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The Lady Bisons won 2-0 Friday afternoon over Butler in the opening game of the Lady Bison Classic. Ryman knows she should be happy with the win, but she was struggling with the fact that her Lady Bisons only had two hits in the game.
"This team has to play to its own level of capability," Ryman said. "This is a team that is still trying to find its identification."
Catcher Mollie Mitchell drove in both runs. Her first RBI was on a bases loaded walk in the third inning. The other was on a double to center field in the fifth.
Mitchell leads the team with 12 RBI and also leads in multiple RBI games with four.
Third baseman Rena' Cothron also had a double for the Lady Bisons.
"Rena' adjusted and battled late in the game," Ryman said. "I think some of the hitting situation is a confidence issue.
"Some of our players have lost a little bit of confidence in their hitting. And I think a lot of that confidence is built in practice."
Weather is still a concern for the tournament Saturday. At 2:15 p.m. Butler will face Eastern Illinois followed by Lipscomb against both Appalachian State at 2:30 and Eastern Illinois at 4:45.
Lady Bisons' pitcher Whitney Kiihnl, 6-4, struck out 14 Butler hitters. She was working on her second no-hitter of the season until Lauren McNulty hit a line drive single over the shortstop and into left field to lead off the seventh.
"Whitney is very capable," Ryman said. "She struck out 14, but we didn't see her best all-around performance."
Ryman has been stressing the need for consistent work in practice that will translate into how the team performs in game situations.
"We want to try to improve every time we go out on the field," Ryman said. "We are challenging our girls to find out what motivates them. They cannot motivate other players until they know how to motivate themselves.
"It all starts with practice and preparation. We get more out of practice some days than we do others. We can't be wishy, washy. We have to be more consistent."
The Lady Bisons are 6-8. Butler slipped to 1-4.
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- What Is Maraviroc?
- Who Should Take It?
- What About Drug Resistance?
- How Is Maraviroc Taken?
- What Are the Side Effects?
- How Does It React With Other Drugs?
- The Bottom Line
What Is Maraviroc?
Maraviroc (Selzentry in the US and Celsentri elsewhere) was formerly known as UK 427,857. It is a drug used for antiretroviral therapy. It is manufactured by ViiV Healthcare.
Maraviroc is the first "attachment inhibitor" drug. When HIV infects a cell, it attaches to the outside of the cell. It uses molecules on the surface of the CD4 cell to attach to the cell before fusing with it. Maraviroc blocks the receptor called a CCR5 molecule. When maraviroc blocks this receptor, HIV cannot infect that cell.
The preference of HIV for one type of attachment molecule is called tropism. Maraviroc only works against HIV that uses CCR5 to enter the CD4 cell. Before patients are prescribed maraviroc, they must take a tropism test to make sure that their virus uses the CCR5 receptor. See Fact Sheet 129 for information on tropism tests.
Who Should Take It?
Maraviroc was approved in 2007 as an antiretroviral drug against HIV as part of an antiretroviral regimen. It shold only be used by people whose virus is "CCR5 tropic." Maraviroc has not been studied in children, pregnant women, people with serious liver problems, or older adults.
There are no absolute rules about when to start antiretroviral drugs. You and your health care provider should consider your CD4 cell count, your viral load, any symptoms you are having, and your attitude about taking HIV medications. Fact Sheet 404 has more information about guidelines for the use of antiretroviral medications.
Maraviroc is taken twice a day. It will most likely be used by people who have very few choices of antiretroviral medications in pill form. If you take maraviroc with other antiretroviral drugs, you can reduce your viral load and increase your CD4 cell counts. This should mean staying healthier longer.
What About Drug Resistance?
The HIV virus is sloppy when it makes copies of its genetic code (RNA). Many new copies of HIV are mutations: they are slightly different from the original virus. Some mutations can continue to multiply even when you are taking an antiretroviral drug. When this happens, the drug will stop working. This is called "developing resistance" to the drug. See Fact Sheet 126 for more information on resistance.
Resistance to maraviroc is not well understood. With combination therapy (taking more than one antiretroviral drug at the same time), HIV mutates much more slowly. Resistance takes longer to develop. It is very important to take antiretroviral medications according to instructions, on schedule, and not to skip or reduce doses.
Sometimes, if you develop resistance to one drug, you will also have resistance to other antiretroviral drugs. This is called "cross-resistance." Because maraviroc is in a new class of antiretroviral drugs, it seems to have almost no cross resistance with antiretroviral drugs in older classes.
How Is Maraviroc Taken?
Maraviroc is provided as 150 mg or 300 mg film-coated tablets. The adult dosage of maraviroc can be 150 mg, 300 mg, or 600 mg twice daily. The dosage depends on which other drugs are being used for antiretroviral therapy. The standard dose is 300 mg twice daily. The 150 mg dose is needed if you are taking certain drugs including delavirdine or most protease inhibitors. The 600 mg dose is used with efavirenz, etravirine and other drugs that can lower blood levels of maraviroc. The dosage should be reduced for patients with serious kidney problems.
Maraviroc can be taken with or without food.
What Are the Side Effects?
The most common side effects of maraviroc include cough, fever, upper respiratory infections, rash, sore muscles, abdominal pain, and dizziness. People taking maraviroc also may have an increased risk for cardiovascular events such as heart attack, or dizziness when standing up quickly.
Maraviroc can be hard on the liver. People taking maraviroc should tell their health care provider if they have any signs of liver problems such as rash, yellowing skin or eyes, dark urine, vomiting, or abdominal pain. However, maraviroc appears to reduce liver stiffness (fibrosis).
How Does It React With Other Drugs?
Maraviroc has important interactions with many anti-HIV medications. These require changes in the dosage of maraviroc. Maraviroc should usually not be taken by patients with serious kidney problems who are also taking ritonavir.
The herb St. John's wort (see Fact Sheet 729) lowers the blood levels of maraviroc. Do not use it with maraviroc. Maraviroc has not been studied with all medicines, over-the-counter drugs or vitamin or herbal supplements. Be sure your health care provider knows about all medications and supplements that you are taking.
The Bottom Line
Maraviroc is the first drug in a new class. It stops HIV from attaching to a cell. This prevents HIV from infecting the cell. Maraviroc helps control HIV, even when it is resistant to other medications.

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In celebration of Ars Poetica, Rachel Eliza Griffiths' exhibition of photographs of Cave Canem faculty and fellows, the Poetry Society of America is presenting a selection of her portraits, each one accompanied by a poem from a Cave Canem poet she has captured on film.
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths is also the author of two chapbooks, Turn of Heaven (Paris Boulevard Press) and According to Beauty (Paris Boulevard Press) and two forthcoming full-length collections of poetry, Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010) and Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2011).
As the poet Nikky Finney remarks in her essay reproduced below "Because of her gifted, mindful pressing private eye on us, we discover what we could never completely see before, all around us, could never completely find before, right there in full shadow and slated sun, not even with our own two eyes: All of every bit of who we are." It is an exhibition not to be missed.
Portrait of Nikky Finney by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
"The eye is an organ of vision quite sensitive to light. Eyes are either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of a skull. They function together or independently."
—The Free Dictionary
In her self-portrait there are two of her; two bodies with the same face, one poet, one photographer, dressed in different outfits, sitting side by side, in a stylized Frida Kahlo pose. The two Rachel's extend left and right arm into the heart of the frame, while left and right hand flutter into its low center, touching lightly, one atop the other. Rachel-left cradles a tiny manual typewriter in her lap, while Rachel-right gentles the boxy frame of a baby (perhaps) Rolleiflex SLR with crank advance. Two sets of eyes stare wide and clear back into the single eye of the camera. Both Rachel's snapped this self-portrait.
In the world of photography & poetry—eyes rule. In the photography & poetry world of Rachel Eliza Griffiths—eyes reign.
In one of Rachel Eliza Griffiths' photographs, the long, woven, dread-wool hair, of modern America's finest living writer, falls down her back. We see no face, yet still she is pulled to the public's eye by the keen exacting eye of the photographer. In another frame, a woman's bare black feet, rest against the cool of a galvanized washtub. Her toes, clearly, have eyes for the curves of the tin thanks to the angle of the shot. In another moment a steel blue whale jumps, leaps, into an unknown bay, as if keeping his eyes peeled for modern whalers that the conscious photographer must have whispered might be coming. Then, there are the three Black women sequestered, positioned, perched in white like graceful egrets, up to their eyes in the limbs of a hundred year old tree. In another frame a chewing chimpanzee lays back, resting easy, lazy on its side, somehow still able to see, cousin-to-cousin, eye-to-eye, with the camera-holding seer. Then there is the arresting photo of two nipples, standing at attention, in slanted, refracted low light, making sheep eyes back at the lens. Another photograph catches a pair of Black hands, clasped and lathered, the skin of the hands speckled in wet sparkling dirt. The owner of the hands is not in the frame, yet we know by way of the photographer's precision, that he is looking us dead in the eye. And then there are the two-hundred eyes of the one hundred poets, fractured, off center, Leadbelly-ed, amorphous, quartered, halved, Pulitzer-ed, twitching, with hat on, with hat off, bent, sunshiny, rhythmic, Petrarchanesque, some, set in free verse, all, resembling, saying, promising, finally, there is far more to us than meets the naked uncaring eye.
For one hundred years it has been the human holding the camera, our chosen picture-taker, who has pulled us forward, from horrific past to sweet kodachrome of future. For one hundred years, it has been the photographer, our chosen picture-taker, choosing to turn us over to posterity with all deliberate care, turning a blind eye to all that they said we were, in order to embrace all that she sees we are.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is our sleuth. She is our private eye with camera, unafraid to see us, snap us, hold us, give never-ending chase, to us, as we live and breathe in our most natural skin(s). Inside her camera our many secrets open. We; human, whale, butterfly, envelope of sky, graveyard, Lincoln Memorial, frigid Obama Inauguration day, fedora, nipple, clavicle, who appear by way of her eye and camera, revel in her eye on us. Because of her gifted, mindful pressing private eye on us, we discover what we could never completely see before, all around us, could never completely find before, right there in full shadow and slated sun, not even with our own two eyes: All of every bit of who we are.


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In the "city that care forgot," (or that forgot to care?), the best time of the year is Jazz Fest. It's the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May, and we all pile in our cars or get on our bicycles and head for the Fair Grounds to indulge ourselves in all that Jazz Fest is. It's the sum of the whole that makes it an experience to anticipate excitedly every year.
You walk in the gate at whatever entrance you choose, and hear the familiar deep tones of the Jazz Fest announcer coming over the loudspeakers. You smear yourself with suntan lotion and get ready for the sun to begin warming your sandaled toes. You feel the breeze wafting the smell of barbecue from one of the food booths, but you're not going there. No, you're standing in line at the soft-shell crab poboy booth because before you go to hear any music, you've GOT to have that rare local treat . Or maybe for you it's the strawberry mint iced tea booth you hit first. Or maybe you immediately go the biggest stage with your friends and set up your encampment, complete with the artistically decorated flag you carry around every year to mark your spot.
Then you're ready to check out your "cube" to see what musical act you should hit first. There's so much to choose from it takes a strategy equal to Napoleon's to make sure you don't miss that set by Trombone Shorty, or Dwayne Dopsie on his accordion at the Fais Do Do tent. And of course you've got to get lined up to get somewhere to stand, or sit if you're lucky, for one of the headliners-Bruce Springsteen, or Dr. John, or whoever the festival has laid out for your pleasure that day. Or maybe you're one of the legions of fans of the Gospel Tent, where all day long you can stay in relatively cool comfort and hear the best spirituals and gospel music out there, getting some of that old-time religion. Or grab an umbrella and second-line in the Economy Hall tent to Tim Laughlin's wailing clarinet.
Actually, it's not a bad idea just to wander around. Randomness really works best at Jazz Fest. You can hear some unexpectedly beautiful sounds that way, making memories for the rest of your life.
Maybe you like to shop? The crafts are so well-curated and beautiful that you might as well be in a museum—but you're not. You're at Jazz Fest, and you can buy a handmade straw hat from Tracy Thomson at Kabuki Hats to wear immediately, if you need instant gratification . Or a pair of gorgeous earrings, or carved African sculptures. Who knows what you'll see this year—maybe one of your favorites from past years, or maybe something entirely new to show off to your friends.
If you're really tired, and savvy, you know that you can always go to the Grandstand for the bathrooms and the air-conditioning; and catch an up-and-coming or quirky act at the Lagniappe Stage. In the past, local favorite Teresa Anderson played there; this year it's Kristin Diable, another talented and lovely songstress, and always the irrepressibly weird Bobby Lounge, the Mississippi piano player known for his surreal stage act. It's hard to go wrong. Wait, did somebody just walk by with Crawfish Monica? Better head back to the food booths! It's Jazz Fest, and it'll be another year before you get to eat that again.
Jazz Fest is an amazing expereince, hope this entry gave you some insight to how special this event is. It does belong on your bucket list.


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The High Egyptian-Lebanese Committee's summit, due on Wednesday, will primarily focus on political cooperation as the region readied itself for the Israeli pullout, Lebanon's Economy Minister Nasser Saidi told the Daily Star on Tuesday.
The committee, which oversees agreements and protocols between the two countries, will meet in Beirut, according to the Lebanese English daily.
Prime Minister Salim Hoss and his Egyptian counterpart, Atef Obeid, due to arrive on Wednesday for an official three-day visit, will preside over the Committee's opening meeting.
Saidi said the conference would also target tourism, trade and other fields in which the countries could cooperate.
Saidi pointed out that the Lebanese and Egyptian economies have much in common and outlined fields where Lebanese-Egyptian ties could boost, such as power, trade, copyrights, World Trade Organization membership and the European Union-Mediterranean partnership agreements.
He also argued, in a meeting co-chaired by Egyptian Minister for Planning Ahmad al-Darash, that Arab trade ties needed to be strengthened to combat challenges from regional blocks such as the EU and the WTO.
"Arab states are in dire need of unity because we can no longer sidestep nor delay setting up a viable regional block capable of confronting global challenges," Saidi said.
"It is therefore imperative that we speed up liberalizing inter-Arab trade in order to move into the international markets," he told the paper – Albawaba.com
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Monolith plans on injecting new life into F.E.A.R. 2 multiplayer next month with the Toy Soldiers map pack, which promises to deliver a new perspective to the F.E.A.R. 2 online experience.
Monolith will begin releasing premium downloadable content for F.E.A.R. 2 in April, including a premium theme, a picture pack, and this Toy Soldiers map pack. The announcement doesn't go into detail as to what the Toy Soldiers map pack is, though the mention of a new perspective might mean they're going to be tossing out a variant on the classic tiny-people, giant living area maps that have had gamers tickled pink since the original Unreal.
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Now this question I have among various others I'm attempting to figure out is part of my homework. However, I am NOT asking you to solve it for me, I just want to be sure I know what I'm doing.
The question in particular I am asking is this,
Assume that you are connected to the homework server through two routers. How
many milliseconds will it take to send the file? Assume that each router has a processing
delay of 80 s.
It's not as simple as just 160 s right, (which I would then convert to ms)? Because you have to first turn the message on your computer into a frame, then send it, and at each router you must go to the Network layer of the header to check where to go, but is that just the processing delay?
And once it's received by the server it has to bump it all the way back to the application layer correct? How do I find the time based off of the router processing delay?
Or am I COMPLETELY overthinking this problem and it really is just 160 s converted to milliseconds?


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DOVER — The Ordinance Codification and Verification Committee will come to an end on Dec. 1, after City Council voted against extending the committee's deadline to May 30.
Committee head, Councilor Catherine Cheney, had asked for the deadline, and the support of the council, to continue to work on the ordinances, stating the committee needed the extension to wrap up the process.
"This is not a whimsical thing that I'm asking for," she said.
Committee member, Councilor Karen Weston, said they had gone through roughly 40 of 55 chapters, not needing much more time to finish, although Councilor Dorothea Hooper, who also sat on the committee disagreed, saying they might have looked at that many, but have not completed all of those chapters. She recalled the committee sending some chapters back to be fixed due to punctuation errors.
"Do I believe this is going to take until May 30?" Weston said. "Absolutely not."
"The most difficult part of the job is over. We are now winding it up," Weston said.
Weston said the committee has been working on clarifying the language of the ordinances, removing or adding chapters, putting some on reserve for future councilors and working with department heads to make sure ordinances are up to date. Cheney added Wednesday night, the charter has not been touched since the early 1980s.
"We had to step back and look at the big picture," she said. "If we are somebody 10 or 20 years out looking back at this, we wanted to give them reference to look to because for us, it had been so long. We were shooting in the dark."
Weston, who voted in support of the extension at Wednesday's council meeting, along with Cheney and Councilors Michael Crago and Edward Spuler, said many meetings were canceled between their first meeting at the end of August until now due to holidays and vacations.
"How can you just end a committee when it hasn't been finished? We've put a lot of man hours into this," Weston said. "Were we bogged down? Absolutely. But, like I said during the meeting, we have gotten past that … We have found numerous, numerous errors and have fixed them."
Councilors Dorothea Hooper and Michael Weeden, both members of the committee, voted against the extension.
"I have my own personal reasons for voting the way I did. I know some people are angry, but I will have my own discussions with them later," Weeden said. "The council has the authority to create committees whenever they want … I believe we have been bogged down in the weeds too much and I would like to see us focus on the main points if we continue."
While Weeden was speaking, Cheney stepped out of the meeting momentarily and Weston replied to Weeden, "The only trouble is you can't continue and focus on the main parts of it when you dissolve the committee."
When Cheney reentered the room, she said to Weeden, according to Hooper, "You weren't even at half of those meetings."
Hooper believes the reason the committee did not meet the deadline is because they spent "meeting after meeting and many hours" on the style of the ordinances instead of the content.
"We have literally spent hours deciding whether a period goes here, a semicolon goes here, a colon goes here, when I think we could have very easily gone through the content of these ordinances, gotten them up to date and then come up with a standard style at the end and had somebody do it for us, word process it for us," Hooper said. "The importance is still there, but I don't think we met the challenge of the committee and I won't be supporting an extension for that reason and I am tendering my resignation from that committee as of December 1."
Hooper said she is not sure why Weeden voted against the extension, but that she believes her time can be used helping the city in a better way elsewhere.
"We actually spoke for 45 minutes on one piece of punctuation one day," Hooper said.
Weston said although the process is a lot of work, she is still willing to do it because of her own philosophy of never leaving something half done. She hopes to reform the committee, by getting a majority vote in the council to continue to complete the ordinances.
Mayor Dean Trefethen, however, said there is an alternate to reforming the committee.
"This can occur with or without a committee. There are still some ordinances that need to be reviewed. We will have to figure out how we are going to do that. I don't know how we are going to do that yet, but I will need to have a discussion with some councilors to try to decide that," he said, adding ordinances can be brought by any council member to the council, depending on minutes, to be approved and that a committee is not necessary.
He said not every ordinance needs to look the same, with the same punctuation, and did not understand why the committee was spending so much time looking at this instead of the content.
"The progress that they did make, I believe, is not what they should have done. In my mind, there is no reason why they shouldn't have been done by December 1 if they had stuck to their real duties," Trefethen said. "The guiding reason why I voted to not continue the committee is because I had feedback from two members of the committee that it was not working. It was not making satisfactory progress. They were paying attention to the wrong things … They were making suggestions on how to change the makeup or the function of certain boards and commissions … I was also told about shouting matches on that committee."
"It was reflected last night," Trefethen said. "This committee was not reflecting the desires of the council as a whole."
Dover Mayor: Committee not reflecting council as a whole
DOVER — The Ordinance Codification and Verification Committee will come to an end on Dec. 1, after City Council voted against extending the committee's deadline to May 30.


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(NEW YORK) -- One of the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 most wanted fugitives has been captured in the Mexican beach town of Cancun after 24 years on the run.
Vincent Legrend Walters, 45, was apprehended early Friday morning and is being held on an extradition request.
Walters, who faces murder, drugs and weapons charges, hid in plain sight and reportedly boasted he was a wanted fugitive, according to the U.S. Marshals Office.
Walters used the alias Oscar Rivera and worked at Cancun International Airport, officials said.
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Overland Park, Kan. -- After the Sunday afternoon mayhem, the handcuffed suspect was led to a police car, his beard salt and pepper, his T-shirt a striking white. He looked like who he was, in part: a retiree who was said to have just spent part of his weekend at a casino. Then, from the back seat, he shouted a hoary phrase tinged with Southern inflection: "Heil Hitler!"
Once again, Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, for decades one of the country's more prominent white supremacists, known for his particular antipathy toward Jews, had announced himself. This time, though, he had been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing three people outside two Jewish community facilities, on the day before Passover.
The victims were William Corporon, 69, a physician; his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Underwood; and Terri LaManno, 53. None of them was Jewish.
The news of Miller's arrest almost, but not quite, surprised Heidi Beirich at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. Beirich has had several telephone conversations with Miller, whom she described as both congenial and so virulent in his anti-Semitism that his hatred took her aback.
"On the one hand, I'm a little surprised," Beirich said. "He has emphysema, spent most of his time posting nasty things on a website, and hadn't done anything in years. On the other hand, how can you be surprised when a guy whose spent his life saying the Jews should be killed decides to go kill Jews?"
Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies announced on Monday that they were pursuing the shootings as a hate crime.
"We believe that his motivation was to attack a Jewish facility," said police Chief John Douglass.
A scheduled court appearance for Miller, who also goes by Frazier Glenn Cross, was postponed, leaving unanswered for another day the question of why. But Miller's true nature has never been in doubt.
His rudimentary website, for example, includes photographs of Ku Klux Klan rallies and a position paper on the need to do "whatever is necessary" to break the Jewish control of the media.
After recommending that people get "Jew-wise," Miller encourages visitors to have a nice day.
He joined the Army as a teenager in March 1959. According to Miller and the Southern Poverty Law Center, he served two tours in Vietnam, and for 13 years, was a Green Beret. But he found his calling, he later said, when his father gave him a copy of a racist, anti-Semitic newsletter called the Thunderbolt.


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Agra [29] is the city of the Taj Mahal, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, some 200 km from Delhi.
Agra has three UNESCO World Heritage sites, the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort in the city and Fatehpur Sikri nearby. There are also many other buildings and tombs from Agra's days of glory as the capital of the Mughal Empire.
The city has little else to recommend it. Pollution, especially smog and litter, is rampant and travellers are pestered by swarms of touts and hawkers at every monument, mosque, temple or palace. That said, the sites are some of the wonders of the world and no trip to India is complete without at least one visit to the Taj.
Due to the very high number of tourists Agra it is a breeding ground for touts and people looking to separate you from your money. People from all across world reach here to visit Agra from all across globe. India's glory TajMahal is the main limelight of the Agra. Try and limit your time in this once great city.
While Agra's heyday was as the capital of the Mughal empire between 1526 and 1658, the city was founded much earlier. The earliest reference to Agra is in the ancient epic, the Mahabharata, while Ptolemy was the first person to call it by its modern name. The recorded history of Agra begins around the 11th century, and over the next 500 years, the city changed hands between various kings, both Hindu and Muslim.
In 1506, Sultan Sikandar Lodi, the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, moved his capital from Delhi to Agra. His son Ibrahim Lodi was the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, as he was defeated in 1526 by Babur, the first Mughal ruler, in the battle of Panipat. Agra fell too, and became the capital of the Mughals, whose rule over Agra was uninterrupted except for a brief period between 1540 and 1556. In 1540, Sher Shah Shuri overthrew Humayun became the ruler of much of North India, including Agra. After Sher Shah Suri's death his descendants proved unequal to the task of ruling the kingdom, and Hemu, a Hindu general of Suri became the effective ruler who would later crown himself King Hemachandra Vikramaditya just as the kingdom was facing an assault from the reinvigorated Mughals. In 1556, Hemu would be defeated and killed in the second battle of Panipat, and the Mughals regained Agra.
Mughals were great builders. Babur built the Aram Bagh (garden of relaxation) modeled after the garden of paradise, where he was eventually buried after his death. His grandson Akbar refurbished the Agra fort and built the Fatehpur Sikri, an entire city just on the outskirts of Agra. He also renamed Agra after himself, and the city was known as Akbarabad while it was in Mughal hands. Akbar's grandson Shah Jehan would give Agra its most famous monument, the Taj Mahal, which is the mausoleum of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj is constructed in white marble. It took 20 years to construct, and is now universally known as a monument to love. Legend has it that Shah Jehan wanted a replica of the Taj constructed in black marble that would be his final resting place. There is no actual support for this theory, but even if it were true, it would have been unlikely to be eventuated. His son Aurangzeb was austere and pious, and had no time or inclination for the ostentation of his forefathers, preferring to spend his money on wars in South India. In any case, even during Shah Jehan's reign, which was the period when the Mughal empire was at its height, the construction of the Taj put a strain on the resources of the empire and caused a min-famine around Agra. Shah Jehan was eventually buried in the white Taj, next to his beloved Begum.
Shah Jehan, in addition to giving Agra its greatest claim to fame, was also responsible for beginning its decline, as decided to shift his capital to Shahjehanabad, which we now know as Old Delhi, in 1658. Though Aurangzeb ordered a move back, this too was short lived, as he moved his headquarters down south to Aurangabad to be focus on his wars. Agra declined, and so did the Mughal Empire. The city was eventually captured by the Marathas, who renamed it back to Agra. In 1803, it came under the British, who situated the Agra Presidency there, and when India gained independence, the city was incorporated into the state of Uttar Pradesh, and did not gain even the limited honour of being the state's capital, that distinction going to Lucknow, further east. It is now a tourist town, known for the Taj and a couple of other monuments.
Anyone interested in reading a novel based on the remarkable story behind the Taj Mahal's creation should consider Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors. Beneath a Marble Sky is an international bestseller, has won multiple awards, and is being made into a movie by Hollywood. Other book (historical fiction) is The Taj by Colin De Silva.
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Agra is 200 km southeast from Delhi and is one of the points of the tourist's Golden Triangle of Agra-Delhi-Jaipur. Agra is also very well connected via rail and road with other nearby cities and tourist destinations.
By plane
Service to Agra's Kheria Airport (IATA: AGR ICAO: VIAG) is 5 days a week. As of January 2014, the city is served by Air India, which flies on the Delhi-Agra- via Varanasi, Agra - Khajuraho - Varanasi - Delhi ( 3 days a week ,ie Monday ,Wednesday and Saturday). Another Air India flight, Mumbai - Agra - Mumbai (Tuesday and Thursday) provides international connections via Mumbai and usually observes full load factor. The flights now are usually on time and provides connectivity via Delhi and Mumbai. One can save a lot of time travelling by air to Agra .
By train
Agra is on the main train line between the Delhi-Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi-Chennai routes, and many trains connect Agra with these cities every day. Some east-bound trains from Delhi also travel via Agra, so direct connections to points in Eastern India (including Kolkata) are also available. There are close to 20 trains to Delhi every day, and at least three or four to both Mumbai and Chennai. Agra and Delhi are notorious for their thick winter fog which reduces visibility to almost zero. If travelling in late December or early January (the fog season), travelers should be aware that, because of the reduced visibility, all trains slow down and travel time goes up. The Bhopal Shatabdi, for example, may arrive in Agra well after 10AM, and might return to Delhi well after midnight. From a safety point of view, it is always preferable to travel by train during the winters. Driving in fog on the road is very risky. There are three stations in Agra:
Train tickets can be booked online through Indian Railways (www.irctc.co.in), paying by debit or credit card. Once one is at Agra station one could hire UP tourism conducted tours on air-conditioned luxury coaches. Also, an organized tour is available [31]from Delhi.
Delhi to Agra by road - A new highway is being constructed from Greater Noida to Taj Mahal City. It should take 2 to 3 hours & could be very popular among tourist as the road condition matches all international standard.
Also train number 2965 from agra cantonment to Jaipur at 5:40 PM. The train arrives at 10:15 PM. ₹300 AC chair.
A day's excursion from Delhi to Agra
It is easy to visit Agra for comfortable [same day Agra trip by train] from Delhi. Rise early in the morning and hop on to an air-con chair car seat on the Bhopal Shatabdi leaving at 06:00 from New Delhi Railway Station. Breakfast is served on the train, which is included in the fare, is usually an omelette with a couple of slices of bread and coffee or tea. Arrive in Agra and then either rent a car for the day or use rickshaws to get around. A visit to the Taj, followed by Agra Fort does not take a great deal of time. Add a visit to Akbar's tomb and/or itmad-ud-daulah, for which an auto-rickshaw or taxi required, and you will still have time for lunch before catching the return train at 20:30 for dinner, which again is included in the fare. With a hired car it is even possible also visit Fatehpur Sikri.
Either that or catch the Taj Express from Hazrat nizamuddin station, (previously used to leave from new delhi, now from a secondary terminus) . Book (reserve) tickets both ways, delhi to agra cantt and back to delhi.(same day) Leaves Delhi (hazrat nizamuddin) at around 7.00 AM. Reaches Agra Cantt, at around 10.00 AM. On reaching Agra Cantt station go to platform number 1, the main platform before coming out of the station. There is a UP tourism information counter. Go inside the counter and book a ticket on the Agra tour bus. This bus will take you to Fatehpur sikri(40 kms from town) and also agra fort and of course the Taj Mahal. There is a stop for lunch after visiting fatehpur sikri. They have a knowledgeable tour guide, who speaks good english and of course hindi. You can get to see the 3 most important monuments, leaving out the minor ones. Best part is the tour is co-ordinated in accordance with the timing of the Taj express, so it leaves you back in Agra cantt station to catch the return train back to Delhi. Tickets are about Rs. 400/- for Indians; for foreigners it will be higher. If you get the tickets for Agra but your tickets are in waiting list then don't forget to keep checking the PNR status of tickets to make sure there is no mess later on station while catching the train on journey date. This is much better than falling for the touts outside Agra station, who take even Indians for a ride (though we speak the language) not to talk of foreigners.
By bus
A number of buses connect Agra with Delhi. It takes around 4-5 hours to reach Agra by bus. There are basically three interstate bus stands:
Note: Do not rely on Private Luxury Buses and Travel Agencies as they are very expensive and may drop you to your destination late. They'll also tell you that the bus is direct to the destination but it's not.
By Taxi
For local sight seeing in Agra, it is better to hire a taxi on a full day basis (8 Hour 80 Km). A reliable way of booking your cab is to book it online. Also, you can either book a taxi from hotel or directly book one outside the railway station. There is government authorized taxi stand. ₹950/day for 8 hours. It maybe more costly to book through hotel as hotels do have their in the fares. It is better to negotiate with the driver directly or book trough some online car rental portal. Meanwhile, to visit you can find some local taxi available for your convenience.
Cars are not allowed near the Taj Complex, but the rest of Agra is easily discovered by car. Rental is available from various companies.
If you plan to travel to Agra on the taxi from Delhi International airport, make sure you engage the taxi that can take you inter-city or 'outstation' (the white ones). The prepaid taxi kiosk for the local taxi services are known to arrange (privately outside the auspices of the prepaid taxi system) a local taxi (green and yellow ones) to take you to Agra - in this case the taxi will have to take a big detour to get a government permit to travel intercity before heading to Agra. Not only substantial time wasted, the taxi are also smaller and uncomfortable. The taxi kiosk for local travel should redirect you to the intercity taxi, but being unscrupulous they want to made a cut of the fare when they arrange one for you.
By road
It is possible to hire a car with a driver (a big car for five persons from/to the Delhi airport costs ₹3500). But beware! If you need to get from Agra to the airport in order to catch a flight, be sure to allow plenty of time for the trip, as traffic conditions may increase the drive time significantly. Also, it is wise to know your driver. There are situations when he may take over five hours to cover the distance, and you cannot force him to drive any faster than an autorickshaw (tuk-tuk).
Latest news is the new Yamuna Expressway from greater Noida (Delhi) to Agra. A very modern six lane expressway, also known as Taj expressway. Specially for 3-5 people travelling by train (first class) and spending on tickets, better way is to rent a car - called tourist taxi in india. with yellow licence plates.(private cars have white licence plates)Two models of estate cars are very popular: Chevrolet Tavera and Toyota Innova. Choose Innova. Specially recommended if you travel with kids. The taxi comes with driver attached. From Delhi, via the new expressway, it should be two hours by car. Ordinary local bus takes 3 hours. Start early morning , around 5.00 Am, two hours to agra, you will be in agra by sunrise. All monuments are open from sunrise to sunset. Go around town in your own car , at your own leisure, can cover all monuments in one day, and after sunset start back for Delhi, should be in Delhi in time for dinner. This obviates the need to carry luggage around since it is only a day trip. Just check if the driver is knowledgeable old hand who knows his way around, and you may just have to pay for his lunch, breakfast etc. This will be little more expensive than train, but at your own leisure. Also INSIST on going by the new expressway, or tell them you WON'T pay him after you reach Delhi. Because the old highway takes anywhere between 4-6 hours. You will have to pay the toll on the way, about Rs. 320/- one way, for bus/truck it is Rs.1050/-.
if you come from jaipur to Agra or Agra to jaipur, you will have better choice to have breakfast or Lunch on very good heritage Rajputana Midway near Village Pipalkhera(Mahua)
Get around
Tongas, electric buses and electric tempos are readily available, and the best way to get to the Taj where no cars are allowed. Auto-rickshaws and cycle-rickshaws are available every where, remember to agree on fares clearly in advance. In case you are a foreigner, please ensure that you bargain everywhere and bargain hard! Generally things are available at 40% of the initially quoted fares.
UP Tourism conduct daily full day (Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort and Tajmahal; Rs 500/- per head) and half day tour (Agra Fort and Tajmahal; Rs 350/- per head; fees based on Dec, 2015) in AC buses. But both the cases, they took you to Tajmahal at the end of the tour in the evening. So, you may not get sufficient time for watching Tajmahal properly. Except IRCTC also conduct city tour in cars, but you need to book the cars by yourself and a bit costlier than the bus tour of UP tourism. Both the UP tourism and IRCTC have it's booking office in the platform no 1 of Agra Cantonment Railway Station.
The best way to experience the city is to take a walk on the Mall Road (Sadar). The street is full of handicraft and leather goods shops. You will also find plenty of food items quite unique to the city. Indian palate is generally very spicy. Please ensure that you carry antacid tablets in case you are not habitual to the spicy foods
As a guide, an auto rickshaw from Agra Cantonement station to the Taj Mahal is about Rs 80 (at least in off season); and a cycle rickshaw from the Taj Mahal to Agra Fort is Rs 40.
An air conditioned taxi for the day should cost around Rs 1200. They will charge slightly more if you want to go to Fatehpur Sikri as it's a bit further out. Be warned that the drivers will probably try to make unscheduled stops along the way at marble and textile shops for which they receive commissions. Firmly tell them that you're not interested in shopping - though this might not get you anywhere so try to just go with the flow - you won't be pressured into buying anything but if you have a tight schedule it can be annoying.
List of private taxis
If you need a taxi or a rickshaw to explore Agra.
Agra's top two sights by far are the incomparable Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. When planning your sightseeing, take heed of the convoluted entry fee system: for Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Itmud-ad-Daulah, Sikandra and Fatehpur Sikri, you must pay a ₹500 levy to the Agra Development Authority in addition to the prices mentioned below. Once paid, the levy is valid for all sights, but only for one day. However, If you are not going to the Taj Mahal or happen to turn up on a Friday, then you do not have to pay the ₹500 levy but a smaller one if you are going to the other sites. Eg ₹50 for Red Fort
Prices of monuments tickets
Current prices (May 2016) are: Rs 1000 (for foreigners) for Taj Mahal (500 entrance + 500 levy) and ₹550 for Agra Fort (500 entrance + 50 levy). No entry fee for children (Foreigner & Indian) below age of 15 Years. One gets ₹50 discount when presenting ticket for Taj Mahal at Agra Fort. The Taj Mahal entry fee also includes a 500mL bottle of water and shoe covers. Make sure you pick them up when you buy your ticket. For Indians, its Rs 40.
Official Tour Guides
Official guides are available in Agra for INR 1035 (approx US$ 20) for a half day (including Taj Mahal & Agra Fort). Not many official Approved guides stand outside the monuments so if you require a official tour guide then you can book one of any foreign language spoken tour guides directly with contact no. from the Approved guides office,Agra.Office of Approved Guide Association Agra. Guides are recognized and approved by Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India. Guides provided by most of travel agencies or hotels in Agra usually insist to visit a fix shop and get big commission, this commission is distributed among unofficial Guides (lapka), travel agents or hotel's staff.
Note: to make your tour more enjoyable Please book 'guides services' on line for Agra trip, as They are more trustworthy than a guide provided by Hotels in Agra,All travel desk are taken by Shop owner & they force to visit that particulate big shop.
Any guide that charges less than that is probably an unlicensed tout. Most unlicensed touts stand outside the gate of Taj Mahal & Agra fort with fake IDs and focus more on taking you for shopping rather than on presenting accurate history & information,
Audio Guides
Effective April 2011, the Archaeological Survey of India introduced an official self guided audio tour facility of international standards for visitors. The tour allows visitors to experience the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort at their own pace, with authentic and factually accurate information. Visitors may avail of the audio guide facility from the official audio guide booth near the monument ticket counters. Prices for audio guide services are ₹105 (approx US$ 2) in English & Foreign Languages (currently French, Spanish, Italian, German) or ₹63 in Hindi & Indian Languages.
Reviews for the audio guides have been very positive on Tripadvisor and other travel websites and this is the recommended way to see the two Agra monuments. Recently, smartphone application and iPod tours have become available, including the official Taj Mahal app offered by AudioCompass [34] - the same company that provides the audio guides.
Official Smartphone App
Recently, a plethora of smartphone apps has become available to help visitors tour the monuments. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) offers perhaps the most comprehensive ones through AudioCompass. Both the Taj Mahal Official Tour and the similar Agra Fort Official Tour are available for download for iOS and for Android. The app is available for free, but only the first 30 seconds of every point at the Taj and Agra fort can be listened to. For full access a subscription needs to be purchased for $1/day or $10/year.
Taj Mahal
Please note that the Taj Mahal is closed every Friday.
'If you buy the foreigner high price ticket, you go in a separate, much smaller line and they give you shoe covers and water. Touts (tour guides) will say they can cut the line because they're guides, but you get in the smaller line anyway with your 750 Rupee ticket.'
The Taj Mahal is an immense mausoleum of white marble, built between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife. Taj Mahal means Crown Palace. One of his wife's names was Mumtaz Mahal, Ornament of the Palace. The Taj is one of the most well preserved and architecturally beautiful tombs in the world, one of the masterpieces of Indian Muslim architecture, and one of the great sites of the world's heritage.
The Taj Mahal has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore called it a teardrop on the cheek of eternity, while the English poet, Sir Edwin Arnold, said it was Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. It is a celebration of woman built in marble, and that is the way to appreciate it.
Although it is one of the most photographed edifices in the world and instantly recognisable, actually seeing it is awe-inspiring. Not everything is in the photos. The grounds of the complex include several other beautiful buildings, reflecting pools, extensive ornamental gardens with flowering trees and bushes, and a small gift shop. The Taj framed by trees and reflected in a pool is amazing. Close up, large parts of the building are covered with inlaid stonework.
There is an apocryphal tale that Shah Jahan planned to build an exact copy of the Taj Mahal out of black marble on the opposite side of the river as his own tomb. His plans were foiled by his son, who murdered three elder brothers and overthrew his father to acquire the throne. Shah Jahan is now buried alongside his wife in the Taj Mahal.
If you are taking a camera, beware that because the Taj is white your camera may underexpose your photos. If it is a film camera you will not find out until it is too late. Overexposure by 1 or 2 stops is recommended.
The Taj is open from 6:00 AM to 6:30 PM (sunset) every day except Friday. The gates won't open until 6:00 AM at the earliest, often a few minutes later, so don't bother getting there at 5:00 AM. Entry costs ₹750 for foreigners and ₹20 for Indians. Get there as early as possible to beat the crowds. Crowds are the biggest during the weekend when people overshadow the grandeur of the Taj. Plan to visit the Taj at least two different times during the day (dusk and dawn are best) in order to experience the full effect of changing sunlight on the amazing building. It is utterly stunning under a full moon. You can also get very good views from Mehtab Bagh (see Gardens section below). It is a good idea to bring a flashlight, because the interior of the Taj Mahal is quite dark even during the day. To fully appreciate the details of the gem inlays, you need a good light.
To buy tickets, you can go to the South gate, but this gate is 1 km far away of the entrance and the counter opens at 8:00 AM. At the West and East gates, the counters open at 6:00 AM. These gates also have smaller queues in peak times as the big tour buses drop groups off at the South gate. Alongside the ticket counter, you can also purchase a self-guided audio tour (allows two to a device) for ₹100 in English and foreign languages and ₹60 for Indian languages.
The Taj is located in the middle of town. Expect a line to get into the grounds. There are three gates. The western gate is the main gate where most tourists enter. A large number of people turn up on weekends and public holidays, and entry through the western gate may take hours. The southern and eastern gates are much less busy and should be tried on such days.
There are night viewing sessions during full moons and two days before and after (five days in total). Exceptions are Fridays (the Muslim sabbath) and the month of Ramadan. Tickets must be purchased 24 hours in advance from the Archeological Society of India office situated at 22, Mall Road, Agra. Ticket fare is Rs. 500 for Indian Nationals and Rs. 750 for Non Indians. Night tickets go on sale starting at 10am, but they do not always sell out, so it can be worth looking into it when you arrive even if well after 10am. Tickets only allow viewing from the red sandstone plaza at the south end of the complex, and only for a 1/2 hour window. Make sure to wear mosquito repellent. Viewing hours for night viewing is from 8:30pm-9:00pm and 9:00pm-9:30pm. Arrive 30 minutes early for security check at Taj Mahal Ticketing counter on East Gate or you may lose your chance. The night view is not worth spending as the visitors are kept quite far from Taj Mahal nearly 200 Mts away and there in no light so it could hardly be seen during night hours at viewing hours. Cameras also do not give images with near zero flux can easily be avoided for night viewing.
Agra Fort
The fort is similar in layout to the Red Fort in Delhi, but considerably better preserved, as much of Delhi Fort was razed by the British after the Mutiny. As much as palace as a defensive structure, it is also constructed mainly from red sandstone.
Emperor Akbar, king at 14, began consolidating his empire and, as an assertion of his power built the fort in Agra between 1565 and 1571, at the same time as Humayun's Tomb in Delhi. Emperor Shah Jahan added to the fort and ended up a prisoner in it. The fort has a beautiful view of his masterpiece, the Taj Mahal, on a clear day.
You can get to the fort by Rickshaw from Taj Mahal for around ₹25-30. Entry to the fort is ₹250 (plus levy of ₹50 if you have not already paid the ₹500 fee for Taj Mahal).
There are left luggage services at Agra Fort where you can stow your bags at no cost. A fine of ₹5,000 applies if you lose your luggage ticket.
There are also audio guides available at Agra Fort which you can rent for a cost of ₹100 in English and other foreign languages (German, French, Spanish, etc) or ₹60 in Indian languages such as Hindi or Bengali.
Other sights
Agra has many shops selling various stone products, from jewellery to small boxes and plaques with inlay work resembling that on the Taj. The best of these are wonderful, and even the run-of-the-mill ones are rather pretty. Agra is also famous for its leather goods. Consider spending time in Sadar Bazaar for some shopping and enjoying cheap food.
Beware of being overcharged. Do not let anyone lead you to a shop, lest the price go up to cover their commission, typically 50%. Be very wary of the promises these people make. Bargain hard. Be prepared to walk away, you can nearly always get the same items in another shop. Also remember that in these globalized times, you can always order stuff you liked in your visit over the internet after you return. Expect to encounter petty and greedy shop owners who will resort to every lie in the book to make a sale (with initial markups of 1000-10000%).
Mughal Bazar on the Taj East Gate road, about 2km from the East Gate is a better place to shop for your obligatory Taj Mahal figurine vs. the little stores nearby the gate. Much more relaxed and friendly with better prices for the same goods, and no petty lies to make a sale.
Many local markets are there: SADAR BAZAR..a sophisticated market, Raja ki Mandi market, Sanjay Place for all the offices, Shah Market for electronics. All these markets are situated along the M G Road. Hospital Road Market and Subhash Bazar for clothing situated near Agra Fort railway station. Rawatpara market is for spices of all origin. Besides these there are many branded showrooms situated along the M G Road..
Many wholesale marble products are available at Gokul Pura (Market)near Raja Mandi (this place is near to M. G Road) which can be easily reached by auto rickshaw, the prices of any product is nearly 25% of that in the retail market.
Be careful with the jewels: Lots of stones are fakes and the price is very high!
Agra specialities are petha, a type of very sweet candy, and Dal Moth, a spicy lentil mix. Both are also popular souvenirs.
Chaat. Agra is a heaven for any Chaat lover. Chaat can be of various types but there is one thing common among them all is that they are spicy and you will find crowd outside virtually every chaat stall, especially popular places like Double Phatak (near Sikandra) for Mangores. You'll find quality Bhallas and Panipuri at Sadar and Belangunj. Samosa and Kachori are found at every sweet shop that flood the city. Some typical chaat items are Aloo Tikki (pan-fried potato cakes), paneer tikka (cubes of cottage cheese baked in a tandoor with spices), pani puri or golguppa (small round hollow shells filled with a potato-based filling and a spicy sweet blend of sauces), mangores, Samosaes, Chachori etc. If you want to savour the typical Agra Breakfast do remember to have a bite of one of those spicy Berahi and round it off with sweet Jalebies.
Sweets. There are quite a few good sweets shops all round the city. The best stores for buying the famous petha of Agra are at Hari Parwat, a short ride from Agra Fort. Amongst the well-known stores are Panchi's , Bhimsain BaidyaNath and The Pracheen Petha store. There are many types of petha available but, for the authentic experience, try either the plain one (ivory white) or Angoori Flavored (rectangular and yellow pieces soaked in sugar syrup). Other stores in Agra include: Bikanervala,Sri Dauji mishtan, Deviram, Munnalal Petha, Gopaldas, and Ajanta Sweets, Kamla Nagar. Do remember to round off your meal with a Joda(Pair) of Pan unique to the city.
There is also an abundance of Korean food at most restaurants.
There are several restaurants in the Taj Ganj area, catering for the many tourists staying around the Taj Mahal.
Most hotel staff will be happy to find you a cold bottle of Indian beer for around ₹70-100, but there is virtually no nightlife in Agra outside of cultural shows at some of the larger hotels and restaurants. After getting off the streets of Agra and into your hotel, you will not want to go back anyway.
Agra comes under Uttar Pradesh (west) circle as per TRAI. BSNL [36],Airtel [37] are the two main providers of terrestrial telephone lines in Agra, while BSNL [38], AirTel [39], Vodafone [40] and Idea [41] provide GSM (triband) and Reliance [42] and Tata [43]provide CDMA services.
There are several internet cafes / Cyber Cafes from where you can access the internet for sending email or uploading your digital photos.
Many cheap café's, such as the Taj Cafe also have free wifi for you to use.
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Women are about to storm yet another all-male bastion. With the Pentagon's decision to end the ban on women in combat, the video game industry must face the fact that combat is longer a male preserve.
In fact, it hasn't been for years, as women fly Apache helicopters into combat and accompany patrols in Afghanistan. But you couldn't tell by the many popular military-themed games, where the soldier-character that the player controls is almost always male. "In the video and computer games that feature soldiers or military-style combat, such as Halo, Call of Duty, SOCOM, and Battlefield, the majority of the characters people can choose to play are male characters, and often white male characters," says CarrieLynn Reinhard, an assistant professor at Dominican University, and author of the Playing with Research blog. "This tendency has largely been due to two reasons: the audience for such games here in America is typically male, and many of these games are trying to reflect historical military campaigns and styles, which until today have also been male dominated."
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All of this raises two questions. The first is whether video games should now incorporate female soldiers as playable characters. Will it matter to an overwhelmingly male audience whether their avatars have big tits instead of big muscles? Having female characters in a game as eye candy is one thing, but some male players may not feel comfortable controlling GI Jane instead of GI Joe. Will game designers and publishers be willing to make the change?
The real question will be how video games will portray women soldiers. If all a character does is gun down terrorists or other players, then it may not matter. But if the game has a plot line and gives the player-character a personality, motives and desires, should a female soldier behave differently than a man? Should she be as ruthless and violent? Today's military presents itself as a fighting force of warriors where gender isn't as important as competence, and yet one of the beauties (and frustrations) of life is that men and women are different. It remains to be seen whether gamers will desire to see the difference.
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Master the Kona Mass Start
World champion-worthy tips to help you ace your next mass swim start, whether it's in Kailua Bay or Cozumel.
by Marni Sumbal
This Saturday, those who have earned a spot to the GoPro IRONMAN World Championship will line up in the shallow water at Dig Me beach—one of the most famous parcels of sand in the triathlon world. The mass swim start at the Kailua-Kona pier is more than just an iconic scene. There's no exact way to describe the scene of almost 2000 triathletes descending on Kailua Bay's 2.4-mile swim course, merely the beginning of their day.
Though there have been some changes made to swim starts this year through IRONMAN's SwimSmart initiative, Kona remains untouched. Whether you're racing on Saturday or not, put these Kona-specific tips to work in your next mass-start IRONMAN.
Mental matters
Avoid any negative self-talk before stepping into the water. Replace doubt, thoughts of failure, and lack of confidence with thoughts of success, confidence, and achievement. Visualize yourself swimming strong and efficient in the water.
→Kona tip: The half-mile point of the swim isn't the place to start thinking about how your legs are going to survive running through the Energy Lab. A lot can happen in a day. Keep your thoughts in the present—your stroke mechanics, breathing, and sighting.
Nutrition know-how
One of the most common side-effects of the mass swim start is gastro-intestinal upset on the bike and run from water swallowed during the turbulent swim start. Try to remain as calm as possible at the swim start to lessen the chance of gasping for air and swallowing water. Without wall breaks to refuel and rehydrate during the swim, energize your body at least two and a half to three hours prior to your race start with an easy-to-digest pre-race meal and electrolyte-rich fluids.
→Kona tip: Trust yourself with your well-practiced pre-race foods and don't try a new fueling strategy on race day. If you are feeling fearful of not having enough energy, stick to liquid calories in the 90 minutes prior to the race start. To avoid nerve-related gastric distress, allow plenty of time on race morning to avoid feeling rushed. The Kona ocean swim is choppier than many lake-based IRONMAN swims, which can lead to an even higher chance of swallowing water.
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To set yourself up for a successful race, remember to race within your own ability. Stay within your comfort zone during the first leg of your three-sport event, when it comes to sighting, pacing, and drafting. Always trust your instincts. If you feel comfortable drafting off a pack of swimmers to help save energy, go for it. If you are worried about swimming over your limits, position yourself around swimmers of a similar ability and don't be afraid to backstroke or breastroke (away from other swimmers) anytime you feel the need to rest.→Kona tip: Even though you earned that coveted Kona slot and will be surrounded by a competitive crowd, swim only as fast as you can, and with good form, keeping your stroke smooth and efficient. Drafting is a little easier at this event because of the overall calibre of the field, but be aware that with it being a world championship, things can get a little aggressive. Kona's out-and-back course may require you to adjust which side you breath on, and how often you spot because of the chop on the surface of the water.
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Several branches of the powerful MacCarthy sept existed, including MacCarthy Reagh, who held a family seat at Carbery in West Cork, and the Muskerry MacCarthys, who were based in the barony of Muskerry in that county. MacCarthy Mor of County Kerry, long thought to be extinct, has only recently been proven to still exist.
The McCarthy Reagh branch rose to become the Princes of Carbery in what is now southwestern County Cork in the 13th century. It is generally thought that Donal Reagh MacCarthy, the 5th Prince of Carbery, a quo MacCarthy Reagh, son of Donal Glas was the first to use Reagh is his surname. From this early listing, each subsequent prince continued to use Reagh in one form or another. As far as the early princes are concerned, we know very little. However from Finghin MacCarthy Reagh, the 8th Prince of Carbery from 1477 to his death in 1505, a solid genealogy has been determined.
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