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- Summary
Magnets inside these smooth beechwood trivets allow them to cling to the bottom of cast iron pans, so you can protect tables and countertops easily.
- Made by Staub, a renowned maker of cast-iron cookware.
- Embedded magnets cling firmly to cast-iron or other magnetic pans.
- Makes transferring hot pots to the counter or table easy and safe.
- Available in two sizes.
- Dimensions & More Info
- Small Round: 6 1/2" diam., 1/2" high.
- Large Round: 9" diam., 1/2" high.
- Made in China.
- Use & Care
- Hand wash and dry thoroughly before storing.
- Do not soak in water.
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- More about Staub
Staub traces its origin to the Alsace region of France, where founder Francis Staub designed his first enameled pot while working in an old French artillery factory in 1974. With the goal of creating the perfect pot for cooking the region's traditional hearty soups, stews and braises, he combined cast iron, the most popular material of the time, with the latest enameling technology available. Today, Staub still makes its cookware at a traditional atelier in France, casting each pot in an individual sand mold, which is heated to 800°F and destroyed after use. The exterior enamel coating is made with glass powder and mineral pigments, applied in two or three coats to generate brilliant glossy colors.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by greekgodess from Give it time Bought the 2 sizes and thought it was a great idea. We tend to forget that the trivet is stuck on the bottom of the pan and it would fall off onto the floor or our feet OUCH!! Then after only a few weeks one of the magnets fell out. I tried contacting Staub USA and good luck with that. They don't return calls, and emails are always responded to with, "you have to mail it back to NY for us to look at". What!! I have to pay my own money to mail back your defective product from CA to NY? They were horrible at customer service. I don't think Staub is what it used to be. I wish people would us the products longer before writing their reviews.Date published: 2018-03-08Rated 5 out of 5 by Stlouis2016 from Genius product This is hands down my favorite registry item. Not even kidding. It is the best invention. Works with my staub pieces and my all clad pieces. I got the 6", but I would have gone with the larger one if I could still return it. The small is VERY small (still useful!).Date published: 2016-11-14Rated 5 out of 5 by DCAIAD from Good Product Function as describes and works with all iron pans. Good when removing hot pans from stove or oven just lay on trivet and it magnetically attaches to pan. Protects counter/table.Date published: 2016-04-07Rated 5 out of 5 by IloveNY4ever from Most functional trivet ever! Looks great and sticks to cast-iron cookware. So much easier to get pots from stove to table - moves as a unit and is already perfectly aligned. I see more in my future. My "piggy" bacon press thinks it is his to sit on when it's not in use. A little whimsy in the kitchen.Date published: 2015-06-01Rated 5 out of 5 by drrayeye from Stuck on you This is a trivet that doesn't look like a trivet or weigh a ton. It's light toned wood fits in with most any decor when it's not stuck to the bottom of a cocotte.Date published: 2014-06-28Rated 5 out of 5 by kdg1827 from Very Usefull A Simple and effective kitchen tool that looks great and saves the counter tops.Date published: 2012-08-31


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YoCrunch 100 from Beyers Now Includes Truvia Zero Calorie Sweetener
Cargill Health and Nutrition and Breyers Yogurt Company announced the introduction of new YoCrunch 100 Calorie Packs naturally sweetened with Truvia rebiana, marking the first use in yogurt of this natural sweetener from the leaves of the stevia plant. This introduction is another market first for the Truvia brand and a breakthrough in the yogurt category as the first calorie-controlled yogurt to be sweetened with a natural zero-calorie sweetener.
Available in five flavors, YoCrunch 100 Calorie Packs are made with nonfat yogurt, includes vitamins A and D, and are a good source of calcium. Consumers will be able to find these new products at their favorite grocery, mass merchandisers, and specialty stores nationwide.
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|Authored By: Norman Van Aken; courtesy of the California Dried Plum Board
|Serve with a chilled tomato and corn salad.
|Diet Types: Dairy Free, Wheat Free
|Serves: 4
|Cooking Time: Over one hour
|In large skillet, cook and stir chilies over medium-high heat 4-5 minutes or until fragrant and toasted. Add water and garlic; bring to a boil. Cook 45-55 minutes or until liquid is reduced to 1/4 cup. Transfer chili mixture to food processor. Add jam and vinegar; process until smooth. Stir in dried plums, salt and pepper; set aside. (Makes 2 1/2 cups) For Pork Chops: Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add pork chops; cook 4-5 minutes or until browned, turning once. Season with salt and pepper, as desired. Add 1 cup of the Ancho Chili- Plum Sauce and 1/2 cup water, stirring to blend. Cover; reduce heat to medium-low; simmer 10-12 minutes for medium doneness. Reserve remaining sauce for later use; store, covered, in refrigerator for up to 1 week.
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EXCUSE ME? Billy Ray Cyrus Defends Miley's Lap Dance: 'It's What Kids Do'
Last time I checked grinding on an older man isn't what teens do in their spare time. But Miley's striptease doesn't seem to bother her daddy Billy Ray one bit! What do you think … should it bother him?
Billy Ray Cyrus gives lap dances two thumbs up! Remember the lap dance his daughter Miley Cyrus preformed on her The Last Song producer Adam Shankman, 44, last May that just leaked out on tape? Well, it doesn't bother big daddy. "It's what people her age do," he tells TMZ. Oh right, the last time I checked 16-year-old girls usually do lap dances after picking up their 7-11 slurpees and getting pedicures.
As we told you before, the video was taken seven months ago at a wrap party for her southern romance movie The Last Song. RadarOnline spoke to witnesses at the party who say her dancing was so dirty "parents actually left the party and took their kids home."
Not to mention Miley's new super sexy album cover and raunchy music video … Miley is all about growing up as fast as she can these days.
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Young Rich List traders settle seven-year fight with former employer
It's the case that shows if you happen to hit the Rich List too quickly, suspicions will be raised.
They were a group of securities traders and software geeks no older than 28 who left their jobs to set up a business using super-fast computer programs to make millions on the investment markets before human investors could blink.
The leap of faith landed the men on the BRW Young Rich List.
In three years of trading, two during the financial crisis, Bondi Junction's Tibra Capital reaped an impressive $148 million profit.
But the staggering success of the start-up - led by South Australian-born derivatives trader Dinesh ''Danny'' Bhandari - aroused the suspicion of the men's former employer, the Dutch-owned Optiver Australia in Hunter Street.
The result was a lengthy Federal Court battle over whether Bhandari and six of his associates took confidential information from Optiver to develop the lightning-fast trading programs that were the secret to their success.
After almost seven years of hard-fought preliminary skirmishes, the case settled quietly before a trial set for March 10. Tibra Capital is rumoured to have agreed to pay Optiver more than $10 million to drop the case. The agreement, which includes all but one of the seven men, was struck without any admission of guilt.
Bhandari, a one-time Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year whose fortune is estimated at $32 million in last year's Young Rich List, told Fairfax Media he was ''unable to comment'' on the confidential agreement.
But he was full of praise for Glenn Williamson, a fellow rich lister and former trader at Optiver who was also sued but refused to be part of the settlement.
''He places a high value on integrity, fairness and justice regardless of other considerations,'' the 36-year-old said.
Williamson, a 35-year-old Sydney man who describes himself as a ''professional parent'' to four young children, said the case had put a ''seven-figure dent in my overall wealth and has been lingering for almost seven years''.
''To come away from it with nothing to show but a dubious reputation simply wasn't an acceptable outcome,'' he said.
''Quite simply, we didn't do anything wrong, and I think the evidence pretty clearly shows that. I can't speak for the company but I know a few of the guys took a purely pragmatic approach to the settlement, and that's their prerogative.''
He would not comment on the likelihood of Optiver taking action against him separately.
The agreement appears to put an end to the costly feud that has raged since June 2007, when Optiver started proceedings.
It believed it had found the smoking gun when it cracked an encrypted email from one of the men, former Optiver trader Tim Berry, to his current and former workmates including Bhandari, Williamson and trader Kinsey Cotton. It read in part: ''Ok Cats, we are 6 weeks out and under the pump'' and attached a timeline headed ''things to do''.
The timeline started on July 17, 2006, seven weeks before September 4 - the date that the Tibra companies were to start trading in Australia, Hong Kong and South Korea.
Under August 28, Berry had written: ''Erase all emails, sent items, deleted items, Skype chats, files etc from hard drive. Copy all existing files into new files. Fill up or blast hard drive. Destroy all paper correspondence.''
Berry, Bhandari, Williamson and Cotton invested in Tibra and made a splash on the rich list. Andrew King, a former IT programmer at Optiver who was also sued, enjoyed more modest spoils but his emails allegedly suggesting improvements to the speed of Optiver's F1 high-speed trading system were part of Optiver's case.
Among the other claims in the case was that Tibra Trading, set up by Bhandari in January 2006 as the first of the Tibra group of companies, was originally called FTD Trading - short for ''F--- the Dutch'', in a nod to Optiver's parent company. Tibra and the men denied the claim but there was no shortage of incredible company names in the case. Martin Nickolas and Nicholas Begg, former software and IT developers at Optiver who were also embroiled in the dispute, invested in Tibra using companies called Impropriety Unlimited and Begg Borrow and Steal. They would change the names to Genius Loci Holdings and Geen Pty Limited.
The men have not severed all ties with the company that made their fortune and mired them in controversy for the better part of a decade. Berry and Cotton remain directors of Tibra Capital.
Others, such as Williamson, have kept their shares in the company. But he said last week he was ''unsure what I'll do if I need or want to go back to work''.


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Back from the rink, at the hotel
It was your typical morning skate today, even if it was the first game of a playoff series. The usual cliches from the locker rooms, blah blah blah. Let's drop the puck to Game 1 and get this thing on.
The game starts at 7 mountain time tonight, because of the Canadian network, TSN. But it'll be on Altitude, with John Kelly filling in for Mike Haynes.
Mike, by the way, is slated to have surgery tomorrow for an aneurysm, so continue to think good thoughts.
TSN and NBC analyst Pierre McGuire is picking the Avs in six games. He thinks the additions of Foote and Salei have made the Avs a much tougher, better team. Can't say I disagree with that, but I'm sticking with my Wild prediction.
The Wild could play all three of their tough guys tonight – Simon, Fedoruk and Boogaard – but one of them might be scratched in favor of former Avs prospect Mark Parrish. Personally, I think it'll be a good thing for the Avs if they play three slower, bigger guys, but Parrish can be a liability as well. The Wild wildly overpaid for his services. I don't know what Doug Risebrough was smoking when they gave him a five-year deal.
The Avs were in what seemed a light mood today, although you could tell rookie David Jones was pretty nervous. It'll be his first playoff game, so he's pumped. He said he could barely sleep last night.
John Liles said he's had to dial down his excitement level a little, just to relax a little more. Liles is going to be a key player in this series. If he can help out on the power play, direct traffic well from the point, it'll help the cause.
Peter Forsberg skated, which he usually doesn't do on the mornings of games. So, he's obviously ready to go and feeling good.
See you tonight. And don't forget to tune into 104.3 The Fan about an hour after the game ends for some extended Avs talk and analysis, with yours truly.


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Partner Highlight: Arkansas Discovery Network
Educators from seven museums in Arkansas recently gathered at the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock for a workshop focused on nano education. The attendees came from museums in the Arkansas Discovery Network, a regional network that has been involved with the NISE Network for a number of years.
The educators were joined by Keith Ostfeld and Aaron Guerrero from the Children's Museum of Houston and Enkeleda Dervishi and Glediana Rexha of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Nanotechnology Center. Enke and Gled talked about their work with nano and discussed ways the museums might partner with their local universities. Keith and Aaron then went through some of the new activities in the NanoDays kits, allowing the educators time to work with an activity from the kit and present it to the rest of the group. Finally, the group as a whole shared the different techniques they've used for covering nano in their museums, talked through some hurdles they've encountered, shared ideas on overcoming those hurdles, and left with renewed enthusiasm for nano programming.
You can find photos (and some videos!) from the workshop on the Museum of Discovery's Flickr page.
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The Arkansas Discovery Network is a network of seven museums and educational centers in Arkansas focusing on making hands-on, interactive museum experiences more accessible to the state's 498,000 students and their families. Find out more about the Arkansas Discovery Network at http://www.arkansasdiscoverynetwork.org/.
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Chicago Fire coach Carlos de los Cobos has an interesting philosophy of soccer. It's better to play pretty than to win.
The Fire put on a ball-possessing attacking show in their 1-0 loss to the New York Red Bulls at the regular season opening of the Red Bull Arena, but it's only wins and losses that count in the standings.
"We're disappointed in the result," said de los Cobos. "But I was not disappointed in the players."
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The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the ensuing political transition in Cairo has created a wave of uncertainty over the strategic politics of the Middle East, carrying both risks and opportunities for US interests and allies in the region. One potential and less-than-obvious opportunity is to relaunch peace talks between Syria and Israel.
Admittedly, most American policymakers are focused squarely on the risks. Many analysts are trying to gauge the likelihood that a new government in Cairo, responding to popular demands, could decide to cancel its peace treaty with Israel.
It's an understandable concern, but the evidence suggests that post-Mubarak Egypt will remain a peace partner to Israel. The Egyptian military has issued a statement suggesting that Egypt will respect all international treaties it has signed. Meanwhile, alarmist commentary that suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood could "take over" the country and terminate the peace treaty with Israel is baseless and sensationalist. The Muslim Brotherhood is likely to be a force in post-Mubarak Egypt, but the movement will neither monopolize nor dominate national policy and political opinion because its support base remains relatively small, and its ability to expand is limited.
Yet this very alarmism, in addition to internal threat perceptions in Syria, could revitalize the Syrian-Israeli peace track.
Syria and Israel have not been able to reach a peace agreement over the years in large part because neither country has felt a sense of urgency for doing so. While peace was and continues to be desirable for both sides, the continuation of the status quo was not viewed as costly or intolerable – until now perhaps.
A needed shock
In the past, both countries preferred to kick the can down the road until conditions changed and became ripe for peace. The consensus among analysts and policymakers in Washington was that for Syrian-Israeli peace to be achieved, a major shock to the external or internal environments in which both countries operate would have to take place in order to break the logjam and alter the strategic calculus of both sides.
The success of the Egyptian uprising represents precisely that kind of strategic driver that could reshuffle the deck of Syrian-Israeli relations and move their peace process forward. Two things explain this potential development: First, Egypt's uncertain political future has made Israel nervous about its external security environment.
Jerusalem's perspective
Perceptions matter greatly in international relations. Even though post-Mubarak Egypt is likely to preserve its peace treaty with Israel, Israel's worldview and perception of external military threats may have already changed and taken a more pessimistic turn. Consider Jerusalem's perspective: Turkish-Israeli relations are uncertain at best, Iran seems determined to acquire nuclear weapons, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process is dead, and Hezbollah's political and military power is at an all-time high. Add to that the serious concern over Egypt's political direction and you have a worried leadership in Israel. To balance against perceived security threats, reduce strategic uncertainty, and ameliorate its deteriorating external environment, Israel may have fresh incentive to reach out to Syria and cooperate on a peace deal.
Incentives for Syria
Second, a similar logic could apply to Syria, although in Syria's case, the potential threat that could encourage it to cooperate on issues of peace with Israel today is primarily internal in nature. Like all other authoritarian countries in the Middle East, Syria is worried about the potential spillover of the success of the Egyptian uprising into its own territory. Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is perhaps more brutal than Mubarak's, its clientelistic network of relations with the military and societal elites and businessmen is more extensive than Mubarak's, and the Syrian opposition is much smaller and weaker than Egypt's. But this does not mean that Syria is immune to social upheaval and unrest. That very likelihood, in fact, is what could drive Damascus to knock on Israel's door and talk peace, as part of a strategy designed to bolster the legitimacy of the Ba'athist regime and secure its long-term survival.
Resolving territorial disputes to defuse internal threats is a strategy that several authoritarian regimes have used effectively in recent years. For example, internal threats played a prominent role in an attempt to settle the Iran-Iraq dispute over the Shatt-al-Arab waterway (although the attempt ultimately failed). Also, China has cooperated consistently on several external territorial disputes when its regime faced or perceived it was facing political unrest at home.
A golden opportunity
This is a golden opportunity for Syria and Israel to test each other's intentions. The process would still require US mediation, of course, given the lingering mistrust between the two countries. US input also remains central, because the United States is the only actor that can provide Israel and Syria with the security and political assurances they need to finalize a deal. Also, only Washington can finance a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement and make it "stick." The contours of the settlement are well known and have not changed since December 1999 when the two parties extensively negotiated in Washington and then Shepherdstown, W.V.: Israel would return the Golan Heights to Syria and withdraw to the 1967 lines. Syria would normalize relations with Israel and provide it with tangible security assurances in return.
The Obama administration is understandably preoccupied with managing a highly volatile transition in Egypt. But amid the chaos, there is an important opportunity that should not be missed. If Washington's broader objective is to reduce the uncertainty surrounding the Egyptian transition and introduce some stability to the strategic politics of the Middle East, then one crucial way to do so is to push for Syrian-Israeli peace. Fast-moving changes in Egypt are heightening Israel's and Syria's feeling of strategic vulnerability. The Obama administration should keep that in mind and take advantage of these favorable conditions before they change.
Bilal Y. Saab is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park.


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Elton John got a blue jean baby of sorts as a Christmas present this year.
The famed singer and piano player and his partner David Furnish became parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce boy on Christmas Day, reported US Magazine.
Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate whose identity is being withheld for privacy reasons.
This is the first child for John, 62, and Furnish, 48. The couple entered a civil partnership in 2005 after spening the previous 12 years together. In 2009, they attempted to adopt a boy from Ukraine, but were denied by that country's government because the couple was not legally married and John exceeded the age limit allowed for adoptions.
In a joint statement, John and Furnish told US that, "Zachary is healthy and doing well," and that they were "overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment."
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Windows 7 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard: competitive originsThe tech media is working to pit Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 release against Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, but the two products aren't really direct competitors.
The operating system most users end up with will depend upon what hardware they choose to buy, not the specific feature details of the software that system happens to run. History reveals that the hardware decision isn't going to be based primarily upon features.
The following presents a historical overview of the competition between Apple and Microsoft in the operating system market leading up to this year's face off between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. While modern Macs can now also run Windows, Apple is the only PC maker to refrain from actually licensing it from Microsoft as an OEM; in contrast, Apple's Mac OS X only legally runs on the company's own premium PCs. That has enabled Mac OS X to differentiate Apple's hardware from other PC vendors using easy to demonstrate software features and tighter hardware integration, winning back some of the ground Apple lost during the decade of the 90s.
How Microsoft inherited Apple's crown in the 90s
In the 90s, Microsoft and its entourage of Windows PC makers came to largely view Apple as nearly irrelevant, but once Mac OS X arrived and began to catch the attention of users with its slick and sophisticated graphics compositing, its malware-free computing experience, and its unique and consistent interface features, Microsoft was pressured by its licensees to catch up so they could offer a competitive product.
Mac OS X essentially reset the clock for Apple, turning back time to 1990, when the company commanded a greater than 10% share of the entire PC market and dominated nearly all graphical desktop computing. Back then, the remainder of the PC market was running DOS, making it fairly easy for Apple to distinguish its graphical, easy to use product. Windows 3.0, the first version to ever ship installed on a new PC, hadn't yet arrived.
Perhaps things were too easy for Apple; rather than aggressively competing against DOS PCs, Apple used its technical superiority to extract higher prices for its machines. The problem was that Apple's boutique market lacked a boutique outlet for sales. The company was forced to sell its Macintosh models next to cheaper DOS PCs in computer stores and general retailer such as Sears, where they sat at the mercy of retailers who had no incentive to sell Apple's product, as they were making higher margins on the DOS PCs.
Microsoft's command-line DOS operating system.
As Mac sales remained flat, PC sales began to climb rapidly. Microsoft's continuous, incremental updates to Windows also began to blur the line between the Mac experience and that of DOS PCs with its Windows shell installed. Additionally, while Microsoft was building Windows from a relatively clean slate, Apple's Mac OS was tied up with early 80s legacy issues, including a simple cooperative multitasking model and a complete lack of modern operating system features such as protected memory, secure user accounts, and file permissions.
Windows 3.0 was the third major release of Microsoft Windows, released on May 22nd 1990.
Rather than delivering a technology overhaul, Apple released a series of code names for software that never materialized as promised, including Taligent, Copland, and Gershwin. By the end of the 90s, Apple had lost its position as the leader in graphical desktop computing to the point where many observers had forgotten it ever had defined innovation in the industry. Fortunately, the company had a comeback plan thanks to its merger with NeXT and the homecoming of its CEO, Steve Jobs.
A diagram of Copland's runtime architecture based off of one from Apple.
The tables turn in the 2000s
At the beginning of the 2000s, Microsoft had just released Windows 2000 (aka Windows 5.0), a mature and stable revision of its new Windows NT operating system that was developed to replace the DOS Shell version of Windows it had sold as Windows 95/98/Me. Microsoft's competition was all but gone, with Apple down to a roughly 2% share of the worldwide market for all PCs and servers, and IBM's OS/2, NeXT, BeOS, and other desktop operating system competitors out of the picture entirely.
Windows 95, released Aug 24, 1995 (left) and Windows 98, released Jun 25, 1998 (right).
The company's worrisome monopoly trial was about to be set aside by the new Bush Administration, and Microsoft was close to releasing a fusion of Windows 2000 and its consumer hardware-friendly Windows 98 as Whistler. Beyond that release, the company laid out a roadmap including Longhorn and Blackcomb to guarantee that the company could remain at the forefront of desktop PC software innovation as long as it could continue to repress any legal actions challenging its rise to the top through exclusive contracts with OEMs that prevented competitors from entering the operating system market.
Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000 and targeted business desktops, notebook computers, and servers.
Microsoft was ultimately able to successfully pay off or scuttle any significant legal problems, but it was hit by a new challenge: a festering rash of high profile security flaws tied to its early 90s, pre-Internet legacy. Suddenly, the company was finding itself in the position of Apple a decade prior, with a complicated software roadmap riddled with potholes, a product that was facing increasing price competition (thanks to Linux and other free software), and new competition from Mac OS X that rivaled its position as the leader in desktop innovation.
Windows XP vs. Mac OS X
Microsoft's Whistler, delivered as Windows XP, was internally Windows 5.1, a minor update to Windows 2000. However, with the security work Microsoft had to assume, XP would end up being the company's primary OS throughout the decade. Even two years after the release of Windows Vista (6.0) in 2006, which sprang from Longhorn but took far longer to complete than planned, nearly 80% of Microsoft's installed base remains on XP, and the company's hardware partners continue to advertise their systems' ability to revert back to XP as a feature.
Released on Oct 25, 2001, XP was Microsoft's first consumer OS built on the Windows NT kernel and architecture.
In contrast, Mac OS X 10.0 debuted along side XP but was then updated in a series of major reference releases, including the free 10.1 update in 2001, the mainstream 10.2 Jaguar in 2002, 10.3 Panther in late 2003, 10.4 Tiger in early 2005, 10.4 Tiger for Intel in 2006, and 10.5 Leopard in 2007. While Microsoft released some "service pack" updates for XP during that time, only XP SP2 contained any significant feature updates, mostly related to patching up its security issues. Each of reference releases to Mac OS X delivered major new features, applications, and services for Mac users, in addition to performance enhancements that made the new software run faster even on older machines. Apple has also released dozens of free "service pack" minor updates to its reference releases of Mac OS X.
Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah," released Mar 24, 2001 (left) and Mac OS X 10.1 "Puma," released Sep 25, 2001 (right).
Another factor that changed the relationship between Windows PCs and Macs was Apple's development of new retail stores, both free standing outlets owned by the company and "store within a store" locations run inside retail partners' locations. These allowed Apple to showcase its differentiated machines isolated from Windows PCs that competed primarily on price, not on features and usability. The result was that Apple could now sell its machines' features on their own merits, rather than just struggling to match prices with lowball PC makers.
Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar," released Aug 23, 2002 (left) and Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther," released Oct 23, 2003 (right).
That retail strategy also shifted the pricing pressure of store brand and no-name PC makers against name brand manufacturers such as Dell and HP, forcing them to race to the bottom the the barrel in pricing, which subsequently resulted in poor product quality that further differentiated Apple's products from those of the other PC makers. Apple's retail stores are now allowing the company to experiment with new manufacturing techniques such as those used in the new unibody MacBooks, as well as higher end, environmentally friendly materials and customized silicon designs.
Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger," released Apr 29, 2005 (left) and Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," released Oct 26, 2007 (right).
All of these integration enhancements fuse Mac OS X into the Mac hardware, making it increasingly less comparable to Windows as a retail product. Apple doesn't advertise Mac OS X as an alternative to Windows, it pits the Mac against generic PCs in more general terms.
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The number of cases where missing children are feared to have been at risk of sexual abuse has more than doubled in two years, new figures have revealed.
Between April and November last year, 1,047 reports of children missing from local authority care or family homes were 'flagged' as carrying a risk of sexual exploitation by West Yorkshire Police - up from 408 for the entire 2013/14 financial year.
The number, obtained from a Freedom of Information request, is also higher than the 897 cases identified for the whole of 2014/15.
Extent of 'hidden crime' revealed
Missing children reports are now recognised as a key indicator of risk and West Yorkshire Police have enhanced the force's reporting process in response.
In December, 11 men from Bradford and Keighley were convicted of sexual offences against a young teenage girl, in 2011 and 2012, who had been reported missing from home on more than 70 occasions.
The largest number of cases linked to possible sexual exploitation involved girls reported missing from local authority care.
In the first eight months of 2015/16, there were 585 such cases - a rate of more than two reports every day.
A spokesman for children's charity Barnardos said: "All young people that go missing are at particular risk of being groomed for child sexual exploitation and the police across the region are working closely with the care providers, partner agencies and social workers to ensure young people who have been missing from care receive the support they need to keep them safe."
In total, there were 3,715 reports of children going missing in the first eight months of 2015/16 – 2,265 of them involving girls.
More than a quarter were flagged as carrying a risk of sexual exploitation.
West Yorkshire Det Supt Darren Minton said: "Since June 2014, we have changed our recording practices so that even when a missing person has been located within a short period of time, an occurrence is still created on our systems which helps us in identifying repeat missing people.
"This, and an increased awareness of child sexual exploitation both within the police, partners agencies and the wider public has contributed to an increased number of children being recorded as missing from home."
The force declined to release a district-by-district breakdown for 2015/16 but figures for 2014/15 showed the highest number of reports of missing girls at risk – 279 – was in Leeds, with 167 of those missing from care.
Leeds City Council's director of children's services, Nigel Richardson, said: "Here in Leeds we take a child going missing from care very seriously and we have robust arrangements in place to locate and safeguard children who are classed as missing or absent from their placement.
"We work closely with the police and other agencies to share information regarding children who are reported and recorded as missing to ensure that the welfare of the child is safeguarded and to identify any patterns."


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Junction City, Ore., RV maker Country Coach is heading for liquidation unless a last-gasp bid by an outside investor to settle the company's debts and bring it out of bankruptcy comes to fruition in short order, according to The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.
In U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Monday (Nov. 23), lawyers for the company and its main creditor, Wells Fargo Bank, said Country Coach is out of money and out of options, unless a Washington businessman named Roger McCombs can secure a stay of execution. If McCombs deposits $1 million in earnest money in a Wells Fargo escrow account by this afternoon, he'll have 10 days to negotiate a deal to pay off the debt to the bank and attempt to breathe new life into the company.
Privately held Country Coach, founded in 1968, has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since March, providing it with some breathing room from creditors while it sought to reorganize its finances and business model. But even operating with a vastly smaller work force, the company has been steadily losing money. The company has posted losses of $8.8 million since April, company officials testified.
Wilson Muhlheim, the Eugene attorney for Wells Fargo, said Country Coach has consistently been in default on the terms of its loan agreement. Company officials said they have a negative balance of $450,000 on their line of credit with the bank.
"Now we're at the end of the road," Muhlheim said. "There is no deal on the table."
But Country Coach CEO Jay Howard said there could be a deal. He testified that he's been talking with McCombs since July, that McCombs toured the Country Coach plant in October, and that he's serious about making a bid.
McCombs is founder and board chairman of Composite Power Corp. and the patent holder of the company's composite energy delivery system, according to the company's website. The company, based in Richland, Wash., with an office in Las Vegas, makes utility poles made from composite materials that are lighter, stronger and cheaper than wooden utility poles, and which don't have to be treated with carcinogenic chemicals, like wood poles, according to the financial website The Hot Pinks, which follows companies whose stocks are traded over the counter.
"He's an amazing entrepreneur," Howard said outside court.
In addition to building motorcoaches at the Country Coach plant, McCombs is interested in building mobile medical coaches, using Country Coach's chassis, and in utilizing magnetic-levitation technology, or maglev, an area in which he holds a patent, Howard said.
"By Dec. 3 we'll know if McCombs is in or out," Howard said. "If not, we have no other sponsor."
Howard said an earlier proposed deal, involving a Texas company called Recreation Live and other investors, appears dead.
If the McCombs deal doesn't come together, Country Coach's Chapter 11 case will be converted to Chapter 7 for the purpose of liquidating the company's assets, Rad cliffe ruled.
Howard said the company has 10 coaches completed and ready for sale, with a total value ranging from $5 million to $9 million, depending on whether they're sold at auction or sold retail. The company has another 15 coaches that are in progress.
Howard said the company stopped building coaches in September and just recently laid off the remaining staff. Only Howard and CFO Mark Andersen remain on the job, he said.
Even if McCombs is able to strike a deal with Wells Fargo, he'll also have to come to terms with Country Coach's landlord, Lee Joint Venture.
David Wade, the landlord's attorney, said the Lee group was prepared to begin eviction proceedings unless someone makes good on $160,000 owed in property taxes and $263,000 to repair the roofs of the factory buildings.


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Integrated Wi-Fi. Plenty of streaming apps and online features, including a Web browser.
Disappointing black levels. Slightly skewed colors. Few calibration options.
Bottom Line
Despite plenty of online features for a fair price, Sony's Bravia EX645 series of LED-backlit HDTVs suffer from mediocre black levels and color accuracy issues.
When choosing an HDTV, picture quality is the most important factor, and an excess of features can't make up for a screen that's not up to snuff. Sony's Bravia EX645 series of LED-lit LCD HDTVs offer up integrated Wi-Fi and plenty of online functions, but the 50-inch KDL-50EX645 ($999 direct) we tested suffered from some color issues and subpar black levels. Better, less-expensive options with higher picture quality abound.
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Editor's Note: This review is based on tests performed on the KDL-50EX645, the 50-inch version of the series. Besides the screen size difference, the $899.99 46-inch KDL-46EX645 is identical in features, and while we didn't perform lab tests on this specific model, we expect similar performance.
The bezel is slightly rounded and nubbly, a change from the typically flat and glossy frames on Sony HDTVs. A row of physical controls sit on the right side of the screen, behind the bezel. On the back of the HDTV, an HDMI port, two USB ports, and composite video inputs face left for easy access, while three additional HDMI ports, component video inputs, and an Ethernet port face the back where they're slightly more difficult to reach. At 2.5 inches deep and 43.2 pounds, it's slightly bulky, but the set is able to be mounted on a wall.
The 7.8-inch remote is long and slim, with a comfortable, easy-to-find central navigation pad surrounded by useful buttons. The remote isn't backlit, so the distinctive pad is useful when you want to navigate menus blindly. Dedicated Sony Entertainment Network and Home buttons load most features on the HDTV, and Netflix and Internet Apps buttons below them offer even more direct access to online services.
Online Services
The 50EX640 can access a wide variety of online services through its built-in Wi-Fi or a wired Ethernet connection. The SEN (Sony Entertainment Network) button on the remote offers fast access to Sony's well-stocked movie and music libraries, and the Home menu includes services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Video On Demand, and YouTube. You also get a Web browser, but like with most HDTVs, it's a mild inconvenience to navigate the Web with the bundled remote control.
We test HDTVs with DisplayMate test patterns, SpectraCal's CalMAN software, and a Konica-Minolta CS-200 Chroma Meter. After basic brightness and contrast calibrations, the 50EX645 displayed mediocre black levels and slightly skewed colors. I measured a peak brightness of 256.20 cd/m2 (candelas per square meter) and a black level of 0.10 cd/m2, for an underwhelming contrast ratio of 2,560:1. Mediocre black levels are typical for budget HDTVs, but the similarly priced 60-inch Vizio E601I-A3 offers a black level of 0.05 cd/m2 with the same brightness for double the contrast ratio.
Color accuracy is a mixed bag, as seen in the CIE color comparison chart below. Blues and reds are fairly close to ideal, but green is slightly cold, while flat white is slightly warm, producing some inaccurate flesh tones. This is problematic, because the 50EX645 lacks the advanced color controls found in most Samsung and LG HDTVs, like the LG 42CS560, so you can't tweak the individual channels to fix the problems.
The middling contrast ratio and disappointing black levels hurt its picture when watching very bright scenes, which don't "pop," and very dark scenes, which tend to consume shadow detail. I watched Piranha on Blu-ray, and the murky underwater shots swallowed fine details. The skewed colors threw off the bright party scenes on the lake, with the cooler greens causing the already relatively cool, slightly overcast shots to look like they were shot under fluorescent lights. Flesh tones seemed pale, and only the slightly warm flat white kept the picture from appearing completely off.
This set is a bit of a power hog for an LED-backlit HDTV. With no energy saving features enabled, it consumes 106 watts under average viewing conditions. With Energy Saving set to Low, which slightly dims the picture, that number drops to 92 watts. The picture dims too much at the highest Energy Saving setting to be comfortably watchable. This is disappointing compared with the 42-inch LG 42CS560, which consumes 80 watts with energy saving set to a level that keeps the screen suitably bright. Worth noting: If you want to listen to music or dialog on the 50EX645 without the picture you can switch the display off while keeping sound on. The screen is best viewed at Low energy saving setting or with no power saving features, though. It still consumes less power than the Editors' Choice Samsung PN51E490B4F plasma screen and the larger LED-backlit Vizio E601I-A3, which respectively eat 150 and 118 watts.
The Sony Bravia EX645 series of HDTVs offer plenty of online options and a relatively attractive design for a decent price, but disappointing picture quality keep it from earning our recommendation. For about $300 less, you can get the Editors' Choice 3D-capable Samsung PN51E490B4F, which offers bundled 3D glasses, superior color, and better picture quality despite its limited 720p resolution. Vizio's E601I-A3, while not 3D-enabled, offers a comprehensive feature set, more accurate colors, and a bigger screen for the same $1,000.
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If you use MySQL replication, MySQL Enterprise Backup allows you to set up a slave database without stopping the master, by backing up the master and restoring that backup on a new slave server.
Take the backup, transfer it to the slave server, use
mysqlbackup with the
apply-log option to prepare it, and put the
restored backup and the log files in the right directories for
the new slave.
Edit the
my.cnf file of the new slave and
skip-slave-start under the
[mysqld] section.
Start the new slave mysqld (version >= 5.1). It prints the latest MySQL binary log position the backup knows of.
… InnoDB: Last MySQL binlog file position 0 128760128, file name ./hundin-bin.006 …
Note that InnoDB only stores the binary log position information to its tablespace at a transaction commit. To make InnoDB aware of the current binary log position, you must run at least one transaction while binary logging is enabled.
Use the
CHANGE MASTER SQL command on the
slave to initialize it properly. For example:
CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_LOG_FILE='hundin-bin.006', MASTER_LOG_POS=128760128;
Set the statuses of any events that were copied from the
master to
SLAVESIDE_DISABLED. For example:
mysql> UPDATE TABLE mysql.event SET status = 'SLAVESIDE_DISABLED';
Start replication in the new slave with the
START SQL command.
Remove the line
skip-slave-start from the
my.cnf file of the slave.


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ETF Portfolio: How Much You Need in Your Portfolio to Retire
Whether you hold ETFs or mutual funds or individual stocks, you probably wouldn't mind if your investments could support you. But how much do you need in order for your investments to support you?
That's actually not very complicated and has been very well studied: You need at least 20 times whatever amount you expect to withdraw each year from your portfolio, assuming you want that portfolio to have a good chance of surviving at least 20 to 25 years.
That is, if you need $30,000 a year — in addition to Social Security and any other income — to live on, you should ideally have $600,000 in your portfolio when you retire, assuming you retire in your mid-60s. You can have less, but you may wind up eating into principal if the market tumbles — in which case you should be prepared to live on less, or get a part-time job.
Factor in the value or partial value of your home only if it is paid up and if you foresee a day when you can downsize.
The rationale behind the 20x Rule is this: It allows you to withdraw 5 percent from your portfolio the first year, and then adjust that amount upward each year to keep up with inflation. The studies show that a well-diversified portfolio from which you take such withdrawals has a good chance of lasting at least 20 years, which is how long you may need the cash flow if you retire in your 60s and live to your mid-80s.
If you think you might live beyond your mid-80s, or if you want to retire prior to your mid-60s, then having more than 20 times your anticipated expenses would be an excellent idea. It would also be an excellent idea to limit your initial withdrawal, if you can, to 4 percent a year, just in case you live a long life.
In truth, you'll be on much more solid ground if you have 25 times your anticipated expenses in your portfolio before you retire at any age. But for many Americans who haven't seen a real pay increase in years, this is indeed a lofty goal. For that reason, go with 20 times but be prepared to tighten your belt if you need to.
If you are still far away from that 20 times mark, and you are not in debt, and your income is secure, and you are not burning out at work, and you have enough cash to live on for six months, then with the rest of your loot, you might tilt toward a riskier ETF portfolio (mostly stock ETFs). You need the return.
If you have your 20 times (or better yet, 25 times) annual cash needs already locked up or close to it, and you're thinking of giving up your day job soon, you should probably tilt toward a less risky ETF portfolio (more bond ETFs).
After all, you have more to lose than you have to gain. You do need to be careful, however, that your investments keep up with inflation. Savings accounts are unlikely to do that.
If you have way more than 25 times annual expenses, congratulations! You have many options, and how much risk you take will be a decision that's unrelated to your material needs. You may, for example, want to leave behind a grand legacy, in which case you might shoot for higher returns.


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Reggie Bush, who last week handed back his 2006 Heisman Trophy amid a cloud of scandal, broke his leg in the Saints' Monday Night Football victory over the 49ers and will miss at least six weeks.
Bush, New Orleans' all-purpose running back, suffered a leg injury late in the game and is believed to have a broken bone in his right leg.
ESPN reported that the initial diagnosis is a fractured fibula. A league source told NBC Sports the team is "pretty sure" that the injury is a fractured fibula.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
The injury occurred in a pileup that happened after Bush muffed a punt return in the fourth quarter.
"I hurt like hell," Bush said after the game. "I got back up and tried to walk on it. It felt terrible."
Bush helped lead New Orleans to a Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts earlier this year, but found himself nneck deep in scandal from his days at USC. A probe found he took money from boosters, and he gave back the coveted trophy voluntarily, though he admitted no wrongdoing.
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If you read the headline on her obituary in The New York Times, referring to her as an "etiquette maven," or The Washington Post's description of her as the "doyenne of decorum," you might have an image of Letitia Baldridge as a stern, exacting schoolmarm who would rap you on the knuckles for using the wrong fork. From my one experience with her, she was nothing like that.
Years ago, I had the presumption to call her out of the blue about a topic on my mind, which was the decline of public standards of dress. First, I was impressed that she would take the time to talk. Second, I was struck by her good-humored charm, which struck me as vaguely Southern, though I later learned she grew up in Omaha. But mostly what I noticed is that she was not so concerned about etiquette rules as about considerate behavior.
She told me a story to illustrate how notions of acceptable dress had declined. On a transcontinental airline flight, she said, she was seated next to a young man who was not wearing a shirt. She expressed amusement, not scorn, and noted, "He was a surfer-looking sort, and he had a nice build." But she gave me to understand that in her chat with him, she had learned that he really didn't know any better and that she had gently given him the idea that the next time, he might do well to cover up a bit.
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Campus is first in Chula Vista district since 2007
When the new Enrique S. Camarena Elementary School opens next week, one of the first things students will learn is that they can write on their classroom walls and desks. And they won't get sent to the principal's office because it was he who led the charge to make it possible.
The walls of the 36 classrooms are swathed in a special paint that mimics a whiteboard, where pen markings easily wipe away with a dry cloth. Student desks are also of a durable fabrication that can withstand the punishment of spelling tests and math calculations.
"The concept is that you want to use the materials you have," said Principal Dan Winters. "I mean, talk eco-friendly.
"Think of all the paper you don't need to use. When kids do some work that needs to be saved, they can take a picture of it with their digital device."
Welcome to Camarena Elementary, the first new campus to be built in the Chula Vista Elementary School District since 2007. Where chalkboards and text books are so last century and digital devices such as iPads, Chromebooks and Android tablets will be the tools to help students, particularly those in the upper grades, learn their core subjects.
Winters, 50, has been in the Chula Vista district nine years, most recently as principal of Salt Creek Elementary. In January, he was selected to be Camarena's inaugural principal, a role he has embraced wholeheartedly.
Describing himself as the school's CEO (Chief Encouragement Officer), Winters said he wants to create among his hand-picked staff a professional, collaborative culture like
Winters' vision for staff, students and community is so straightforward he fit it on his business cards: "We are a neighborhood school developing digital literacy in a multilingual, creative environment."
"It starts with literacy," he said. "It is still the foundation, and common core standards are coming next year and they give credence to the fact primary literacy is still how we do things.
"And digital means literacy in our current environment whereby kids learn how to use digital tools effectively to get information to share and which to communicate."
Although it has yet to crack a single text book, digital or otherwise, Camarena Elementary is already poised to do a booming business. Located in the Otay Ranch Village 11 area — at 1650 Exploration Falls Drive, to be precise — the 11.85-acre campus has capacity for 975 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Currently, 900 are enrolled.
The school district purchased the property for $2.7 million in 2008 but did not have the money to build. It wasn't until last spring that the district was able to break ground, the estimated $30 million construction costs coming from CFD/Mello-Roos special tax assessments.
Also last spring, the school board approved the Camarena name for the school to commemorate the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was kidnapped and killed in 1985 while on assignment in Mexico. By November, the ceremonial last beam was placed in position during a particularly festive "topping out" ceremony where it was noted that contractors Balfour Beatty Construction were ahead of schedule.
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Overlooking Otay Mesa, Camarena Elementary is the first two-story campus in east Chula Vista. In addition to wireless technology throughout, it has arches and elevators. Exterior walls are bathed in a palette of oranges and greens purported to be conducive to learning, and there are windows — generous and gleaming — to let in natural light.
"We are very excited about the newest addition to our family of campuses in the Chula Vista Elementary School District," said Superintendent Francisco Escobedo. "With Camarena Elementary, we are creating a safe and supportive learning environment that allows students and staff to access information from any point on the campus, whether inside or outside a given class or building. This allows us a flexible learning environment.
"The school will serve as a template for future construction, a showcase campus with the infrastructure necessary to support learning environments that nurture every child's imagination, intellect, and sense of inquiry. We are confident our students will become difference makers in the community."
In the months leading up to the first day of school, Winters has been busy reaching out to community businesses to forge partnerships. He has also been connecting with parents to capture the flavor of the neighborhood, an important component for setting the tone of the school.
For all the school's many attractive features — architectural and technological — Winters said he is most thrilled about his staff.
"The best feature of the school is the quality of the teachers," Winters said. "The fact we get to write on the desks is cool. But to get this group of teachers together with the vision of doing things differently and taking risks and innovating excites me more than anything.
"This staff is going to do some great things, no doubt."
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Honestly. Would somebody please just get a grip? Every time I look for a place to sit on the Downtown Mall to read my weekly edition of The Hook, I ask myself why the City can't spend even a fraction of that to put some benches on the mall. We don't all want to eat at a restaurant every time we have the urge to sit and enjoy this wonderful outdoor space. Yet, short of sitting on the pavement, that is what one is forced to do?
Does anyone know why we can't get benches to supplement the scant few chairs that seem to migrate from one end of the Mall to the other? Maybe if we got some benches with white lines painted on them, the powers that be would see fit to invest in them.
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USA Pro Challenge: Froome to beat?
pro challenge CONTENDERS
Christopher Froome, SKY Procycling
Tom Danielson, Team Garmin-Sharp
Tejay van Garderen, BMC Racing Team
Christian Vande Velde, Team Garmin-Sharp
Rory Sutherland, Team Saxo-Tinkoff
Richie Porte, SKY Procycling
One hundred twenty-eight of the world's best cyclists from 31 countries are less than a day away from attacking the Colorado landscape to see who'll survive the altitude and be crowned the 2013 USA Pro Challenge overall winner.
Since his announcement that he would be joining the field, 2013 Tour de France winner Chris Froome jumped to the head of the pack. If his performance at the Tour is any indication, he could be tough to beat. But how will he handle the altitude? This is the first Pro Challenge for Froome and his No. 1 ranked Sky Procycling Team.
In an interview with the Summit Daily, 12-year professional cycling journalist and editor of Velo Magazine Neal Rogers posed another question regarding Froome: "Has he been celebrating, or has he been training?"
He followed that by saying, "If he is in any kind of shape, he's going to be the guy to beat."
Rogers also questioned the Sky team's strategy. Froome could work to help his Australian teammate Richie Porte earn the win and return the favor for Porte's efforts in the Tour. "He (Porte) was Chris Froome's right-hand man in the Tour," Rogers said.
Another top contender is Colorado's own Tom Danielson, who was injured in the Tour de France this year but is fresh off a win in the Tour of Utah. The Boulder native showed he's recovered from his Tour injury and is ready to race at altitude with his performance just over a week ago in Utah.
"I'd like to be up there on the podium in the end," he told the Summit Daily in an interview earlier this month.
Danielson finished eighth overall in the 2011 Tour de France. He was voted most aggressive rider and won Stage 3 of last year's Pro Challenge. Fellow Garmin Sharp Teammate and defending Pro Challenge champion Christian Vande Velde should be in the mix with the top finishers. Vande Velde is expected to retire at the end of this season. This could be a fitting swan song for the accomplished rider.
After a disappointing Tour de France, BMC Racing Team rider Tejay van Garderen, also from Boulder, could be out to show he's a contender, Rogers said. He finished fifth in the 2012 Tour de France and was awarded Best Young Rider.
"Which Tejay are we going to see?" Rogers said.
While some have listed Australian native and Boulder resident Rory Sutherland as a top contender, Rogers doesn't think so. "It's too hilly for him. He could win a stage, he could finish top 10, but he's not going to win it."
Sutherland won the Boulder Stage last year and has been training heavily in the area prior to the race.
Rogers does, however, see Sutherland's Saxo-Tinkoff teammate Michael Rogers as a contender.
Easily the entire field's biggest competition will be the altitude. Danielson said all the top Tour riders are going to come into the Pro Challenge in great shape. But how will they handle the altitude?
"We know how hard they can ride at 6,000 feet; what can they do at 12,000 feet?" Rogers said.
Most stage starts and finishes are already above the highest points of the Tour de France, and the courses rise from there.
"Your aerobic system is a lot more taxed," Danielson said of racing at altitude. "The next day you wake up super sore and achy."
Independence pass hits 12,000 feet in Stage 2 as riders make their way to Breckenridge.
"You don't race at that altitude, pretty much anywhere else in the world," Sutherland said.
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