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have gained an insight into the varying perspectives of children;
have reflected on how children's perspectives fit into your developing model of good practice and how they relate to your own perspectives.
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Top Sites Revealed In 2013 Online Trust Honor Roll - Twitter Leads List
Social media sites outpaced other categories in garnering top honors
Chicago, IL (June 5, 2013) – Internet Retailer Conference & Expo – The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), a nonprofit organization with a mission to enhance online trust by collaboratively establishing best practices for privacy and security, today released the 2013 Online Trust Honor Roll report, revealing the top scoring websites recognized for excellence in privacy, security and consumer protection.
OTA completed comprehensive audits, reviewing more than 750 domains and privacy policies, 10,000+ web pages and over 500 million emails associated with the Internet Retailer 500 (IR500), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC 100), and Top 50 Social and Federal Government sites. The composite analysis focused on three major areas: Domain, Brand & Consumer Protection; Site, Server & Infrastructure Security; and Data Protection & Privacy. Combined, over a dozen attributes were reviewed for the 2013 report. Details are posted at https://otalliance.org/2013honorroll.html.
Thirty-two percent of the companies audited made the Honor Roll. Twitter had the top overall composite score and American Greetings achieved the number one ranking of all internet retailers. These companies have demonstrated a commitment to voluntary best practices, consumer protection and self-regulation. In addition to American Greetings, Amazon, Big Fish Games, Bike Bandit, Books-A-Million, iHerb, JackThreads, Levenger Co., LivingSocial, Netflix, Ralph Lauren and Rock Auto qualified for the top 10 eCommerce sites (two sites tied for two rankings are included in the top 10).
"Twitter is pleased to have earned the top score on the OTA Honor Roll. By supporting Always-On-SSL, Do Not Track, DMARC, and most recently login verification, we aim to keep users connected securely to everything happening in the global town square," said Bob Lord, director of information security, Twitter.
"Through an ongoing process we have evolved our data security and privacy practices from one of compliance to one of stewardship," said Joseph Yanoska, vice president, technology, American Greetings. "We're honored by the recognition the OTA has given us, and are committed to supporting their efforts. We share and embrace their approach to security and hope that it results in a higher level of trust from our customer base."
Social gaming and dating sites (Social 50) outpaced both the IR500 and FDIC 100 2:1 in percent of companies qualifying for the Honor Roll. This disparity is attributed to the agility of sites within this segment, their recognition of the importance of data security and privacy and their infrastructure. Many banks and commerce sites have more complex legacy sites and data centers which impede their ability to quickly adopt many of the best practices.
"The 2013 report demonstrates how business leaders have recognized the need to move from compliance to stewardship. This is critical to consumer trust and to help stem the call for more regulation. The Online Trust Honor Roll report provides prescriptive and actionable guidance for businesses to move from a state of inaction to one which will enhance consumer protection," said Craig Spiezle, president and executive director of OTA.
Key Findings of the 2013 Online Trust Honor Roll:
32% of companies qualified for the 2013 Online Trust Honor Roll, with the overall top score being awarded to Twitter.
Though 26% of the Internet Retailer 500 made the Honor Roll, a slight improvement over 2012, 53% are still failing to achieve passing scores in one or more categories, unnecessarily exposing users to security, privacy and social engineering threats.
FDIC member banks demonstrated significant improvements over last year with 25% making the Honor Roll. Of those that did not qualify, 71% received failing grades in one or more categories, largely attributed to inadequate email and domain protection or outdated privacy policies with inconsistencies observed between their written policy and actual data collection observed.
The banking sector led in the adoption of Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) certificates, at 60%, while overall worldwide growth of EV SSL certificates grew 28% over 2012.
Top U.S. Government (Federal 50) sites made improvements across all sectors; achieving 88% support of DNSSEC, yet significantly lagged in helping protect consumers from forged and deceptive email and securing their sites from known vulnerabilities. Only 20% adopted both SPF and DKIM and one third received failing grades for their SSL server security.
Adoption of email authentication to counter forged and malicious email experienced double-digit growth across three of the four segments with IR100 adoption of both SPF and DKIM jumping 20% to 76%.
Privacy scores climbed in all categories representing the importance of transparency for data collection and controls on sharing with third parties. OTA member companies led all segments with an average of 83.7% increasing 5 points over 2012.
"Being named to the 2013 Online Trust Honor Roll is a significant achievement. The adoption of best practices not only helps to protect customers, it also builds brand integrity, enhances click through and reduces the risk of shopping cart abandonment," said Spiezle.
Webinar Briefing: OTA will host an online briefing on Wednesday, June 12 at 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT. To attend, register at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/557281512
About The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) https://otalliance.org
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is a non-profit with the mission to enhance online trust, while promoting innovation and the vitality of the internet. Our goal is to help educate businesses, policy makers and stakeholders while developing and advancing best practices and tools to enhance the protection of users' security, privacy and identity. OTA supports collaborative public-private partnerships, benchmark reporting, meaningful self-regulation and data stewardship.
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Die 3. Etappe der Vuelta a España 2008 am 1. September führte über 168,6 Kilometer von Jaén nach Córdoba. Dabei waren wie am Vortag zwei Sprintwertungen und eine Bergwertung der 3. Kategorie zu absolvieren.

Gleich am Start setzte sich der Spanier Manuel Ortega vom Feld ab und startete eine Solo-Flucht. Nach 15 Kilometern hatte er bereits einen Vorsprung von sechs Minuten auf das Hauptfeld. Sein maximaler Vorsprung betrug über 15 und er fuhr somit eine lange Zeit im virtuellen Goldenen Trikot, da er auf den Führenden in der Gesamtwertung nur 48 Sekunden Rückstand hatte. Auf seiner Flucht konnte er alle beiden Zwischensprints und die einzige Bergwertung des Tages gewinnen. Hier sicherte sich Jesus Rosendo ebenfalls Punkte und konnte so das Rote Trikot des Führenden in der Bergwertung für einen weiteren Tag verteidigen. An den beiden Sprintwertungen konnte sich Daniele Bennati im Kampf ums Goldene Trikot jeweils vier Bonus-Sekunden sichern.

Paolo Bettini griff am Anstieg zur Alto de San Jerónimio an und konnte sich vom Hauptfeld lösen. 20 Kilometer vor dem Ziel beendete er den Fluchtversuch von Manuel Ortega und war bald darauf alleiniger Spitzenreiter. Aus dem Hauptfeld heraus hatte sich eine Gruppe um Alejandro Valverde und Davide Rebellin gebildet, die eine Zeit lang zwischen Spitze und Feld fuhr. 15 Kilometer vor dem Ziel war auch Bettini gestellt und das Feld fuhr geschlossen mit hohem Tempo dem Zielort entgegen.

Den Massensprint gewann Tom Boonen vor Bennati, aus dessen Windschatten er sich gelöst hatte. Bennati bekam dadurch weitere zwölf Sekunden Zeit-Bonifikation und übernahm die Spitze des Gesamtklassements.

Sprintwertungen
 1. Zwischensprint in Espejo (Kilometer 88,2) (360 m ü. NN)
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|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Zweiter || style="text-align: left;" | || Daniele Bennati ||LIQ||2 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Dritter || style="text-align: left;" | || Manuel Quinziato ||LIQ||1 P.
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 2. Zwischensprint bei Córdoba (Kilometer 123,1) (120 m ü. NN)
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| Erster || style="text-align: left;" | || Manuel Ortega ||ACA||4 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Zweiter || style="text-align: left;" | || Daniele Bennati ||LIQ||2 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Dritter || style="text-align: left;" | || Claudio Corioni ||LIQ||1 P.
|}

 Zielankunft in Córdoba (130 m ü. NN)
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| Erster || style="text-align: left;" ||| Tom Boonen ||QST||25 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Zweiter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Daniele Bennati ||LIQ||20 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Dritter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Erik Zabel ||MRM||16 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Vierter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Koldo Fernández ||EUS||14 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Fünfter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Nicolas Roche ||C.A||12 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Sechster || style="text-align: left;" ||| Greg van Avermaet ||SIL||10 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Siebter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Leonardo Duque ||COF||9 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Achter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Sébastien Hinault ||C.A||8 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Neunter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Tom Stamsnijder ||GST||7 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| Zehnter || style="text-align: left;" ||| Lloyd Mondory ||ALM||6 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| 11. || style="text-align: left;" ||| Renaud Dion ||C.A||5 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| 12. || style="text-align: left;" ||| Xavier Florencio ||BTL||4 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| 13. || style="text-align: left;" ||| Alessandro Ballan ||LAM||3 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| 14. || style="text-align: left;" ||| Juan Antonio Flecha ||RAB||2 P.
|- style="background-color: #63B8FF;"
| 15. || style="text-align: left;" ||| Nikita Jeskow ||TCS||1 P.
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Bergwertungen
 Alto de San Jerónimio, 3. Kategorie (Kilometer 142,2) (550 m ü. NN)
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|- style="background-color: #C41E3A;"
| Erster || style="text-align: left;" | || Manuel Ortega ||ACA||6 P.
|- style="background-color: #DE3163;"
| Zweiter || style="text-align: left;" | || Paolo Bettini ||QST||4 P.
|- style="background-color: #DE3163;"
| Dritter || style="text-align: left;" | || Jesus Rosendo ||ACA||2 P.
|- style="background-color: #DE3163;"
| Vierter || style="text-align: left;" | || Egoi Martínez ||EUS||1 P.
|}

03. Etappe
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Florida temperatures are warm year-round, making it a perfect habitat for thousands of species, however, much of the wildlife is still endangered. There are around 90 endangered species and 98 at-risk, so human conservation efforts are imperative in ensuring these animals don't die out. There are several conservation programs in place to help preserve the lands and waters in Florida. Here are some incredible programs you should know about. Here are some incredible programs you should know about.
Sea Turtle Protection at Blowing Rock Preservation – The Nature Conservatory of Florida
Minutes after they are born sea turtles have a tough time surviving. A new turtle nest faces many dangers in the wild. For instance, a storm could blow the nest out to sea, never giving the turtles a chance to hatch. After the turtles hatch they aren't out of danger yet. Additionally, the trek down from the where they were hatched to the ocean is life-threatening. The Sea Turtle Protection project ensures that the turtles make it safely out to sea, giving them a greater chance of survival. Since many species of sea turtles are slowing going extinct this project is making great strides in ensuring they won't go extinct.
Florida's Coral Reef System- The Nature Conservatory of Florida
The Nature Conservatory of Florida (TNC) is taking strides to preserve coral reefs. Which is one of the most threatened marine ecosystems. Man-made pollutants and high temperatures can be life-threatening to these species so, the organization is monitoring the reefs and protecting them from these threats.
Habitat Restoration in the Everglades – The National Park Service
The National Park Service ensures that the Everglades marine life is protected. It is a haven to several endangered species. Some of these endangered species include the sea turtle, the coral reef ecosystem, and others. The National Park's priority is ensuring that preserving wildlife in its natural habitat.
Save the Florida Panther = The Nature Conservatory of Florida
Save the Florida Panther is an organization focused on giving Florida panthers a protected and safe place to live. This organization is providing safe land for the panthers to roam on will help save this species from going extinct. Florida panthers were on the verge of becoming extinct entirely. That is until Save the Florida Panther began its efforts. Now there are around 200 panthers in the area.
Landscape Conservation Projects- Conservation Florida
Conservation Florida assists land owners in creating an environmentally protected landscape. This nonprofit works towards saving Florida's natural agricultural landscapes.Additionally, Landscape Conservation helps landowners understand the best ways to keep their land organically beautiful. Which is beneficial for the wildlife and nature in the area.
Big Cat Rescue
Big Car Rescue is an animal sanctuary located in Tampa area. In other words, this organization focuses on rehabilitating injured or abandoned exotic cats. Big Cat Rescue houses lions, tigers, jaguars, and other big cats. Unfortunately, many of these cats were left by owners who wanted to make them a pet, rescued from being killed for a fur coat, or retired from performance. Thankfully, Big Cat Rescue takes the animals in and provides them with a home. Otherwise, they would not have survived in the wild.
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'Ambitious Girl' Book Reminds Kids: Your Dreams Are Not A Drawback
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BY MICHEL MARTIN
When now Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris was "accused" of being "too ambitious" on the campaign trail, it spurred her niece, activist and author Meena Harris, into action.
"It really just stopped me in my tracks. … I had had enough," Harris says.
So she wrote a children's book called Ambitious Girl, in the hope that no young woman in the next generation would have her dreams characterized as a liability.
Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris / Published by Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers
"I was thinking about my kids …" Harris says. "Like, are we still going to be doing this with my daughters? Telling them, you know: You can be ambitious but not too ambitious. Stay in your lane. Stay in your little box."
The book, which is illustrated by Marissa Valdez, is a celebration of ambition. "It was really about reclaiming that word, redefining it, reframing it for the next generation," Harris says.
On what inspired her to write children's books
Becoming a kids' book author is never what I imagined. It was never on my my bucket list. I'm sort of an accidental author. … [I remember] reading the classics to my older daughter and wondering, you know, where the black children were. They were not represented on the pages of books. We would color the skin color in with a brown marker; often we would change pronouns from he, to she, to they.
And I saw, you know, firsthand … this idea that you can't be what you can't see. … Now [my daughter] says she wants to be a president and an astronaut when she grows up — and that is because she saw a family member running for president. It's because she read a book about [astronaut] Mae Jemison.
On the idea that you should not let anyone else define you
"Don't let anyone tell you who you are. You tell them who you are." … That is actually something my grandmother used to say often to my aunt, my mom and to me. … You are the only person who has power to define who you are — what your ambitions are and what your impact on the world will be. No one else should have the power to do that. And I think inherent in that is, again, claiming your ambition.
On daring to be the first
We need to continue to elect women leaders and to appoint women to positions of leadership … My grandmother had another saying, which was: "You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last." … Daring to be the first woman elected to do something, or the first black woman to be elected is, by definition, ambitious. And it's also not only … achieving representation, but in doing so, you know, people are not able to tell us: "Oh, it can't be done — it's never been done, so it can't be done." It's about challenging the status quo.
On where she gets her creative spark
My grandmother was such an influential figure in my life. And when you say that "spark," I mean, I immediately think of her. That's the life that she lived — just unapologetically her — and encouraged all of us to pursue our dreams in the same way.
I come from this family of social justice lawyers and I had these incredible role models. Right? But I was always encouraged to pursue my dreams — not to be corny — but that's how I was raised … and I'm super thankful for that.
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Kenji Watanabe and co-workers at Shizuoka University have reported in Chembiochem on the formation of dimeric diketopiperazine alkaloids from a cytochrome P450.
Phil Baran and co-workers have published in JACS on the synthesis of taxayunnanine D.
Yoshito Kishi and co-workers published in JACS on the synthesis of halichondrin A.
Someone has brought to my attention the isolation of a recent alkaloid containing a strange alkynol attached to a nitrogen.
The main supporting evidence for this structure is the 3-bond HMBC correlation of the OH proton to the alkyne carbon taken in DMSO (the alcohol is at ~9.8 ppm). The fishy thing here is that there is no 2-bond HMBC correlation (I assume it would be two bond from O-H and C-O) from the OH to the nearest alkyne carbon.
An interesting question would be how this alkynol would be introduced in the biological system. Alkynes are usually precursors to alkynols in P450 reactions and give rise to a rearrangement to form ketenes, which inactivate the enzymes.
Synthetically, I first saw alkynol structures from Sergey Kozmin's work back in 2006. I should say that even here they are not alkynols – they are siloxy alkynes.
Perhaps anybody else has an opinion on this interesting structure?
Hirokazu Arimoto and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of kendomycin.
Tatsufumi Okino and co-workers from Hokkaido University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of omaezallene.
Hans-Ulrich Leissig and co-workers at Freie Universitat Berlin have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of rubromycin.
Furstner and co-workers published in ACIE on the synthesis of mandelalide A, a macrolide found in South Africa. I wonder if this compound was named after Nelson Mandela.


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Home NEWS Drama Gong Myung Confirmed to Star in JTBC Drama 'Melo Suits Me'
Gong Myung Confirmed to Star in JTBC Drama 'Melo Suits Me'
After hitting it out of the park in the movie Extreme Job, will actor Gong Myung get a home run on television?
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Gong Myung has confirmed his appearance in "Melo Suits Me" (working title), one of JTBC's new dramas. According to reports, the actor will play the role of Choo Jae-hoon who has his hands full with two jobs. While dealing with an uncomfortable relationship with a girlfriend at his first job, he also works at a marketing company under Hwang Han-joo (Han Ji-eun). Will sparks between Hwang and Choo cause further issues in his relationship?
Nobody knows except Lee Byeong-hun, who wrote the script and will be directing the series. There seems that production is still ironing out some of the show's details given the lack of information about it. Other than it focusing on the lives of three women in their thirties, JTBC has not released much information about the drama's plot. Nonetheless, a drama like this seems ripe for romance and thrilling confrontations.
This is the second time that Gong will work with Lee Byeong-hun, who directed the hit movie Extreme Job. Since its release in late January, over 15 million people have gone to see the action flick in theaters with many expressing enthusiasm about Gong character.
Meanwhile, "Melo Suits Me" will air during the second half of the year


The combination is breathtaking: a crystal clear lake lined by sheer cliffs rising to complex mountain ranges, riddled with mountain bike trails. Add great hotel accommodation, the most experienced & respected guides in the region and you have a mountain bike holiday like nothing else in Europe.
If you want to find out more about the mountain biking, the guiding or anything else about Lake Garda – please just give us a call. Our office team is always ready to help with enquiries.
Transfers are included for all arrivals between 15:00 and 19:00 local time. We will pick-up after the last arrival flight (if you arrive early there are bars and cafes at the airport). For departures we like to allow 2.5 hours for the transfer and suggest that people book flights not leaving Milan Bergamo before 10:00am. We will set off in time for the earliest flight.
Our hotel is in Torbole Sul Garda, at the northern end of the lake. Depending on arrival times, we'll build up the bikes if you are bringing your own and make sure everything is working well. For those renting bikes we will set up the bikes for your weight and riding style. We hopefully have time for a quick spin to familiarise yourself with the local area. This evening we can walk to a good nearby restaurant for your first taste of the great Italian food, wine and hospitality on this trip.
Monte Tremalzo hosts probably the most famous trail of the area, but also some of the most secret ones! We'll take the shuttle from Torbole to near the top of Monte Tremalzo 1650mtrs. We still have some pedalling to do though as we combine bits of the classic route and the stunning views it offers over the region using tracks made by the military during WW1.
We'll stop for lunch at an old frontier post, high in the mountains catered by the Alpini, who were once the army regiment who fought in the mountains. The food here is amazing and plentiful, all freshly cooked with produce from the local area, rinsed down with local wine, all served at 1260mtrs of altitude!
We'll be riding along this famous battle frontier where you can still see the trenches from a 100 years ago. We soon leave the classic trail and head into secret single track heaven where you'll wonder if any bikes have been before us or not! It's not on any map, strava or trailforks! It starts with a gentle silent climb through a forest where the only noise is the tyres crumpling leaves and snapping the odd twig.
One of the best views in the area appears before we start to drop down beautiful natural single track, nothing man made here, no breaking bumps. Here we'll find fast flowy, then slow switchbacks, loamy, rooty, rocky a bit of everything. The final part of the descent is down the magnificent Ponale trail, an abandoned road cut into the side of a vertical cliff overlooking the lake. We end our ride in Riva del Garda harbour piazza, where the temptation of an Italian aperitivo might be hard to resist.
Back to the hotel, bike check, shower and change and then we'll head out to one of the other great restaurants in the town.
Monte Biaina is a favourite among the locals who are in the know, yet is rarely ridden by visitors, unaware of what they are missing out on!
After breakfast we'll make our way towards Arco and it's famous castle perched precariously above the town, a world renown place for climbers. Our climb takes us up a very quiet lane through a beautiful valley, past vineyards and olive groves.We'll have earned lunch at the top at the mountain refuge with stunning views over the valley below.
After lunch we start a long traverse along a secluded valley taking in the first section of single track before a short steep climb. No one has cleaned it that we know of, so the gauntlet is down! Mere mortals will push the bikes for 10 minutes, a small price to pay as it leads us the the sentiero delle viperi, amazing views as we drop down this fantastic trail, steep and flowy with a couple of technical sections to hone your skills on. We drop back down into Arco and we'll pedal through the old town, take a coffee, cake, ice cream etc in the square and do the obligatory bike watching.
A gentle ride back alongside the River Sarca will take us back to Torbole and a ride to the beach for that well earned refreshing drink in the sun next to the lake.
A shuttle uplift to 1650mtrs to give the legs a rest after Monday's effort will take us up Monte Altissimo to Rifugio Graziani.
A coffee at the rifugio to get us prepared for the first section, we are contouring round the mountain towards the narrow single track that hugs the slopes with uninterrupted views for miles (kilometres) towards Trento and Bolzano.
Photo opportunities galore along this section with the valley over a thousand metres below us.
A beautiful flowy forest section follows that will have you beaming from ear to ear as we drop down to the lunch stop. Here the landowner has opened a Baite to sample local food including cheese he makes himself. The big surprise however is what he has done underground! As a hobby, he has created a reconstruction of a WW1 tunnel, trench and underground encampment, open for guests to visit. Unique!
After lunch we climb on forest roads around 300mtrs to a point where we have a choice of 4 trails back to Torbole! One is the well known Val del Daiol, or we could do the Coast Trail with it's breathtaking views over Lake Garda as it descends over a rock plate, or the famous 601 trail but more than likely, we'll head off into the lesser known trails, off piste, off map, a mix of flowy tech with a huge grin factor! Who mentioned aperitivo and ice cream again?
Yay! Torbole can offer you complete rest or a whole host of non biking activities.
Take to the beach and recover or maybe try the windsurfing or sailing on the lake that is rated in the top 3 in the world for sailing! Rock climbing? Via ferrata? Trekking? Kite surfing? Stand up paddling? Wine and cheese sampling?
A visit to one of the many cantinas that make wine in the area or to a frantoio where olive oil is pressed. Waterfalls, the cascate di varone is nearby, canyoning, rafting? We can help organise these if you are interested. Maybe hike up to the top of Monte Brione to visit the bunkers and gun emplacements from WW1 with a spectacular view over the lake.
Walk the old world cup DH course (riding is banned due to the danger - it runs along a vertical 250mtr cliff drop!) Lots to do if you want more adventure. Did we say rest day?
What? A bike park? wait though..... it's not what you might be thinking.
Paganella is a short drive away from Garda and offers an amazing diversity of trails. It's new and they have really thought it out well. We'll take the shuttle to Paganella and from there we'll prepare and take the ski/chair lifts up the mountain with breath taking views as we ascend.
From the top there is the super smooth fast flow of Willy Wonka that a beginner would find just as much fun as a full pro rider who can jump and berm everything to the max. At the other end of the scale there is completely natural, steep, tech, loamy, rooty, single track, untouched by humans, nothing artificial.
The top of Paganella is 2250mtrs with stunning views over the surrounding valley and is served by a network of chair and ski lifts offering a combination of trails that would need several days to take in everything. A favourite with riders every time we visit.
We'll take lunch at one of the many restaurants that are on the mountain and the final run will be from the very top of the mountain, where we can take a coffee before our final rock 'n roll descent down natural single track, all the way down to the shuttle waiting for us.
It's Freeride Friday! Last day of the week so we'll keep the climbing to the minimum and use the shuttle all day! But don't underestimate the effort involved, you'll know you've been out after today!
We use the shuttle to take us up Monte Zugna. An site of significant historical interest, Zugna was a huge battlefront in WW1 for 3 solid years the front line didn't move so the area has an abundance of history and acknowledgent to the war and it's effect on the region as well as the landscape.
We will be riding next to and even in the trenches, we;ll pass by caves used for munitions and armaments, sniper points etc. The trails are a legacy from that era, built by the military to evade detection. Zugna is relatively undiscovered apart from the locals.
We'll shuttle up between 3 and 4 times and get in around 3500mtr of descending on the labyrinth of trails on the mountain. A mix of fast and flowy, tech and rocky, tight and twisty, all on single track! Lunch on top of the mountain to boot! One of the guide's favourite days out!
On our last day we pack up our bikes and start our transfer back to the Airport for a flight home. Once again our expert guide will help with any packing issues, if you have any. If you would prefer to spend more time in Italy, either staying in Lake Garda or breaking the flight home to spend a few days exploring Milan, please let us know as we can help with these arrangements.
Skill grade C. There is a great deal of singletrack riding, sometimes on narrow, steep, rocky trails which cling to the sides of the mountains. In places there are options to avoid the most technical riding, but a good level of skill and confidence is required throughout the tour. "Drops-off" are avoidable if needs be.
Lake Garda is in the north of Italy, on the edge of The Alps. Summers are warm with reliable sunshine, but a cool wind blows inland from the lake in the afternoons, making it very comfortable for cycling even in the middle of summer. The surrounding mountains are dramatic and make this a favourite location for climbers, mountaineers and mountain bikers alike. However, mountains can also affect the weather so there is always the chance of cold spells or rain, even though we do not expect too much of either during the biking season.
We stay in hotels with en-suite rooms, a laundry service for your bike gear and a very bike friendly attitude. The hotels are on the northern shore of Lake Garda – right by the Lake – in the lively town of Torbole. This is the place where most windsurfers, bikers and climbers choose to stay when in the region. All breakfasts are included. Lunches and evening meals are not included as there is so much choice and, for example, large pizzas with a beer costs just 10-12 Euros in most restaurants.
All rides are led by a qualified, experienced mountain bike guide who has worked in the Garda region for over 10 years. They always ride with good tool kits, spares and first aid kits, with the aim of looking after you and your group in any eventuality. We also work closely with some of the leading mountain bike shops in the region, providing rental bikes but also a very useful repair and maintenance service, should you need it. Most bike spares are readily available here too.
Milan Bergamo Transfers are included for all arrivals between 15:00 and 19:00 local time. We will pick-up after the last arrival flight (if you arrive early there are bars and cafes at the airport). For departures we like to allow 2.5 hours for the transfer, and suggest that people book flights not leaving Milan Bergamo before 10:00am. We will set off in time for the earliest flight.


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Q: виснет программа Здравствуйте, пишу отладчик под windows, использую winapi и qt, написал цикл обработки сообщений отладки, он стандартный:
DEBUG_EVENT debug_event = {0};
for(;;)
{
    if (!WaitForDebugEvent(&debug_event, INFINITE))
        return;
    ProcessDebugEvent(&debug_event);  // User-defined function, not API
    ContinueDebugEvent(debug_event.dwProcessId,
                  debug_event.dwThreadId,
                  DBG_CONTINUE);
}

но с ним программа виснет, скажите пожалуйста что надо добавить в этот цикл, чтобы главное окно приложения не подвисало, заранее благодарю за помощь.

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