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As he prepares to re-enter the "real world" of isolation and long training runs, Britain's double Olympic champion thinks back to London 2012 and asks: "When do you ever get a country shouting one person's name? The whole country."
Check the space between the ears and the noise from Farah's 10,000 metres and 5,000m gold medal-winning runs is still audible. The din and ecstasy of those triumphs remain embedded.
There will be more track challenges for the inspirational long-distance star of the London Games but then there could be a new quest at the Rio Olympics of 2016. The king of his gruelling trade, Farah will yield no ground to the men he beat in London.
"I want to stay at the top and then hopefully step up to the longer distance. Not right now, but in my career," he says. "I like to see myself as the best, and know I was good at track – I achieved that – now what can I do on the road? But before that I've got the World Championships in Russia, and I'll work from there – work with my coach [Alberto Salazar], my agent [Ricky Simms]. That's the big circle: race here, race there, time it right and work from there."
The slender and gently smiling figure who emerges for our meeting is hard to place on the gladiatorial stage of the main London Olympic Stadium. But this most loved of the summer's many champions had to fight his way up Olympus.
"In road running you can have a bad patch and survive. On the track if you have a bad patch and let go of that group, you ain't coming back," he says, comparing the two disciplines. "You've got to cover every move. It's completely different. There's no hiding place. Eighty thousand people will see you have a bad day."
But 80,000 people saw Farah have a good day. Not once but twice. Only the seventh athlete to complete the 5k-10k double, the 29-year-old Farah bequeathed a gush of joyous memories, an anecdotal rise in youth participation at running clubs and a fine advertisement for Britain's ability to help immigrants to fulfil their talent.
After his 10,000m gold, an African journalist asked him: "Why don't you run for Somalia?" His answer, now, would silence any bigot: "As a kid growing up [in Hounslow], if my PE teacher [Alan Watkinson] hadn't spotted me and taken me down to that club I wouldn't be here. Everything in my life I ever did – even to read, and write – I did here. If this country hadn't given me what I needed I wouldn't be here. So when I wear that vest I'm very proud."
To frame his journey from Mogadishu to the Stratford stadium, the media developed an intense interest in his background in Somalia. Only now does Farah reveal how much that curiosity upset him when he was in the middle of his Olympic quest.
"When you get into the public eye people always push. One of the things that I thought was below the belt were the stories some of them made. Particularly one paper was pushing with phone calls when I still had one race to go. The story was coming out slowly. They kept pushing and pushing, when I still had one race to go. I had to keep my feet and think – it's nothing, don't worry about it. It was a bit crazy to know they went all that way.
"In Somalia people are really close, and someone might be your cousin but say they're your brother. People might be a distant cousin. But people come out of the woodwork everywhere. It was crazy. I do have a brother – my mum went back there – but it wasn't like they were making out. You want to say your bit but you can't."
Among the favourites for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, Farah is taking final stock of the summer (and promoting his Mobot dance video, from which he hopes to achieve a Christmas No 1 for charity) before returning to his main base in America: "We were waiting for our twins to be born [with his wife Tania]. We planned to travel as soon as they were old enough, but it wasn't as easy as that. We needed to get their visas sorted. I live in Portland, Oregon, a place for runners. Quiet, easy. Just simple. No one's going to bother you."
In his reflections Farah mixes euphoria, gratitude and a slight weariness about how fame has invaded and changed his life. The loneliness of the long-distance runner sits badly with the constant attention that comes with two Olympic golds.
"My life changed in two weeks, from walking down the street, just being Mo, having a laugh and a joke, to going down the street and everybody knowing me. Everyone doing the Mobot, having the paparazzi outside your house. Then you go down the local shop and everyone is saying well done. Our life has been completely changed, not in a bad way.
"People at the GB camp were saying, 'Wait till you go back home, you're life's not going to be simple'. And I was like: what? I didn't believe that. What people forget is: if I wasn't doing all the training, all the miles, week in, week out, in the camps, time away from home, I wouldn't have won those medals. So I'm glad I'm getting back into it, back into the real world."
In that real world, Farah is now the master of a discipline that was dominated by African athletes before he broke new ground for British endurance runners. He understands the challenge. "I've raised the bar. I can't go thinking I'm double Olympic champion and relax. You've got to think about your opposition. Other people are working as hard, and they want to beat you now because of what you have."
Now a model of dedication, Farah left behind another, more fun-loving persona. The story of him jumping off a bridge on a night out is often told. "If I hadn't changed years ago I wouldn't have made it as an athlete. I used to enjoy going out with my friends and having a laugh. I changed from that."
He managed to make that alteration without switching off the light that seems to glow inside him. I show him the picture of Usain Bolt performing the Mobot at the London stadium while Farah copies Bolt's lightning bolt routine. His eyes glow. "That was the best one. Usain Bolt doing the Mobot. You can't get any better than that, can you. He just came up with it. That was the moment. Also, him doing it as he was breaking the world record.
"Also David Beckham. Boris [Johnson]. Seb Coe. You see them watching you. And meeting Pele. Not many people get to meet Pele. Pele's a legend. And going down to No 10 – Cameron." Farah says he thought in Downing Street: "What am I doing here?"
As the races were so operatic, and the recollections so sharp, it seemed a good idea to ask him to recount both Olympic events, starting with his 5,000m heat, in which he looked physically and emotionally drained: "I did struggle in that heat and it did show, because I was tired. I wasn't resting enough. I came out and spent a bit of time with people, everyone saying, 'well done.' You go to the dinner hall and everyone's talking to you. That takes energy.
"My agent told me, 'Go home, you need rest, you look tired'. So I went back and one night just stayed in my room. Somebody went down to get my dinner. And I didn't come out."
But back to the happy stuff. First, the 10,000m final: "I remember walking through the tunnel and people were just shouting out my name. I was like, 'wow'. That was before I'd even started. My aim was to work as a team with Galen Rupp, my training partner. We do everything together, playing on the PlayStation, eating. We knew we were capable if it came down to a rat race of finishing first and second.
"But it's one thing knowing that and another knowing you have to react if anything does happen. The race started and I went to the back straight away. I thought — it's 25 laps, I don't need to waste any energy, just go to race and be aware of who's who: the Ethiopian guys and Kenenisa Bekele, who was the ultimate one. If anyone was going to beat me that night it would have been him. I knew that if I didn't go when I needed to go my training partner would have beaten me himself. It was only those two, really, and a few of the Kenyans.
"I was working my way through, and with 10 laps to go realised I needed to be closer to the front. Then with five laps to go I thought, 'I need to position myself now to run at pace'. Galen tried to go with it – and I thought, slow down, you don't need to go with it; then we found ourselves at the front, and I had to go, off the bell.
"The stadium was getting louder and louder. It was just incredible. Everyone cheering for you. As I crossed the line I knew I'd won but I automatically looked across to see who came second and it was my training partner, Galen. It was a good victory, but it was about having something left and being smart in the race — not going with the surges, because there's a lot of surging."
So then came the mini-crisis of the 5,00m heat, but redemption, in the final. He says: "Pretty similar. I had that confidence. I was pretty pumped up. I went though the race with everyone shouting 'Mo' and the British flag and going crazy. I looked across and saw so many people. It was louder than the 10,000. It was like being at a football match where everyone is shouting.
"I was smacking my legs and head to get myself psyched up, thinking, I can beat these guys, but if these guys are smart they will try to do something crazy, because I wasn't the fastest going into that race. Four guys had run faster than me. And there were three Ethiopians in there. My coach told me and Galen to work as a team, and if it comes down to a last-lap race it's every man for himself.
"With three laps to go we went to the front to block the other guys and stay there together. I kept winding, kept winding. It was just loud, loud. At that point we went a little bit faster, Galen dropped back a bit, Dejen Gebremeskel went to the front, I sat behind him, and with 600m to go came to his shoulder thinking, I'm still there, I'm still there – as long as we get to 400m like this, I can win this race.
"The other Kenyan guy [Thomas Longosiwa] tried to come past me on the outside and I thought, 'No, you ain't coming in'. As soon as you let someone past you on the outside they blocked you in. I'm not going to get blocked in. From the crowd I knew someone was coming. From the final turn I tried to run like a sprinter. You use your arms, make sure you haven't got a long stride. That's one thing Alberto told us, because you come off the ground quicker. Then crossing the line – wow, I've done it again. I think I just started smacking my head."
Disbelief was also apt when nature graced him with twins days after his second victory. Fatherhood has bolstered his defences: "It helps you, because I'm just a normal guy. When I get home I want to have a normal life, go to Tesco, watch TV, have a cup of tea, get angry about something.
"Having a family, for me, has definitely settled me down, because as a kid I was very hyper, always having a laugh. Training, running and getting married settled me down. Now I'm driving through the country thinking: this is beautiful. I used to think — why would anyone live here?"
So now Mo Farah, who grew up under the Heathrow flight path, is learning to love flowers? He laughs at that: "No, not unless I'm in trouble."


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Alexander Ochs, Director, Climate and Energy Program
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Alexander Ochs is a climate and energy policy, regulation and governance expert. Since 2009, he is Director and since 2015 Senior Director of Climate and Energy at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C. where he leads a growing team of researchers and is a member of the Institute's management team. Alexander currently also acts as President of the Forum for Atlantic Climate and Energy Talks (FACET) and Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He was a steering committee member of the Low Emissions Development Global Partnership (LEDS-GP) is the Founding Chair of the LEDS-GP Energy Working Group (EWG). Alexander also serves as an adviser to the German Government's International Climate Initiative and on a number of other advisory boards.
Alexander held senior research and/or teaching positions at the Center for Clean Air Policy, Princeton University, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), George Washington University, City University of New York, as well as Freie and Humboldt universities in Berlin. At SWP, he founded the International Network to Advance Climate Talks (INTACT), a transatlantic initiative that over the years brought together hundreds of climate decision makers and experts from different professional backgrounds including policymaking, NGOs, industries, and academia.
In 2011, Alexander Ochs received the Sustainable Future Award of the Austrian Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs. In 2012, he was appointed to the French National Research Agency High-level Evaluation Commission and in 2015 as advisor to UNEP's One Gigaton Coalition. A co-editor of three books, author of numerous academic reports and articles, director of two documentary films, and frequent contributor to public media, Alexander was a member of the German delegation to the UN climate negotiations, an Aspen Institute Young Leader and an elected member of tt-30.
Over the course of his career, Alexander has been engaged on climate and energy issues at the highest level of decision-making in all major world regions. His areas of expertise include climate, energy and environment policies of corporations, municipalities, provinces, countries and regions around the world; international climate negotiations; conventional and renewable energy technology, market trends, and policies; low-emissions growth strategies; transatlantic relations; global governance; UN reform; North-South and South-South cooperation; environmental security; human development indicators; international relations theory; discourse analysis. In 2010, he developed a methodology to design development pathways that are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable and can be applied by jurisdictions at any level from the local to the global. These Sustainable Energy Roadmaps have since been applied successfully in three countries as well as two world regions, with a number of new geographic areas upcoming.
Alexander studied at the Universities of Cologne and Munich where he graduated with a M.A. in political science, philosophy and literature. He is fluent in German and English.
>> View Alexader Ochs' CV (English)
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Selected Publications
- Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS) Baseline Report and Assessment. Worldwatch Institute. Oct 2015 (Project Director).
- Harnessing the Dominican Republic's Sustainable Energy Resources. Worldwatch Institute. Jul 2015 (Project Director).
- Sustainable Electricity Roadmap for the Dominican Republic. Worldwatch Institute/International Climate Initiative. Dec 2014 (Project Director, Co-Author).
- Roadmap to a Sustainable Electricity System: Harnessing Haiti's Sustainable Energy Resources. Worldwatch Institute/International Climate Initiative. Nov 2014 (Project Director, Co-Author).
- ECOWAS Renewable Energy Status Report & Executive Summary. ECREEE/REN-21. Nov 2014 (Project Director).
- Study on the Development of the Renewable Energy Market in Latin America and the Caribbean under the IDB Climate Change Evaluation. IDB RFP #14-002. Sep 2014. (Project Director, Co-Author)
- Negotiating Climate Change as If Development Really Mattered. Outreach, COP-19, Warsaw, 18 Nov 2013.
- Jamaica Sustainable Energy Roadmap: Pathways to an Affordable, Reliable, Low-Emission Electricity System. Worldwatch Institute/International Climate Initiative, Oct 2013 (Project Director, Co-Author).
- The Way Forward for Renewable Energy in Central America. Worldwatch Institute/INCAE/AEA/CDKN, Report. June 2013 (Project Director, Co-Author).
- Nuclear Power Recovers Slightly, But Global Future Uncertain. Vital Signs, Worldwatch Institute, October 2013 (with Michelle Ray).
- Communicating Sustainability. Perspektiven der Nachhaltigkeit in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Boehlau-Verlag, Vienna, February 2013 (Co-Editor, Introduction, Chapter One).
- Renewable Energy's Natural Resource Impacts. In: State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C. 2013, p.84 - 98 (with Shakuntala Makhijani).
- More Energy for the Negotiations. Outreach, COP-18, Doha, 28 November 2012.7
- A New Sustainable Energy Model. In: Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book 2012, London, 2012: p. 147-149.
- United States climate policy: EPA regulations as an alternative pathway to comprehensive federal action? IDDRI/Science Po. Working Papers 15/11. Paris. (with C. Serre and E. Guerin).
- Country Perspective: The United States. In: Nina Netzer & Judith Gouverneur (Eds.), Saving Tomorrow - Today? International Perspectives in the Run-Up to the UN Climate Change Conference 2011 in Durban, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: October 2011, pp. 36-41.
- Estrategia para un Sistema de Energía Sustentable: Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Eolicos y Solares de La Republica Dominicana. Worldwatch/Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America. Report. Aug. 2011 (Project Director, Co-Author).
- Active, Innovative, Dissonant – and Effective? Multi-Level Climate Policy in North America. Climate Policy, 6/2011: pp. 1386-1388.
- Sustainable Energy Roadmaps: Guiding the Global Shift to Domestic Renewables. Worldwatch Report #187, Washington DC, March 2011 (with Shakuntala Makhijani).
- Alternating Currents: How Global and Domestic Energy Trends will Affect the European Union, the United States, and the Transatlantic Partnership in 2020. In: Dan Hamilton & Kurt Volker (Eds.), Transatlantic 2020: A Tale of Four Futures, Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2011: pp. 215-256 (with Shakuntala Makhijani).
- Value of Fossil Fuel Subsidies Declines, National Bans Emerging. Vital Signs, 11 May 2011.
- Mapping the future: Why bidding farewell to fossil fuels is in our interests – and how it can be done. Climate Action 2010. London & Nairobi: UNEP & Sustainable Development International.
- From Flop'enhagen to Can'tcun? US climate policy before the mid-term elections and the UN summit. Bridges vol. 27, Oct 2010
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in China: Current Status and Prospects for 2020. Worldwatch Report 182, September 2010 (with Haibing Ma et al).
- Implications of a Low-Carbon Energy Transition for U.S. National Security. Worldwatch Policy Paper. April 2010.
- Towards a Global Green Recovery – Supporting Green Technology Markets. Report commissioned by the Policy Planning Staff of the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin: Atlantic Initiative, 26 August 2009.
- Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution. AICGS policy report #34, Washington: July 2008.
- European Climate Diplomacy: The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead. European Foreign Policy Challenges, European Council on Foreign Relations, Brussels, 2008.
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Europe, the United States, and China at the World Climate Conference. FACET Commentary No. 6/2008
- The Failures of American and European Climate Policy: International Norms, Domestic Politics, and Unachievable Commitments. Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, November 2007, pp. 149-151.
- From Mars and Venus Down to Earth. David Michel, Climate Policy for the 21st Century, Brookings: Washington, DC 2005: p. 35-76.9 (with Josh Busby)
- Towards a Transatlantic Consensus on Climate Change. Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, 2004 (Co-Editor).
- Sustainable Climate Protection Policies. Ebenhausen & Berlin 2000 (Co-Editor).

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9-year-old CEO is 11Alive's Person of the Week | News
AUSTELL, Ga -- The young CEO of an Austell non-profit that distributes blankets to the homeless and cancer patients was chosen as 11Alive's Person of the Week.
Aaliyah Rucker is only nine years old. She visited the 11Alive studio for a live interview on Saturday morning.
She came up with the name and idea for her charity A Touch of Warmth. Her family's living room in their Austell apartment is the warehouse for blankets collected to distribute to homeless shelters and hospitals. "I really like passing out the blankets because I love to see the smiles on their faces and to me that's really special," Rucker said.
She got the idea when she was four years old when she and her mother were cleaning out a closet. They found a blanket that Aaliyah loved and didn't want her mother to give away. Stacey Spade told her daughter what every mother would tell their child: "Some children don't have any blankets."
"That was just like an 'aha' moment that I needed to give blankets to everybody in the world," Rucker said.
She enlisted the help of relatives and friends and collected more than 160 blankets that first year. By 2011 A Touch of Warmth registered with the Secretary of State's office as a 501(c) 3 non-profit. It allows A Touch of Warmth to take tax deductible donations and opens it up to corporate sponsors. The children's clothing company Carters is the charity's first corporate sponsor.
Rucker has delivered more than 3,000 blankets since its inception. This year she set a goal to collect 500 blankets by December 1st. "On the news I saw a minimum of 500 people sleep on the streets every night, so that's basically where I got my number from," Rucker said.
It's not December 1st yet and she has collected more than 600 blankets surpassing her goal. "I'm very proud of her," said Rucker's mother.
With her daughter as CEO bringing blankets to everyone in the world doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
A Touch of Warmth recently launched a website where you can make donations or you can make a donation by phone by calling 770- 608-8163.
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ProComSol's Support for HART 7 and WirelessHART Devices
ProComSol released the Rev 4.0 revision to their DevCom2000 Smart Device Communicator Software for HART. This revision adds support for HART 7 and WirelessHART devices. DevCom2000 software runs on PC and provides full DD access to HART instrumentation for configuration and monitoring.


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There were no cameras during the ceremony, but afterward, everyone wanted their pictures taken with the starsAniston attends Cox baby baptism Apr 11, 2005
I hope this show is a huge hit and that people love it. Because I like playing this character more than any character I've ever playedCox enjoying her 'Cougar' character Sep 06, 2009
I don't know what will happen, but this is not like we're getting divorcedCox says divorce not imminent Nov 01, 2010
Courteney Bass Cox (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress, who achieved fame for her role as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends. Cox has also starred in Dirt and the Scream series of movies. She currently stars in the ABC sitcom Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination.
Cox was raised in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Mountain Brook, the daughter of businessman Richard Lewis Cox (January 28, 1931 – September 3, 2001) and his wife Courteney (née Bass, later Copeland). She has two older sisters, Virginia and Dottie, and an older brother, Richard, Jr. Her parents divorced in 1974 and her mother was remarried to businessman Hunter Copeland (uncle to music promoter and business manager Ian Copeland). After graduating from Mountain Brook High School in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Cox left for Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C., but did not complete her architecture course, opting instead to pursue a career in modeling and acting.
Cox studied architecture at Mount Vernon College for Women in Washington, D.C., which is now part of The George Washington University, before she dropped out. She appeared in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" as a girl pulled onstage to dance with Springsteen. Cox was the first person to use the word "period" on U.S. television to refer to menstruation in a 1985 advertising campaign for Tampax brand tampons. Her early film roles include Masters of the Universe (1987) and Cocoon: The Return (1988). Her early television work includes a starring role in the short-lived television series Misfits of Science (1985), and later a recurring role (1987–89) on the TV series Family Ties as Lauren Miller, the girlfriend of Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox). She had a supporting role as Jewel, the hard-as-nails assistant to James Belushi's character, in the 1990 fantasy film Mr. Destiny. In 1994, shortly before the debut of the sitcom, Friends, Cox appeared with Jim Carrey in the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and on Seinfeld in "The Wife" episode as Jerry's girlfriend named Meryl. In 1995, she was cast in Toad the Wet Sprocket's music video "Good Intentions". The song is also on the Friends Soundtrack.


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Predators dominate defending champs with 7-2 victory over BlackhawksNHL.com @NHLdotcom
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Rookie Marek Mazanec made 39 saves for his first NHL victory and the Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks 7-2 Saturday night.
Craig Smith scored a goal and added two assists for the Predators. The three-point game equaled the Madison, Wis. native's career high.
Matt Cullen, Nick Spaling, Patric Hornqvist, Viktor Stalberg, Mike Fisher and Shea Weber also scored for Nashville, which ended a four-game losing streak.
Patrick Kane and Brandon Pirri had the goals for Chicago, which had its four-game winning streak snapped.
Making his second start in as many days, Mazanec stopped seven shots in the first, 17 in the second, and 15 in the third.


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NotAtAllStrange needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
We are an up and coming Australian design agency looking for a stationery design that reflects both the quality our clients expect of us and the quirky and creative nature of our people.
Not At All Strange
We are a tiny Australian boutique design agency already landing enough work that we are unable to manage (or at least justify) the concepting and design of our own collateral.
What you need to know about us -> We are quirky and creative and looking to stand out. We are unique, but mostly because we choose to give our clients what they want, rather than what we want to give them. We are friendly and within reach, but professional. We add a touch of class to any project we are involved in.
We are in the process of developing our overall brand identity, so this is a great time to get involved. Help us decide what we will be – flex your creative muscles a little. We are working on our brand guidelines, our key messages, value etc – we would like you to work with us on our visual identity.
For an example of where we are at with it all, see our WIP website – http://www.notatallstrange.com We are still playing with concept, style, and language - the site is our way of experimenting in real-time - but still projects enough about us to be useful.
We are looking for an information sheet which draws upon print magazine techniques - grids, callouts, pull-quotes, etc. If you have no experience with this, we encourage you to work with us anyway. This is an opportunity to gain the experience. We can provide the nuts, bolts, feedback and direction, if you can provide the creativity and the time.
Our Logo can be downloaded at:
An existing business card can be downloaded at:
Examples of a typical magazine layout style which can be used as a starting point and for inspiration can be found at:
Sample content which can be used to fill the information sheet can be found at:
- A5 Information Sheet (sample content provided + logo provided)
- A4 Letterhead (sample content provided + logo provided)
- 90mmx55mm Business card (existing Business Card provided)
- Please note though that the Information Sheet is a requirement for winning this contest as it is currently our highest priority.
- We no longer want to use the characters associated with our logo, and are looking to use the logotype (the text) only. We do not want a new logo.
- We want someone who will work with us. We are excited about this! It's something we've been dieing to do but have not had the time. We will commit to regular detailed feedback and guidance, but in return we are looking for someone who will not just throw a design at us and say "that's it".


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monr905 wrote:I figure the more exposure this disability gets the better people will understand.
ed73 wrote:And remember, there's nothing that a Heineken plus a bong cant cure!!!
ed73 wrote:Well High, let me be honest :
mmmmm...........Hot, blonde and twitchy women like you make me a little ..... shy!!!!!!
ed73 wrote:You said tequila?????? Have you heard about tequisprite? Tequila + Sprite, sounds crazy but try it you wont be disappointed.
ed73 wrote:P.S : Twin2 I know you'll PM me with your usual jealousy stuff.... again... you are my ONLY true BFS crush!!!.Some flirting here and there couldn't hurt.Maybe we could talk with some of the new BFS chicks into the threeway we are planning!!!. Id be awesome!!!
Relax ,
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twin2 wrote:Oh my dearest Ed. You would definitely need some tequila and sprite to deal with the smoldering hotness that is highpriority and twin2.
Make sure you do some waxing first.
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twin2 wrote:I think Ed is enjoying some free internet *beep* right now
ed73 wrote:Well.... this threeway stuff is getting better by the hour, thats the way I like my chicks ....bad and nasty!!!
Im a fair guy , Ill tell you what, Ill split my 12" tool, 7" for you Becky (yes youre my fave!) and 5" for you High, sounds fair enough????
But the only questions is ¿ whos gonna be first at the spanking sessions?
Kiss goodbye to your husbands and dildos, actually Im a hybrid : I can love you like your husbands and vibrate and buzz like your dildos, all in one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Am I gonna get banned..... Again??????
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If you're making too much money, you may be doing something dangerous, Jim Cramer said. It may sound hard to believe, but generating returns that dramatically outperform the averages can be a problem.
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BOSTON, Mass. - After closing out the 2013 Little East Conference regular season with their third 7-0 record in program history, the Beacons now have their eyes set on this weekend's conference tournament, which will be held in the Clark Athletic Center Gym this Saturday and Sunday.
The Beacons, who are the number one seed, will face the fourth-seeded Colonials of Western Connecticut State University in the first of two semi-final matches tomorrow afternoon starting at noon. In the second semi-final, which will begin at 3 p.m. the second seeded Owls of Keene State College will take on the third seeded Panthers of Plymouth State University.
The winners of Saturday's matches will face each other on Sunday at noon in the championship match with the winner earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament.
WHAT'S ON THE LINE: The Beacons are looking to become only the second team in conference tournament history to win five straight championships, with Western Connecticut State University currently holding the record for most consecutive championship victories.
Not only are the Beacons looking to defend their conference title for the fourth straight year, but they are also looking to return to the NCAA Regional tournament in hopes of defending their 2012 title.
ALL-TIME SERIES: In the Little East Conference Tournament UMass Boston currently boasts a record of 13-9 in their 11 total appearances. The Beacons four conference tournament titles is third most in conference history with Eastern Connecticut still a top the record book with seven championships, followed by Western Connecticut's five.
Of the 13 postseason victories, 10 belong to head coach Terry Condon. Looking to lead UMB back to the regional tournament for the fourth time in her career at UMass Boston, Condon has lost only two conference tournament matches going into this weekend.
SCOUTING THE FIELD: This weekend's tournament will truly be a test of who is the top team in the Little East Conference. With the top-4 teams all qualifying for the semi-final round, this year's championship tournament will showcase the best the LEC has to offer.
Behind the Beacons are the Owls of Keene State College as the number two seed. Having ended their season with a 6-1 record, with their only loss coming at the hands of UMB, Keene State will be looking for their second conference title in program history this weekend. The Owls will take on in-state rival in the third seeded Panthers of Plymouth State University. In 2013, the Panthers finished with a record of 5-2 in conference play, having been defeated by the Beacons and the Owls.
The fourth-seeded Colonials of Western Connecticut State University are in the hunt for their first conference championship since 2003. Under second year head coach and 2012 Little East Conference Coach of the Year, Don Ferguson will look to bring his Colonials back to the top but will have a tough road in front of them as they face the Beacons in the first semi-final match.
SCOUTING THE BEACONS: UMass Boston enters this year's conference tournament with a new found intensity and focus. The Beacons had a strong end to their regular season winning three of their last four matches. Included in those victories was a 3-0 win over Plymouth State to clinch their fifth straight and third outright LEC regular season title. They also went on to defeat nationally ranked and the top team in the New England Region in the Hawks of Roger Williams University. At the Vassar College tri-match, UMB nearly pulled out a victory over Wisconsin Oshkosh before blanking Vassar, 3-0.
Going into this weekend's tournament key Beacons players have been honored by both the conference and by the ECAC. To date Julia Murphy (Canton, Mass.), Elizabeth Glavan (Edina, Minn.) and Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) have all been recognized by the Little East Conference Weekly Awards program three times this season. Pollock and Glavan were most recently named ECAC New England Co-Players of the Week for the first time in their careers.
Murphy still remains one of the top hitters in the conference with her .300+ hitting percentage. Glavan sits as the top libero in the Little East averaging nearly six digs per game. Pollock's setting abilities have reach all new heights as she has averaged just under nine assists per game for the entire month of October.
The Beacons will also look to the consistent play of Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) and Patsy Boland (Chicago, Ill.). Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) will be another key in the Beacons back row, while Bri Sousa's (Swansea, Mass.) blocking will have to be on full display if the Beacons are to be successful this weekend.
KEY TO THE MATCH: For the Beacons to be successful in this year's tournament they must continue to play their game. On top of that they must continue to serve tough to keep the teams they guessing. The final thing is that they must prevent runs. Anytime the Beacons have the ball on their side of the net they must put it away to limit any momentum building by their rival.


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At Whole Foods in Madison, not only is there a hybrid car parking space, but it is closer to the entrance than the spaces for disabled people!
IN THE COMMENTS: Joe Veenstra said:
If I'm not mistaken, I believe these hybrid spots are done because the builder of the property can get points for LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.Joe links to this NYT article. Read it. Amazing. I'd missed that. From the article:
"Why should someone who can afford that kind of car suddenly get special treatment? I have no problem with parking spaces for the elderly or for a young parent with an infant or handicapped drivers. But this is over the top. What about somebody who can't afford to go out and buy a fuel-efficient car or somebody with a large family that has to drive an S.U.V.? They suffer. It's not fair."
Dewb said:
Grrrrrr.... Now, I'm way more annoyed by the sign than I was when I took the picture.
We have about a dozen of these spaces in our shiny new LEED-certified office building. I've never seen more than three of the spaces being used at once, most of the time by decidedly non-hybrid contractor or catering trucks.
Getting the LEED Certification for your building virtually requires putting the hybrid-reserved signs up, because in the 2.0 worksheet it's worth one point in the "Sustainable Sites" category -- the same as improving your "stormwater management" by 25% or restoring 50% of the site to open space, which would be a lot more expensive.
I think they realize this is a bit silly, because the LEED 3.0 scoring system has changed to give you credit for "alternative commuting" in general, whether it's biking, public transport, or high-efficiency autos.