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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (72 votes).
In short: Well organised and friendly day for the whole familyIn full: A mainly flat two lap 10k through residential streets, part of Alexandra Palace, and a start / finish in Priory Park (North London)as part of the local YMCA festival. Fantastic organisation, friendly marshals, and some good pockets of support but the route does suffer from lack of scenery.A great day for the family with organised chip timed 1m races for boys and girls split into their respective age groups. Water, banana, and free doughnut at the end thanks to local retailers. I avoided the doughnut but lots of people seemed to want it!Date of review: May 23, 2011
In short: Favourite 10k!!! (a bit biased since I am a local...)In full: Great race HIGHLY recommendedDate of review: February 15, 2011
In short: Nice local race, let's face it, we all sign up for the free donut....Date of review: May 18, 2010
In short: Good FunIn full: Very enjoyable race, great atmosphere, slightly bizarre course (but I guess that is part of the charm). Not a PB course unless you get right out ahead and avoid the bunch ups near the start. Will be running it next year.Date of review: May 17, 2010
In short: Great funIn full: I ran this for the first time. It's my local race so enjoyed running on home turf. Was beaten by a sprint finish from a gentleman completing his 20th consecutive Hornsey 10k - hat's off to you sir!Date of review: May 17, 2010
In short: Is the hill getting longer?In full: A great event bigger than ever this year as it was the 20th one - now a festival taking over the whole park. That side of it was great but did detract quite a bit from the running - especially the children's fun runs later in the day. HOWEVER this is always a brilliant day, wonderfully organised and lots of fun. The hill up by Ally Park Station is a killer, mainly cos you have to do it twice but also cos it never stops. It really hurt me this year but somehow I still managed a PB. Highly reccomended to anyone who lives in North London but be quick next year it sells out very fast.Date of review: May 17, 2010
In short: A good local race that attracts both the fast and slow crowdIn full: It's unusual to get a 10K in the London suburbs and as such this is a fine race that's been going for twenty years. The scenery is nothing much but the festival is good for the whole family.Date of review: May 16, 2010
Date of review: March 24, 2010
In short: A good local raceIn full: I also thought the final 1km was too long. I have since found out that it was 150m over........ A very good race howeverDate of review: June 12, 2009
In short: It is more than 10k but i was 10 mins faster this yearIn full: Chip timing was a vast improvement on last year, it does get a little bottle necked but i take that as a chance to get my breath.Excellent support even in the rain. Great local raceDate of review: May 21, 2009
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A woman loses her phone, and recruits an army of volunteers to get it back. A dissatisfied airline passenger spawns a movement with her weblog. Citizens with camera-phones are more effective than photojournalists at documenting the London Transport bombings. The world's largest encyclopaedia is created by unmanaged participants. A handful of kids in Belarus create a political protest the state is powerless to stop. Everywhere you look, groups of people are coming together to share with one another, work together, or take some kind of public action.For the first time in history, we have tools that truly allow for this. In the same way the printing press amplified the individual mind and the telephone amplified two-way conversation, now a host of new tools, from instant messages and mobile phones to weblogs and wikis, amplify group communication. And because we are natively good at working in groups, this amplification of group effort will change more than business models: it will change society.
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New Leverage for Old Behaviors
Human beings are social creatures—not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect. Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity. We have always relied on group effort for survival; even before the invention of agriculture, hunting and gathering required coordinate work and division of labor. You can see an echo of our talent for sociability in the language we have for groups; like a real-world version of the mythical seventeen Eskimo words for snow, we use incredibly rich language in describing human association. We can make refined distinctions between a corporation and a congregation, a clique and a club, a crowd and a cabal. We readily understand the difference between transitive labels like "my wife's friend's son" and "my son's friend's wife, " and this relational subtlety permeates our lives. Our social nature even shows up in a negation. One of the most severe punishments that can be meted out to a prisoner is solitary confinement; even in a social environment as harsh and attenuated as prison, complete removal from human contract is harsher still.
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. (Indeed, among people who design software for group use, human social instincts are sometimes jokingly referred to as the monkey mind.) But humans go further than any of our primate cousins: our groups are larger, more complex, more ordered, and longer lived, and critically, they extend beyond family ties to include categories like friends, neighbors, colleagues, and sometimes even strangers. Our social abilities are also accompanied by high individual intelligence. Even cults, the high-water mark of surrender of individuality to a group, can't hold a candle to a beehive in terms of absolute social integration; this makes us different from creatures whose sociability is more enveloping than ours.
This combination of personal smarts and social intuition makes us the undisputed champions of the animal kingdom in flexibility of collective membership. We act in concert everywhere, from simple tasks like organizing a birthday party 9itself a surprisingly complicated task) to running an organization with thousands or even millions of members. This skill allows groups to tackle tasks that are bigger, more complex, more dispersed, and of longer duration than any person could tackle alone. Building an airplane or a cathedral, performing a symphony or heart surgery, raising a barn or razing a fortress, all require the distribution, specialization, and coordination of many tasks among many individuals, sometimes unfolding over years or decades and sometimes spanning continents.
We are so natively good at group effort that we often factor groups out of our thinking about the world. Many jobs that we regard as the province of a single mind actually require a crowd. Michelangelo had assistants paint part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Thomas Edison, who had over a thousand patents in his name, managed a staff or two dozen. Even writing a book, a famously solitary pursuit, involves the work of editors, publishers, and designers; getting this particular book into your hands involved additional coordination among printers, warehouse managers, truck drivers, and a host of others in the network between me and you. Even if we exclude groups that are just labels for shared characteristics (tall people, redheads), almost everyone belongs to multiple groups based on family, friends, work, religious affiliation, on and on. The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
One obvious lesson is that new technology enables new kinds of group-forming. The tools Evan Guttman availed himself of were quite simple—the phone itself, e-mail, a webpage, a discussion forum—but without them the phone would have stayed lost. Every step of the way he was able to escape the usual limitations of private life and to avail himself of capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal, built on what the publisher Tim O'Reilly calls 'an architecture of participation."
When we change the way we communicate, we change society. The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants. The hive is a social device, a piece of bee information technology that provides a platform, literally, for the communication and coordination that keeps the colony or from their shared, co-created environment. So it is with human networks; bee hives, we make mobile phones.
But mere tools aren't enough. The tools are simply a way of channeling existing motivation. Evan was driven, resourceful, and unfortunately for Sasha, very angry. Had he presented his mission in completely self-interested terms ("Help my friend save 4300!") or in unattainably general ones ("Let's fight theft everywhere!"), the tools he chose wouldn't have mattered. What he did was to work out a message framed in big enough terms to inspire interest, yet achievable enough to inspire confidence. (This sweet spot is what Eric Raymond, the theorist of open source software, calls "a plausible promise.") Without a plausible promise, all the technology in the world would be nothing more than all the technology in the world.
As we saw in the saga of the lost Sidekick, getting the free and ready participation of a large, distributed group with a variety of skills—detective work, legal advice, insider information from the police to the army—has gone from impossible to simple. There are many small reasons for this, both technological and social, but they all add up to one big change; forming groups has gotten a lot easier. To put it in economic terms, the costs incurred by creating a new group or joining an existing one have fallen in recent years, and not just by a little bit. They have collapsed. ("Cost" here is used in the economist's sense of anything expended—money, but also time, effort, or attention.) One of the few uncontentious tenets of economics is that people respond to incentives. If you give them more of a reason to do something, they will do more of it, and if you make it easier to do more of something they are already inclined to do, they will also do more of it.
Why do the economics matter, though? In theory, since humans have a gift for mutually beneficial cooperation, we should be able to assemble as needed to take on tasks too big for one person. If this were true, anything that required shared effort—whether policing, road construction, or garbage collection—would simply arise out of the motivations of the individual members. In practice, the difficulties of coordination prevent that from happening. (Why this is so is the subject of the next chapter.)
But there are large groups. Microsoft, the U.S. Army, and the catholic Church are all huge, functioning institutions. The difference between an ad hoc group and a company like Microsoft is management. Rather than waiting for a group to self-assemble to create software, Microsoft manages the labor of its employees. The employees trade freedom for a paycheck, and Microsoft takes the cost of directing and monitoring their output. In addition to the payroll, it pays for everything from communicating between senior management and the workers (one of the raisons d'etre for middle management) to staffing the human resources department to buying desks and chairs. Why does Microsoft, or indeed any institution, tolerate these costs?
They tolerate them because they have to; the alternative is institutional collapse. If you want to organize the work of even dozens of individuals, you have to manage them. As organizations grow into the hundreds or thousands, you also have to manage the managers, and eventually to manage the managers' managers. Simply to exist at that size, an organization has to take on the costs of all that management. Organizations have many ways to offset those costs—Microsoft uses revenues, the army uses taxes, the church uses donations—but they cannot avoid them. In a way, every institution lives in a kind of contradiction: it exists to take advantage of group effort, but some of its resources are drained away by directing that effort. Call this the institutional dilemma—because an institution expends resources to manage resources, there is a gap between what those institutions are capable of in theory and in practice, and the larger the institution, the greater those costs.
Here's where our native talent for group action meets our new tools. Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, lots of new groups, and not just more groups but more kinds of groups. We've already seen this effect in the tools that Evan used—a webpage for communicating with the world, instant messages and e-mails by the thousands among his readers, and the phone itself, increasingly capable of sending messages and pictures to groups of people, not just to a single recipient (the historical pattern of phone use).
If we're so good at social life and shared effort, what advantages are these tools creating? A revolution in human affairs is a pretty grandiose thing to attribute to a ragtag bunch of tools like email and mobile phones. E-mail is nice, but how big a deal can it be in the grand schem...
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"The Collar" Chapel Message from Tim Wiarda
Tim Wiarda, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary professor of New Testament Studies, spoke to an audience of students, faculty, and staff about the poem 'The Collar.' "This poem is from
The Temple
, a book of poems written by George Herbert, and published in 1633," Wiarda said. "Herbert, an early seventeenth century man of considerable talent and ambition, was pastor of a country church in England."
"This is a poem about a pastor whose calling begins to feel like bondage," he explained. "Or perhaps it is about a pastor who needs to be reminded he has a higher calling." Throughout the poem are expressions of discouragement and descriptions of the poet's emotions as a pastor. "I call it 'George Herbert's Bad Day,' " said Wiarda.
"I'm going to assume that scripture passages lie behind this poem, as they do throughout many of the poems in this book." He explained how certain Bible passages come to mind when he reads the poem, and how these passages might have influenced George Herbert.
In particular, Wiarda examined the conclusion of the poem:
But as I rav'd and grew more fierce and wilde
At every word
Me thoughts I heard one calling "Childe"
And I reply'd, "My Lord."
"In John 20 we read of the account of Mary, where she is weeping and distraught over Jesus' death and missing body, and Jesus comes to her," Wiarda recalled. "Mary is emotionally upset; she is experiencing a sense of grief and loss at the death of Jesus. But, as in Herbert's poem, Jesus speaks just one word that says it all (who he is and their relationship). Jesus says 'Mary' and she replies 'Rabboni' (my teacher)."
The second passage Wiarda considered is what Paul said about a tormenting thorn in 2 Corinthians 12. "Paul implored the Lord three times to remove it. We don't know what this thorn was, but it's clear it caused a physically and emotionally distressing situation in the midst of his ministry," Wiarda explained. "Just as in the poem, just as in the case of Mary, the Lord says in just a few words, 'My grace is sufficient for you; my power is made perfect in weakness.' "
A third passage suggested by the poem is Peter's experience of Jesus in John 21. Wiarda describes Peter's calling as a fisher of men and a shepherd of the sheep. "Peter seems to be drifting. He says 'I'm going fishing' and winds up taking six other disciples with him. And in the midst of this move toward an old way of life, Jesus comes. He calls out 'Children!' and he gives a sign (a catch of fish) – the one sign most likely to remind Peter of his calling. Then he asks Peter three times, 'Do you love me?' And tells Peter three times 'Shepherd, feed my sheep.' "
"Let's talk about us," said Wiarda, addressing his listeners. "George Herbert says he was raving and growing fierce and wild. Maybe we find ourselves in that frame of mind sometimes. Do these Scripture passages contain lessons for raving Christian workers? I think they do."
First, the Lord knows your outward situation and your inward reactions, and he will come to you and speak to you, explained Wiarda. "You might say the cases of Mary, Paul, and Peter are unique. But I wouldn't be too quick to discount these examples. The way Jesus comes and speaks to us may not be the same as with these three, but the fact that he came to these distressed or wavering disciples does tell us something about how the risen Lord still operates."
"If you think about it," Wiarda said, "Jesus had to make a certain number of resurrection appearances. But other appearances were deliberately to meet a more individual need. Mary's intense grief, Peter's wavering about his calling. The point seems to be that Jesus takes steps to meet the needs of individual disciples."
"So I think it's quite likely, if you're getting fierce and wild in the midst of your ministry, at some point Jesus will come and speak to you," the professor said to the seminarians.
"It may be quite obvious and dramatic, but it might also be a quieter voice you could almost miss," he said. "Have you ever sort of heard, but don't hear, someone calling you? Make sure when you sort of hear the Lord's voice, you pause and catch the words," Wiarda cautioned.
"Jesus may not say much, but he's going to take you back to the original heart of the matter: who you are to him and who he is to you."
Wiarda reminded his listeners, "Jesus said 'Mary' and that was enough to show her the relationship between them. With all its history still intact, he knew about her feelings, and sought her out. He was still the one she called 'Rabboni.'"
With Peter, Wiarda explained, Jesus came to him, first with a sign, and then with repeated questions "Do you love me?" He pursued Peter, forcing him to remember and recognize where his deepest love really lay. He reminded Peter of the calling that Jesus expected him to fulfill, and reminded him of what it would cost. "When you were young you went where you wanted. The day is coming they will take you where you do not want to go. Follow me!" For Peter, those words of Jesus, "Follow me," were strong enough to take him to his death.
For Paul, struggling with his thorn, Jesus let him know he was there, but also that in this case his situation wasn't going to change. "Maybe he reminded Paul of his original calling on the Damascus Road, and how suffering was going to be part of it," Wiarda inferred. "But Jesus did give Paul an assurance that he would continue to be with him. And that his grace would see him through with power."
In conclusion, Wiarda explained how these passages give us a lesson about how to respond when Jesus comes to us. "Jesus called her name, and Mary said 'Rabboni.' Peter was given a sign through the fish, and then a question, and Peter started following. Paul with his thorn said 'OK,' acknowledging that suffering would be part of his calling. The Lord called these disciples, and he will call you back to the heart of the matter."
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours also. Funny you should mention that. I was in a somewhat of a band in high school also. I played a mean radio. I could turn that dial to almost any obscure radio station in the area. I was good!!
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NEW ULM – Monica Sturm, 63, of New Ulm, formerly of Hanska, died Thursday, February 7, 2013, at the Divine Providence Home in Sleepy Eye.
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in New Ulm. Burial will follow in the New Ulm Catholic Cemetery.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m., Monday and 7:30-10 a.m. Tuesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home SOUTH CHAPEL in New Ulm. There will be a parish prayer service at 6 p.m. at the funeral home on Monday.
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Support programs for homeless youth
To the editor:
Youth homelessness in Minnesota is a real problem even in southern Minnesota.
Currently the Minnesota legislature has been deciding what to do with a surplus. I believe they could use this money to increase funding for the Homeless Youth Act (Minn Statute 256K.45). This Act provides funding for programs which serve homeless youth.
In Mankato there is a program called the Reach which provides services to homeless youth such as place to shower, a food pantry, toiletries, independent living skills classes for cooking, budgeting, and renting apartments, and computers for homework, applying for jobs, and writing resumes. For youth who are homeless, these services are crucial to help them become independent and self-sufficient. The Reach serves youth from Brown County as well as seven surrounding counties.
Many of us won't give much thought to where we will sleep tonight but if we do the options likely won't include sleeping under a bridge overpass, in a laundry or storage room of an apartment building, abandoned buildings around town, or in parking garage stairwells which are all places youth have identified in the last year in Region 9 according to the Reach.
I am encouraging you to support programs like the Reach with volunteer hours, supply drives, or by emailing your legislators and asking them to support the HYA. You can find The Reach on Facebook or at 507-720-0331. You can access your legislator's information at www.leg.state.mn.org and clicking on "who represents me".
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (435 votes).
In short: Quite a hilly race that will probably challenge 1st timersDate of review: June 24, 2009
In short: Like ClockworkIn full: Great race. Nice enough scenery. Difficult to be objective about the course difficulty as I had a bad run, but I'm guessing all of the gradual but persistent inclines would be a good challenge, even on a good day. Stewards and organisation absolutely magnificent. Lots of stewards with rattles to cheer you on :) Lots of clear markings and the most water stations I've ever seen! All credit to the organisers. Ice lolly at the end strangely seemed to make up for the terrible time. Nice touch. Be back next year!Date of review: June 23, 2009
In short: Hot! Really enjoyable, well organized, great atmosphereDate of review: June 21, 2009
In short: Lots of competitors running through pretty countrysideIn full: Big field, but room to run most of the time. Quite hilly early on but big downhill stretch on the way back.Always seems to be hot as hell, but there were plenty of water stations.Date of review: June 17, 2009
Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: Great atmosphere, loved it!Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: excellent event great for the whole familly, kids loved it and want to do it again!Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: Great event, excellent organisationIn full: I last did this in 2006 and it has improved dramatically with a much more interesting and varied course through country lanes. I wouldn't call it particularly hilly, but I do live in the Cotswolds. Excellent organisation, lots of friendly marshalls and more than plenty of water stops on a warm day. Thanks to all those volunteers who worked so hard. Nice tee-shirt too and the small things like free face painting for kids on the day was a nice touch.Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: Brilliant fun. Will be back next year.In full: This was my first time at the St. Albans and I will def. be back next year. Ok this course is hilly. People who had run it previously warned me about the hills at 3 miles and 6 miles. And yes, they are there but not killer hills - but tiring, my legs certainly felt it. Not a PB course but definitely one to enjoy. Marshalls were top class, friendly competitors, and the ice-lolly at the finish was perfect. Weather was great too! Date of review: June 17, 2009
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GUEST COMMENTARY: First Amendment protects everybody's religious freedom
(RNS) Attempts to favor one faith — historically Protestant Christianity — over others in the public square are doomed to fail in the new religious America of the 21st century. But that won't stop many in the majority from trying. By Charles C. Haynes.


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Polygon: "Launching Gears of War 2's online play was the biggest regret of former Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski, according to a recently posted FAQ on his Tumblr."
He should regret it. That was the most broken, unplayable mess of a multi player I've ever played in my life. Nothing worked right. I wanted my money back after I played that trash. I traded it in after a couple of weeks and the game was still unplayable. Gears 2 was the worst multi player launch of all time.
I actually like Gears 2 online a little more than Gears 3. I wish all the Gears 2 maps DLC included were in Gears3. Cause I am not to fond of most Gears 3 maps.
I'm surprised he acknowledges some of the mistakes in the game. Though I actually do like the buffness of the characters.
Loved the first gears but i couldn't handle playing the sequels. The bigger the game the worst become for me. It's still fun and hard playing gears of war 1 multiplayer >.< ..


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Commentary: Grossman Was Locker Room Asset
The Columbus Dispatch - December 19, 2012 03:07 PM
I addressed this a bit on Twitter last night, but it sounds like I need to empty the quote file concerning Cole Grossman.
After the Crew parted ways with the second-year player in advance of the MLS waiver draft, Grossman told me he had asked to be released because he wanted a fresh start elsewhere. It was a risky move, he said, but one Grossman felt he had to make in order to be successful as a professional.
He was then the only player taken in the draft when Real Salt Lake selected him. In the past few days, however, I've heard whispers of Grossman being an unpleasant presence within the locker room.
I am not inside the locker room aside from when it is opened after games, but that picture of Grossman is not the one I developed during the course of the season.
As I grew more familiar with the team during the year and no longer needed a roster to identify players, it did not take long to see that Grossman was among the most vocal players during practice. Whether it was calling out instructions to his teammates, praising a positive play or celebrating a goal, he was easily among the most enthusiastic players on the field. So it was that at one point earlier in the season, I was considering a story along the lines of, "Cole Grossman: Future Crew Captain?"
"He is a leader," midfielder Justin Meram said of Grossman in mid-August. "He's shown it. In the middle of the field at that age, he's doing everything right out there. Kudos to him. I know it wasn't an easy place to play and they had a great midfield but out of all those guys I feel like he was the one shining on Sunday and he's been shining. Our record when Cole plays speaks for itself. I'm happy for him and he's only going to get better."
When the Crew lost to the Dayton Dutch Lions in the U.S. Open Cup, it was a somber locker room that was opened to reporters. Slumped back inside his locker near one corner of the room, Grossman had a towel over his head and a far-off look in his eyes. I would later write about how much Grossman hated losing (read it here). http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2012/08/22/grossman-starting-to-make-difference.html
Veteran midfielder Eddie Gaven described Grossman as the type of player toward whom others gravitated.
"He's a very friendly, outgoing guy," Gaven said in June. "He's a guy that some of the younger guys look to as well to feed off his energy a little bit. I'm happy he's been able to take advantage of his chances. He's going to be a very good player in this league for sure."
But a few days before the announcement was made that Grossman would not be returning, I caught up with him after the team's final day of training. He measured his words carefully.
"I'll just say this: there's a lot that goes on at this club and I'll say this first: the character of the players on this club is unbelievable, one to 32," Grossman said. "I feel like we have a team of standup individuals and really quality guys and to me, I feel so honored and happy to have been on a team like that. That's something that fans and media don't always know, but it's a special group of guys and I think the guys in this locker room deserve the best."
Plus, there was the video of RSL general manager Garth Lagerway telling season-ticket holders that the club had taken offers for Grossman. Also included was Lagerway saying how at least one member of the Crew organization went out of his way to praise Grossman to the general manager after his selection.
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The sentiment on Twitter following Georges St-Pierre's highly controversial split decision title defense over Johny Hendricks at UFC 167 on Saturday night was pretty consistent.
"Worst decision EVER," wrote former interim champion Carlos Condit, echoing the feelings of a plethora of fans and professional fighters alike, all of whom thought Hendricks did enough to warrant the nod.
From a quick glance, it certainly appeared as though Hendricks deserved the victory. St-Pierre's face was heavily busted up, while Hendricks looked fresh as a daisy.
But there's more to aesthetics than meets the eye.
Although UFC president Dana White only thought St-Pierre won the third round, most pundits agreed he also won the fifth.
In other words, this championship fight ultimately came down to the scoring of the opening stanza.
Before we go into greater detail about the fight, it's worth mentioning that half points could have potentially solved the problem. The rounds Hendricks unanimously won were certainly more decisive than the rounds edged to the champion.
Nonetheless, it was a spirited fight with the two gladiators trading rounds back and forth. Under Pride rules, there's no question Hendricks came out on top. Under the 10-point must scoring system, however, it becomes much more subjective.
In reality, this decision was no more controversial than Benson Henderson's wins over Frankie Edgar and Gilbert Melendez or Jon Jones' triumphant decision over Alexander Gustafsson this past September.
Let's take a closer look at the scoring of that pivotal first round.
St-Pierre came out sharp, quickly blasting through Hendricks with a power double-leg takedown. Hendricks answered back with a takedown of his own later in the round, but the pace was set by the champion, who also attempted a guillotine choke in the opening seconds.
In terms of striking output, St-Pierre landed 19 significant strikes in the round compared to Hendricks' 18, while Hendricks landed 27 total strikes compared to 26 from the champion.
No matter how you slice it, this was an exceptionally close round. Hendricks may have hurt St-Pierre more with his strikes, but the output and work rate were virtually identical.
It might be tainted logic, but you have to decisively defeat the champion to take his belt. Did Hendricks really do enough to put a stamp on the win?
I won't go into great detail about the rounds that followed because there seems to be widespread agreement about who won them. But there's no denying the possibility that the first round could have gone either way. In cases where only a few strikes separate the two fighters, the champion should get the benefit of the doubt. After all, St-Pierre has reigned atop the division since 2007 and controversial title changes run the risk of tainting the championship.
Visibly disappointed about the call, Hendricks was hardly humble in defeat, claiming that he clearly beat St-Pierre up and already considers himself the true champion.
With all due respect to the 30-year-old Oklahoma native, if he really thinks he deserved it that bad, then he would have clearly won more than two rounds. He arguably won three, but that's where interpretation gets tricky. The heavy-handed southpaw has every right to feel slighted after coming so close to winning the gold, but he should have taken a page of out St-Pierre's book. Win or lose, the champion is always classy. The right thing to do would have been to pay respects to St-Pierre for his gutsy performance, particularly with the possibility of impending retirement.
Hendricks will get another shot in due time, whether it's a rematch with St-Pierre or an interim title fight. But he should stop walking around like he positively beat the champion to a bloody pulp because it was a closer fight than he seems to accept. This time around, judges sided with the longtime champion, two of them scoring the bout 48-47 for St-Pierre with the third casting a dissenting 48-47 score for Hendricks.
Not only was the first round close, but St-Pierre actually outlanded Hendricks 101 to 85 in significant strikes over the course of five rounds, while scoring an additional takedown and attempting the fight's lone submission.
St-Pierre has overcome adversity time and time again. Hendricks presented an admirable challenge on Saturday night, but that's all it was. At the post-fight press conference, St-Pierre repeatedly stated he left everything in the cage.
A quintessential champion and now the record-holder for most UFC victories at 19, the story coming out of UFC 167 should be the possibility of one of the sport's true legends retiring for good after a valiant title defense. Rather than appreciating the legacy St-Pierre leaves behind and analyzing the future landscape of the division, all focus seems to have shifted to the judges and their seemingly controversial assimilation of the fight.
Like it or not, St-Pierre was the champion and he got the job done yet again. It was closer than ever, but that doesn't change the end-result.
Personal biases aside, St-Pierre is a true champion. If this was indeed the last we see of the 32-year-old French-Canadian phenom in the Octagon, we should be thankful for the memories he's left behind.
Regardless of how you scored Saturday's headliner, St-Pierre is still the greatest welterweight of all time. Before we get on his case about a decision he didn't control, it's about time we appreciate all the blood, sweat and tears he's left in the Octagon over the years.


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The Hartford Receives Two Honors for Its Dedication to Individuals with Disabilities
In crafting its list, CAREERS & the disABLED asked its readers to list the top three companies or government agencies that they would most like to work for or believe would provide a positive working environment for people with disabilities.
The Disability Matters awards are presented annually by Springboard Consulting, a Mendham, N.J. firm that works with companies to successfully market their products and services to people with disabilities and their families, as well as support this segment of the population in the workplace through diversity, work life, and human resource initiatives.
Work Life Matters, a national business publication that educates senior executives of companies about the importance of work life benefits and services, partners with Springboard Consulting in presenting this award.
"We are honored to be recognized by CAREER & the disABLED and Springboard Consulting. The Hartford has a long-standing history of helping people of all abilities, through its products, services, research, and philanthropy," said Ron Gendreau, executive vice president of The Hartford's group benefits division. "These two awards demonstrate that The Hartford is leading by example."
Both publications hailed The Hartford's Ability Philosophy, which focuses on an individual's abilities, not perceived limitations. That ability focus is embodied in The Hartford's claims and rehabilitation services provided to claimants. "We strongly believe that people want to return to active, productive lives," Gendreau said.
The Hartford ranked 19th on the CAREERS & the disABLED's Top 50 Employers List, the second time it has been recognized by the publication's readers.
The Hartford was nominated for the Disability Matters award by Bonnie St. John, a U.S. Paralympic silver and bronze medalist, author and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. She will serve as the keynote speaker for the 3rd Annual Disability Matters Conference on April 16 in New York.
"I am thrilled that The Hartford has been honored with the Disability Matters award. I don't know of a company that has started earlier or has done more to support individuals with disabilities," she said.
The Hartford will receive the 2009 Disability Matters award in the category of marketing products or services to individuals with a disability. The Hartford is the leading U.S. seller of group disability insurance, according to LIMRA International (as of Sept. 30, 2008). The company recently expanded its claims services to ensure experienced medical experts help ill and injured workers at each step of a short-term disability claim.
The Hartford's Ability Philosophy is demonstrated through its corporate citizenship and philanthropic activities, including its support of U.S. Paralympics, the division of the U.S. Olympic Committee dedicated to recruiting and training elite athletes with physical disabilities; the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), a non-profit that honors and empowers disabled U.S. veterans; and Casting for Recovery, a national non-profit organization that helps women recover physically and emotionally from breast cancer through fly fishing.
In 2003, The Hartford became the first company to forge a multi-year agreement exclusively with U.S. Paralympics, resulting in the most significant corporate commitment in U.S. history. As part of the partnership, The Hartford sponsors and organizes more than 200 events featuring U.S. Paralympic athletes annually. Most events are designed to raise awareness about the value that employees with disabilities bring to the workplace. For the past four years, WWP members have found hope and healing by learning how to ski at The Hartford Ski Spectacular, the nation's largest winter disabled sports festival.
"The Hartford, through its sponsorship of U.S. Paralympics and its Ability Philosophy, has proven to be a progressive employer in the recruitment, hiring, and promotion of people with disabilities," said James Schneider, editor of CAREERS & the disABLED magazine.
"Springboard Consulting and Work Life Matters are proud to honor The Hartford for its industry-leading initiatives in marketing to people who have disabilities," said Nadine Vogel, president and founder of Springboard Consulting. "The award specifically honors The Hartford for its Ability Philosophy."
About CAREERS & the disABLED
CAREERS & the disABLED magazine, one of seven diversity recruitment magazines published by Equal Opportunity Publications (http://www.eop.com/), is read by 42,000 people with disabilities who are student, entry-level, and professionals in all career disciplines. This publication also goes to all 1,400 university placement offices, and to all related student and professional associations and societies. CAREERS & the disABLED magazine sponsors four career fairs for people with disabilities around the country.
About Springboard Consulting LLC
Springboard Consulting works with Corporate America, government agencies and national non-profits on appropriately marketing their products and services to people who either have a disability or who have a child or other dependent with special needs. Springboard also works with these firms on how to appropriately support this segment of their employee population through a variety of diversity, work life, and human resource initiatives.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Absolutely superb, as alwaysIn full: Thank you Dr Rob and the marshals for another fantastic race. Great weather, a tough scenic course and impeccable organisation. My favourite race of the year.Date of review: March 19, 2014
In short: Great event, horrible weatherIn full: Thank you Dr Rob and the marshals for proceeding with the race in such terrible conditions. Special thanks to the gentleman from St John's Ambulance who kindly patched up my hand injury so I could finish the course, and again at the end of the race prior to heading off to A&E! Love Trionium races, and looking forward to Leith hill already!Date of review: January 1, 2014
In short: Simply PerfectIn full: My fifth attempt at the Munro. It doesn't get easier with ptactice! Great, challenging course; brilliant atmosphere and encouragement between runners; enthusiastic marshals; nice momentos and picnic at the end; and a real sense of achievement at finishing. The pain had pretty much gone after 6 days...My favourite race. Thank you Dr Rob and all the marshals. Date of review: July 8, 2013
In short: Fantastic as usual - mud, ice cold puddles, hills and glorious viewsIn full: This was my fourth attempt at the Leith Hill half, and it was muddier than ever! Very challenging course, icy temperatures (especially at the top), freezing knee-deep puddles, brilliant atmosphere with supportive runners and marshals. A perfect event if you enjoy a tough race that is perfectly organised and welcoming to all. A big thanks to Dr Rob and to the marshals who braved the weather to make the race so good.Date of review: March 26, 2013
In short: Muddy marvelousIn full: My fourth go at the KC and first in fancy dress. Excellent organisation as always, a hilly, slippery, muddy course and nice t-shirt and goodies (including soup) at the end. Thank you Dr Rob and the marshals, thoroughly enjoyableDate of review: January 11, 2013
In short: Excellent challenging trail race, lovely countryside, fantastic organisationIn full: A nicely challenging trail run in the Surrey countryside with some stunning views. Mixed terrain (the sand was tough) and some nice hills, but the whole course is runnable. The organisation and marshals were first class, and the event and atmosphere overall is very friendly. Highly recommended. Thanks to the organisers and volunteers.Date of review: September 18, 2012
In short: Wonderful run, scenic, crazily tough, brilliantly organisedIn full: Having run the Munro half on the same course several times, I should have known what to expect. But even that doesn't prepare you for the pain and fatigue that makes this run so challenging and enjoyable.The course is extremely tough, well marked (I managed to add 1.5 miles to my run by missing an obvious turning after 18 miles - I can only blame tiredness!) and has beautiful views (if you can focus on anything other than pain), organisation excellent, marshals outstanding and very encouraging, and a great atmosphere which was augmented by the arrival of the half-marathon runners part-way through the race. A real sense of achievement in completing the course, having decided this would be my last marathon I am giving serious thought to entering again for next year's "special"!Thanks to Dr Rob and the amazing marshals.Date of review: July 28, 2011
In short: Tough but very friendly race in beautiful surroundingsIn full: My third time running this race, it was as expertly organised as ever. A challenging out & back route with stunning views at half-way. All runners are very encouraging, even the winner was urging us on as he passed us on the way back from the turning point, which I thought was a great effort!. Friendly marshalls, nice t-shirt and breakfast at the end. Thanks to Dr Rob and the marshals.Date of review: March 9, 2011
In short: Brilliantly organised, nice course, very friendly and great atmosphereIn full: Thank you to TWH for organising one of the most enjoyable races I've done. The organisation was flawless, lots of marshals, traffic control, lots of people on-hand at the water stations etc. The course is undulating and the mile-long hill mid-way is tough - but the number of people out supporting along the route is amazing and helps take your mind off the pain! Receiving my medal from Kelly Holmes was also a bonus :-)This is a brilliant event. Thank you to the organisers supporters and marshals.Date of review: March 1, 2011
In short: Even tougher than last year! Fantastic race; thanks Dr Rob and the marshalsIn full: Really tough race with a "bonus hill" improvement on last year's course. Great atmosphere with some terrific fancy dress, very well organised, friendly marshals on a well-marked course, and the usual high-standard goodies at the end - soup, rolls, mug and good quality winter top. My second year at this event, it's the best way to start the new year! Date of review: January 4, 2011
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Riociguat in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) (EAS)
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The aim of the study is to assess safety, tolerability and clinical effects of different doses of riociguat in patients with inoperable Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) and who are not satisfactorily treated and cannot participate in any other CTEPH trial. In the US the study runs as an Expanded Access program under 21 CFR 312.320.
Hypertension, Pulmonary
Drug: Adempas (Riociguat, BAY63-2521)
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Drug: Adempas (Riociguat, BAY63-2521)
Individual dosing of riociguat between 0.5 and 2.5 mg three times daily based on patient's well being and blood pressure. (The individual optimal dose should be determined during the initial 8-week titration phase based on patient's monitoring of systolic blood pressure and well-being.)
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- All types of pulmonary hypertension other than Dana Point Classification Group 4
- Operable patients listed for PEA (Pulmonary Endarterectomy)
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Belgium: Federal Agency for Medicinal Products and Health Products
Canada: Health Canada
Czech Republic: State Institute for Drug Control
Denmark: Danish Health and Medicines Authority
France: Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé
Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Italy: The Italian Medicines Agency
Japan: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency
Netherlands: The Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO)
Russia: Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Spain: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios
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Switzerland: Swissmedic
Turkey: Ministry of Health
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The answer to this frequently asked question is yes. Canine influenza virus was first reported in 2004 and has recently become a fairly common illness among domesticated canines, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The virus is spread by contact with infected dogs, and outbreaks have been reported in places where large groups of dogs are kept together, such as shelters, pet stores and boarding kennels.
The most common clinical signs of the flu are cough, runny nose and a low grade fever. While severe complications—such as pneumonia, high fever and death—are possible, they are considered rare. Most previously health dogs will recover from the flu within 2 to 3 weeks and you should keep your dog away from other dogs during this time.
VCA Animal Hospitals reports the best approach to this disease is prevention and there is an approved canine influenza dog vaccination available. The vaccination may not be right for every dog but should be considered in dogs that are boarded or kenneled frequently, go to the groomer routinely or are housed with other dogs or have frequent dog contact.
If you suspect your dog may have the flu, it is important first to visit a veterinarian. Pet owners should also isolate their furry friends because the virus is highly contagious. The CDC states that treatment may involve antibiotics and other medications, but the most important thing is to make sure the dog is well-hydrated and provide supportive care.


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Top 10 Marketing Fails: Coke, Ford, Netflix
They seemed like such good ideas... At the time. Not every marketing campaign can be a success, but it takes a special kind of ad to fail as spectacularly as these. Whether they're creeping out audiences, offending special interest groups, losing money for their businesses or are just plain weird, these marketing choices have been some of the worst in history. What possessed a hugely successful, century-old company to completely change their product? Why did a well-known auto manufacturer make cars to compete with themselves? What made a $16 billion corporation shun its core business? It really makes you scratch your head and wonder: what were they thinking? In this video, WatchMojo.com counts down our picks for the top 10 worst marketing mishaps in history.


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Adirondack Artists' Guild welcomes Gertsch, Sweeney as new members
The Adirondack Artists' Guild recently welcomed two new members.
Linda Gertsch of Saranac Lake, who creates jewelry and other objects in polymer clay, joined in August. Linda Sweeney, a Lake Placid resident who works in pastel, became a member in October. Both have had their work exhibited in many regional shows.
Gertsch has been drawing and making art all her life. In 1967, she met a woman who made wire jewelry and Linda was inspired to make earrings for herself. Her father in law, who worked for an eyeglasscompany, liked what she was making, and asked her to make some wire eyeglasschains, which she embellished with beads and other things. He took two dozen of them to a convention in Atlantic City and they were such a hit that she got an order to make 200 dozen more, completed that in three weeks, and immediately received an order for another 200 dozen.
About 15 years ago, she started working with polymer clay, and now creates original jewelry and pictures with polymer, manipulating it into beautiful patterns and combining it with beads, crystals and metal, which she twists and forges herself.
Sweeney won an art competition as an elementary student, and has been creating art ever since. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Chatham College and continued her post graduate work in two-dimensional art with a special emphasis on the pastel medium.
Sweeney has been elected a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Connecticut Pastel Society as well as being a member of the Allied Artists of America. Her work has appeared in The Pastel Journal and she has been the recipient of both local and national awards.
The Adirondack Artists' Guild is a cooperative retail artgallery representing a diverse group of regional artists residing and working in the Tri-Lakes region of the Adirondack Park.
The gallery is located at 52 Main St., Saranac Lake.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays.
The Guild is on the web at www.adirondackartistsguild.com, and on Facebook at Adirondack Artists' Guild.


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We've made it to 10 episodes of the AnandTech Podcast! As promised, this week's episode is a bit more PC focused as we discuss the future of AMD. Intel's SSD DC S3700 is up for discussion, as well as the HPC space including the launch of Intel's Xeon Phi (baesd on the architecture formerly known as Larrabee).
There's a bit of mobile discussion in the second half of the podcast, addressing TI's exit from the market and some final thoughts on the Nexus 4 from Brian.
The AnandTech Podcast - Episode 10
featuring Anand Shimpi, Brian Klug, Ryan Smith & Dr. Ian Cutress
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Total Time: 2 hours 3 minutes
Outline - hh:mm
Intel SSD DC S3700 and the Evolution of SSDs - 00:01
Intel's Xeon Phi - 00:16
AMD in the HPC Space - 00:41
AMD's Tough Times - 00:55
TI Exiting the Mobile SoC Business - 01:32
More on the Nexus 4 - 01:44
As always, comments are welcome and appreciated.
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dishayu - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkIt always seems like a long wait between podcasts to me. Definitely the high point of my day when it comes out though. Looks like a good one from the outline. Listening to it now. Reply
TheGuardians - Friday, January 25, 2013 - linkAnand really needs to convince Brian to get a room. There's some serious latent man (boy)-crush happening through-out the podcasts!
Anand's continued giggling & predilection towards anything & everything Brian says is frankly difficult to listen to. This kind of attention disregarding pervasively the other
guests/members of the podcast is surely not diplomatic & equitable - epsecially by someone in a role of leadership as Mr. Shimpi is.. being the CEO & boss of the 'website'/'business'. Reply
noblemo - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkEnjoyed listening to all the topics in this edition of the podcast. Sounds like thermal throttling on the Nexus 4 isn't a deal breaker, especially if you buy into the greater philosophy of the device.
Have a great holiday. Reply
LadyKate - Sunday, November 25, 2012 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $5600… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online(Click on menu Home)
http://goo.gl/rSjbU Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkSince this podcast was recorded, I essentially spent all weekend playing around with C++ AMP. It definitely gets around my 'Don't want to program on AMD cards' issue :) Currently trying to make a benchmark with it involving grid solvers, but it all seems too CPU limited. Switching to a better CPU speed makes more performance gain on AMP code than overclocking the GPU. Kind of odd :/
Ian Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkIf I remember the MS presentations correctly, GPU entry and exit is rather expensive. If you try to maximize the amount of time you stay on the GPU, you might see better results. Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkI rearranged my code to do just that. Maybe I'm just not spawning enough threads. Reply
maximumGPU - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkhave been testing AMP for a couple of months now, and i must say i prefer it to cuda. It definitely feels more C++ rather than C, and makes the conversion of existing C++ work easier. Not "slap code to phi and be done" easy, but i feel it's a step up from cuda.
From a few benchmarks i ran, it's a tad slower (could be application dependent), but i'd happily trade that for the nicer language.
Would be nice to hear your thoughts about it. Reply
smike - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkHi, I love listening to your podcasts and learn a lot every time. Unfortunately, they're very long and I dont always have time to listen to the whole thing. I'd like to suggest that you add the ability to increase the playback rate of the audio for people like me.
For those of you who would like to do this yourselves, run the following in your javascript console on this page:
document.getElementsByTagName('audio')[0].playbackRate = 1.5; Reply
Peanutsrevenge - Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - linkOMG Anand, -100 geek points for you, now go sit in the corner and think about your newbness.
HOW can you not have heard of cCleaner, it's a geeks favorite application (Glary utilities is similar but in testing curently).
Please don't now hit me with a bunch of software you use all the time, my brain will explode :D Reply


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The Dark Tournament has come down to a final grudge match and Yusuke's full wrath is unleashed as a friend's blood stains the arena floor. But there will be no time for rest or recovery as kidnapping follows victory and further intrigue threatens the boundary between worlds. A tunnel is being carved, and when completed it will lay waste to the World of the Living. There are seven who seek an age of destruction and chaos, and hero must battle fallen hero.
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Drone steering committee continues its work
The Michigan Unmanned Aerial Systems Center Steering Committee met via teleconference on Wednesday to work out a few details involving the third of six submittals to the Federal Aviation Administration's "Screening of Information Request" for six center of excellence designations for the training and testing of unmanned aircrafts in the United States.
Alpena County Commissioners Cam Habermehl and Tom Mullaney are members of the committee and if the federal government selects the Michigan group, it could lead to a large amount of economic development in the region.
Habermehl said the committee, which is made up of private companies and industry leaders, major universities, government agencies, the Michigan National Guard and Alpena County Regional Airport and county leaders, along with consultant SeaTech and Explorer Solutions, met to discuss the process moving forward. He said the consultants are preparing to submit the third round of information that the FAA has in its SIR. The new data needs to be submitted to the government in the next week, Habermehl said. According to Habermehl, the Michigan Economic Development Commission has been contacted by others wishing to become partners in the plan to get Michigan as one of a heavily sought-after designation.
"This is the third deadline that needed to be met, so we're halfway home," Habermehl said. "I think things are going well. In fact the MEDC said they have been getting calls from companies that want to get involved, so right now I feel things are going in the right direction and everyone is working together."
Mullaney shared Habermehl's positive feeling about having the chance a center of excellence will be awarded to the MI-UASC. He said he thinks the issues the group faced when it was first formed has been left in behind and all parties are working together better.
"Once we all started to go in the right direction things began to get done and things began to go more smoothly," Mullaney said. "The advisers are working together well and I would just say it looks a lot better than it did a month ago.We are all a lot more coordinated in our efforts now."
One of the things the government has requested in the SIR is each applicant or group have a working website outlining what it has to offer. Alpena County had one created on the advice of Explorer Solutions early in the process, but with the clock ticking and the MI-UASC not having one of its own the county has agreed to donate it to the group for the betterment of the cause. Habermehl said the county did not have a lot of money invested into the website and without it the entire project could be jeopardized.
"We put the website up ourselves when we first started. We purchased several different domain names so nobody else would get one too close to ours and overall it was about $2,500. Most of that cost was just the county paying our employees to do it. We didn't bring in a contractor or anyone to build it for us," Habermehl said. "As part of the application the group needs a working website, so to expedite the process we are giving it ours. Right now I don't think there would be time to have another made. The way I look at it is, if we didn't give it to the group, there would be a chance we wouldn't be considered for a center of excellence. If that happened we wouldn't have any use for it anyway."
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Topic: how to slide_up a table row?
I tried performing slide_up on a tr tag and div inside tr, but it doesn't work. Is there any way to make slide_up/down on a table row?
I guess it could do with attaching visual_effect to td tag, but I don't want to select every cell - is it possible to select all cells with page[:tr_id].td or something like that?


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I just started trying rooibos teas. I have the sampler and some individual samples. The little cans have different brew times and temperatures. Some are 180 degrees for 7 minutes, one is 212 degrees for 6 minutes, one is 212 degrees for 7 minutes. I thought rooibos was to be brewed with boiling water. The 180 degree labels say herbal on them, but I thought in general herbal teas use boiling water?
I'm confused (easily done, obviously)
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Welcome everyone to TeaDay. Welcome to a Sunday TeaRoom discussion ... and an opportunity to learn a little about each other.
So, brew some tea, share what is in your cup today, and join our "TeaRoom."
Today's TeaRoom TeaPoll and discussion topic was contemplated during an 'inspiring tea sipping' of my morning guricha. What do like to do this time of year while sipping tea? Although the poll is for the most fave thing to do, please feel free to share some of your favorite companion things you do when tea is in your cup.
Bonus ... would your choice be different during another season of the year?
Let's get together for TeaDay today! I am looking forward to reading your posts on this interesting topic.
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text: Well, it's just the DEBUG constant and a MONO constant. I'm building with mono trunk, I added the MONO to the ifdef to use the Monitor.TryEnter(object) overload that is also used for CLR2. I couldn't just use the CLR2 constant because that broke everything else. I'm going to look into adding the Monitor.TryEnter(object, bool) overloads to mono proper so this is just temporary. On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Tomas Matousek <Tomas.Matousek at microsoft.com> wrote: > What do you need the "DEBUG MONO" constant for? The default "Debug" configuration doesn't work? > > What version of Mono do you use? I think 2.8 should be the target for IronRUby. > > Tomas > > -----Original Message----- > From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Michael Letterle > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:02 PM > To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Contributing? > > Along the lines of IronRuby on mono, a small change was required for now since Mono doesn't implement one of the newer Monitor.TryEnter overloads, see my branch here: > http://github.com/mletterle/ironruby/tree/linux > > compiles with: > > xbuild /property:TreatWarningsAsErrors=false > /property:DefineConstants="DEBUG MONO" Ruby.csproj > > Working on getting IronRuby.Console compiled now... already ran into a casing issue >.< > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Jonathan Allen <grauenwolf at gmail.com> wrote: >> I would caution you against moving too far away from Microsoft >> Technology, lest you alienate Windows developers. >> >> 1. If this project is going to be owned by Mono, then it would be >> reasonable to move to GitHub. But to drop CodePlex just because you >> feel like being stubborn isn't. >> >> 3. One of the biggest barriers for Windows developers who want to >> contribute to Mono is the project/build system. When looking at it for >> the first time it is really hard to just figure out where to start. >> And they certainly don't want to go back to editing source files with >> notepad. So while being able to build without Visual Studio is >> important, be careful not to remove the VS/MSBuild option. >> >> >> Jonathan Allen >> >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Mike Moore <blowmage at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> With a brave new world ahead for IronRuby, what do you all think >>> about the following ideas? >>> 1) Move to GitHub - I won't likely contribute if I have to use CodePlex. >>> And I'd like to contribute. Can we do like the rest of Mono and make >>> GitHub the central repository and source of all truth? Please? >>> 2) Detach IronPython - Looking through the code, it seems that >>> IronPython is in the same repo. I'm sure this is a holdover of how >>> Microsoft had everything organized. And I'm sure it made sense then, >>> but I don't think it makes sense now. I'd like to work on IronRuby, >>> and I honestly don't care about having to check IronPython. Now that >>> the DLR API is fixed, and there is no longer one Microsoft group in >>> charge of both projects, can we move these into separate repos? >>> 3) Detach from Visual Studio - I'm not on Windows, and I won't be >>> using Visual Studio. I'd prefer everything to build with rake tasks >>> on Windows and Mono. I assume things are the way they are right now >>> because of Microsoft's build process. And right now it does not seem >>> possible for me to build without Visual Studio. What about devs who >>> are using MonoDevelop? Or any of the more powerful text editors? I'm >>> convinced this is a major hurdle to getting many of the other Rubyist >>> language implementors involved. Assuming I am not alone on this, is >>> it possible we can make this project reflect the realities of the majority of folks that would like to contribute? >>> 4) Remove ancillary projects into their own repos - IronRuby.Rack >>> should live in its own repo, IMO. So should the Visual Studio tools. >>> This is similar to separating IronPython into its own repo, but it >>> needs to go further. Are there any reasons this should not be done? >>> What else do you guys think needs to change now that IronRuby is free >>> from Microsoft's processes? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ironruby-core mailing list >>> Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Allen >> 619-933-8527 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ironruby-core mailing list >> Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >> >> > > > > -- > Michael Letterle > IronRuby MVP > http://blog.prokrams.com > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > -- Michael Letterle IronRuby MVP http://blog.prokrams.com


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Time for Assembly speaker to step down
Thank goodness Vito Lopez has left the Capitol building and is now an ex-assemblyman. Hopefully he took with him the notion that people in positions of power are entitled to grope, leer at and otherwise harass their staff members.
Now it's time for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to pay the price for helping Mr. Lopez: arranging to pay two victims more than $100,000 to keep quiet, and letting Mr. Lopez keep his job without discipline.
That hush money came from state coffers. It was people's taxes. Mr. Silver is comfortably well off; if he was going to bribe someone, he could've at least used his own cash.
His public apology this week does next to nothing. This act is bad enough for him to resign from the Assembly completely, as Mr. Lopez had to, but at least he should step down as speaker.
In the view of people like us, who believe legislative leadership roles should have term limits so they can be rotated around, Mr. Silver should have stepped aside long ago, controversy or no. But even people who are OK with the possibility that a single assemblyman can have a near life term in one of the state's three most powerful jobs certainly feel that there must be some boundaries, some lines that one cannot cross without losing that position.
It seems obvious to us that bribing a lecherous legislator's victims to keep quiet crosses one of those lines.
When Mr. Silver became aware of the sexual harassment claims, it was his responsibility, as leader of the chamber, to make sure they were treated according to the proper channels. Instead, he went to great lengths to protect a fellow New York City Democratic Party power broker from scrutiny. While he was doing that, Mr. Lopez reportedly hired new female staffers and continued to do the same or worse to them and others.
Mr. Silver used his power as head of the Assembly to enable Mr. Lopez's lechery, at the expense of women, taxpayers and the people's trust in state government.
Other state power brokers may have been involved with the hush money as well, at least in the sense that they knew about it and didn't stand up to Mr. Silver. They'll have to answer for it, too.
Mr. Silver has held his current position for more than 18 years, frequently attracting controversy but rarely scandal. Yet if you hang around long enough wielding that much power, you're bound to do something scandalous sooner or later. And he has.
During those years he has accumulated enough power that some apparently see him as "too big to fail." That is, needless to say, bad for democracy.
It's especially true since the Assembly speaker leads 150 times the number of people who have any power over him at the voting booth. Mr. Silver is one of 150 Assembly members, each of whom represents, on average, only 128,600 New Yorkers. Unlike the governor, who derives his office from voters throughout New York's 19.6 million diverse people, Mr. Silver is elected by a localized group of Manhattan residents who are not typical of the state as a whole. Yet he has huge power over all of us.
The Senate has adopted an eight-year limit on leadership positions into its rules, and there's a bill out there to cap both houses' leadership posts at 12 years – too long. We hope Mr. Silver's example is used to enact an eight-year limit.
To be fair, the fact that it is elected officials who choose legislative leaders gives an indirect democracy, similar to that of Supreme Court and cabinet appointments as well as parliamentary prime ministers. But in state lawmaking, we can and should have more democracy, more checks and balances.
If Mr. Silver doesn't step down willingly, he may be forced to go unwillingly, and then may lose his Assembly seat as well. It's time for a change at the top of the Assembly – with more changes to follow at regular, frequent intervals.


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A scorecard would force everyone, from defense contractors to environmentalists, to think a little differently.package is a perfect opportunity to test the idea of a green scorecard for smart spending. It would consist of a checklist of objectives, many of them necessarily economic: Does this proposal create American jobs? Does it foster industries where the United States can take a decisive lead? Does it have a short payback period? Does it offer a good return on investment?
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The scorecard could eventually become a standard for all federal spending, reducing the influence of lobbyists.it might ordinarily be naïve to propose any kind of scorecard, much less a green one. Members of Congress will resist having their pet projects held to the numbers — the Capitol Hill equivalent of No Child Left Behind. It's also easier and politically more rewarding in the short term to put a program into place today than to argue about what numbers it's going to hit.


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High Tech Fueling Oregon Economic Growth
An important measure of Oregon's economy showed robust growth in 2011, but economists say it was lopsided.The Oregonian reports the state's gross domestic product grew 4.7 percent in a year-over-year comparison, second among the 50 states.
The increase was fueled by large gains among manufacturers of durable goods.Economists say that's because of the strength of high-tech players such as Intel, the state's largest employer with 15,000 on the payroll. Without the manufacturing gains, the state's figure would have grown by less than a percentage point.
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10 things I look forward to at AOPA Aviation SummitMonday, October 7th, 2013
The AOPA Aviation Summit in Fort Worth, which starts on Thursday, Oct. 10, will be my first — and last — time in attendance. While I will be working hard as part of the AOPA ePublishing team to get out all the news from the event, I also look forward to participating in some of the planned events. If you see me around, please come up and say hello — especially if you have a story to pitch! Below is a list of my top 10, in no particular order.
- Congratulate the winners. I was among those who helped choose the 2013 Flight Training Scholarship winners, and their stories were inspirational. I want to thank them personally as I continue my own journey as a student pilot.
- Fly in warbirds. Greatest Generation Aircraft will offer attendees the chance to ride in or even fly a Douglas C-47. The Commemorative Air Force is bringing B-29 Superfortress, Fifi, a B-24 Liberator, and C-45 Expediter to Summit. And the Cavanaugh Flight Museum will be offering flights in the H-13B "Sioux," made famous by M*A*S*H; North American AT-6SNJ; PT17 Stearman; and Travel Air.
- See new iPad tricks. I look forward to an education seminar with John Zimmerman, vice president of marketing for Sporty's, who will share hidden tricks to get more out of your iPad as well as how to use high-tech iPad accessories in "Advanced iPad flying." The panel is Oct. 10 from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. in the Fort Worth Convention Center Ballroom B.
- Pancakes and pilots town hall. Like you, I look forward to hearing from our new CEO and President Mark Baker at this event as AOPA goes into its 75th year. I also look forward to meeting our members.
- Summit before the Summit. The AOPA Center to Advance the Pilot Community will be holding a pre-Summit event on Wednesday, Oct. 9. The event will focus on the AOPA flying clubs initiative, excellence in flight training, research related to lapsed and rusty pilots, and intensive conversations with leading aviation innovators, led by our own Senior Vice President Adam Smith.
- Catch a star. This year's Summit will feature celebrity appearances by Major League Baseball star Ken Griffey Jr., country-western singer Aaron Tippin, and legendary football player Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
- Learn from the aviation masters. I'm excited about the lineup of aviation greats who will be speaking at this year's Summit, including sirshow legend Michael Goulian, Rod Machado and John and Martha King.
- Summit exhibitors. I'm one of those people who try and visit as many exhibit booths as I can during conventions, so I plan on seeing everything from the AOPA Flying Club Network at Booth #1806 to XM WX Satellite Weather at Booth #922.
- Check out the next generation of pilots. AOPA and Youth Aviation Adventure are sponsoring a free three-hour hands-on discovery program for teens ages 13-18 at Airportfest at Meacham International Airport on October 12, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Drool at Airportfest. This year's Airportfest will have around 100 aircraft on display. Look for my photos on the Meacham AOPA Pinterest board.
And I hope you'll all remember to bring a teddy bear for the Teddy Bear Drive, to benefit Cook Children's Medical Center.