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For preamplification of cDNA from samples containing low RNA amounts prior to real-time PCR analysis of miRNA
The miScript PreAMP PCR Kit performs preamplification to enable use of the miScript PCR System for miRNA quantification with starting samples containing low RNA amounts. The miScript PreAMP PCR Kit uses highly multiplex, PCR-based preamplification of up to 400 miRNA-specific cDNA targets in one reaction. The miScript PreAMP PCR Kit, used with miScript PreAMP Primer Mixes, enables accurate and comprehensive expression analysis with as little as 10 ng total RNA. A single 10 ng cDNA synthesis reaction can be used as template for up to 10 preamplification reactions. This provides sufficient template for multiple Pathway-Focused miScript miRNA PCR Arrays or multiple replicates of a miRNome miScript miRNA PCR Array, depending on the miScript PreAMP Primer Mix used.
The miScript PreAMP PCR Kit provides the opportunity to achieve large amounts of reliable miRNA profiling data from small samples and samples with very low RNA content. Previously unusable samples can now be used to elucidate valuable information about miRNA expression and function. Using preamplification, less than 1 µl serum equivalence RNA can be used to robustly profile miRNA expression using the Serum & Plasma miScript miRNA PCR Array (see figure "100% increase in miRNAs detected from 10-fold less cDNA after preamplification from serum").
Reliable, unbiased amplification using the miScript PreAMP PCR Kit provides data that correlates highly with nonpreamplified sample, ensuring high confidence in results. Comparison of miRNA profiling results from tumor and normal lung tissue FFPE samples demonstrated this strong correlation (see figures "Preamplification preserves expression patterns in FFPE samples using 1000 fold less input cDNA" and "Extremely high correlation of expression between preamplified and nonpreamplified FFPE samples").
Preamplification using the miScript PreAMP PCR Kit is a robust procedure that ensures consistent, reproducible results. Highly overlapping results were achieved when preamplification and miRNA profiling experiments were performed by different users (see figure "High technical reproducibility").
miRNA profiling from low-quantity RNA samples requires the following 3 steps: reverse transcription using the miScript II RT Kit, preamplification using the miScript PreAMP PCR Kit and miScript PreAMP Primer Mix, and real-time PCR using the corresponding miScript miRNA PCR Array and the miScript SYBR Green PCR Kit. Preamplification using the miScript PreAMP PCR Kit and miScript PreAMP Primer Mix is therefore fully integrated into the miScript PCR System miRNA profiling workflow, ensuring robust protocols and reliable, reproducible results.
miScript PreAMP Primer Mixes are available for all miScript miRNA PCR Arrays. Alternatively, if desired, preamplification can be performed using the miScript PreAMP PCR Kit together with a mix of up to 25 miScript Primer Assays.
The miScript PreAMP PCR Kit includes 4 miScript Primer Assays for use in preamplification control experiments to test preamplified cDNA. Controls and their purpose are listed below. For more detailed information, see the miScript PreAMP Handbook.
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Earth : Europe : Italy : Sicily : Trapani Province : Marausa
Get in
By train
Local Trains run between Trapani and Marsala during the day. The local station is called Locogrande and is just outside of Marausa, near the cantina.
By bus
AST public bus services run services to Trapani (city) from both the seaside Lido and the small town via Paceco and Nubia (30 minute journey).
By car
The Marsala spur of the A29 Autostrada ends 1km south of Marausa. Marausa has its own junction with this motorway onto the (Strada Provinciale) SP21 which runs between Trapani and Marsala. Local roads are signposted and directions to the coastal Lido di Marausa resort are marked.
By plane
Ryanair services from accross Europe serve 'Vincenzo-Florio' Trapani Airport (also signposted as 'Birgi Airport') - just 4km from Marausa town on the SP21 road. Alternatively, Palermo 'Falcone-Borsellino' airport is 80km away on the A29 motorway.
Marausa is a good base to explore western Sicily from. It is well positioned for its own local beaches, and has excellent motorway and strategic road links to the whole of the west.
Beaches! As Trapani's second (but largest) beach resort, the waters of Marausa Lido warm up between May and October and positively scorch in July and August. During the summer months, beach lidos and bars are constructed to make the most of the 2.5km long sandy beaches - the majority of which are free to use. You will also find beach-volleyball tournaments and organised children's beach games duruing July and august. Local performers sometimes stage outdoor plays in the square in Marausa, or the seasonal stage by the Torre di Mezzo lighthouse by the coast in the Lido. Outdoor basketball championships are held in the evenings in the local square. Speedboats can be hired from the seafront marina and beaches and restaurants in the area offer fantastic views of the Egadi Islands and sunsets.
Further afield, open-air concerts are held in Paceco and up on the top of Mount Erice in the medieval square in summer months. Every Easter Trapani hosts 'I Misteri' a world famous procession of carved wooden statues depicting Christ and other religious figures in a 3-day festival.
Local History & Culture
The area now known as Marausa has been inhabited since ancient times by first Carthaginians and then Romans. Archaeological evidence supporting the presence of these ancient inhabitants is regularly unearthed by local farmers when they plough their land – particularly now they use mechanical ploughs that dig deeper. The most comment traces are fragments of painted terracotta pots and remains of stone tombs.
It is believed that the first people to give a specific name to this area were the Arabs and that they were mostly shepherds. Accordingly, the modern name of Marausa is believed to derive from "Mara U Zack" which translates roughly as "poor pastures" or "meagre pastures".
From old maps it is known that like Nubia, Marausa was historically a rather marshy plain. However, over the centuries, the River Birgi has carried debris and sediment with floodwater and lifted the entire area by several metres and created very arable land suited to vines, pumpkins, melons and other fruits. The first officially confirmed residents of Marausa lived in the 'Torre di Mezzo' on the coast. Only a handful of historic buildings now remain in Marausa.
After waves of Turkish barbarian incursions and attacks during the early 1500's, the Viceroy of Sicily decided, in 1584, to employ Florentine Camillo Casigliani to design a series of coastal fortifications in the form of 150 watch towers along the island's coast. During the day they would alert neighbouring towers and towns of impending attacks by flashing mirrors, and at night, via fireworks. The plans would see residents abandon their towns for the relative safety of the island's interior.
The watch tower at Marausa was built in the 16th century and was originally called "la Torre di Santo Stefano di Alca Grossa" (St. Stephen's Tower of Great Auk) – because it overlooked the shallow archipelago then home to the (now extinct) bird that is known to have migrated in winter to this part of the Mediterranean in both the 15th and 17th centuries. The tower became known locally as 'la Torre di Mezzo' (the Middle Tower) because of its geographical position between the Towers at Nubia and San Teodoro.
In 1619, the Torre di Mezzo was the first tower to become operational. After a period of disuse in the 20th century, it once more became operational under first the German, then Allied command during World War II. The Guardia di Finanza (Customs & Excise) took up residence for a few years after the war ended, but the tower fell into disrepair in the early 1970s.
In the early 1990s la Torre di Mezzo was restored and opened varyingly for brief periods as a local museum, art gallery and cultural information point. Since 1989, a summer stage has been occasionally erected alongside the tower, with local bands and drama groups offering entertainment in summer evenings.
However, as of 2011, the tower is in much need of repair and love. Weeds grow from this 491 year old monument and the tower could very much do with being restored to its former glory and given an appropriate community or touristic use.
The collapsing ruins of the 'Vecchia Chiesa' (Old Church) lie 100m from the A29 motorway flyover and junction. Although the walls still stand, the roof has long since collapsed and the masonry is now flaking too.
The recently restored 17th century 'Bevaio' (Drinking Trough) lies away from the modern Marausa – 100m west of the Vechia Chiesa towards the coast. The Bevaio was provided by the St. Francis of Assisi Monastery in Trapani for the collective use of the animals grazing the monastery owned pastures of Marausa.
In the summer of 1999 a group of divers identified the remains of one of the most interesting relics found in Italian waters. A large sunken ship from the Roman era was discovered at a current depth of just 2 metres off the coast of Marausa Lido.
The evidence of goods discovered on board date the sinking to the second half of the third and early fourth century AD and confirm the boat as a cargo ship. Given the proximity to the coast, it is believed that the cargo was recovered shortly after the sinking. The remaining amphorae that have since been recovered from around the wreckage may have been thrown out at the time of the sinking and therefore not found at the time of the original recovery. The shipwreck could have been caused by the shallowness of the water, combined with the rocky outcrops just under the surface.
The bulk of the load refers to fragments of at least three types of amphorae. These types can be dated to between the second half of the 3rd and first part of the 4th centuries AD. The ceramic food bowls used by the ship's have been easily identified as African culinary pottery dating from the end of the 2nd century AD.
Porto San Francesco is the full name for the old semi-abandoned harbour of Marausa that sits alongside the saltpans. Once home to a large fishing fleet the port's use declined into the early 1970s and now is home to only a few battered private fishing boats and pleasure craft. Plans are afoot to restore the old harbour walls and create a new shallow marina with residential complex.
In the town of Marausa, the local shops comprise: bakery, supermarkets, electrical, hardware, post office, internet cafe, toyshops, gardenware, books and gifts, groceries, off licence, cycle hire shop, bank and 2 ATMs, and a pharmacy. There are three Petrol Stations (Esso, IP and API). A church, public square, public telephones and several bars.
In summer months, local businesses serve the houses in the Seaside resort with mobile shops in vans selling fish, vegetables, meat and other groceries. On the other side of the bridge over the motorway, you'll find a couple who farm a large piece of land and sell their delicious produce by the side of the road for a fraction of the supermarket prices.
Trapani, Marsala and Paceco have many more shops than Marausa, as well as street markets, fish markets, diving shops, clothing etc - so head there for greater shopping options.
There are several other small shops and services in Marausa such as the DIY Store and Garden Centre opposte the primary school and Esso Station; two Electrical and Domestic outlets, a Tobacconist, Gent's Barber, Doctor's Surgery, Solicitor, Architect & Interior Design Agency, two Motor Mechanics and a Building Merchant's Yard.
The internet cafe and a lamp shop have just closed down to be replaced with new outlets as yet unknown. (update: May 2010)
There are two great Pizza Take-Aways on the main road, along with several bars - the most popular of which is Bar Tiffany - a friendly place on the main road.
In the seaside Lido di Marausa Resort 2km away, you will find two restaurants open all year round (La Perla and Marausa BeachBarRestaurant) with accompanying bars. Two temporary bars set up by the sea in June-September: The Tre Torri Lido Bar with a games salon and occasional discotheque can usually be found amongst the dunes and sands of the beaches in the summer months, while Lido Azzurro sets up near the abandoned Tre Torre Restaurant building near the derelict windmill and bills itself as a calmer idyll.
As above, there are three bars in the seaside Lido and five others along the main road

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Varga, Cazzetta on Phil Steele's Top Team
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Phil Steele's College Football Preview has been released and five Yale football players have been selected to its 2013 pre-season All-Ivy League squad.
Juniors TB Tyler Varga and P Kyle Cazzetta were first-team picks on offense, while senior offensive linemen Wes Gavin (photo), John Oppenheimer and Will Chism made the offense's second-team.
Cazzetta, who has earned a number of pre-season honors after improving his numbers as a sophomore, was rated the No. 16 (2nd in the Northeast) punter in the FCS by the same service. He had a 40.0 average last fall while landing 13 punts inside the 20.
Varga, on everyone's pre-season all-league first team and the FCS's top all-purpose runner in 2012, ranks 18th in the nation and fifth in the region as a running back on Phil Steele's list.
Gavin, Oppenheimer and Chism, each of whom made other pre-season teams, form the nucleus of a Yale offensive line that protects and open holes for a variety of skilled players this fall.
All five were named to the collegesportsmadness.com 2013 pre-season All-Ivy team and were joined by senior teammates WR Cameron Sandquist, TE Michael Leunen and DL Dylan Drake and sophomore DB Cole Champion.
Many of the Elis have been working out together in New Haven this summer. The entire team begins preparation for the new season on Aug. 18, the day they return to campus. Yale's season opener is Sept. 21 at Colgate.


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Harju Receives Positive News
Lightning prospect followers can breathe a sigh of relief today as the Bolts' highest ranked European prospect, 22 year-old forward Johan Harju, received some positive news regarding the hamstring injury he suffered Monday in Lulea's first practice session for the upcoming season.
Lasse Lundgren, Lulea physiotherapist, indicated that damage is not uncommon for hockey players and expects the left winger to return to the ice in the next few days. The injury was a "rupture" to the hamstring and intends to get Harju running Wednesday or Thursday as part of the usual rehab of injuries such as this. Lundgren said there would be no rush for Harju and that he would be rested for a bit considering the importance of the upcoming season for Lulea.
Harju admitted that he first noticed the hamstring back in July when he was playing land hockey and missed a tackle.
A sixth round pick by the Lightning in the 2007 draft, Harju has scored 32 goals in 106 games over the past two seasons for Lulea in the SEL.
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Bake Kid-Pleasing Escargot in a Mini-Muffin Tin
Do you think of escargot as kid-friendly food? No? Well, I didn't either until I received this email from reader Courtney. She has been encouraging her five-year-old to be adventurous, and look what turned out to be a hit! The best part of the story, too, is that she didn't have to buy a new tool or pan to cook these unusual little treats. She repurposed something she already had. Read on for the full story!
From Courtney:
We've been encouraging our 5 year-old to be adventurous when helping to decide the menu for Sunday family dinners. One week she picked octopus, which she loved. Kale was a bust. This past Sunday, she chose snails. I remember my mom making snails when I was a kid. So, we went to Blue Apron, a great shop in our Brooklyn neighborhood, and bought the kit: complete with shells and can of two dozen cooked snails. I have never actually made snails, but I had a general idea.
The one problem was what to cook them in. The proprietor of Blue Apron suggested nestling them in a bed of coarse salt. I didn't have enough coarse salt at home and we don't have one of those snail dishes, so I started digging through the cabinets and there with the sheet pans came the answer: mini muffins are roughly the size of the snail shells.
So I pulled out the mini muffin pan, stuffed the shells with the snails, packed garlic parsley butter on top and set them each in a muffin compartment. I put them in the fridge, let the butter firm up and then cooked them for about 12 minutes in a 425 degree oven. If I had company I would have parsed out individual portions into our nice shallow white soup bowls, but because it was just the kid and the husband, we put the whole tray on the table.
The kid loved, loved, loved them. She ate about 9.
This is long-winded way to say: hooray for the mini muffin pan!
Hooray indeed! And thank you for sharing, Courtney! Now we're in the mood for some French escargot…
(Images: Courtney via email)


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Hammond's Candies
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Hammond's All Natural Lollipops
They say we eat with our eyes first. If there's one candy that capitalizes on our attraction to bright and shiny things, it has to be lollipops.
I love lollipops in the sense that I love looking at them, I like buying them and I enjoying having them. But I'd have to guess that I only eat about half of the lollipops I ever have.
Part of it is that lollipops are simply hard candy. And I'm pretty sure that most people don't actually like hard candy ... in the sense that they'd be willing to pay three times as much for it simply because it includes an inedible holder with it. But this is part of the amazing enigma of lollipops.
If I were a sculptor, I would probably wish to make things of spun, twisted & boiled sugar.
If I were to have my wedding all over again today, I'd probably just carry a bunch of lollipops instead of a bouquet of flowers. (Or maybe some of those wondrous flowers made from sugar.)
At the moment though I just take photos of lollipops when I get a hold of them.
Today, however, I'm also eating them.
I have a set of Hammond's Candies All Natural Lollipops.
They're made without artificial flavors or colors and are hand crafted. They come in a variety of flavors, I have six that I'm going to profile
These are the middle-sized pops - they're one ounce each and about two to two and a half inches across. (Honestly, I think some of these were more than generously oversized.)
The pops feature thick wooden sticks and are wrapped simply in little cellophane bags with a sticker on the back that lists the flavor, ingredients & nutritional info. The front is all about the look of these hand-crafted medallions.
Strawberry - magenta/red background with orange & cream stripes. (cross section above of broken pop)
The ropes of candy are built in layers, at the center is a slightly aerated hard candy center. The outer layers are smooth and for the most part "clear" boiled sugar candy. The slight aeration of the core means that it's very easy to crunch & chew it up and has no noticeable voids. It also means the the candy has a slightly lighter feel to it than I think I would have guessed just looking at it.
The flavor is light and bright - a touch of tartness but mostly a floral berry flavor like cotton candy.
Pomegranate - satiny cream background with pink/red stripes.
This had a very light floral flavor at first, all sweetness on the outside. The core, though, has a bit of a yogurty tang to it and a mellow cherry flavor with a stronger pop of sourness towards the end. It's not a very intense flavor - just a light and rather nondescript berry note. It's more like a fruit punch and is an overall positive.
Cherry - alternating large stripes of bright pink and medium red with a small strip of cream between.
This was a big test for me, because for the most part I don't like cherry flavored candies because I don't like the aftertaste of the most commonly used red food coloring, Red 40.
The outside was sweet and has a little toasted sugar flavor to it. The interior has a nice, zesty sour pop to it along with the cherry flavor. It's not the dark, black cherry flavor - more like a cherry pie note. I'd call it positive and definitely has no weird poisonous aftertaste. Call it a win for cherry haters.
Peppermint - deep red with a series of amber stripes inside cream bands.
The coloring on this one wasn't what I would have picked out of the bunch as the mint flavored one.
The mint flavor is clean and crisp - fresh and cooling with a long-lasting aftertaste. The texture of the candy is a little odd at first. The outside is smooth and with few voids, but can be kind of sharp if you break or crunch it.
Most of the pops at this point I was eating by breaking them first, eating the pieces and then whatever was left on the stick. For the Pear, which was just slightly smaller than the others, I ate it whole.
The outer layer was mild & sweet and had a light orchard fruit scent. In this case the center is the same ... kind of like an apple kissed toasted marshmallow. For the most part I love fresh pears but have never cared for pear flavored candies ... but this isn't very "pear-flavored" so I give it a thumbs up.
Lemon - yellow bands with cream mini stripes
The outside is zesty but just a kiss of sweetness to it. The center is only slightly tangy. The whole thing reminds me of the flavor combination of a lemon bar. It's not going to burn holes in my tongue, so I'll definitely eat the whole thing.
The size of these pops was just a smidge too large for placing in the mouth whole. The texture and smoothness of the outside & inside meant that they were both interesting and pleasant from start to finish. In most cases the outside & inside also offered different flavor variations, which was a good feature to offer when selling at a premium price. They also come in a huge variety of sizes, from this one ounce version to a 4 ounce (saucer) to a full pound (dinner plate).
When not in "review mode" I found that these were definitely an all day sucker for me. The price is a bit steep - at about $2.50 to $3.00 per pop (depending on where you buy them). I've seen these at department stores around Christmas (in cinnamon!), at Cost Plus World Market (they also have Root Beer, but I don't think it's all natural) plus upscale candy shops and of course on the internet at CandyWarehouse.com, NaturalCandyStore.com and direct from Hammond's.
Hard candy has its place, it's durable and can be packed with flavor or just sweet comfort. Mostly it's an amazing concoction because it can be beautiful.
To finish this off, have a look at how they make some of their hand-crafted creations:
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:53 pm
Monday, October 13, 2008
Hammond's Pantry Candies
With the discontinuation of Reed's Candies by Wrigley's, I've been searching for similar candies. Hammond's Candies is based in Colorado and makes hard candies and caramels using traditional methods and equipment. They're known for their stunning hand twisted lollipops, ribbon and pillow candies. But they also make all sorts of traditional boiled sugar sweets including a line called Pantry Candies.
Each comes in a cute tin with a little clear window on top. Inside they're tucked into a plastic bag to protect them from moisture.
Cinnamon Drops - these are sizable pieces, bigger than my pinkie toe. They're sanded with a bit of sugar and have a soft and grainy appearance. The hard candy is smooth and flavorful. Instead of being just straight hot cinnamon, this hard candy has a bit of a touch of the woodsy, powdered spice as well as the burning cinnamon oil.
They have a satisfying crunch or simply dissolve without many voids or holes. It's not quite the smooth & transcendent experience of Reed's Cinnamon though.
Sour Balls - these are teensy little drops, smaller than a regular marble but larger than a pea. They come in lemon, lime, orange and cherry flavors. They have the same sanded exterior and a smooth dissolve. The citrus ones are nicely tangy but with a good rounded zest flavor (orange is a bit more muted though). They're an old-fashioned sour though, don't expect anything approaching battery acid.
Butterscotch Waffles - these were gorgeous little candies. They're flattened squares (though some were little rectangles) with a smooth surface and little dimpled waffle pattern on them. They were a creamy, buttery flavor but lacking that little dash of salt though they are the closest I've found to the old Reed's Butterscotch.
Licorice Drops - these definitely look the part. The same format as the Cinnamon Drops, they're big and black and sanded. They're made with real licorice root, so it's a more complex flavor than just "flavored". The big gripe I have with these, and it's a huge one, is the large amount of artificial colors in the candy. It made my mouth greenish-black with only one. Not appealing or subtle at all. As much as I liked the taste (and finding licorice hard candies isn't easy), the bitterness of the Red 40 (to my tongue) added with the unappealing mouth just turned me off and I didn't finish the tin.
Lemon Drops - for those who don't want to pick the lemon drops out of the Sour Ball assortment, here they are all alone. These large drops are perhaps a little muted in flavor, but the flavor goes all the way through and has a nice barley sugar tone to it.
Root Beer Drops - as with the cinnamon, I was hoping for a Reed's experience here. Instead it's rather more like a Root Beer Float than a plain old Root Beer Soda. These two-toned drops have the mellow woodsy flavor of root beer along with a creamy vanilla component. They're smooth and flavorful but not quite spicy enough for my desires. Well, I take that back. This was the second tin I finished. (Butterscotch was the first.)
Ginger Drops (not pictured) - these little opaque candies were kind of peach/flesh colored. They didn't smell like much and really didn't taste like much at first either. Then the longer it dissolved the warmer it got, a light woodsy and rooty flavor, it was definitely ginger.
The offering in this line also includes Horehound, which I refuse to believe is a candy flavor but also suffers from over-coloring like the licorice.
They're expensive, but nicely crafted and packaged and make a nice hostess gift or something to keep on your desk for those moments where you just have to have something. I like them much better than their lollipops which are exquisite to look at but don't have the density of flavor and smooth texture of these.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:46 am
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Caramel Previews: Mitchell Sweets & Caramoos
There were quite a few caramels at the Fancy Food Show. Here are two vastly different caramel products.
Hammond Candies makes a product unlike all their other wonderful twisty/swirly hard candies, it's a caramel covered marshmallow block called Mitchell Sweets. I have no idea why they're called Mitchell, but hey, I guess if I had a great caramel and marshmallow product, maybe I'd just start calling it Mitch, too.
The Mitchell Sweet comes in two varieties - plain and chocolate. They're pretty big, about 2 1/2" long, 1 1/4 inch square and weigh 3/4 of an ounce. They're a bit messy, but not as messy as you might guess.
The caramel is soft and chewy without being too stiff. The marshmallow, on the other hand, is rather stiff and solid. It still maintains a lightness and bouncy texture which helps it stand up to the caramel.
The chocolate one didn't smell any different but I have to say I was really pleased with how fudgy it was. The chocolate caramel was even a little salty and set off the otherwise sweet marshmallow really well. This is a real standout candy. I could use a little honey or extra vanilla hit in the marshmallow itself, but Hammond's has been making these treats for a long time, so who am I to say they need an adjustment?
Notes: you can buy them direct on the Hammond's Candies website for $17.00 a pound. These are very similar to the Littlejohn Caramel Marshmallows.
I give them a 7 out of 10
If I was looking for a candy that advertised its honey flavor, then Caramoos to the rescue. Caramoos aren't quite the chewy caramel that we're used to though they are indeed caramelized sugar. It's more like a light fudge. They come in two flavors in the Caramel Crumble: Original & Honey and a bunch of others in their Creme Fudge line: Dark Chocolate, Mocha & Vanilla
They're cute little square rods, perfect to pop in your mouth whole or do it in two bites.
They smell very buttery and have a very grainy texture. The sweetness is mitigated by a little hit of salt and of course the darker flavors of the caramelized sugars. The Honey one smelled like a sweet hand cream instead of a caramel. The fragrant candy grew on me so much that in the end I preferred it to the Original flavor.
The Creme Fudges are a little different. They don't have the distinct crystallized structure to them. The Dark Chocolate one reminded me of a very good Tootsie roll. Soft, smoky tasting and a little salty. Mocha was rich and milky tasting with a wonderful flavor of rich espresso. The Vanilla one was also chewy and soft and had a nice milky taste to it but not the buttery flavors so apparent in the Caramel Crumble.
They're an interesting new look at caramelized sugars.
Notes: Caramoos are made in Poland. There's no ordering info on their website (I emailed but haven't heard back) but you can get them on Amazon for $14 for 2.5 pounds ($5.60 a pound). Nicole from Slashfood was equally smitten with Caramoos. Quite a few folks also got samples of them from Amazon last year.
I give them a 7 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:01 am Candy • Review • Hammond's Candies • Caramel • Chocolate • Coffee • Marshmallow • 7-Worth It • Poland • United States •
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In about 550 words, Richard Blanco's inaugural poem created a metaphorical country and took it through the journey of a metaphorical day.
"One Today" was an intimate and sweeping celebration of our shared, single identity as a people, and Blanco recited it in a voice that was both confident and tenderly soft-spoken.
Blanco built his poem on a foundation of the concrete and the everyday. He began with people going to work and school in "silver trucks heavy with oil or paper— bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us, on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives…" And then he placed these ordinary people in a recognizably American landscape of "one ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands. …"
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It was a masterfully polished, disciplined and heartfelt response to the task Blanco faced: crafting a poem that not only commemorated the civic ritual for which it was commissioned, but that also captured the collective hope and unease of our shared national experience. Blanco invoked the tragedy in Newtown ("the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever") and also his own Cuban-immigrant family, describing those who go to work "… to teach geometry, or ring up groceries, as my mother did for 20 years, so I could write this poem."


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No Wind. No Melges 24 Racing on Day Three in Key West.
23 January 2008
Key West, Florida - After more than an hour and a half on-the-water postponement, the race committee for the Melges 24 fleet abandoned all racing scheduled for Wednesday, January 23. Although the visual weather elements were routine Key West conditions — gorgeous, sunny with blue skies and temperatures reaching into the upper 70s, it was not ideal for racing. The breeze simply would not pick above 3 knots in some areas and in others nothing above 1 registered.
The somewhat good and bad news of it all is that tomorrow's forecast isn't really looking that much better than today. Weather predictions offer almost identical conditions, however for Friday the hope that as much as 20 mph breeze (gusting to 25), partly cloudy skies and temps in the mid-70s is to be expected. Here's to keeping our fingers crossed.
It has been a frustrating regatta as only three races have been completed thus far. The overall results as of Tuesday stand with Flavio Favini helming Blu Moon for Franco Rossini from Switzerland, John Pollard from the UK on Xcellent in second and in third, Dave Ullman on Pegasus 505.
TOP TEN RESULTS (As of Tuesday, January 22)
- Flavio Favini/Franco Rossini, Blu Moon
- John Pollard, Xcellent
- Dave Ullman, Pegasus 505
- Brian Porter, Full Throttle
- Benoit Charon, Tresvalles.com
- Alan Field, WTF
- Riccardo Simoneschi, Fratelli Giacomel Audi
- Argyle Campbell, Rock n' Roll
- Peter Lane, Brick House
- Bora Gulari/Chuck Holzman, Flyer
As in the overalls, it was a disappointing day for racing the Melges 24 Corinthian division. No racing due to lack of wind prompts to report that Tuesday's standings remain for overnight Wednesday.
CORINTHIAN RESULTS (As of Tuesday, January 22)
- Argyle Campbell, Rock n'Roll
- Bruce Ayres, Monsoon
- Loren Colehan, Lounge Act
- Othmar Mueller Von Blumencron, Gannet
- Tom Kassberg, Flygfisk
- Dave Brede, 12happythoughts
- Gary Schwarting, Obsession
- Kelly Gough/Shawn Grisham, Bulls Eye
- Martin Wedge, Eric
- Richard Mallinson, Speedemon
- Mark Beck, Risky Business
- Hank Wissenz, The Rodent
- Chris Johnson, Wiggleroom
- Guy Mossman, Riot Act
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It often seems that celebrities operate on a faster timeline than the rest of us. A lot can change in a year with them, especially regarding real estate — just look at the lineup of duos from the original Homes of Celebrity Couples, published in January 2011.
Beyonce and Jay-Z had a baby around the same time Heidi Klum and Seal announced their impending divorce. Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem finally sold their house at a price reduction ($2.88 million, from $3.695 million), and Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher's midcentury rental is now off the market. Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie still haven't unloaded their house, but they are about to unleash a baby into the world at any moment.
One couple from last year's slideshowchanged coasts and totally changed housing style. Some of the following homes are recently sold, some are for sale, one is being rented and one is offered for rent. Most of them were provided by Realtor.com.
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I read with great interest the "Other Voices" editorial in Saturday's issue of the Times-News: "Education's 'soft' sciences get left behind." That article is really about the importance of the study of history in today's classrooms.
I read with great interest the "Other Voices" editorial in Saturday's issue of the Times-News: "Education's 'soft' sciences get left behind." That article is really about the importance of the study of history in today's classrooms.
As Spanish philosopher George Santayana stated, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This philosophical truth was never more pertinent than in reference to our experiences during the Vietnam War.
I actually enjoyed history in high school. I was very lucky in that my sophomore U.S. history teacher was young and gifted. He knew that many people are put to sleep when required to read, study and memorize names, events and dates from our past. He was able to encourage me to look behind the dry data to the meaning and impact of people and events in our history and how they affect us today and tomorrow.
If you believe, like I do, that Santayana was "right on," then what happened to our nation in the 1960s and x'70s is extremely important, especially in light of the fact that history is repeating itself every day on many battlefields in distant lands.
My view of the world today is very much skewed by my personal experiences during the Vietnam War. For the past several decades, I have written about my experiences as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam, both in history books and in op-ed pieces. When read by combat veterans of any era, my books receive high praise, and for that I'm very thankful. However, when read by those who have never spent any time in uniform, often the reaction is disbelief or downright hostility.
After writing an op-ed a year and a half ago regarding the wonderful "Welcome Home" event for Vietnam veterans sponsored by the Charlotte Motor Speedway and the USO in March 2012, wherein I recounted the historical facts that the U.S. military won virtually every significant battle during the Vietnam War, yet our political leaders lost the war by legislatively reducing and then ceasing all military aid to our ally, the Republic of South Vietnam, one reaction I received was that I was a liar and distorter of the facts. This person claimed that "everyone knows that the Vietnam War was unwinnable."
It was very disturbing to me to hear these words, and I have wondered how anyone could express the opinion that I was a liar when all I had done was to state historical facts.
One possibility is that this individual had read former Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara's puzzling book in which he claims (essentially) that the Vietnam War was unwinnable. It has always puzzled me how someone in McNamara's position could make that statement in a book published in 1995, yet know he did nothing to try to stop the war in 1965 when he was in a position to at least try to do so.
On this subject, my reading and studying the history of the Vietnam War led me to another book, "Dereliction of Duty; Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam" by H.R. McMaster. This book uncovers many uncomfortable truths about the Vietnam War, including one jolting historical fact: McNamara, sent by President Lyndon Johnson on a fact-finding mission to South Vietnam early in the war, actually wrote his report before he left the U.S. and didn't make a single change in it after his return. This was someone who had preconceived notions about the war, not someone seeking the truth on the ground.
As a veteran of the Battle for Hue during the Tet Offensive of 1968, which proved to be a pivotal moment in U.S. history, I was gratified to discover a new book titled "This Time We Win; Revisiting the Tet Offensive," by James S. Robbins. If you have paid any attention to what is taught in our schools these days, you will know this battle was pronounced an abject failure by "the most trusted man in America," Walter Cronkite, which eventually coerced Lyndon Johnson to leave the presidency. And yet, through the study of historical fact (and this great book), you will learn that the Tet Offensive of 1968 was a major victory for the U.S. military.
Also, to those who are still convinced the Vietnam War was an unwinnable war, please read local author Leonard M. "Mike" Scruggs' important book, "Lessons from the Vietnam War; Truths the Media Never Told You." But be prepared to change your mind.
Finally, although the study of history is critically important to our future, even more important is the necessity of finding and realizing the truth in history. Those who seek the truth, those who study the history of the Vietnam War era in our history, will realize that our failure there was caused by an abject lack of leadership in our civilian ranks.
Education reaps the power of knowledge which becomes wisdom. Future leaders must be well educated and wise in order to avoid the mistakes in our past.


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2013 Gateway Melges 24 Spring Regatta, May 3-5
28 March 2013
From Tom Wyman – Things will be a little different for the Gateway regatta this year…in a good way. We have an exceedingly generous sponsor this year, and the regatta will be FREE for the first twelve registered traveling boats. That is, the regatta fee, happy hours, sat crew dinner, sat/sun crew lunches – are all sponsored. All you need to do is register, get your team and your boat here, and pay for accommodations.
We invite all Melges 24 teams to the fifth annual Gateway Melges 24 Spring regatta May 3-5, 2013. This is the first event of the Midwest Series this year. We would like to welcome back those of you that have sailed the regatta before, and encourage those of you who have not experienced Gateway hospitality to come on over!
Carlyle Sailing Association is the host club, and sailing will be on the beautiful waters of Carlyle Lake in central Illinois. If you haven't been to Carlyle and CSA before, it is worth the trip. The club has easy logistics, three hoists, dry sail both days, and the sailing area is right off the docks. Early May is spring so expect a variety of sailing conditions. Local Midwest Fleet Zero has eight boats and all will be on the line.
Schedule of Events
Friday May 3, 2013
Arrival and boat setup all day
1800-2200 Registration
Saturday May 4, 2013
0800-0930 Launching, registration
0930 Competitors meeting
1015 Warning race one, followed by additional races
Sunday May 5, 2013
0855 Warning first race of the day followed by additional races
1200 No warning signal will be given after this time.
Prize presentation immediately following the final race.
Limited boat storage is available prior to and after the event (contact Tom for arrangements).
There are two local motels - Mariner's Village Microtel 618-594-7666 and Super 8 618-594-8888/1-800-800-8000 (mention CSA for discount). More opulent accommodations can be booked in Saint Louis if desired.
VISIT THE FLEET WEBSITE For the NOR and registration. Click the "registration" link in the news item. Mailing instructions are on the form.
Email or call if you have any questions. TOM WYMAN (314) 753 9183.
Midwest Fleet Zero looks forward to welcoming you to this fifth annual event!!


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After several months of speculation, the New York Mets finally did the obvious and re-sign free-agent pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to compete for the fifth spot.
He'll go against Jenrry Mejia, recently signed left-hander John Lannan and prospects Rafael Montero and Jacob deGrom.
Matsuzaka was signed to a minor league contract, which is what GM Sandy Alderson wanted from the outset with a veteran presence.
Once Matsuzaka, 33, straightened out his mechanics by speeding up his delivery, he closed on an upswing and finished at 3-3 with a 4.42 ERA in seven starts with the Mets.
Matsuzaka had a 10.95 ERA over 12.1 innings over his first three starts with the Mets, but after working with pitching coach Dan Warthen, he had a 1.37 ERA over his final four starts.
Speculation has Matsuzaka and Lannan moving to the lead because of their experience, and to give Mejia more time in his recovery from elbow surgery and Montero and deGrom in their development.
An advantage of going with Matsuzaka out of the gate is if gets off to a strong start – and the same applies to Lannan – it enhances their ability to make a trade at the July 31 deadline.
Did the Mets improve their rotation with a substantial name such as David Price, or solid starters such as Matt Garza or Bronson Arroyo?
No, but they improved more than their cynics thought they might. They signed three starters to fill the back end of their rotation in Bartolo Colon as their fourth starter, and Lannan and Matsuzaka to compete for the fifth starter role.
Do they have a playoff rotation? Not likely, but they have a rotation that could be solid enough to make .500 possible.
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After rocky 2013, Blue Jays still have pieces to go far
While many are counting out Toronto, a healthier lineup can open some eyes
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Were we that stupid?
Or are the Blue Jays baseball's best sleeper this season?
"There's no question that the focus is off us this year," manager John Gibbons said Friday. "But that doesn't affect how we feel about ourselves."
Agent Scott Boras continues to try to sell Toronto General Manager Alex Anthopoulos and the team's Rogers Communication ownership on free agents Stephen Drew and Kendrys Morales -- one or both -- and it's possible a late reinforcement could be added. But when you look around the field at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium or check the names on the lockers in the clubhouse, you can also see the Blue Jays becoming a contender without Drew, Morales or Ervin Santana, all of whom would cost Toronto the 45th overall pick in the upcoming Draft.
After trading for Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson and R.A. Dickey and signing free agent Melky Cabrera, the Blue Jays were consensus favorites for the wide-open AL East race a year ago. They wound up 74-88 and in last place, and now they're mentioned about as often as Pawtucket and Norfolk in 2014 forecasts.
But inside the sport, they're seen as deserving of the mulligan they're being given by a front office that has kept the core together.
"It's easier being the chaser than the chased," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "It's less complicated."
The addition of Dickey, the 39-year-old knuckleballer who won the 2012 NL Cy Young Award for the Mets, signaled how strongly Anthopoulos and team president Paul Beeston felt about the chances for the Blue Jays to end a playoff drought that dates back to Joe Carter's home run off Mitch Williams in 1993. But as the Angels have demonstrated since they added Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton and C.J. Wilson, it's really tough for a baseball franchise to pick its time and place to win.
As has been the case for each of the last four World Series champions, the sneak attack can be the way to go, even if it defies marketing slogans.
"Hey, we're not that bad" probably won't sell tickets. But the reality is that with the exception of a handful of proven powerhouses and overt rebuilders, baseball is extremely difficult to forecast. The Blue Jays are counting on that.
"We were in the spotlight last year and it was a tough year for us," Gibbons said. "We really like this team. We didn't perform up to the way we thought we were capable last year, and hopefully we do that this year."
Gibbons, who managed the Blue Jays in 2005-08, returned for a second stint after John Farrell was released from his contract to return to Boston. He was given an overhauled roster for a chaotic Spring Training, when Dickey, Reyes, catcher J.P. Arencibia, third baseman Brett Lawrie and others came and went because of the World Baseball Classic.
"The WBC hurt them as much as anybody last year," Hurdle said. "They had all those new players and the job was to bring them together. They didn't have enough time to do that because they had players all over the place."
Catcher Dioner Navarro, who spent last season with the Cubs, agrees with Hurdle.
"The guys who were here probably don't want to talk about it, but it's not a secret," said Navarro, who signed a two-year, $8-million deal to replace Arencibia. "The WBC hurt this team a lot. With so many new players, Spring Training was very important and probably a lot of problems were caused, little stuff that you don't see in the papers. Being around the game long enough, you understand. I see a lot of talent with this team, lots of very good players, and I'm very excited about the season."
Injuries were a recurring theme for the Blue Jays, with no one playing more than 143 games and only Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion and the .194-hitting Arencibia playing more than 118. But this is a different year.
Jose Bautista, who homered in Toronto's first exhibition game, appears to have recovered from the bone bruise in his left hip. Reyes is running well, and so is Cabrera.
Cabrera was signed to a two-year, $16-million contract in November 2012 after his stint with the Giants ended with a PED suspension. The 2012 All-Star Game MVP was limited by a mysterious back injury that turned out to be due to a benign tumor. He's like a new man -- or the old one -- since having it removed.
Second baseman Ryan Goins is unproven and under the gun, especially since Boras made it clear that Drew would be happy to move to second base if he could get a multi-year agreement. But the biggest X-factor for the Blue Jays is a starting rotation that, with the exception of Johnson, has the same basic cast (Dickey, Buehrle, J.A. Happ and the often-injured Brandon Morrow) responsible for a 46-57 record and 4.81 earned run average last year.
How those guys bounce back from meh seasons and how much youngsters like Drew Hutchison, Kyle Drabek and Marcus Stroman contribute will tell a lot. Only the Twins and Rockies got fewer innings from their starters last year, and an overworked bullpen is never part of a formula for success.
An overworked catcher? Maybe.
The wide-bodied Navarro -- listed at 5-foot-9 and 205 pounds -- was dripping sweat after catching Buehrle for the first time in a 4-2 victory over the Pirates.
Nobody works quicker than Buehrle, even in February, and the rapid-fire pace takes some getting used to for catchers accustomed to handling less decisive pitchers. It was a good thing for Navarro that it was only 63 degrees.
"On the positive side," he said, "I don't have to do my conditioning work now."
You've got to love guys who can always find positives. Could this be a time for silver linings in Toronto?
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Ford F-Series Electrical and Lighting Problems
nelligan435 Posts: 1ok I have a 96' F-450 diesel powerstroke 7.3L 2 wd. My turnsignals were fading on and off randomly. Then y radio started going nuts quickly turning on and off. The next morning my batteries were dead. I suspected the alternator so I replaced it. I recharged my batteries that are both less than a yr. old, but my truck is not recharging my batteries. My battery guage is not up to where it needs to be and my batteres continue to die. I am no mechanic at all and don't know much at all, someone walked me through the alternator change over the phone, I am a self employed carpenter w/ just this one truck and am unable to work now and it's costing my family money, can someon please help me. If it's easier to call, my cll # is 267-481-0552, I appreciate any help.0
drscalfaro Posts: 1We are having the same issue with one of our fleet trucks. Have yo been able to resolve the issue? What dealer are you using> Maybe we can get them talking to one another0
I have a 2005 f350 6.0L, my interior lights wont turn off when the doors open and they wont turn on when i first enter the truck, all door switches have been replaced! any ideas??0
did you find how to fix the problem? im have the same thing happen!0
clint56 Posts: 1Mt tail lights quit working. still have turn signals and brake lights. the trailer wiring plug has no power to trailer tail light either. there is only 1 volt going to the tail lights on the truck. I checked at the main harness plug at the back of the bed and only have 1 volt there also. they worked this morning.0
osofine Posts: 2I have a 2005 F-250 SD Lariet PS Diesel 6.0. The first year that they put the Automatic Temperature Contol System in trucks. Intermittently the power cuts out to the unit and panel goes black and the heat, fan, A/C, ext temp, Nothing works. I have been told to take it to a dealer when it is malfunctioning. Easier said than done. We are retired, tow a trailer and are often not near a dealer. The problem is that it resolves itself eventually. Usually before we get to a dealer appointment. It has lasted as long as 3 days and as short as 3 hours. Sometimes it will go off while we are driving, other times it will happen when we start the truck. Sometimes it come back on while we are driving, or when we start it. Stopping the truck and restarting it will not make it come on. Hitting it, hitting buttons etc doesn't do a thing to it. It comes back on when it feels like it. In a rain storm the defrost is necessary, so we have to drive with the windows 1/2 open. Sometimes it goes months without malfunctioning. I think the last space of time was 8 months. I don't know if it is a connection problem, but if it was it should go on and off when we pound on it or the dash ? Driving down the road it will just come on and work fine for months. Other times it will act up every week for a month and then stop for months. Driving me nuts! Please someone - tell what's wrong. All suggestions will be tried.0
luvtheheat Posts: 1osofine, you're in the throes of lying cheats. Tell your mechanic to contact North County Ford in Vista, CA. I went round-n-round with these clowns over my issue, finally threatening to lemon law the truck ('08 F350 Lariat Crew 4x4 6.4 PS). They have the answer, just be resilient! I also had huge issues with the Sirius radio cutting out. Another major pain in the [non-permissible content removed] and I had to resort to threats to get it fixed. They know they have these issues but the Motor Co doesn't want to recall anything! Good luck, let me know how it works out.0
hertagelbtruck Posts: 1I have a 2004 F-150 Heritage, XL Package. About a month ago I tried to start the truck in the morning. When I turned the key In the ignition, my dash board lights started to go In and out with intensity. ( Like a poltergist) The engine wouldn't fire. It would crank over, but that was it. I let the truck sit for @ an hour and retried and it started. I took vehicle to a reputable service center and they called back and infomed me that they were unable to duplicate problem. They had put on various diagnostic testing that revealed nothing. Since that time I have had this recurring problem about 6 times . No one has heard about this issue. Any suggestions or any one else with similar problems?0
tonye Posts: 9Just picked up a used 2003 f150. The previous owner mentioned that the cigarrette lighter was not working and it may be due to a blown fuse. Turns out there was no fuse (fuse/relay3) in the fuse box and it's the same circuit with the OBD data collector.
So bought a new relay fuse (oem) from a local Ford dealer but that did not fix the problem. I've seen a few (handful) of similar threads via Google searches and but no solution other then replace the fuse.
Anyone else run into this and is there recommended troubleshooting tip to try next?
sandrm1 Posts: 1I'm not sure if you have found an answer. I've been researching this as well. I found this link that describes the same issue as we are having. They have concluded it is a bad instrument cluster. At a cost of $500 + labor, I am still researching. Another site suggested changing out the instrument circuit board first. I'm not sure if the '04 was included in the recall (electrical fires), but check into that as well.
http://www.f150online.com/forums/electrical-systems/306610-1999-f150-starting-in- strument-cluster-problems.html0
robertlea7 Posts: 1I had a similar issue and finally found that my Alternator was going out. Had it replaced and all is well so far.0
polar71 Posts: 1Any one know the wiring colors of the door jam switch that controls the dome light in a 2003 f150? Trying to tie into it to install courtesy lights in my doors.


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I spotted it in the local charity shop this morning
But, I did find an oval shaped Britannia bowl with central hole in frosted pink,
That sounds like it should have a metal plinth attached. I've always wondered why these go missing when you'd think the glass would get broken first!
David - is there a picture of 'Cato' anywhere? Might be able to spot one if we know what we are looking for :shock:
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Carcassonne [3] is a city in south-west France that is best known for its UNESCO World Heritage listed walled city. It can be visited comfortably as a day trip.
Carcassonne is divided into two main parts:
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By train
Carcassonne railway station is situated on the Bordeaux - Sète and Carcassonne - Rivesaltes SNCF lines.
High speed TGV trains from Lille, Bruxelles, Dijon, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse call at Carcassone. Slower Corail Téoz between Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice and Paris towards Cerbère and Port-Bou (and overnight Corail Lunéa couchette trains between Paris and Cerbère / Port-Bou) also stop.
An extensive network of frequent, modern and comfortable regional services are provided by SNCF's TER Languedoc-Roussillon [4], with services to Toulouse, Narbonne, Marseille, Cerbère, Perpignan, Limoux and Quillan.
The train journey from Toulouse is around 1hr to 1hr 15min depending on the train type.
By plane
Carcassonne Airport (IATA: CCF) [5] is located 3km from the centre of Carcassonne.
Ryanair [6] serves the airport to/from Billund, Bournemouth, Brussels( Charleroi), Cork, Dublin, Eindhoven, Glasgow (Prestwick), Liverpool, London (Stansted), Nottingham (East Midlands airport) and Porto.
A shuttle bus (navette aéroport in French; 5€ per person) runs between the airport and Carcassonne town centre (SNCF railway station). Some shuttle buses (but not all) also stop at the Cité. The shuttle bus timetable is available at the airport website: [7]
A taxi between the airport and Carcassonne town centre costs around 10€ to 15€, whilst a taxi between the airport and the Cité costs around 15€ to 20€.
Get around
The Cité is around 20 minutes by foot from the railway station. The main tourist sights in Carcassonne are situated within easy walking distance of each other.
Tourist maps of Carcassonne are available from one of the three tourist information offices. There is one tourist information centre situated once you leave the railway station and cross the bridge, on the right hand side of the road near the junction between Boulevard Omer Sarraut and Avenue Mal Joffre. There are also tourist information centres in the Cité and in the town centre at 28 rue de Verdun.
Taxis:There is a taxi stand outside the railway station. You can also book a taxi by phoning 04 68 71 50 50, which is the one single official hotline for booking all taxis in Carcassonne. For more information, visit the official website of the Association of Carcassonne Radio Taxis.
Left luggage: There are no left luggage facilities at the train station. Some guidebooks suggest that you can leave your luggage at the Hotel La Bastide Saint Louis (42 rue Barbes 11000 Carcassonne; 3€ for 1/2 day and 5€ for 1 day), which is useful if you wish to visit Carcassonne before catching a flight from Carcassonne airport. This hotel, however, is either closed or relocated.
You can enter the Cité through one of its four gates: Porte Narbonnaise (see picture, common entrance when you arrive by car).
The Cité is a beautiful und interesting place to visit. Strolling trough the medieval village with its tiny and twisted alleys, the beautiful little Buildings next to impressive buildings like the Basilique St-Nazaire, give you a hint of how life must have been. The inner detail-orientated arrangements transport the medieval charm and impress you at every other corner in this town. Make sure to walk with open eyes trough the alleys!
The Basilique St-Nazaire impresses especially with its enormous rose windows and the biggest organ of south France. Pope Urban V ordered the construction in 1096.
You can choose to walk the Cité on your own without paying entrance for most of the medieval city. You only have to pay to visit the area of the Château Comtal (around 10€).
Nearly 3 million tourists visit the the Cité of Carcassonne every year so it can get very busy in this little town. Peak season is from June to August.
Much to see in this somewhat neglected region of France. Get into the hills and visit little villages like Minerve. Try using the Michelin maps but forsake the red roads and take to the little white roads. You will be rewarded by seeing lovely little places that tour buses etc never visit.
Carcassonne can also be visited departing from Toulouse.
Medieval jousting displays are held twice a day between the two walls. Whilst this may sound like a typical tourist activity, this is actually a very impressive and entertaining display of horsemanship and combative competition. Entry is €12 for adults as of Summer 2013 - certainly one of best €12 that we spent on our Summer trip.
If you're up to it, the Torture Museum is also worth a visit. It's small but filled with torture instruments from the Middle Ages. Not for the squeamish!
There are regular barge trips along the historic Canal du Midi, and these are a very relaxing way of spending some time. The boats leave from the jetty just outside the main train station, and tickets can be bought from clearly signposted vendors at the canal-side (just beside the lock). Multilingual commentary is provided on the history of the canal and the various sights along the way.
Festival de Carcassonne is held in July and August [8]. Around half of July there is huge firework show (second biggest in France).
Don't leave Carcassonne without trying cassoulet, a local dish made of beans, sausage and duck. Foie gras is also a speciality of the region, so expect it to be on many menus.
There are bars around the train station (la gare) that offer cheap eats. There are a few restaurants on rue Trivalle, the road that connects the town centre with the Cité. Le Trivalou (69 rue Trivalle) has very friendly service and delicious home-made dishes, including cassoulet (16€). There are also quite a few restaurants clustered around the main square inside the Cité, the majority of which have outside tables so you can people-watch and enjoy the buzz of the square on summer evenings!
Budget permitting, there are several excellent restaurants inside the Cité, serving really good regional food. Among them are La Barbacane, Chez Saskia, Restaurant Comte Roger and the Brasserie le Donjon. These all serve divine food and the service is, as you would expect, impeccable.
As Carcassonne can get quite touristy during the summer season, restaurants can become crowded and the prices charged can be a bit over the top. You may therefore wish to eat away from the Cité, perhaps in the town centre instead, or better in one of the enchanting villages away from Carcassonne.
Regional wines.
It is advisable to book earlier if visiting Carcassonne during the high season.
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Thanks for that; sorry about the hassles though. I will update my laptop first and see how it goes first.
I pick up an upgrade copy of Aperture 3 at the Apple Store last night.
Installation was a greater chore than I anticipated. Aperture crashed consistently on startup. A little googling revealed that this problem is widespread amongst upgraders. The solution was to delete the Aperture ProID file from Library/Application Support. After restart I needed to enter the serial of my previous Aperture install (Aperture v2).
After start-up, Aperture 3 took 2+ hours to update 70,000 thumbnails in my referenced photo library.
Once I had Aperture 3 up and running I had one additional crash that took down the whole computer, requiring a reboot. Fortunately I did not loose any work. In fact Aperture opened up to the same window with the same images selected prior to the crash
So far Im happy with the features. I geotagged an entire Bali/Wakatobi trip very quickly. I just hope we see a stability update soon.
I'm learning not to be such an early adopter. I waited until this week to update the OS from 10.5.8 to 10.6.2. I was too anxious to wait for Aperture 3.1.
Apple releases Aperture 3
Posted 11 February 2010 - 10:43 AM
Posted 11 February 2010 - 11:08 AM
Actually, one of my hopes for Aperture 3 was that they would open up the RAW processing pipeline to third parties, so that Canon, Panasonic, et. al. could incorporate their own algorithms into the app. A pipe dream to be sure, especially for a company like Apple, but I think it would offer a much better plugin architecture than either Apple or Adobe are offering now. Forcing plug-in developers to take over image processing after the RAW is rendered to pixels strikes me as utterly pointless. It's far better to use the Photoshop versions of those plugins with smart filters.
Thats not how it works. ALL the camera mfg's keep the raw processing engine a closely guarded secret. You would probably have better luck breaking into the coca-cola factory and stealing the recipe for coke.
Contrary to belief, the camera mfg's do not work in ANY way with app developers on the raw engines. I recently read in this months photoshop user magazine that the single thing the photoshop team was most proud of in the latest version of Photoshop (cs4) was the raw engine they created. That tells you how much work and effort they put into making your raw file look as good as it can be.
I was actually suprised recently when I compared DPP's output to the new lightroom 3 beta. (which uses ACR I believe). For the first time ever, it actually looked like lightroom looked BETTER than canon's DPP. In the past, Nikon's Capture NX2 and Canon's DPP ALWAYS looked better than any 3rd party raw processor. Im not sure I can say that LR3 beats Canon's DPP all the time, but for the brief comparison I did, it sure seemed like it. That to me is amazing. The one thing that I hated about Aperture 2 was the raw processing on the Canon 5d2 and the 7d. It looked like my cat took a dump on my pictures when I was viewing them inside Aperture. Hence, my old workflow was using DPP, to tiff, import to aperture. Which defeats the whole purpose of raw and non destructive editing inside aperture...so Aperture 3 Is a huge welcome to me.
Please explain by what you mean that "plugin takes over after the raw is rendered to pixels". I don't understand your statement.
I can't even install the darn trial on my computer. Keeps hanging after I click install. Sheesh!
Try booting off the snow leaopard dvd, go to disk utilities, scan your hard drive for errors & permissions.
Try it again..if it still doesen't work, uninstall your old version of aperture. To do this, do the following: (note, your plugins for aperture will be deleted, as well as the aperture app, the only thing left will be your aperture library under your home folder, which by default is under the pictures folder (or wherever you have your aperture library located)
To delete previous versions, start Finder, go to applications, drag the aperture icon to the trash. then back in finder, go to your hard drive (under devices), click Library, then click Application support, go to Aperture, delete that folder.
MAN! I havnt been this excited since I was 12 and the nintendo 64 came out!
LOL, you must have been born around '68 too then huh?
I remember having a Atari 800, with the basic cartridge and the cassette tape recorder to save it!!
what was worse was when they had atari magazine, and would put the binary code for a game in each issue. You would type for HOURS 0101010101010110101010100 and then it wouldnt run. So you would run the check, and then it would say everything was ok.
Then you would wait until the next months issue and sure enough, they would say there was a misprint on the previous issue and give you the code and the line number to fix it. lol, wow, goes to show you how desperate we were back in those days.
Haha, that would take me a week or more to download that
Wow, where are you located that you have speeds that slow? even the cheap $15 a month DSL gives you about 300kb/sec, which still isnt very long to download 500Mb. I feel for you. Slow internet sucks.
Im guessing your on a dialup in a remote area??
on another note.........
Another thing that people dont realize is that to really take advantage of Snow leopards 64bit kernel, you need to boot Snow leopard into 64bit. That way your OS is running in 64bit as well as your apps.
This is assuming your computer can boot into 64 bit mode...to check to see if it can...
To determine if your Mac has 32-bit or 64-bit firmware, copy/paste the following command shown in red into Terminal (Terminal is found in the /Applications/Utilities folder):
ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
If it comes back and says "<"EFI64">, you can boot into 64 bit mode.
If it says <"EFI32"> then either you need to update your boot EFI firmware or your computer isnt capable.
To boot into 64 bit mode, hold the 6 and the 4 key down while your computer is starting up.
Then click "about this mac", then click "more info", then click the software tab. It will say under "64-bit Kernel and Extensions:" either YES (if you were successful in booting 64 bit mode) or NO, if you are still in 32 bit mode.
If you want to ALWAYS boot into 64 bit mode, use a app like text wrangler (free) and do this:
Edit the file:
Insert arch=x86_64 into the Kernel Flags field. <---- this is the only thing you need to do. everything else stays the same!!!! Look below, see where it says <string>arch=x86_64</string>? By default, it will not show arch=x86_64!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com...yList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
Lastly, I spoke with both Onone software and NIK software and both are releasing the 64bit plugins for Aperture 3 in the near future (sometime in 2010)
Edited by gbrandon, 11 February 2010 - 11:15 AM.
Posted 11 February 2010 - 04:31 PM
Posted 11 February 2010 - 06:50 PM
I'm glad Macs are so easy to use these days!
LOL, actually, Apple wanted to avoid the fiasco microsoft had when it introduced its 64 bit software with all the problems users had with incompatible software. By leaving the kernal 32 bit in Snow Leopard, 99.9% of the people will have no problems right out of the box with a 32 bit kernel.
For those that want squeak every last bit of performance out of Snow Leopard, there is the 2 options to enable 64 bit as I showed above.
Posted 12 February 2010 - 11:47 AM
The last few days they continue to add vignettes of new features. One nice new feature is the way Aperture handles imports, much faster, apparently as fast or faster than the present king, Photomechanic.
Posted 13 February 2010 - 11:47 AM
Has anyone compared noise reduciton with Aperature 3 vs. Nik softwares Dfine?
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Posted 14 February 2010 - 04:15 AM
If I find I finally have the color management control I wanted, I can finally forget about changing to Lightroom, so happy.
Edited by loftus, 14 February 2010 - 04:18 AM.
Posted 14 February 2010 - 07:15 AM
So far so good for me; installed trial version (while I wait for my boxed version) by download on my laptop. Transferred a small library, used CS4 and tried some basic in Aperture edits. Also downloaded a card. All working flawlessly so far. Have to reconfigure my toolbar etc yet to resemble my Aperture 2 setup, but looks pretty sweet so far. Next, the desktop. Important new feature is being able to use any color space including Prophoto!!!!
If I find I finally have the color management control I wanted, I can finally forget about changing to Lightroom, so happy.
Works pretty well for me. Imported about 10 CF cards worth and it was fine, like the fact that in now supports the movies I take with the G9 and 5D Mark II. Then I went and imported about 250 Gigs/16,000 photos. It is processing them now. It is going through face detection now. Looks like it may take awhile
Posted 14 February 2010 - 03:17 PM
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Posted 15 February 2010 - 09:02 AM
Video integration, merging libraries so I ca easily merge stuff from my laptop to my desktop when I get home from a trip - pretty cool. Now just need integration with an iPad, or some type of iPad /Aperture ap.
Stability issues aside, which I think will be quickly fixed, I think this is a major improvement and upgrade.
Edited by loftus, 15 February 2010 - 10:11 AM.
Posted 16 February 2010 - 04:05 AM
Posted 17 February 2010 - 07:17 AM
After an experience like Eric had, it's very difficult to even consider Aperture as a solution for managing a photo library.
Posted 17 February 2010 - 07:41 AM
After a week of use, my opinion is that this release seems like it was rushed out the door. Although the new features are certainly cool, I would not trust Aperture as a system to manage my assets until it is updated to address the many user concerns that have been documented in Apple's support forums, and elsewhere. Seems like many others have come to the same conclusion.
Like the new features alot, but that article pretty much nailed it from the things I have been putting it through. The large test failed for me for the most part. Shutting off Faces did not help much (and that thing is a pig, albeit kind of cool in concept) and I had a kernal panic. Pretty sure that was from Aperture.
Posted 17 February 2010 - 08:12 AM
by the way, the guy on the phone acknowledged the issues that they have been having, and said they are working on a fix. that's great and all, but i agree that they released this too soon.
Canon 5D mk2, Ikelite housing, Ikelite 125 strobes, 17-40 mm 4.0 L, 100 mm, 24-150 mm L, 100-400 mm 5.6 L
Posted 17 February 2010 - 08:21 AM
I'm a Lightroom and (until recently) a PC user.
I've downloaded, installed and used Aperture 3 over the past week or so, and can honestly say that I have yet (!) to experience any problems. It was clean install.
Eric's experience with the previous version makes me very wary of using this as a primary tool anyway.
I can't say that I have used it enough to provide any serious comparison to Lightroom, but it does seem as if it may have been rushed. It is frustrating that the third party Flickr etc. export plug ins still only work in 32 bit mode.
I do have great hopes for Lightroom 3 though! Can't wait till it releases.
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Posted 17 February 2010 - 09:12 AM
Canon 5D mk2, Ikelite housing, Ikelite 125 strobes, 17-40 mm 4.0 L, 100 mm, 24-150 mm L, 100-400 mm 5.6 L
Posted 24 February 2010 - 02:51 PM
The following list does not address me biggest gripe:
Import>Folders INTO Projects has been replaced with
Import>Folders AS Projects
I believe it was Eric who taught me this this method of file import management during a lecture several years ago. Using Aperture 3 it is no longer possible to import a folder full of images directly into a project as an album. Folders are now imported as projects at the root level. This has thrown a major kink into my import workflow.
Aperture 3.01 Reported fixes:
Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture
Importing libraries from iPhoto
Importing photos directly from a camera
Memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos
Face recognition processing
Adding undetected faces using the Add Missing Face button
Printing pages containing multiple images
Printing photos and contact sheets with borders and metadata
Editing photos using an external editor
Display of images with Definition and Straighten adjustments applied
Zooming photos in the Viewer and in the Loupe using keyboard shortcuts
Accessing Aperture libraries on a network volume
Selecting and moving pins on the Places map
Adding and editing custom locations using the Manage My Places window
Switching between masters when working with RAW+JPEG pairs.
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Posted 26 February 2010 - 01:30 PM
Posted 26 February 2010 - 02:20 PM
Features I like; downloads are much faster with simultaneous download to backup drive working very well. I love the new full screen mode for reviewing and working on images.
Before I left, I was not so lucky converting my old library on my desktop, so I'm hopeful the new update fixes the problem as advertised. If it does, I can strongly recommend the program, though I would recommend disabling faces unless you have a need to use it.
Edited by loftus, 26 February 2010 - 02:23 PM.
Posted 28 February 2010 - 06:38 PM
I completed my upgrade of my previous Aperture 2 to Aperture 3 library on my desktop today, and it went flawlessly despite taking all day to upgrade my 35,000 image library.
I then merged my Silverbanks project from last week from my laptop to my desktop which went flawlessly. I love this new functionality that will allow transfer and merging of projects or libraries from my laptop to desktop and back without duplication. This is exactly what I was hoping for to allow a centralized database with real synching of projects and libraries to allow multimachine or user functionality.
Now with my upgrade complete I think the upgrade is absolutely worth it; non-destructive brush editing works well. I continue to be impressed by all the new features. Exporting with xmp sidecar appears to work well, though I now no longer need it as I have changed my mind about moving to Lightroom.
Also used my camera GPS to geotag images which now show up as pins on the Google Maps / Places feature, quite cool, and useful too. I have been asked to provide geotagged images for research purposes.
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Australia Eyes Website Censoring And A Graduated Response Program -- Because They Clearly Work So Well
from the you-don't-seem-to-be-learning dept
Right on cue, here comes Australia's Attorney-General George Brandis, who this week indicated that the country will continue its proud tradition of ignoring facts when it comes to Internet policy, and will start considering the use of graduated response programs to purportedly thwart piracy:
"The government will be considering possible mechanisms to provide a 'legal incentive' for an Internet service provider to cooperate with copyright owners in preventing infringement on their systems and networks. This may include looking carefully at the merits of a scheme whereby ISPs are required to issue graduated warnings to consumers who are using websites to facilitate piracy."That there are no merits isn't likely to deter Brandis. Australia's willful obliviousness doesn't end there, with the government considering changing the law to legally force ISPs to take down websites the government doesn't like (which here in the States is obviously something that also just works so well):
"Another option that some stakeholders have raised with me is to provide the Federal Court with explicit powers to provide for third party injunctions against ISPs, which will ultimately require ISPs to 'take down'; websites hosting infringing content."This is the same Australia that imposed porn filters that were bested by a young kid in all of half an hour. The same Australia whose ISPs quite clearly illustrated the futility and problems with filters. The same Australian government who year after year after year is told that a ham-fisted approach to "managing" or otherwise censoring Internet content causes many more problems that it fixes. Yet here we are once again with the Australian government almost gleeful in its disregard of sound advice, making you wonder what great ideas loom down the road.


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I plugged a simple search term into Google last week: "Were Afghanistan and Iraq worth it?" Tens of thousands of entries popped up.
With Memorial Day approaching, I wanted to see whether others believed the U.S. should have simultaneously gone to war in two countries; that is, whether the thousands of American servicemen and women killed, the tens of thousands injured and the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent in battle were justified by the outcome. Has the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq had a concrete impact on the world?
The newspaper headlines came fast and furious:
"War in Iraq and Afghanistan not worth the cost, many U.S. veterans say," read one.
"A third of vets say Iraq and Afghan wars a waste," proclaimed another.
And on they went.
Amid the array of headlines, one struck me as curious. "Deaths may not be worth it," it read. I found its uncertainty unsettling.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as wars often do, divided our nation into two camps. You either believed in them as the defining causes of our time, or you didn't. Equivocation was not an option. This headline, however, conveyed an either/or message: Maybe it was all worth it, but maybe it wasn't.
With my curiosity piqued, I clicked on the headline, which appeared in The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., on March 15, 2012. Washington Post opinion writer Dana Milbank — a graduate of Calhoun High School in Merrick, where I live — had penned the beautifully written column, which had appeared in the Post the previous day. What were the odds that I would click on his column out of so many thousands?
Milbank followed the family of 23-year-old Marine Sgt. William Stacey as they laid him to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, after he was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. He was on his fourth deployment.
Stacey's family buried him, Milbank wrote, "near a young magnolia tree that will shade his headstone in future years –– with the too-familiar rituals: white horses, wooden caisson, marching platoon, rifle volleys, taps. There were tearful parents, the grief-stricken fiancée, the teenage sister holding flowers and the cremated remains of a young man who left behind an open-in-case-of-death letter released by the family."


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kayay necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We need a logo for a expedition that is set to be one of the greatest feats of human endurance of the last century. The logo needs to be imaginative and capture the essance of the journey, not necessarily the name.
ONE WORLD powered by us
ONE WORLD powered by us, is an epic 3 year expedition that will see 2 athletes journey from the geographical north pole to the geographical south pole using exclusively human power. They will travel the polar regions by skis pulling behind them large pulks/sleds, they will row the oceans in custom built ocean rowing boats and cycle across land. The logo needs to attract both the corporate market as well as the general public. It needs to be eye catching and explain to the general public what the journey entails, whilst at the same time having a corporate and professional twist that would leave a potential sponsor thinking that the brand 'ONE WORLD powered by us' could directly relate to how they as a company can encompass the world and be part of what powers it. In addition the logo must be simple enough that it would work as an embroidered logo on clothing etc. The 'ONE WORLD' element of the title is the most important and must be included, 'powered by us'' is more of the catch line which could both include and excluded from the same design to suit whether it going to be embroidered or put on brochure etc.
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Matsumoto, Japan, October 31, 2010 – Cuba picked up their first win in Group C of the FIVB Women's World Championship on Saturday, overcoming Kazakhstan 3-2 (20-25, 25-15, 27-25, 23-25, 15-10) at Matsumoto City Gymnasium. Both teams were winless going into the match. FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 official page
Cuba's Kenia Carcaces scored 25 points, including six service winners, with Yoana Palacios and Rachel Sanchez adding 23 and 20 respectively and Ana Lidia Cleger 17. Lyudmila Anarbayeva led the scoring for the defeated Kazakhs with 17 points while Olga Nassedkina and Olga Drobyshevskaya each tallied 16. Both teams registered 12 blocks while the winners had a 12-9 advantage from the service line.After Friday's humiliating defeat by Croatia, Juan Carlos Gala's young Cuba team had produced an improved performance in losing to Germany on Saturday and they fought hard for this first victory in Japan. For Kazakhtan, by contrast, the result left them with a 0-3 record so far.After Cuba pulled back from 0-2 to 2-2, there was never more than a point in the first set until the Kazakhs opened up a three-point gap at 11-8. Gala duly called a timeout to try and reorder his disorganised defence but although Palacios delivered a rocket down the line, the Kazakhs were playing the better Volleyball. Sana Jarlagassova came up with a pair of big hits and captain Inna Matveyeva cracked an absolute bomb down the middle as Kazakhstan moved five points clear at the Second Technical Timeout.
However, the Cubans used their biggest weapon – big spikes – to claw their way back to parity, with Sanchez leading the way. Kazakhstan edged ahead again from 20-20 and three Cuban errors ended the set: Palacios sent a spike long, then failed to handle a serve by Korinna Ishimtseva, and finally a spike by her replacement, Wilma Salas, spun off the net and out of play.Carcaces landed a couple of huge blows as Cuba gained an early advantage in the second set and a good shot by Sanchez put the Caribbean team five points clear at 15-10. But Kazakhstan got back into the contest following three Cuban errors and a great block by Anarbayeva on Sanchez. Nelli Chsherbakova's charges closed to within a point at 15-14 before Carcaces landed the best two shots of the night to get Cuba back on track: a gigantic thump down the middle and a devastating service ace that put them seven points clear at 22-15 and prompted Chsherbakova to call her players off court. Two more awesome service aces from Carcaces then ended the set, with Cuba having taken eight points in succession.A series of Cuban errors – both in serving and receiving – helped Kazakhstan take a two-point lead at the First Technical Timeout (FTT) of the third set, but Cuba quickly reversed that thanks to two Kazakh errors and more good work by Carcaces. Cuba were three points ahead at the Second Technical Timeout (STT) though their opponents reclaimed the initiative through a Drobyshevskaya spike, a wide shot by Yusidey Silie and a service reception error by Carcaces. When a Palacios piledriver came back over the heads of the entire Cuban team thanks to an amazing instinctive dig by Matveyeva, the Kazakhs moved into three-point lead at 21-18.
Palacios started the Cuban comeback with a huge hit and Carcaces then took over, sending three missiles through the opposition defence. The scores were level at 23, 24 and 25. Then Carcaces was up to serve again – and she delivered in fantastic style, bringing up setpoint with a rocket that just sped through the Kazakhstan defence and then firing down another to put Cuba 2-1 up.Kazakhstan responded by taking the first four points of the fourth set, as Cuba took their foot off the accelerator. Gala was forced to call a timeout as his side dropped four straight points to fall 10-5 behind. Another forceful spell of serving by Carcaces brought Cuba back into the game and the two teams were level at 12-12. But Kazakhstan crept back into the lead as Cuba struggled for consistency but the Kazakhs' four-point lead was gone at 20-20 when they failed to deal with a serve by Sanchez. Cuba then moved two points ahead on blocks by Leanny Castaneda and Silie but Drobyshevskaya landed a good spike and Nassedkina made two superb blocks as the advantage swung back to Kazakhstan and two Cuban errors handed the set to Chsherbakova's side.Cuba edged in front in the final set through a couple of decent spikes and a reception error and though at 6-3 down Chsherbakova called a timeout, the Caribbean side kept the pressure on. A fantastic dig by Sanchez set up a spike by Castaneda and a bomb by Palacios gave Cuba a five-point advantage at 10-5. There was no way back for the Kazakhs. A spike by Cleger brought matchpoint and the same player then hit a rocket to finish off the contest.


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This is Andy Yarger, better known as yarg. I'm mainly a lurker, but decided to go ahead and introduce myself in case I decide to get into some of the threads. I have been visiting AntiOnline off and on for about 2 years now and just now decided to go ahead and get an account and introduce myself. I'm drunk right at this moment while I'm writing this, so forgive me if some of my grammar is a little off, I don't mean it Anyways, I look forward to reading and possibly participating around here for awhile, at least until whatever happens after the network is sold, which, btw, I am disappointed to hear.
Right now I'm a Senior in high school and am interested in persuing a career in computer networking, which I have a basic grasp from LAN parties I have attended. Anyways, I look forward to getting to know you guys and promise to not post anymore unless I'm sober.