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I'm looking for a single travel solution for carrying both my laptop (and its stuff) and a conjoined but separable bag for clothes & toiletries.
Ideally, one "thing" at the airport, through security and on the plane. Once at my destination, two bags. Only need space for 5-6 days of clothes at a time. And I don't need to take my extra clothes to work, so a separate/normal setup for the computer and its bits & pieces.
My instincts want a soft sided, over-the-shoulder bag, but an acceptable alternative is a single hard & secure case (for two separate bags inside) that I can check - then I can fly with a little bag with a change of clothes, audio player, book, etc.
Look at Eagle Creek bags, like this one: http://www.eaglecreek.com/bags_luggage/wheeled_luggage/Switchback-Max-22-20296/
I have an old version of this bag and it has served me well.
Just keep in mind that you do not want to check a bag that has your laptop in it. If you do and your laptop gets damaged, destroyed, or stolen, the airline will not cover it.
I'm a fan of the Patagonia MLC, which I think I first saw recommended on Cool Tools. That said: I pack light -- that back goes with me for a long weekend or a two week trip -- and the laptop is light too. I have an 11" MacBook Air that I have a minimal neoprene sleeve for. That, the charger, various cables and accessories for my phone and camera all fit in the slimmer of the two main compartments on the bag.
The problem with this is that when you get stuck a commuter plane (say smaller than an MD80) you may have to check the bag at the door... and then you won't have your stuff with you on the plane and your risk getting your laptop broken in the soft backpack style bag. What I have settled on is the (awesome) spinner style carry on bag: http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Unisex-Avolve-Expandable-Wheeled/dp/B0050314UW/ref=pd_sim_sbs_misc_2 It moves along with you effortlessly and you stack your laptop bag on top. I use a velcro strap to attach it. Seriously, I love this luggage. Even the flight attendants comment on how cool it is that it just rolls along with you without dragging it. It's almost like having R2-D2 follow you carrying your stuff :)
If you don't need a lot of stuff with your laptop, you can get something like an Incase nylon sling sleeve (which comes in different sizes and has room for power adapter, pens, and a (very) few other small things) and then stuff that inside a nice carryon bag like the RedOxx Airboss.
I usually carry enough clothes for a three-day business trip and just do laundry while on the road if I have to make a week-long trip. But the Airboss is BIG and can accommodate more if you need it to.
The Air Boss will fit in most regional jet overhead bins and even if you overstuff it and it won't fit, you can easily remove the laptop bag so you don't have to worry about your laptop getting damaged.
For the laptop, you might look at the WaterField Designs sleevecase It's designed to work standalone or inside another bag you can customize it to be pretty minimal while providing excellent protection. The 'piggyback' concept for carrying awkward shaped things like chargers makes it great for packing inside a larger carry-on bag.
I have now owned 3 of them and use them to put my laptop inside a standard carry-on on a regular basis. The workmanship is superb and they still look great after years of use. I don't have a recommendation for a great carry on, but I'd say one of these would enable you to pick whatever carry on you liked.
I'm also an AirBoss user - fairly frequent journeys to and from the UK and Channel Islands.
There are lots of places that will explain the pros and cons of soft-sided bags vs wheelies, so I won't rehash any of them. But I've never regretted going down that route (even if when you add in delivery and import duty it was eye-wateringly expensive)
I combine it with a very cheap thin supermarket bought 17" laptop bag (£8 iirc) that sits neatly in the centre section and keep an IPad / ereader etc in that.
My question is: why a single solution? Is there something about this that you need/want? Because otherwise I'd recommend something similar to everyone else's answer: a minimal laptop bag (I use one from BuiltNY) and put that inside the carry-on of your choice.
I have a BBP Hamptons XL case. http://www.bbpbags.com/hamptons.html But they have a bigger one, the Hauler. I carry the BBP bag on the plane with a change of clothes and gate-check a cheap but good quality bag with clothes and stuff.
There's only one answer to this: The Tom Binh TriStar
3 way carry (handle, shoulder, backpack), no wheels. I've traveled with it for 3 days to 18 days. It fits any overhead in any plane including the EU discount carriers.
I use both the AirBoss and Tom Bihn's Aeronaut bags depending upon where I'm going and the range of weather to be encountered.
The AirBoss's center section is padded well enough that you don't need much around your laptop…especially if you've packed the two sandwiching side sections with this in mind. That said, Bihn's "Brain Bag" laptop sleeves are great for putting your computer into a soft sided luggage bag that might get poked, shoved, or squeezed into various overhead or underseat storage areas. Bihn also makes a nice set of interior packing bags and one of these fits the center (main) section of the Aeronaut…and also doubles as an impromptu backpack in the event that you acquire somethings along the way or want a light duty day pack before or on your return flight. I have to fly out of an airport that sees mostly small commuter planes with horrid overhead bins and only underseat storage on the two-seater side of the plane, and then only on the aisle seat, if that. If it looks like I will have to gatecheck my carryon (some airlines get downright tight about this), then the Bihn emergency back pack interior bag can hold my camera gear for the duration of the flight.
5-6 days is a good fit for these bags if you are smart about what you pack and what you wear.
One expensive-ish fix is the Traveller's Vest made by Filson. It has a vast number of zippered interior pockets and front sleeve pockets that easily carry my iPad (in a bluetooth keyboard case), my iPod, my phone, a small camera, my Kindle, a moleskin-like note book, my passport and all documents, etc. So when going through TSA, all I have to do is put it in a bin. If you own one of their lighter weight waxed-canvas (and less stiff) jackets, it can be zipped in and thus hide an entire layer of pockets from anyone looking to pick yours…they'd have to go through three zippers.
That should be "Tom Bihn Brain Cell" as a laptop sleeve….the Brain Bag is a backpack.
Having had to run a good quarter of a mile from Southwest to American due to a cancellation I can't say enough about having a spinner bag. Even though it was inexpensive, ( $50, from Ross)the Olympia roll aboard is one of the best bags I've ever used. The big advantage of 4 wheels is that you can push it beside you. It has an external pocket that would fit a moderate size laptop in a sleeve so that it could easily be removed to go through security.
I really like the eBags Weekender eTech Convertible, a backpack-style laptop bag with a lot of room for clothes and gear. Overhead compartment is no problem, and I have often fit it under my seat.
This is best for 2-4 days; however, I did do 6 days in China, packing tightly using packing cubes, though that's about the limit without rewashing. eBags's own-brand gear is really well-made and thoughtfully designed; my only desire is a similar bag in a wheeled version.
I've had good luck stowing a small laptop case inside this bag: http://www.rei.com/product/803307/osprey-porter-46-travel-pack
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Malaria is a very serious disease caused by mosquito bites and tiny parasites that get into and multiply in the bloodstream. Symptoms may include headache, abdominal pain, chills, shaking, fever and sweats. Malaria can cause seizures, anemia, jaundice, heart failure, kidney failure, coma, and even death. To learn about malaria and how it can be prevented, see HealthLinkBC File #41f Malaria Prevention, BC Centre for Disease Control - Malaria, and Government of Canada – Malaria.
For specific information on protecting yourself or your children when travelling, see HealthLinkBC File #41a Health Advice for Travellers, HealthLinkBC File #41g The Pregnant Traveller, and HealthLinkBC File #41d Travelling with Children.
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Children who live in areas where malaria is present
Malaria causes the death of thousands of children in certain areas of the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Young children are especially susceptible, because they have not yet developed any immunity to malaria. Immunity develops through repeated infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to reduce the number of deaths. WHO encourages parents to seek prompt care and treatment, treat other health conditions, and use mosquito-proof bed nets.
Children who travel to areas where malaria is present
If you intend to travel to an area where malaria is present, try to prepare for your trip several months in advance. Learn about the prevention and treatment of malaria in children. The most current information about your travel destination and the risk of malaria is available from:
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It is important to review this information, have your child's immunizations up-to-date, and get any other shots required for your destination. Children are sometimes given the same antimalarial medicines as those given to adults to prevent malaria. The amount of medicine given to a child is based on the child's weight. Overdosage of antimalarial medicines can be fatal. Keep medicines in childproof containers out of reach of children, and give dosages exactly on schedule.
Some health conditions may prevent a child from taking certain medicines, and a less effective medicine may be prescribed instead. If your child is unable to take a highly effective medicine such as mefloquine or doxycycline, it may be best to avoid travel in chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum areas.
The Public Health Agency of Canada and the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel recommend the use of insect repellents containing DEET or icaridin (also called picardin or KBR3023) when travelling in areas where malaria is found. In Canada, DEET or icaridin should not be used on children under 6 months of age. But these agencies feel the risk from getting malaria outweighs the possible risk of a child having a reaction to DEET or icaridin. It is recommended that when travelling in areas where malaria is found 10% DEET or icaridin be used on children under 6 months of age. For older children follow the directions on the package. For more detailed information on preventing malaria, see the PHAC website: www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/12vol38/acs-dcc-3/index-eng.php.
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My LO is 3 1/2 months. He only takes 8-10 oz while at the sitter during a 11-12 hr period. The sitter has said that he occassionally only takes 1 or 2 oz and then stops eating. Today she said my LO screamed when he started to take the bottle.
She showed me the bag of milk she used. The cream had seperated, but there was a layer of liquid on top of the cream that looked like popcorn oil. The milk smelled bad and tasted like a very strong cheese and had a horrible after taste. I tested another bag of thawed milk (not as old). It smelt kind of off and tasted better than the bag I previously tested, but had an after taste. I tested refrigerated milk that was pumpled 24-36 hours ago. The smell and taste was just "ok." I tested some freshly expressed milk this evening. It had a sweet smell and taste.
I'm a first time mom, but this sounds like high lipase to me. Any second opinions?
If I'm right, how do I properly scald my milk?
Is it ok to scald it within a 24 hr period? I'm working and pumping and can't logistically scald it immediately after I pump at work.


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You can have your summer blockbuster games — the ones with the explosions, guns and scantily clad women. Those bombastic titles are a dime a dozen and become a blur that seems to run together. I prefer different experiences: the quiet ones, the strange oddities, even the overwrought mysteries.
Instead of making games that ape the latest popcorn flicks, developers should expand their horizons and push for new goals. Why not create a game based on a police procedural or try something akin to reality TV? Anything is more intriguing than another military shooter.
That includes a project based on a puppet show. The low-tech art form is the inspiration behind the latest title from Sony's Japan Studio. The "Puppeteer" is a 2-D platformer masquerading as a simple drama using marionettes and toys, but in the hands of the developers, it becomes something more. The studio borrows the magic of the theater and puts players in the role of both actor and audience.
"Puppeteer" follows the fairy-tale adventures of Kutaro, a boy who ends up in a puppet's body. He gets caught up in a lunar rebellion against the bear king, who has overthrown the moon goddess and plans on devouring the souls of Earth's sleeping children. It's up to players to stop him by defeating the bear's 12 minions, which are Chinese Zodiac creatures.
Although some studios would find the puppet show motif and stage constraining, Japan Studio brilliantly works with it, creating spellbinding worlds across the game's seven acts. These stages are crafty in the same way "LittleBigPlanet's" levels are. The backdrops change to give players a sense of movement. Stage lighting lets players see Kutaro through diaphanous set pieces. There's a workmanlike quality to every stitch of the visuals.
To help Kutaro defeat the bear king, players have a pair of scissors called Calibrus. They snip at foes or cut the stitching of the bigger bosses. It's essentially a sword, but the weapon's novelty comes in how it's used to overcome obstacles such as gaps or stitched-up walls. Players can hover as long as they cut material. Elsewhere, they can zip through obstacles by cutting along the seams.
Along with that, players will acquire four powers from the moon goddess's guardians. They're the key to solving the minor puzzles. Lastly, Kutaro has a pixielike ally named Pikarina who offers hints and helps him find puppet heads that keep him alive.
Kutaro's sidekick also acts as comic relief, and she highlights the other strength of "Puppeteer" — the sharp writing. The game makes players believe its fiction, while the characters poke fun at the production. It's a cleverly orchestrated balancing act where Japan Studio doesn't just break the fourth wall, the team sets it on fire and dances a jig on it. Players run into characters who forget their lines. They'll hit the scaffolding of the set. Pikarina and the narrator banter back and forth about random issues.
"Puppeteer" lets players see the strings, and it tells a predictable story, but that makes no difference. The game's magic is in the journey and how the studio turns a perceived weakness into a strength, creating characters and a world players fall in love with.
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5:44 PM -- Remember that investigation for one of my clients that I mentioned in my last post? It occurred to me during the investigative process just how valuable a full network security monitoring (NSM) solution would have been. NSM, a term made most popular by Richard Bejtlichs books and blog, is a broad approach to analysis techniques that utilize information gained from IDS/IPS, network flow monitoring, firewall logs, captures of all network traffic, and more.
The goal of NSM is to provide the security analyst with the contextual information needed to make quick decisions about security incidents. For example, just because the IDS alerted you about an attack doesnt mean the attack was successful. NSM provides the context around an attack -- to see how the victim responded to the attack, and if something suspicious followed the attack, like connections to normally unused ports.
In my client's case, I had several sources of information to deduce what happened, but not enough to perform the analysis as quickly as I could have with a NSM implementation. For example, I had network flow data showing source and destination IP addresses, ports, timestamps, protocol (TCP/UDP/ICMP), and amount of traffic. The IDS showed downloads that took place from the compromised server, but not the actual attack that compromised the server. There were also some logs from the compromised server, but they couldnt be completely trusted. They were incomplete because the attackers rootkit turned off logging.
What would NSM have gained for me? Well, had this company implemented Sguil -- a popular, open-source NSM solution based on Snort -- I would have had full packet captures that would have shown the exact attack used against my clients Web application. I could also have dissected the code that was injected into the Web application to see what effect it has on the server because it would have been in the full packet captures.
All of this information would have been available whether or not an IDS signature had been triggered, making my analysis quicker and easier without having to work from experienced assumptions.
If you're not familiar with NSM and you're interested in it, take a look at Bejtlich's TaoSecurity blog and Sguil to learn more. Just be aware that for NSM to be truly useful in a large network with lots of traffic, you'll need equally large amounts of disk space to capture all traffic.
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text: So just as we were getting things under control in my house with some gas drops that were really helping tons, my daughter starting getting episodes with lots of spitting up/vomiting. I am not sure which to call it as to me it looks a lot and she seems immediately hungry again so not the harmless spitting up as I imagine it. She is also not being able to sleep well at all in the day when this problem starts up.The first time I went to the doctor with her right away and called the midwife here who is in charge of our first step care in Germany. They both said it must be a stomach big or something and to fee her for only 5 minutes at a time every 30 minutes ( we only breast feed with no bottles or anything ) and that seemed to work and after a day she was her normal self again. Then after about 2 weeks she got the same problem back. This time I only called the midwife and she said sounded like another stomach big which seemed really odd to me so close together but did the day of 5/30 feedings ( even though it kills me and her both to do ) again it was fine the next day but this time is was only fine for a few days until the bad sitting up vomiting started up again and this time I just cant keep doing this 5/30 feed thing as it doesn't seem to be helping anything in the long run. I just keep feeding her when she is hungry and if she spits up we feed again till something stays down or she sleeps ( she never throws up if she falls asleep). I plan to call the doctor again to go in tomorrow but was wondering if anyone has any ideas or help if they have had a similar experience. I am losing my mind and my poor baby keeps being so upset by this all as well. ( I have even started getting clogged milk ducts more often lately ) I welcome any advice or opinions that are helpful and feel free to ask questions if I forgot relevant info.


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The Fort Lewis College softball team added a couple of desert dwellers during the NCAAs early signing period.
Adriana Rosthenhausler of Tucson, Ariz., and Olivia Goldberg of Placentia, Calif., plan to join the Skyhawks for their 2014 season.
The 5-1 Rosthenhausler, who will graduate from Sunnyside High School this spring, will be a four-year prep starter at second base and center field.
Adriana will bring more versatility to the lineup. She can get on with a bunt, slap or hit and use her speed on the bases, FLC head coach Kira Zeiter said in a news release to The Durango Herald.
The 5-5 Goldberg will bring an arm.
Graduating from El Dorado High School this spring, she will be a four-year starting prep pitcher and had a 1.12 earned run average last season.
Olivia is a player who puts in the work to be the best pitcher she can be, Zeiter said. She will add another look from the mound with her style of mixing spots and speeds.
Goldberg also puts in the work in the classroom, and she was an El Dorado Distinguished Scholar from 2010 to 2012, a four-year honor roll student and received the Presidents Award for Academic Excellence in 2009.
The Skyhawks opened their 2013 season 2-3 at the Desert Stinger in Las Vegas last weekend. The Skyhawks set a new school record for victories by finishing with a 30-26 record last season. They won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Tournament, their second in school history.


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Have your napkins and a big glass of milk at the ready. Three types of chocolate go into this cookie dough, which is baked just long enough for each cookie to set up on the outside while remaining gooey inside. Messy? Yes, but oh so good!
Ooey-gooey double-chocolate cookies
Total time: 40 minutes, plus 1 hour chilling time for the batter
Servings: 1 1/2 dozen
Note: Adapted from Bret Thompson of Milk in Los Angeles.
1/4 pound (4 ounces) unsweetened chocolate
4 tablespoons ( 1/2 stick) butter
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pound bittersweet chocolate (chunks or chips)
1. In a bowl set over a pot of simmering water, melt the unsweetened chocolate and butter. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
2. In the bowl of a mixer with a paddle attachment, or in a large bowl using a fork, combine the eggs, vanilla and sugar. Mix just until incorporated and set aside.
3. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt into a medium bowl. Set aside.
4. Add the melted chocolate to the egg mixture and mix just until combined. Stir in the sifted dry ingredients and mix just until combined, then stir in the bittersweet chocolate.
5. Cover the batter with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour to chill thoroughly. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
6. Divide the dough into 18 portions. Grease your hands (to prevent the dough from sticking) and shape the portions into balls. Place the balls on a greased, parchment-lined sheet pan, leaving 2 to 3 inches between each.
7. Bake until the edges of the cookies are just set and the center is still soft, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through. Place the cookies, still on the parchment, on a rack and cool completely before serving. They will be very soft.
Nutrition information:
Each cookie: 251 calories; 4 grams protein; 29 grams carbohydrates; 3 grams fiber; 18 grams fat; 9 grams saturated fat; 42 mg. cholesterol; 92 mg. sodium.


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I'm a little confused on how the a master browser works.
I know that in a domain... the PDC is the master browser. It keeps track of computers, users and etc. It then propogates that to all the BDCs. Normally your PDC and your BDC's are the only PCs that participate in browser elections.
In a workgroup... is there any need for a master browser? How do you find out which PC would be acting as the master browser?
I have found out how to configure the master browser and how to allow/deny certain machines in participating in a browser election. I just can't find out how to determine which PC is acting as the master.
I thought I saw it somewhere in the past, but I'm unable to locate that material ATM.
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Valediction from Coach Administrator Michael Sun
Michael Sun is retiring as Coach Administrator (but not as a coach, we hope) at the end of the Fall 2000 season. Here are his parting words - we won't call them shots - from this year's yearbook.
FROM MICHAEL SUN, Regional Coach Administrator
Welcome to the New Millennium, and the dawning of a new era. This letter marks my third and final season as Coach Administrator for AYSO Region 76, and my 21st season of coaching youth soccer.
This, after all, is the 2000's; aren't we supposed to be used to - and perhaps benumbed by - puzzling anti-social behavior such as road rage, over-pampered professional athletes, and parents and adults acting inappropriately at youth sporting events? Don't we read every day about new instances of coaches, parents, players and referees brawling at their kids' games? Has that become the norm, rather than the exception, for children's sports of this age?
The answer: not in AYSO, and certainly not in Region 76. Over the past several years, we have experienced unprecedented growth in our region, and a dramatic improvement in the quality of coaching, refereeing and playing. We must be ever-vigilant that we do not become afflicted with instances of inappropriate conduct among our adults.
Let me restate the most obvious truth about AYSO - it is for the children. It is not an opportunity for adults to relive their athletic experiences of bygone years. Nor is it intended to be a forum for parents to equal the accomplishments of Tony DeCicco and April Heinrichs. There is only one acceptable way to view AYSO, i.e. as a forum for teaching our children to compete effectively and appropriately, while learning some of the intricacies of the grand game of soccer. How can we best accomplish this goal?
The answer, without doubt, lies in our very own behavior. If our children see us acting with dignity and sportsmanship from the sidelines, rather than fighting with opposing coaches, berating referees and yelling at players, that will surely afford them a good model for their own behavior. Acting in an appropriate, sportsmanlike manner -- that is the standard we must set for ourselves, and we must accept nothing less.
The second truth about AYSO soccer is equally obvious: the game itself is the best teacher of all, and it is a beautiful, simple game. The children deserve to play the game without undue, inappropriate interference from the adults. Let the children play, allow them to act like children -- and let the adults keep their distance, while acting like adults.
For me, it has been an interesting, fun ride. I have derived far more from the game than I have given. Let us pledge to continue volunteering and above all, to keep this game simple -- and fun -- for the children's sake.
Very truly yours,
Former Regional Coach Administrator
October 29, 2000


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The history and current work of the project Fauna Europaea is outlined. The different sources used for building up the database and the efforts to keep it updated are described. Available models of national checklists are discussed and the ideal checklist is described. The double use of the database as a matrix behind the official site of Fauna Europaea – as well as a directly visible document on the website of the European Society of Arachnology – are indicated and the differences in transparency, links to literature sources, and facilities such as distribution maps and calculations of numbers of scores per species or of species per country are discussed. The future of the project is briefly outlined. The need for a European identification tool for spiders is stressed
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Last week one of our trusted sources revealed that Samsung had scrapped the planned November 11th launch of the Nexus S at Best Buy and they were already testing a new dual-core version. This news caught a lot of people by surprise because many in the industry did not expect Samsung would have a dual-core processor ready this year.
Samsung announced their dual-core Orion back in September and we predicted it would appear in a Galaxy phone since they said it would be available to "select customers" in the fourth quarter. No one had reported on the Orion being used in any phones, but a development platform was spotted last week and they already had Android 2.2 working on it.
Now today we spotted Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin tweet that he played with the Samsung GT-i9100 (or Galaxy 2) and it was running a dual-core processor. He went on to say he was impressed with the device and it had a better display than the Galaxy S, featured a plastic casing, and was scheduled to launch in Q1 2011.
When talking about the Nexus S (or Nexus Two) we have been using the model numbers GT-i9010 and GT-i9020 which have both been spotted all over the place. The original Samsung Galaxy S had the model number GT-i9000 so it sounds believable that the other GT-i90xx devices were just tweaks of the older design and the GT-i9100 is the new dual-core platform.
What does this mean to the release of Android 2.3? I believe the reports that Samsung has dual-core phones in testing, but I'm having a hard time seeing them produce enough units in time for the Christmas holiday. Google clearly wants to get Gingerbread out the oven, but it is rumored that they made a deal with Samsung to allow them to launch the lead device.
Do you think Samsung can get their dual-core phone ready in time for the important holiday shopping season?
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Spring Author Series: Kent Haruf
Spend an evening at the library with author Kent Haruf. This community talk is free.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
|About the author
Kent Haruf is the author of Plainsong, which received the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction, and The New Yorker Book Award. Plainsong was also a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award. He is also the author of The Tie That Binds, Eventide and Where You Once Belonged, which received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the Pen/Hemingway Foundation. He has been awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a Stegner Award.
Haruf's new novel is Benediction, a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. Booklist calls it, "Reverberant… From the terroir and populace of his native American West, the author of Plainsong and Eventide again draws a story elegant in its simple telling and remarkable in its authentic capture of universal human emotions."
Haruf was born in eastern Colorado. He received his Bachelors of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. For two years, he taught English in Turkey with the Peace Corps and his other jobs have included a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Colorado, a hospital in Arizona, a library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, and universities in Nebraska and Illinois.
All of his novels are set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. Holt is loosely based on Yuma, Colorado, an early residence of Haruf in the 1980s. Photograph by Michael Lionstar
Kent Haruf's Reading List
A story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors. Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.
When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they'd taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them--and for many other townspeople it also promises to be a long, hard winter. A young boy living alone with his grandfather helps out a neighbor whose husband, off in Alaska, suddenly isn't coming home, leaving her to raise their two daughters. At school the children of a disabled couple suffer indignities that their parents know all too well in their own lives, with only a social worker to look after them and a violent relative to endanger them further. But in a small town a great many people encounter one another frequently, often surprisingly, and destinies soon become entwined--for good and for ill--as they confront events that sorely test the limits of their resilience and means, with no refuge available except what their own character and that of others afford them. Spring eventually does reach across the land, and how the people of Eventide get there makes for an engrossing, profoundly moving novel rich in the wisdom, humor, and humanity for which Kent Haruf is justly acclaimed.
The Tie that Binds
Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. In his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family--and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom. Breathtaking, determinedly truthful, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.
Where You Once Belonged
The red Cadillac pulled down Main Street and sat by the tavern for hours, unnoticed. Then Ralph Bird of the Men's Store recognized the driver as Jack Burdette and bolted to the sheriff's office. The prodigal son of Holt, Colorado, had returned--and he was far from welcome. In Where You Once Belonged , acclaimed novelist Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the people of Holt may not be able to stop him. Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic.
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl -- her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house -- is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together -- their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and esthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from.
About the Spring Author Series at BWML
Bud Werner Memorial Library presents a series of free author talks throughout spring 2013. We proudly welcome Jim Davidson (March 18), Cheryl Strayed (April 11), Chris Bohjalian (April 17), Mary Roach (April 30) and Kent Haruf (May 15) to the library, and the Steamboat Springs community. Each of these diverse award-winning authors will speak about their literary works and their writing processes during a talk in Library Hall. Each talk will be followed by a Q&A and an opportunity to have authors sign copies of their books.
Books will be for sale on-site at the event courtesy of Off the Beaten Path Bookstore.
THANK YOU to Bear Claw Condominiums/BREO Inc. for their generous support of this program!


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Is Woodson's goatee, as Carmelo Anthony suggests, completely detachable?
Does Coach Woodson dye it, Steve Novak wonders?
Is Mike Woodson actually 70 years old, as JR Smith asks?
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Call for Nominations for one Co Chair of the Policy Development Working group (PDWG)
We are seeking nominations for one Co-Chair of the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG) for a 2-year term (June 2014 – June 2016).
Co-Chairs of the PDWG are volunteers selected by the community per the current Policy Development Process (PDP) to carry out all administrative functions of the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG). Their responsibilities may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Chairing face-to-face policy meeting sessions and determining consensus.
- Preparing post-meeting policy reports to share with the communityas appropriate.
- Preparing pre-meeting reports (usually mailing list discussion summaries) in preparation for face-to-face meetings.
- Advising the board about ratification of proposals that reached consensus.
- Evaluating emergencies that may necessitate varying the normal policy development process.
Nominated candidates must be from the AFRINIC community and cannot be AFRINIC staff. Candidates can be nominated by anyone, but excluding AFRINIC or other RIR staff, and must permanently reside in a country within the AFRINIC service region.
To nominate yourself or a candidate of your choice, please send an email to the Nominations Committee (nomcom2014 at afrinic.net) with the following information:
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- Motivation for nomination:
If self-nominated, please indicate "self" in section (b) above.
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If you haven't had your identity stolen, you probably know someone who has. Identity theft occurs when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your knowledge to commit fraud or other crimes. It's a growing problem, affecting 11.1 million adults in the United States just last year. Fortunately, there are many ways to protect yourself.


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NEW DELHI - Opposition leader Narendra Modi will be India's next prime minister, winning the most decisive election victory the country has seen in more than a quarter century and sweeping the long-dominant Congress party from power, partial results showed Friday.
Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party was winning in enough seats in the lower house of Parliament to exceed the 272-seat majority needed to create a government without forming a coalition with smaller parties, the Election Commission said.
Full results were expected later in the day but Modi's win was all but assured.
As his victory became clear, Modi appeared before a crowd of cheering supporters and noted that he is the first Indian prime minister born after independence from Britain in 1947.
"I would like to reassure the nation that while we did not get to fight and die for independence ... we have the honor of living for this nation," he said.
The outcome was a crushing defeat for the Congress party, which is deeply entwined with the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has been at the center of Indian politics for most of the country's post-independence history.
Modi's slick and well-financed campaign promised a revival of economic growth and took advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the scandal-plagued Congress party. Although he has focused strongly on the economy, Modi has given some hints of his foreign policy leanings, saying the BJP wants to strengthen India's strategic partnership with the U.S. and build on the foundations laid by the last BJP prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Vajpayee, who governed from 1998 to 2004, rode a bus across the border from India to Pakistan during his term, in what was seen as a bold step in trying to mend ties with India's longtime enemy.
The last time any single party won a majority in India was in 1984, when an emotional nation gave Congress a staggering victory of more than 400 seats following the assassination of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The overwhelming victory gives Modi, a 63-year-old career politician, a strong mandate to govern India at a time of deep social and economic change. India is in the throes of rapid urbanization and globalization just as the youth population skyrockets - with many new voters far less deferential to traditional voting patterns focused on family lineage and caste.
For the young Indian voters, the priorities are jobs and development, which Modi put at the forefront of his campaign.
Congress, which has been in power for all but 10 years of the country's history since independence, has been plagued by repeated corruption scandals. Friday's results showed Congress leading in only 42 seats, its worst showing ever.
The leader of the Congress campaign, 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi, failed to inspire public confidence. He was seen as ambivalent at best over winning a job held previously by his father, grandmother and great-grandfather.
"I wish the new government all the best," Rahul Gandhi told reporters Friday afternoon, adding that he held himself responsible for the party's losses.
Immediately after his appearance, his mother, Sonia Gandhi, the president of the party, took the microphone and said she assumes responsibility.
The two took no questions after their brief remarks and Rahul trailed his mother off the stage.
Rahul Gandhi, who first won a seat in Parliament in 2004, has been viewed as prime-minister-in-waiting for his entire political career, though he never appeared comfortable in the role. When he finally gave the first television interview of his political career earlier this year it made for dull, uninspiring viewing full of vague promises.
In sharp contrast, Modi was quick to publicly mock the Gandhi scion, often referring to the Congress as a "mother-son" government.
There was a record turnout in the election, with 66.38 percent of India's 814 million eligible voters casting ballots during the six-week contest, which began April 7 and was held in stages across the country. Turnout in the 2009 general election was 58.13 percent.
"In the history of independent India, no political party has defeated the Congress party with such a wide margin," BJP President Rajnath Singh told a news conference that opened with the blowing of a conch shell, a traditional start to most Hindu rituals.
Modi's campaign was seen by many as a media and marketing coup for a man whose background ties him to bloodshed in Gujarat, where communal rioting in 2002 left more than 1,000 people dead, most of them Muslims. Modi is accused of doing little to stop the rampage, though he denies any wrongdoing and has never been charged with a crime.
Modi was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 for alleged complicity in the riots, although as prime minister he would be virtually assured a visa.
The Obama administration started mending fences in February, when, for the first time in Modi's decade-long tenure as the top official in Gujarat state, the U.S. ambassador met with him. Still, Modi, a Hindu nationalist, is widely seen as a divisive figure and critics have often questioned whether he can be a truly secular leader in a country with many faiths.
But Modi focused on promises of a revival in economic growth, taking advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the Congress party.
At one point Friday, the benchmark Sensex stock index rose as much as 6.1 percent on news of the BJP's strong showing before closing 0.9 percent higher than Thursday.
Sreeram Chaulia, a political analyst and dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs, said the BJP's image as a purely capitalist, pro-business party resonated across India. That image contrasts with Congress, which is considered more of a welfare party, mixing capitalist reforms with handouts for the poor.
"A lot of ordinary people believed in (Modi's) message and wanted to give him the strong mandate he was seeking, to see if he could really change things in India," Chaulia said. "There has been growth in the middle class, so of course why have they punished the incumbents? Because they want more, obviously, something more than subsistence. They want upward mobility."
Modi managed to hammer away at Gandhi - specifically the perception that he is nothing more than a feudal prince from a family that views ruling the country as its birthright.
In sharp contrast to the street parties outside the BJP office, a sober scene played out in front of Congress headquarters, where few showed up despite barricades erected to protect supporters from passing road traffic.
Jairam Ramesh, India's rural development minister, lamented his party's defeat but said Congress will survive.
"I admit that in 2014, the result is worse than our worst-case scenario," he said. "But the Congress party has a deep reservoir of strength."
Associated Press writers Ashok Sharma and Katy Daigle contributed to this report.


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Your opening post is mostly philosophical, would you agree? You seem to want to anchor this discussion on facts that you have not actually shown to be true. That's fine, as long as you are willing to accept that they might not be true. Your very first sentence is your opinion, as opposed to "most of them have been proven to become true". There is no evidence that conclusively proves that revelations in the Bible are mostly true. If there are, you should point out that evidence.
Your last sentence refers to the idea that no one can prove God's existence, or non-existence. While this is technically true, most of the members on this site are atheists, which means they do not believe there is a real god, and most of them believe this because no god has ever been shown to exist.So, you would like to focus this discussion on what is more likely to be true.
In my opinion, given that all gods appear to be man-made, and completely imaginary, I have little reason to think that a god is more likely than no god. As well, the world as I see it appears to be exactly the way a world would look without a god in control. The suffering of humanity by itself, much less the suffering of other animals, and all of the extinctions and disasters that have tormented this planet since its birth.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I am betting that any god as amazing and powerful and loving as the one that many Christians claim is real, would never allow so much suffering.Suffering alone clearly shows me that there is no god.


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August 17. 2013 11:36PM
MANCHESTER -- The New Hampshire Fisher Cats jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back en route to a 14-4 thumping of the Trenton Thunder on Saturday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.
Kenny Wilson, who had the game-winning RBI single in Friday night's 5-4, 15-inning win over the Thunder on Friday night, had three hits for the Fishers, as did Andy Burns. Adam Loewen and John Tolisano each drove in three runs. New Hampshire had four-run fourth and sixth innings in the win.
New Hampshire starter Marcus Stroman went 5-2/3 innings, allowing four runs (two earned), while scattering six hits, striking out six and walking none to improve to 7-4 on the season.
Trenton starter Nik Turley (9-7) gave up nine runs in the loss before being relieved in the fourth inning. The Thunder, coming off that marathon loss Friday night, were forced to use catcher (and Friday night's losing pitcher) Jose Gil as a pitcher for a second consecutive night, this time tossing a scoreless eighth inning.
New Hampshire is now within 3-1/2 games of Trenton for the Eastern Division Wild Card spot with 17 games remaining in the regular season. The teams play for the last time this season on Sunday at 1:35. Thunder scheduled starter Jeremy Bleich had to leave the team Saturday for personal reasons, and Trenton has not announced a starting pitcher. RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx will start for New Hampshire.


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A. Sure, as long as you do it the right way. Visit the manufacturer of the gadget you want. Apple, Amazon and many other official retailers have a refurbished store section with low prices. Try to find "factory refurbished" gadgets, since these often come with some form of a warranty and are repaired and tested thoroughly.
Be careful shopping for used gadgets. While they can cost less, they are a much riskier buy than a refurbished gadget. Start your search on a site like Worth Monkey. This will give you a fair starting price to look for when you're shopping.
Q. I'm thinking about selling my smartphone to help pay for a new one. How do I make sure my information is completely erased?
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Tap "Erase All Content and Settings" and then tap the big red button that pops up.
For Androids, go to Settings >> Personal >> Backup & Reset.
Tap the Factory data reset button.
From here, you can delete your gadget's SD card if you want, too. If you want to wipe a stolen or lost phone remotely, look into apps such as Find My iPhone or Carbonite Mobile.
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A. I'm not a doctor, but instinct tells me that you're using your computer without taking breaks. I recommend people take frequent breaks when they're doing computer work, usually about once an hour.
BreakTaker is a free program that can remind you when it's time to step away. You can look into special accessories such as vertical mice, keyboards and computer glasses that can help counter bad health effects, as well. Programs, including f.lux, can adjust your monitor tint and brightness to reduce eye strain.
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A. This is actually a piece of cake. And it's a good idea because a disconnected phone won't bug you with texts and calls all through the night.
Grab a charging dock that works with your phone. Then, in the phone's settings, make the lock-screen clock as big and bold as possible.
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Both of these have advanced wake features to help you have a more restful sleep.
Finally, set an alarm of your choice or use one of your phone's ringtones.
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Enter a name for your gadget or app and click "generate password." You should only have to input the code once per gadget or app.
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The following information was prepared by members of the Wheat, Feed Grains, Rice, and Oilseeds Interagency Commodity Estimates Committees, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and presented at the Agricultural Outlook Forum held in Washington, D.C., last week.
Soybean supplies for 2012/13 are projected at 3,540 million bushels, up 8 percent from 2011/12 as both beginning stocks and production are expected to be larger.
Soybean production is projected 6 percent higher at 3,250 million bushels due to increased harvested area and yield.
Soybean plantings are projected unchanged from 2011 at 75 million acres.
Soybean prices are below levels seen last spring, and relatively higher expected net returns for corn are expected to leave little incentive for increased soybean plantings in 2012.
However, harvested area is expected to increase as abandonment is assumed to return to a more normal rate in several states that were affected by adverse weather in 2011.
Assuming normal weather conditions for the 2012/13 crop, the national average soybean yield is projected at 43.9 bushels per acre, up 2.4 bushel from the weather-depressed 2011 yield.
The 2012/13 yield projection is based on a U.S. trend yield from 1989 to 2010. If realized, this year's projected yield would be the second highest after the record of 44 bushels per acre in 2009.
Soybean domestic use is projected at 1,785 million bushels, up 3 percent from 2011/12. Crush is projected to increase 45 million bushels to 1,660 million supported by improved soybean meal exports and a slight increase in domestic demand.
Soybean meal exports are projected slightly higher supported by reduced competition from India.
Projected gains in domestic soybean meal feeding are less than 1 percent due to limited expansion in the pork and poultry sectors in 2012. Soybean meal prices for 2012/13 are projected to average $295 per short ton, down $10 from the mid-point of the projected range for 2011/12.
U.S. domestic disappearance of soybean oil is expected to increase 2 percent to 18.0 billion pounds in 2012/13, supported by a higher biodiesel use mandate for 2012.
Soybean oil used in U.S. biodiesel production is projected at 3.8 billion pounds, up 200 million from 2011/12. At this level, soybean oil is assumed to account for about half of expected U.S. biodiesel production from all fats and oils.
Food use to increase slightly
Food use is projected to increase slightly from 2011/12 at 14.2 billion pounds.
Soybean oil stocks are projected at 2.24 billion pounds, down 80 million from 2011/12. With increased use, stocks are projected to decline to an 8-year low.
Soybean oil prices are projected at 52.5 cents per pound, the same level as the midpoint of the projected range for 2011/12.
With substantial growth in supply and continued strong foreign demand, U.S. soybean exports are projected at a record 1,550 million bushels in 2012/13.
The U.S. share of global
trade is likely to rise partly supported by reduced competition from South American countries, where exportable supplies are impacted by drought-reduced crops expected to be harvested in 2012.
Foreign demand growth will be driven by China, which accounts for more than half of world imports.
Key factors supporting China's soybean imports for 2012/13 include strong demand for vegetable oil, growth in the livestock sector, expansion in the crushing sector, and government policies.
In contrast, minimal increases are anticipated in soybean demand by other top importing countries — including the EU-27, Japan, and South Korea.
Modest growth is expected for world trade in soybean meal supported by stronger demand in the EU and Southeast Asian countries. U.S. exports are projected to grow 5 percent in 2012/13 to 9.2 million short tons.
Soybean meal exports by Argentina also are likely to expand, while exports by India are expected to decline due to strong growth in domestic consumption.
A minimal increase is anticipated in 2012/13 for U.S. soybean oil exports, which are projected at 1.25 billion pounds. Foreign demand for U.S. soybean oil will be limited by high prices stemming from expanding domestic use and a tightening supply in the United States.
South American soybean oil exports will be constrained by growing domestic use, particularly for biodiesel.
Soybean oil imports from top importers India and China could be limited by gains in trade for palm oil and rapeseed oil.
U.S. soybean ending stocks for 2012/13 are projected at 205 million bushels, down 70 million from the level projected for 2011/12. The ending stocks-to-use ratio of 6.1 percent would be below the previous two years, but near the 5-year average of 6.3 percent.
With projected lower corn prices and less favorable forward pricing opportunities compared with a year earlier, the season-average farm price for soybeans is projected at $11.50 per bushel, down from the $11.70 mid-point of the 2011/12 projected range.


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By Ben Hayward
The ancien regime reigns supreme. Barring unforeseen upsets of dramatic proportions, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Manchester United with all be crowned champions of their respective leagues this term and the days when a team from outside the established elite could break through and secure a title triumph in one of the continent's choice competitions appear to be firmly in the past. In fact, they may never return.
Barcelona lead La Liga by 13 points from fierce rivals Real Madrid, first and third in Uefa's co-efficient rankings and the two wealthiest teams in the whole of Europe. In Deloitte's latest annual rich list, published in January, Madrid came out top with over €500 million earned in 2011-12, with Barca in second with just under half a billion brought in over that period. No other Spanish side was in the top 20 and the big two's closest challengers at home, Valencia and Atletico Madrid, accrued little more than €100m in the same season. Malaga, meanwhile, a team hoping to upset the top two in Spain with an ambitious plan in place, are now set to be hit with a European ban which will likely lead to the disintegration of their playing squad - and the subsequent demise of their promising project.
In Germany, Bayern top the Bundesliga by an unprecedented margin of 20 points from Borussia Dortmund, and will be crowned champions this weekend if they beat Hamburg at home and BVB fail to win at VfB Stuttgart. The Munich side seem set for a period of domestic dominance as well, with Pep Guardiola arriving as coach this summer and a healthy European co-efficient ranking which sees them separate Barca and Madrid at the top of Uefa's seedings. Club coffers are also in great shape, with the Bavarians bringing in €368.4 million in 2011-12, according to Deloitte, making them the fourth-richest club in the continent.
|Under the brilliant guidance of Alex Ferguson, the Dons won four Scottish leagues, a European Cup Winners' Cup and a Uefa Super Cup. Impossible to imagine now.
|After winning promotion in 1991, Depor went on to secure nine top-three finishes in Primera, winning the title in 2000. The Galicians are now last in La Liga.
|They called it 'the miracle' even then, but it would be unthinkable now. Little Verona stunned Serie A in 1984-85 with a shock Scudetto. They are currently in Serie B.
|Led by the brilliant Brian Clough, Forest claimed the First Division in 1978, and then won back-to-back European Cups. They are now in England's second tier.
|Wolfsburg won the Bundesliga as recently as 2009, but that squad has since disbanded and they have more recently been forced to fight relegation.
In Italy, meanwhile, Juventus have officially recovered from demotion to Serie B in 2006 and the long road back to the top. That the Turin-based club would return to Europe's elite, however, was never in doubt. Juve have more fans than any other club in Italy, fulsome financial backing, a brand-new stadium and potential to become even stronger in the next few seasons. Still recovering in terms of their Uefa co-efficient after several seasons spent lower down in Serie A prior to last term's Scudetto, Juve are only 10th in Deloitte's rich list. But back among the cream of the crop in Europe, earnings will improve, as will the club's co-efficient in the coming campaigns, particularly as they are about to clinch a second straight title at home (they are currently nine points ahead of second-placed Napoli) and are in the last eight of the Champions League for the first time since their 2006 demotion for their role in the Calciopoli scandal.
And it's not just Europe's top leagues, either. In France, nouveau-riche Paris Saint-Germain lead Ligue 1 and are arguably the country's biggest club, thanks to the significant outlay from Qatar Sports Investments. In Scotland, meanwhile, Celtic have taken full advantage of Rangers' demotion to the fourth tier for financial meltdown by storming to a 15-point lead over Motherwell in the SPL, stripped of their only real challengers for the trophy. In Portugal, traditional giants Benfica and Porto are doing battle for the SuperLiga, while Olympiakos lead the Greek championship by 16 points, Anderlecht are on top in Belgium and Galatasaray look likely to edge out Fenerbahce and Besiktas in Turkey. Elsewhere, Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord fight it out for the Dutch Eredivisie. The biggest clubs are in control across the board - all across the continent.
Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations are supposed to create more of a level playing field, with sides forced to spend within their means instead of racking up huge debts in order to fund short-term gain. Those rules, however, hand a considerable advantage to Europe's richest clubs, who will be able to continue spending their impressive income while others will not. Teams like Barcelona, Madrid and Manchester United will be required to manage their finances more responsibly than in recent years, yet their remarkable revenue from gate receipts, shirt sales and sponsorship, image rights, lucrative pre-season tours and television deals will allow the elite to keep buying big. Under the FFP laws, the rich will get richer - and that seems to be how Uefa want it.
Co-efficient rules also aid the continent's top teams. The Champions League has been designed to allow access to most of Europe's biggest clubs, ensuring maximum exposure and mega money for those lucky few. Failure to qualify for the competition these days is considered a disaster for many sides across the continent. Valencia, for example, will be forced to sell several of their finest footballers should they miss out on next season's competition. Others just below the elite, such as Roma, Tottenham and Atletico Madrid, suffer a little more each season without coveted Champions League money, and must either be extremely well run (like Spurs) or part with their best players (as Atletico have done in recent years and will again when Radamel Falcao likely leaves in the summer to clear debts).
|EUROPE'S ELITE | The 10 richest clubs
|2011-12 Income
|Real Madrid
|€512.6m (£430.8m)
|€483m (£405.9m)
|Manchester United
|€395.9m (£332.7m)
|Bayern Munich
|€368.4m (£309.6m)
|€322.6m (£271.1m)
|€290.3m (£243.9m)
|Manchester City
|€285.6m (£240m)
|AC Milan
|€256.9m (£215.9m)
|€233.2m (£195.9m)
|€195.4m (£164.2m)
These days, though, most teams consider the Europa League to be a second-rate consolation competition or an unwanted distraction, with many clubs not even fielding strong sides because the financial rewards do not make it worth their while, when they are better off focusing their energies on Champions League qualification instead.
So it may be some time before we see another Nottingham Forest, a Hellas Verona or a Deportivo La Coruna - teams that worked their way up to the top on a relative shoestring and rocked Europe's elite. Today, Uefa's priority appears to be merely financial, and some of the romance, mystique and magic is lost as the ancien regime's grip on the game looks set to grow even stronger in the coming years.
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