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UPDATE 1-Tennis-Kerber reaches fourth round in Miami, Keys falls
* Kuznetsova earns showdown with Venus (Adds Halep victory in night match)
(Recasts with Djokovic win)
* Djokovic proves tough nut to crack
* Serb beats Del Potro to reach semi-finals
* Federer still in hunt for semi-final place
By Martyn Herman
LONDON, Nov 7 The hardest nut in men's tennis again proved resistant to the heaviest of sledgehammers as Novak Djokovic absorbed the brute force of Juan Martin del Potro to book his place in the last four of the ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday.
Djokovic's elastic limbs propelled the Serb to a 6-3 3-6 6-3 Group B victory that leaves Del Potro to fight it out with Roger Federer for runner-up spot.
Federer, beaten by defending champion Djokovic in straight sets on Tuesday, got back on track with a morale-boosting 6-4 6-3 victory over Frenchman Richard Gasquet who can no longer reach the semi-finals even if he beats Djokovic on Saturday.
The six-times former champion lost the opening six points and needed six match points to finish off Gasquet but looked more like his old majestic self as he produced some champagne moments for his legion of fans - one topspin lob to avert a break in the second set the shot of the day.
"I guess those are the kind of matches I need right now. You know, straight sets against a good player. It clearly came at the right time right now," Federer, who has only one title this year but scooped the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year award, as well as the ATP fans' favourite and Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship awards this week, told reporters.
"There was pressure after losing my first one. It was a big win for me and I hope now to keep it up against Juan Martin."
He had better strap on some heavy armour when he meets Del Potro on Saturday because the Argentine world number five was striking forehands and serves with fearsome force against Djokovic, even if he did blow himself out in the end.
It would have overwhelmed almost any other player in the world but only rarely did he manage to blast through Djokovic's defences as he took the second set of a high-octane duel.
The last time Djokovic and Del Potro locked horns in London back in July they produced the longest Wimbledon semi-final ever - a near five-hour match of relentless baseline savagery.
They were at it again at the o2 on Thursday and although Djokovic won for the 11th time in their 14 encounters there was plenty of evidence to suggest Del Potro will be pushing the Serb and world number one Rafael Nadal for the majors in 2014.
For the moment, however, it is all about Djokovic, who has won 19 consecutive matches since the U.S. Open, and Nadal who got the better of him that day in New York.
Thursday's match was the 78th of Djokovic's season but kitted out like an assassin in all black he bristled with energy, oozed confidence and was clinical on the big points.
It is almost as if he does not want the season to end.
"I had a great start to the season and a great ending," the Australian Open champions told reporters. "I would pick these two parts of the year as the best for me.
"I just feel well at this particular part of the year. I know most of the players are exhausted physically, mentally, emotionally, after a long season.
"But, you know, I try to find that as an opportunity for me to get extra motivated to kind of push myself to the limit and deliver the goods when needed."
Del Potro, still only 25, has also been on a hot streak since the U.S. Open, winning titles in Tokyo and in Basel where he beat Federer in his own backyard, and after beating Gasquet on Monday, looked in the mood from the start against Djokovic.
However, he paid for failing to convert break points in the opening game and Djokovic struck first blood in the sixth game with a succession of laser-guided groundstrokes that eventually proved beyond even the condor-like reach of Del Potro.
One break was sufficient to wrap up the first set but Del Potro was not finished and hammered away in the second, earning a decisive break in the sixth game with a netcord.
Del Potro piled on the pressure at the start of the third as he cranked up the power on his forehand wing.
Two break points arrived at 1-1 but once Djokovic had wriggled out of danger he did not look back.
Having beaten Federer and Del Potro so far here, the Serb was asked who he thought would win their showdown.
It was about his only moment of doubt all night.
"Roger is definitely playing better than he was throughout the whole year," he said. "He loves these conditions.
"But on the other hand, Del Potro has big serve. I can expect a three-set battle. I can't pick the winner." (Editing by Ed Osmond/Clare Fallon and Alison Wildey)


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So to give you an update on our basement catastophe. Well, not much is happening since the carpet is still drying. Call it delaying the inevitable. A LOT OF TOY THROWING AWAY, um I meant sorting. I saw a picture of a man wading in water up to his knees in NJ yesterday, and I was again reminded of how absolutely blessed I am.
So I thought I'd take a moment to show you this fun Big Guy! We've had this bookcase for a long time, and honestly I just plain forget about it, so if you asked me for a bookcase before and I didn't mention this one, it was an oops on my part.
The best part was the penciled note: To Lawrence from Daddy 1948. (Yeah, I did paint over it, I thought about it for awhile and decided not everyone might be as nostalgic as me.) There is a matching 10 drawer dresser in the store for $165 I'll show tomorrow. It folds in half--why?? We haven't figured it out yet. 4' tall, 3' wide, 10" deep. Perfect for big books, crafts, & toys!!
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- Suhab shopping bagMaking a visit to the supermarket a fashionable one with bags in different colors, shapes and designs.1
- Suhab shopping bagCotton bags provide an alternative to plastic bags.2
- Suhab shopping bagSuhab's bags are intended to be reused and end the consumption of more plastic bags..3
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I suspect that it has something to do with {} being a reference to another, newly created value. Let's break things down. What I suspect to be happening here, is the following. The first line conveniently reads from left to right: my %a declares the hash in the current lexical scope in the current thread. : shared shares the hash with all other threads. = (); assigns the empty list to this hash. The next line has most of its action on the far right side. {}; creates an anonymous hash in the current thread. Due to being anonymous, it's not bound by any scope — it will simply live for as long as something references to it. So {} is kind enough to create and return that reference. That's right: a reference and the value it refers to, are in fact not the same entity. $a{foo} = then stores that reference under the key "foo" in the hash %a. If you want, you can see that {} creates a new value: And the last line simply stores the number 42 in $a{bar}. There is no referencing here, and no creation of a new value. 42 will be 42, so there's no need to share it here. So my best guess, the reason you need to &share( {} ) is not because $a{foo} isn't shared, but because the anonymous hash that {} created, isn't shared.
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Professional athletes on mission to spoil Christmas
Tis the season for sportsmen all over the country to behave like idiots
Great, it's Christmas, everyone will be full of cheer. The only downer is that when the free grog is flowing, easily-led sportsmen tend to come unstuck and morph into animals. Welcome to shaming season – Henson, Pizarro and Cattermole are up first.
The Accused: Gavin Henson (rugby player)
The Crime: Boarding a train from Reading to Wales with three of his gruesome rugger mates and horrifying fellow passengers (including tiny little children) with blue language and outrageous antics. Antics that included thumping each other, spewing all over the place, then weeing in a carriage. The final outrage came when Henson called a special needs teacher a "fat cunt".
The Spoiler Verdict: An utterly loathesome rugby oik, such obnoxious behaviour should see him chained to rocks and punched in the face by the offended children. As things stand, his club apologised instead.
The Accused: Claudio Pizarro (footballer)
The Crime: Allegedly the Peru skipper/ Chelsea sub spent an evening in a luxury South American hotel, Las Inkas, making passionate sex with prostitutes whilst extremely high on alcohol. This came but days before his side was thrashed 5-1 by the little people of Ecuador.
The Spoiler Verdict: Perhaps Pizarro is spending too much time with Coley and JT over at Chelsea? He could do with having a night in with the quieter/more mature players, like Makelele. His national coach says that if it's true he won't be playing for Peru ever again.
The Accused: Lee Cattermole (footballer)
The Crime: The Sun reports that Middlesbrough midfield thug Cattermole is facing a three-year ban from his favourite pubs in Yarm, Teeside, after him and his mates spent an entire day smashed out of their brains, being sickeningly abusive to anyone within earshot. He managed to get thrown out of four pubs in one day.
The Spoiler Verdict: Cleveland Police took it upon themselves to have a strong word with the 19-year-old thug. The Spoiler would advise a harder line – cut off his hands!


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TONTOGANY — Sebastian Baxter hit a 3-pointer at the final buzzer to lift the Royals (6-14, 5-7) to a Northern Buckeye Conference boys basketball victory Wednesday night.
Baxter, who led Elmwood with nine points, capped an impressive comeback.
The Royals trailed 24-10 at halftime, but stormed back with six 3-pointers during a 23-10 third-quarter rally.
Jarrett Childress, Trevor Solether, and Aaron Arnold added seven points each for the Royals.
The Knights (8-11, 5-7) got 13 points from Schyler Scherff, 12 from John Thoams, and 10 from Jalen Myers.
Eastwood 80, Gibsonburg 68
PEMBERVILLE — Jake Schmeltz fired in 30 points and Grant Peters added 24 to lift the Eagles (13-5) to a nonleague victory.
Gibsonburg (14-5) was paced by Jordan Kreglow's 26 points, and Andrew Cantrell added 17 for the Golden Bears.
Swanton 48, Evergreen 36
SWANTON — Bryce McComb's 24 points paced the Bulldogs (8-9, 2-4).
Logan Pinkelman scored 19 points for the Vikings.
Whiteford 55, Morenci 45
MORENCI — Colin Lake led the Bobcats (10-3, 6-2) with 19 points while Troy Diller added 15 and Zach Perry 11.
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In trading on Tuesday, shares of Pharmacyclics, Inc. (NASD: PCYC) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $103.11, changing hands as low as $99.48 per share. Pharmacyclics, Inc. shares are currently trading off about 4.2% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of PCYC shares, versus its 200 day moving average:
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Kolkata, Sep 11 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday cautioned people against indulging in religious discrimination.
"I request you to not indulge in Hindu-Muslim differentiation," Banerjee said in Diamond Harbour of South 24-Parganas district.
Obviously referring to the communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh, she said: "Such incidents do not happen in Bengal where members of both communities participate in the festive revelry.
"Both Hindus and Muslims celebrate pujas together. Do we ask who is from what background? Do we distribute prasad according to religion ... We don't. We will celebrate together ... live together peacefully. I am pro-peace," said Banerjee.
"If there is some apprehension, then always think that there must be some anti-social element behind it," she said.
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The carrier bundle (ipcc) pushed out for iPhones enables T-Mobile 4G LTE on iPhone 5 and general service for all older iPhones. The update is available to all iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 owners from the About Phone page in the Settings app. T-Mobile's LTE network has only been launched in seven markets as of now, those who're not based in those markets will be connecting to the T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, even if they've downloaded the new firmware update and the latest carrier bundle.
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DobbinA steady old horse, a child's horse. Dobby, a silly old man. Dobbies, house-elves similar to brownies. All these are one and the same word. The dobbies lived in the house, were very thin and shaggy, very kind to servants and children, and did many a little service when people had their hands full. "Sober Dobbin lifts his clumsy heel."
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Bobby Farnham practiced in a red, no-contact jersey this morning at Coal Street, but coach John Hynes said afterwards that the second-year agitator is good to go for this weekend.
That could make for some interesting times for Hershey and Syracuse.
Farnham, under normal circumstances, plays like he's just been let out of a cage. Imagine what he'll be like after being sidelined nearly a month since suffering a lower-body injury in an NHL exhibition game Sept. 16 in Columbus.
"Farny's going for a hat trick this weekend – Rechlicz, Neilson and Wellar," teammate Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond joked after practice.
"I don't know about that," Farnham replied.
Farnham did say that when he returns to the lineup, he doesn't want to go 80 or 85 percent. He wants to go "full bore." Farnham at full bore is a handful for any opponent to deal with.
Other notes:
— Video coordinator Samson Lee filled in as the second goalie for the second straight day with Eric Hartzell out. Lee's spot will soon be taken by Peter Mannino, who stopped 21-of-22 shots in an ECHL exhibition game in Wheeling last night. Hynes said Mannino will join the Penguins this weekend.
— Something I'll be keeping an eye on this weekend: Power-play ice time. Everyone knows that veterans like Chris Conner, Andrew Ebbett, Brendan Mikkelson and Nick Drazenovic are going to see power-play time this season. What I'm curious to see is which young players are used in those spots and which take the opportunity and run with it. Tom Kuhnhackl, on the first unit today at practice, and Dominik Uher, on the second unit, will get the first cracks at it.
— Check out my Friday Morning Faceoff notebook online and in the paper tomorrow for a Wyatt Smith reference. I know you guys love those.
— Also included are some thoughts from Leblond on the new rule that assesses an extra unsportsmanlike conduct minor to a player who voluntarily removes his own helmet before a fight. To sum up, Leblond said he's all for trying to prevent fighters from hitting their heads on the ice during an altercation, but he's not sure the rule is going to have its intended consequence.
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Spektro Nucleation
Spektro Nucleation is a Max For Live device that functions as a waveshaper and bitcrusher. The basic idea was inspired by the eurorack module WMD Geiger Counter.
The device has 2 stages (waveshaping and bitcrushing) and, as in the WMD module, you can change the order of them. By activating the toggle next to the Bit Depth knob, you can position the bit-crusher before the waveshaper.
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On February 11, 1959 Chandu Borde was stopped just four runs short of two hundreds in the same Test match against the West Indies. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the way his 109 and 96 against Wes Hall and Roy Gilchrist saved India from defeat at Delhi.
Down 0-3 in the series, the Indian batsmen gave an impressive account of themselves in the first innings of the final Test at Feroz Shah Kotla in the 1958-59 series against the West Indies. Led by Major Hemu Adhikari after a series of rather ridiculous musical chairs surrounding the hot seat, the military man seemed to have pumped some discipline and sense of purpose into the veins of the batting line-up.
Polly Umrigar scored an enterprising 76 coming in at No 3. And the young leg-spinning all-rounder Chandu Borde, playing just his fourth Test match, struck a defiant century against the hostile bowling of Wes Hall and Roy Gilchrist.
The newly-appointed captain himself scored 63, adding 134 with Borde on the second morning. The partnership was of immense value, especially given that the two best Indian batsmen were already on the injury list. Umrigar had been hit on the arm during the last stages of his innings. Vijay Manjrekar had fractured his thumb while trying to hook a Hall bouncer. The two batsmen did not look likely to take any further part in the match.
The two frightening fast bowlers carried on the saga of intimidation. Gilchrist continued to unleash hair-parting bouncers. Hall, overstepping four times, pegged back Borde's off-stump with a no-ball. Yet, the young man was unperturbed. He continued to stroke freely, playing some forcing drives off the pace bowlers. Adhikari too, off-drove Gilchrist for four. Expecting a bouncer in retaliation, he ducked into one that did not rise and was struck on the body.
Borde, continuing fluently, drove Eric Atkinson delightfully off his toes and played Garfield Sobers and Collie Smith with consummate ease. And growing in confidence against Gilchrist, he guided him past point for a boundary to bring up his first Test match hundred.
He did not last much longer, snicking a loose delivery from Smith to Gerry Alexander behind the stumps for 109. Adhikari took the score to 399 before departing in a similar manner. India had done well in spite of the casualty list, their first innings amounting toa very respectable 415.
The second resistance
The West Indians however made merry after some butter-fingered catching granted numerous lives to Conrad Hunte. John Holt and Hunte added 159 for the first wicket, and with Borde unable to bowl on the third day due to a muscle strain and Umrigar not in the field, the limited bowling attack was plundered for runs. Subhash Gupte and Vinoo Mankad bowled 115 overs between them without picking up a wicket.
Holt, Smith and Joe Solomon hit hundreds, and when Alexander declared with a lead of 229, it was quite a task for the Indians to survive more a day and an hour with two of their frontline batsmen missing.
The second innings got off to a disastrous start with Nari Contractor run out with just five runs on the board.
On the final morning, Pankaj Roy and Datta Gaekwad started positively, striking attractive fifties. But with the wrist spin of Smith getting increasing help from the last day wicket, things soon looked ominous. Roy was dismissed shortly before lunch. A few minutes after lunch, Gaekwad became Smith's second victim. With the score on 135 for three, West Indies fancied their chances of pulling off their fourth victory in a row.
As the field closed in, the first innings pair of Borde and Adhikari defied the West Indians yet again. In a courageous display of counter-attack, the two added 108 in 117 minutes, wiping out the deficit and taking the match almost beyond the West Indians. They were essentially the last recognised pair. The aging Vinoo Mankad, padded up in the pavilion, had not been among runs in a long, long time.
Indeed, after Smith had snared Adhikari for 40, Mankad followed almost immediately – bowled by the leg-spinner with still enough time left in the match for the West Indians to engineer a win. Fate had balanced the equation on the casualty list. Sobers, Atkinson and Hall had fallen prey to injuries during the innings, but the remaining bowlers tried gamely.
However, even as Roy Gilchrist charged in with his intimidating pace in a last-ditch effort to snatch a victory in the dying stages of the game, wicketkeeper Naren Tamhane stayed with Borde for almost half an hour to ensure a draw.
The last few minutes witnessed a dramatic dash for Borde's second hundred of the match. Gupte and Ramkant Desai were found wanting as Gilchrist's scorching pace unsettled their stumps. With eight wickets down, Manjrekar sportingly walked out, with his fractured thumb in a cast, to stay with Borde as the young man sought to emulate Vijay Hazare's Adelaide feat of hundreds in both innings.
As Gilchrist ran in to bowl the last over of the day, Borde required four. The second ball was a typical Gilchrist bouncer. Borde tried to hook into the vacant outfield and tragically ended up hitting his own stumps.
Borde was stopped a stroke short of the rare glory of twin hundreds. But his three hours and 15 minutes of defiant vigil had saved the match for India. A delighted crowd crashed through the official cordons and gave him a rousing send off.
(Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket historian and Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry. He writes about the history and the romance of the game, punctuated often by opinions about modern day cricket, while his post-graduate degree in statistics peeps through in occasional analytical pieces. The author of three novels, he can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/senantix


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Dan Rose, Facebook's VP of partnerships and platform marketing, tells the New York Times, "What Disney is doing moves beyond just creating awareness to using the platform to acquire customers directly," Rose said. "This is the first time that a movie studio has tried this, which we think makes a lot of sense because moviegoing is one of those activities that is inherently social."
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Returns a list of supported job states.
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SharePoint Mode Required Permissions | None |
The following job states are supported.
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If you follow me on Twitter, you know I'm in love with Bill Maher. You might not agree with his politics, his ideology, or his bad language, but you've gotta admit that he has a knack for putting people in their place.
At the end of each episode, Bill Maher gives his New Rules — an editorial monologue on current events and pop culture. On April 30th, he targeted a bane of many in the user experience profession — CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart").
Captcha is a method for websites to verify that the user is in fact a human and not a malicious computer program. Coincidentally it was invented at my alma mater Carnegie Mellon University, so my apologies for bashing it. From a technical perspective it's great, but from a usability perspective it can be a total dead end. It completely interrupts a user's interaction with the site (as well as their train of thought), challenging them to correctly enter the distorted letters and numbers displayed before them, which are quite often impossible to decipher.
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America's understandable preoccupation with terrorism and Iraq may have obscured the gathering threat of China as a formidable adversary.
At an Asian security conference in Singapore, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last Friday delivered what some have called an unusually blunt critique of China. Rumsfeld noted that Beijing's military spending threatens Asia's delicate security balance. Instead of spending so much on weapons, Rumsfeld said, China should emphasize political freedom and open markets.
"Since no nation threatens China," Rumsfeld said, "one wonders why this growing [military] investment?" The answer is that rather than feeling threatened, China intends to threaten others, especially the United States.
In a brilliant new book by the late Constantine Menges, Ph.D., titled "China: The Gathering Threat," the former special assistant for national security affairs to President Reagan and national intelligence officer at the CIA soberly outlines the threat China already has become and persuasively argues how America can use its economic and moral weapons to stop the world's biggest nation without a shot being fired.
Menges writes that China has defined America as its "main enemy" and can now launch nuclear weapons at the United States that are capable of killing 100 million of us. China's effective espionage operation in the United States has managed to steal the designs of nearly all nuclear warheads and other military secrets, he says.
China has threatened to destroy entire American cities if the United States helps Taiwan defend itself against a military assault or invasion, Menges writes. China also buys weapons from Russia that are designed to sink U.S. aircraft carriers. It controls more than $200 billion in U.S. debt and sells more than 40 percent of its exports to America, using the profits to strengthen its economy and advanced weapons systems aimed at the United States.
Until recently, American policy has been to give China access to U.S. markets in hopes that might reduce tensions and hasten democratic reform. It has done no such thing. Menges argues it is time to try another approach.
First, he says, the United States must finish development of a reliable missile defense system that can be easily expanded should China, Russia or any nation attempt to overwhelm us by building additional missiles. Menges says the cost of expanding a missile defense system is far less than building new missiles and such cost will be prohibitive to enemy nations once they realize the United States can't be successfully attacked.
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Without a working missile defense system, he writes, the increased number of warheads and missiles now available and under construction will make the Chinese threat substantial -- he estimates by 2008, China will have more than 400 warheads capable of reaching U.S. territory.
Menges believes in "the importance of forthrightly informing the world about U.S. interests and actions. Truth is indeed the best policy." In his view, the United States often fails to respond to allegations by China and Russia that America seeks world domination.
He says we should be telling the world it is China and Russia that are spreading weapons of mass destruction and China's actions "demonstrate that while pursuing active commercial diplomacy to enhance its economic development and mostly avoiding visible conflict, China is also an expansionist, coercive, manipulative dictatorship."
As anyone who has bought anything can attest, the United States is fulfilling one of Lenin's doctrines by purchasing the rope with which the communists plan to hang us. Too many things sold in America are made in China and too many corporations have moved their plants and operations to China, undermining the U.S. domestic economy and helping a nation that seeks to destroy us.
One of many countermeasures recommended by Menges is the expulsion of all companies that function as fronts for the Chinese People's Liberation Army or other military or intelligence-related entities in China, Russia or any other nonallied state. Investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman estimates there are hundreds of such front companies in Southern California alone.
Rumsfeld's remarks and Menges' book reveal China's commitment to expanding its empire by intimidation and force, and how the United States had better take China's seriousness seriously if we are to confront and repel it.
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2 medium bananas
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32 semisweet chocolate chips
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Cut each banana in half lengthwise and halve each piece crosswise. Work with 1 wrapper at a time; cover the rest with a damp paper towel. Lay 1 wrapper on a work surface and lightly brush the edge with beaten egg white. Place a banana quarter 2 inches from the bottom of the wrapper and top it with 4 chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon of coconut. Fold the bottom edge over the filling and roll up 1 complete turn. Fold in the sides and continue rolling to form a tight cylinder. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
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Confession: last night we had Hamburger Helper for dinner.
The hamburger part of the meal probably had pink slime in it and came from a cow given all kinds of antibiotics and hormones, fed an unnatural diet, and lived a horrible life. The pasta part of the meal had preservatives and white flour. Don't get me started on the little packet of "sauce and seasoning" that was added in. Not sure I want to know what is in that.
If you think I am a bit paranoid, well maybe I am, but every source of media that I consume seems to be telling me that what I am eating is wrong. Although the complete and full effect of such things are yet to be truly discovered, we are seeing more and more links between unnatural food sources and disease.
An accumulation of pesticides in the human body can lead to cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and reproductive disorders. Consuming large amounts of overly processed foods and preservatives has links to cancer, heart disease, obesity and just a general trend of malnutrition as we trade in real food for more and more artificial additives.
This information is flying towards me at rapid speed via friends' blogs and status updates, my favorite TV shows, healthy living websites and even from my own common sense that can recognize that artificial food, chemicals and growth hormones should have no place in a healthy body or a healthy society or a healthy farm. Meal planning and grocery shopping has become the most anxiety-filled and depressing time of my week. My heart races. Feelings of frustration, helplessness, anger and panic dominate this would-be simple errand. I absolutely hate that I cannot afford to buy meat, eggs, milk and produce that come from a healthy agricultural system free of harmful pesticides and hormones.
Meal planning and grocery shopping has become the most anxiety-filled and depressing time of my week.
Regular ground beef is $4.00/lb., whereas organic is $9/lb. That jacks up the price of my hamburger helper meal quite a bit. Apples and bell peppers, two items with the highest pesticide residue, follow the same trend. It's $1.29 for a pound of regular apples and $2.99 for organic. It's 79 cents for a sweet pepper, $1.49 for an organic one. Studies show that sweet peppers have at least 50 different kinds of pesticide residue on them. Fifty.
You would think adding all these chemicals, hormones and additives would be more expensive than just plain old food.
You would think.
Can you see my dilemma? Can you feel my frustration?
I go back and forth between whether I should just cut meat out completely. Or cut out white flour completely. Or cut out refined sugar completely. Or just kill my whole family now since I am supposedly killing them slowly anyways. I feel utterly helpless to change the food industry in this country. I feel guilty for not making my own marinara sauce. I am in denial over the amount of frozen pizza and goldfish crackers we eat. For a short period of time I felt like an absolute goddess because I was managing to buy organic apples, the occasional free-range chicken and cheese that wasn't dyed orange; when that wasn't possible anymore I saw myself as a failure.
Eating healthy is important to me. Not getting cancer is important to me. But some other things are important to me that I am needing to remind myself of because I can't handle another Friday morning having a nervous breakdown in Fry's supermarket.
Those important things are these:
God didn't make us for food, God made food for us.
Secondly, my family is happy. Dinner time is so messy, so chaotic and so exhausting. But in between bites and swallows we are laughing and telling stories and connecting with one another.
Thirdly, God is bigger than food. Whenever I stress out because I think we should be eating less meat, or more meat, or no meat or fake meat, I remember that God didn't make us for food, God made food for us.
Lastly, I have friends and family to share with. In a day and age when the emotional and spiritual poverty is just as disastrous as diabetes and high blood pressure—I am so thankful that I have wonderful friends and family and neighbors and students with which to share a meal.
So I am going to continue to be dissatisfied with many of the health problems in our world and desire to change the way we relate to, purchase, grow, share, waste, poison and consume food. But I'm resolving not to let that hamper the joy I feel in making dinner for my loved ones every night. I am going to continue to bake my own bread and stay away as much as possible from unhealthy foods, but if what our budget allows for is something different I am resolving to simply be grateful that we have options.
So, I guess the real confession is not that I eat pink slime hamburger helper, but that I have nervous breakdowns at the supermarket.
I know there are lots of families and individuals who are also fighting the same internal and external battles that I am—let's all be encouraged in knowing that food is not our god.
God has given me a great task in taking care of my body, and the bodies and bellies of my family and anyone else I serve food to, but ultimately God has much more to give us than grass fed beef, or beef at all, really.
God desires to give us blessings so that we may bless others.
God desires to give us salvation and freedom and peace.
God desires to give us life—abundantly.
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Switching to organic produce to avoid pesticide consumption is like moving to Hogwarts because you hate magic. There is no benefit to eating organic (the pesticides they use are actually more deleterious), and non-GMO food is not safer, or better for the environment. As for livestock, findings are conflicting at best, so there is no real evidence that organic food is any different than conventional food, not to mention it is far from sustainable. There is also plenty of evidence that organic food contains pathogens from untreated manure used as fertilizer which are linked to food-borne illness.
For a couple of summers I have worked on wheat farms in Eastern Colorado and I grew up on a corn, soybean, and hog farm in Iowa. While I appreciate the desire to have healthier, more local foods (our own sweetcorn and tomatoes growing up were the bomb)--sometimes the reaction to eating only organic is like the reaction of driving a Prius. What I mean by that is that its a response in which you can feel good about, yet it might not be as good as you think for the environment nor is it economically viable for 99% of the world population.
In Eastern Colorado I worked on 10,000 acre wheat farms that had been sprayed with pesticides and herbicides? Could they simply have not used these chemicals? Not if they wanted a crop. Even with the modern day chemicals they could only get 20 bushel an acre crops (on ground used every other year or so). Without the chemicals weeds would suck all of the moisture out of the land which would, in turn, reduce the yield to maybe 5-6 bushels an acre--not economically worth even harvesting.
In Iowa we used round-up ready soybeans and we sprayed our cornfields as well. I can't find numbers for Iowa off the top of my head, but for Illinois I found some data concerning yields. In 1940 a farmer could expect 50 bushels an acre for corn. By 2000 due to advances in technology and methods the number reached 180 bushels per acrehttp://www.farmdoc.illinois.ed... . I personally have seen 200 bushel and acre crops in Iowa--something unheard of in my great-grandparents lifetime.
Also, I believe that the proper use of science to expand our food productivity is an ethical matter. Some time do some research on Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
His work on genetically modifying wheat to better survive in African and other dry regions has vastly raised food production and he has been credited with saving over a billion lives from starvation. Yes, that's a billion.
Ultimately, food production is a tricky topic. Yes, we do want to be environmentally and socially responsible. Eat good, yummy foods. But at least interact with the topic fairly and prayerfully.
I would encourage everyone to take a look at the science rather than the hype. Here are two links to some preliminary studies on the topic: http://www.reuters.com/article... and http://www.mayoclinic.com/heal.... Admittedly both show that more research needs to be done but nutritionally "organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs are comparable."
Some people have stated that organic food can lead to a healthier life which is unsubstantiated at best. What is proven by scientific research is that a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle will most definitely improve health.


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Bad Vibration and Humming from truck
Hey guys,
Quick question cause i thought it was an easy fix. When i hit and stay in a certain RPM range, i get a bad vibration through the truck and a "whoom whoom whoom" not very fast like the spinning of the driveshaft. I thought it might have been the U-Joints in the truck, but there is no play in either the front or rear driveshaft on my 5.7 limited. I get the vibration whether its cruising at or just shifting throught the 2-2300 rpm range, and also up around 2800-3000 rpm. any ideas? i cant really tell if its coming from the front or the rear of the truck, thats how bad the truck vibrates. It makes me think its the rearend, but im just not sure. Thanks in advance. Josh |
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sounds like a bad driveshaft......there were some unbalanced/bad driveshafts installed
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hmm, Yeah out of balance d-shaft sounds like it could be cause. Also might as well check out all the CV joints and maybe even the wheel bearings. Also fluids swaps may be in order if you havent done them at the intervals. Lots of times fluid leaks or old dirty fluid will cause one the of the diffs/tcase or trans to do things as you've described. Leaning towards those not being the culprit but the truck will love some fresh fluids if the time is near :) Anything rotational that takes force will wear obviously and then being to grind/hum/clunk etc etc. Very common, Im sure you will find the issue, just have to put the time and effort in to get - G/L with the diagnosis.
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Sounds like the same problem I had on my 99 Cherokee Limited. Found the culprit by accident as I was topping off the transfer case level. I lost the weight off my driveshaft which I noticed while under the car. (Lucky driveshaft was in right position to see this or I might still be chasing it around.)
A cleanup and re-balance later and all vibration has ceased. Good Luck with your diagnosis. :D |
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I keep reading that I should limit my ADHD son's sugar consumption. I make sure that he doesn't get a lot of the sweet stuff, and he seems a little calmer. Do you have low-sugar snack suggestions?
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Im being a responsible, frugal meat eater by doing thiscant vegetarians acknowledge my effort by letting slide the few tablespoons that might end up in their soup?Id hope so, because, to be honest, to do otherwise is really rude. While I realize that etiquette is on the wane at this late date, I maintain that it is very impolite to straight-up refuse something someone has taken the time to make for you (and the other, probably carnivorous people present) because of your personal preference.


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However, the rapid evolution of software development and platforms, together with the advent of the "always on" mobile economy, has given rise to many exciting investment opportunities outside the core Birchmere investment model. To pursue these opportunities, we're today launching Birchmere Labs focused on "community driven commerce" startups. These web and mobile startups will feature strong network effects enabling rapid viral growth, while delivering value from the first user via transaction-based revenue models.
Birchmere Labs is a studio and seed fund: we will both develop our own startups within the labs (studio fund) and invest in existing early stage startups (seed fund). This integrated portfolio model, developed after studying numerous web and mobile early stage investors and accelerators, will provide strong synergies to both the companies we launch internally and fund externally.
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Noma's but a bit more though.
Yup. Went there on Facebook's tab in December and took my family when they visited CA over the summer. Nice little place, if lacking in dessert options. That and Oren's are my favourite places on University Ave. Mountain View is decidedly lacking in comparison.
I maintain it's a bad cut for most people, that WAYWT is a clusterfuck when it gets offtopic, and that people are really nitpicky today.


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Mythic Oil
As time passes by, the natural oils in every individual's hair gradually dissolves, leaving it rough and dry. L'Oreal offers a variety of products that are formulated to use powerful oils to help the hair achieve a healthy balance, cleanse its roots and give out a vibrant shine. The New Mythic Oil masque, shampoo and conditioner use a Paraben-free formula that is very light and mild, perfect for everyday use. The Mythic Oil line offers the following products, which any person can enjoy. These are the Colour Glow, Souffle d'Or Sparkling Shampoo, Souffle d'Or Sparkling Conditioner, Nourishing Conditioner, Nourishing Masque, Nourishing Oil and the Reinforcing Milk. Any person can feel this ultimate experience by undergoing any of the four customized in-salon rituals, such as the Indulgent Service, Color Protecting Service, Scalp Clarifying Service and Nourishing Service. Each package consists of a combination of products that are used for different purposes, depending on a person's preference.


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So the letters of intent are in, after the one day of the year when the fax machine is still king. Besides all the new enlistees – notice how they're graded with stars, just like movies and restaurants -- who were the most compelling people from Wednesday's recruit-a-palooza?
Here are the top five in the post-signing day Something To Prove poll:
No. 1 Hugh Freeze.
Meet the new Incredible Hulk of recruiting. But now he's on the clock, to prove it's not the same Ole, same Ole at Mississippi.
It seemed like every hour Wednesday another blue chipper was putting on a Rebels cap. The No. 1-rated player in the nation, the No. 1 receiver, the No. 1 tackle, the No. 2 safety.
What did some voices on Twitter have to say about that? Ole Miss must be up to its chin straps in cheating, of course.
Freeze tried to answer back, but that didn't last long. ``I don't know that you can win when you engage in social media,'' he said at a press conference late in the day. No, Hugh, that's the Manti Te'o Rule.
Attention like this has been rare in Oxford. Mississippi finished a 2-10 season only 14 months ago. Mississippi hasn't played in a BCS-level bowl since 1970. Mississippi hasn't won the SEC or finished in the top 10 of the polls since 1963.
Must Prove: He can one day slay the dragons in the SEC West, since Mississippi, for whatever reason, is a hotter destination than Maui.
No. 2 Nick Saban.
Another signing day, another new shipment of Alabama armaments. There are enough running backs to stock a small league. You knew he hadn't lost a step in recruiting magic when he lured in a prized linebacker who has an Auburn tattoo.
``Just because you buy the puppy dog with the biggest feet doesn't mean it's going to grow up to be the biggest or best hunting dog,'' he said at his signing day press conference. ``That's what I learned in West Virginia when I was little.''
But this is what everyone else has earned in several recent BCS championship games: Saban knows his puppies. Or as South Carolina's Steve Spurrier put it, recruiting doesn't always pan out, but ``of course it usually pans out at Alabama every year.''
Must Prove: What will last longer, the Saban or the Roman Empire?
No. 3 Urban Meyer.
The new Ohio Staters come from 10 states, with seven of them from Texas, Florida and Georgia. Sounds like Meyer is trying to SEC-ify the Buckeyes.
He still brought in a decent number of Ohio native sons and vowed there will be more. But he wants more incendiary devices on the roster, and knows just where to look. For eons, Big Ten coaches have talked about adding Southern speed to their Midwestern muscle to compete against the elite. Meyer has every intention to do that, bemoaning the lack of big-play sizzle from his first Buckeyes team. You remember, the one that went 12-0.
``If there's a perception that we're chasing (the SEC), that's fine. I wouldn't disagree with you,'' Meyer said. ``We want to increase our speed on our team a little bit.''
Must prove: This will work in the snowbelt.
No. 4 Lane Kiffin.
It's not just that top recruits de-committed and fled USC like aliens were coming. Look where they went. Straight to the Trojans' most reviled enemies. Defensive end Kylie Fitts to UCLA. Defensive tackle Eddie Vanderdoes to Notre Dame.
The Trojans even lost one guy to ... Kentucky?
With only 13 signees, Kiffin said it was a matter of quality over quantity. Well, we'll see.
Must prove: USC is not the Titanic, and he is not Captain Smith.
No. 5. Andrea McDonald.
OK, maybe it's a tad over the top to sabotage your own son's letter-of-intent signing to try to keep him closer to home. But millions of mothers probably understood McDonald's heart, as she sought to veto Alex Collins' decision to go to Arkansas, rather than stay in the neighborhood at Miami.
Must prove: She understands that in the end, the decision must be his.
But that's signing day for you. Exhausted coaches, relieved players, anxious parents. And who knows what any of it will mean in the end?
``The only thing I know,'' Spurrier said, "back in 2008, I think Florida had the No. 1 class and two years later, that No. 1 class drove Urban Meyer to retirement.''
Come to think of it, everyone has something to prove after signing day.


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Born | Sydney, Australia |
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Alma mater | Macquarie University |
Occupation | Hedge fund manager |
Net worth | $743 million (Business Review Weekly)[1] |
Greg Coffey is an Australian hedge fund manager based in London.
Early life and education[edit]
Coffey graduated with a Bachelor of Actuarial Studies from Macquarie University.[2]
Coffey joined Macquarie Bank in 1993 and in 1994 traded emerging-market equity derivatives at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank AG.[3] Coffey was hired by Blueborder Partners, a George Soros related hedge fund and hired by Bank Austria to oversee global equity proprietary trading.
Coffey had previously been a trader at GLG Partners (GLG), leaving behind his $200m GLG Partners compensation package. Industry sources estimated that Coffey had been responsible for two-thirds of GLG's performance fees during his time there.[4][5] In November 2008, Coffey left GLG to become co-chief investment officer of Moore Europe Capital Management, a subsidiary of Moore Capital Management. [6][7][8][9]
Personal life[edit]
Coffey is estimated to have earned £170m in the previous year after increasing by 51% the value of his emerging markets fund.[10]
In November 2010 Coffey bought Ardfin Estate, a 12,000-acre sporting estate on the island of Jura in Scotland.[11] The purchase attracted controversy and concern over Coffey's decision to close the estate's public gardens, whose 2,500 visitors a year formed a significant source of income for Jura.[12] In 2011, a spokesperson for Coffey said that his "full intention" was to re-open the gardens during 2012, but the gardens have remained closed.[13] However, plans have been unveiled for a new 18-hole private golf course on the estate [14]
- ^ "Youngest billionaire Nathan Tinkler leads the charge on the BRW rich list". Business Review Weekly. Sydney, Australia. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 22 Sep 2011.
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- ^ Walsh, Kate (27 April 2008). "Greg Coffey wizard of Oz". The Times. London.
- ^ Molony, James (22 April 2008). "Greg Coffey to step down from UK hedge fund GLG Partners in October". Forbes.
- ^ Sibun, Jonathan (6 August 2008). "GLG Partners posts 64pc less as star Greg Coffey eyes London". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Star hedge fund manager Coffey joins Moore Capital". Reuters. 3 November 2008.
- ^ "A Bright Spot in Tough Times". The New York Times. 4 November 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ^ FT.com / Financials - Coffey hedges to join Bacon
- ^ Greg Coffey hires spin doctors to handle PR
- ^ Bowers, Simon (3 October 2008). "Andrew Baker: Soft seller defends the 'spivs and speculators'". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Wilson, Peter (16 April 2011). "Aussie stars shine in funds revival". The Australian.
- ^ Cowing, Emma (15 May 2011). "Everything in Jura's garden far from rosy". The Scotsman. Edinburgh.
- ^ [2] Will Jura now see more of the Wizard of Oz ?
- ^ http://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/Article/New-course-plan-for-Scottish-island/2520/Default.aspx


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DEC Public Meeting for Brockport Superfund Site 3/13
The NYS DEC will be in town Tuesday night to hold a public meeting on the remedy proposed for the State Superfund Site in the Village of Brockport.
The site is the JMT Facility – formerly a G.E. and Black & Decker Site at 200 State Street in Brockport.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. a the Seymour Library, 161 East Avenue in Brockport.
Due to the importance of this meeting, the Village of Brockport has adjusted the time of their monthly Village Board meeting that night to a 6 p.m. start instead of 7 p.m.


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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › WM Sleeping Bag – Which One?
Jun 21, 2010 at 8:04 pm #1260395
I've finally decided to pull the trigger on a Western Mountaineering sleeping bag. This will be my first sleeping bag as I'm a newbie to overnights.
I'm specifically looking for a sleeping bag for the Olympic Northwest Coast in Sept. (mid 40s-upper 50s)
Which bag should I be looking at? Will the Highlight 35 be sufficient, or should I be looking at the Megalite (30)
I also plan on doing some overnights in the Rockies in the fall and figure I'll have to get a warmer bag for that.
Having never done an overnight, I want to be careful not to make the wrong decision.
Jun 21, 2010 at 8:56 pm #1622209If you are sure the coldest you would see is 45 then the 35 degree bag should do just fine. If you could catch some nights in the mid to low 30s then you would have the wrong bag without wearing the right clothing inside the bag.
The WM bags are top notch. You will be glad you went with one.
Jun 21, 2010 at 9:05 pm #1622213If the megalight has more girth, then you can use clothing to boost the bag's temp rating without compressing the clothing(down jacket) or the down in the sleeping bag.
JohnJun 21, 2010 at 10:44 pm #1622255Be sure to check in Gear Deals for a good price on WM
Jun 22, 2010 at 12:32 am #1622271I have just reviewed my Summerlite on http://www.journeymantraveller.com – have a look. I loved it and vastly preferred it to the Mountain Hardwear Phantom 32. I'm not going to bore you by reproducing the review here – go look if you want to. It's good down to 32F, a snug fit but fulsome enough to have an insulating jacket on (I had a Patagonia Nano Puff and that was fine). It's also very light too although bank on 575-595g rather than the advertised 525g.
Jun 22, 2010 at 8:59 am #1622331I think that making the decision by the 5* temp rating difference isn't the best process to take. Look at the reasons WM rates them differently…
The HighLite has a 1/2 length zip, which I don't care for in warmer temps; venting is important to me, not to everyone. The HighLite has 1/2 baffles sewn thru; the chambers are boxed more than tubes, so it's not like there are lots of thin/cold spots. But if you're pushing the range on the bag it'll make a bit of a difference.
The two bags are different cuts. The SummerLite and HighLite would be a more direct comparison, as they both have the 59" shoulder girth. The SummerLite would give you a fully-baffled bag, a full-length zip, & a slightly more sculpted hood. The MegaLite is the wider-cut version of the SummerLite, w/shoulder girth of 64 inches. It does also add a nominal passive top draft collar.
The girth is significant not only in terms of fit or heat efficiency, but also because a wider bag will require more down to achieve the same amount of warmth…
I find the SummerLite to be a more versatile option than the HighLite, and plenty roomy enough to layer a down vest or jacket. (I'm 5'6" & ~165 pounds) Seems like it'd be a good option for you, unless you need or want the extra girth of the Mega.
Jun 22, 2010 at 9:14 am #1622344I have a new Kodiak for sale in the Gear Swap. It could be a very nice choice for fall excursions in the rockies, and the price is terrific.
Jun 22, 2010 at 9:28 am #1622351TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Seriously, go to a store that carries them. Call first to be sure they have the bags in stock that you want to try.
You want to check the fit – especially the shoulder girth. WM basically makes each TYPE of bag in one of two shoulder girths; regular (59 inches) and wide (62+ inches). Same bag; they just change the names.
Summerlite: 59 inches, 32°
Megalite: 64 inches, 30°, wide adds draft collarUltralite: 59", 20°
Alpinlite: 64", 20°Match the shoulder girth to your sleeping style. For example, if I were to only sleep on my back, 59" will work. But I don't; I'm a side sleeper who rolls a lot. I need the extra space so I'm not compressing the down above my top shoulder when I'm on my side, and so my elbows have room to move.
If you're going to augment your bag with clothing, like an insulated jacket, in an effort to stretch the temperature rating below the default rating, take that jacket with you to the store as well.
WM bags are expensive, but the quality is out of this world. My Hooded Aspen MF – now the Sycamore MF – is still going strong after 15+ years on the trail.
Jun 22, 2010 at 9:29 am #1622352I have both a badger and megalite i like the extra width of these 2 bags. for fall in teh rockies I would get the badger in microfiber, but for most other times of the year I would get the megalite. As far as shell fabric goes, I really like the microfiber of the badger compared to the extream-lite of the megalite. If you are only going down into the teens, you probably would be able to gain enough warmth by wearing your insulating layes in the magalite.
Jun 22, 2010 at 9:59 am #1622361I'd go for the Summerlite/Megalite.
Jun 22, 2010 at 10:06 am #1622364Like Bob said, good to try them on first. We all have different tolerances; my buddy has a skinnier build than me and prefers a wider cut. I'm a side sleeper, tosser and turner, and love my SummerLite; I roll with the bag, not inside it. I've just always used mummy bags that way, turning inside them is a bit of a pain for me. Just gotta play and figure out your preferences.
Jun 22, 2010 at 5:10 pm #1622510Thanks for the info everyone…after a little more research I've narrowed down my choices to the Aplinlite or the Megalite. The extra girth is important to me as I'm a side sleeper. I worry the Alpinlite may be overkill for the warmer seasons, and I figure for fall in the rockies I'll require a warmer bag anyway, so figure I'll have 2 bags before this is over.
I wish I could try one of these in person, but I'm in backpacker's wasteland in central Iowa. So I rely on aggregating all of the opinons online!
Rob – Thanks for the pointer to Good Deals!
Jun 22, 2010 at 5:58 pm #1622531Too bad you can try them out in person… that would be best.
I got a new one about a month ago and was able to try them on. I was debating between the Summerlite and Megalite (same temp, different girth). I'm 6'1" and around 180 lbs. The Summerlite girth was adequate, but just a tad snug in the elbows when I clasped my hands across my stomach. It didn't leave lots of room for adding a down jacket in case I wanted to. I ended up going with the Megalite. It is absolutely huge inside (seriously!), but I justified the size with being able to add the down jacket. And I can toss and turn all I want. If they had something with a 62" girth that would have been perfect for me, but they didn't. On the plus side I can also unzip it and use it as a quilt for two!
Jun 22, 2010 at 7:13 pm #1622553You can always use the Alpinlite as a quilt in warmer temps. Using a bag as a quilt works great when sidesleeping for me. So you can save a bunch of money by buying just one bag. But you'll also carry 1/2 lb more when it's not needed.
Jun 22, 2010 at 7:41 pm #1622560Consider buying a used bag as partial insurance against getting one that is not suitable for you. You can often sell a used one for near what you paid for it. Consider the small loss as a rental fee. Similar to cars, bags lose a big slice of value going from new to used but lose much less going from second owner to third owner.
As others have mentioned, WM makes mummy bags in two standard widths. Once you have tried on a narrow and a wide one, you can choose a temp rating and already know how the fit will be. You can see that on the bag spec sheet page at the WM website. Notice how the -lite bags are still cut to the same sizes as the mammals and tribes bags, -lite bags use a different fabric.
Good luck on guessing what you need with no previous experience, the Gear Swap is for the rest of us who have never guessed right on the first try of any type of gear.
Jun 22, 2010 at 9:24 pm #1622589Well, I pulled the trigger and ordered the Megalite.
Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions.
Jun 23, 2010 at 1:25 pm #1622756I've owned a Megalite for 3 years and have had excellent use. Its extra girth permits me to wear insulated clothes inside to extend the temperature range at least another 10 F.as I've done several times.
Plus on hot summer nights I can unzip it all the way and, tucking my full length Thermarest Lite in the bag's foot, use it as a comforter.
P.S. I hate to say this but a down "sweater" (light jacket) is an item that pairs nicely with the Megalite. It's also a good "safety" item for very cold mornings, cold windy days and chilly evenings. So, if you don't have one, consider a down sweater as one of the "must haves" for your gear list.
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Bet on David Villa for the World Cup Golden Boot
He shoots… he probably scores!
Of course, much money will be thrown around during the World Cup, so The Spoiler is more than happy to accept decent betting advice from those in the know. Here's what some friends of the site had to say about the race for the Golden Boot:
The latest World Cup Golden Boot Odds make Spain and Barcelona striker David Villa the favourite to score more goals than anyone else this summer but it looks a competitive betting heat with top players such as Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney in opposition at the world's greatest football show.
David Villa is the one most people want to bet on and it's not hard to see why, he is an absolute goal machine who also chips in with penalties and free kicks, which can give the extra goal or two required to ensure a set of shiny slippers come the tournament's end. He has 37 goals in 56 games for his country which is an amazing ratio and that helped him to become Golden Boot at Euro 2008.
The next best contenders are believed to be Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney, but their goal records don't compare to Villa's – Messi has 13 and 44, whilst Rooney has 25 in 60. With Diego Maradona probably being more of a hindrance than a help to Argentina's chances at the World Cup, Rooney looks the better bet of the two.
Others who are also well fancied include Cristiano Ronaldo, but he failed to score in qualifying, and also Fernando Torres, but he is still recovering from surgery. At much bigger prices it could be better to follow players such as Humberto Suazo for Chile, who outscored everyone in South American during qualifying.
One of the best things about betting at the World Cup is taking advantage of all the World Cup Free Bets, that are listed on the highlighted link. The bookies are desperate to have you betting with them and give many generous offers that can help make it a very profitable World Cup.


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Posts Tagged 'Checklists'.
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We use ad-blockers as well, you know. We gotta keep those servers running though. Did you know that we publish useful books and run friendly conferences — crafted for pros like yourself? E.g. upcoming SmashingConf San Francisco, dedicated to smart front-end techniques and design patterns.
We are pleased to present below all posts tagged with 'Checklists'.
Are you using progressive booting already? What about tree-shaking and code-splitting in React and Angular? Have you set up Brotli or Zopfli compression, OCSP stapling and HPACK compression? Also, how about resource hints, client hints and CSS containment — not to mention IPv6, HTTP/2 and service workers?
Performance isn't just a technical concern: It matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Performance has to be measured, monitored and refined continually, and the growing complexity of the web poses new challenges that make it hard to keep track of metrics, because metrics will vary significantly depending on the device, browser, protocol, network type and latency (CDNs, ISPs, caches, proxies, firewalls, load balancers and servers all play a role in performance).
Read more...It's nearly impossible to provide an accurate quote to a prospective web design client without first gathering information about what that particular client needs. Some designers do this in either a face-to-face meeting or over the phone, but more often, they have a questionnaire that prospective clients fill out. This is preferable for a couple of reasons, but the most important is probably that this document then becomes an integral part of the design process and is available to refer back to along the way.
So the question is whether you should put that questionnaire up on your website, or only send it to prospective clients once they've contacted you. There are a couple of reasons you may want to make it available online, but the obvious one is that clients are often eager to get started with their projects and so by providing the questionnaire online, this eliminates a step in the pre-contract part of the process.
Here, we've collected questionnaires and worksheets used by actual web design companies, including some of the leaders in the industry. There are both online and downloadable forms included, as well as the pros and cons for each format.
Read more...One thing that can be said about human beings is that we are, by and large, creatures of habit. We establish routines, consciously and subconsciously, that help us accomplish tasks or move us more quickly or comfortably through our day. Habits are formed in the design and development community just as they are in nearly every other professional and personal environment, and they serve any number of purposes. In design and development circles, one established habit is seen with the launch of a website or project.
Naturally, each of us has developed a process that we engage in as we wrap up a project, but a few procedures tend to be used over and over again by the masses. We know this because we ran a poll on this very topic on Twitter. We got many great responses, but the community tends towards a few common practices. We could see as we looked through the list of entries that certain wrap procedures seem to have mass appeal (judging by the number of times they were given as answers), so we began to examine the benefits they offered and what they say about those who fall back on them.
Read more...Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there's a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done. That's where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. With lists of points covering multiple areas from content to usability to accessibility to standards, you're a lot less likely to overlook important parts of a site. [Content Care Dec/16/2016]
Below are 45 checklists to make your design process easier and more organized. Consider using these checklists as a jumping off point for creating your own customized list, based on your own needs.
Read more...Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It's time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it's useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world. [Content Care Dec/15/2016]
This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release.
A favicon brands the tab or window in which your website is open in the user's browser. It is also saved with the bookmark so that users can easily identify pages from your website. Some browsers pick up the favicon if you save it in your root directory as favicon.ico, but to be sure it's picked up all the time, include the following in your head.
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The Romans constructed aqueducts to bring a constant flow of water from distant sources into cities and towns, supplying public baths, latrines, fountains and private households. Waste water was removed by the sewage systems and released into nearby bodies of water, keeping the towns clean and free from noxious waste. Some aqueducts also served water for mining, processing, manufacturing, and agriculture.


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Although many people watching The French Connection since the 1970s may not understand its importance, this film helped to build the basis for cops and robbers films everywhere. The French Connection has all the basic elements of a good cops and robbers film, but at the time it was filmed these were relatively new and were not cliché. Additionally, The French Connection used a documentary style to make the events seem more real since the film was actually loosely based on a true story. The elements of the film are brought together to form a seamless story.
One of the greatest successes of The French Connection is Gene Hackman's chase scene. After Nicoli tries to kill Doyle at his home, Doyle begins to chase Nicoli through the streets and subways of New York City. Swerving between cars, barely avoiding pedestrians, and always keeping his...
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