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If you're thinking about ways to make your master bedroom more comfortable, you might want to consider making changes to your existing furnishings and splurge a little bit to make the space more welcoming. After all, the master bedroom is an area where you will be spending an ample amount of time while you're home.
One way that you can instantly the room a sense of luxury is by installing radiant floor heating. A trusted professional can easily install this for you and, in turn, you won't have to turn up the thermostat to stay warm. This benefit makes radiant heating an economical way to reduce your carbon footprint.
In addition to installing radiant floor heating, think about investing in a new bed to truly improve the comfort of your master bedroom. Don't just switch out the mattress for a new one - buy a new bed frame, sheets and comforter if necessary. A new bed can make a world of difference when it comes to loving a master bedroom and looking forward to spending time in it. Although it might be something you have to splurge on, you'll be happy you made the investment.
If your bedroom isn't exactly the biggest space in your home, make it feel larger with multipurpose furniture and get rid of any pieces that are bulky and overwhelming. Think about adding a brighter color of paint to the walls as well to open up the space and make it appear bigger.
In addition to brightening up your space, you might want to bring in one or two mirrors that can help reflect light throughout the bedroom. Mirrors don't always have to be used over a vanity - think about hanging them in other areas of the room as a form of art.
Finally, remember to add your own finishing touches to the master bedroom to truly make it your own. This might mean bringing in an oversized, comfortable armchair or a fluffy rug to situate beneath your bed. If you love art, don't hesitate to bring in paintings or sculptures you love if you want to add make a space feel more cultured. Adding personalized elements to your bedroom can make it a special place that both you and your loved one can enjoy.
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NEW YORK - Graham Nash is in the recording studio, having a hard time saying the words.
"It was such a tumultuous smoke-ridden cocaine-driven moment that it's hard to remember everything as it went down," he reads, stumbling over the word "tumultuous" and later saying "1977" instead of "1967," an epic slip for Nash's generation.
The "moment" was Woodstock and the studio was in midtown Manhattan, where Nash recently taped the audio book of his memoir "Wild Tales." Digital technology enabled him to quickly correct his errors, but the memories will not be erased as he relives a time he still helps embody.
Few were so profoundly changed by rock `n roll and the 1960s as Nash, a child of working class, World War II-era Britain who first became a star as a grinning harmony singer for the Hollies and, just as he feared he was locked into a life of screaming teenagers and 2-minute love songs, let his hair down as part of Crosby, Stills and Nash.
His hair a full and flawless white, he looks improbably fit and trim at 71, especially for someone who by his own account smoked and snorted through much of his 20s and 30s. But he is mindful that his luck won't last forever and decided it was time to tell his story, if only for his baby granddaughter, Stella Joy.
"I wanted to make a record of what my life was about and who I was as a person," he says.
The man he became, the life he came to lead, began during a Hollies tour of the US in the mid-1960s. He was befriended by Mama Cass of the Mamas and Papas, a born mixer who sensed that the gentlemanly Nash would click with the Byrds' trouble-making David Crosby. He was soon living the American dream, late `60s style, recording a million-selling debut album with Crosby and Stephen Stills and sharing a house in Laurel Canyon with Joni Mitchell.
In his memoir, he gives his take on how Crosby, Stills and Nash first joined in song. It was 1968 and they were at Mitchell's house - "Stephen thinks we first hung together at Cass' house, and he's completely wrong," Nash says during his interview - and Crosby and Stills were working on the ballad "You Don't Have to Cry." Nash listened, asked them to run through it again, and added his high tenor to Still's husky low and Crosby's mellow middle.
"Something magical had happened, and we all knew it," Nash writes. "When you sing with two or three people and you get it right - when the whole thing becomes greater than the parts - everything kind of lifts a couple of feet off the ground. ... It was there, complete, a minute into our relationship."
They were instant royalty, crowned by their performance at Woodstock, but soon torn apart. Neil Young joined the band after the first record and began feuding with Stills, as they had done while in Buffalo Springfield. Crosby's girlfriend at the time, Christine Hinton, was killed in a car crash. Mitchell broke up with Nash, a loss clearly fresh decades later.
"How could you live with Joni Mitchell for two years and not still feel something," says Nash, married since 1977 to actress Susan Sennett. "She was this incredible combination of beauty and balls, and she'll always be a very special part of my life. Everybody knows that. My wife knows that, and that's just the way it is."
Young is the book's enigma and fatal attraction, a hard-headed genius with a well-documented reluctance to commit himself to a band, whether Buffalo Springfield or Crosby, Stills and Nash. In "Wild Tales," Nash sees his time with Young as a "long, strange trip" with a man whom he regards as having a heart with two faucets: hot and cold.
One tale from the cold side: Young's memoir, "Waging Heavy Peace," which came out in 2012.
"My ego got in the way," Nash said during the interview when asked about the book. "When he talked about his wife's dog more than he did about me and Stephen and David it pissed me off. I've made music with Neil Young for 40 years and I don't deserve a better mention than as an appendage to his dog?"
Working with him is inspiring, Nash says, at least when he actually gets to work with him.
"I love him to death. I'll make music with him for the rest of my life, but he's a very selfish man. Part of me admires the fact that he has the strength to follow his muse, but he doesn't realize that there are other people involved in this world," Nash says.
"For instance, when you tell 40 people you're going to Europe and do a massive tour at the end of June and then you decide you don't want to do it because the muse doesn't wave to you right? ... These 40 people don't know what to do because you don't feel like it? That pisses me off."
A spokesman for Young did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nash is tough on Crosby, too, although in a far more loving way. They are the closest of friends and have shared girlfriends (both dated Mitchell), political causes, songwriting credits and thousands of stages. But Nash also adds to Crosby's past confessions about his descent into drug addiction in the 1980s, when one of rock's great wise guys transformed into a scarred and dead-eyed monster, "filthy, always sickly, irrational, covered in sores," Nash writes.
"The only time legal ever called me was about the story I put in there about Crosby selling his Mercedes to a crack dealer and the guy OD's and Crosby breaks into the house, while the body is still warm, and stole back the sales slip (for the car)," Nash said during the interview.
"Legal wanted me to check with Crosby one more time to make sure that happened. He said, `Not only was it true, but I re-sold the car.'"
Crosby cleaned up years ago and various combinations of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young continue to sing around the world, whether a planned CSN show this fall at London's Royal Albert Hall, or an impromptu visit in 2011 to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Nash and Crosby turned up and performed at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the crowd joining in for Nash's signature song, "Teach Your Children."
"I think I wrote music that made people think, and broke their hearts and depressed them and made them laugh," Nash says, adding that completing the book only added to his amazement at his own life. "I think I did a decent job with what I was given as a child. I'm from an incredibly poor family from the north of England. And look at me. I mean, c'mon."

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People that spend $40,000 to $60,000 are discerning shoppers. Especially if they're spending that money on V8 sedans. Here's what the pros think about the cars available.
Like today, cars from Cadillac, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Infiniti, and Lexus make up the V8 luxury sector, but their places in the market are far different than you remember. Lexus is a young startup and the LS400 is "ground breaking."
The BMW 740i is a new car. The Cadillac STS is the cheapest out there. This is actually a rather useful test if you're looking for a 20 year old luxury boulevard cruiser. And you get to see how well an Infiniti Q45 does on a drag strip. That's worth the price of entry alone!
MotorWeek Theater is our showcase of some of our favorite classic reviews from public television's finest motoring program. How does this video only have 1,527 views on YouTube? Is it because there's just too much luxury?


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Sophomore third baseman Fico Kondla (Miami, Fla.) drove a line drive into right center field with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, bringing home Keith Wolf (O'Fallon, Ill.) to give the Coker baseball team a 5-4 win over Chowan on Sunday. The win came in the Cobras second game of the day; they lost the first game of the doubleheader 4-3 to the Hawks.
In game one, the Cobras suffered their third one-run loss in as many games, dropping a 4-3 game to Chowan. The Hawks took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, but Coker cut the deficit in half with a run in the second. The score remained 2-1 until Chowan added another two runs in the top of the fifth. Coker would again cut the lead to just one with two runs in the sixth, but that would be all the scoring the Cobras would manage.
Junior lefthander, Dan Meyer (Seaford, N.Y.) (0-1) took the loss. He allowed four runs on five hits in five innings of work.
For Chowan, Ryan Bradshaw (1-0) went the distance allowing three runs on eight hits with two strikeouts in seven innings.
Nathan Wilson (Milliken, Colo.) had a solo homerun, two RBIs and a run scored for the Cobras, while T.J. Sinnott (Denver, Pa.), Frank Suarez (Miami, Fla.) and Chad Nader (Rock Hill, S.C.) each had a pair of hits in the game.
Game two started out with very little offensive action. Coker scored the first run of the game in the third inning on sac fly by Wolf. Chowan evened the score in the top of the fourth, but the Cobras answered with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning thanks to an RBI single by Rob Quattrock (Holtsville, N.Y.).
Chowan scored the tying run again in the top of the fifth, only to have Coker score two runs in the bottom of the inning off a two-run single by Wilson, giving the Cobras their largest lead of game at 4-2.
Almost on cue, the Hawks tied the game at four with two runs in the top of the sixth. The Cobras were not about to give-up and after shutting down the Hawk offense in the top of the seventh, Wolf singled to lead off the inning and then stole consecutive bases to put the game-winning run just 90 feet way. Then with two outs, it was Kondla that came up big for the Cobras with a walk-off single to win the game, 5-4.
Kondla ended the game 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, while Wolf was 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Wilson had a pair of RBIs and Quattrock drove in one.
Seth Rainey (Rock Hill, S.C.) (1-0) picked up the win in relief. He tossed two innings, allowing two runs on four hits with two strikeouts.
The Cobras will be back in action on Tuesday at home against the Paine College Lions. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Fico Kondla
Kondla had the game-winning hit in Coker's 5-4 victory.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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Tax Threat Prompts Selloff
Investors Dumping Winning Stocks Due to Expected Jump in Capital-Gains Rate
Politicians are locked in a battle that will determine which Americans pay higher taxes. But many investors aren't waiting to find out the answer.
The prospect of higher taxes on capital gains is prompting many to unload some of their winning stocks.
Tax-induced selling is one factor some market watchers attribute to the recent declines, including...


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Maine AG: Trooper justified in shooting Hermon man during standoff
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The Maine attorney general has concluded that a state trooper was justified in shooting a man in the leg who had pointed a gun at him during a standoff that ended with the man fatally shooting himself.
A report released Monday says Trooper Gregory Roy fired his revolver after 24-year-old Michael McKay fired two shots from his semi-automatic handgun in the direction of a police tactical team that was outside his home in Hermon the night of July 1. Seconds later, the report says McKay killed himself.
The report says at the time of the shooting, McKay had been drinking and was distraught over his broken marriage. He bought a handgun equipped with a laser sight and a box of ammunition earlier that day.


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Acer UK lists at least ten configurations for Aspire 5536. Some of them are called 5536G and others not. It is not clear what the logic is; although it seemed at first that the 5536G configurations use Radeon HD 4570, there's also one 5536G with Radeon HD 3200. The Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn configuration has "Aspire 5536" printed near the keyboard and listed in DMI information; the G suffix appears only in stickers.
Summary specifications of one configuration from the Acer web site:
AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor QL-64 (1MB L2 cache, 2.1GHz); 3GB (2/1) DDR2 667 SDRAM; 320GB hard drive; integrated Super-Multi drive; 5-in-1 card reader; Acer® CineCrystal 15.6" WXGA (1366 x 768) TFT display; ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 graphics; 802.11b/g/Draft-N WLAN, gigabit LAN, V.92 modem, webcam
For full specifications see the Acer Aspire 5536 specifications page.
|Acer Aspire 5536
|AMD Athlon™ 64 X2
|15.6" 1366 x 768 Widescreen
|2GB, 3GB, or 4GB. Upgradeable to 8GB.
|250GB, 320GB, or 500GB
|Optical Drive
or Blueray
|ATI Radeon™ HD 3200
or ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570
|10/100/1000 Ethernet
and either Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11b/g/Draft-N
or Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g
| QL-64: 64-bit tested
QL-65 in Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: 64-bit tested. The powernow-k8 module can drop the clock rate from 2100 MHz to 1050 MHz (only these two speeds are available), saving about 4.5 W when mostly idle or 19 W with both cores busy. ACPI reports no support for C2 and C3 power-saving states but Linux does use the AMD-specific C1E state.
|Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: The brightest backlight level costs about 4.5 W more than the darkest one.
|Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: WD Scorpio Blue 320 GB (WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0). When resuming from suspend-to-RAM, Linux 2.6.32 sometimes reports I/O errors1); rebooting is then the only option.
|Optical Drive
| ATI Radeon™ HD 3200: The default driver doesn't support desktop effects.
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 in Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: Accelerated 3D requires binary-only firmware (RV710_cp.bin and RV710_pfp.bin), Linux 2.6.32, and Mesa 7.6; and some problems remain. 2D graphics work even without the firmware but scrolling is then particularly slow. Only 256 MiB of the 512 MiB graphics RAM is accessible over PCI and current free drivers cannot use the rest.
Option "DynamicClocks" "On" saves perhaps 2 watts in X11. The
radeon driver of Debian's linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64_2.6.32-15 supports kernel modesetting on this chip and provides a framebuffer; the
radeonfb driver doesn't. As of Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) beta 1, desktop effects seem to be working.
|only basic functionality tested so far
|Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: PCI ID 14E4:1698 (Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe), subsystem 1025:0207, Linux driver tg3. Can boot with PXE.
| 802.11b/g: no comment
802.11b/g/Draft-N in Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: PCI ID 168c:002a (Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)), subsystem 105b:e006, driver ath9k added in Linux 2.6.27
|Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: This configuration doesn't have Bluetooth, even though it has a dedicated key for that.
|Not Tested
|Card Reader
|Only MMC (SD) and XD tested so far
|ExpressCard Slot
|Apparently not included in any configuration
|Fingerprint Reader
|May be included in some configurations
|Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: USB ID 04f2:b044 (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. CNF7017), Linux driver uvcvideo
|Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn: "Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa44000", i.e. has two buttons and reports the amount of contact and the finger width but not separately the number of fingers. The Linux psmouse driver supports all of this; it is not clear whether X does too. Linux 2.6.31 fixes the touchpad-disable button not reenabling the touchpad when pressed again, but GNOME reintroduces the problem.
I picked this up on sale for $400, definitely a steal at this price. Acer did a good job of choosing components that are well supported in a modern Linux distribution (I think they actually sold a variant of this model with Linux… in India).
This would be a good first laptop for someone who wants to try Linux but doesn't want to have to become a guru in order to get it to work.
Unfortunately, the Aspire 5536G-654G32Mn model has pretty short battery life, at least in Linux: it constantly pulls 28-30 watts when idle, the fan stays on, and the battery runs out in about 1 h 50 min. Closing the lid and running powertop over the network shows 22.5 watts; this is obviously not a solution, but it at least gives a hint of where the power may be going.
[31153.992114] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [31153.992119] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [31153.992123] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 1c 9d 15 4a 00 00 08 00 [31153.992130] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 480056650 [31154.166787] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 429836642 [31154.166804] Read-error on swap-device (253:1:4288)
I'm running Arch Linux with a 3.8 kernel and a 4.9 KDE desktop. Everything worked on install, although the default ATI Radeon driver was used, rather than AMD's fglrx driver. In order to get the latter working, I had to switch to an earlier version of Xorg (v12), along with the relevant utils. I then had to set up the kernel recompilation hook for the fglrx driver. It currently works nicely.
There's a design fault on at least some version of this laptop, by the way - there's an unopened but necessary cooling vent on the bottom of the case, directly underneath the centrifugal processor/chipset fan. My brother did a neat job of drilling this out, and it handles high loads much more gracefully now.
I have a ACER aspire 7535G laptop with a HD3200 and HD4570 graphics card.
Xorg 7.6 glibc 2.1 and propriety drivers ATI Catalyst 9.12 and ubuntu 9.10.
Everything works fine except:
- wireless got diconnected and after that doesn't connect anymore, fixed by using backports of wireless card for 9.4
- Catalyst uses HD3200 and no other card identified. If in xorg.conf i put the correct PCI port for the HD4570 then the display stays black. No visual with the HD4570 even though no errors are reported??? And even GDM starts and waits for a login, there is just no way of a visual.
Please, I am tottally frustrated with not being able to use the HD4570 under linux.
Anybody any ideas? How did it get to work on the Acer reported above and can somebody give me the xorg.conf and how to disactivate the HD3200 and activate the HD4570.
Thank you for any help.
I've the Acer Aspire 5536-5236 (with spanish keyboard and keys for ¿? ñ, accents á, ç º ª etc). I've tested Ubuntu 9.04 works fine the update for 9.10 its very unstable… wifi suddenly dies, cpu & screen has slow response.
Gentoo works great, but as same as in ubuntu, when I press the disable trackpad button, the trackpad doesn't works anymore till next reboot…
This is a continuation of my previous comment. After some more investigation, I've found that "BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) For AMD Family 11h Processors" Rev 3.00 (July 07, 2008) section 22.214.171.124 says the BIOS must not declare the availability of C2 and C3 states in ACPI; the BIOS used by Acer follows this advice. Instead, the AMD-specific C1E state should be used, and indeed I see "using C1E aware idle routine" in dmesg.
According to gnome-power-manager, the machine drains about 32 W from the battery when mostly idle; about 53 W when there's one "while :; do :; done" running; and about 67 W when there are two of those running. For each core, the ACPI SSDT reports 15.975 W at 2100 MHz and 5.7 W at 1050 MHz. So, there clearly is some CPU power management going on, but still I get only perhaps 70 minutes of battery life. I suppose I should next try to find power users other than the CPU but I don't really know how. There's also the possibility that Linux miscomputes the remaining energy and shuts down too early.
I installed Debian 5.0.3 in an Acer Aspire 5536G with AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL 65, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570, IEEE 802.11 draft-n, 320 GB HDD, and 4 GB RAM. That OS was clearly too old to properly support this hardware so I then upgraded some packages as described below.
Wired network - worked right away with Linux 2.6.26 and PXE loaded the Debian installer nicely over the network once I got the right kind of TFTP server. So I did not need any boot disc.
Wireless network - did not work with Linux 2.6.26, but does work with the ath9k driver in Linux 2.6.30. However, the wireless network doesn't seem to recover after resuming from sleep (Fn+F4). Unloading and reloading the ath9k module did not help, nor did toggling the wireless kill button. This might be a GNOME problem though as I did not configure wpa_supplicant directly.
Camera - works with the USB video class driver (uvcvideo) in Linux.
Sound - got sound to the speakers all right. Haven't tried the microphone.
Graphics - got the wrong resolution initially, but then I upgraded to xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4 and xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.3-1 (building from source to avoid upgrading libc6) and the resolution was OK. Screen updates were rather slow though, especially scrolling. This was fixed by installing the ATI firmware which is unfortunately binary only but at least freely distributable. Accelerated 3D graphics are still not working; apparently, Mesa 7.6 supports the R710 chip but Debian does not enable that in the binaries. I tried compiling my own (which required upgrading linux-libc-dev to 2.6.31) but the resulting /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so doesn't work: glxgears complains "drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info." and there is nothing new in dmesg.
Touch pad - works, but its location means the cursor swings around all the time when I type. So I can't use focus-follows-mouse. There is a button to disable and reenable the touch pad; originally, the pad got stuck in the disabled state if I pressed that, but now that I upgraded Linux to 2.6.31, it seems to work all right.
Power management - fail. Once the fan is on, it stays on, even with light use (I had 15 min loadavg 0.00 but the computer took about 30 W). The temperatures are 50 deg C in TZS0 and 43 deg C in TZS1, with 23 deg C in the room. /proc/acpi/processor/CPU{0,1}/info files show "power management: no", and indeed the P_LVL2_LAT and P_LVL3_LAT fields of the ACPI FADT show C2 and C3 are not supported, nor does the DSDT define a _CST control method in the processor objects. The SSDT defines _PCT, _PSS, and _PSD that show how to drop the clock rate from 2100 MHz to 1050 MHz, and the powernow-k8 driver does just that, but it doesn't help much. The acer_wmi module loads automatically but I don't know if there are any power-management features in that.
I guess I'll next try Debian unstable, or perhaps Ubuntu or Gentoo… and leave half the hard disk unpartitioned so I can test some alternatives while keeping the OS that worked best that far.
Installed Fedora 11 and am having a hell of a time getting sound to work, haven't given up yet but…
Yes, sound is fine under wincrap.
Other than that it seems to be fine with F11 Gnome (not Kde4 which makes vista look good :).
installed Ubuntu 9.04 minimal, ati drivers. wifi is a bit unstable for me too. some sites load with no problems, others refuse to load at all. installed compiz but cairo-dock is unstable with open-GL.
have not tested audio.
i suppose i'm missing a lot of the functionality having installed from a minimal cd, not the full blown version of ubuntu.
I had one of these laptops, I had trouble with the Sound not working, not able to record. Video Issues were there as well, could not have compiz working while video was playing. Big errors, not a fan of this laptop, i had the radeon HD 4570 model.


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I bought one in January while skiing up north. Stopped into a bird store and there it was.
Now that I've been reading around the forum, it seems the plastic tray design isn't the best to use.
I watched Dave's video on drilling and inserting the paper tubes and I'll probably go that route instead.
Some questions:
1) should I not even bother putting the plastic tray house out?
2) should I replace the plastic tray with wood blocks drilled and lined with paper?
3) Do I 'need' to clean the tubes each year? I had thought I would get into mason bee keeping and just set the blocks and forget about the.


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Ladybugs, once the championed protectors of backyard gardens, are showing spots of a less flattering color, and their public image looks like it could be taking an even bigger turn for the worse. A new study has found that invasive Harlequin ladybugs crossbreeding with a species of flightless ladybugs are creating a super strain of a buggy pest.
In recent years, ladybugs have taken their voracious appetites around the world, and they don't just gobble up target insects. Couple this with plagues of ladybugs infesting homes, and you've got an unseemly problem on your hands.
To fight their spread, flightless ladybugs were released as a biological control agent. The idea being that the walk-only ladybugs wouldn't spread as far as quick. Harlequin's aren't to be put off it would seem. The two types of ladybugs can hybridize, giving rise to offspring that are larger, faster-growing, and generally more robust than either of its parent species. Preliminary research suggests that the cross-bred young are even better-equipped to deal with starvation.
The findings by BenoÎt Facon of UMR Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations in Cedex, France, and his colleagues are just a beginning. Researchers want to test multiple generations of hybrid and subject them to different conditions to unravel the magnitude of the Harlequin ladybug dilemma.
You can read more about their discoveries in the current issue of Evolutionary Applications.


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Miley Cyrus And Her New Tattoo (PIC)
Miley has been quite the bad girl in the recent months. Or that's how the paparazzi have have made her seem. They have even managed to snap a shot of her 5th tattoo. You might be thinking "FIFTH tattoo?" but it's got a surprisingly good story behind it.


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In this season of harvest and abundance, Lord, I give you gratitude. For all of the blessings in my life, I am truly thankful. Father, while I eat Thanksgiving dinner, surrounded by more food than is necessary in the company of my closest friends and family, may I be ever mindful that there are those who are hungry and alone. Continue to break my heart for the things that break yours. May I not get so caught up in my thankfulness for the things that I have that I forget those who have not. Teach me to not be complacent. May I not walk the other way when need stares me in the face, but instead, reach out my hand. Remind me that to whom much is given, much is required. Thank you, Father, for your blessings. May I in turn be a blessing. Amen
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A path to dredging equals an increase in interest in the Port of Port St. Joe.
A path to dredging equals an increase in interest in the Port of Port St. Joe.
Any interest in developing the port, in turn, will hinge on a path to dredging the federally-authorized shipping channel.
That was the message from Jorge Gonzalez, senior vice president at the St. Joe Company last week to the Port Authority board.
And as the work on a dredge permit application moves ahead the number of inquiries to utilize the port grows, the latest announced last week by Port Authority chair Leonard Costin.
In a letter from the Holland M. Ware Charitable Foundation, trustee Brenda Thueson stated the Foundation�s interest in shipping aggregate, rock, through the Port of Port St. Joe via the Apalachicola Northern Railroad.
In addition, the Foundation would wish to ship back to Georgia sand located on both sides of the Apalachicola Northern Railroad.
The Foundation owns 10 miles of frontage along the rail line and operates a sand mine in Franklin County for its cement business.
Further, Thueson said the Foundation was interested in exploring the potential for shipping its wood to be turned into pellets at the Cottondale plants of Green Circle Energy, which has a Letter of Intent with the St. Joe Company to ship pellets through the Port of Port St. Joe.
The Green Circle LOI, as with the announcement from the Holland M. Ware Foundation, the first of its kind with the Port St. Joe Port Authority, is linked to the completion of channel dredging within the next 18-24 months.
Another key component of the interest from the Foundation is state commitments on improvement to the Apalachicola Northern Railroad.
A state appropriation of $5 million for improvements to the
In her letter, Thueson stated the Foundation anticipates shipping at least 1.5 million tons of rock and sand per year through the port.
�The Port Authority�s number one priority is to create jobs for the region,� Costin said. �This letter from Holland M. Ware Charitable Foundation demonstrates a growing commitment by businesses to use the port and AN Railway, helping create jobs in several counties in Northwest Florida.
�We now need to ensure the funding is secured to make the necessary infrastructure improvements so we can bring these businesses and jobs to our region.�
The Holland M. Ware Foundation owns approximately 100,000 acres around Port St. Joe.
Holland M. Ware, its Hogansville, Georgia founder, was named in 2010 the largest private landowner east of the Mississippi River and owns St. Regis Paper, Co., Inc.
�With our large acreages from Georgia through Florida and our granite, sand and timber holdings, we have an even greater interest in the revitalization of the Port of Port St. Joe as we discuss the potential of having a port that accommodates heavy bulk cargo operational by the end of 2014 combined with the understood commitment from the State of Florida to build railroad access,� Thueson wrote in her letter.
The Port Authority, though Gulf County Economic Development Alliance, Inc., president Guerry Magidson, also announced another potential client that has been code-named Project Ship, a lumber/timber business seeking to ship to the Caribbean.
�We just need an operational port and an operational railroad,� said Magidson.
That, Gonzalez said, is that the focus for the St. Joe Company is on, stating that any absence by the company from Port Authority meetings should not be construed as not indicating the company�s current full-court press.
�There are a lot of parties interested in the port,� Gonzalez said. �They would like to see some path to progress on dredging. That is the consensus.�
The company, as Gonzalez noted, has tentative agreements with Green Circle and another energy company to ship through the Port of Port St. Joe provided the channel is dredged by the end of 2014, early 2015 at the latest.
The company, Gonzalez said, is lobbying hard the case for dredging of the ship channel.
What those who would fund that dredging work � particularly the Florida Department of Transportation and the Office of the Governor � want to see is that path, Gonzalez said, with potential for customers and community support.
The rail improvement grant is in limbo, in part, as the state assesses the potential for and tangible progress in dredging and the development of the port.
The dredging permit work continues, Tommy Pitts of Hatch Mott MacDonald reported last week. The timeline remains to have the application submitted and approved in the next four to five months.
The key would then be funding, which is a major wish list item for local officials as the Florida Legislature prepares to begin committee meetings next month.


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eGPSlite is an innovative new GPS app for iPhone. It has full GPS capabilities, showing latitude and longitude, altitude, speed, and heading. This makes it useful for all kinds of activities where you would usually want a GPS device - hiking, cycling, geocaching and letterboxing, running, location-based social networking activities, and more.
In addition, it has the remarkable new feature of showing the exact street address of your current location. Through ground-breaking research and development that integrates GPS location with advanced map technologies, the eGPSlite app can find addresses with extremely high accuracy. The address displayed includes the street number and name, city, state and zip code.
When could you use the current address feature? There are dozens of possibilities:
-In a strange city, you visit a restaurant, bar, or attraction you like. The current address feature will let you identify where you are and save it for future reference.
-If you are visiting a place where you don't know the exact address but you want to direct a friend there, you can pull up the current address in eGPSlite to provide them the correct location for use in their own GPS devices or mapping program
-If you are on the road and drive past an interesting location, eGPSlite can give you the exact address so you can look it up later.
-While driving, if you are looking for an address on a long street, the address feature can show your current address and position so you know how many blocks or doors ahead you must continue toward your destination.
-Often times, storefronts or offices on a city block will not show their street address on the door. With eGPSlite, you can find the exact street address of the place you are standing and use it to direct yourself to the right entrance.
-If you are house hunting, pub crawling, or hopping between open houses, it can be hard to keep track of where you are. Instead of needing to go outside and look at the address, you can use the address feature on your phone to remind yourself of which address you are visiting.
-If you are traveling or on a road trip, the address feature can help you discover which town you are visiting by providing the exact address.
-If you are trying to get directions from someone over the phone when you are in a strange place, the address feature will let you tell them exactly from where you are starting.
-Even if you know the exact address of the place you are visiting, you might not know the zip code. This may be needed if you want something shipped there, if you are looking up local establishments, or for other local information. Just click on the app to get your exact location, and it will provide the zip code for you.
-If you are an avid reviewer or blogger online, marking addresses found with this feature will let you keep an inventory of places you've been so that you can look them up again when you are ready to write about them.
Once you have access to constant, accurate address information, there is no end to the uses you will find for it. This feature sets eGPSlite apart from other GPS app competition.
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Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott will play together the opening two rounds of the U.S. Open next week at Merion.
For the third straight year, U.S. Open officials have put the top three players in the world ranking in the same group. The U.S. Open disclosed the tee times in a tweet Friday, with the rest of the draw expected later in the day. The feature group will start at 1:14 p.m. Thursday off the first tee.
This will be the first time Woods and McIlroy have played together in any round of a major.
Woods, Scott and Phil Mickelson played together the opening two days at Torrey Pines in the 2008 U.S. Open. That was the first time the USGA went to the 1-2-3 grouping.


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Andrew Betts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 140 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Assanka is a technology company that builds web applications, mainly for media and finance clients. We recently developed the new site for TheLondonPaper ( http://www.thelondonpaper.com ), and we do a lot of work with the Financial Times (eg http://ftalphaville.ft.com ). We do development in house and work with third parties for design and creative work. There is more information and case studies on our current website: http://www.assanka.net.
To be clear, we are not a design or creative agency - we build and design software and applications, scalable platforms and massive databases.
Our audience is twofold: large businesses who should see us as reliable, innovative and stylish but business-friendly with a serious reputation; and developers, who should find us open and accessible, interesting and techy. The two sets of users are looking for very different things. Here are some user stories for each one:
1. Steve, 35, is a product manager for an international media corporation. He controls a million-pound budget and is looking for agencies that can deliver innovative projects reliably on a massive scale. He is not a technophobe, and likes to know that his suppliers know what they're talking about, but he prefers looking at the end result and the bottom line, rather than the mechanics of how things work.
2. Tom, 22, is a JavaScript developer, working freelance. He uses the web extensively to help with coding problems, and attends lots of conferences and networking events. He likes finding useful coding tips and tools on company websites, because they tend to work better than those you find pasted into forums. He aspires to work for an agency that does interesting and innovative stuff and shares it with the community. He gets frustrated with 'marketing-speak', and doesn't trust a company's claims unless they back it up with specific implementation details.
Our website has been around for six years, and we feel that we are no longer projecting the right message to prospective clients and the development community. It is also cumbersome to update on the back-end so we're looking for a fresh design to accompany an overhaul of the CMS that we are doing internally.
The new design will need to work for a home page, article pages, and wiki pages. The main site may be fixed width or liquid, but it must be possible for it to work as a liquid layout so we can use it to publish wiki pages containing lots of complicated documentation that needs the space.
I can't fit the whole brief in here so I've uploaded it to:
The deliverable for this project is just the homepage, and an idea of how an article page fits into the design (so an article with headline, byline and date but no content). There will be a subsequent contest for all the various UI controls that we need - headings, tables, lists, tags, code blocks etc. For the moment we just want to find a style and design we like, then we'll commission the detailed elements for article pages.
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Happy New Year 2013! The Best Resolution For 2013
January 01, 2013
In keeping with the tradition of New Year's Resolutions, it's only appropriate to add "water" to your list of easy things to do! We've all heard the drinking water "rules." You probably know that you should drink between 8 and 10 glasses of water each day. Let's examine just a few of the many benefits to drinking water every day.


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We are growing and delighted to serve the Bay Area in addition to our current locations in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. State Van has you covered on the West Coast now more than ever!
Welcome to State Van Rental! We provide the most convenient and affordable Los Angeles van rental service in the industry. If you have more than 4 passengers and you're looking to tour Southern California, or just get from point A to point B, van rentals in Los Angeles are easily the best way to do it. Whether you're flying into LAX, or you're a California native looking to transport some cargo, our services have you covered.
Van Rentals in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, as well as the general Southern California region, the transportation infrastructure is basically set up for cars. Everything is spread out and the highway is the best way to get around. If you want to do anything in the Los Angeles area, or if you want to travel from the Los Angeles area to another region, you need a car. What's more, when it comes to various tasks such as transporting a number of people for sightseeing, touring, road-tripping, or traveling to some sort of group function, van rental beats even having your own car. Why is that?
When you are looking to do a good amount of traveling with a large group, you have to worry about getting everyone to the destination safe and on time. With your own vehicle you have to worry mechanical maintenance, oil levels, interior cleanliness, electrical issues, tire inflation and condition, and all of that other fun stuff that comes with maintaining a car. If you rent a van from our Los Angeles van rental agency, you don't have to worry about any of that. We regularly perform rigorous inspections, maintenance, and cleaning on all of our vans, so you can just get everyone in your vehicle and go. Passenger van rental in Los Angeles is the easiest, most hassle-free way to get around in Southern California.
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Our Los Angeles van rental agency provides several types of vans, all at affordable rates. We offer 8, 12, or 15 passenger vans, to accommodate groups of varying sizes. We also offer cargo vans, which are great for moving your gear and personal belongings, and converter vans, which are perfect for going camping with. Or if you want to travel in style, we provide Cadillac Escalades for those with a taste for luxury.
When checking out van rentals in Los Angeles and their rates, we recommend looking for coupons that can get you a good deal. We would also suggest planning your trip and opting for advanced rental bookings. There are certain rental periods when you can get a better deal, and if you are planning a trip that is going to last for a long period, you can get an even better deal. You can always find discounted and rates and coupons with our Los Angeles van rental agency; just give us a call and ask about our deals, and plan your trip accordingly.
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Three Arrested in Case of Missing NC Teen
(GOLDSBORO, N.C.) -- Three people are under arrest on murder charges in conjunction with the disappearance of Kennedy McLaurin Jr., 16, who vanished on Sept. 9 in Goldsboro, N.C.
Despite the fact that no body has been found, Leonard Joyner, 21, Jerome Butts, 19, and Kevin Edward Smith, 18, were arrested Friday and charged with murder. A warrant has also been taken out for arrest of Curtis Etheridge, 17, also charging him with murder.
"The police department has identified all of the subjects involved in this case," Goldsboro Police Sgt. Dwayne Dean told ABC station WTVD-TV, in Raleigh-Durham. "We can assure the public that this is not gang related nor was it random."
McLaurin, a high school junior from Goldsboro who was described as having pierced ears and a tattoo of the initial "K" on his left hand, vanished nearly two weeks ago. It was unlike him to disappear without word, his parents told WTVD.
"It's agonizing not knowing," McLaurin's mother, Kim Best, told WTVD. "I haven't been able to function, hardly do anything — just waiting around for him to come home."
Witnesses told police that McLaurin, who was 5 foot 9 inches, 135 pounds, with black hair, and brown eyes, was abducted by four men and forced into a car in front of a housing project. Police are looking for a bluish-grey older model Buick or Lincoln.
The community has gathered around the McLaurin family. Hundreds of people attended a rally Friday night for McLaurin, marching to the Goldsboro Police Department while officers on bicycles and in patrol cars escorted them.
While investigators have found physical evidence related to the crime in a farm field, they have still not recovered McLaurin's body, police said.
The three suspects are being held in the Wayne County Jail without bond. They are scheduled to appear in court on Monday morning.
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The Castelli Viva Women's Cap looks a lot like most other cycling caps, in that it's made from cotton and sports the same sort of peak, shaped crown and elasticated section at the back, allowing it to qualify for its 'one size fits all' status.
We asked Castelli what makes this a ladies' cap, and they came back with this: "The Viva Cotton Cap is a Unisex option, sizing is the same as men's hats with a lot more elastic movement on the rear."
The black cap is decorated with a broad rainbow band that more than faintly resembles the World Champ's rainbow banding, but with two of the colours switched (it's not MY fault if people henceforth assume I'm a champion in hiding!). It is a good looking cap.
I did find that the Viva fitted better than other caps I've tried in the past, from a variety of manufacturers. It seemed deeper at the back, allowing for the greater quantity of hair that most women have over male cyclists. It fitted a treat under a helmet and kept my head pleasingly warm and dry without overheating, in all sorts of weather.
So, I've no idea what makes a women's cap, but surprisingly the Viva did suit my head better than most.
A well designed cap for women, or just anyone whose head it fits.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Castelli Viva cotton cap (ladies)
Size tested: One
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Aimed at women.
Manufacturers don't say a lot about why it's "made for women" but it does seem to fit better than some other caps I've tried.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Elastic at rear
One size fits all
Nicely finished and good soft, but rugged cotton.
Did what it was suppose to very well.
Not going anywhere in a hurry.
Very light indeed and perfect for a jersey pocket.
Surprisingly comfortable.
On a par with most cycling caps.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Very well, both under a helmet and for hiding helmet hair.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Style, fit, weight.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Nothing really.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Possibly, if I knew they wouldn't be riding with me.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
A good value, well performing cycling cap.
About the tester
Age: 37 Height: 1.65m Weight: 67kg
I usually ride: My best bike is:
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: commuting, touring, general fitness riding, mtb,
Lara has been riding bikes for longer than she'd care to admit, and writing about them nearly as long. Since 2009 she has been working as part of the road.cc review team whilst championing women's cycling on the side, most notably via two years as editor of the, sadly now defunct, UK's first and only women's cycling mag, erm, Women's Cycling.
Believing fervently that cycling will save the world, she wishes that more people would just ride a bike and be pleasant to each other.
She will ride anything with two wheels, occasionally likes to go fast, definitely likes to go far and is always up for a bit of exploring somewhere new and exciting.


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Release Date: November 19th, 2010
DVD Release Date: April 15th, 2011
PG-13 |2 hr 26 minPlot Summary
Without the guidance and protection of their professors, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) begin a mission to destroy the Horcruxes, the sources of Voldemort's immortality. Though they must rely on one another more than ever, dark forces threaten to tear them apart. Voldemort's Death Eaters have seized control of the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts, and they are searching for Harry -- even as he and his friends prepare for the ultimate showdown.
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Helena Bonham Carter, Warwick Davis
Director: David Yates
Production Co: Warner Bros., Heyday Films
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures
Keywords: Spirited, Rise, Revenge, Suspenseful, School, Quest, 2000s


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Malia wrote:--but it is *somewhat* ironic that Keats would say such a thing considering his first career was in the scientific field of medicine.
if science explains all natural and supernatural phenomena it leaves little room for the imagination of the poet to explore.
Becky wrote:but i think the drinking toast is to something like advanced mathematics. Sometimes i could say the same about poetry though - i like it best when its just being poetry, not ideology.
Especially when Richard Dawkins gets a hold of it uurrggh, grrr, simultaneously, in my limited experience of him
jesleeall wrote:One (belated) thought: wasn't Keats at a dinner or party when he joined in with others who were disparaging science and made the "unweaving" comment? According to his biographers, he was always making extravagant statements, "rhodomontades," that he didn't necessarily fully believe in. I always thought this comment, made in high spirits at a party, probably fell somewhere in that category.
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What we've learned about Bush
DALLAS — The one duty we owe to history, said Oscar Wilde, is to rewrite it.
Four years after leaving office, the history of George W. Bush's presidency is being rewritten — ever-so-slowly, and not yet in ways that fundamentally challenge popular understandings of the man and his tenure.
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Even so, there are important areas in which the Bush narrative looks significantly different now than it did when he left office, according to an array of journalists, historians, and other Bush observers.
( PHOTOS: George W. Bush presidential library dedication)
In some cases, memoirs and scholarly efforts have put new facts on record. In others, unfolding events — and Barack Obama's own decisions — have put Bush's experience in a new light, even as many important chapters of those eight years remain shrouded in secrecy or confusion.
As Bush's presidential library is officially dedicated here Thursday morning, here is POLITICO's roster of things we have learned about the 43rd president that we didn't know when he left town four years ago.
• Cheney was estranged from Bush
There were certainly rumblings by the time Bush left office that his partnership with Cheney — who at critical junctures was the most influential vice president in U.S. history — had soured a bit. But it took post-presidential books and interviews to shine a full light on just how profoundly the Bush-Cheney relationship changed over time, and how much goodwill between the two men had diminished by the presidency's end.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: 'President Bush loves this country')
Bush has disclosed that he considered dropping Cheney as his running mate for several weeks in mid-2003. "He was seen as dark and heartless, the Darth Vader of the administration," he wrote in 2010. "Dick's offer would be one way to demonstrate that I was in charge."
Cheney chastised Bush for repeatedly refusing to pardon Scooter Libby, an aide who got caught up in the Valerie Plame affair.
"I felt strongly that Scooter deserved a pardon, and I broached the subject on numerous occasions with the president," Cheney wrote in his 2011 memoir. During a tense meeting at the end of the second term, Cheney said he told the president he was making a "grave error."
"You are leaving a good man wounded on the field of battle," he told Bush.
( Also on POLITICO: Bush: Nation needs 'comforter-in-chief')
The former president somewhat awkwardly described his relationship with his ex-running-mate as "cordial" in an interview that aired on C-SPAN Wednesday night.
"The puppet on a string thing has been shown to be false," CBS News' Bill Plante, who covered the Bush White House, said of the former president.
• The administration was a snake pit
Again, the web of power factions and mutually contemptuous relationships within the West Wing and across the top ranks of the executive branch was hardly a secret at the time. Anyone reading the papers from 2002 onward knew that first-term Secretary of State Colin Powell and Cheney were not exactly fraternity brothers.


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When game designer Kazunori Yamauchi was a 15-year-old, he came up with an idea for a game he'd love to make: a racing game with with real cars and real physics. In 1997, he finally released that game, Gran Turismo, on the PlayStation.
"I've always liked racing games," Yamauchi tells Top Gear. "When I was around 15 years old it just came to me as an idea of a race game I wanted to play. A game in which there would be an accurate physics simulation and, of course, real-world cars."
Gran Turismo became one of the PlayStation's most successful franchises. Gran Tursimo 5 is currently hitting retailers worldwide.
Whether it be GT or the cartoony Motor Toon Gran Prix, Yamauchi has made racing games for the vast majority of his career. He tells NowGamer (via Develop that while he has "no plans" to make something other than driving games, he adds, "I certainly have ideas for new games all the time." He adds, "Every day. I really, really would love to try making some other type of game."
Yamauchi's studio Polyphony Digital worked on one non-racing game, Omega Boost. Released in 1999, the game is a rail shooter that features mecha. Is there any way Yamauchi could be convinced to make a rail shooter with mechas, real cars and accurate physics?
Top Gear talks to Kazunori Yamauchi [Top Gear]


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Stefon Diggs Wes Brown break it down
OLNEY - There might not be a better one-two punch in the nation next year. Good Counsel's two ballyhooed recruits, Stefon Diggs and Wes Brown, form a receiver-running back combination that's been dubbed downright unstoppable.
Diggs, a 6-foot-1, 189-pound receiver, is a potential five-star prospect who has already cemented himself among the elite players in the United States. He's a returning First Team All-State performer, an Army All-American Combine MVP and holds over two dozen Division-I scholarship offers. Diggs, who runs a legitimate 4.4 40-yard dash, caught 43 passes for 811 yards and rushed for 506 yards and 23 total touchdowns in 2010.
Diggs' best friend, Brown, has something to prove next season. The 6-foot, 190-pound running back was supposed to have a shot at state MVP this year. But a severe ankle sprain suffered in Week 1 against St. Xavier knocked out more than half his season. Brown, however, still managed to rack up 611 yards and nine touchdowns on 80 carries, giving him momentum heading into his senior year. Brown, like Diggs, has double-digit scholarship offers and participated in the Army All-American Combine.
MdHigh publisher Dave Lomonico recently visited Good Counsel for a sit-down interview with the two Falcons stars. They discussed everything from their childhoods to their rise through the ranks to their weight of expectations to their future goals.
Below is the full question-and-answer transcript from the interview.
OK, before we start into your high school careers I want to talk to each of you about your development as football players. Talk about how you got involved with the game and how you progressed.
Brown: I first started getting into football the summer when I was nine years old. I saw my brother playing outside, but he said it was too hot so he quit right then and there. I wanted to show him up, so I went out and started playing (laughs). Now, football isn't even something I do just for fun to show people up. It's my life. . . .
When I joined a [youth team] that fall when I was nine, the coaches all started fighting over me. They were all arguing over what age group I should play in - nine, 10, and even with the 11 year olds. It was kind of funny, all these old guys fighting over a nine-year-old kid. . . .
At first I started as a receiver; I didn't move to running back until I got out to [Olney] and played for the Ultimate Bruins [youth team]. Then, when I got to high school, I played jayvee my freshman year because Good Counsel already had two horses on varsity [Jelani Jenkins, Caleb Porzel). Then sophomore year I came up with something to prove.
Diggs: I started playing football at five going on six years old. They had a rule that you had to wait until you were at least six to play. My dad started me playing football because he wanted me to have something to do. My older brother would just be hanging around and getting in trouble, and my dad wanted me to be different. . . .
It's funny, I actually wanted to play basketball at first. But I was so aggressive that I'd always foul out. So that got frustrating and I decided I better try a different sport (laughs). So that got me started at football, where being aggressive is the name of the game . . . I played quarterback my first year and running back all through middle school. But then my size caught up to me in high school. . . .
My freshman year at Good Counsel, I was on varsity right away. But I had a lot to prove. There were a lot of people out there who resented that I was on varsity and didn't respect me. But I learned a lot and then when I got my first start against Friendship Collegiate I sort of showed I belonged. I took two kicks back for touchdowns, one 56 yards and the next 50-plus. So that felt good; it really got my confidence up. I just rode it from there the next two years.
When did you realize you could really do something special on the field?
Brown: It was that first time I stepped on the field at nine years old. I went out and ran a post and no one could keep up with me (laughs). I just ran by everyone.
Diggs: It had to be that punt return and kick return I talked about earlier. That was the game I proved myself at a high level. It was against Friendship, which is a solid team. At first I was just blocking at receiver and not doing much, but then I got a chance to return a punt. I practically took it all the way to the house. Problem was, I got caught. I still can't believe that (laughs). I was kind of embarrassed. But then I got another chance and I went the distance. That felt good.
Where did you guys grow up? Talk about your upbringing.
Brown: I grew up in Baltimore. … I don't live there now, but I still have a house up there… I live with [senior Good Counsel quarterback] Zach Dancel and his family now. I like that a lot because I don't have to worry about too much anymore, like if I'm going to eat at night (laughs) …
For me, it was tough [in Baltimore], but only if you really made it tough and let it get to you. I grew up in the hood, and It's a place where if you stick around too long you probably won't be here for a long time. For a little bit I had to sell some stuff just to get by. But my mother started to get things cleared up for me and my aunt started helping out, too….
Then the Dancels took me in when I came out here my freshman year. Coming [to Good Counsel] made me realize I could overcome everything I went through [in Baltimore] and be bigger then all of that. I don't do what I used to do anymore. …
But I do go back up to Baltimore on the weekends. My coaches try to keep me from going back sometimes, but that's where I grew up.
Diggs: I lived in a lot of different places. I did a lot of moving around because of my mom and dad. I don't know what it was with my dad, but we were always moving. We lived in North Carolina and all over Delaware, Virginia and Maryland. Just around here I lived in Upper Marlboro, places in Montgomery County and Gaithersburg. I guess the advantage of that is I know a lot of people (laughs). …
I live with my mom in Gaithersburg now. My dad is deceased. He died of congestive heart failure when I was 14. He used to drink a lot when he was younger and it caught up to him…
It was a tough time. I never really had a close relationship with my mom - I was a Daddy's boy. My dad took me everywhere and did everything with me. So when you lose the only really close person you have, that's hard. But I'm fine now. I try to look at is a positive -- a growth experience.
How did you guys end up at Good Counsel?
Brown: I didn't know anything about recruiting or high schools or anything like that. A DeMatha coach came to see me like every day. It was annoying; I had practice and work to do. Then the Good Counsel guys started showing up and I used to hide from them (laughs). But one time Good Counsel brought up their entire staff and I actually liked them. So I decided to go to school there.
Diggs: Before my dad died he got me involved with Good Counsel and all the coaches there. I guess they liked what they saw, so here I am.
How did you deal with all the expectations coming into Good Counsel?
Brown: When we first came in we knew we had a lot to live up to. But Stefon and I connected over that and I think that helped drive us. It helps that we lived up to what they expected of us (smile).
Diggs: You know, we knew the expectations were high and it was kind of crazy. We were being hyped before our freshmen years. We were being touted as maybe the best recruiting class Good Counsel ever had. They were talking about this combination for some time. But we just took it all in stride and worked hard to make sure we didn't fail. And I guess we've done OK (laughs).
Now, you guys seem like two opposite personalities. We've got a quieter, more subdued Wes and a loud, eccentric Stefon. How did that happen?
Brown: (laughs) I mean, we have our days when one of us is talking and the other one is really quiet. It just depends on how we're feeling at the moment. I can be real quiet, and then I'll see Stefon at my locker and all of a sudden I'm talking. You just caught me on a quieter day (laughs).
Diggs: Yeah, that's pretty much the deal. I mean, I'm usually always talking (laughs). I seem to always know exactly what to say and when to say it. But sometimes I do like to sit back and take it all in.
Yeah, Stefon you're a talker for sure. What's with you receivers and talking? Is that engrained in you guys? Wes, on the other hand, he's a running back. They aren't like that. What gives?
Brown: Hey, sometimes I'm talking out there (laughs).
Diggs: It's how we were brought up. Us receivers, we don't take nothing from no body. That's the only way you can be successful as a receiver. You have to believe you're good to be good. …
And if someone says something wrong out there, well, you just have to speak on it, too (laughs).
Talk about each other. Stefon, you talk about what Wes means to you on the field and vice versa.
Brown: When I'm mad, Stefon picks me up and tells me to get my head back in the game and run the darn ball (laughs). That gets me right….
That pretty much happens at some point every game. Against DeMatha I was getting into it with EJ Levenberry, their linebacker. I wasn't going to say anything, but he kept talking. He was saying some things I couldn't ignore. It got to me a little bit and I said something back. But Stefon quickly grabbed me, slapped my helmet and said, 'Get your head back in the game.'
Diggs: Usually I can't shut up on the field, but I'll say this about Wes: he's the only guy that can tell me to shut up and I'll listen (laughs). …
Wes always picks me up and tells me what has to be done. When he got hurt, I got a little mad -- he left me out to dry. I got a little frustrated playing running back, having to pick up where he left off. But Wes would keep encouraging me, giving me advice. Then when he was ready to come back and play, he was like, 'Alright, it's over - get your butt out of here and play receiver.' (laughs)
There are a lot of talented players at Good Counsel, but you two are sort of like the face of Good Counsel football this year. Do you feel the weight of responsibility?
Diggs: By now we're used to it. We just shrug our shoulders and keep our minds right. We know what we have to do to keep it up.
Brown: Right, we know how we're supposed to act, and we know what's expected of us. We're not shying away from that.
Talk about all the fan attention you guys are getting now? Does that get kind of old?
Brown: During basketball games we'll be sitting there on the bench before a game and all these people are pointing at us, trying to talk to us. So we notice it. But we're used to it and we just laugh about it.
Diggs: We have all these friends I didn't know were my friends (laughs). Facebook, text messages, everything. But it's all good. You learn to take it all in and roll with it (smile).
What about the recruiters, scouts and all of them? They ever get on your nerves?
Brown: Yeah, definitely. Sometimes I just keep my phone on silent so I can't even see the calls coming in.
Diggs: I change my number all the time so people will stop calling me (laughs). It gets old real fast.
You two have been hyped up big time. But do you guys ever hear any criticism?
Diggs: Oh yeah, we hear a lot of that. There's a lot of haters out there. But I don't really like to call them haters - I call them secret lovers. Inside, they all really want to be just like us (laughs).
Brown: We worked so hard to get where we are, we don't really think about the critics. They're just jealous.
I know your coaches keep you guys level-headed, too, right?
Diggs: Oh yes. They'll throw us under the bus at any time. They'll make us run and run and run. And we can't say much when we're running (laughs).
Brown: The only time our egos get big is when it's us two talking together. We never let on in public.
You guys both participated in the Army All-American combine. How was that experience?
Brown: It was fun. And then when they told us we were going to meet CJ Spiller (Buffalo Bills running back) we knew we must be something special. … But there were like three, four other guys there who were pretty good, but it was all [me and Stefon). We owned that combine.
Diggs: Actually, I have a bad story (laughs). I got picked for a little demo for one of their commercials and I had to catch a pass. And, typical me, I dropped the pass. So that was really embarrassing. People were saying, 'He gets to do the demo and he drops a pass? What's up with that?' (laughs)…
But it was all good. I made up for it in one-on-ones. After that, it was a wrap.
Wes, you hurt your ankle last year in Week 1. Talk about what that was like to miss all that time.
Brown: I think it was the second play of the season. On my first run I got stopped in the backfield and kind of spun around. Then on the next play I just got hit, and a bunch of people landed on me. I hopped up like I usually do and walked back to the huddle. But then I broke down. I thought it was a cramp, but when I tried to run around I kept falling. I tapped my helmet to come out of the game. Then I started walking to the sideline and I heard my ankle go click, click. I just kind of gave out. …
I didn't think it was anything bad at first. I asked the trainers and they said my muscle was swollen and tight to my bone. They just wrapped it and wrapped it, but I thought it would be OK….
When I heard [the diagnosis], though, I thought I was done. They said I could either get a cast, a boot or have surgery. I said, 'I'll take the boot.' After that I kept trying to walk around full range, but I wasn't ready. The [doctors] told me, 'You keep doing that and we're going to put you in a cast.' So I had to leave it alone. I just did my rehab and kept drinking my milk like I always do (laughs). Hey, it's good for your bones (smile)….
Then I got back against McNamara after the doctors told my coaches I was 100 percent. I wasn't completely feeling it, but I was anxious to get back. I had three runs for 30-something yards and it felt good. But I couldn't go all out. I felt like I was hurting myself again. So I came out of the game. The next week, though, I was good.
Do you feel like you have something to prove next year, Wes?
Brown: Oh yeah. I had high expectations for 2010. I looked at the Gazette and they're saying how I'm preseason player of the year -- this, that and the other. Everybody kept saying three names: Wes Brown, [Gonzaga quarterback] Kevin Hogan and Stefon Diggs. But after I heard that, I just had a feeling something bad was going to happen. And it did. …
Now I have to go out and prove [the papers] right. I'm back, and I'm ready to show everyone what I can do.
Stefon, when Wes went down and you had to take over at running back, what was that like?
Diggs: I was actually really upset, because when we're not together, it's not the same. We go hand-in-hand on the field. It's not Wes Brown. It's not Stefon Diggs. It's Brown & Diggs….
So when he went down I was like, 'What are we going to do now - we don't have a running game?' I was asking the coaches constantly, 'What's up with Wes? Is he coming back? Is he done? What's going on?' But I never got a solid answer….
I think when they realized he was going to be out awhile, they decided to move me to running back. I started right after the Gilman game. But, you know, I thought about it and I knew I'd be OK back there. I played running back growing up and I knew the plays from last year. I had Wes on the sidelines to help me, too. So I felt I would get adjusted and I'd do fine. …
And I did do well; I felt like I helped the team out. (Except against DeMatha. When you go against that defense, you need to be an actual running back or they'll snap you in half. So I played receiver that game). …
I wasn't ready to move [to running back] permanently though. I was glad when Wes came back. I mean, I'm a receiver -- that's my thing (laughs).
Stefon, you were a player of the year candidate last year and you won the Army Combine MVP. Does that put extra pressure on you to repeat what you did last year now that you'll be a senior?
Diggs: Yeah, in a way. And it would be disappointing if I didn't do the same thing again. But, you know, I didn't win the player of the year and my goal is to be Gatorade Player of the Year. I'm going to work extra hard in the classroom to get that award. I still have a lot to do in [my high school career].
What do you guys have to do to get even better on the field?
Diggs; A lot of it is training with the team and developing more chemistry. We both have personal trainers and train together. We have to get more team-oriented.
Brown: I have to work on believing in my line every play. That's not something I'm used to. I would get on them right away when something bad happened. I have to be a little more patient.
Diggs: I'd say I have to put some weight on, too. My trainer has helped me put on 10 pounds already. …
In a lot of places, like Texas, everyone is so big and bulky and people seem to like that. But I see that and say, 'Just because you're so big doesn't mean you're talented.' But on paper size looks good. And I want to look good (laughs).
You guys both play on offense and defense. Which do you like more?
Diggs: We both love defense. I mean really love it. But we make a better effort and have more of an impact on offense. That's where we make our names.
Brown: Yeah, I agree. There's nothing like running the ball.
What's your mentality going into a game?
Brown: Oh, it's unbelievable. It's intense. It's like a Ray Lewis mentality: 'Ain't no body gonna come in here and hit me in the mouth. You're not going to step in my house and get away with it. You're going to get showed up.'
Diggs: That's pretty much it. I can't say it any better then that (laughs).
How do you guys prepare for a game?
Brown: We dress each other (smiles).
Diggs: Yeah, you gotta look good, you know? Look good, feel good, play good.
Brown: The day before a game Stefon comes over here [to the Dancels] and we'll chill and have a nice dinner. Then we'll pick out what we're going to wear and get our colors straight. We got to match our socks, shirts, everything.
Diggs: Don't worry, we're straight (laughs).
Brown: Yeah, don't get the wrong impression here (laughs).
Diggs: We listen to music, too.
Brown: Yeah, but I'm from Baltimore and they don't like that Baltimore music -- club music -- down here. Stefon and all them are always listening to Go-Go and hip-hop -- stuff like that. I'm not into that.
Diggs: Yeah, get that [Baltimore music] out of here (laughs).
What do you guys do when you're not playing football? What do you do when you're hanging out?
Both: (laughs)
Diggs: We have some nice evenings.
Brown: Yeah, some very nice evenings (laughs).
Diggs: To be continued (laughs).
If you could compare your guys' games to another running back and receiver, who would it be?
Brown: A lot of people say Adrian Peterson for me. I'm a strong runner who can run you over but has the speed to break away…. I don't have the fumbling problem though (laughs).
Diggs: I'd say DeSean Jackson. He's a playmaker and he makes the impossible possible. And he makes it look good -- that's key (laughs). He talks a little bit, too, but he gets the job done. And as long as he gets it done, you can't say nothing to him.
OK, so take me through a game. You're playing DeMatha. It's intense. You guys are yapping and jawing. What are you guys saying?
Brown: 'Watch this.' Plain and simple -- I just say 'Watch this.' But I don't really say something to them unless they say something to me. Usually I just turn around and say something to myself. Then I'll go out, lower my shoulder and just embarrass him on the next play.
Diggs: I'll be lined up at receiver and [the cornerback will] be lined up a little too far off the line. It's like they're scared I'm going to run right by them. So I'll be like, 'Come on man. You got to get up closer so I can get to know you. We got to get personal.' …
So, yeah, I try to have a little fun and also get in their heads at the same time. They usually tell me to shut up after awhile, but it's all good. Nothing personal.
OK, so you guys won a championship in 2009, a championship in 2010 and you got to be with the top junior recruits in the country at the All-American Combine. What was the most special of those three?
Brown: That second championship [this year] because we blew DeMatha out. That's the first time that ever happened to DeMatha. That was sweet.
Diggs: Yeah, you know, the Army thing was OK and it was something I worked hard for. I appreciated being selected for it and it made me realize, 'Hey, I am pretty good.' But that second championship was really special. DeMatha never got going and we put 44 points on them.
The mentality has definitely changed in this Good Counsel-DeMatha rivalry. You guys come in and you're hunting, hunting, hunting DeMatha. Now, you're most certainly the hunted. Do you like being on this side a little better? Or would you rather still be underdogs?
Brown: Oh yeah, we like being the hunted.
Diggs: In our freshmen years we had Jelani (Jenkins) and Caleb (Porzel) and we still didn't get that ring. It felt pretty bad to have all that talent and come up short. So to get a ring after our sophomore and junior years -- that felt real good. We have no intention of letting that [feeling] go. We like being on top.
So, are we thinking three-peat in 2011? Can Good Counsel beat the boys over in Hyattsville three years in a row?
Brown: Oh, it's going to happen (smiles). Mark my words.
Diggs: He's right, he's right. You know, our sophomore years we got one, but [Wes and I] weren't even the main guys. Last year, yeah, we were up there -- pretty important to the team. But now, this year, we're the seniors. We're the guys. We have to bring it home one last time.
Do you guys feel like you're the best running back-receiver combination in America?
Both: Yes.
Brown: It's our chemistry. We know exactly what each other is going to do. We have eye signals, that sixth sense about us. When we hit the field, we know how to motivate each other, help each other, get each other ready. When Stefon gets frustrated, I'm immediately right there to pick up the slack. And he does the same for me.
Diggs: You can't stop us both. It's impossible. You stop the run, but you ain't stopping the pass. You stop the pass, but you ain't stopping our running game.
But there must be some moment of mortality for you guys. Give me a moment when you were beaten.
Diggs: I got beat on one of the first plays against St. Xavier this year. It was so loud I couldn't hear anything. My safety made a call, I didn't hear it and I got beat deep. After that I was like, 'OK, this might be a long day -- it's a little too loud.' But then I thought, 'No, that's an excuse. I've got work to do.' I played pretty well the rest of the way.
Brown: Same St. Xavier game. Our fullback couldn't get to the blocker quick enough and I got hit in the backfield a few times. Then, obviously, I got injured. It doesn't get much lower then that.
Now, take me through a game when it all came together for both of you. A game when you were both clicking together.
Diggs: It was that second Gonzaga game when we just destroyed them. The pass opened up the run and the run opened up the pass. Everything was just open. …
Zach [Dancel] would drop back like he was going to pass and the defense would bite. You know what happened next? Wes Brown, 90-yard run. …
Then on the next play we'd play-action to Wes. And you know what happened next? Stefon Diggs, 90-yard catch. OK, not quite, but you get the idea (laughs).
Is there anything a defense can do to stop you guys (laughs)?
Brown: Maybe if we go to different schools. If we're together - not a chance.
OK, let's play that angle. Are you guys a package deal heading to college? Do you want to play with each other?
Diggs: Yes, that's the idea.
Brown: Yes, but just because a coach recruits one of us doesn't mean he's automatically getting the other one. He's got to want the other one, too. He can't just be like, 'Oh, we'll take Wes because we really want Stefon.' He has to have a role for both of us.
Diggs: Right. You can't just offer one of us and then I don't hear from you for a few months.
Do you guys care where you play? East Coast? West Coast? Big school? Small school?
Brown: Not really, but it's got to be a big school.
Diggs: Yeah, a big school. We want the stage - the spotlight (laughs).
What about after college. Do you guys both want to play in the NFL? Is that the goal?
Diggs: Yes, that's something we'd like to do. But the real goal is to make mamma happy. That's the only goal.
Brown: Right now, we have to make it. We've been through a lot growing up. We have to make it for our families.
What happens if you fail?
Brown: Then we try again. We'll go to the minors -- AFL, Arena League, whatever.
Diggs: Yeah, you have to understand -- We. Have. To. Make. It. We can't fail.
Brown: We won't fail. We have too much drive.
Diggs: Ain't no body going to stop us. We'll get there.


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dantheriver necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Our website, TriFind.com, is in need of a major face lift.
The top 3 designers in this contest will be paid! $400 for 1st, $100 for 2nd, and $50 for 3rd. I appreciate the time that each designer puts into my contest, and want to make sure that even if you don't win, you still have a chance to make some money for your excellent work.
This contest is for the design of a single page design only. The winner will only need to provide a .psd file, and no HTML or coding is required. I would like to offer the winning designer continued work to help design the content area layout for several other pages.
Our website, TriFind.com, is in need of a major face lift.
The top 3 designers in this contest will be paid! $400 for 1st, $100for 2nd, and $50 for 3rd. I appreciate the time that each designer putsinto my contest, and want to make sure that even if you don't win, youstill have a chance to make some money for your excellent work.
This contest if for the design of a single page design only. The winnerwill only need to provide a .psd file, and no HTML or coding isrequired. I would like to offer the winning designer continued work tohelp design the content area layout for several other pages.
Ourusers come to our site looking for easy access to information aboutlocal triathlon sporting events in their area. The main content theyare looking for needs to be top priority and stand out above the otherelements on the page. As owners of the site, we make our money frombanner ads. We have specific areas of the page that we have alreadysold advertising space for, so we need to maintain the positions of theads in the new design. The ad space is important, but I don't want itto distract too much from the core information that the users are onthe site to read.
Rough Layout Mockup
I have created a rough mockup of the site for you to preview here http://www.vidacycles.com/newlayout2/
Notes on the mockup:
- All of the page elements on this mock need to remain in theircurrent positions and dimension, but the shapes, colors, fonts, boxes,etc all can, and should be changed to look better. I need your sense ofdesign and creativity here!
- The top left area of the page (where it says TriFind.com and theBox Ad), will end up being in a DIV that is fixed in position, and therest of the page will scroll under it. Take that into account in yourdesign so that the navigation section under that area will "collapse"into it cleanly. If you are confused, see how the navigation on my mockmoved up behind that top left box as you scroll down on the page.
- Everything but the main content area will be reused as a template forother pages. The main content area will need to be able to grow in sizevertically for other pages, so keep that in mind in your design.
- Inmy mock, I like how the main content area is white, all the ads are inplaced on a grey background, and all the navigation is mostly in blue.What I like about that is that the focus is drawn to the content. Theads and the menu are each clearly grouped. Since there is a lot goingon on the page, I think that helps the user to quickly figure out whereeverything is. Again, I don't care so much about the colors or shaped,I just am pointing out that I like the grouping and highlighting ofthese main areas: Content, Navigation, Ads.
- The page should be designed to be 1,000px wide. It will be leftaligned, and a background can be used to fill up the page to the righton a wide monitor. Other things i like:
- Web 2.0 feel: Gradient fills, rounded corners, etc.
- Icons identifying section: Calendars, Newspapers for news, etc. Main Content Area
Themain content area for this page will be the landing page for allTriathlon related information for a given state. The top of the pageshould read "New Hampshire Triathlon Info", and below that should be aspace for an image up to 600x200 px. (you can usehttp://www.trifind.net/b/BBSC/rage09.jpg as an example). Below thatthere are 7 main content areas that need to be included. Here they arelisted in order of importance:
1) "Triathlon Race Calendar"
Here we will show a list of the 10 next upcoming races. The race date,name, and city should be displayed. At the bottom should be a veryprominent link to "See Full Race Calendar".
2) "Popular Searches"
This will list the following search terms with the number of races next to it in parenthesis.
- Beginner Triathlons (23)
- Women's Triathlons (34)
- Kid's Triathlons (5)
- Offroad Triathlons (7)
- 1/2 Iron Distance Triathlons (6)
- Iron Distance Triathlons (2)3) "Search by Zip Radius"
Show the text "Find triathlons close to you:", a text box to enter their zip code, a drop down box for radius in miles, and a submitbutton.
4) "Local Triathlon Clubs"
This will list 10 club names and the city that they are in.
5) "Local Triathlon Coaches"
This will list 10 coaches names and the city that they are in.
6) "Other Local Events"
This will show the following list of other sport types with the count of events in parenthesis.
- Running (20)
- Cycling (15)
- Swimming (9)
- Adventure Races (2)
- Running (50)
- Triathlons (129)
- Dualthlons (89)
- Aquathlons (3)
- Aquabike (5)
- Other (43)7) "Past Race Results"
This will show a list of the last 5 years for results:
- 2008 Triathlon Results
- 2007 Triathlon Results
- 2006 Triathlon Results
- 2005 Triathlon Results
- 2004 Triathlon Results
- Older Triathlon Results
- See the description.
- Boxy, or cluttered feel.


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As well as finding out which SUBWAY is nearest, the official Windows Phone app allows users to place an order for pick up, specifying the outlet and pick up time, which will then open up the menu. The app will then walk the user through available sandwich types, sizes, toppings, seasonings, drinks, sides and more).
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Reds withdraw from Loic Remy deal
Liverpool have pulled out of an 8.5 million pound deal to sign Queens Park Rangers striker Loic Remy.
- Usher: Lallana injury a sign of trouble
- Kelly: Liverpool's Borini conundrum
The France striker's signing was expected to be confirmed after he had a medical in the United States, where the Reds are on a preseason tour, but sources have told ESPN FC that the deal has collapsed.
Liverpool have made no comment as to why they have abandoned the deal, although Sky Sports News has reported that there is a problem related to his medical.
Sky sources: Liverpool pull out of deal to sign Loic Remy after concerns over his medical #SSN
- Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) July 27, 2014
The club agreed to sign the QPR forward on July 19 after meeting a release clause in his contract.
Remy, who scored 14 goals in 26 Premier League appearances while on loan at Newcastle last season, flew to Boston to link up with the first leg of Liverpool's summer tour.
Personal terms had been agreed with the striker, and he had medical tests before heading to New York for a short break, but the deal will not now go ahead, with Remy set to return to QPR.
The 27-year-old made two substitute appearances for France at the recent World Cup, in the 0-0 Group E draw against Ecuador and the 0-1 quarter-final defeat against Germany.
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