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Rookie Ramirez's first career homer enough support for Tribe's ace
NEW YORK -- The Indians' relievers have gotten a little too comfortable on the days that Corey Kluber is scheduled to start. The group has grown accustomed to deep outings from Cleveland's rotation leader, so much so that Saturday's workload seemed excessive.
In his latest win, Kluber made the bullpen handle three full innings.
"That's not like him," Indians closer Cody Allen quipped. "Normally, we're just wearing sneakers down there on the day he pitches."
The Yankees made Kluber work all Saturday afternoon in the Bronx, but New York will have to consider that a moral victory. It was hardly enough to slow the right-hander down in this stellar season of his for the Indians, who claimed a 3-0 victory behind his latest showing at Yankee Stadium.
It marked the first win for the Indians since Monday, when Kluber last took the mound.
Kluber, who spun an 85-pitch shutout against Seattle on July 30, saw his pitch count climb to 109 after he retired his final batter. It marked the shortest outing for Kluber since he also logged six frames on July 11, and it ended a streak of four consecutive starts in which the right-hander had worked into at least into the eighth inning.
"That's just a veteran lineup," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "They either fouled pitches off or got some deep counts, so he had some 20-pitch innings as opposed to maybe some quick ones. But every time they had runners in scoring position, [he shut them down]."
While the Yankees forced Kluber to toil through some extra pitches, he still managed to dodge minimal traffic and pile up the strikeouts. The righty ended the day with 10 strikeouts against one walk, marking the sixth time this year (a single-season club record) that he has finished with double-digit strikeouts and no more than one free pass.
Kluber also joined Indians greats Sam McDowell (four times), Bob Feller (twice), Herb Score (twice), Luis Tiant (once) and Dennis Eckersley (once) as the only Cleveland pitchers in the past century to have at least seven double-digit strikeout games in one season. Eckersley was the last to achieve the feat with eight such outings in 1976.
Kluber scattered four hits -- the first coming courtesy of a one-out double from Jacoby Ellsbury in the fourth -- and allowed no runs for the third time in his past four starts. The starter has yielded just one earned run across 31 1/3 innings in that span. Kluber has a 0.68 ERA in his last six starts (40 innings) and a 1.32 ERA over his past 10 outings (75 innings).
"He's nasty, man," Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said. "He's got control, didn't walk guys. He's a handful. I think he's had a lot of success throughout the entire year, not just today. If he continues to pitch like this, he'll have an extremely long and successful career."
New York's biggest threat against Kluber came in the sixth inning, which Jeter led off by legging out an infield chopper for a single. Following that hit -- one that moved the Yankees' shortstop into sole possession of sixth place on baseball's all-time hits list with 3,431 -- Ellsbury delivered a single to shallow left.
Kluber then sliced his way through Carlos Beltran, Chase Headley and Stephen Drew with three straight strikeouts to end the inning. After Kluber fanned Drew swinging, Indians catcher Yan Gomes popped up from his crouch and emphatically pumped his fist as the Yankee Stadium crowd groaned.
With the win, Kluber improved to 13-6 with a 2.46 ERA on the season for the Indians, who owe him greatly for remaining on the edge of the American League playoff chase.
"He's a huge part of it," said Allen, who worked a clean ninth en route to his 15th save of the year. "Think about his last, probably, seven or eight starts -- he's been unbelievable. Every time he toes the rubber, that's a win. No matter if he's getting the decision or not, every time he toes the rubber, that's a win. And we need every one we can get right now."
Kluber has not needed much run support of late, and he received all he would require in the second inning, when shortstop Jose Ramirez lifted a pitch from New York starter Brandon McCarthy out to right field. The towering fly from Ramirez, who finished with three hits, just cleared the short porch, giving the rookie his first Major League home run and handing Kluber a 2-0 lead.
"I feel really happy," Ramirez said through a translator. "First home run in Yankee Stadium. Everyone dreams to play here."
McCarthy did what he could to keep pace with Kluber, giving New York 6 1/3 innings and eight strikeouts in an effort that might have netted a win on another afternoon. Following McCarthy's exit, Michael Brantley offered the Indians some insurance with a leadoff home run (his 17th homer of the season) off Chase Whitley in the eighth.
That was an ample cushion for relievers Scott Atchison, Bryan Shaw and Allen to use to their advantage
Kluber will try to save them so much work next time out.
"I was just taking a day off," Kluber said with a smirk.


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Subject: ESPN Published then Pulled this story about LeBron, Painting him like a Childlike character
Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:32 am
But I have it LOL, thought some of you might like it, and you will
It's written by Arash Markazi who is fairly respected, but ESPN didn't like it LOL
This guy is such a fucking clown, HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE A FAN OF THIS GUY?
LeBron James leans against a waist-high stone wall with a 16-foot-tall Buddha hovering over him.
He's at Tao, a bustling restaurant and nightclub inside the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, and his arms are crossed as he listens to Lynn Meritt, senior director of Nike Basketball, and Charles Denson, president of Nike Brand.James is quiet, occasionally applying Chap Stick on his lips and nodding when he hears something he likes.
Five security guards are stationed around him, one at each corner of the table he's about to sit at and another roving around with him, watching his every move. Anyone who takes two steps toward James is stopped and must have James' approval to come closer.
The waiter bringing him his cup of green tea with a spoonful of honey and a dash of lemon juice makes the cut, as does the scantily clad brunette with a tattoo of a heart on her right shoulder.
She wants to take a picture with him. "I can't right now," says James. "Maybe later, upstairs, I'll remember you're the one with the tattoo."
James will host a party later in the upstairs nightclub at Tao, but he is currently hosting a dinner for his friends and family in the downstairs restaurant. Wearing a gray striped shirt and gold crucifix around his neck, he bobs his head to music played by an amped-up saxophonist who weaves his way around the table like a one-man mariachi band.
I have somehow found myself at this exclusive table, seated beside Eddie Jackson, who is introduced to me as James' father (though he actually began dating James' mother, Gloria, after LeBron was born and the two are no longer together). Jackson, wearing a muscle shirt accentuating his large biceps, looks like a member of James' four-man entourage, like one of his childhood friends.
James' circle includes Randy Mims, seated to his right at the center of the table, Maverick Carter, seated at the head of the table, and Richard Paul, seated in front of James. The quartet makes up the initials behind LRMR Marketing, the management firm James founded almost four years ago with his buddies. Their offices in downtown Cleveland gained notoriety this month as the location teams flocked to for their meetings with James.
LeBron James partied at Tao last weekend, complete with a kings' cake and an entourage to make heads of state jealous.
Seated to the right of James is Chris Paul, whose brother, C.J., is seated across from him. The New Orleans Hornets point guard has seen how James has positioned himself to win a championship by signing with the Miami Heat and joining forces with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and has reportedly considered a similar move himself.
The truth is, in James' dream world, the duo he would love to play with for the next decade would be Wade and Paul, his two closest friends in the NBA. Paul has been like a brother to James since the two were in Las Vegas four years ago for USA Basketball training camp, when as a rookie he carried James' and Wade's bags to and from the team bus.
James and Paul are fairly quiet at the center of the table as they take in the scene around them. As family style plates of miso-glazed Chilean sea bass and crispy lobster and shrimp dumplings are brought to the table, James effortlessly picks up the food with his chopsticks and occasionally raises his cup of green tea to passersby as they raise their martinis and mojitos in his direction before being helped along by security guards.
When trays of dessert plates are brought over, James gets up, preferring to start his party upstairs instead of indulging in the giant fortune cookies and chocolate cake. A security guard comes over and puts plastic wristbands on our wrists and escorts us through the back of the restaurant, up a flight of stairs in the bowels of the hotel and through a back entrance into the club. About a dozen security guards, moving their flash lights, direct us to a roped off section on the dance floor of Tao next to a couple of apparently nude women in a bathtub full of water and rose petals.
James, now wearing sunglasses in the dark club, immediately stands up on the couch and folds his arms high on his chest and nods his head. He smiles as he looks at the dozens of people crowded on the dance floor. Noticing him, they stop dancing and snap pictures as the DJ screams out, "LeBron James in the building!" and plays ****'s "I'm in Miami."
Carter, LeBron's childhood friend and manager, begins dancing around James like Puff Daddy in a Notorious B.I.G video. A giant red crown-shaped cake is brought over to James while go-go dancers dressed in skimpy red and black outfits raise four lettered placards that spell out, "KING." Carter grabs a bottle of Grey Goose and pours a quarter of it on the floor and raises it up before passing it off.
James' infamous one-hour special, "The Decision," was reportedly the brainchild of Carter, a 28-year-old who has never managed anyone outside of his friend James. This three-day party marathon in Vegas (which James is being paid six figures to host) is also Carter's idea.
Bottle after bottle of "Ace of Spades" champagne is delivered to the table by a waiter flying down from above the dance floor like some overgrown Peter Pan on a wire. One time he's dressed like a King, another time as Indiana Jones and another in a replica of James' No. 6 Miami Heat jersey.
James, who can hardly see the flying figure through his tinted glasses, almost gets kicked in the head on the waiter's last trip down. He looks at the girls around him and says, "I wish they'd have one of these girls with no panties do that instead of the guy."
Toward the end of the night, Boston Celtics forward Glen Davis walks past James' party and looks at the scene up and down several times like a painting in a museum, soaking in the images of the go-go dancers, the "King" sign and the costumed man delivering bottles of champagne.
Davis shakes his head and walks on.
James dances on the couch and sings along with the music blaring from speakers all around him.
The more you hang around James, the more you realize he's still a child wrapped in a 6-foot-8, 250-pound frame. The night after the party at Tao, he and his crew walk through the casino at the Wynn and Encore and he pretends to dribble a basketball as he walks past ringing slot machines and tourists who do double-takes. In a Nike T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, James' pantomime seems unconscious. He stops every few feet to shoot a jump shot, his right hand extended above his head on the follow through. He weaves through a pack of a dozen friends and pretends to connect on a layup as he walks past a gift shop. He passes overhead casino signs and jumps up and slaps them, pretending to dunk. Columns covered with advertisements for lounge acts become stationary defenders, chumps to fake out before connecting on imaginary mid-range jump shots.
James probably goes through a practice's worth of shots as we walk from the XS nightclub at Encore (James left his poolside table when he saw the club was practically empty), through Wynn and over the bridge to the Palazzo.
Soon after arriving at Lavo, a restaurant and nightclub at the Palazzo, a scene straight out of "West Side Story" breaks out when James and Lamar Odom, seated at a nearby table, engage in an impromptu dance-off to California Swag District's "Teach Me How To Dougie."
Odom, smoking a cigar, can't quite keep up. James celebrates by crossing himself and taking a shot of Patron. Moments later, a handful of girls dressed as cheerleaders walk toward his table with someone dressed in James' Heat uniform. Someone throws talcum powder in the air as James does before every game, while his new unofficial song, "I'm in Miami," plays.
Odom casts a glance James' way before looking in the opposite direction and raising his glass at a couple on the dance floor who point to their ring fingers and smile.
Back at his table, James and his crew sing every word to Rick Ross' "Free Mason." LeBron raps every line to former teammate Damon Jones (who played with him in Cleveland). Jones, puffing on a cigar, nods.
James rips out the lines:
"If I ever die, never let it be said I didn't win/
Never, never say/
Never say legend didn't go in/
I just wanna die on top of the world."
While he looks at club-goers flashing the LA and Westside signs at him, James smiles and points to Jackson's T-shirt, which reads, "Another Enemy," and raises his glass of champagne.
Finally, Carter tells James it's time to leave the club and they do, LeBron pretending to cross-over tables and shoot over slot machines all the way back to his room.
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Nobody accused him of being mature. Other than that, sounds like a fun party that i should have been at...but i guess my invitation got lost in the mail.
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I read this as soon as it came out and laughed my ass off, the dudes a fucking joke. Did they seriously remove the article? thats funny lol
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LeBron is going to end up in Cleveland like this in 10 yrs
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Seeing as how Google is just a big web spider that essentially starts out at one page, like index everything starting at such and such a page dealing with basketball, how difficult/impossible would it be to give a starting point (GPS) from a city and have it find all the roads/intersections in a 10-mile radius for example? Basically 'crawl' and keep track or road names, gps points, and intersections wherever it takes a fork.
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Film includes feature-length productions, documentaries, and made-for-television movies. Since 1984, HIV/AIDS has been a main or significant plot element in more than 120 films from almost two dozen countries. Although resistance to HIV/AIDS-related plotlines has limited the response from Hollywood and the major television networks in the United States, independent and foreign film companies and television industries have provided many thought-provoking and challenging cinematic works.
The first full-length documentary about AIDS, Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes (Caught in the Act Productions for the United Kingdom's Channel Four, 1984), explores British sexual mores and the indifference of the media in the United Kingdom to the epidemic. Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s Buddies (New Line Cinema, 1985), the first feature film about AIDS, tells the story of Robert, a gay man with AIDS, and David, a volunteer who agrees to become his "buddy."
The first movie about AIDS made for U.S. television was John Erman's An Early Frost (NBC, 1985), which was so groundbreaking that some critics praised actor Aidan Quinn for his bravery in agreeing to play a man with AIDS. The central character in An Early Frost is a gay lawyer with AIDS, but Erman's television movie minimizes the issue of homosexuality, instead focusing on the resiliency of the American family when faced with any crisis, including AIDS. With An Early Frost, American television had its first "AIDS as disease-of-the-week" movie. Others regularly followed, telling both true life and fictional stories about such figures as Liberace, Ryan White, and Roy Cohn.
One particularly notable early movie, Deborah Reinisch's Andre's Mother, from the short one-act play by Terrence McNally, presents the conflict between the lover and the mother of a gay man who died from AIDS when the two meet for his funeral. In another important movie, Gavin Millar's Tidy Endings, based on the last part of playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein's stage trilogy Safe Sex, the dynamic of the funeral confrontation changes to one between the lover and the former wife of a gay man who has died of AIDS.
Roger Spottiswoode's star-studded but tepid adaptation for the HBO cable network of Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On may have been the most controversial American movie ever made for television. Any attempt to reduce Shilts's massive book for the screen faced difficulties, but this film, nearly six years in the making, could never possibly have lived up to the prescreening publicity it received. Originally intended as a miniseries on NBC, the station balked at the film's criticism of key political and medical figures in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The ABC and CBS networks joined NBC in rejecting the miniseries as too controversial. What eventually appeared on HBO -- in Europe the film was released theatrically -- was the result of more than 20 rewrites and the handiwork of four directors. Although the star performances are impressive, much of what is important about Shilts's book, including many complicated issues about the early epidemic, was lost along the way.
In presenting films about AIDS, British television has been bolder than its American counterpart. Four British made-for-television films show less hesitancy in coping with the complex issues surrounding HIV and AIDS: Intimate Contact (Central Television, 1987) and Sweet As You Are (BBC2, 1988), in which married straight men contract HIV through extramarital sex with women, and Closing Numbers (Channel 4, 1993) and Nervous Energy (BBC Scotland, 1995), which follow the lives of gay people with AIDS.
HIV/AIDS-related documentaries conform to several patterns. Some chronicle the living; others memorialize the dying; still others record the struggle against public indifference to AIDS. Peter Adair's Absolutely Positive (Adair & Armstrong Productions for PBS's P.O.V. Series, 1990) provides a forum in which individuals, ranging from self-identified activists to otherwise unremarkable Americans, discuss what it means to be HIV-positive. Kermit Cole's Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness (First Run Features, 1993) does likewise. Mark Huestis's Sex Is (Outsider Productions, 1993) explores the impact of AIDS on the perceived obsession of gay men with sex. Juan Botas's One Foot on a Banana Peel, The Other in the Grave (Clinica Estetico/Joanne Howard Productions, 1994) eavesdrops on the conversations of AIDS patients in a New York clinic.
Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Academy Award-winning Common Threads (Telling Pictures, 1989) tells the story of people memorialized in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. John Zaritsky and Virginia Storring's Born in Africa, a project for PBS's Frontline and AIDS Quarterly (1990), chronicles the attempts of a pop singer to use his music to educate his fellow Ugandans about the frighteningly simple fact that "AIDS can affect anyone." Perhaps the most emotionally wrenching documentary about AIDS remains Tom Joslin's Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Silverlake Productions, 1993), which bears witness to the effects of AIDS on the lives of two dying lovers.
Two Canadian documentaries, David Paperny's The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter (CBC, 1993) and Tahani Rached's Médecins de cœur (Doctors with Heart; National Film Board of Canada, 1993), detail the burdens faced by HIV/AIDS caregivers, some themselves infected with the virus. Nick Sheehan's documentary No Sad Songs (Cell Productions and the AIDS Committee of Toronto, 1985) examines the effects that AIDS has had on the gay community in Toronto, and Cynthia Roberts's The Last Supper (Hryhory Yulyan Motion Pictures, 1994) uses cinema verité to chronicle the last meal of a person with AIDS.
AIDS activism in various forms has long been the subject matter of documentaries. Cas Lester's A Plague on You (Lesbian and Gay Media Group, 1986) criticizes the ineptness of Britain's early AIDS-awareness campaigns. David Stuart's Family Values (Hands on Productions, 1988) celebrates the efforts of the gay community in San Francisco. German filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim examines the AIDS activist community in New York in two complementary documentaries, Schweigen = Tod (Silence = Death) and Positiv (Positive; both from Rosa von Praunheim Productions, 1989), as does Robyn Hutt in Voices from the Front (Testing the Limits, 1990).
All, however, is not doom, gloom, and activism in other AIDS films. Ein Virus kennt keine Moral (A Virus Knows No Morals; Rosa von Praunheim Productions, 1986) uses outrageous gallows humor to disabuse audiences of any misconceptions they may have about origins or causes of the AIDS crisis. Richard Glatzer's Grief (Grief Productions, 1993) brings together a zany cast including a gay man mourning the death of his lover. John Greyson's Zero Patience (Zero Patience Productions, 1993) is an AIDS musical comedy intent upon debunking the myth that the spread of AIDS can be traced to a so-called Patient Zero. Eric Mueller's World and Time Enough (1 in 10 Films, 1994) suggests that one partner's HIV seropositivity is the least of the problems a gay male couple face in their relationship.
A recurring theme in these films is that an AIDS diagnosis is more than a death sentence and can instead be an impetus for someone to embrace life to the fullest. In Bill Sherwood's Parting Glances (Cinecom International, 1986), two lovers split up and are then reunited thanks in part to the influence of an optimistic friend with AIDS. In Norman René's Longtime Companion (American Playhouse for PBS, 1990), an ensemble cast shows how love and support have helped steel the gay community in a time of crisis. The three gay couples and their friends portrayed in the film stand by one another in life and in the face of death, despite widespread indifference to their plight.
Gregg Araki's The Living End (Strand Releasing, 1992) sends its two HIV-infected protagonists on a road trip to find out what is right about themselves and wrong with the United States. Cyril Collard's controversial and autobiographical Les nuits fauves (Savage Nights; Banfilm, 1993) shows how HIV seropositivity allows an admitted cad a final opportunity to become a responsible human being. Both Collard's film and his novel of the same name were among the first cultural responses to AIDS to challenge French complacency in the face of the epidemic.
Most films about HIV/AIDS focus either on children, who are considered by some the "innocent victims," or on gay men, who are for those same people, the "less-than-innocent victims" of the disease. There are, however, some notable exceptions -- films in which women with HIV or AIDS are the main characters. François Magolin's Mensonge (The Lie; Les Films Alains Sarde, 1993) presents the dilemma of a woman who is both pregnant and HIV-positive; her husband, a supposedly daring political reporter who infected her, turns out to be cowardly and dishonest in his dealings with her. Mike Hoolboom's futuristic vision of Canada, Valentine's Day (Cinema Esperança International, 1994), finds Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky declaring civil war on Quebec and examines the lives of two lesbians, one of whom is HIV-positive, in a moment of national and personal crisis.
When it was released, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (Tristar Films, 1993), the first film about AIDS from Hollywood, received an extraordinary amount of press coverage and critical scrutiny. Some people in Hollywood and in the media thought that Tom Hanks, who won an Academy Award for best actor in Philadelphia, was taking a career risk in accepting the role of a young Philadelphia lawyer whose career is on the fast track until he is fired from his job because his employer discovers he has AIDS. The Hanks character does refuse to back down in the face of discrimination and wins his legal battle only to die in the film's last scene; but Philadelphia also received criticism, notably in the gay press, for denying the main character the intimacy and emotional complexity that it readily affords other characters who are straight.
More importantly, if Philadelphia had indeed been a breakthrough film for Hollywood, it would have been followed by notable additional films about AIDS. Instead, Hollywood's treatment of AIDS on the screen has remained fairly one-dimensional: people with AIDS, no matter what their backgrounds, die. In Herbert Ross's Boys on the Side (Warner Brothers, 1995), for instance, a heterosexual woman succumbs to the disease. In Peter Horton's The Cure (Universal, 1995), two boys, one with AIDS, embark on a Huck Finn-like river journey in the vain hope of finding a cure for the disease. They are, of course, unsuccessful, and the HIV-infected boy dies. In It's My Party (United Artists, 1996), inspired by the life and death of writer and director Randal Kleiser's lover, Harry Stein, a gay man commits suicide rather than face the final ravages of AIDS.
Having waited so long to treat HIV/AIDS seriously, Hollywood is still having to catch up with films made elsewhere in which people live with, rather than die from, AIDS. However, nonmainstream films have begun to present AIDS in terms other than of death and dying. Christopher Ashley's Jeffrey (Working Man Films, 1995), based on Paul Rudnick's play of the same title, tackles the issue of HIV seronegativity in a light-heartedly serious manner to drive home its message that gay men need to hate AIDS rather than their lives and their sexuality. Another controversial film with an AIDS plotline, Larry Clark's Kids (Excalibur Films, 1995), paints a disturbing portrait of the urban young for whom HIV seropositivity is at best a matter of indifference and at worst a badge of honor.
Finally, no survey of cinematic responses to AIDS would be complete without noting the devastating impact that AIDS has had on the artistic community. The number of people in the film industry, both in front of and behind the camera, who have died from AIDS-related complications continues to grow, as the obituary pages in the trade and major metropolitan newspapers continue to make abundantly clear. Those who have died from AIDS-related causes include Amanda Blake, Brad Davis, Rock Hudson, and Liberace, as well as Arthur J. Bressan Jr. and Stuart Marshall, who made the first two feature-length films about AIDS.
Related Entries:
Artists and Entertainers; Arts Community; Dance and Performance Art; Literature; Media Activism; Music; Pornography; Radio; Symbols; Television Programming; Theater; Visual Arts; World AIDS Day; Writers
Key Words:
cinema, documentaries, films, movies, [individual films by name]
Further Reading
Baker, R., The Art of AIDS, New York: Continuum, 1994
Harty, K. J., "'All the Elements of a Good Movie': Cinematic Responses to the AIDS Pandemic" and "Selected Filmography," in AIDS: The Literary Response, edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson, New York: Twayne, 1992
Murray, R., Images in the Dark, An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video, revised edition, New York: Plume, 1996
Olson, J., ed., The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, New York: Serpent's Tale, 1996
Pilipp, Frank, and Charles Shull, "American Values and Images: TV Movies of the First Decade of AIDS," Journal of Popular Film and Television 21 (1993), pp. 19-26
Treichler, Paula A., "AIDS Narratives on Television: Whose Story?," in Writing AIDS, edited by Timothy F. Murphy and Suzanne Poirier, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993
The Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic, Raymond A. Smith, Editor. Copyright © 1998, Raymond A. Smith. Carried by permission of Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
Encyclopedia of AIDS $25 US/832 pp/Illustrated
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Daily log, March 28
Tiffin reports
Matthew P. Sorg, 33, of Tiffin, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of drugs and operating a vehicle while intoxicated Wednesday night.
A first-block Lincoln Road woman reported early Thursday morning she thought someone was in her house. Police checked the residence and were unable to locate any problems.
A cab driver reported early Thursday morning that while responding to a 400-block North Sandusky Street residence for a pick-up, three men opened their curtains, dropped their pants and shook their genitalia at him.
County reports
Randi L. Moyer, 27, of Tiffin, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana Sunday. He also was cited with a child restraint violation.
A 9000-bock West CR 6 man reported Wednesday evening he believed someone put sugar in his gas tank.
A 1000-block South TR 101 man reported early Thursday morning two people dressed in camouflage with backpacks and ski masks tried to get into his house. They then took off on foot, he said.
Fostoria reports
Lewis S. Ward, 40, of Fostoria, was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, driving under suspension and a traffic light violation Tuesday evening.
A woman reported a phone scam Wednesday evening.
An 1100-block Sandusky Street woman reported Wednesday night her 13-year-old son was being unruly and injured her daughter.
A woman went to the station Thursday morning to report her 16-year-old daughter ran away a week ago and was refusing to come home. The mother said she knew where the girl was staying, but no one would answer the door at the residence. Charges were to be filed, according to the report.
A 700-block Stinchcomb Drive woman reported a scam Thursday morning.
Tiffin accidents
Eli J. Steinberger, 19, of Fremont, was cited with failure to yield at a stop sign following a non-injury accident Wednesday afternoon at Fourth Avenue and Vine Street.
Two power poles were reported to have been hit Thursday morning in the 100 block of Eighth Avenue and in the area of Fourth Avenue and North Washington Street. It appeared a commercial vehicle had pulled out of an alley, knocking over a pole and causing the other to lean. AEP was contacted.
Tiffin firefighters were called to 20 Pinecrest Drive Wednesday afternoon for arcing electrical equipment.
Bascom fire and EMS and the Echo unit were called to West CR 54 Thursday morning for a fire alarm activation.
Fostoria EMS had two squad runs Wednesday morning and one squad run Wednesday afternoon.
Tiffin EMS had two squad runs Wednesday afternoon.
Bloomville fire and EMS had a squad run early Thursday morning.
Republic fire and EMS had a squad run early Thursday morning.
Bloomville fire and EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Thursday morning.
Seneca County
Probate Court
Nadine M. Steinmetz, Tiffin.
Ralph C. Smothers, Tiffin.
Cheryl A. Wilt, Tiffin.
Margaret Horner, Fostoria.
Loretta A. Hemminger, Alvada.
Marriage license applications
Sean Michael Peck and Rebecca Alabam Elchert, Republic.
Nathaniel Andrew Brewer and Mara Sue Krom, Tiffin.
Jason Richard Vassalle and Katina Maria Best, Tiffin.
Kyle Matthew Gilbert and Meredith Kathleen Miller, Tiffin.
Reid Eugene Kagy and Karlyn Elizabeth Whaley, Cold Spring, Ky.
Scott Alson Reilly and Sara Ann Giles, Bellevue.


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Yesterday I brought home a bunch of organic zucchini, with thoughts of zucchini bread on my mind. I grated them in the food processor last night before Baby Yum went to bed, thinking that I would make that zucchini bread so we would have it in the morning. But, as the evening dragged on, I didn't feel like baking, and instead I went to bed with a book. Oops. On the up side, I had some nicely grated zucchini (and apple) in the refrigerator waiting for me when I got up. Hmmm. Zucchini bread takes a while to bake, and Baby Yum seemed too hungry to wait, so I had to re-think my plans. Besides, in my grating enthusiasm I had enough grated zucchini for a bakery-full of zucchini bread. Typical. Grated veggies always make me think of latkes, so finally I decided to throw together a zucchini-apple latke and see if Baby Yum could be inspired to eat her veggies after all. The resulting crispy fritters were so delicious, I was hard pressed not to eat the entire batch in one go. And Baby Yum deigned to nibble on a baby-sized fritter of her very own. The apple gave them a unique sweetness, but the scallions added savoriness- it was like having a (low-carb) latke and applesauce all in one bite! We'll be making these again. I liked them so much I gave them a 10 out of 10. Hey, any latke recipe where I don't miss the potato is definitely a winner in my book. Baby Yum got involved in the food styling as well. I thought you might enjoy seeing her work. ;)
Other Yummy zucchini fritter recipes:
*Elise of Simply Recipes' Zucchini Fritter Recipe (not gluten-free, but she inspired me to use a potato ricer to press the zucchini. Brilliant!)
*Kim of Cook it Allergy Free's Gluten-free Zucchini Fritter Recipe (I found it after I made my batch- and I thought I was being so creative to add dill! Great minds think alike, I suppose)
*The Gluten-free Spouse's Gluten-free Dairy Zucchini Fritter Recipe
Got more? Share in the comments!
An entry in Slightly indulgent Tuesdays and Gluten-free Wednesdays.
Zucchini Apple Latke Fritter Recipe
2 cups coarsely grated zucchini
1 cup grated, peeled apple(I used granny smith)
1 egg or your favorite egg substitute for one egg (I would try Ener-g Foods Egg Replacer myself)
1/2 cup sorghum flour or your favorite whole grain flour (brown rice etc)
small pinch baking soda
1/2 tsp dill weed
1/2 tsp salt (or to taste)
1/4 cup olive oil
*special equipment: potato ricer
To prepare:
Put one cup of coarsely grated zucchini in your potato ricer and press out the liquid, draining into a bowl or the sink. Do the same with your second cup of grated zucchini. Finally, press your apple. You may want to drink the delicious pressed apple juice, so drain that into a cup. If you don't have a potato ricer, you can squeeze your grated ingredients in a towel, but I've always found that a bit messy.
Put your dry grated ingredients into a medium-large bowl and mix to combine so apple is evenly distributed. Make a well in the middle and add your egg. Whisk the egg and then fold into the grated veggies. Add your flour, baking soda, dill and salt and combine. Stir vigorously with spoon or with your hands. I have to admit, I'm a hands-on kind of girl. Don't worry if it seems too dry to stick together at first. With the salt and everything, the moisture will come out of the veggies and fruit and you will end up with a nicely sticky dough that you can shape.
Heat your oil in a nonstick pan or well seasoned cast iron pan on medium. When hot, add two tablespoons of dough at a time, shaped into a loose patty, until the pan is full, leaving an inch or so between each pancake. Cook until golden brown on one side, and then turn over. Cook until the other side is golden brown and then remove to a plate lined with a paper towel.
Serve with your favorite yogurt (coconut milk or soy yogurt is yummy) or plain. I had mine plain and they were delicious.
Be careful. This is a recipe one hungry person can polish off, ahem. I had no trouble eating almost the whole batch singlehandedly, which was slightly unexpected. Yummy!


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Think designing and building a snow park is easy? Think again.
The challenge awaited Snow Park Technologies (SPT) this winter when it had a very short time frame to build parks at both Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley ski resorts in Lake Tahoe.
The scenario will unfold in the final episode of the "Mountain Movers." The series, presented by Chevrolet on The National Geographic Channel, airs Thursday, June 27, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
In Thursday's show, Snow Park Technologies crew faces a self-imposed challenge, separating the crew into two project teams in an effort to build a progressive training venue for some of Oakley's top athletes. SPT owner, Chris "Gunny" Gunnarson, lets go of the reigns and challenges the teams to create innovative setups at both Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows in North Lake Tahoe.
The catch … they can only use existing rail features from Alpine and Squaw's parks, and they only have five days to design and complete the build before the Oakley athletes show up to ultimately decide which setup they prefer.
"Every single project we do as a company, we treat like a team effort. But on this particular project, because of the timing and the way we set it up, I truly have no idea what these guys are planning," Gunnarson said. "For me to completely let go of the reigns is definitely hard. But in a lot of ways, this is an important test to see how our crew can handle being totally on their own without me getting super involved."
In the "Judgment Day," Gunnarson uses a job with Oakley to create a healthy competition between his crew. He selects two teams of three from the ranks of SPT, tasking each with building feature setups simultaneously at two different resorts in the North Lake Tahoe area; one setup will be built at Squaw Valley and the other at Alpine Meadows.
He is counting on his guys to rise to the occasion, take ownership of the build and deliver a high-quality, professional set of features at each resort. The Oakley team riders and Gunnarson will judge these custom builds, based on design innovation, progression and how well they help the riders train.
Gunnarson sets forth detailed perimeters to ensure that this five-day test delivers the best product possible. But with a tight deadline, weather issues and rising tensions between crewmembers, this fun idea proves to be no easy ride.
The team building at Squaw Valley, led by Chris Castaneda, Kurt Eppler and Tyrone Coyne, decides to build a massive jump, specifically geared to advance the pros' skills and allow them to master the triple cork, one of the most progressive tricks in snowboarding.
The crew working at Alpine Meadows – Corley Howard, Andrew Erath and Sean Picard – design an urban-style snowboard park with advanced features and obstacles that will offer athletes the flexibility to never ride the same line twice. At the end of the project, only one team will win this challenge. Game on.
About Snow Park Technologies
Snow Park Technologies (SPT) is the world's leading consulting team for special projects on snow. SPT's wide range of expertise includes designing and building some of the most renowned resort terrain parks and halfpipes; high-profile ski and snowboard competition courses; and countless on-snow productions. SPT also provides event production services, sport organizing and marketing services aimed at youth categories.
The SPT team is a collection of the most experienced and talented freestyle park and pipe innovators in the world, whose dedication and passion for snow sports has redefined the winter landscape and what is possible on snow. For more information, visit SPT's website at http://www.snowparktech.com and follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/snowparktech, Twitter @snowparktech and Instagram @snowparktech.
About Squaw Valley
Host of the 1960 Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley is internationally renowned for legendary terrain that spans 3,600 skiable acres, six peaks and 30 chairlifts, and ranges from an expansive mountaintop beginner area to unrivaled expert steeps, trees and bowls. Off the mountain, families relax in The Village at Squaw Valley around the cozy fire pits or enjoy a host of restaurants, bars, boutiques and art galleries. Guests can stay in one of The Village at Squaw Valley's one, two or three bedroom suites, each with a fireplace, kitchen and balcony, for the ultimate slopeside lodging experience.
About Alpine Meadows
Alpine Meadows' seven powder bowls, summit-to-base groomed slopes, and authentic hospitality are among the many attributes that have made the resort a favorite of the local community and visitors alike. Alpine Meadows offers skiers and riders access to more than 100 trails across 2,400 skiable acres serviced by 13 lifts. With its high annual snowfall, the resort boasts one of Tahoe's longest skiing and boarding seasons.
Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows joined forces in November 2011, bringing the two ski resorts under common ownership. Skiers and riders can access 6,000 skiable acres, 43 lifts and 270+ trails at Squaw and Alpine Meadows on one lift ticket or season pass.


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Two weeks is barely enough time to thoroughly explore your hometown, let alone a place as fascinating as New Zealand. For adventurers on a tight time-budget, this 15-day trip wraps up the must-sees of both islands with a nice little bow. Check out the Coromandel Peninsula's gorgeous beaches, hang with the Maori in a traditional village, and get your adrenaline fix in Queenstown. Consider this your New Zealand starter kit.
What's Included
Your G for Good Moment: Resourceful Ōtautahi Walking Tour, Christchurch
Your Wellness Moment: Hot Water Beach Excursion, Hahei
Your Local Living Moment: Maori Village Overnight Visit, Rotorua
Your Discover Moment: Franz Josef
Your Discover Moment: Queenstown. Coromandel Peninsula visit. Cathedral Cove visit. Orientation walk in Wellington. Wine tasting. Fiordland National Park visit. Doubtful Sound day cruise. Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park visit with hiking opportunity (weather permitting). Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park Visitor's Centre visit. Free time in Rotorua, Wellington, Franz Josef, and Queenstown. All transport between destinations and to/from included activities.
Check out Hot Water Beach, feast on a hangi in a Maori village, let loose in Queenstown, cruise around the fjords of Doubtful Sound
Dossier Disclaimer
The information in this trip details document has been compiled with care and is provided in good faith. However it is subject to change, and does not form part of the contract between the client and the operator. The itinerary featured is correct at time of printing. It may differ slightly to the one in the brochure. Occasionally our itineraries change as we make improvements that stem from past travellers, comments and our own research. Sometimes it can be a small change like adding an extra meal along the itinerary. Sometimes the change may result in us altering the tour for the coming year. Ultimately, our goal is to provide you with the most rewarding experience. Please note that our brochure is usually released in November each year. If you have booked from the previous brochure you may find there have been some changes to the itinerary.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please ensure that you print a final copy of your Trip Details to review a couple of days prior to travel, in case there have been changes that affect your plans.
Itinerary Disclaimer
While it is our intention to adhere to the route described below, there is a certain amount of flexibility built into the itinerary and on occasion it may be necessary, or desirable to make alterations. The itinerary is brief, as we never know exactly where our journey will take us. Due to our style of travel and the regions we visit, travel can be unpredictable. The Trip Details document is a general guide to the tour and region and any mention of specific destinations or wildlife is by no means a guarantee that they will be visited or encountered. Aboard expedition trips visits to research stations depend on final permission.
Additionally, any travel times listed are approximations only and subject to vary due to local circumstances.
Important Notes
1) Please note that the train on the south island is seasonal and does not run from May to September. Day 6 and 7 transportation will be a public bus during this time period instead of a train.
2) Please be aware that wifi and internet access is not as readily available in New Zealand as in other parts of the world. There are often additional charges to connect to the internet, and speeds may be slower than what you are used to.
3) Over public holidays in Australia and New Zealand (such as Christmas, New Years Day, Easter, and Anzac Day) there may be some limitations of services and disruptions to schedules. In general our tours still operate effectively over public holidays, but there may be closures of optional activities and restaurants, and slight itinerary adjustments in order to provide all tour inclusions.
Group Leader Description
This G Adventures group trip is accompanied by one of our group leaders, otherwise known as a Chief Experience Officer (CEO). The CEO will be the group manager, leader and driver – this person is experienced in the routes travelled and will organize and lead the meal preparations and has experience in cooking a variety of local and international dishes for large groups.
As the group coordinator and manager, the aim of the CEO is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. While not being guides in the traditional sense, you can expect them to have a broad general knowledge of the countries visited on the trip, including historical, cultural, religious and social aspects. They will also offer suggestions for things to do and to see, recommend great local eating venues and introduce you to our local friends.
We also use local guides where we think more specific knowledge will add to the enjoyment of the places we are visiting – we think it's the best of both worlds.
Group Size Notes
Max 16, avg 12
Meals Included
8 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 2 dinners
Eating is a big part of traveling. Travelling with G Adventures you experience the vast array of wonderful food that is available out in the world. Generally meals are not included in the trip price when there is a choice of eating options, to give you the maximum flexibility in deciding where, what and with whom to eat. It also gives you more budgeting flexibility, though generally food is cheap. Our groups tend to eat together to enable you to taste a larger variety of dishes and enjoy each other's company. There is no obligation to do this though. Your CEO will be able to suggest favourite restaurants during your trip. On truck trips in Africa, aboard the M/S Expedition or our Galapagos yachts, while trekking in remote regions etc. food is included, plentiful and made of fresh local ingredients. The above information applies to G Adventures group trips. For Independent trips please check the itinerary for details of meals included. For all trips please refer to the meals included and budget information for included meals and meal budgets.
Private vehicle, walking, train, boat, plane.
About our Transportation
Our vans are mini-coaches. Occasionally with smaller group sizes we will use smaller, equally comfortable 13-seater vehicles. All mini-coaches tow a trailer for luggage. All groups have one CEO, who is also the driver.
The vehicles are factory built with comfortable seats and air-conditioning. It is mandatory to wear a seatbelt while riding in our vehicles.
Solo Travellers
We believe solo travellers should not have to pay more to travel so our group trips are designed for shared accommodation and do not involve a single supplement. Single travellers joining group trips are paired in twin or multi-share accommodation with someone of the same sex for the duration of the trip. Some of our Independent trips are designed differently and solo travellers on these itineraries must pay the single trip price.
Hotels/motels (13 nts), Maori village (1 nt, multi-share).
My Own Room Exceptions
Night 3 at Maori Village
NOTE: If you have booked the My Own Room option, on Night 2 there may be shared facilities (cottage style accommodation), but you will have your own room.
About Accommodation
Accommodation will be varied throughout your adventure. Bathroom and showering facilities are often shared and may not be en-suite.
Joining Hotel
For details of your joining hotel please refer to your tour voucher, G Account, the G Adventures App or contact your travel agent.
Joining Instructions
By Taxi: $70-80, approximately 30 minutes.
By Shuttle Bus: $33 for 1 person, $8 per additional. The "Super Shuttle" is a 24-hour service that takes approximately 1 hour. The shuttle waits outside of the terminal and provides door-to-door service.
By Skybus: $18 per person. Leaves from outside the airport terminal every 10-15 minutes and takes approximately 1 hour.
Please note that Day 1 is an arrival day and no activities have been planned for that day other then your welcome meeting in the evening, so you can arrive at any time.
A G Adventures Representative will organize a short meeting soon after arrival, during which you will meet other tour participants and receive information about general and specific aspects of the trip. A welcome note will be left for you in the hotel so you have all the necessary information regarding the meeting time. If you arrive late, s/he will leave you a message detailing what time and where you should meet the next morning.
Arrival Complications
We don't expect any problems, and nor should you, but if for any reason you are unable to commence your trip as scheduled, please refer to the emergency contact details provided in this dossier and contact us as soon as possible. If you have a pre-booked transfer, and you have not made contact with our representative within 30 minutes of clearing customs and immigration, we recommend that you make your own way to the Starting Point hotel, following the Joining Instructions. Please apply to your travel agent on your return for a refund of the transfer cost if this occurs.
Emergency Contact
Should you need to contact G Adventures during a situation of dire need, it is best to first call our local office in Melbourne. If for any reason you do not receive an immediate answer, please leave a detailed message and contact information, so we may return your call and assist you as soon as possible.
G Adventures Local Office and after office hours emergency number
From outside Australia: +61 432 705 621
From within Australia: 0432 705 621
If you are unable for any reason to contact our local operations manager, please call the numbers listed below, which will connect you directly with our 24 hour Sales team, who will happily assist you.
Toll-free, North America only: 1 888 800 4100
Calls from UK: 0344 272 0000
Calls from Germany: 0800 365 1000
Calls from Australia: 1 300 796 618
Calls from New Zealand: 0800 333 307
Outside North America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the UK: +1 416 260 0999
What to Take
You will be on the move a lot, so our advice is to pack as lightly as possible.
We recommend using a backpack for your convenience, or a medium-sized suitcase if you prefer. Heavy luggage is not recommended for the health of the CEO, who will take a lead in loading the storage trailer. Due to space in the trailer, we will not be able to accommodate more than one piece of main luggage per person. A good size day-pack (20-35L) is also essential to carry your personal gear for the day, as access to luggage between destinations will be limited. This daypack will be used to carry your personal gear for the day, your lunch and a water bottle.
New Zealand weather can be quite variable, even in summer, and layers are recommended throughout the year.
Packing List
•Passport (with photocopies)
•Travel insurance (with photocopies)
•Airline tickets (with photocopies)
•NZD cash
•Credit or debit card (see personal spending money)
•G Adventures vouchers, pre-departure information and dossier
•Any entry visas or vaccination certificates required
-Weather-appropriate clothing
•Light fleece top
•Light windproof/waterproof jacket
•Sun hat
•Sturdy walking shoes
•Toiletries (biodegradable)
•Watch or alarm clock
•Water bottle
•Money belt
•Flashlight or headlamp
•Camera, memory card(s) and battery/charger
•Electricity plug adapter (220-240V, 2 flat, inverted v-shaped pins)
•First-aid kit
-Day pack
-Personal Entertainment
-Waterproof backpack cover
-Insect Repellent
Visas and Entry Requirements
All countries require a valid passport (with a minimum 6 months validity). Contact your local embassy or consulate for the most up-to-date visa requirements, or see your travel agent. It is your own responsibility to have the correct travel documentation. Visa requirements for your trip will vary depending on where you are from and where you are going. We keep the following information up to date as far as possible, but rules do change and sometimes without warning. While we provide the following information in good faith, it is vital that you check the information yourself and understand that you are fully responsible for your own visa requirements.
Important notice for passport holders from 60 visa waiver countries, including the UK, Canada, USA, and EU:
Electronic Travel Authority (ETA)
From 1 October 2019, passport holders from 60 visa waiver countries travelling by air or cruise and entering New Zealand without a visa (tourists) will need to hold an ETA before travelling to New Zealand. You will be able to apply for an ETA from July 2019.
For more information and full list of eligible countries please visit https://www.etanewzealand.com/
Spending Money
Every traveller is different and therefore spending money requirements will vary. Some travellers may drink more than others while other travellers like to purchase more souvenirs than most. Please consider your own spending habits when it comes to allowing for drinks, shopping and tipping. Please also remember the following specific recommendations when planning your trip.
Money Exchange
The currency in New Zealand is the New Zealand Dollar (NZD).
Credit cards are accepted almost everywhere in New Zealand and can be used to purchase small and large items. When purchasing products or services with a foreign credit card you may be charged additional fees by your credit card company for foreign purchases.
Credit cards and debit cards are very useful for cash advances but you must remember to bring your PIN number (be aware that many ATM machines only accept 4-digit PINs). Both Cirrus and Plus system cards are the most widely accepted debit cards. Both Visa and Master Cards are the most widely accepted credit cards. While ATMs are commonly available, there are no guarantees that your credit or debit cards will actually work check with your bank before you travel. A visit to an ATM can be arranged on Day 1 and other days of the trip.
Do not rely on credit or debit cards as your only source of money. A combination of local currency (preferably smaller bills, 5's, 10's and 20's), traveller's cheques and credit cards is best. Currency exchange is best obtained prior to travel or at the airport, currency exchange is easy to find in New Zealand in the gateway cities and most banks do accommodate.
Always take more rather than less, as you don't want to spoil the trip by constantly feeling short of funds.
As currency exchange rates can fluctuate often we ask that you refer to the following website for daily exchange rates: www.xe.com
Emergency Fund
Please also make sure you have access to at least an additional USD $200 (or equivalent) as an 'emergency' fund, to be used when circumstances outside our control (ex. a natural disaster) require a change to our planned route. This is a rare occurrence!
It is not customary in New Zealand or Australia to tip service providers, but if you do experience outstanding service it is good to do so. Such service would only usually be in places like quality restaurants and it would be very rare that you would tip more than 10%. Unless specifically asked to do so at the time (by your CEO) – do not tip your local guides. Also at the end of each trip if you felt your G Adventures Chief Experience Officer did an outstanding job, you may consider a small tip – but it certainly isn't expected.
Optional Activities
- Auckland Sailing: America's Cup Experience (Pre Tour)
- Maritime Museum Visit (20NZD per person)
Waiheke Island
- Waiheke Island Excursion (45-130NZD per person)
- Sea Kayaking (115NZD per person)
- Hahei Boat Cruise (85NZD per person)
- Whitewater Rafting (89NZD per person)
- Hot Springs (30-50NZD per person)
- Mountain Biking (35-130NZD per person)
- Zorbing (35-50NZD per person)
- Te Papa Museum Visit (Free)
- Wellington Cable Car (4-7.50NZD per person)
- Zealandia (9-95NZD per person)
- Weta Workshop Tour (25-65NZD per person)
- Martinborough Wine Tour (199NZD per person)
- Hiking (Free)
- Scenic Flight (135-180NZD per person)
- Whale Watching (145NZD per person)
- Swimming With Dolphins (170NZD per person)
Franz Josef
- Helicopter Hike (459-539NZD per person)
- Franz Josef Glacier Valley Walk (79NZD per person)
- Franz Josef Quad Bike (65-160NZD per person)
- Franz Josef Kayaking (99-129NZD per person)
- Hiking (Free)
- Horseback Riding (65-150NZD per person)
- Paragliding (210NZD per person)
- Bungee Jumping (175-510NZD per person)
- Gondola Ride (35-56NZD per person)
- Skydiving (299-439NZD per person)
- Vineyard Tour (185-230NZD per person)
- Earnslaw Steamship Cruise (55-95NZD per person)
- Ziptrek (120-170NZD per person)
- Scenic Horse Riding Tour (165-325NZD per person)
- Shotover Canyon Swing/Shotover Canyon Fox (169-299NZD per person)
- Queenstown Jet Boating
Safety and Security
Many national governments provide a regularly updated advice service on safety issues involved with international travel. We recommend that you check your government's advice for their latest travel information before departure. We strongly recommend the use of a neck wallet or money belt while travelling, for the safe keeping of your passport, air tickets, travellers' cheques, cash and other valuable items. Leave your valuable jewelery at home – you won't need it while travelling. Many of the hotels we use have safety deposit boxes, which is the most secure way of storing your valuables. A lock is recommended for securing your luggage. When travelling on a group trip, please note that your group leader has the authority to amend or cancel any part of the trip itinerary if it deemed necessary, due to safety concerns. Your Chief Experience Officer (CEO) will accompany you on all included activities. During your trip you will have some free time to pursue your own interests, relax and take it easy and explore at your leisure. While your CEO will assist you with options available in a given location, please note that any optional activities you undertake are not part of your itinerary, and we offer no representations about the safety of the activity or the standard of the operators running them. Please use your own good judgement when selecting an activity in your free time. Although the cities visited on tour are generally safe during the day, there can be risks to wandering throughout any major city at night. It is our recommendation to stay in small groups and to take taxis to and from restaurants, or during night time excursions.
Water based activities have an element of danger and excitement built into them. We recommend only participating in water based activities when accompanied by a guide(s). We make every reasonable effort to ensure the fun and adventurous element of any water based activities (in countries with varying degrees of operating standards), have a balanced approach to safety. It is our policy not to allow our CEOs to make arrangements on your behalf for water based activities that are not accompanied by guide(s).
Swimming, including snorkeling, is always at your own risk. Read more about travel safety for ways to further enhance your personal safety while traveling.
A Couple of Rules
Illegal drugs will not be tolerated on any trips. Possessing or using drugs not only contravenes the laws of the land but also puts the rest of the group at risk. Smoking marijuana and opium is a part of local culture in some parts of the world but is not acceptable for our travellers. Our philosophy of travel is one of respect towards everyone we encounter, and in particular the local people who make the world the special place it is. The exploitation of prostitutes is completely contrary to this philosophy. Our group leader has the right to expel any member of the group if drugs are found in their possession or if they use prostitutes.
Travel Insurance
Travel insurance is compulsory in order to participate on any of our trips. When travelling on a group trip, you will not be permitted to join the group until evidence of travel insurance has been sighted by your leader, who will take note of your insurance details. When selecting a travel insurance policy we require that at a minimum you are covered for medical expenses including emergency evacuation and repatriation. A minimum coverage of USD200,000 is required. G Adventures can provide you with the appropriate coverage. We strongly recommend that the policy also covers personal liability, cancellation, curtailment and loss of luggage and personal effects. Some tours include adventure activities that require extra coverage (e.g. crampon use); please review your itinerary and make sure that you are covered for all included activities. If you have credit card insurance we require proof of purchase of the trip (a receipt of credit card statement) with a credit card in your name. Contact your bank for details of their participating insurer, the level of coverage and emergency contact telephone number.
Planeterra-The G Adventures Foundation
The Planeterra Foundation planeterra.org is a Canadian non-profit organization that helps empower local people to develop their communities, conserve their cultures, and create humane and supportive systems for their endeavours. Planeterra provides capacity building and catalyst grants to get community social enterprises off the ground. These businesses address local challenges by providing benefits for indigenous people, empowering marginalized women, and granting disadvantaged youth access to education, employment, and brighter futures. Planeterra also works to ensure these businesses have a thriving customer base by integrating programs into G Adventures' itineraries globally.
G Adventures is Planeterra's largest corporate donor, covering all operating costs so 100% of your donation will bring opportunity to people in need.
Dollar-a-Day Program
G Adventures' Dollar-a-Day Program provides travellers with the opportunity to give back to the people and places visited on our tours by donating one dollar for every day you are on trip. 100% of these donations go directly to support community development projects worldwide that are implemented by Planeterra.
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Day 1: Auckland
There are no activities until an evening welcome meeting, so head out and enjoy the city.
Additional Notes:
This tour departs Auckland early on Day 2. If you are interested in exploring the city and its nearby attractions, like a local winery, it is recommended you book additional pre-trip accommodation nights.
Included Activities:
Arrival Day and Welcome Meeting
Day 2: Auckland/Hahei (1D)
Depart early for the stunning Coromandel Peninsula. Take a walk to Cathedral Cove or opt out in favour of sea kayaking. If the tide is right, grab a shovel and dig a natural jacuzzi in the sand on Hot Water Beach.
Included Activities:
Coromandel Peninsula Visit
Cathedral Cove Scenic Walk
Hot Water Beach Excursion
Private Vehicle (3.00 hour(s))
Day 3: Rotorua/Maori Village (1D)
Rotorua sits over an active volcano with bubbling mud pits and multi-coloured pools in different areas around the town. Opt to visit one of the sites, like Hell's Gate, or go whitewater rafting nearby.
In the evening visit a Maori village for traditional ceremonies, a Hangi meal and entertainment. After dinner, lounge by the bonfire and have some time to get to know the Maori hosts.
Additional Notes:
Accommodation is in a Maori wharepuni (sleeping house). Groups will often stay together in one sleeping house (multi-share, mixed gender), staying in line with Maori traditions.
Included Activities:
Maori Village Overnight Visit
Private Vehicle (3.50-4.00 hours)
Day 4: Rotorua/Wellington (1B)
Take in the ever-changing scenery of the North Island and travel to the capital, Wellington.
Private Vehicle (7.00-8.00 hours, 452km)
Day 5: Wellington (1B)
Enjoy the atmosphere in this relaxed but lively city. After an orientation walk, enjoy a free day to explore. Opt to visit the Te Papa Museum or take the cable car up to the botanical gardens.
Included Activities:
Orientation Walk
Day 6: Wellington/Kaikoura
Fly to the South Island, then travel to the seaside town of Kaikoura, known for its diverse marine life.
Local bus (3.00 hour(s), 180km)
Day 7: Kaikoura/Hanmer Springs
Opt to swim with dolphins or go whale watching during a free morning in Kaikoura before travelling to Hanmer Springs, stopping en route for a wine tasting at a local winery. Opt to take a soak in the hot springs.
Included Activities:
Winery Visit
Private Vehicle (3.00 hour(s))
Day 8: Hanmer Springs/Franz Josef (1B)
Take in the stunning scenery while travelling across the Southern Alps to the rugged and remote West Coast, before staying in the rainforest near the world's fastest moving glacier.
Stretch out and scan the scenery from the comfort of a private vehicle. Driving time includes stops.
Private Vehicle (8.00 hour(s))
Day 9: Franz Josef (1B)
There are dozens of optional activities in the area to suit just about any budget and preference. Try heli hiking, scenic helicopter flights, horse trekking, quad biking, skydiving, glacier valley walk, lake kayaking or a hot pools visit.
Day 10: Franz Josef/Queenstown
Continue to Queenstown, the adventure capital of the world. With beautiful scenery and tons of activities, there's something for everyone. Enjoy the great night life.
Private Vehicle (8.00-9.00 hours, 365km)
Day 11: Queenstown (1B)
With free time here, opt to go bungee jumping (in its birthplace), jet boating (also born here!), skydiving, paragliding, hiking or mountain biking. Or take it a little slower and travel by gondola to the top of a local peak.
Pre-book the Queenstown Jet Boating activity on the checkout page to add this exhilarating optional to your trip.
Day 12: Queenstown (1B, 1L)
Enjoy the stunning scenery of Fiordland National Park and Doubtful Sound on a day cruise. Take in the waterfalls and wildlife, then return to Queenstown for the night.
Included Activities:
Doubtful Sound Wilderness Cruise
Stretch out and scan the scenery from the comfort of a private vehicle. Driving time includes stops.
Private Vehicle (3.00 hour(s), 250km)
Private Vehicle (3.00 hour(s), 250km)
Day 13: Queenstown/Twizel (1B)
Head through the centre of the South Island to Twizel, near New Zealand's highest peak, Mt Cook. Visit Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park and spend the afternoon hiking the region, taking in the alpine scenery. Learn more about mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary at the Visitor's Centre.
Included Activities:
Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park Visitor Centre
Aoraki/Mount Cook Visit
Stretch out and scan the scenery from the comfort of a private vehicle. Drive time includes stops.
Private Vehicle
Day 14: Twizel/Christchurch
Travel to the Garden City of Christchurch, a little piece of England in New Zealand, still recovering from a devastating earthquake.
Included Activities:
Resourceful Ōtautahi Walking Tour
Stretch out and scan the scenery from the comfort of a private vehicle. Drive time includes stops throughout the day, including a couple of hours to visit Mt Cook (weather permitting).
Private Vehicle (4.00 hour(s), 380km)
Day 15: Christchurch (1B)
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What are your favorite products that you've seen this year that would make great stocking stuffers?
Having a slight shopping obsession (and i think the word "slight" is an understatement), I have come across some great stocking stuffers for parents (because of course we cant be forgotten) and our little one's:
1. Custom Phone Case - Don't worry Blackberry users, there are cases for every smart phone!!! I absolutely LOOOOVE this product and think it would
make a great gift for anyone. Whenever someone see's my iphone case, they always ask me where I got it. It's so easy to do, drag and drop your favorite picture
into the space provided and click "finished" and within two weeks your custom case is delivered (Case Mate)
2. Retro Handheld Phone - "Calling" all 70's and 80's kids!! I love the idea of this phone. We are all guilty of having our smart phones attached at our head which isnt
the best idea. These anti-raditation phones plug into any smartphone and are super cute and trendy. (Indigo)
1. 20Q - This is one of those games that will keep your kids (or even yourself) entertained for hours. Through 20 Questions, it guesses what you are thinking ... cool right??! (Mastermind)
2. Smencils - Remember the smelly markers which made a huge mess and would somehow always end up all over my hands (my poor mom, I absolutely loved these), well someone got smart and made Smencils. Draw and then smell - your kids will get a kick out of these. Bought in individual tubes, collect all the different flavours. (Oink Oink)
3. Boogie Board - A great doodle board for the older kids - no paper to waste. Draw what you want and then click a button and it will disappear to start a new board (Toys R Us)
4. Do A Dot Art - Mess free dot art .. Need I say more! You can follow the designs or make your own dot art. I hadn't realized that bingo dabbers could be so much fun.(Oink Oink)
5. Wind up Toys - Everywhere I look there are wind up toys! Of course I bought a whole bunch and my son couldn't stop laughing because they wiggle, they walk, they flip and there are litterally hundreds of different kinds of them (Mastermind)
6. Funky Tots Clock - Any child of any age would love this clock. It is pre-programmed with your child's name (or name of choice) and sings the most addictive wake up song
with their name. The kids LOVE it! (www.funkytots.ca)
7. Laser LED Spinning Top - We just got this toy and my son can't get enough of it. Twist the top on the ball, raise up high and push the button and the ball drops and spins with fun laser LED lights and sings a tune (dollar store)
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Volkswagen planned for 2022 the release start Germany of a new electric van, which is the reincarnation of the famous Microbus.
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The following is the proposition 7.4.11 in "Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra" by Kevin O'meara et.al.
Proposition 7.4.11
Every subset $X$ of $\mathbb{A}^n$ has a decomposition $X = X_1 \cup X_2 \cup \cdots \cup X_k$ as a union of irreducible closed subsets $X_i$ of $X$ with $X_i \not\subset X_j$ for $i \neq j$. This decomposition is unique up to the order of the terms.
I can't understand the proof of the existence of the decomposition. In the first step, it is proven for the case that $X$ is closed. This part is clear to me. Then, in the next step, it is proven in the original condition.
Now given an arbitrary subset $X$ of $\mathbb{A}^n$, its Zariski closure $Y$ has a decomposition into irreducible closed subsets $Y_1, Y_2, \cdots, Y_k$. Taking $X_i = X \cap Y_i$ then gives $X$ as a finite union of irreducible closed subsets $X_i$ of $X$.
Why can $X_i$ be said to be irreducible ? Is it to say that the Zariski closure of $X_i$ is $Y_i$ ? But, it doesn't seem true to me.
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Funcom were supposed to open up beta registrations for The Secret World yesterday, and while the folks over there are looking into why you can't sign up – you should still head on over and enter your email in the box for updates on the "secret war". Hopefully,the issue will be fixed soon, and you […]
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Well that put you right back into visitor messages wich I clicked on . So I guess its as good as it gets. What is your everyday carry Camera?
i tried refreshing the page
Ok so where are you seeing my responses? Its annoying to have to go up into the corner to see your reply. Its shown below here though after I click it under conversations.
yeah, it would definitely be handy
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Hey is this thing working? Canon SX120. Great I will look and see if I can find one. Been working? Never got called for Top Shot again. Was bummed out but....I am going to have a new son on friday so things are looking up there.
It's also got a pop up flash. My guess is that you could find it online for less than 229.
Here's a link to Evans flickr gallery, many of the photos were taken with that camera
Check out the Canon SX120 IS
Evan Hill has one, and it takes realllllly good pictures. Best Buy quotes it for 229 online. 10 megapixels is plenty for just about everything. It also uses standard AA batteries, which I prefer.
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Hey, no, no getting outside lately, I've been working for the last week or two on getting the house livable. Lots of little issues stemming from it having been unoccupied for a while. My current problem is dead mice in the insulation of the oven. And we're starting on a re-wiring project tomorrow (I'll be helping the electrician--I'm not very experienced with electrons).
Have done the last couple of IDPA matches over in Port Townsend. Very low-key competition but fun. Got another one coming up this weekend.
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The key itself has been manufactured from a patented alloy, similar to the Self Bending Fork, and will stay in its 'set' condition, even hanging on your key chain - so you're ready to perform at a moment's notice.
Shift: Self Bending Key activates it's bending movements using ONLY your spectator's body heat. You can manipulate the molecules of metal without touching the key as is slowly bends in open view.
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========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1532-1 August 10, 2012 linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 11.10 Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software Description: - linux-ti-omap4: Linux kernel for OMAP4 Details: An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface (which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user) could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2012-2136) Ulrich Obergfell discovered an error in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem on 32 bit PAE systems with more than 4GB of memory installed. A local unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-2373) A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's epoll system call. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-3375) Some errors where discovered in the Linux kernel's UDF file system, which is used to mount some CD-ROMs and DVDs. An unprivileged local user could use these flaws to crash the system. (CVE-2012-3400) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 11.10: linux-image-3.0.0-1214-omap4 3.0.0-1214.26 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes. ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1532-1 CVE-2012-2136, CVE-2012-2373, CVE-2012-3375, CVE-2012-3400 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/3.0.0-1214.26
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The former 30th District Council member is running for his old seat, currently held by Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley.
Ognibene, a Republican, held the seat from 1992 to 2001. He also ran for the position, and lost, in 2008, when he was beaten by Anthony Como in a special election. Como later lost to Crowley, a Democrat, in the regular election later that year.
Ognibene told this paper he decided to run again in order to restore conservative leadership to the traditionally conservative district, which covers Maspeth, Middle Village, Glendale, Ridgewood, Woodhaven, and Richmond Hill.
"We've had a successful run in this community serving it with good, conservative Republican leadership," said Ognibene, a semi-retired attorney and resident of Middle Village. "I think the community still appreciates that."
He said the district has been poorly served by Crowley. "There doesn't seem to be a guiding hand," Ognibene said.
"I don't know what [Crowley's] done," he said, though he stressed that he respects the council member personally. "Her whole service is illusory."
Ognibene criticized Crowley for failing to secure a local zoning provision for the controversial new Maspeth high school, to ensure students from School District 24 receive enrollment priority.
He contrasted this with the work he did to improve education, parks, and other services in the district as council member in the 1990's. Ognibene said he expanded education resources, funding several computer labs, while reducing school overcrowding across the district.
As accomplishments, he also cited his work in improving parks like Victory Field, Forest Park, and Dry Harbor Playground, and reducing traffic congestion and crime in the district. Under Ognibene's tenure the police presence in District 30 was increased, resulting in faster response times.
"I think I changed the face of government [for district residents]" Ognibene said. "We brought government back to the community in a positive way and I think my record reflects that."
If elected to a third term, Ognibene said he would look to continue the work he started nearly 20 years ago. He said priorities would include improving public transportation, making it more effective and accessible to district residents, and reducing taxes.
Ognibene believes communities should have a greater input in the education system, but said he supports mayoral control and would do so as an elected official.
He predicted a close race against Crowley this fall, and promised to begin campaigning in earnest next month, when residents begin paying serious attention to the fall elections.
"I don't go into things to lose," he said. "But ultimately it's the people's decision [whom to elect] and I respect that."


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President Obama's mammoth stimulus plan may be the largest single bill Congress has ever considered. But that doesn't mean it will solve all the economic problems facing the US.
The nation is mired in one of its worst recessions, and is likely to shed so many jobs and so much business production that even an unprecedented jolt of government spending wouldn't by itself be able to replace the losses.
In a best-case scenario, by the end of 2010 the recovery package would plug about half the gap between actual Gross Domestic Product and what the GDP would be if the economy were healthy, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The corresponding unemployment rate might be 6.8 percent, in CBO's judgement – two percentage points lower than it otherwise would have been.
"So even with a [stimulus] package of that size, there's still a substantial shortfall in economic activity relative to what we could be doing," said CBO director Douglas Elmendorf in Jan. 27 testimony before Congress.
With the Senate set to take up the stimulus bill this week, Mr. Obama is stepping up his efforts to win bipartisan support for the $800 billion-plus legislation. The House of Representatives passed its version of the stimulus package on Jan. 28 without a single Republican vote.
Since his Jan. 20 inauguration, the new chief executive has wooed Republicans by visiting Capitol Hill for private sessions and inviting them to the White House for consultations.
On Sunday, Obama hosted a bipartisan group of lawmakers for a Super Bowl party.
In his Jan. 31 radio and video address to the nation, Obama argued that the bill is necessary because it would create 3 million jobs, as well as make downpayments on needed investments in healthcare, education, and infrastructure.
But economic recovery will take years, not months, said Obama. "No one bill, no matter how comprehensive, can cure what ails our economy," he said.
Republicans have pledged to work with Obama as he tries to fulfill his campaign pledge of bipartisanship.
But the GOP remains opposed to much of the spending contained in the economic recovery package. The bill is part stimulus, part long-term reshaping of US domestic spending, many Republicans complain.
The plan "falls far short of the president's vision for a bill that creates jobs and puts us on a path to long-term economic health," said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell in the GOP's own weekly radio address.
The stimulus bill contains, among other things, $82 billion in tax cuts for individuals, as well as $90 billion in aid for Medicaid programs, $80 billion for a State Stabilization Fund, and $49 billion for energy and water programs.
Its total cost is now over $800 billion and could top $1 trillion by the time the Senate finishes with it.
Large as it is, the proposed legislation would not by itself reverse the current economic downturn, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com.
That doesn't mean he opposes it. The bill "will provide a vital boost to the flagging economy," Mr. Zandi told the House Budget Committee on Jan. 27.
Zandi agrees that the bill will create 3 million jobs. Without it, the unemployment rate would rise into the double digits – and not sink to 5 percent, the level economists consider full employment, until 2014.
Absent a stimulus package the economy would contract by 3.4 percent for 2009, according to Zandi's figures. If the bill passes, the GDP would shrink 2.48 percent.
Without a stimulus, the recession would continue into 2010, with further GDP contraction of 1.4 percent. With it, the economy would stabilize next year, in Zandi's view, and end 2010 in positive growth.
"The stimulus will not keep the downturn from becoming the worst since the Great Depression, but it will ensure that it remains a recession and not a depression," concludes a Moody's Economy.com analysis.
A slightly different way of viewing the stimulus is to judge how well it would close the gap between the nation's potential GDP and its actual performance, according to CBO's Mr. Elmendorf.
The potential GDP is the level at which the US would be producing if the nation was at full employment, its capital resources were fully engaged, and factories and offices were working on an even keel. The actual GDP is what really happens.
Without a stimulus, the gap between the two would be almost $1 trillion in 2009, and another $1 trillion in 2010, according to CBO figures. It would remain substantial into 2011.
CBO's best-case scenario shows the stimulus package plugging about half that gap in 2009 and 2010 – that is, adding about $500 billion to real economic activity both years.
Even with the bill, according to CBO, the gap remains large in 2011 and beyond. Thus, "you don't really want to have a policy that provides a lot of stimulus in 2010, and then goes away overnight," Elmendorf told lawmakers.
How the government finances the continued spending is another issue – one that many fiscal conservatives are raising.
"We have not yet reached the point where skyrocketing debt levels have caused heightened concerns among investors in US Treasuries. If [Congress] wishes to avoid testing those waters, it should consider tying stimulus efforts with genuine steps toward long-run deficit reduction," Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told Congress Jan. 27.


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