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Their traditional homeland consists of seven provinces. The three most populous form the autonomous Basque Country of Spain: Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, and Araba. A fourth, Nafarroa, is a separate autonomous community in Spain. The provinces of Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea, and Zuberoa lie in France. The Basques call their whole country Euskal Herri, and the alternative name Euskadi is a neologism which can be synonymous but can also refer to only those three of the seven provinces that are the autonomous country, like Spanish País Vasco. (The official name for that community is Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa.) The Basques are quite a small minority in the two southern regions Araba and Nafarroa.
Basque place names correspond to Spanish, French, or English ones as follows:
There are a number of dialects to some extent following provincial lines: so there is a Bizkaiera dialect, a Gipuzkera, a Lapurtera, and so on. Since the return of freedom to Spain there has been an official form called Euskara Batua 'Unified Basque', promoted by a royal academy called the Euskaltzaindia. But variation is common.
These names can also be seen as Euzkera, Euzkadi and so on. The spellings with Z are fanciful inventions by the nineteenth-century nationalist Sabino Arana, who also invented quite a few other modern Basque terms on poor etymologies, and designed the flag, the ikurrina. He was trying to derive the ethnonym from the word for 'sun', eguzki. His linguistics was poor but his contribution was immensely influential.
The consonant G has the same hard sound in GI as in GA. The letter X is English SH as in ship, and TX is English CH in chip. J has various sounds depending on the region: the Y-sound (of German ja), or the Spanish Kh-sound, or the English J-sound, or various others. H is silent in the dialects in Spain. The French dialects pronounce it and also have aspirated stops KH PH TH.
As with Spanish, there are two R-sounds. Between vowels, -R- is a weaker flap and -RR- is a stronger roll. But unlike Spanish, final -R is rolled. It cannot occur initially: so Latin rege- 'king' was borrowed as errege.
The sounds B D G are hard as in English at the beginning of a word, but as in Spanish softened between vowels, except in some parts of France. I've had to change my writeup, since I originally said they were always hard, as I thought that's how I was taught by my native Basque teacher: and I don't think she was from the French part. The always-hard pronunciation might be on the increase.
Probably the hardest distinction for outsiders to master is S and Z and their corresponding affricates TS and TZ. Roughly, S is the slightly duller S-sound of English and Spanish, and Z is the sharper S-sound of French or Russian. Technically, the S is apical and the Z is laminal. I find it quite difficult to make this fine distinction. The Bizkaia dialect no longer has both. So TS and TZ are a duller and a sharper TS-sound.
As well as these and X TX there are also pure palatal stops TT DD, not used in normal words, but in 'expressive' alterations of them (e.g. diminutive or affectionate).
gizon = man gizona = the man gizonak = the man (active subject) gizonaren = of the man gizonari = to the man gizonarekin = with the man gizonarentzat = for the man (this is the benefactive case) gizonarengatik = because of the man
We should shift to a different noun now, because cases used with places are somewhat different in form.
mendi = mountain mendian = at the mountain menditik = from the mountain mendira = to the mountain (allative case) mendiraino = up to the mountain (terminative case) mendirantz = towards the mountain (directional case) mendirako = for the mountain (purposive case) mendiko = of (from) the mountain
And up to half a dozen more that I've just given up on trying to explain. In the plural the -ar- element in the first lot disappears: emakumearengatik = for the woman emakumeengatik = for the women And the second lot add -eta-: herritik = from the country herrietatik = from the countries
Some qualifiers precede, such as personal possessives and larger numerals: hiru etxeak = three houses nire etxea = my house
The article -a is usually glossed as definite 'the' but actually it goes on the noun phrase whenever there is no other following qualifier, such as hau or bat.
In a sentence with 'to be' they are both definite: etxea berria da = the house is new
The verb 'to be' goes like this in the present tense: ni naiz = I am hi haiz = thou art zu zara = you are (singular) hau da = s/he/it is (here) hori da = s/he/it is (just there) hura da = s/he/it is (over there) gu gara = we are zuek zarete = you are (plural) hauek dira = they are (here) horiek dira = they are (just there) haiek dira = they are (over there)
The verb normally comes last in the sentence. Most verbs get marked only for tense, and the auxiliary 'be' or 'have' carries most of the baggage: joan naiz = I go, I am going joan zara = you go, you are going joan dira = they go, they are going joango dira = they will go (-go or -ko marking future) joatzen dira = they have gone (-ten, -den, -tzen etc marking perfect) gizona joan da = the man goes emakumeak joan dira = the women go (-ak here is plural)
Negatives and interrogatives use a particle before the auxiliary: gizona joan al da = does the man go? gizona joan ez da = the man does not go (pronounced ez ta)
Basque is ergative. The subject of a transitive goes into the ergative case: gizonak emakumea ikusi du = the man sees the woman
Furthermore, the auxiliary is now du, which agrees with both subject and object. The D- is now agreeing with the object. With different persons it goes like this: gizonak ikusi nau = the man sees me gizonak ikusi zaitu = the man sees you gizonak ikusi du = the man sees her/him/it gizonak ikusi ditu = the man sees them
Now, keeping the object 'them' constant, see how it varies with different subjects: honek ikusi ditu = s/he (here) sees them horrek ikusi ditu = s/he (just there) sees them hark ikusi ditu = s/he (over there) sees them nik ikusi ditut = I see them zuk ikusi dituzu = you see them guk ikusi ditugu = we see them gizonek ikusi ditute = the men see them
We've hardly begun yet.
The auxiliaries all have past tenses. So intransitive 'to be' (naiz etc.) goes: joan nintzen = I was going joan hintzen = thou wast going joan zinen = you were going emakumea joan zen = the woman was going joan ginen = we were going emakumeak joan ziren = the women were going And the transitive 'to have' (nau etc.) goes, varying first the object: gizonak ikusi nindun = the man saw me gizonak ikusi zintun = the man saw you gizonak ikusi zuen = the man saw her/him/it gizonak ikusi zuzten = the man saw them Then varying the subject: nik ikusi nituen = I see them zuk ikusi zenituen = you see them guk ikusi genituen = we see them gizonek ikusi zituzten = the men see them (-ek is ergative plural)
I can no longer tell whether I've got those right. The auxiliary also inflects for indirect object: eman d-izk-ida-zu 'you have given them to me', eman n-izk-izu-n 'I gave them to you', etc. etc.
It also has potentials, subjunctives, protasis-conditionals, and apodosis-conditionals, all heavily marked in the auxiliary, with all the combinations of persons and actant marking.
There is an intimate second person pronoun hi which makes a gender distinction (there being no gender anywhere else in the language), and this is obligatorily marked on the verb whether or not the addressee is in the sentence: see under allocutive for detail on this strange system.
Other useful words are bai = yes, ez = no, ez dakit = I don't know, eta = and, kaixo = hello, eskerrik asko = thank you, mesedez = please. See Useful Basque phrases for more.
The Basque national game is pilota, a high-speed form of squash. It is never called jai alai (literally 'happy festival'), the name by which it's commonly known outside the Basque country. The farmhouse central to Basque social life is the baserri, and a farmer is therefore a baserritar. The people wear the txapela or beret. One of their symbols is the lauburu 'four-head', a kind of svastika. Their flag is the ikurrina. Now with political freedom more people are learning Basque, natives are called Euskaldun zaharrak 'old Basque-speakers' and those who learn it as a second language are Euskaldun berriak.
The numerals one to ten are bat bi hiru lau bost sei zazpi zortzi bederatzi hamar. Higher numbers are based on the word hogei 'twenty', as in French and Welsh: it has been suggested that this is a survival of a common pre-Indo-European cultural trait of the Atlantic coast.
The only known relation of Basque is Aquitanian, the language of the Aquitani of south-western Gaul in Roman times, preserved in a number of names. These are strikingly similar to Basque; and when the great linguist Luis Michelena (1915-1987) systematically worked out the prehistory of the language and its sounds, it was found that Aquitanian was more or less the direct ancestor of Basque. This means the people were originally more on the French side of the Pyrenees, and expanded into their later greatest extent in Spain.
Basque is so alien to every other European language that it has attracted plenty of amateur theorists and cranks, and has been tentatively connected with other enigmatic one-offs such as Etruscan and Sumerian. Most of this seems to be on little more than the invalid syllogism A is unlike B, B is unlike C, so A must be like C. There are traces of other ancient languages in the area, Aquitanian being ancestral, and Iberian which looks superficially similar but turns out not to be related; but they don't take us any further afield. One interesting modern theory held by a small minority of linguists is that at a very deep, remote level, Basque can be connected with a few other odd groups in the North Caucasus, the huge Sino-Tibetan family, and a small number of American languages including Navaho: this is the so-called Dene-Caucasian theory. But basically all these wider connexions are totally unsupported.
There is an excellent site on Basque, http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/larryt/basque.html run by the late lamented Larry Trask, a skilled and level-headed linguist. You will find no fanciful theories here, but good etymologies and facts. He's one of the world's experts on Basque and its history, and the most accessible to those who read in English. I have subsequently read his very informative book The History of Basque (1997), Routledge.
A good general site for information about Basque language, place names, and study is http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/basque.html -- this site, called Geonative, also has abundant information on minority-language place names all around the world.
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Oregon. It's also a shall-issue state. Here, you can OC, own fully-automatic weapons, own practically any weapon if you can afford it. Of course, there isn't "Castle Law" yet, nor the statutory presumption of innocence when claiming self-defense, nor shielding of people from civil lawsuits if not found guilty of a crime. Still, it's better than many places.
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The Sacramento Area
The Sacramento metropolitan area is the largest urban area in North Central California, with a population of over 1.5 million people. As the capitol of California, Sacramento, is the focus of the state government and the center for California's number one industry, agriculture. The recently renovated Capitol building and surrounding park are the center of the downtown commercial and retail development hub. Recent accelerated growth can be attributed to Sacramento's ideal climate, varied recreational opportunities, expanding job base, and affordable housing as compared to other areas in the state. Sacramento is the sixth fastest growing city in the United States, but has retained the charm and convenience of less congested municipal areas.
Known as the Camellia City, Sacramento has many old houses set on wide, tree-lined streets, and has a wide variety of housing accommodations located in rural or urban settings available for rent or purchase within close proximity to UC Davis Medical Center.
The American and Sacramento Rivers run through the city, and combined with several close-by recreational lakes providing opportunities for boating, water skiing, fishing and swimming. The American River Wilderness Parkway, with its 35-mile path and parks, offers a unique resource for bicyclists, joggers, fishing and bird watching. There are numerous parks, tennis courts, public swimming pools, and golf courses throughout the city.
Three junior colleges, one state university and the privately-owned National University are all located in the metropolitan area. Sacramento sponsors its own ballet company and symphony orchestra, besides bringing many outstanding performing groups. The Crocker Museum has a permanent exhibit of art pertaining to California history and the Sacramento region in particular, as well as special exhibits on a rotating basis. Sacramento is the home of the world's largest traditional jazz festival held annually in May, featuring many national and international jazz groups, and is the site of the State Fair, held annually during the last two weeks of August. In 1985, professional basketball arrived in the capital when the Sacramento Kings NBA team played its first season.
The climate in the valley has four seasons, but is very mild, with warm dry summers and an average annual rainfall of 17 inches. High temperatures range from 55 degrees in February to 105 in August. Sacramento is situated 90 miles equidistant from San Francisco to the southwest and Lake Tahoe to the east. Most of the major ski areas in California, including Squaw Valley, are located near Lake Tahoe. A variety of recreation environments, including the Monterey Coast, Yosemite Valley and 14,000 foot mountains are within a few hours drive. The Pacific Coast is two hours distance and the Napa Valley, the wine producing area, is one hour away.


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Marley & Me. It makes me wonder if the couple in real life sold the rights to the movie because they were part of the newspaper buy out/lay off movement?
Marley & Me. It makes me wonder if the couple in real life sold the rights to the movie because they were part of the newspaper buy out/lay off movement?
Star Wars & GI Joe Customs
HAVES: HK-50 Head, Capt Typho & GI Joe fodder available still
Wants:L8-L9 Head, YVH-1 Complete (as possible),R7-T1 Complete (as possible),R7-Z0 Complete (as possible)
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[FONT=Courier New]"First of all, never bad mouth synergy..."[/FONT]
Oh yeah, I can see the resemblance to Krang!
A group of people barricade themselves in an abandoned farmhouse after the dead rise to feed on the living in Tom Savinis 1990 remake of the George Romero horror classic Night of the Living Dead.
A crazed rustic yokel captures a couple on vacation and a visiting paleontologist and imprisons them in his cave with the intention of feeding them to his pet monster in the horrendous 1969 horror movie Its Alive! I DVRd this turkey because the satellite guide mistakenly described it as the 1974 horror film with the same title, which is about a newborn who trashes the delivery room and takes down a milk truck - among other horrific things
Weird War Tales: Featuring the Creature Commandos #105 November 1981 (DC Comics)
Ghost Adventures?!?! But why would you do that to yourself?!??? So awful! hhehe
I have a slight softspot for Savini's remake. The gore/zombie effects were good and I have to say it was pretty ballsy to change the ending around like he did.
I watched:
"The Call of Cthulhu"- Really fantastic adaptation of Lovecraft's much beloved work. The B/W, silent film style presentation really suits the material very well and while some things are changed or left out, it doesn't hurt things too badly. I really liked how Cthulhu was done with the stop motion animation and 98% of his shots are really cool. They are a nice throwback to films such as KING KONG as they had a minimal way of doing things, but gave great results. In fact, the way the film builds suspense and tension is really well done and it's great to see a film build things up over time rather than what we see today with poorly written films that can't build tension and go for cheap thrills. If you're a fan of Lovecraft, you really need to check out this flick. Rating- *** out of ****
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
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[FONT=Courier New]My wife hates that show, too but I like it. I know they're just 3 idiots with night vision cameras and it'd be nice if they'd shut up and not curse so much (the beeping really detracts from the investigation and findings) but I like it.[/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]"First of all, never bad mouth synergy..."[/FONT]
I thought Savini's version eviscerated much of the social commentary in Romero's original. Barbara turning into Rambo at the end? C'mon!
After being paralyzed in an accident, a young athlete forms a psychic bond with his helper monkey, which quickly learns to kill those that make his new master angry in George Romero's 1988 horror movie Monkey Shines. Janine Turner (from TV's Northern Exposure) plays the man's shallow girlfriend who dumps him for his doctor after he becomes paralyzed.
A rural pioneer family is tormented by a poltergeist centering around a young teenage girl and her father (Donald Sutherland) in the engaging 2005 horror movie An American Haunting. Sissy Spacek plays the family's matriarch.
Weird War Tales: Featuring the Creature Commandos #105 November 1981 (DC Comics)
Oh, I didn't say I agreed with it, but it was an interesting idea, especially when you look at how Barbara's gender role functioned in the original movie (crying, helpless, eventually gets killed).
Two more blurbs:
"Slumdog Millionaire"- Very good film about the importance of dedication, love, and loyalty. The performances are pretty solid, especially from the younger actors and the cinematography is really great. The music is also top notch and incredibly addictive. Still, it does have a few flaws as the two romantic leads have very little chemistry and we don't get too much reason as to why they should be together aside from the fact that he's chasing after her. Also, the third act is all over the place with silly plot devices and things of that nature. Still, this is a really good flick. Rating- *** out of ****
"Suicide Club"- Interesting film that never really goes anywhere. There are themes and ideas all over the place here but it's far too cryptic for its own good. Had things been a little bit more developed or hinted at, it could've been far more rewarding, but as it stands, it spends too much time trying to give the audience a message and too little of a time actually telling us what that message really is. Rating- ** out of ****
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
The pilot co-owner (Arnold Schwarzenegger) of an extreme sports company is hunted by a squad of hit men after a powerful corporation clones him in the rather hollow 2000 science fiction dud The 6th Day.
A psychology grad student is hunted by the nocturnal creatures that gave her night terrors as a young child in the watchable 2002 horror movie Wes Craven Presents: They. Marc Blucas (Riley on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) plays the woman's disbelieving boyfriend.
Weird War Tales: Featuring the Creature Commandos #105 November 1981 (DC Comics)
Gran Tarino - What a great freakin Movie. I loved it. Clint is just flat out awesome.
The International - Decent Espionage movie. I liked it. Clive Owen is good as usual.
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
Finally got a chance to see:
The Spirit - It was as bad as they said, but at least I only paid a buck.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Overrated but worth a watch. Far too long - it needed to be trimmed by at least 30 minutes.
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It seems Kanye West needs to be sent to the time out room of the nursery school that is Hip Hop. After a series of increasingly hilarious angry blog posts, which almost led me to believe he was responsible for every YouTube comment ever written, Kanye will be enrolling in Anger Management classes. For some of his close friends however, this registration comes a bit...late?
On the personal front, the source says, "Not only has Kanye estranged himself from some pretty important people in the music business, but his temper has driven away a number of longtime friends."
It's sad to see one of the most interesting hip hop icons of the past five years implode like has has been doing of late, but then again, that volatility is part of why we loved him to begin with. Hopefully in the future he can learn to express his anger in methods other than all-caps, poorly spelled rants. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Sub Pop founders discuss 20 years of the indie label market | Palbasha Siddique "Where The Hell Is Matt" song propels 17 year old up download chart (Video) |
Anger management is not the issue. He needs an ego management class. And that can't be fixed. Personality can't be reworked. Sorry, you egocentric narcissist.
"Ego management." haha


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TheBalm Cheater
28 reviews
60% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.5
Price: $$
Package Quality: 4.5
Price: $$
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Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
It doesn't do anything except giving some colour. It flakes of through the day. Not worth the money imo
Age: 19-24
Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Relaxed, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
The formula is too dry.
It does nothing to my lashes, no color or volume.
It's too expensive.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Other, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
i like it <3
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Relaxed, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Bought this mascara because the packaging was cute and had a $5 off voucher for the balm cosmetics and I regretted it. Should have purchased other products instead. I love mascaras and this mascara was nothing special.
Price was too expensive for what it does. Does not give me volume or length. I naturally have long lashes and I wanted it to give me a false lash effect but it only blackens my lashes. Does not even curl my lashes. I live in a hot and humid country and this mascara smudges on me about mid-day at the ends of my eyes where my lashes are the most longest.
I use this mascara when I am lounging at home and there are guests visiting or when I am out to run a few errands. It has the mascara smell to it and could smell it when I pull it out of the tube.
Overall, this is an okay mascara. I will never repurchase I run out or lost it. There are other mascaras out there that offers a better quality at the same price.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
Not sure how to rate this.
It is pretty pricey, about 18 dollars as opposed to many drugstore brands like Maybelline which are equally as good that run at about 5 bucks. The mascara worked amazingly well at first. 2 weeks later it is dried up and lost the effect it once had. I cannot tell if I just happened to buy a dud mascara, or if it is just how this particular brand is. Given the fact that it is so expensive and dried up so damn fast, I will not buy this again.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Relaxed, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
What? People actually like this?!
This does nothing for my lashes (with ok length and fullness).
The wand is one of those "typical" mascara wands, not rubbery, just a classic meh mascara wand. The formulation is quite dry, so this won't last you very long, and means building this up is a no-no. The colour is not as jet black as I would like.
The effect it gives is, some would say "natural". I would say "crap". Natural would mean still defining my lashes and making them nice and curly, like a sort of my-lashes-but-better effect. Not with this mascara! No curl (and mascaras generally hold a good curl on me!), barely any definition, no volume or length. At least it doesn't clump my lashes together, but that's the only good thing I can say about this one.
I suppose to each its own, but in the bin this goes.
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Kinky, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
This is a TOP NOTCH mascara. It is a softer look, but you can build it up if you want to.
The only reason I would not run out and re purchase is price; I am trying to get into the lower cost Mascaras to save some $$$ as you throw away this every few months and hardly use much of the product
The want is great - gives a nice feathery soft look
Dark black -- not overpowering
No spider lashes ...
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I got this in thebalm "Oh So Witty!" set and I love it! It isn't a real heavy mascara, so like other reviews say it is great for daytime because it looks more natural than a "volumizing, lengthening" mascara. I have other mascaras for those purposes. And it doesn't clump!
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
This is a mediocre mascara for me, gave my Asian-thin sparse medium length lashes a good definition. It separates my lashes well but gets clumpy after two coats. The formula isnt too wet nor too dry. Gives a slightly added volume for a natural look. Smudges badly on my oily lids after 5 hours. I prefer mascara that gives me vavavoom lashes, this isnt it. Finishing the tube and will not be buying again. I prefer my Rimmel Volume Effect Mascara much much much better and that one is dirt cheap...Will I recommend? Unless you have non-oily lids and are looking for natural lash-effect, look elsewhere..
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I love this product as a daytime mascara, or as a 'base' for a much heavier one to be applied too.
This doesn't clump at all, and in two coats it looks very nice with a natural eye for work or school or shopping.
It isn't dramatic enough for me to wear at night time, however, because it doesn't clump at all, it is the perfect base for my heavier mascaras, like diorshow, lights camera lashes and YSL shocking. It really helps them with clumping issues and makes them last longer.
The packaging is okay, but the paper sticker is peeling off which is irritating.
Overall, I would buy this again, and I plan on repurchasing this when I next see it.
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The Horse Forum
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- - shoulder in/out--need extra input
shoulder in/out--need extra input I am currently working on teaching my rescued tb mare the basics of dressage. I am trying to find some tips of advice for shoulder in and out because she is doing the following: If I am moving her towards the fence line she doesnt want to keep her hind pointing in towards the arena. I know it shouldnt be directly in.. more of a slant. She gets the basic with her shoulders but I am trying to move her hind in the right place. I have even tried tapping her with the dressage wip.. not working. how have you tought your horse... i'm used to being on horses that already know how to do things and i can teach some things and others i dont know how to always trouble shoot. thank you for any advice |
I do shoulder in with the head pointing towards the inside of the arena. When the head is pointing out I am doing travers. |
When I do a Shoulder In, I start out on a short side of the arena, come into the corner and just as I start along the long side of the arena, I act like I am going to do a 10 meter circle. So I bend my horses ribs around my inside leg, and just as my horse starts to move in the "circle" he thinks I am asking him to do - I then ask for the movement down the long side of the arena. I open up my outside leg, and my outside rein and ask for him to cross over with his front feet. The hind feet or the rump, shouldn't change. Here is a great video: SmartMuscle Mass from SmartPak Equine |
thanks mi it actually was a good visual for me, im going to try it do you have any tips for doing it the opposite way too? |
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I just noticed that for some reason, my laptop didn't copy the Youtube link.......instead I noticed I pasted a link I coppied hours ago......from smartpak. *smacks forhead* Here is the Youtube Video: |
If you are asking the quarters to move into the arena, you are doing travers. Shoulder in is nothing to do with the hindquarters as such. They remain travelling straight, it is the shoulders that move across to the inside, not the hind quarters moving to the outside. Travers is a more advanced movement that should be taught following shoulder in. It sounds like you are confused between the two. Do you have an instructor that can show you the difference? |
It almost sounds as if you're trying to do leg yield on the wall. |
Haha, yeah, don't tackle travers just yet. It's more challenging than shoulder-in, and unless you have mirrors, it's impossible to know whether you're doing it right your first few times. You can do shoulder-in at the walk and trot (rising or sitting, depending on what's easier for you). At the trot, you should maintain your rhythm and impulsion - don't slow down and try to shorten your horse's stride to make it easier! When I'm working with young or green horses, I like to make it as easy as possible for them so that it becomes no big deal and can be pulled out of the training toolbox whenever I need to work on straightness, bend, et al. The way I do it is to ride a ten meter circle in the corner as I come out of the short side. I make sure the horse is correctly balanced and bent, and as I come out of the circle, I maintain the aids as though I were to ride the circle again. Then I angle my shoulders slightly more perpendicular to the arena wall, let my outside leg offer support behind in the girth in order to keep the haunches straight, and ask for bend with a slightly stronger inside seat bone and an active inside leg. It's very easy to use your inside rein to pull the front end in, but then you'll just be doing a 'neck-in.' Resist the urge. Maintain a half-halting outside rein and a soft inside rein, and push your horse down the long-side. Don't go all the way - 2 or 3 strides of good shoulder-in (or, it's less angular and easier little brother, shoulder-fore) is better than a whole long side of crap that will potentially lead to tension. Good luck! I know I just did a crap job of explaining haha, but hopefully you can figure that out ;) |
dante, shoulder in and travers involve the exact same body position from the horse. They are just angled differently from the wall. The horse has the same degree of bend, etc... First, tech the mare to walk trot and canter on your line, then work on your leg yields. When he mare can make it through a first level test then you should start worrying about lateral work. |
Hahah, yeah, I know, Anebel - I just mentioned it because, at least to me, travers was quite befuddling when I was first learning it. I would invariably end up screwing it up royally. Other people may be less laterally challenged than I am ;) |
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Unanimously approved by the city's planning commission Thursday, the project from Garden Communities proposes 1,600 apartments at the corner of Jamboree Road and Campus Drive near John Wayne Airport.
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The Irvine Business Complex, an area in the city originally intended as strictly industrial, has become more akin to urban living with dense and tall high-end apartment complexes and condos taking root. The buildings for Elements are expected to be 56 to 67 feet tall for apartments and up to 75 feet for parking structures with rooftop recreation.
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Advertising network
An online advertising network or ad network is a company that connects advertisers to web sites that want to host advertisements. The key function of an ad network is aggregation of ad space supply from publishers and matching it with advertiser demand. The phrase "ad network" by itself is media-neutral in the sense that there can be a "Television Ad Network" or a "Print Ad Network", but is increasingly used to mean "online ad network" as the effect of aggregation of publisher ad space and sale to advertisers is most commonly seen in the online space. The fundamental difference between traditional media ad networks and online ad networks is that online ad networks use a central ad server to deliver advertisements to consumers, which enables targeting, tracking and reporting of impressions in ways not possible with analog media alternatives.
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The advertising network market is a large and growing market, with Internet advertising revenues expected to grow from $135.42 bn in 2014 to $239.87 bn in 2019.[1] This growth will result in many new players in the market, and encourage acquisitions of ad networks by larger companies that either enter the market or expand their market presence.
The inventory of online advertising space comes in many different forms, including space on desktop and mobile websites, in RSS feeds, on blogs, in instant messaging applications, mobile apps, adware, e-mails, and on other media. The dominant forms of inventory include third-party content websites, who work with advertising networks for either a share of the ad revenues or a fee, as well as search engines, mobile, and online video resources.[1]
An advertiser can buy a run of network package, or a run of category package within the network. The advertising network serves advertisements from its central ad server, which responds to a site once a page is called. A snippet of code is called from the ad server, that represents the advertising banner.
Large publishers often sell only their remnant inventory through ad networks. Typical numbers range from 10% to 60% of total inventory being remnant and sold through advertising networks.
Smaller publishers often sell all of their inventory through ad networks. One type of ad network, known as a blind network, is such that advertisers place ads, but do not know the exact places where their ads are being placed.
Large ad networks include a mixture of search engines, media companies, and technology vendors.[2]
Types of ad networks[edit]
There are several criteria for categorizing advertising networks. In particular, the company's business strategy, as well as the quality of the networks' traffic and volume of inventory can serve as bases for categorization.
Based on business strategy[edit]
Online advertising networks can be divided into three groups based on how they work with advertisers and publishers:
- Vertical Networks: They represent the publications in their portfolio, with full transparency for the advertiser about where their ads will run.[3] They typically promote high quality traffic at market prices and are heavily used by brand marketers. The economic model is generally revenue share. Vertical Networks offer ROS (Run-Of-Site) advertising across specific Channels (example: Auto or Travel) or they offer site-wide advertising options, in which case they operate in a similar fashion to Publisher Representation firms.
- Blind Networks: These companies offer good pricing to direct marketers in exchange for those marketers relinquishing control over where their ads will run, though some networks offer a "site opt out" method. The network usually runs campaigns as RON or Run-Of-Network. Blind networks achieve their low pricing through large bulk buys of typically remnant inventory combined with conversion optimization and ad targeting technology.
- Targeted Networks: Sometimes called "next generation" or "2.0" ad networks, these focus on specific targeting technologies such as behavioral or contextual, that have been built into an Ad server. Targeted networks specialize in using consumer clickstream data to enhance the value of the inventory they purchase.[4] further specialized targeted networks include social graph technologies which attempt to enhance the value of inventory using connections in social networks.[5]
Based on number of clients and traffic quality[edit]
Ad networks can also be divided into first-tier and second-tier networks. First-tier advertising networks have a large number of their own advertisers and publishers, they have high quality traffic, and they serve ads and traffic to second-tier networks. Examples of first-tier networks include the major search engines. Second-tier advertising networks may have some of their own advertisers and publishers, but their main source of revenue comes from syndicating ads from other advertising networks.
While it is common for websites to be categorized into tiers, these can be misleading. While Google is in the clear majority of advertisement impression served, other networks that could be labeled as tier 2 actually dominate over these tier 1 ad networks as far as the number of customers reached...
Mobile and video ad networks[edit]
Ad networks often support a wide spectrum of ad formats (e.g. banners, native ads) and platforms (e.g. display, mobile, video). This is true for most ad networks. However, there also are ad networks that focus on particular kinds of inventory and ads:
- Mobile ad networks, focus on the traffic generated via mobile web and mobile apps, and work with the corresponding ad formats.
- Video ad networks serve ads via inventory, associated with online video content.
Video and mobile ad networks can be acquired by larger advertising companies, or operate as standalone entities.
Major issues with ad networks …[edit]
- Positioning: Most ad networks don't disclose impressions per site. This means that advertisers or media agencies aren't sure where their ads will run. This can be a dangerous proposition if your ad turns up in website that you don't want to be associated with.
- Malware: Some ad networks have been implicated in aiding the distribution of malware due to allowing malicious advertisers to buy inventory across their partner sites without enough scrutiny.
- Price transparency: Let's examine a scenario. An ad network packages display inventory to an agency at say $10 CPM (cost per mille – or cost per thousand impressions). The ad network would then buy a very small portion of the inventory on premium publications at $50 CPM and a large portion of the long tail inventory at $2 CPM. The real eCPM (effective CPM) of the campaign for the ad network is around $2.50, and is far from the agency's claim of premium inventory. The marketer is however appeased with screen grabs of his ads appearing in premium positions, oblivious of the masquerade while the ad network walks away with a big margin.
- Ad Relevance: More often than not, the ads were out of relevance with the website content as a fall out of point 1, and also because there weren't intelligent contextual engines built into the ad servers (the server system that churns out the ads) of these ad networks.
Online Ad Networks and Advertising Publishers …[edit]
Most Online Ad-network platforms offer website owners and marketers to signup as advertising publishers. Publishers can then display ads shared by the advertising network and the revenue is shared between both the advertising network and publisher. When the beginners could not pass through the minimum criteria for publishing advertisements, ad placement services could ban the publisher for not fulfilling the requirements. Some networks demand strict terms and conditions while there are other ad publishing alternatives some times commissions vary on what sells otherwise user still to earn a good commission when one matches the criteria, the publisher is allowed to display and share ads provided by the platform to earn a good revenue. Getting approved as a publisher to the best advertising platform is a thorough process. Websites with a clean interface, more traffic and engagements are preferred to be selected as ad network publisher by the advertising platforms.
See also[edit]
- Ad exchange
- Ad serving
- Online advertising
- View-through rate
- Contextual advertising
- List of advertising networks
- List of mobile advertising networks
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- ^ Clifford, S. (4-28-2008.). A Web Shift In the Way Advertisers Seek Clicks. New York Times, Retrieved 04/10/10 from LexisNexis database.
- ^ Khan, Imran; Weishaar, Bridget; Karasyov, Vasily; Polinsky, Lev; Boushelle, Joseph (2007-10-11). "The Rise of the Ad Networks: An In-Depth Look Into Ad Networks". J.P. Morgan. Retrieved 2015-12-18.
- ^ David Berkowitz (2009-08-11). "David Berkowitz's Marketing Blog: The Social Graph Ad Targeting Buyer's Guide". Marketers Studio. Retrieved 2014-04-30.


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Located in Tiergarten within a short walk of Victory Column, Pestana Berlin Tiergarten is within a mile (2 km) of other popular sights such as Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This 142-room, 4.5-star hotel welcomes guests with a restaurant, an indoor pool, and free in-room WiFi. Near the airport, it's also near Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag Building.
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All of Pestana Berlin Tiergarten's 142 soundproofed rooms provide iPod docks, minibars, and free bottled water. Guests can expect 37-inch flat-screen TVs with cable channels and first-run movies, along with free WiFi and wired Internet. Bathrooms offer rainfall showers, hair dryers, and free toiletries, and pillowtop beds with premium bedding and pillow menus ensure a restful night. Laptop-compatible safes, phones, and desks are also standard.
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Guests staying at Pestana Berlin Tiergarten enjoy an indoor pool, a fitness center, and a sauna. If you drive, self parking is EUR 22.50 per night, and there's also an area shuttle for a fee. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this luxury hotel include free WiFi in public areas, 4 meeting rooms, and conference space.
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The Pestana Berlin Tiergarten Premium Hotel & Spa features an indoor pool and a health club with steam room, sauna, and fitness facilities. Guests may also hire a hotel bicycle to make the scenic journey in Berlin city center.
The contemporary style Restaurant Atlantis serves culinary highlights from a German cuisine. The large terrace is the perfect place to have your meal on sunny days. Guests can also order drinks at the stylish lounge bar.
Pestana Berlin Tiergarten is the perfect setting also for prestigious events from intimate parties to large banquets and conferences. It features multifunctional meeting rooms joined by a common salon, all with natural light and its own access to the outside terrace. WiFi is complimentary in public areas.
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- Total number of rooms - 142
- Number of floors - 6
- Bar/lounge
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- Conference space size (meters) - 200
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
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- Conference space size (feet) - 2153
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- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Pillow menu
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- First-run movies
Where to Eat
Breakfast is available for a surcharge and served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
Restaurant Atlantis - This restaurant specializes in German cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and light fare. Guests can also order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Room service is available (limited hours).
Start your morning with a buffet breakfast, available each day from 6:30 AM to 10 AM for a surcharge. Room service is available during limited hours.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, a sauna, and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms.
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- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 7 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 10 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet, per night
- 2 per room
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
Parking height restrictions apply
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 22.50 for adults and EUR 50% for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 22.50 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: EUR 15 per pet, per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10 per night
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
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- Pestana Berlin
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Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. One child 7 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
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At the west end of the GO Kitchener line, GO Trains backed by cab cars 255 and 306 rest over the weekend before re-entering service the following Monday. This photograph was taken by Iain Hendry on February 27, 2016.
A lot of changes have happened or are about to happen around the City of Toronto. The Union-Pearson Express opened for service in June 2015, and ran into controversy over its fares and ridership levels. Fares will be slashed by more than half effective March 9, 2016. Meanwhile, the Mississauga Transitway continues to expand, with new stations open at Tahoe and Etobicoke Creek, ahead of planned further expansion to the Renforth Gateway within the next couple of years. Metrolinx and the City of Toronto continue to debate the merits of Regional Express Rail and SmartTrack, and while Hamilton, Mississauga and Brampton debate the merits of light rail transit, Waterloo Region finds itself well along in the construction of its new main line. A temporary dome to assist with the construction of the King Street underpass can be seen in the background of the above photograph. Look for an article on the history of the Waterloo Region LRT to appear shortly. Meanwhile, work continues on upgrading Union Station.
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All the methods of Hatha are meant for gaining success in Raja-Yoga; for, the man, who is well established in the Raja-Yoga, overcomes death. Hatha Yoga Pradipika Chapter IV_Ver.102. When Yoga is performed, the forms which come first, producing apparitions in Brahman, are those of misty smoke, sun, fire, wind, fire-flies, lightning and a crystal moon. When, as earth, water, light, heat and ether arise, the fivefold quality of Yoga takes place. Then there is no longer illness, old age, or pain for him who has obtained a body produced by the fire of Yoga. The first results of Yoga they call lightness, healthiness, steadiness, a good complexion, an easy pronunciation, a sweet odor and slight excretions. Excerpt from The Svetasvatara Upanishad "Diligent practice leads to near perfection, for perfection eludes us in the ephemeral form" Contact InformationYOU CAN REACH ME BY PHONE, FAX OR EMAIL.
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Garlic is universally loved – but not on the hands. Instead of chopping it, use this well-designed stainless-steel tool to minimize your hands' contact with the pungent garlic juices. It's made by Rösle, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of professional cooking utensils.
- Presses whole unpeeled cloves, so your hands don't touch the raw garlic.
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It had started out as boxing but quickly deteriorated into a street brawl, the kind that would probably have landed the participants in the Clark County Detention Center for the night had the violence not been confined to the ring.
Suffice to say, the Nevada Athletic Commission was none too pleased with the ring decorum of Diego Chaves and Brandon Rios after the two welterweights assaulted each other Saturday night at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Rios was awarded the win after referee Vic Drakulich disqualified Chaves after Chaves threw an intentional elbow at Rios' face 1:26 into the ninth round of their scheduled 10-round fight.
Both fighters had points deducted from their scores for holding and pushing. At times, the bout had a professional wrestling feel to it. Rios accused Chaves of trying to gouge his eye while Chaves complained that Rios nailed him with several illegal blows to his back.
"If the fighters aren't willing to be cooperative, there has to be accountability," NAC chairman Francisco Aguilar said at the post-fight news conference which Rios didn't attend because he was at University Medical Center having his eye and collarbone checked out. "That fight was disintegrating and we have an obligation to have control over the ring."
NAC executive director Bob Bennett said any referee would have had a hard time keeping control and that Drakulich, a 30-year veteran, did the best he could to maintain decorum inside the ropes.
"I thought Vic did the best job he could do," Bennett said. "He made a concerted effort to take control of the fight."
Chaves, naturally, didn't believe he deserved to be DQ'd, saying Rios provoked much of the illegal behavior.
"I knew the fight was over," the 28-year-old from Argentina said through an interpreter. "I just didn't know why. He was holding me and hitting me and head-butting me. He should have been the one who was disqualified."
Drakulich will meet with Bennett today at the NAC's Las Vegas office to review the tape of the fight. But Aguilar said Drakulich was doing everything he could to enforce the rules.
"I know no fan in boxing who wants the referee to get involved," he said. "But when you have two fighters who refuse to abide by the rules, the referee has no choice but to impose himself on the fight.
"This was not a boxing match. This was a brawl. Vic was trying to get control of the fight and he was losing control. He did what he felt he needed to do."
This fight nearly didn't take place. Chaves was having visa problems and it took an assist by Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's office to expedite his application so he could make it from Argentina to Las Vegas in time to fight Saturday.
Chaves, who made it to Las Vegas on Thursday morning, was fighting in the United States for only the second time in his 25-fight professional career and he was making his debut in Nevada.
He stood in with Rios from the opening bell, exchanging hard blows, the majority of them legal from both fighters. And when the two combatants decided to stay within the rules, it made for an entertaining fight as both showed skill and strength to score effectively.
But things began to break down in the second round. Chaves had a point deducted in the third round for holding Rios and hitting him while Rios had a point taken from him in the fifth after he threw Chaves to the canvas. In the eighth round Chaves was dinged a second point for holding.
After the eighth round, Drakulich came to Chaves' corner and warned him that one more major infraction would result in a disqualification. Chaves' corner barked back at Drakulich, demanding he issue the same edict to Rios' corner, which he did not do.
And when Chaves threw the elbow at Rios' face nearly midway through the ninth, Drakulich ended the fight. Chaves was ahead on judges' Jerry Roth's and Robert Hoyle's scorecards by identical 75-74 scores when the fight was stopped. Rios was up 75-74 on Patricia Morse-Jarman's card.
"I don't think either corner had respect for the authority in that ring," Aguilar said. "That is my concern. When he went in there to lay down the law, they were not listening. That fight was disintegrating to a point where it could become dangerous."
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Contact June Barlow, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, by phone (213) 739-8277, fax (213) 739-8262 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for any additional questions.
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Got stuck in Las Vegas because Southwest insisted I miss my connection so I needed a hotel. I call the Gold reservation line and make a reservation. The problem was that when I arrived at the hotel 5 hours later they didn't have a record of the reservation.
Thankfully, the hotel did have an available room at State rate so at least I could get a room.
But I can't help thinking what was the point of calling to make a reservation. I used a different credit card to pay for the room and of course Marriott charged my card on file, but thankfully did credit that charge back.
I did stay at two other Marriott properties on my trip and had a good experience except at the Lodge at Sonoma.
I'm not suggesting this is what happened with you, but it reminded me of a funny (and a little bit embarassing) thing that happened to me.
I arrived at the Courtyard Atlanta Airport South for an overnight stay before my early morning flight. When I got there, there were more people than usual in the lobby and outside. I soon found out that the hotel and surrounding area didn't have any power and were unable to check anyone in. The property was very nice about it. They were handing out free cookies, and bottled water and then glow sticks when it started to get dark. They were also helping people make alternate reservations. I decided to just wait it out. When the electricity finally came back on, they weren't able to find my reservation in the system. I was somewhat annoyed and decided to pull up the confirmation number in my email.
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