 96 wins to their credit.
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The initial focus of Hunter-Reay's effort in the No. 37 IZOD entry will be the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and will also include a number of other key series events before and after the […]
Tradition can be a wonderful thing. But not always.
It has taken officials at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a long time to figure out that less can be more.
True, for many of the 93 years that the Indianapolis 500 has been run, the month-long schedule every year in May was the right way to go – a celebration […]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
For those of us still fortunate enough to be involved in this profession, the 2009 motorsports season was not all about Jimmie and Junior and Danica.
For this writer, 2009 was about transitioning from a 35-year career in the daily newspaper industry into the 24/7 world of cyberspace. Away from the […]
Editor's Note: Dave Kallmann is the long-time auto-racing beat writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He agreed to write an obit column about the oldest continuously operating track in America for RacinToday.com.
By Dave Kallmann | Guest Columnist
Milwaukee, Wis. – You can't feel sad for a racetrack.
It has no heart. It's really nothing more than asphalt […]
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
From the Monday Morning Crew Chief:
I wrote the book on Danica Patrick, or perhaps more accurately, the unauthorized biography. Having watched her race since her earliest days in IndyCar, trust me on this. Once she starts driving NASCAR stockers, Patrick is going to surprise some naysayers.
As an IndyCar rookie, when Patrick […]
IndyCar driver Milka Duno will make her stock car debut during the ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards open test at Daytona International Speedway December 18, 19 and 20.
Duno will participate in the test behind the wheel of Braun Racing's No. 90 Toyota.
It will be Duno's first opportunity to go around the 2.5-mile […]
Larry Woody | Senior Writer
Danica Patrick, who has yet to make a lap in a stock car, has generated a bigger media blitz and fan buzz than Jimmie Johnson did with his record-busting fourth-straight NASCAR championship.
And if you think Danica-mania has created a stir thus far, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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The new Vauxhall Adam has burst onto the scene, offering up stiff competition to the Fiat 500 and MINI hatchback.
On sale at Wilsons, Vauxhall's dynamic city car is a three-door, four-seater that is designed to make urban life that little bit easier. With bold styling that incorporates a floating roof, a blade shape in the lower doors and crisp lines, the Adam certainly stands out. At 3.7 metres long and 1.72 metres wide, it's slightly larger than the 500, but shorter and wider than the MINI.
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Engine options range from a 1.2-litre petrol unit with 69bhp to two 1.4-litre engines delivering either 86bhp or 99bhp. Being created for city driving, the Adam has a selectable 'city mode' that increases the power-steering assistance at lower speeds to make navigating through traffic that much easier. If you were hoping for a little more punch, you won't have to wait long later in 2013, Vauxhall is releasing a further engine in the form of a three-cylinder turbocharged petrol motor mated to a six-speed gearbox.
Stepping inside the new Vauxhall Adam, you'll be struck by the assertive body-coloured fascia and seven-inch infotainment system with touch screen functionality. Compatible with Android and Apple smartphones and complete with satellite navigation, it is well equipped to keep you in touch and in control. Safety features include side, front and curtain airbags, ISOFIX mounting points and seatbelt pre-tensioners for front passengers.
For a compact car, the Adam offers an impressive range of options. If you thought things like heated steering wheels and parking assistance were for drivers of executive saloons, think again. Both these can be specified, as can LED-equipped roof lining, which makes the roof look like the starry night sky.
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I recently installed the WP portfolio plugin. everything works great and i like it. One thing i need to know is how do i direct visitors from clicking a link on any portfolio item to the actual site.
Everytime i click on any of my site it gives me this error:
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Came upon this site via Gizmo's Freeware. Thought I would give it a try. As much as I can remember, this is a pretty complete description of the problem and all the steps I've taken to find a solution.
I have two Logitech webcams. The older one is the Quick Cam Communicate Deluxe. The newest is the c920 HD Pro. The Quick Cam one worked fine on XP Pro SP3.
I upgraded to Win7 Pro x64. I tried the Quick Cam and it would not show a picture. I contacted Logitech and after two visits, the second support person said the camera is broken and I needed to replace it. I was a little dubious but I've had it for awhile and so I purchased c920 hoping that this would resolve the problem.
I have been in touch with Skype and Logitech, have followed all of their instructions, and everything about both companies' programs works except for not being able to see a picture on the screen. I can, however bring up some old pictures saved to my computer from past use with the Quick Cam on XP.
Skype did give me a message that something else was using the camera. The responder from Skype sent information about a diagnostic which was supposed to show me what it was. The diagnostic said there wasn't another application using the camera. When I returned that answer, that was the last I heard from them.
I did try the c920 on my wife's computer and it works perfectly. I also tried a different USB port and that didn't help either.
The person who builds all my computers and repairs computers in addition to selling them, gave it a try and was unable to resolve it and he's pretty good. This is everything I can remember about what has happened concerning this problem.
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Head of Arafat's press office Mohammad Odwan said that chances of holding a meeting are 50-50 after the Syrians insisted that the final communiqué of the summit include a decision that the Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian tracks of the peace process be organically associated.
Sources said that the Palestinians rejected the offer, which necessitated Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa's intervention to draft a reconciliatory provision.
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Re: anyone try CLI for Citi?
Checking my reports soon here. When would a new limit after increase appear...after that card statement closes?
All my cards are 0% so no interest accruing anywhere at this point.
Only reason I'd go for Cap1 is because I want to increase my available credit and also pay on my Citi card.
I don't get paid at work for another month. Payoffs aren't in my budget.
All I want is my limit increased with Citi. That's all. I have no available funds to pay off a good chunk at this point,
so that's why I'm considering the Cap1 card.
Why Cap1? Cause I have the offer and there's no BT fee. I've asked the forum what other options but no one has said anything.
Thank you for your input very much Tryon!
Re: anyone try CLI for Citi?
Typically the new limit appears after the close of the next statement. Some places you can ask for it to be pushed through (worked with Discover). AU's can be the same or take two months.
I understand wanting to grow.
If you can pay it down in the next 3-4 months, I think you would be in better shape to ask for a CLI from CITI, and then you should also be able to look at getting in with Chase at that point vs. Capital One.
If you need it now though, take the shot, the worst thing that could happen is a HP. :-)
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Burberry for Men
Original Vetiver
I'm a fan of it. It's not a smell to go ga-ga over, but it makes me feel good in a way that few other scents I own do.
To me, Aqua Marine is more refreshing. It manages to be light while still getting pretty impressive longevity from an aquatic. Aqua is a more robust scent, which for me is actually a detriment in the...
Bleu de Chanel
Platinum Egoiste
Green Irish Tweed
Original Vetiver
Mugler Cologne
Terre d'Hermes
Pure Shot
I've thought since its release that Spicebomb smells like One Million laid over Burberry London.
Though there aren't hard and fast rules about it, I would say that I try to co-ordinate my scent and my appearance most days.
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Though there aren't hard and fast rules about...
I prefer Bleu, though I own both it and Aqva Marine. Bleu is classier, more versatile, and IMO smells better.
Platinum Egoiste, or Bleu de Chanel if you'd consider that one dry.
Check out Burberry London, too.
A*Men, no contest.
I'd agree with several that have been mentioned already, but of those that haven't...
Creed Original Vetiver
Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche
Mugler Cologne
Memoir Man
Leather Oud
Amber Sultan
Creed Himalaya, which had a smell and vibe unlike anything I'd tried up to that point. Still just makes me feel good to wear that one, even though it doesn't "smell good" in the traditional sense....
Ambre 114 is nice, but the vanilla element is very strong to me. The other two I've liked best are Ambre Sultan and Omnia Profumo's Ambra.
Pi Neo was the one for me. I never could tell what it smelled like.
Looks like this is the last day of warm weather for a while, so I figured I'd pull out old faithful...
London or L'Instant. I'm 23 and wear L'Instant with no hesitation, if that matters.
Between the two, if you want a woodsier, less sweet scent, you want London. If you want something more...
A solid list all the way down. I doubt you'll really go wrong.
For me, if you like Fahrenheit that should be one of the ones you get. Rive Gauche is good stuff, but it never really got me thrilled...
I own both GIT and Cool Water, and use them for different purposes. I see the similarities, but they give off a completely different effect to me. Not everybody agrees, so I recommend sampling both....
For me, I'd say that you oughta at least give a good chance to get to know:
Winter - A*Men (or flankers)
Spring - Green Irish Tweed
Summer - Mugler Cologne
Fall - Terre d'Hermes
Wildcard -...
For different reasons, all. This would, in my opinion, be a good core collection:
Mugler Cologne
La Nuit de l'Homme
Bleu de Chanel or Terre d'Hermes
Play Intense
Pure Malt is a...
Ambre Sultan/114
Pure Malt
Play Intense
Fahrenheit 32
Green Irish Tweed
Aside from the problem that I just get bored easily, which would follow literally any fragrance I could name...
Pure Malt would be my signature fragrance if... I could wear it more easily in warm...
Pure Malt, and occasionally the original A*Men tend to do it for me.
Now, if the weather's gonna be hot, then it's Virgin Island Water.
L'Instant de Guerlain would seem to fit the bill. It certainly does for me. 1828 by Histoires de Parfums springs to mind, too.
For me, I'm really looking forward to wearing a lot of those, as well...
+1 Eau du Pamplemousse Rose. Also, Concentree d'Orange Verte is a great fragrance. Both have very clear, refreshing takes on their respective citruses.
Yeah, and it tends to be something I haven't worn in a while, or something that I find to be "comforting." For the latter category, A*Men and Pure Malt come out a lot.
I tend to favor lighter stuff as often as not, so I actually have wound up with a pretty well-balanced collection. I have noticed that it seems a lot of people on here aren't too fond of light scents...
Oh, I forgot earlier that Guess by Marciano for Men is also in this category. Has anybody else worn this one? It never gets mentioned on here but I think it's as good as anything else like it.
+1 Gucci PH II
In terms of failsafes (meaning, to me, likeable designer fragrances), the relatively new Original Penguin (in the brown bottle) is pretty likeable. It's very similar to Boss Bottled...
To me they all have this sort of very approachable sweet spiciness to them. I'm not great with note breakdowns or even always getting the vocabulary right, but that's how I'd describe them. I also...
I'm not a huge fan of M7, personally. L'Instant, off this list.
Is there anything in particular you want out of this next fragrance purchase? A vibe, a void to be filled, or something like that? I...
Changes daily, but these would always be up there:
Original Vetiver
Pure Malt
Ambre 114
Platinum Egoiste
Gotta have an honorable mention: Bvlgari Aqva Marine
+1 on Bang and Burberry the Beat. I wonder if Spicebomb would fit your criteria, too...
To my nose there's not a lot in it to smell. It reminds me a bit of Pure Shot, although I like PS better honestly. Eau Extreme isn't bad, it just doesn't really do anything to earn my attention.
Ain't nothing wrong with making things match. A time and a place for everything.
I typically don't, but had an SA layer Lacoste White (Blanc?) with Fahrenheit 32 to a very interesting effect. Worth a try sometime.
I'd agree you need to just check out all the exclusive line, but especially Sycomore. My favorites otherwise are Antaeus, Bleu, Platinum Egoiste, and Allure Homme Edition Blanch.
+1 on YSL L'Homme. It's a likeable, classy scent that would work equally well at the office as on a more special occasion. I personally wouldn't say the same for something like Mugler Cologne, which...
For me there's not MUCH point. Though this isn't a hard and fast rule, I can typically smell the difference when we get to the price point occupied by "cheapies." I respect that some people find them...
I agree with others that you probably oughta sample before you buy, but the ones I'd go for are Pure Malt, Platinum Egoiste, and/or Givenchy Play Intense. But mostly Pure Malt.
Um, yeah... +1.
Bleecker Street is the only bottle I have from this house, and it may well stay that way. Quality juice, though.
Salvador Dali pour Homme... Yikes.
I think NY Oud would be the way to go, if only because NY Amber comes off very feminine to me. Both are quality scents, though expensive ones.
Mugler Cologne and Green Irish Tweed.
This, exactly. Plus, it seems that 95% of the advice on the site revolves around being impressive to "the ladies." As long as you don't smell BAD, I doubt fragrance is rarely the most important thing...
Count me among those who get a dark vibe from Fahrenheit Absolute.
As someone who's in the middle of a move, I can't imagine how I'd get these things from one place to another if I hadn't kept the box. Even when I take a couple on weekend trips I put them in the...
It's a cool idea, and I like the smell of books... but I have a hard time imagining myself wearing this, or really even wanting to.
Burberry for Men, Fahrenheit/Absolute, or one of the A*Men series.
Reflection Man
Aventus (easy on the trigger)
FOR ME, first to last:
Mugler Cologne (just awesome)
A*Men (that tar note makes it great, though I can't wear it as much as the next two)
Pure Malt (delicious)
Pure Shot (underrated... a...
Pure Malt
Unless it's hot out, in which case it would most likely be Green Irish Tweed.
You'll probably expand your tastes over time. I sure did. That said, there's nothing wrong with the fragrances you listed; I still wear Bleu fairly regularly (especially during the work week).
1. Pretty close for me, personally. I don't own either, but like both.
2. Either works here IMO.
4. GV IMO, though it depends to some extent on location and/or season.
5. MI is the safer...
Bleu de Chanel, which I find to be more complex than people give it credit for. Aqua Di Gio is good, too, though its undeniable familiarity makes it less interesting for me to wear.
I'll add the the chorus of people saying it's not a safe blind buy.
I don't remember if Guerlain counts as niche or designer, but their Vetiver is good stuff and comes in under $100. You might also give Burberry London or some of the Cartier fragrances a look.
A*Men or Mugler Cologne, probably. I've got a soft spot for Platinum Egoiste but don't wear it quite as often.
I wear it as a comfort scent at the moment, and plan on wearing it as a daily one in the fall. The trick for me is one, MAYBE two sprays, from about twice the usual distance. The scent is less...
I like all of them.
For those who want to try it, I was able to track down a sample of Absolute off ebay. Worth a shot, as it's a great fragrance (for me, better than the original most days).
I actually prefer Absolute, but I own both. Only have a 1 oz. of Fahrenheit, though, as Absolute and 32 are both worthy accompaniments for me.
I don't really get much similarity, other than maybe they put off a similar "vibe." The Dreamer, for me, is way better.
Bleu would be my number one, and then second would be whichever you prefer of the TDH variants.
For me, it would be Rochas Man, Play Intense, Rive Gauche, or Burberry Brit.
Fahrenheit, La Nuit de L'homme, A*Men, or Boss Bottled would be it for me.
The Dreamer, if you go easy on the trigger. A great floral tobacco. And if you don't mind the price tag, Creed's Original Santal might fit the bill.
I'm also a big fan of Ambre 114, mentioned...
I don't really see it as a daytime thing, though I suppose it depends one what you do during the day. I pretty much only see this as a party scent, which I guess translates to evening. Spicebomb, to...
+1. I find a lot of Bond scents to grow cloying, especially in the Deep South heat and humidity. Creed, on the other hand, lasts when I need it to and only rarely gives me any discomfort.
+1 Green Irish Tweed, Himalaya, Original Vetiver, Guerlain Vetiver (which I don't own, but can tell would fly in any number of situations). Creeds are easy to wear, almost as a rule.
I also,...
For me, Bvlgari Aqva Marine lasts nearly a full work day. I'd agree with the suggestion of Bleu de Chanel, though, as it puts off a similar "vibe" to an aquatic.
Aqua Di Gio doesn't last on me...
Fahrenheit Absolute sprung to mind. Not necessarily woody, but very masculine, distinctive, and dark. +1 on Bulgari Black, Antaeus, and Fahrenheit, too.
Hypnose Homme is a really nice lavender scent. After that, I'd say either Code, Ferrari Black, or Azzaro pour Homme.
Video production is the only other thing I really will sink money into, but it can occasionally take a good chunk.
No order:
Dior Fahrenheit Absolute
Dior Fahrenheit
Mugler Pure Malt
Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche
Chanel Platinum Egoiste
Burberry for Men
Versace The Dreamer
Versace Blue Jeans
+1 Himalaya, Fahrenheit, and Chrome
Bvlgari Aqva pour Homme Marine
The Dreamer
I don't know that I have a PATCHOULI frag yet. Ambre 114 and Pure Malt, though.
Fahrenheit Absolute
The Dreamer
Terre d'Hermes
Bulgari Black
Versace Man eau Fraiche
Pure Malt, mainly. I dig A*Men as well.
New Haarlem and Play Intense are pretty good, as well.
Not really a tobacco connoisseur, but I really like the way it's used in The Dreamer. Pure Havane is quite nice, too, though not really "me."
I wouldn't have made the comparison either, though I like Bleu a lot more.
My initial thought on Spicebomb was that it's a combination of One Million and London. I like it better than those, though, as I think the combination (at least, of things that are reminiscent) has...
I haven't tried Body Kouros yet, but the other three are all quality scents. In my opinion, Egoiste is probably the one that has the least day-to-day wearability off that list, but other people on...
Original Vetiver
Green Irish Tweed
Aqva (Aqua) Marine
Pure Shot
Concentre d'Orange
Ack, forgot Mugler Cologne. Awesome stuff.
I've liked Histoires de Parfums, particularly 1828 and Ambre 114. What I've tried from Tauer has been really solid stuff. And Creed, which is probably the obvious choice (and not for no reason).
If memory serves, I have Z01 as well. I don't get olfactory fatigue per se, but most days it seems that I can smell it a lot better just in the air as opposed to when I put my face down on my wrist...
Word. Hermes also has Pamplemousse Rose and that Jardin series that squarely hit the unisex mark. And, Bond No. 9 has some good frags, with the majority of them falling right in the middle of unisex...
I'm also narrowing down a list of fougeres, and Roadster and Rive Gauche have made it to the final rounds for me.
Fahrenheit Absolute? Better than the original, IMO.
I'd go Cartier. Particularly Roadster or Pasha Menthe. They've got a lot of good woodsy/herbal options that would be good summer night/fall anytime scents.
Mugler Cologne (as well as the A*Men lineup if you want something brilliantly edible)
Bvlgari Aqva/Aqva Marine (my favorite aquatics)
Rochas Man
Versace's The Dreamer, mentioned already, is great;...
I like it as one of the easiest-to-wear fragrances I own. It's fresh and clean without being soapy or citrusy (though it does have a bit of soapiness, I guess). It reminds me of a better Chanel...
I get that at first, but it winds up burning down to a more woodsy smell. It's like One Million transitioning into Burberry London, but I actually like the combination better than either of those...
I wasn't blown away by Armani Code Ultimate anyway. It was fine, but I forgot about it the next day. I don't think I really jive with that house.
Anyway, the Gucci pour Hommes might be worth...


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Like many 18-year-old American girls, Hannah Teter keeps a journal. Unlike many, she picked up hers in Iceland.
"It's so sad," Teter says. "I can't be certain where I was last month. For some reason, everybody wants me right now. Hannah, Hannah, Hannah. Croatia, then Chile, New Zealand. It's the life I'm living."
Teter bought the journal to help her remember, to slow her down, to induce reckoning. A tall order for a simple orange spiral notebook with a tulip emblazoned on the front. Inside are doodles and poems and musings, "random stuff I may never acknowledge otherwise," she says. Two days ago, on an early-December flight from California to her home in Vermont, Teter sketched a picture of her house, "to see if I could even remember it." Her journal has no lock and key, largely because Teter is not very secretive. Ask her anything, and she's happy to share: who she thinks is hot ("Usher, that Pirates of the Caribbean dude, Tanner Hall"); what matters most in her life ("connection, being a good person"); if she believes in God ("totally!").
When Teter talks, her words come in waves. Random torrents, propelled by spasms of youthful intensity, ebb into surfer girl "dudes and whatevers," all mixing into Teterese. She finds her feelings hard to contain, so she doesn't even try, preferring to let them rip, embellished with exuberant hand gestures, silly voices and face-cracking smiles, and if all that is a little full-on for more moderate people, well, "whatever, I got to be me, right?"
"I am all about honesty," Teter says, lazily stirring a skillet of eggs in the kitchen during a rare breather in her winter schedule. "I pretty much always say what I feel, because my life is mad hectic." Which can happen when you are a teenager and the best female snowboarder in the world.
"There are girls who could work 10 times harder than Hannah and not be half as good," says U.S. Snowboarding halfpipe assistant coach Mike Jankowski. "She is the first woman to land a 900 in competition. She goes very, very fast when she drops in. A lot of riders, men and women, slow down in the middle of a run to get more under control. Hannah never speed-checks. Ever." When she rides, Teter soars, catapulting herself into the sky, harnessing the speed she gains on reentry for her next trick. She does not wobble or extend her arms into the blue, grasping for balance. Instead she flies, as if flying was what she was born to do, and her face broadcasts a joy plain enough to read from the earth below. "It's like she was born into it," says Gretchen Bleiler, 2003 Winter X Games SuperPipe champ. "She has the least amount of fear of all of us."
Teter's promise was obvious early on. By age 12, she was sponsored; at 15, she turned pro. A year after that, she won the SuperPipe at the 2004 Winter X Games, and celebrated by stripping down to her sports bra for the final run, a manifestation of exuberance run amok ("I was just so happy!"). She is favored to repeat in SuperPipe at the 2005 X Games in Aspen (Jan. 29 to Feb. 1) and plans to ride for the U.S. in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where she'll likely be the favorite to win gold. "She's already the best, and she still wants to be better," says Jankowski. "She likes to push it."
Teter's aggressive riding style, her disarming guilelessness and her apple-pie smile have combined to draw such sponsors as Mountain Dew, Nikita clothes and Burton gear. She earned low six figures in 2004, and her income should triple this year. "Crazy, right?" Teter says with a throaty laugh, as she pours a mug of hot tea. "I never thought snowboarding was something I would do for a living. I'm so young, it still feels like a hobby."
The baby and only girl of five kids (three of whom ride competitively), Teter was reared in a rough-and-tumble household. "There was a lot of 'Let's bounce Hannah on the trampoline and see how high she'll go,'" she says with a grin. "I got me some accidental boy qualities."
Teter, who lists older brothers Amen, Josh, Abe and Elijah as her role models, is a proud tomboy. She avoids makeup. She carries herself with a muted swagger. She flexes her muscles and marvels at how "buff" she is becoming. "I weigh 150. Rock on!"
Although adorable by any definition, Teter owes her self-confidence to ability, not appearance. You won't see Teter working the French manicure and kitten heels. "I do wear a pink coat when I ride, so you can tell I'm a girl," she says. Her one concession to traditional femininity: blond highlights. "It's a rinse," Teter says quietly.
"She was always rambunctious," says Teter's mom, Pat, an ER nurse in Springfield, a short drive from the family's house in the shadow of Okemo Mountain. "She went through a phase at around 5 when she wanted to wear dresses. It didn't last long."
Teter eats breakfast standing up ("I'm not really a dinner-table kind of person"), a plate of scrambled eggs and a side of pancakes slathered with peanut butter. She wears a T-shirt, sweats that drip off her hips and a woolen cap that struggles to contain her wild golden hair. Her face is round and open, a pale moon framed by spikes of straw. Across the counter, her father, Jeff, a road foreman for the town of Mt. Holly, sits at a computer tracking the fickle Vermont weather. Ski passes dangle from hooks above his head.
While Teter eats, her parents tell a story about how she used to scream when she didn't get her way. "We just put her in a different room," Pat says. "She learned that screaming wasn't going to get her what she wanted." Teter now consciously avoids drama. "I like having good energy so people can feed off that," she says earnestly. Then, switching to yo-bro intonation, she drawls: "Two gooood energies create one gooood time." She giggles, shrugs. "I can't recall the last time I was sad."
Teter feeds the remainder of her pancakes to the dog, Chewy, then heads upstairs to her room, a nook draped with sarongs and colored beads and the odd, stark, green license plate that reads TETER. On the floor is an open suitcase surrounded by balled-up socks and jars of vitamin C. On the walls hang several landscape paintings by her grandfather and a couple of collages Teter made by gluing words torn out from magazines-balance, inspiration, happy-to poster boards. Beside her bed is an open book, Within a Miraculous Realm, which Teter says has much to offer on "living in the present."
"I don't have, like, hard-core goals," says Teter. "I am more about the moment. Enjoying right now, then moving on."
But make no mistake: Teter is a workhorse, a straight-A student (she's taking a correspondence course to finish high school) and an assiduous exerciser. Still, her future remains a willful mystery. She's not sure she wants to get married or have kids or attend college or even snowboard forever. "I may just end up chillin' on a yacht in the Caribbean," she says. There are things she has an eye on, like an Olympic medal, but should they not come to pass, "so be it, dude."
"There are people in snowboarding, and you can really see their drive. They really want it, whatever it is." Teter shakes her head. "I'm living the life. I don't even think about asking for more."
Teter was raised in church. Even so, church eventually lost out to the more tangible rewards of snowboarding. "All my friends would be over, and I'd be like, 'Who wants to go to Sunday school?' And it'd be like, 'Uhhhhh.'" Teter laughs. "I guess Sunday school was not rad." She still considers herself a believer. "I listen to Christian music sometimes. And I go to this awesome place called the Weston Priory. Monks, I love those guys."
The priory is located a few miles from the Teter home. There is a barn for outdoor services and a more formal building for winter worship. When in town, Teter attends as many services as she can. She likes to sit in front, close enough "to see their faces" when they chant and drum. "When I leave there, it's like I've been injected with some unseen medicine," she says. "I find my center. Life is good."
At the entrance to the grounds stands a large wooden cross. "Before I was born," Teter says, "my grandmother prophesied under that cross that I would live in Belmont. She had a vision we would all move here." Says Pat: "We thought my mother's vision was crazy. At the time, we were in Missouri. We had no intention of moving to Vermont." But something pulled the family east. They began visiting more often, and in 1983 Pat and Jeff moved to Vermont and started building a house on 10 acres abutting Okemo Mountain. They started with two small rooms, which for the first decade were heated only with wood. The house remains modest for a family of seven: kitchen and living room downstairs, three bedrooms upstairs. The boys share one room. Everyone but Mom and Dad gets a single bed. Privacy is nonexistent, but no one complains. "There is so much love in my family," Teter says. "I can say anything in front of them. It's the ultimate connection."
She knows that kind of huggy scenario is rare. "One of my best friends had a really hard childhood. Her dad was an alcoholic. Her mom was on heroin. It gave me knowledge that people have gnarly stuff happening in their lives." And while Teter has experienced her own emotional challenges at home (brother Josh has delayed mental development), she considers herself blessed. "Josh has given me much patience," she says. "He has a crazy personality. But I love having him as a brother. He says things I would never hear other people say."
She bears no resentment for the attention Josh requires or the cramped house or having to chop wood or needing to haul sap for homemade syrup. Either by genetic lottery or hippie rearing, Teter is what every parent hopes for: happy, healthy and grateful. Vermont's tourism board should put her on a brochure. "I like people who express vulnerable human qualities that most people don't," she says. "Like Josh. Or Mother Teresa. Just think, if everybody did that, what a huge difference it would make in the world."
IT'S BEEN two days off powder and Teter wants to ride. The jones is severe. "Right now, I live for snowboarding," she says. "There's not really a backup plan." But the weather is wet and windy, and there is no snow in Vermont. So there will be no riding today. There will, however, be lunch. At the local deli, Teter orders a turkey-and-cranberry sandwich. While she waits, a few old classmates come up to say hello. They chat, but the dynamic is mildly awkward. Teter is a celebrity now, a future Olympian, and she has little to add about what's happening on The O.C. Still, she tries to relate. "Cool," she says repeatedly. "So, have a good food thingy," she shouts as they walk away. She shrugs. Teter doesn't exactly fit in anymore, but she doesn't exactly care. Painful psychological excavation is not a hobby of hers, and so her new top-jock status and its looming implications for the future remain unexplored in favor of unmitigated self-love and anticipation of the next tasty ride.
Teter takes her food, settles into a booth and surveys the cafe. "I haven't had a date in a long time," she says, her mouth stuffed with sandwich. "You never know what is a date on the snowboard circuit. People hook up all the time. But I try not to. I don't like distractions. I'm trying to achieve right now."
She swallows, takes a gulp of water. "Of course, I do have crushes. No getting around that." More sandwich. More water. A handful of corn chips. Then, a typical Teter non sequitur. "I've always hated my middle name. It's Lee. I wish my middle name started with an O, so my initials would be H-O-T. How cool would that be?"
Her eyes glisten, and she smiles, joking but only partly. "Ha, ha, hot!" she says in a dim cartoony voice odd enough to prompt a man in a down jacket and beard to glance her way. Teter gives a wave.
"H-O-T, baby!" she says ardently. The man looks away, embarrassed.
"I used to wash dishes at a place like this to earn money to compete," Teter says, unruffled. "I wasn't very good. I put knives in the dishwasher blade-up."
After lunch, she decides to pop into her high school, the one she now attends mostly by e-mail. Teter transferred to the Okemo Mountain School in ninth grade, once it was obvious she was something of a prodigy. For about $9,000 a year, the school molds the talent of promising skiers and snowboarders while keeping them up with their traditional schoolwork. Most daylight hours are spent sweating on the slope, a fact that is immediately clear when you enter the OMS vestibule and inhale.
Down a hallway, Chris Marks, Teter's former English teacher, sits in his office. On his desk is a copy of Lord of the Flies and a stack of Freeze magazines. Across from him is a snowboarding hopeful. "Hannah is in there," the student says, nodding toward the school kitchen. "She's swarmed. You can't get close to her. I mean, come on, it's just Hannah."
Marks laughs. "All the kids want to be like Hannah," he says. "She's the goal."
"You mean selling out is the goal?" the student snipes, picking imaginary lint from his shirt.
In the school kitchen, Teter is surrounded. She grins, makes jokes, playfully punches a boy in the arm. After a few minutes, she leaves, waving goodbye and promising to stay longer next time she's home, "whenever that is." The other kids disperse and slink away, affecting indifference.
Exiting the parking lot in her Jeep-her prize from the U.S. Open at Stratton Mountain, Vt., last winter-Teter remembers her first day riding. "I was so slow," she says. "I was in the third grade, and all the other kids in my group were waiting at the bottom of the hill while I came down. It took me a while before I got any better." She chuckles.
"But I did."
TODAY IS a training day, and Teter is at iSPORT in Killington, with coach Bill Knowles. Pat has come along to shoot video, to show Jeff at home. Teter is eager to begin, dressed in running shoes, boxer shorts with Christmas trees printed on them and a Rocket Power T-shirt, beneath which is a heart-rate monitor. "The goal is to make each run as strong as 180 degrees over a two-foot barricade while holding a 10-pound ball aloft like a stinky baby. After a dozen jumps, she recovers by pedaling a bike set to a tension taut enough to mimic slogging uphill through snow.
"We are going to eliminate any fatigue," Knowles says.
Teter emits a little grunt.
"Stop whining," he barks.
"I'm just making noise, beyotch," Teter counters.
Knowles next puts her through "light" lifting: 100-pound squats and 95-pound clean-and-jerks. After that comes abs work and lots of leaping onto giant inflated balls to develop balance. The workout lasts four hours. "In other sports at this level, this training is normal," Knowles says. "But not for snowboarding. There's a perception that snowboarders don't want to work hard, they want to party hard."
Teter is perching on one foot, arms extended like Superman. "Men are stronger," Knowles says, "but we can make Hannah significantly more powerful." Teter is sold on the strategy. "I like to go big," she says. "I watch some girls drop in, and it's beep, beep, beep, little stuff, and I wonder, what are they afraid of?"
On the stereo, Beyonce is "looking so crazy" as Teter performs squats and lunges. Pat eyes her daughter. "The girl has a lot of spice," she says, softly. "But there's a little sugar in there, too."
She watches as her child springs toward the ceiling, legs roped with muscle, sweat trailing down her chest, mouth in a twisted broken grin. Shaking her head, Pat raises the camera and pushes record.


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who is quinlan vos?
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Because Jedi don't say, "What up, dog." Duh!
If it was him though, you'd think that Qui Gon would be like "Ah ha! Another Jedi Knight! Excellent, we're in a bit of a jam here see, can you lend us some money or a ride on your ship so we can get out of here? Or perhaps you can send a message to the Jedi Council for us as this is quite an urgent matter and we're stuck on this backwater planet, etc"
Isn't the EU explanation that at this point Vos has amnesia and doesn't know he's a Jedi or something like that? Still, you'd think Qui Gon or Obi-Wan would sense another Jedi nearby... maybe not. It would seem unusual for a Jedi to be just hanging out on some backwater planet outside the Republic, wouldn't it?
You could also say that ROTS doesn't make it explicit that it's Quinlan Vos, the EU character. Obi-Wan just says "Master Vos" (and it's not like two people in the Star Wars galaxy can't have the same last name, even if there are only 10,000 Jedi). From what I hear, the novel or comic of the movie makes it clear Quinlan is meant and that he gets physically torn apart by an explosion, so it was intended that he died. In any case, a peripheral character almost-cameo of a background extra expanded into an EU character, then mentioned in passing in a G-level source. I could care less about the character, but an interesting situation nonetheless.
If you view this as an Easter Egg (retroactively speaking) then you can just ignore it (like the shoe in the asteroid field or the TIE Fighters chasing an X-Wing on Coruscant). Or you can try a retcon explanation as to why this Jedi is sitting there and doesn't lift a finger to try to help his comrades or even acknowledge them (and vice versa).
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Deliberately importing thousands of bogus indian engineers into USA to harm native US engineers and squeeze then out of good paying jobs.
How would you know that they are "bogus indian engineers"? Did they show you certificates from the bogus and fake Univ of Phoenix or was it from ITT Institute? These are in USA and not India. In India there are the world famous Indian Institute of Technology along with many other colleges providing world class science & engineering education which is recognized all over the world. Look at MIT whose Dean of Engineering School is an alumnus of IIT from India. I can also sense a lot of jealousy on your part.
Because this nonsense has been going on for 20+ yrs.
I personally witness over 5 dozen filthy smelly no talent (500 errors on 150 pb screens) nor experience
backward idol worshiping tech retarding (wanted to use sybase over Oracle) obl loving west hating
visa fraud committing (everyone one B visa with out right to work) coliars steal jobs from developed world workers. Every attempt to get competent experienced local developed world staff was rebuffed, with order to interview clearly incompetent smellies that had an interview already scheduled with the visa officer and flight reserved the next day, You get a bunch of corrupt top caste coliars bribing
via a cost save bonus and a cream cut system that totally ignores laws. Of course the project was
a complete failure costing over $5M to the HMO that it's members paid for, making visa fraud a non
victimless crime.
I've also had the misfortune of working with many IIT grads, who couldn't id a fibre channel
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State EE could cream these guys every time despite what the lie streaming media claims.
I see a lot of anti west feelings in your spreading this propaganda.
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New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA) is a non-profit environmental organization based in southeastern Massachusetts. NECWA is an all-volunteer organization that is dedicated to the protection and conservation of marine wildlife that live and feed in the coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine.
NECWA focuses on local issues in the New England area and collaborates with various private, government and non-government organizations to achieve its many goals. Through our research projects and educational outreach activities, we work to protect the whales, dolphins, seabirds, seals, basking sharks, ocean sunfish and the other unique coastal marine wildlife off New England.
2016 Winter/Spring Updates
Internships: NECWA offers a variety of internships throughout the year. Internships can be in the field of marine biology, graphic design, marketing and public relations, as well as fundraising and event planning. To learn more about NECWA's Internship Program, click HERE to go to the Internship page of this website.
Fundraising Events for 2016
- Spring Seabird & Whale Tales Excursion, Sunday, June 12th from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm.
- Painterly Glass Night, Friday, April 22th from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
- Pilgrim Belle Sunset Social, Saturday, August 13th from 7:00 - 8:30 pm.
- Fall Seabird & Whale Tales Excursion, Sunday, September 11th from 8:30 am - 5:30 pm.
- Beach Clean-Up at Scusset Beach State Reservation. Information coming soon.
All fundraising events help support NECWA's many projects and activities related to educational outreach, research, and conservation. NECWA is an all-volunteer nonprofit, so 100% of all donations goes back into the work we do on behalf of marine wildlife.
Give something different this year.
Adopt 1 of 10 animals to support Marine Wildlife. Adoptable animals include: humpback whale, finback whale, white-sided dolphin, harbor seal, grey seal, Northern gannet, sea turtle, basking shark, ocean sunfish, and great white shark. Our adoption packages are reasonably priced, fun, and educational. They make a wonderful gift for kids of all ages!
Currently, NECWA is focusing on 2 main projects:
- NEBShark - New England Basking Shark Project and Ocean Sunfish Project
A community-based sighting network where people provide sighting information on basking sharks and ocean sunfish observed from a beach or from a vessel offshore. NEBShark is compiling data on live and dead sightings and sharing the results with colleges, universities, State and Federal departments, and scientists world-wide, in an effort to learn more about the biology and ecology of these coastal pelagic fish.
- Marine Wildlife Research
NECWA oversees a variety of research projects in the New England area. NECWA staff study humpback whales, finback whales, and other baleen whales that migrate to feed in the waters off New England each season. As part of this research program, NECWA staff work with interns as they collect sighting and environmental data from commercial whale watching vessels or from shore. Inputted data is analyzed and shared with government and non-government organizations in the area and world-wide. Through their participation in this program, NECWA interns gain hands-on experience out on the water and in the laboratory in the field of marine science.


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Offer the developmentally disabled person an opportunity to have a quality Christian lifestyle. BASCA, Inc. provides services for the developmentally disabled to socialize, enjoy recreational activities, live, and work as independently as possible in a Christian environment within the community. In an effort to make these services permanent local churches and civic organizations are sought to contribute to the spiritual, social, and financial well being of each individual. Though our programs directly affect the developmentally disabled in Northeast Florida, BASCA has a national outreach by serving as a model and resource for other organizations.
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