Coventry City went through to the regional semi-final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy at the Ricoh Arena after comfortably winning a penalty shoot-out.
The game finished 1-1 after 90 minutes when an own goal from Harry Maguire was cancelled out by a Blades leveller from David McAllister.
The Sky Blues sailed through the shootout though as Gary McSheffrey, David McGoldrick, Carl Baker and John Fleck all dispatched their penalties with Ryan Flynn and Maguire missing theirs to give the Sky Blues a 4-1 spot kick victory.
City boss Mark Robins reverted to the side that picked up a point at home to Portsmouth ten days earlier at the Ricoh, re-instating 'keeper Joe Murphy, midfielder James Bailey and striker David McGoldrick at the expense of Chris Dunn, Adam Barton and Roy O'Donovan who started Saturday's 2-1 home FA Cup win over Morecambe.
A tense first 25 minutes gave the impression that both sides were feeling each other out, with probing balls over the top and through balls down the flanks that only yielded a 20-yard effort high over the bar from Ryan Flynn after five minutes and a glanced header from Richard Wood at the opposite end ten minutes later.
It was 27 minutes before the first effort of the night on target was registered when former Sky Blue Michael Doyle pounced on a headed clearance from Bailey in the City area and volleyed at goal, Murphy then proving he was on his toes to provide a smart parried save to his left.
The Sky Blues were infact enjoying the lions share of possession, however, and looked the most likely of the two sides to get a goal but could only muster efforts off target as Gary McSheffrey, Carl Baker and Franck Moussa all blazed efforts high and wide.
The half was then capped off by another off target effort, this time from the visitors as Harry Maguire was handed a dead-ball opportunity in the minute of added time and shot marginally wide of Murphy's far post.
United pressed more straight after the break ans nearly carved out an opening on 52 minutes when Matt Hill caught David McGoldrick in possession in midfield and put through John Cofie whose resulting cross across the six-yard area narrowly evaded the head of Flynn arriving at the back post.
The Sky Blues found the opening they were looking for after 56 minutes though when a long ball found Steven Jennings on the right flank for the midfielder to cut a ball back across the six-yard box from the byline, the delivery cannoning off Maguire and into the net past a helpless George Long.
Moussa then got his eye in on the hour when he dispossessed Danny Westlake in his own half and ran at the full-back, turning him on his inside and cutting into the area before firing a low shot at Long which he saved at the foot of his near post.
It was all square with ten minutes to go though when Doyle's long-range effort was saved by Murphy only for the loose ball to be hammered home from close range by McAllister.
The equaliser then caused the game to spark into life as it entered its closing stages.
The Blades pinned the Sky Blues back in their own half with a series of free kicks but City came back and very nearly grabbed a late winner when McGoldrick dribbled his way across the byline and tried to squeeze a shot between Long and his near post only to be denied by the 'keeper.
He went close again moments later when Baker floated a cross towards the back post only for McGoldrick to stretch for the ball and miss connection by inches.
It was the last action of the game before the drama of penalties though as boty sides shaped up to take their spot kicks.
City opted to go first and Gary McSheffrey's coolly dispatched spot kick was followed up by Joe Ironside.
David McGoldrick and Carl Baker then slotted home from the spot but no such luck was had by Harry Maguire and Ryan Flynn who had their respective penalties saved and fly high high over the bar, leaving substitute John Fleck to send City through to the regional semi-final to the delight of 10,000 of the Sky Blue Army.


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Home Real Estate Los Angeles Real Estate Firms Deal Outside California
Los Angeles Real Estate Firms Deal Outside California
CGI sold Astoria at Celebration for $ 74.5 million.
Los Angeles real estate companies are turning their attention to more distant markets and doing deals outside of California, from Provo, Utah to Orlando, Florida.
Two West Side firms have made significant acquisitions in the past few weeks.
Santa Monica-based MJW Investments has acquired a student housing estate at Brigham Young University in Utah. The price was not disclosed.
MJW has acquired a 154-unit, 924-bed complex in partnership with Redstone Residential Inc. in Provo, Utah.
With the acquisition, MJW now has over 7,000 student beds in the United States.
Amenities at the hotel near BYU include a hot tub, sandy volleyball court, pool and laundry facilities.
This is MJW's sixth acquisition in the area.
In March, the company teamed up with Redstone Residential and Venice-based MHE Enterprises Inc. acquired a nearby student housing complex for 1,156 beds.
On its latest acquisition, MJW plans to spend money on apartments and amenities to make this property more attractive. Redstone Residential will oversee renovations and real estate operations.
"The hotel's proximity to campus and great value propositions are just some of the aspects that make this property incredibly attractive," said Mark Weinstein, president and founder of MJW Investments, in a statement.
"Thus, in 2021, we purchased more than 2,000 beds in Provo. We are delighted to offer a new life experience for students at BYU, and we are incredibly confident that it will be an improved life experience for students when our capital projects are completed, "he added.
Voya Investment Management financed the acquisition.
Further south, Sotelle-based BH Properties acquired a mall in Plano, Texas on June 1 for an undisclosed price.
Known as Preston Shepard Place, this hotel boasts 361,780 square feet of retail space on 31 acres. The center was built in 1995 and has Marshalls, Burlington and Monday Morning as its anchor stores.
At the time of closure, the site was only 55% leased.
"Preston Shepard Place is an underutilized marketplace focused on growing leasing dynamics and traffic growth," said Scott Henry, director of acquisitions at BH Properties, in a statement.
"With 163,002 square feet of vacant space, we have enough runway to support future cash flow growth. We plan to reach a wide range of retailers by moving large vacancies to smaller spaces. The high traffic location and asset dynamics make it possible to significantly increase the NOI (Net Operating Income), "he added.
From 2008 to 2018, the center was 94.4% occupied, according to BH Properties. According to the company, the current low occupancy rate is due to the bankruptcy of retail enterprises.
The deal marks BH Properties' first retail deal of the year.
While other local companies are adding assets, Woodland Hills-based CGI Real Estate Investment Strategies is ditching some properties in other states.
On June 3, the company announced that it had sold Astoria at Celebration in Celebration, Florida to Versity Investments for $ 74.5 million.
The property has 306 luxury apartment buildings spread over six four-story buildings with a central clubhouse and swimming pool.
The property was built in 2016 and then vacated due to construction problems in 2017. CGI acquired the empty community in 2019 for $ 43 million and brought it up to par. At the time of the sale of Versity Investments, the property was 99% leased.
"Our history as a greenfield developer has given us the experience and confidence that we can take on the challenge, as we did with Astoria, and turn it into a Class A resort," said Guidi Cohen, CEO of CGI. in the statement.
"Having successfully restored the property to optimum condition and the Orlando market continues to grow, we were able to exceed our business plan in record time," he added.
CGI expects real estate to perform well in the future.
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Front lawn photo gallery displays Wilmington "village' fight against COVID-19
WILMINGTON -- New Castle County resident Kathe Morse says she likes the idea of public art and has a love of photography.
That's why about six weeks ago she says she decided to put them together to document this moment in time to show a community standing strong together amid the COVID-19 health crisis.
She took pictures of friends, family and neighbors wearing masks, including members of her family.
Morse has now compiled those photos into a public display called, "Fighting COVID-19: It Takes a Village."
"A lot of people were isolated at home," explains Morse, "and it's important that we feel like a village working together rather than each person feeling like their mask didn't make a difference. We can fight COVID-19 if we all participate."
Armed with her iPhone, Morse says she has a group of friends that live nearby and went to several homes to talk and take pictures.
Longtime friend Natalie Crawford was the first to be photographed.
"We all know her to be a wonderful photographer," says Crawford.
They met about thirty years ago through a babysitting co-op in this very same Wilmington neighborhood, known as the Highlands.
They helped each other and watched their children grow up and now many from the co-op have grandchildren too.
"It takes a village," says Crawford, "and we all try to support each other in so many different ways."
Ann McKelvie is another longtime friend who also belonged to the babysitting co-op. She volunteered to have her picture taken, along with her husband, Lloyd.
"She has this photographic ability to bring out good vibes," says McKelvie. "And that's what we kind of needed."
Morse says there were lots of smiles under those masks despite the circumstances.
"It's easy to get stuck in the aloneness of it," McKelvie says about COVID-19.
In the display, Morse included an image of a mother and daughter who were visiting, but there are at least six feet of space between them. She calls it one of her distant pictures.
"I think we're really lucky here, in this community, that we have each other," says McKelvie.
There are more than thirty pictures for those passing by to browse. Morse says her home display will be up on weekends through the end of June.
"I'm part of a village and we're all in this together, and it's a nice feeling," Morse says
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March 19, 2012 Issue
A life in injuries.
By David Owen
Illustration by Jeffrey Decoster
On a hill in the neighborhood where I grew up, in Kansas City, was a suburban ruin that my friends and I called the Burned-Down House. There was a crumbling tennis court, which was enclosed by an overgrown chain-link fence, and there was a concrete slab with a dirt-floored crawl space underneath it, and there were two limestone chimneys. During the summer of 1972, when I was in high school, my friend Duncan and I sat on top of one of the chimneys lighting firecrackers with our cigarettes and throwing them at two other friends, who were sitting on a limestone retaining wall and throwing firecrackers at us. Between explosions, we tried to think of something less boring to do. Most of our firecrackers were Black Cats, but we had some cherry bombs, too, and one of those blew up a few inches above my left foot. When I could hear again, and when Duncan and I had stopped laughing, I noticed a nickel-size piece of cherry-bomb shrapnel embedded in the rubber toe cap of my sneaker. When I pulled on it, it came out of my foot like a cork, and blood spread up through the canvas and into the laces. Duncan drove me to the office of my doctor, a pediatrician. The waiting room was full of mothers and weepy three-year-olds, and I took off my shoe and handed it to the receptionist, to show her what the problem was.
I can still make out the line of the wound. Over the years, your body becomes a kind of historical document, in which certain dramatic moments are memorialized in scar tissue. There's a blemish on my left arm that was caused by a dollop of molten G.I. Joe—the artifact of experiments that my friends and I conducted, in grade school, on the melting points of our possessions. On my right arm, I have two similar marks, made by metal pins that a surgeon inserted on either side of a broken wrist, when I was in college. (After the pins were out and the cast was off, I showed the surgeon that I couldn't bend my right wrist as much as my left. He tapped the right wrist and said, "This is normal. The other one bends too much.") When I smile, I have a dimple in my right cheek. Age and extra pounds have made it less prominent, but it's still visible, and I can feel the other side of it with my tongue. I got it when I was three, by falling from the seat of my tricycle, on which I'd been standing. My main memento of that accident, other than the dimple, is a photograph from the next day's Kansas City Star of a forlorn-looking little girl, who's wearing a party dress and pressing one ear of a stuffed lamb to her cheek. The photograph was part of an Easter feature, and I was supposed to have been in it, too. (The writer was a friend of our mothers'.) The caption says the girl is "lonesome for a special playmate," who hurt himself that morning, and for several years that page in my scrapbook was my favorite. The picture spoke of my ability to influence the emotions of others, as well as suggesting a kind of celebrity. The girl and I didn't get married—an early assumption of mine, partly clipping-based—although I did take her as my date to my first school dance, in seventh grade. I was ashamed of how skinny I was in those days, and I wore two pairs of pants, one over the other, in the hope of making my legs appear less avian. The last song was the Beatles' "Hey Jude," which I later described to another friend's mother as "a seven-minute slow dance," hoping to shock her. Many years later, my date's daughter and my own daughter were college classmates, sorority sisters, and friends. Now they're both married.
When my daughter was ten, a careless boy at the ice rink cut the back of her hand with his skate, and I drove her to the emergency room to be sewn up. She was frightened and in tears, so on our way to the hospital I told her that some of my happiest, most vivid memories involved accidents. I showed her my dimple and told her about the scars on my arms and my big toe, and I ran down most of the rest of my inventory of falls and fractures and stitches and chipped teeth. I suggested that we think of her hurt hand not as a tragedy but as a potentially interesting adventure, which we would both remember with more than ordinary clarity, and by the time we got to the hospital she had cheered up. Just outside the entrance to the emergency room, we saw a middle-aged man in a white hospital coat smoking a cigarette; he turned out to be the doctor. I could see, as he worked on my daughter's hand, that his nails and the ends of his fingers were stained by tar, but he was gentle. He used a syringe to stream Novocain into the open wound and let a puddle of it sit for a few minutes, to numb her hand before he stuck her to inject the rest. Meanwhile, he chatted with us about one thing and another, and the reek of tobacco reminded me, pleasantly, of my father. My daughter still has the scar, and she remembers that night with contentment.
Duncan and I were classmates from first grade through high school. He had red hair, freckles, and a round, happy face, and years later—when he was twenty and thirty and forty and fifty—he looked more like his smiling first-grade self than almost anyone else in our class picture. At first, for reasons I don't remember, we called each other Guee-Guee. (The spelling is speculative; at the time, we couldn't spell.) We occasionally sat together on the school bus, and when we were in first grade we made up a song—which we tried to sing like Louis Armstrong, whom we'd watched on Ed Sullivan—about the women we saw waiting at city bus stops, on their way to do the cleaning in houses like ours.
The car that Duncan drove me and my injured toe to the doctor in was a white 1963 Chevrolet station wagon, which his family called the Economy Wagon. Duncan had two older brothers and an older sister, and the Economy Wagon had received hard use for a long time. Its odometer, by the time Duncan got his license, had frozen at more than a hundred thousand miles. Its steering wheel pulled hard to the left, so that to go straight you had to turn it hard to the right. The passenger side of the front seat had become unmoored; it slid forward in its track when you slowed down, and slid backward when you accelerated again—a half-scissoring motion that a driver had to anticipate and compensate for, by adjusting pedal pressure. Duncan's parents had decided to let the Economy Wagon die, and had even stopped changing the oil, but it continued to run, somehow, through all the years we were in high school and, I think, for a few years after that.
"Pardon me, Vito, but I'm holding the talking stick now."
A month or two before my toe accident, a few of us rolled down the Economy Wagon's back-seat windows and filled the openings with rectangles of paperboard, in the center of each of which we'd punched a hole just big enough for a bottle rocket. A classmate of ours had a newer Chevrolet, a sedan, and we modified it the same way, then drove around Kansas City for a couple of hours shooting bottle rockets at each other and trying to throw firecrackers and smoke bombs into the other car's open front-seat windows. The best way to throw a projectile from a car is, counterintuitively, from the side farther away from what you want to hit, over the roof, with an underhand motion, which we called a Hawaiian flick. To throw an egg at someone, you pull up next to him at a stoplight and Hawaiian-flick the egg over your own roof. The victim angrily looks all around, but when he glares at your car he sees only your passenger, calmly smoking and gazing straight ahead, behind a rolled-up window. At some point, the guys in the other car managed to throw a cherry bomb into the Economy Wagon, and the explosion was so loud, inside that enclosed space, that for a few seconds my mind went utterly blank. Today, my ears ring, perhaps partly as a result—an aural scar—although the ringing didn't begin until I was fifty. My mother's mother had ear trouble, too, but much worse than mine. She sometimes blamed her growing deafness on an early admirer, who took her duck-hunting in a rowboat shortly before the beginning of the First World War and steadied his shotgun on her shoulder.
The older brother of one of Duncan's and my friends had a hydrant wrench—the tool that firefighters use to turn on fire hydrants—which he had found somewhere, or, more likely, had lifted from a fire truck, perhaps one that was responding to a false alarm at his own house. At some point, he bequeathed it to us. We used it to remove the heavy iron cap from a hydrant down the street from Duncan's house, and we bored a quarter-inch hole through the cap on the drill press in someone's father's basement workshop. Then we put the cap back on the hydrant and turned on the water, which came out of the hole like the laser beam in "Goldfinger." We drove the Economy Wagon back and forth through the beam, and when the water hit the doors it made a noise like a machine gun. We let a few strangers drive through it, too.
A street that connected to the street that ran in front of Duncan's house dropped off steeply beyond the driveway of the Burned-Down House, and very late on a winter weekend night when the temperature was below freezing we turned on the hydrant at the top of the hill and let it run for a while. In the morning, the entire street was covered with ice, and we went sledding. You could achieve such tremendous speeds that you had to be careful, toward the bottom of the hill, to jerk your sled sharply to the right, into a driveway and across a yard, so that you didn't slide into four lanes of traffic. On some runs, we went down two sleds at a time, side by side, and had chicken fights. My friend Henry and I got each other into headlocks, then veered off together and hit the curb about halfway down the hill. I took part of the impact with my face, and I could feel one of my front teeth scrape against a metal strut on my sled, which was my father's old Flexible Flyer. Henry checked my mouth, and said he could see the bright-red nerve dangling inside my broken tooth, like the meat in a cracked lobster claw. I walked home with my sled, and my mother called our dentist, who met us at his office, even though it was Sunday. The dentist studied my tooth, then scraped at it with a pick. The dangling nerve turned out to be just red paint from the sled, so he ground down the chipped part until it felt smooth to my tongue.
Certain body parts may exert a kind of Karmic force. I've broken the same arm three times (in falls from a clothesline pole, in nursery school; a playground sand table, in first grade; and a fireplace mantelpiece, in college), and the sledding accident was the second time I'd broken an incisor. The first time, I was two years old and had gone to the grocery store with my mother and tried to hang by my knees from the chrome-plated railing that separated our checkout lane from the next. I lost my grip and fell on my face, and the tooth had to be extracted. In what may be my earliest memory—if it's an actual memory—a woman dressed in white is holding a black mask and looming toward me, saying, "Breathe deep, Davy." The gap in my front teeth made me look older than I was until, a few years later, the permanent tooth grew in.
Duncan had a chipped incisor, too. He got his by falling forward after becoming light-headed when a doctor removed a plaster cast from his arm. As always happens, that tooth came to seem like not just an injury but an element of his being—like his hair, or his smile, or the Economy Wagon, or the scar on his right hand. He got that scar at the Burned-Down House one winter. We had spent many hours building a sledding trail through the trees on one side of the hill—piling up snow to form banked turns, and using loppers and pruning saws to remove saplings. On one run, Duncan overshot a turn and launched into a tangle of brush, and the end of a broken branch tore through his glove and up the back of one finger. He ran home screaming, and the rest of us ran behind him, studying the blood trail in the snow.
That same winter, we made an enormous snowball by pushing it back and forth across the sloping field on the far side of the Burned-Down House until it was almost too heavy to move. Then we shoved it toward the road, a broad boulevard that curved around the bottom of the hill, and as the ball moved down the slope it gathered more snow, like a rug rolling up. When it hit the pavement, it slumped into a rounded heap, and blocked one lane. I don't think we were trying to hit a car. At least, I hope we weren't: that curve was dangerous even in good weather. On a warm night a year after I graduated from high school, a boy in the class behind mine, whose house was up the street from my house, was killed near the same spot. He'd just left a party, and his car hit a tree, and the scar on the tree's trunk remained conspicuous for a long time. The boy's mother and my mother now live in the same assisted-living facility—that's how long ago this was. And Duncan—who taught himself to play the guitar when we were in high school, and married a woman who was so pretty in grade school that she modelled underwear in department-store catalogues, and got divorced after a few years, and had trouble keeping a job, and had substance issues, and sometimes played music in a restaurant managed by another classmate of ours, and finally met a woman who was just right for him, and adopted an abused dog, and seemed to be getting his life straightened out—is dead as well, of a heart attack, five years ago, when he was fifty-two. And not long after Duncan died his girlfriend died, too.
During the summer of 1971, Henry and I and another classmate spent two weeks backpacking and rock-climbing in the San Juan Mountains, in southwestern Colorado, in what later became the Weminuche Wilderness Area. The trip was organized by an outfit, now defunct, that patterned itself on Outward Bound. There were about a dozen of us, plus two instructors and a dog, and toward the end of the trip the instructors spaced us out along a mountain stream, over a distance of a mile or two, for a "survival solo." The idea was that, by spending eighty-four hours with no food and no company except our thoughts, we would gain insight into our private depths—while also, possibly, doing the trip's organizers a favor by sparing them the expense of feeding us for three and a half days. I spread my sleeping bag under a rock overhang and passed most of my time swatting mosquitoes and filling my journal with increasingly pitiful complaints about how bored and, especially, how hungry I was. I wrote the names of foods I wished I were eating, and the list eventually contained what must have been every edible thing I could think of, including fried shrimp, brown-sugar Pop-Tarts, and frogs' legs.
Sometime during the first afternoon, while I was doing what I described in my journal as "carving a spear for marmot hunting," my knife slipped and I put a deep gash in the end of my left thumb. If I'd been home, I would have had stitches: when I stuck the thumb in my mouth and sucked, blood filled my cheeks like water from a hose. I made bandages by tearing inch-wide strips from the bottom of my T-shirt, and every time I unwrapped one to see how my thumb was doing the gash reopened and the bleeding began again, as if it had never stopped. I can still see the scar, a slender interruption in my thumbprint, an inch-long arc a quarter inch below the edge of the nail.
Despite all that, when the trip was over I wanted to go back. And the following summer I did, with Duncan. Somehow, we convinced our parents that two not entirely trustworthy seventeen-year-olds ought to be allowed to spend a fortnight in the wild by themselves, without supervision. My father was probably the easiest to convince. Many of his favorite memories involved summers he'd spent, as a teen-ager in the late nineteen-thirties, at a camp in Montana, where he dressed like a cowboy, lived on a horse, and found an Indian flint blade the size of his hand. My mother told me, many years later, that she didn't know why they'd let us go, with our backpacks and climbing rope and freeze-dried mashed potatoes and no tent; we'd just somehow seemed too determined to be resisted. We almost talked them into letting us drive, too, but in the end they decided that travelling nine hundred miles across Kansas and over the Continental Divide, and back, was probably more than the Economy Wagon could handle. We flew to Denver and then to Durango, and we took a coal-fired narrow-gauge train from there up the canyon of the Animas River, to a whistle stop a few miles south of Silverton, an old mining town. And then, as the sun descended toward the tops of the trees, we started up Elk Creek and into the San Juans.
I came very close to ruining that trip before it began, because my cherry-bomb accident at the Burned-Down House occurred just a few weeks before we were supposed to leave. The wound was on the knuckle, and it pulled open a few hours after the doctor removed the stitches. I said nothing to my parents, because I worried that, if the doctor decided I needed to be sewn up again, Duncan and I would have to stay home. So I tried to walk without using my big toe, and I filled one of the pockets of my backpack with Band-Aids and gauze.
The thought of hiking away from the edge of the known world appealed to me in those days. My principal role model was Al, the leader of Henry's and my Colorado trip the year before. He had long hair, a beard, a motorcycle, a cast-iron skillet, a reflector oven for baking bread, and a "Keep on Truckin' " patch sewn to the flap of his battered Kelty backpack—and I wanted those things, too. I'd often fantasized about running away from home, to become a hippie or a mountain man. Unfortunately, from my point of view, the only serious grievance I had against my parents was that they'd never treated me in a manner that a reasonable person would consider grounds for running away—a logical knot I couldn't untie.
When I was in tenth grade, I went out twice with a girl who actually did run away, as I discovered one evening when I drove to her house to pick her up to take her to a movie and found nobody home. I was disappointed that she hadn't asked me to go with her or, at least, told me she was going, but, in truth, I barely knew her, and I never saw her again. The year before that, a friend I'll call Eddy ran away. He spent one night on the pool table in the basement of the house of our friend Hinkley, and while we were at school the next day he shoplifted a billiard-room talc dispenser from Sears and screwed it to the frame of a door near the cue rack, as a sort of house present. Sometime later, Hinkley's father noticed talc on the floor and took a sample downtown to be analyzed by the police. This was fairly early in the Woodstock era, when it was possible for an educated adult to believe that ninth graders might be buying heroin by the pound and serving it to themselves from wall-mounted cannisters. Eddy's father—who, I learned later, sometimes beat Eddy—had darker suspicions. He believed that the rest of us exerted a malevolent influence on his son, and had persuaded him to run away. A day or two after Eddy had given up and gone home, his father stopped his car in front of Henry, who was walking to school by way of the Burned-Down House, and told him that if he pulled anything like that ever again he would kill him.
Wandering around Colorado with Duncan for two weeks seemed almost as good as running away. I'd shown my father, on a topographical map, more or less where we meant to go, but all I really knew was the spot where we planned to get off the train. There were no cell phones or G.P.S. devices or Park Service Web sites in those days, and we hadn't read a guidebook about the region, and there was no one to check in with before we set out. Today, on Google Earth, I can zoom down on jade-colored mountain lakes that must be ones we camped beside, but at the time I felt almost as though we'd crossed into another dimension, that we had become invisible to the rest of the universe as soon as the train was out of sight. The world seemed much bigger then than it does now. Duncan and I explored canyons, and traversed snowfields, and camped where we wanted to, and climbed a mountain called Storm King Peak.
We talked about my girlfriend, who had recently broken up with me for what turned out not to be the last time, and about his girlfriend, who persisted in refusing to break up with him, and about other people we knew. I ached for the cigarettes we'd decided not to bring. We lay on our backs at night and gazed at the extraordinary stars. I took many fewer photographs than I now wish I had. My toe did fine. We encountered no other people until a couple of days before the end, when we ran into Al and that summer's version of the group that Henry and I had been part of the summer before. We joined them for the long trek back to the Animas River, along a route we hadn't been entirely certain about anyway, and rode the train to Durango. Then we flew home to Kansas City and to futures that, like all futures, were too far away to see. ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the March 19, 2012, issue.
David Owen has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1991. His forthcoming book, "Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World," will be released in the fall.


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Jalmari Johannes "Lauri" Eskola (Karinainen, Pöytyä, Finlàndia Pròpia, 16 de novembre de 1886 – Turku, 7 de gener de 1958) fou un atleta finlandès, especialista en proves de fons, que va competir durant el primer quart del . En el seu palmarès la medalla de plata en la prova de cros per equips del programa d'atletisme dels Jocs Olímpics d'Estocolm de 1912 junt a Hannes Kolehmainen i Albin Stenroos. En aquesta mateixos Jocs fou quart en la prova individual de cros.

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The genesis for land tenure reforms in Kenya can be traced to the colonial period, particularly after the publication of J H Ingham report (1950) and the Swynnerton Plan of 1954. These two blueprints persuasively argued for individualisation of tenure as a pre-condition for increased agricultural production throughout the colonial period. In the post-colonial period, the World Bank has remained the leading institution in setting land policy agenda in Kenya and other African countries. Since 1975, the World Bank has put in place two landmark land policy documents namely Land Reform Policy Paper 1975, and Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth 1989. These two reports capture the World Bank's thinking on a range of land issues such as landreforms, land administration, land rights, land markets and how these can play a leading role towards poverty reduction in Africa.
Security of property rights is central to preserving livelihoods, maintaining social stability, and increasing incentives for investment and for sustainable, productive land use. Making land rights transferable allows the landless to access landthrough sales and rental markets or through public transfers, and further increases investment incentives. Even with these good prescriptions and experimentations Africa and Kenya for our case is still home to highest recorded poverty rates. In 2013, the World Bank persuasively argued in their latest reports that in Africa, poor land governance – the manner in which land rights are defined and administered – may be the root of the problem.
Empirical research conducted in Kenya and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa continues to demonstrate that, by and large, land tenure reforms, particularly land registration, did not realise the theoretical expectations, instead it created greater uncertainty and conflicts. Those on whose names land was registered as principal landholders -- men, assumed exclusive individual rights in given pieces of land at the expense of women, widows and juniors whose rights to land remained either secondary or usufruct. Three scenarios have been evident in western Kenya and may be in the whole country. These include land disputes, land disposition, and rampant land sales for flimsy reasons including establishing a home, payment of mortuary bills, buying a motor bike and exchange of bride wealth. These have been significantly exacerbated by the high prevalence of HIV and Aids resulting into orphans and young widows with limited knowledge about land rights.
Our cultures, particularly among the Luo, which require adult men to establish a homestead (dala) has not made things better. The culture requires that when the sons in the homestead mature, they also build their own huts (simba). This culture among communities in western Kenya has led to excessive fragmentation of agricultural land into uneconomical units. Probably time has come for a cultural dialogue and a national consensus on land use patterns with a view to coming up with enforceable land policy with the potential of prohibiting uneconomical land subdivision.
We need to stop this madness to effectively address poverty. The Draft National Land Policy sought to address landproblems. However, the major arguments advanced in the draft policy did not have any real departure from the past. Kenya must chart her land reform agenda that addresses development challenges including poverty eradication.
- The writer is a Senior Lecturer at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology.


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The Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering is the top ranked engineering department in New Zealand. Their research activities have gained them an international reputation, attracting many overseas visitors who bring worldwide expertise to the department and its students.
This collection holds photographs taken by Elizabeth Ackermann, Umut Akguzel, and other staff from the department after the 4 September 2010 and 22 February 2011 earthquakes.
Quake Aftermath: Interviews with Christchurch journalists about their earthquake experiences
Interviews with a range of local journalists about their experience of the Canterbury earthquakes, conducted by Sean Scanlon (UC Journalism) as part of his PhD research at the University of Canterbury.
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An honours-level thesis report and accompanying photographs by Shermine Kwok, an undergraduate student from the National University of Singapore. Shermine attended the University of Canterbury on an exchange in 2012. Inspired by the resilience of Christchurch and its residents, she returned to Christchurch to study the creative urban regeneration efforts since the earthquakes of 2010 - 2011.
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"Seismic Assessment of Existing Masonry Buildings" was a seminar presented at the University of Canterbury by Professor Sergio Lagomarsino from the University of Genoa on 27 February 2014. The seminar demonstrated recent European research into modelling strategies, target performances and acceptance criteria for seismic assessment of masonry buildings.
Coastal Quakes - Vulnerability to Seismic Hazards in Coastal and Riverside Communities: Lessons from the Canterbury Earthquake sequence
"Coastal Quakes - Vulnerability to Seismic Hazards in Coastal and Riverside Environments: Lessons from the Canterbury Earthquake sequence" is an ongoing research project led by Dr Deirdre Hart from the Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury. Others involved with aspects of the research include Marney Brosnan and Dr Christopher Gomez from UC's Department of Geography, Dr Sonia Giovinazzi from UC's Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, and UC students Emma Kelland, Nick Brunsden, Su Young Ko and David Holland. The aim of this project is to understand the vulnerabilities to seismic hazards that coastal and riverside communities face, by examining the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes and the recovery patterns in Christchurch. The project focuses on two main aspects: the predisposition to earthquake induced damage that exists in coastal and river environments past and present, and (ii) the cascade of 'non-seismic' hazards that have been altered by the earthquakes, including coastal, estuary and river flooding, sea level rise, tsunami, coastal erosion, and pollution. Information and data was gathered, such as professional opinions through interviews, photographic evidence of coastal and riverside effects, and the mapping of liquefaction and residential zoning from government agencies.
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Phu Quoc is well known as "the island paradise" of Vietnam that attracts millions of tourists every year. If you are planning to take a Phu Quoc tour for your next journey, Hon Thom is an ideal suggestion for you. The followings will introduce you some interesting things this great destination.
Hon Thom is famous for not only the romantic beauty but also the interesting legend that is handed down through many generations. According to the legend, Hon Thom is one of the refuges of Lord Nguyen during the revenge after the defeat at the Tay Son insurrection.
Hon Thom has an area of 5.7 square kilometers to the South of Phu Quoc Island. It is known as the precious jewel of this peninsula. To arrive at this place, tourists can go by taxi or by car. Tourists have to spend about 30 minutes driving from An Thoi harbor to the center of Dong Duong Town. Afterward, you need 30 minutes more to go to Hon Thom.
On the other hand, visitors can go by the sling to Hon Thom with the total length of more than 7, 899 meters from Hon Roi and Hon Dua to Hon Thom. The sling is the combination of Sun Group and the leader of Kien Giang and Phu Quoc People's Committee. This Phu Quoc luxury tour will bring you a lot of amazing experiences when enjoying the beauty of Phu Quoc from above. The price is 500,000 VND for adult and 350,000 VND for a child.
Located in An Thoi Peninsula, Hon Thom is a favorite destination for a number of tourists when having a Southern Vietnam tour. Hon Thom is known for the attractive beauty like the Maldives of the Indian Ocean. The images of the green coconut prints on the smooth sand, along with the blue sea, the wild forest, and the spectacular natural rock will make an impression on you at the first sight.
Coming to Hon Thom, remember to visit the beautiful beaches such as Nam Beach, Chuong Beach, Chao Beach, etc. If you are interested in exploring, you can rent a boat to visit every corner of the wild island. Otherwise, visitors can try the adventurous underwater games, conquest the rocky rapids, or explore the simple life of the locals on the island. All these will make your trip more perfect and enjoyable.
This is one of the most exciting activities on Hon Thom that attracts many tourists. It is truly wonderful for you to enjoy the feeling when sitting on the boat, sip a cold beer, and fish with your family or friends. Phu Quoc Island is famous for the rich and diverse marine ecosystem, therefore; it is surely successful for you to "hunt" here. Besides, squid fishing usually starts at night so you have to arrange your time suitably in order to get the most interesting experiences.
A Phu Quoc luxury tour to Hon Thom cannot miss diving and contemplating the great beauty of the coral reefs. The sea in Hon Thom is not only clean with blue water but also has a number of colorful coral reefs, along with the diverse marine ecosystem. Although the sea is quite safe, you should not dive into the coral reef by yourself. It will better for you to follow the instructions of the rescue workers to have the most exploration of the ocean.
This amazing activity will absolutely become an unforgettable experience for you. The people are ready to guide visitors on how to catch the sea urchin that is one of the unique specialties of the Phu Quoc sea area. It would be truly great to eat grilled sea urchin that you catch by yourself.
Around Hon Thom, there are a lot of cages for aquaculture and pearls. Therefore, when coming to this place, in addition to enjoying the fresh seafood at the price of "chestnut", you can contemplate the process of pearl exploitation as well as buy them as a great present for the family. Many couples choose this activity for their honeymoon tour in Phu Quoc.
The above are some interesting things about Hon Thom that you should know before having a Phu Quoc tour here. Hope that you will get a nice trip with many memorable experiences.


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What Our Entertainment Says About Us
Micah McCormick
"You are what you eat."
It's an adage that contains a lot of truth. No doubt many Christians could stand to think more about what they eat, but Christians could also stand to think more about the entertainment they consume. For many Christians, entertainment has become an activity that is essentially thoughtless. (After all, aren't we looking for a break from the physical and mental stress of work?)
We might recognize that we shouldn't spend an inordinate amount of time on entertainment, but as long as we're not doing anything that's outright immoral, what does it really matter how we entertain ourselves? The morality question is itself part of the rub. But when Christians argue about whether it is immoral to watch a particular movie or listen to such and such a song, they often miss a bigger picture of the good, the bad and the ugly in our entertainment choices.
Entertainment is a form of recreation. Adam and Eve were created to work, but they weren't supposed to work 24/7, and neither should we. Israel's calendar included rhythms of work and rest as well as times of celebration and feasting. As image bearers of God, recreation provides an opportunity to explore our God-given ability to create and delight and enjoy the good world He has created.
Interestingly, early cultures apparently had differing and complementary strengths—Genesis 4:20-22 speaks of some who raised livestock while others seemed to specialize in music or craftsmanship. It's not a stretch to imagine that our heritage and talents and personalities might also be reflected in the forms of recreation we most enjoy. We aren't all required to be equally entertained by bulky athletes who can put a leather ball through a round hoop, nor are we all required to loathe a large woman singing in a high-pitched voice in a language we don't understand. Rather than fight excessively for our own entertainment preferences, we should marvel at the diversity of delights and enjoyments produced and experienced by image bearers of God.
But as with all the good in creation, the fall intruded and still persists in every area of our lives, including our entertainment values. We think too highly of ourselves if we think we can plunder the Egyptians without eventually being tempted with the desire to return to Egypt. When we immerse ourselves in the entertainment ecosystem of a culture that largely stands against Christ, we will become too adapted to a way of life that finds a comfortable home in the present age—an age that is passing away.
If I was an unbeliever who had several Christian friends who were adoringly conversant in every popular Netflix series, I might not think much about it one way or the other. But if those same friends lamented how much they felt like "pilgrims" and "strangers" in this world in the wake of a Supreme Court decision, I wouldn't find such claims convicting—I would find them highly entertaining!
The problem is not that we visit the movie theater. The problem is that we feel more at home in the movie theater than we do with the gathered church on Sunday. The problem is not that we have Taylor Swift on a guilty pleasures playlist. The problem is that when a relationship crumbles, our gut instinct is not to turn to the Psalms, which are inspired by the Holy Spirit (the same Spirit that we claim is dwelling inside of us), but rather we try to quiet our souls by turning to a pop singer whose own relationship history would suggest that she is not the wisest and most reliable counselor.
When we become obsessed with aping the entertainment appetites of the world, we shrink our own souls and deface the beauty of the bride of Christ. It's very disconcerting to hear a young boy speak with admiration about something obscene he has watched, using course language that he hardly understands. But you also recognize what's behind the curtain—that boy has heard that kind of language associated with certain images, and he wants the approval and acceptance of those who speak that way. And so he begins to singe his entertainment palette, even though he doesn't initially find such fare particularly rejuvenating.
The same rationale explains why college students can exhibit such massive groupthink when it comes to the appraisal of leisure activities, television shows and coffee shops. No one wants to be the first one to say that a popular coffee shop is dreary and dreadfully macabre, and no one wants to be the first person on campus to petition for a crochet club. Unfortunately, we never completely grow out of the impulse to let the world set our entertainment agenda.
When a Christian businessman spends time hanging out with his unbelieving colleagues after work (not a bad thing), he should obviously avoid doing and saying things that are explicitly unbiblical. However, the subtler danger is that he may begin to tolerate and, eventually, adopt what the others think and say about the weariness and boredom of family life. And if you participate in an unbelieving entertainment system long enough and mindlessly enough, you will eventually adopt the mindset and tastes of that recreational system, even the tastes that are not pure, lovely and admirable (Phil 4:8).
James speaks very plainly: Friendship with the world is enmity toward God (James 4:4). James does not provide a list of acceptable and unacceptable entertainment activities. He does something far more challenging—he asks us to flee the pride of life, a craving for worldly affirmation that is far too often reflected in the way we go about entertaining ourselves.
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If candy sweet florals aren't your bag but you're bored of nabbing your SO's musky cologne, then it's time you got your hands on a gender neutral perfume.
A chic middle ground between typically feminine floral scents and your dad's Old Spice, these are the unisex perfumes that smell amazing on everyone.
A concoction of coconut water, patchouli leaves and cotton make this a scent that's somehow dry, comforting and sweet all at the same time.
If there was one perfume responsible for the gender neutral revolution, it has to be CK One. A 90s classic, but totally timeless, it's the ultimate couple's sharing scent.
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A perfume that smells like concrete? We weren't convinced at first either, but bear with. Notes of sandalwood, synthetic rose oxide and resin make for a surprisingly spicy scent that's ideal for the non-binary cool kid.
Ask some people what Escentric Molecule's iconic perfume smells like and they'll say nothing at all. Ask others, and they'll be so enthusiastic about how amazing it smells you might think you've lost it a little. Formulated with the revolutionary Iso E Super formula that adapts to whoever wears it, this is a perfume so personal it smells different on everyone.
A girl friend of ours recently revealed that she wore Jo Malone's woody cologne everyday after everyone (men and women) kept asking her what perfume she was wearing. Why? Because she smelt like 'a really delicious hot dude'. We can confirm that this was the case.
An old school but truly timeless perfume, Kiehl's Original Musk uses bergamot nectar, orange blossom, rose and ylang ylang for a musk with a modern twist.
Take a stroll through London's Soho and you'll smell this intoxicating scent everywhere. Spicy cardamom and earthy leather make for an addictive perfume that's instantly recognisable on men and women alike.
If we had a pound for every time we met a man who was also wearing Tom Ford Black Orchid, well, we'd have a good amount of money. Intense, long lasting and with a truly indulgent mix of black truffle, tuberose and lotus wood, it's a bold scent that makes a statement on everyone.
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THE under 35 generation is missing from the church, and World Vision is hosting a church leaders forum to explore what can be done about it."Over the last 20 years, more and more young people think the church is irrelevant, out of touch and narrowminded," said Paul Robertson, youth culture specialist for Youth Unlimited in Toronto and one of the two presenters at the forum.
While Robertson has studied youth culture extensively, McCartney said his knowledge is based mainly on his experience working with the younger generation. He suggested that the narcissistic generation is passing and the current under-35s are hungry. While there may have been a time when cool worship would bring young people to church, that time is past. If a church wants to reach the under-35s, it has to go where they are.
McCartney added that teens and young adults who have come to Jesus through parachurch organizations have particularly rejected the church not because they are too self-centred but because the church is too self-centred. Young adults are rightly dissatisfied with churches that are too inwardly focused, he said. Instead, they are looking for a church that offers deep Bible teaching and real community and goes out into the world to meet needs.
Under-35s often have a deeper social conscience than previous generations, he added. "Young people are tired of going to Christian concerts and being entertained. They want to go out and change the world."
Lewis Chifan, pastor of Youth Church Vancouver, said many of the younger generation are just not interested in organized religion. Many come from nominal Buddhist, Muslim or Christian backgrounds. The Youth Churches reach this generation because they are focused on reaching the lost, making their services comfortable for the unchurched, he said. He also noted that the Youth Churches are practicing what McCartney advocates -- most of their work takes place during the week through activities such as coaching sports and "hanging out" in the community.
The key thing in reaching this generation is relationships, said Chifan. "This generation cares a lot more about what people think. They travel in packs." Many of this generation come from broken homes, whether they grew up in poor neighbourhoods or rich ones, and they "need people they can trust and love." This is why the Youth Churches spend so much time and effort building relationships and encouraging their Christian members to develop relationships with their lost friends.
Chifan also noted the importance of good contemporary worship music. He said churched kids might sit through old-style hymns "because they are used to it," but unchurched kids won't.
There is no point in traditional churches criticizing youth churches and emergent churches, which are at least reaching the younger generation, said McCartney. Instead, they should do what is necessary to reach under-35s themselves. "There is a great opportunity. No other organization is better equipped to answer questions than the church," he said. "The traditional church is a sleeping giant" that can change the world if it will "get back to Jesus."


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Ashley Hlebinsky, curator at the Cody Firearms Museum in Cody Wyoming may not have grown up around firearms, but she's hip deep in them now. She got into the study of them through her interest in battlefield medicine. When she was 18, she got an internship at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum during which she had to identify over 200 firearms from the Civil War through today, and became fascinated with firearms as artifacts themselves. She was also drawn to a Civil War Enfield rifle on display, where a soldier had hand carved every battle that he fought in into the stock.
The museum in Cody is being renovated now, and will open on July 6. A+A recently interviewed her Ashley via email:
What's the history of the museum?
The Cody Firearms Museum is a part of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyo. The Center is over 100 years old and houses 5 museums and a full scale research library, including the CFM, Buffalo Bill Museum, Plains Indian Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, and the Draper Natural History Museum. The firearms museum got its start in 1975, when Winchester Repeating Arms Company loaned the entirety of their collection to the Center. This was approximately 4,000 firearms, as well as all the records and archival material from the company. In 1980, the Center opened the Winchester Arms Museum in a small gallery below the Buffalo Bill Museum. In 1988, Winchester gifted the collection to Cody. By then, we had continued to acquire other significant collections. As a result, the museum needed more real estate. We opened the 40,000 square foot Cody Firearms Museum in its own wing in 1991.
Why renovate?
Several reasons. While 28 years doesn't sound like a long time, it really is for a museum. From a practical standpoint and for the continued care of the collections, we needed to upgrade casework, electrical work, lighting etc. By doing so, it also freed up a lot of space in the two floor museum. The other reason was because interpretation and historical presentation has changed significantly over the years. The Cody Firearms Museum gets 2 distinct audiences in the museum. The first is the gun enthusiast, collector, hunter, target shooter etc. The second is an audience that paid admission to the Center to go to one of the other museums and wanders into the CFM; that person may not have a lot of knowledge of firearms. The old museum was arranged much more like an art museum, but it provided little historical context for people who didn't know what they were looking at. So we wanted to create a space that appealed to our wide ranging audience.
The intent of the design?
The design of the museum was to create an installation that would provide a foundation for 800 years of firearms history. Recognizing that firearms in today's society is a highly political topic, we wanted to create an apolitical museum that interpreted all of firearms history – good, bad, and indifferent – that would allow visitors to engage with the exhibits and provide enough foundational information to spark their own research, and foster productive dialogue both in the museum and beyond its wall. We have always maintained that it's not our job to tell you what to think about firearms, but to provide enough of a base level of knowledge to allow you to draw your own conclusions.
The inspiration for the design?
Since we have an encyclopedic collection, we wanted to showcase the collection because half of our audience is interested in seeing as many pieces as possible. But then we had the conundrum of how to provide more historical context. So the balance for various audiences really drove the design. The new museum in addition to thousands of firearms being showcased features reader rails of content in every case, many videos that interpret both history of technology as well as cultural history, as well as several media and mechanical interactives.
The challenges involved?
When you have two audiences that are quite different, with variances within each category, we really wanted to make sure we were provided a well rounded history of firearms. In order to get the content balanced and not too technical for some people, we had many people review the content that ranged from your average gun enthusiast to people who know little to nothing about guns, and in some cases people who really don't like them.
How big is the collection?
We have about 7,000 firearms from 1400 until today and more than 20,000 firearms-related artifacts. The scope is more weighted in American firearms but is also international.
Why do people want to see it, and how many come through annually?
The Cody Firearms Museum is a destination museum for gun enthusiasts, collectors, hunters etc. We have the most comprehensive public collection in the US. About 200,000
In this time of random mass shootings, why is an antique firearms museum relevant?
Our collection actually spans through modern day. And because of that, we try to contextualize all of the ways that firearms have been used in the history of human endeavor, which includes crime and misuse. Since we strive to not get into politics in the museum, we see our institution having the ability to provide historical background for many topics with firearms that are present on people's minds today. For example, in our Evolution of Firearms gallery, we have an overall evolution of technology, but then delve deeper into different time periods talking about changing cultures. We also have five cultural timelines that address: war, sport, legislation, misuse, and defense. Providing a historical perspective on tragedies can help navigate parts of today's culture that have changed and parts that have remained the same.
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Hello Everyone, sorry it's been a while since I posted! I've been on the road nonstop, and much of it out of the country the last couple months, but managed to get a bit of shooting and hunting in as well.


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We all connect to wi-fi connections. Particularly when they're free to access, which is a highly commonplace thing these days. Pubs, bars and even city centers these days largely all have free-to-access wi-fi technology. A group of researchers, however, claim to have found a fatal flaw in the security for the vast majority of these. It could be time to forget all those networks you so happily connect to. Your data might not be as safe as you think.
Now, of course, there are certain risks with open connections, however, largely speaking this is generally based on the user's preference. If you choose to use a dodgy named open connection, you do so at your own risk. For example, some users recently signed up to free wi-fi to find themselves contractually obliged to clean sewers.
Therefore, if there is a flaw in wi-fi security protocols, such an exposure will cause significant concern for all. Disturbingly, such a fundamental flaw does apparently exist.
In a report via the BBC, the major cause for concern is based on a particular style of security authentication.
The flaw, which has been called 'Krack' has found that devices can easily be exploited if they connect to a wireless network which utilizes WPA2 authentication. You may or may not be overly familiar with wireless security options, but WPA2 is perhaps the most commonly used with an 8 or 14 key password, so unlike open networks, there is a degree of security. Although apparently, this exploit might render it pointless.
It is during the 'handshake' authentication process that your device is temporarily vulnerable to other users. Fortunately, this is largely only someone who is close by, but then again, someone close enough to do this is generally speaking in a lot of environments close enough to physically watch you connect.
One of the worst products affected appears to be those using the Android or Linux operating system. To which the former has a significant portion of mobile phone users who will regularly connect to Wi-Fi services.
Wireless technology is clearly important to people, therefore Google has promised a fix very shortly. You may, however, want to re-consider hooking up to your coffee shops wi-fi while sipping your Latte. It appears you might be sharing more than you want.
Does this security break concern you? Let us know in the comments!


Wheels & Wings features aerobatic performers, beautiful planes and more than 100 cars, trucks and motorcycles on display.
After a one-year hiatus due to airport construction, Wheels & Wings brings its air show, car show and automobile auction back to the Vail Valley Jet Center in Gypsum Sept. 6-9, including a car show in Vail Village.
Tickets and car registration information can be found at http://www.vail automotiveclassic.com. Tickets start at $20 and include a $45 family pack with parking. VIP sponsorship prices include $250, $500 and $1,000.
Wheels & Wings is happening at the Vail Valley Jet Center on Saturday, Sept. 8, while the Vail Village Car Show is back in Vail Village on Sunday, Sept. 9.
Wheels & Wings features aerobatic performers, beautiful planes and more than 100 cars, trucks and motorcycles on display. The Jet Center features a 30,000-square-foot hangar with free activities for kids and an auction of classic cars and memorabilia.
For parking, the Eagle County Regional Airport will be offering free day-of parking on site with ECO Shuttle buses running from the event parking on the west end of the airport to the event entrance at Vail Valley Jet Center.


Buen dia. Cual es el medio (los medios) de transporte desde el Aeropuerto hasta el hotel arribando el 29 de septiembre?
Sorry, can't be of much help. We had a private car transfer from Cusco Airport to our hotel in Sacred valley, then took the train from Sacred Valley to Machu Pichu.
We arrive in Cuzco on a Thursday morning and have a departing flight at 8:00am Saturday morning. That is all the time we could manage. Does he hotel have a shuttle that will get us to the airport on time for Saturday morning or should we stay in 2 hotels?


In addition to the awards offered by the USCAP, some Companion Societies also offer Pathologist-in-Training Awards for papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy.
Companion Society Awards are not awards of the USCAP, although they are based on abstracts presented at the USCAP Annual Meeting. Recognition is for best work in the area of the Companion Society interests and applicants should be the first author of the paper. Announcement of winners and presentation of awards is the responsibility of the Companion Society. A selection committee appointed by the Companion Society will assess papers and make an award decision for each meeting.
Posters accepted for the Stowell-Orbison Awards competition will automatically be considered for one of these awards if they are in an appropriate category. Other authors wishing to apply for these awards should notify the individual listed below to validate their status as a pathologist -in- training, after receiving notification that their abstract has been accepted for presentation. After the meeting, Companion Societies are invited to list their winners on the USCAP website.
There is no deadline for the application, our award committee will judge the abstracts at the meeting and make their decision.
2. Receive invitations (for trainee and his/her mentor) to our banquet dinner to be held on Sunday evening during the USCAP Annual Meeting.


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