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September 8, 2007
Once they scored, the Eastern New Mexico University women's soccer team was pretty much assured of winning.
Facing a College of the Southwest squad in transition, to say the least, the Zias were locked in a 1-0 dual before scoring three goals in a span of less than two minutes midway through the second half, eventually pulling away to a 7-0 victory on Friday at the ENMU pitch.
The Lady Mustangs (0-5), who came in with a 3-2 record all-time against ENMU, lost the bulk of their key players from last year's squad. Using a number of softball players to fill in, first-year coach Angela Byrd opted for a defensive style which usually had 10 players in the box.
As a result, the Zias (3-2) fired off 54 shots, including 35 on goal, while CSW rarely advanced the ball past midfield.
"Angela told me (before the match) that she was just going to try to get as many girls in the box as she could and defend," ENMU coach Travis McCorkle said. "Having said that, their team did well enough and we played bad enough that it was close for a long time."
Sophomore midfielder Kimberley Anaya broke the ice nearly 24 minutes into the contest, scoring off a pass from freshman Hannah Dozier. Though they were close a number of times, the Zias didn't score again until the 64th minute.
"It was an easy match, but in the first half we were kind of lackadaisical," Anaya said. "Once coach told us a few things at halftime, I think we kind of picked it up."
She admitted, though, that with all the bodies in front of the net it was sometimes tough to get a shot through. "It was pretty much three (versus) seven back there," she said.
Six players scored a goal apiece for the Zias, while the other tally came on an own goal.
"We wanted to get some things out of this," McCorkle said. "We got to play some players who wanted to get more time.
"We did get a few goals from crosses (crossing passes). It was good for us to work on that."
The Lady Mustangs had to forfeit one of their earlier matches, and Byrd has obviously tried to piece a team together under difficult circumstances.
McCorkle said the Zias were glad to be able to play.
"It keeps us in that mindset," he said. "We'd rather play than have the day off."
Anaya said it was nothing like playing Southwest last year, when the teams split, adding that it was hard to stay focused.
"It was completely different team," she said. "I didn't recognize any of their girls.
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MARQUETTE – In a spring football season where a much-improved Northern Michigan University defense often got the best of the Wildcats' offense, quarterback Cody Scepaniak and wide receiver Christian Jessie were able to extract a bit of revenge on Saturday.
Northern's senior leaders connected on a 45-yard pass play up the middle in the first half as the green-wearing offense was able to squeak out a 42-38 victory over the white-wearing defense in the annual spring game inside the Superior Dome.
"We have some plays that we can throw in there and probably get the best of many defenses," Jessie said. "I think we did that a little bit today in the second quarter, but overall they played us pretty much even, or they may pretty much have got the best of us."
Scepaniak, who will enter training camp in August as the starting QB, also completed a 22-yard third-down play to junior wide out Kelvin Smarwt and a 33-yard pass down the left sideline to sophomore receiver Trey Hipke.
Scepaniak never led NMU back into the end zone, however, with one drive producing a field goal, two drives resulting in missed field goals and the interception of a batted ball by junior defensive lineman Jordan Adediran of Gwinn capped another drive.
"This is one of the most intricate defenses in the GLIAC, if not the most," Scepaniak said. "They do a great job.
"If they can stop us, that means they can stop a lot of people. Two good sides of the ball is going to do a lot for us this year."
Including Adediran's INT, the NMU defense forced three turnovers, plus a safety.
Redshirt freshman Keshawn Walker picked off junior transfer QB Dustin Thomas out of Villanova in the first half, then recovered a fumble in the second half.
Thomas, who was leading the second-team offense, was also sacked in the end zone in the second half by redshirt freshman defensive lineman Rami Jergess and sophomore Steven Chuhran.
Unofficially, four plays were blown dead by what would have been sacks had the QBs not been protected from hits on Saturday.
"What was exciting for me as the head coach is I thought our defense really came out and played fast early and came up with a bunch of three-and-outs," head coach Chris Ostrowsky said. "Then the second quarter came and our offense was able to keep their composure and have a couple huge plays. I think the throw to Christian Jessie is as good a play as you'll see."
The defense forced the offense to go three and out on four of its first five possessions before sophomore running back Joe Neeb scored the first TD of the game using 5- and 4-yard runs.
Like the passing game, the offense found found sparks on the ground as well, getting 10-yard darts from Smarwt and Neeb; an 11-yard run by junior RB Wyatt Jurasin of Ishpeming; a 13-yard scamper from Thomas to set up first and goal from the 9 yard line for Neeb; a 16-yard sprint by redshirt freshman Keon Collier; and a 23-yard run from sophomore wide receiver Terrance Dye.
"That's the kind of offense we have," Ostrowsky said. "You can be struggling a little bit, and then all of a sudden, it can get after you in a hurry. I thought that was excellent.
"I know there were a couple big runs Wyatt made and Keon played well late. Trey Hipke made a great play up the sideline.
"Today was a good day of both sides executing and playing."
NOTES: Redshirt freshman kicker Jason Seeke finished 1 for 4 on field goals, missing twice from 51 yards and once from 41 yards. He made a 43-yarder. … The game used fantasy football type scoring system with the offense accumulating points via first downs, plays over 20 yards, fourth-down conversions and the traditional means of TDs and FGs. The defense was awarded points for tackles for loss, turnovers, sacks and traditional scores. … NMU honored members of the NMU football team from 1965-72, who were in town for a reunion, including former University of Michigan coach Lloyd Carr. … Saturday's game featured a rotation of about 32 referees who were a part of a joint officiating clinic put on by the GLIAC and MHSAA.
Matt Wellens can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 252. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mattwellens


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GLADSTONE – Hollie Ernest and Brad Arts, together with their parents, are happy to announce their engagement.
Hollie is the daughter of Dennis and Chris Ernest of Escanaba and is a 2005 graduate of Escanaba Area High School. She is a 2007 graduate of Bay College with an associates degree in science and a 2009 Ferris State University graduate with an applied science degree in dental hygiene. She is a registered dental hygienist and works for both Dr. Robert "Buzz" Berube in Marquette and Dr. Ronald Mueller in Powers.
Brad is the son of Dan and Cheri Arts of Escanaba and is a 2004 graduate of Gladstone Area High School. He is a leadman for the Cleary Building Corporation in Escanaba.
The couple will exchange vows in a ceremony planned for Oct. 5, 2013, at the Terrace Bay Inn and Suites in Gladstone.


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I have been using tm and happy with that for the most part - mainly looking at options and wanting to try something with a debugger. Ideally i'd like this all to be one environment and it's seeming like NB is not just using my already setup/working env.
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Rising ozone and rising temperature really take away the advantage to crops of rising CO2."The adults come to the soybean crop to lay their eggs, which will then hatch in time for the next year's corn crop. What we found was that the Western corn rootworm was laying almost twice as many eggs under elevated CO2. Now the forecast is that the opposite should happen because under elevated CO2 there'd be more sucrose, less nitrogen and less protein, which the feeding animal needs. But we saw the reverse. In the end, this came down to the fact that the metabolic pathway that inhibits feeding of the insect was being inhibited under higher CO2. And colleagues have shown this with other pests. Performance of the Japanese beetle, another major pest of soybean —is certainly boosted under elevated CO2— as is that of the soybean aphid. So these are unexpected effects that impact our crops, and we are only really scratching the surface in terms of understanding them. There may be many other unforeseen problems that we haven't uncovered.
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Skip to comments.The Best and Worst Christmas Movies?
Posted on 12/07/2012 4:42:03 PM PST by MNDude
What is your favorite Christmas movie and which do you hate the most?
Ok... the last time I saw that I was a kid... I always thought I was the only one that remembered such a thing. Geez they have everything on youtube.
" None better than Mr. Magoo ! I haven't seen that in years, but I always found it very touching."
Amen! The best ever. "Where are two shoes to click to my clack..."
My 2 all-time favorites are "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" (have it on DVD and just saw it yesterday with my kids) and
"White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.
I think Rand was right about many things, but ultimately, I think it is her views on altruism and selfless sacrifice that render Objectivism non-viable as a socio-economic philosophy.
My annual Christmas movie list:
Christmas Story
Badder Santa
The Ref
Die Hard
Nightmare Before Christmas
and the latest addition Rare Exports
Most enjoyed with one of the Christmas beers from Ridgeway (Criminally Bad Elf, Reindeer Revolt, Santa's Butt etc). I'm really more into a grown up Christmas.
Thank you. It was bothering me that I couldn't remember the story, especially since I had seen just about every episode several times. Old age, I guess. :)
Now I know why there is at least one case every year of some family argument on Christmas where someone ends up stabbed or shot.
Here are a few old movies you may like some are silent movies like this one, A Christmas Carol (1910), or more modern , The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" 1956 Christmas episode!
Thank you so much, Lees Swrd! I truly love the oldie but goodies. I adore the 1935 version (entitled "Scrooge") with Seymour Hicks. I think my absolute favorite is the 1938 version with Reginald Owen. I even purchased the DVD with Owen to make sure I see it. "God bless us, everyone".
My favorite, which hardly anyone has even seen, is "The Ref" with Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey, and Judy Davis. It is a dark comedy set during Christmas, with a pretty screwed up family. Being from Conn, my favorite line is "Connecticut is the 5th ring of Hell". If you like any of Denis Leary's comedy, it is worth a rental.
Worst, "Silent Night, Deadly Night" some slasher movie.
Ayn Rand was highly opinionated and offered her views on many things in venues ranging from lectures, magazine articles and even "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. I've yet to find her thoughts on It's a Wonderful Life. There are plenty of opinion pieces of what others thought she would have thought about the film. One reason may be that during the 50s and early 60s, It's a Wonderful Life, which was not a box office hit, didn't have the widespread recognition that it subsequently got.
My take is that George Bailey is rather like the Eddie Willers character in Rand's Atlas Shurgged, a decent, honorable man but not exceptional. Unlike many, I see Henry F. Potter as a heroic figure in many ways. He overcame being a cripple to become "...the richest man in town" and was, evidently, well respected enough by people of Bedford Falls to run the draft board when WWII broke out. He attempted to bring sound business practices to the Bailey Building and Loan and apparently had most of the board of directors on his side until others intervened to put George in control. The plot device with his outright theft of the $8,000 and subsequent chicanery was designed to cast an otherwise prudent, sober-minded, quite exceptional man in an evil light.
According to the Surveillance of Hollywood FBI Files, in 1947 the FBI detected the taint of Communism in It's a Wonderful Life; what purports to be the original memo is at the cited link. Evidently Capra's film was based upon an earlier Russian work, The Letter. One portion of the FBI memo includes:
...the film represented a rather devious [means?] to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a "scrooge-type" so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick of the Communists. [...] this picture deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters.
That said, I suspend my politics for the two-plus hours of the viewing and just enjoy it as a good yarn.
Runner-Up - National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
I like both of those. "Elf" is good, too.
I hate that movie!
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The title is "600 Hours of Edward".
Was it a red vest and skirt with white fringe?
Yep! And was I ever cute!
Did you see me?
That was what my cowgirl costume looked like, along with my two silver six shooters and holsters, and red cowboy boots. At that age, I planned to be a cowgirl when I grew up. :)
"Save the neck for me, Clark"
Have to agree about Bad Santa. How can anyone not laugh at that movie? Just the scene with John Ritter and Bernie Mac alone makes it worth watching.
Best: It's a Wonderful Life (no contest!)
Runners up: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
A Christmas Carol
Worst: Any remake of A Christmas Carol featuring a female pop diva playing a modern day Scrooge. Ugh!
That was what my cowgirl costume looked like, along with my two silver six shooters and holsters, and red cowboy boots. At that age, I planned to be a cowgirl when I grew up. :)
and that girl with legs clear up to her butt.
Mine reach the ground!
Remarkably, hers did BOTH!
It's a guy assessment of attractive female pins from back in the 50s. Probably from before you were born. I'm older than dirt!
Talented gal!
yes before I was born.
Talented gal!
yes before I was born. Or maybe I was toddling on my legs that just learned to reach the ground, lol.
The best AND worst: "Toys" (Robin Williams)
The both of us also think the George C. Scott interpretation of Ebenezer Scrooge is the best one, though I also like the musical with Albert Finney.
"Magoo's Christmas Carol" was the very first made-for-TV chrstmas special--ever! I'm All Alone in the World is very moving and We're Despicable! is hilarious.
I don't know why everyone is hating on It's a Wonderful Life. Frank Capra was certainly no Communist (he was a very conservative Republican who sympathized with Generalissimo Franco), but of course that doesn't mean that leftist writers didn't have something to do with the plot, as they allegedly also had with Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But to condemn Wonderful Life and make a hero out of Old Man Potter in the name of Ayn Rand? Absolutely uncalled for! Besides, I thought Communism was secretly run by super-rich bankers???
The absolutely most unusual chrstmas special/cartoon I have ever seen was one that was telecast only once that I'm aware of, back in December of 1987: "Santa Bear's High Flying Adventure":
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Contest Winning Look
As promised, here is the tutorial for the look that won my second makeup contest a couple of weeks ago. I recorded it a while ago. Luckily I have some videos in surplus so that when times are busy I have something to upload. Moving is kicking my booty! I'm exhausted and i'm still fighting off some allergic reactions to products I used along with my regular killer allergies - pollen in Georgia is crazy! I just got some Eve Pearl stuff in that I'm playing with..so far so good!
Back to this look...I love this color combo! So colorful and pretty! I think I'm going to start wearing pink lips more often. Thanks again to BuzzFuzzBunny...the winner of my contest and the creator of this look.
Anywho, check out my video tutorial of this look!
Here's What I Used (All MAC unless otherwise specified):
-otherworldly paintpot
-pure white chromaline
-gesso e/s
-cobalt e/s (pro)
-MUFE no. 92 e/s
-passionate e/s
-penultimate liquid liner
-smolder eye kohl
-carbon e/s
-vibrant grape e/s
-Shisem lashes
-Rimmel brow pencil and cork e/s on brows
-regular foundation
-azalea blush (pro)
-shadester sculpting powder (pro)
-blond msf
-NYX pink lipliner
-flashmode lustreglass
-hot pink gloss from Heatherette collection (forgot the name)
I like the makeup pics this time better...maybe because my BF took them!
Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
Atlanta Makeup Artist
19 comments:
- Livia said...
wow.. just, wow... amazing look!!
- April 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Cee Em Jay said...
Sooooooo pretty
- April 16, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Askmewhats said...
this is a super pretty look! I am amazed!
- April 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Couture Carrie said...
Gorgeous, darling RR~ the eyes are increeeeedible!
- April 16, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- Girl with Curl said...
Pretty look! Every single time I see a post where you use MUFE 92 eyeshadow, I always want to get it. I was just in Sephora too yesterday.
- April 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- maya said...
i love the look!!! :)
- April 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- JENSMAKEUPBAG said...
wow...no wonder she won...this look is amazing! love the colors!
- April 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM
- rockSTARbeauty said...
i know i say it all the time, but purple is soooo your color! looks so good on you girl!
- April 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM
- iBeautyx3 said...
hey ren ren if you wanna buy some makeup go to ibeautyx3.blogspot.com
- April 16, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- JAYXONLY said...
the colors are amazing !
- April 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM
- M said...
this is gorgeous!
- April 16, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- Riza said...
This is look is pretty. It's so you & colorful. No wonder this person won the contest! ;]
- April 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- LadyJane said...
Another amazing look. It's so smooth and nicely blended that it looks airbrushed on. Skills ma skills.
- April 17, 2009 at 2:51 AM
- ♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...
looks gorgeous on you!
- April 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- mayaari said...
lovely makeup Ren - love the colors used on the eyes!
- April 17, 2009 at 11:30 PM
- Lalaxloca said...
love the purple, it looks hot!! By the way I started blogging too...So check it out!!
- April 18, 2009 at 2:31 AM
- Wes said...
Gorgeous!!! I love your lashes, they look nice- long & thick
- April 20, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- Beauty Blogger. said...
super gorgeous, beautiful! ^^
- April 23, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
i know it's late but this is TRULY an awesome look. i love this! =]
it's, dare i say, inspirational. i might have to TRY and copy it. probably won't be able to though. LOL.
- April 30, 2009 at 2:50 AM


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Postgame: Houston
The Columbus Dispatch - June 01, 2013 11:36 PM
Is the Crew in danger of becoming mediocre?
After tonight's 1-1 home tie with Houston, the Crew is now 0-2-4 against teams who entered the weekend with more points and 4-2-1 against teams with fewer. This was the second of a four-game MLS stretch against Eastern Conference teams ahead of them in the standings with Wednesday's road game against Philadelphia up next. The Crew entered the weekend no higher than fifth and no lower than 13th in 10 team statistical categories compiled by the league.
In addition, the Crew is now 1-2-3 at Crew Stadium this season with six out of a possible 18 points earned. When the Crew plays at Sporting Kansas City on June 29, it will officially be at the midpoint of the season. That's four games from now.
I posed the question to goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum.
"I think obviously you're concerned that where you stand isn't where you want to be," he said. " You have to stay positive. This league is all about confidence and once you get rolling, anything can happen. We just have to have that positivity. Look at our last few games. I thought we played really well. We grinded one out in Toronto. We could've won one in New York and probably should'v e.
"It's been a tough stretch and it's going to be more difficult as well, playing game after game."< < < < < < < < /p>
Therein lies the tricky part of it all. It's been a common refrain throughout the season: The Crew has played well, dominated games for large stretches and come away with little to show for it. Against the Dynamo, the Crew finished with 22 attempts on goal but could only find the back of the net on a Federico Higuain penalty. It snapped a stretch of 294 minutes at home without a goal, with the last also coming on a Higuain penalty.
Midfielder Justin Meram, who had five shots and looked as aggressive as anyone else in a Crew uniform, said half-jokingly that perhaps the team all needs to start going to church to shake things up. It drew shades of this same point last season, when goals were at a premium for the Crew.
"Another game at home without a win," head coach Robert Warzycha said. "That's how we look at it. We created chances. I would say a fluke goal by them in the first half. We have to score the goals. We have to be sharper in front of the goal."
This was the first game without veteran midfielder Eddie Gaven, who will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. Meram got the first crack at filling his spot in the lineup and looked to make the most of it.
"I think we were dominant," Meram said. "I like the way we played. We possessed the ball and we had chances. I got taken out in the box, had a shot, (Jairo) Arrieta has that rebound, he has another shot that Tally (Hall) saves off the line. What did they have, one cross and finish?"
And yet, the Crew missed out on a chance to make up points on a key Eastern Conference foe. Houston now remains five points clear of the sixth-place Crew, which could climb into fifth place with a road win against the Union.
Gruenebaum said that could be the start of the turnaround.
"You take it one game at a time," he said. "We won away, we tied away, we tied at home. We look at the last three games and there's a lot we can build off of. Now, to come away with a win against a great team in Philadelphia would be huge, and we're focused already on that game. I think we've been a great road team and I think we need to continue to do that. If we get a result there that can really spark something."
There's the qualifier: if. It's a long season, but time might be running out.


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NEW YORK (MainStreet)--Jim Cramer grows tomatoes in Quogue, NY and makes no bones about his intense fitness routine, but for this episode of Old Dog, New Blog, my sister, Nicole, and I wanted to combine his horticultural savvy with his health-conscious focus. That's why we introduced him to apps and websites geared toward procuring healthy food and recipes at home such as Blue Apron, Farmigo, and Epicurious. Check it out below.
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Worth price of admission
We think we'd pay admission to witness this cage fight.
State Democrats will gather Feb. 23 in Detroit for their annual convention, at which time they will choose who will lead the party for the next two years. In an incredibly interesting struggle within party and union ranks, current Chairman Mark Brewer faces formidable opposition from Lon Johnson of Kalkaska.
Brewer is an interesting, colorful and sometimes controversial leader. He has led Democrats in Michigan for 18 years, making him the longest-serving state Democratic Party chair in the country. He also has served as the Democratic National Convention vice chairman for three terms, from 2003 until 2009.
Johnson unsuccessfully sought a state House seat last year. He is the president of a private equity firm, TVV Capital, and his wife, Julianna Smoot, is well connected to President Obama's inner circle. She is a former White House social secretary and was deputy campaign manager for the president's re-election efforts.
Earlier this week the entire Michigan Democratic congressional delegation publicly supported Johnson.
And, adding suspense to the whole fight is that it has divided the state's top two unions – the United Auto Workers, which is backing Johnson and the Michigan Education Association, which is backing Brewer.
And then there is the drama. Last week a man convicted of perjury for falsifying candidate filing documents accused Brewer in a MLive news story of getting false Tea Party candidates to run for positions in Detroit to split the Republican vote in key races in that area.
And, in an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Brewer recently called on Bigfoot to his defense.
"If my opponents are to believe I'm to be blamed for the failure of Prop 2, I'm to be blamed for becoming a right-to-work state, then the next thing I expect to be blamed for is being Bigfoot."
It's going to be exciting.
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Chickpea Chicken-Noodle Soup
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 ounces spaghetti, broken into small pieces
- 1 carrot, thinly sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 15 -ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 -ounce can diced tomatoes
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 small skinless, boneless chicken breasts (about 1 pound), thinly sliced
Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the spaghetti and cook, stirring, until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. Add the carrot, garlic, cumin, cinnamon and half of the cilantro; cook, stirring, until the spices are toasted, about 1 minute. Add the chicken broth, chickpeas, diced tomatoes, 1 cup water, and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and bring to a simmer, then reduce the heat to medium low and cook until the spaghetti is just tender, about 8 more minutes.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper and add it to the soup. Simmer until cooked through, about 2 minutes. Add the remaining cilantro and season with salt and pepper.
Photograph by Antonis Achilleos
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Magazine
Cooking Tips
More Recipes and Ideas
Pork, Sweet Potato and Shiitake Mushroom Ramen
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Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Runtime: 22 min
Rated: TV-PG
Genre: Comedy
Released: 31 May 1990
|Plot: Jerry Seinfeld stars in this television comedy series as himself, a comedian. The premise of this sitcom is Jerry and his friends going through everyday life, discussing various quirky situations that we can all relate to (especially if we live in New York). The eccentric personalities of the offbeat characters who make up Jerry's social circle contribute to the fun.
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Reading the Leaves
Preserving the legend of Darjeeling's legendary
teas is the "art and duty of man"
complete article by Harris Salat
(An edited version of
this story appeared in the October, 2008 issue of Saveur Magazine)
As the sun
rises over the Himalayan foothills, a hundred women gather at the edge of a
lushly green gorge. They carry long bamboo baskets on their backs suspended
from straps running across their heads. They wait quietly and listen to the man
calling out the day's orders.
"This squad
to Lepcha One, that one to Purana Two. You to Buta Four," Mahesh Maharshi booms
in a rumbling James Earl Jones bass as he names tea gardens. The women wear
bright wrap-around skirts, buttoned-down shirts and flimsy vinyl shoes, the
younger ones sporting lipstick and mascara. A colorful piece of cloth is folded
on their heads to cushion the straps. They are all ethnic Gorkhas, rugged
mountain people, brown-skinned and small. They work as pluckers here at the
Goomtee tea estate in India.
The women
descend single file down a rocky path into the gardens. Tea bushes swallow them
from the waist down, like they're wading through an ardent green sea. A deep
U-shaped valley opens before them, the ridges spilling sharply for 4,000 feet
as clouds drift like smoke through ravines below. Two miles away, a 70-foot
waterfall carves a white gash into thick jungle.
traveled here with Sebastian Beckwith, who runs a Connecticut company aptly named In Pursuit
of Tea. Sebastian takes regular tea-pursuing trips to small, family-run estates
across Asia. When he first started traveling
to the region twenty years ago, he discovered in the tea leaf a world as deep
and rich as wine. Ever since, he's made it his life mission to educate
Americans about authentic tea culture. I met Sebastian a few years ago and
started drinking tea with him. He made me passionate about this world, too. I
wanted to join him on his travels and learn first-hand how tea is made. Our journey
has led us to the remote valleys of Goomtee, which produces some of India's best Darjeeling - the country's finest black tea,
prized for its complex flavor and fragrance.
We walk
over to Mahesh, the estate's manager. "You see," he says with a smile, "tea
making is a very complex process. You have to keep in mind so many factors.
Very complicated. Very complicated."
The first
step, he explains, is harvesting the leaf. Goomtee covers 360 acres of tea
gardens in the northern tip of West Bengal, an area that borders Nepal, Sikkim
and Bhutan.
The highest garden shares an altitude with Denver,
but Goomtee's latitude is close to tropical Miami's. The valleys here are as canted as
ski slopes, blanketed by a verdant quilt of tea bushes. Automation is
impossible in this terrain, so leaves must be harvested "orthodox," that is, by
hand. Women do the plucking because they're thought to have more nimble hands
then men.
and I head down the valley. We watch a woman bow slightly over a "picking
table"- the flat top of a tea bush pruned two and a half feet. Her small fingers
probe it like a pecking chicken, swiftly plucking leaves snap-snap-snap-snap. She's after two leaves and a bud," Sebastian
whispers-the tender new growth sprouting up from the table.
The women
bunch the bright green shoots in their fists before flicking them backhand into
their baskets. They hum songs or talk with each other, but softly, as if in
respect of the breathtaking landscape. Their voices mingle with the music of
birds and bugs, the rustle of bushes and the churn of a mountain stream at the
bottom of the gorge.
seven estates produce Darjeeling tea here in the
Himalayan foothills-just one percent of the total tea production in India. In the
1830s the British established a hill station and sanitarium for its soldiers in
the town of Darjeeling.
Within a decade British planters had established the first tea gardens here
with seeds brought from China.
The mountainous geography, temperature and an unruly mix of rain, sunshine and
fog made this area ideal for tea cultivation. The estates pluck leaves
orthodox-style and processes them the way the British growers originally did.
Goomtee was founded in 1899 by a Brit named Henry Montgomery Lenox. He planted
the original tea bushes, some of which are still being plucked today, and built
the processing factory, a three story wooden building still in operation.
By noon the
pluckers arrive at a dimly lit hall in the factory, some trudging head-loads of
40 pounds or more. The women sit cross-legged next to baskets full of waxy,
neon-green leaves, black hair glistening with perspiration, talking and
laughing freely now. One by one they dump their leaves on old dial scales that
screech sharply with each load. They're here for "weighment": Three clerks
dressed in gold, pink and aqua-colored saris write down the weight in huge
ledger books before the leaves are upended into a big green heap giving off an
intensely vegetal aroma like fresh-cut grass.
The young
leaves must be processed quickly, says Sebastian, which is why the factory's so
close to the tea gardens. After weighment, leaves are withered, rolled,
oxidized and blasted with coal-fired heat to stop oxidation. The result is tea. "But there are so many variables."
We catch up
with Mahesh. Fifty years old, he's been working at Goomtee for more than half
his life. He wears a long white smock, a black baseball cap and reading glasses
perched at mid-forehead-and has the satisfied look of utter confidence.
"You see,
Mr. Harry," as Mahesh takes to calling me, luxuriantly rolling the r's, "God
has given 100% character of the tea in the leaf. What we are doing here is
damaging it. Whoever damages it less will make better quality tea. This is the
art and duty of man."
We enter a
dark, still room. Three tons of leaves are spread over steel mesh grates in ten
70-by-6 foot troughs. Fans beneath the leaves blow cold air and wither them.
They now smell like a sweetly decaying pile of fall foliage. Sebastian rubs one
between his thumb and index finger. It looks like wilted basil. Withering takes
the moisture out of the tea leaves, he explains, so you can roll it without it
But how
long must it wither?
Mahesh booms. An assistant hustles over with a notebook. Mahesh, Sebastian and
I huddle around it. "You see, Mr. Harry," Mahesh turns to me, "the raw
material, weather conditions, treatment to the leaf all differ every day." He
points to a long list of hand-written numbers. Withering takes between 16 to 18
hours. "Our goal is consistency year to year."
intervention is always necessary," Sebastian adds. "You can't put this on
The three
of us descend a flight of stairs and enter a white room, pristinely clean and
flooded by fluorescent light and sunshine streaming in from open doors and
windows. Five four-ton rolling machines, like gigantic Cuisinarts, are lined up
against a wall. The word "Britannia" is stenciled on them-original equipment
installed by Lenox over a century ago. Workers in flip flops clamber on top of
these contraptions to wrestle a spout feeding withered leaves from a ceiling
hatch. In the center of each machine a four-foot wide brass disk exhales a loud
shhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhh as it swings rhythmically, pressing leaves to break their
the withered leaf this way begins the oxidation process, says Sebastian-the
critical step for curing it into tea. As we speak over the clack of the
machines, a worker brings Mahesh a bamboo tray with tea leaves arranged in four
conical piles. Mahesh taps his glasses to his nose and slides both hands into
each pile in turn, sifting the leaves, listening to what the pads of his
fingers are telling him.
"You see,
Mr. Harry, they bring me leaves after every ten minutes," Mahesh explains.
"All day?"
"Yes, yes.
We have a cycle of 40 minute rolling. Ten minutes, then we stop, ten minutes,
then we stop. I check the size, color and coolness of the leaf. They bring it
to me wherever I am."
We walk
over to a long stainless steel tray across from the Britannia machines. Rolled
tea leaves are spread over it, now turning dark-oxidizing. Mahesh motions to
me. "Touch it to your nose now, Mr. Harry, you will find some flavor," he says.
He grabs a handful to show me. "Smell it. Slowly."
I put a
clump of limp leaves to my nose. "You are getting some sense now that was not
there in withering," he says.
I inhale
deeply. "It's starting to smell like?"
"Yes, Mr.
But how
does he know when the leaves have oxidized long enough?
fishes out another notebook and points to a hand-plotted graph. "These are the
minutes and these are the quality points," he explains. "After you roll the tea
you wait for the peak fragrance. When you reach it you dry the tea to stop the
But how do
you determine these quality points, this peak fragrance?
Simply by
smelling the tea leaves you will know, says Mahesh. By smelling the tea leaves
for a quarter of a century.
The three
of us meet a tall, dignified man named Ashok Kumar at the factory. 60-years
old, he is Goomtee's owner and has been in the tea business his whole life. His
father took over this estate in 1956, not long after the British had left, and
built it into a world-class producer. Ashok continues this family-run
tradition, managing wholesaling in Calcutta
and traveling here every month.
When Henry
Montgomery Lenox owned Goomtee, all of its tea was exported to England. "As
far as Indian culture is concerned, tea was not part of our lore," explains
Ashok. Only since the early 20th century has tea been vigorously promoted
in India,
as Brits like Sir Thomas Lipton eyed a lucrative market. Today tea is woven
into the fabric of the sub-continent, cups of steaming brew hawked by chai wallas, tea peddlers, everywhere.
But the vast bulk is sold CTC, leaves "crushed, torn and curled," commodity tea
packaged into teabags. What about Goomtee's fine leaf?
Their best
tea still finds its market abroad, explains Ashok. Of the 90 tons produced a
year, half is exported. The top grades go to Germany,
now Darjeeling's biggest buyer, then England, Japan
and America.
The rest is sold at home, both as whole leaf tea and for tea bags.
produces four "flushes"-harvests-every year: "First" in the spring, "Second" in
early summer, "Rains" during monsoon season and "Autumnal" in the fall. Each
flush yields its own lingering fragrance-the signature characteristic of Darjeeling tea.
Darjeeling First flush has floral overtones while a Second flush has fruity
overtones," explains Ashok "The Autumnal flush, on the other hand, has a nutty fragrance."
Ashok leads
us to the tasting room, where he and Mahesh make these judgments once the tea
passes through a coal-heated drier to stop oxidation and is graded according to
leaf size and quality. He taps dry tea onto a white piece of paper, a Fine
Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe One-archaic grading nomenclature from days of
the British Empire. The shriveled leaves are
copper and charcoal-colored, with lime-green and gold flecks. This is black
refers to the degree of oxidation, Sebastian says, not the color. Darjeeling is a fully oxidized "light black" tea with more
complexity, he continues, than you find in the Chinese and Ceylon "black"
prepares tasting samples from the flushes, steeping identical amounts of leaf in
ten identical porcelain jars lined up in a long row, then shaking out the tea
onto each of the jar's covers. Ashok picks up a lid with a pile of wet
leaves-the "infusion" in tea lingo. "Fluff it up and shove your nose in," he
says. "The nostrils have to be covered with the leaves."
shoves his nostrils into the damp clump.
"This is
our prime tea," he says as he pulls it away from his face. A few wet leaves
remain stuck to his nose. "Look at the color of the infusion. So bright, so
uniform, so coppery. Practically a perfect infusion."
Now the men
taste the copper-colored tea liqueur. Ashok takes a loud sip, smacking, sucking
and snorting as he rolls the liquid around in his mouth. He stares straight
ahead for a moment, concentrating, before he spits out the tea. Mahesh and
Sebastian sip, smack, suck, snort, stare and spit in turn.
tongue, the insides of the cheek, the upper palate are all coated and the
flavor is going into the nose," Ashok explains. "You're looking for fragrance,
strength and satisfaction."
I think
about what Mahesh had said about damaging it less. Armed with a stack of
notebooks, his nose-and his gut-he asserts human will over the leaf to create
this singular tea. "People the world over still call it 'English tea,' " says
Ashok, pausing a moment, "but there's no such creature." It may not have been
part of Indian lore, but the traditions carried on by the pluckers, the factory
workers and these men here at Goomtee have indeed made it Indian tea.
2006, Harris Salat, all rights
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J.T. Ready, the suspected gunman in a Gilbert shooting rampage, and one of the slain victims would conduct border patrols together looking for illegal immigrants, according to a person who knew both men and took part in the patrols.
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Harry Hughes, a regional director of the National Socialist Movement, said Thursday that Ready and Jim "Jambob" Hiott had rescued him last month after he got stuck in the sand in a remote area near Yuma. The National Socialist Movement is a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi group.
"J.T. and Jim appeared to be friends. They had been together on other exercises, and we went out in the desert too," Hughes said in a phone interview Thursday. "He (Hiott) had been to my home a couple of times. He was a good man."
Meanwhile, law enforcement said Thursday they found six military-grade grenades in the Gilbert home where the mass killing occurred.
A federal official said the 40 mm grenades typically are used by combat infantry to defeat light-armored vehicles, and they can be launched up to 300 meters with precision accuracy. He said it's a felony to possess such weapons, and ATF believes the devices belonged to Ready.
Officials with Gilbert Police, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and the FBI interviewed Hughes Wednesday evening at his Pinal County residence in Maricopa, which Ready had listed as his home address in papers that the alleged killer had filed to run for Pinal County sheriff.
Hughes said law enforcement had asked him questions about Ready, but they did not seize anything from his home.
"They wanted to know what everybody else wants and that is, what was up with J.T.?" Hughes said.
"The media has fingered him as the shooter, but I'm going to be patient and let science dictate what happened. I have a hard time believing he would have done that."
Authorities say it appears Ready went on a shooting rampage in a Gilbert home Wednesday, fatally wounding three other adults and a 15-month-old baby before committing suicide.
Among the victims was Hiott, who served in Afghanistan with the National Guard, and Amber Mederos, Hiott's girlfriend, and Amber's baby girl, Lilly. The other victim was Lisa Mederos, who was Ready's girlfriend and Amber's mother.
Hughes said the last time he saw Ready and Hiott was April 11, when the pair helped rescue him after Hughes got stuck in the middle of the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range near Yuma that runs along the Mexican border.
Hughes also said that Hiott had been a part of Ready's U.S. Border Guard & Border Rangers search and rescue group that would patrol the desert with semi-automatic rifles and guns.
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Gilbert police called ATF to the site after finding the devices during its investigation of the crime scene.
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Check out the Hispanic Heritage Month Book List for a collection of fiction and non-fiction novels and picture books all about Hispanic culture and themes.
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Greg Coffey and the vagaries of hedge fund management
Before we get started, can I ask you a quick question? What are you doing reading this comment? You are just a click away from a really rather good profile of Greg Coffey, the superstar hedge fund manager at GLG Partners and then Moore Capital, who retired last month at the ripe old age of 41.
May I suggest that you go and have a gander at that? We can chat when you've finished. Go on. Skedaddle. Shoo!
Enjoyed that? Thanks for coming back (sorry I was rude).
I think it offers a fascinating insight into the world of high-octane trading: the commitment required, the riches on offer, the big personalities butting horns behind closed doors and the intrigue that results.
But, having read it a few times now, I detect something more. It would be too much to suggest that Coffey's career serves as some kind of parable for the entire hedge fund industry. It is always dangerous to extrapolate from individual examples.
But, certainly, if I was going to invest in one of these firms, I would consider what lessons can be learnt from such a peek behind the curtain of an undoubtedly talented trader's career.
There is, for one thing, the fact of Coffey's retirement. He joins a long and growing list of star hedge fund managers who have run up the white flag this year.
Pierre-Henri Flamand of Edoma Partners and Geoff Grant of the US firm Grant Capital have both recently shut up shop.
Louis Bacon, for whom Coffey latterly worked at Moore Capital, also returned money to investors over the summer.
Such portents will have institutional investors feeling like the bedraggled men in a Gary Larson cartoon, crawling through the desert towards a thirsty camel, on its knees, crawling the other way. As one man says to the other: "This is not a good sign."
The markets are choppier than they have been in a professional lifetime (especially if you consider that retired hedge fund managers, like policemen, seem to be getting younger every year).
And there is unlikely to be an imminent drop off in the unprecedented levels of policy intervention that are causing assets to move in lockstep. If some of the best traders of the past decade are on their knees and dying of thirst, where does that leave the rest of us?
But, hang on a minute, didn't hedge funds originally bill themselves as able to make – or, at least, not lose – money in any market? Yes, I'm certain that I read that somewhere once.
This will surely be one of the reasons why investors have paid up and piled nearly $200bn into the sector so far this year, according to a recent report by data provider Hedge Fund Research.
The average hedge fund made 4.3% in the first 10 months of this year, hardly anything to write home about and, certainly, not sufficient to make up for the 5.3% they lost last year.
The industry tanked 19% in 2008, before making 20% in 2009 and 10.3% in 2010, according to HFR.
That's pretty volatile performance. And, of course, averages mask the experiences of actual investors. For some, the ride will have been smoother; for some, much bumpier.
Things get even more capricious at the level of particular strategies. For example, credit-focused hedge funds have had a good 2012: the Lyxor long/short credit arbitrage index is up 8.2% for the year to date.
But managed futures funds – which have attracted huge inflows recently by marketing themselves as the antithesis of star traders such as Coffey – have lost 7.1% so far this year.
Had you spread your bets and put an equal amount of money in both strategies, you would be broadly flat for the year, during which time the S&P 500 has gained nearly 8%.
Except you are unlikely to have had the foresight to hedge your investments so well (that's what you pay hedge fund managers for, isn't it?) And even if you had, you wouldn't be flat.
Those performance figures do not include the management fees that you would have paid your managed futures guys for the privilege of losing money or the sizeable slice – still roughly a fifth – of the returns your credit arbitrage managers eked out (despite them having underperformed a US equities ETF with fees of only a few basis points).
But the vagaries of hedge fund performance are especially pronounced at the level of individual managers.
The thing that jumps out from the Coffey profile is the extent to which the Australian divides opinion among those who invested in his funds. On the one hand, there are those who got in early and enjoyed his stellar returns in 2006 and 2007.
Then there are those who – bewitched by the legend that grew up around the "Wizard of Oz", as The Sunday Times dubbed him – piled in at the peak of his performance and at the top of the market.
There are more in the latter group. Between July and December 2007, assets in Coffey's GLG Emerging Markets fund nearly doubled from $2.7bn to a shade under $5bn.
The following April he resigned, by October he had left the firm and, over the course of 2008, the fund lost 36.6% (though, as you know from reading the profile, it is a matter of some dispute who is to blame for that).
As you can see from the chart that accompanies the article, Coffey never consistently regained the form of his glory days. Kind of like the girl with the curl, when Coffey's performance was good, it was very, very good; but when it was bad, it was, well, let's just say it was not worth the fees Moore Capital was charging.
Some investors did well out of Coffey; others did not. Is there anything to separate these two groups other than luck?
It seems that to invest successfully in hedge funds you have to be able to time the market; not only remember that past performance is no indication of future returns but actually do something about it; decide which hedge fund strategies are likely to outperform or underperform; differentiate glitzy returns from robust and repeatable risk management processes; and pray that the guys you back don't fall out with their bosses and up sticks at the worst possible time.
It strikes me that if investors or their advisers (investment consultants and fund of hedge fund managers) are able to achieve all that, they would not only be extremely lucky, they would also be more than qualified to run their very own hedge fund.


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In short: Great course as ever but organisation has some issues.In full: Done this race 5 years in a row now and keep coming back for the fantastic central York course that takes in many great sites of the city. Good tech t-shirt in the goody bag but at £30 this aint a cheap race, though. Lack of toilets is always an issue at events like these but after a quick count there seemed to be a 100/1 runner:toilet ratio. Queues wereseemingly endless. Also, to have only one food/ snack stand plus an ice cream van was pretty poor. Event announcer was annoying as hell this year. Leaving the car park took around an hour; so another issue badly needs addressing there. But overall I'd say stomach the entry fee and give this race a go: arrive very early and don't be in a rush to leave and you'll be fine.Date of review: August 3, 2015
In short: Improvements for this year make this a near perfect event.In full: This was the 3rd year I've done this event and ot was the best yet. My major criticism before was of the start being a total free for all, and slower runners getting in the way of everyone. This year, there was a well organised pen system to start everyone in the right order, and people were strongly discouraged from starting in an inappropriate place. It worked brilliantly and this is now a top event for serious runners and beginners alike. Great tech T-shirt, 2 drinks stations, amazing crowd support, flat course, very scenic and central to York and a great start/ finish area! They even removed the out/back sections from the route. The best all round 10k I've ever done.Date of review: August 5, 2013
In short: Very flat course but a bit off a rip off.In full: This is a great pre marathon warm up race that takes in the many cycle paths of Lancaster and the surrounding area. Avoiding hills for 20 miles in this area is pretty impressive, and it's without doubt one of the flattest courses of any distance I've ever raced. Track start and finish is a bonus as is the post race sandwich. However, at £27 this race is a rip off; it doesn't use any public roads, just cycle paths and pavements that are still open to the public. Also, the water is only in irritating plastic cups that are hard to drink from. Overall this is a solid and fast event that will remain popular due to it's position on the calender, but is too expensive for what it is.Date of review: March 18, 2013
In short: Usual highs and lows, but still a must-do event!In full: Second year running this. Crowds can be a real problem for a lot of people as the organisers don't seem to make enough of an effort to sort people out into a proper order. The course is mostly bland dual carriageway but this is cancelled out by the tyne bridge, the amazing start line and first mile down the motorway, and the south shields sea front. Some pretty special places to run..The whole event is full of atmosphere right from the start area to the finish and this is a definate highlight of the event. Drink/ aid stations are frequent so top marks there. Course not too fast or slow even if you get a clear run, downhill overall but many undulations to deal with. Major criticism though would be the baggage 'buses'; who the hell thought they were a good idea!? hundreds of runners clambering up and down a narrow bus trying to find their bag that is inevitably burried amongst hundreds of others! When most events make do with baggage lorries and assistants to get your bag. An event of this calibre should have a much more high tech system in place.Overall though a top, must-do event and I will certainly be back for many years to come!Date of review: September 24, 2012
In short: Great race with the usual Run For all Problems.In full: Very fast and scenic course through the very heart York, as well as a great section alongside the river. Expensive for a 10K at £26 but it does include a very central course, 2 water stations plus a medal and t-shirt.The one complaint is that, as with other Run For All events there is very little emphasis on sorting people into an appropriate starting order. This is not a fun run and it is not advertised as one, so the commentators should do more to discourage the old ladies with fairy wings from standing in the sub 40 minute section. Many stories of bad traffic and congestion going around. Would still do it again in a flash, though.Date of review: August 7, 2012
In short: Ignore the criticisms - this is one solid event.In full: This was my second year doing this. I'll start with the bad points:The lack of any sports drink is a real disappointment for an event of this scale. It is a minimum expectation in most marathons. If they HAD to just give away gels then they should have been from much earlier than 16.5 miles ie. regular intervals from 5/6 miles onwards.The event offers pretty poor value for money considering they aren't exactly closing the city centre down for the day. The Gosford house section they insist on including every year should be cut; I doubt anyone would miss that weird farm section in the middle of nowhere with the horrific gravel surface. Not pleasant when you've brought racing flats for a road race.Why they must charge yet more still for use of the event buses I don't know.As many people have pointed out most of the marathon isn't actually in Edinburgh, so the course will disappoint a lot of people.Now the good points:As advertised, this is a lighting fast course with definite PB potential. Barely an incline to speak of and a tasty net drop from start to finish. The only downside is that the conditions from year to year have been pretty bad. But that can change, and the organisers can't do much about it. Whilst not exactly Edinburgh, the course does have a certain strange charm about it, and is definitely memorable with scenic sections along the cost and a central start down london road and round holyrood park.Whilst there was no sports drink there were at least frequent water stations.Huge amount of crowd support in many parts of the course. Marshall's all very friendly and helpful. Nice touches included kids handing out sweets/ squirting runners with water pistols and a petrol station manager using the jetwash to great affect! Many residents out with their hoses too, all much appreciated!Finish area was massive and had great atmosphere, lots to do and things to see. Baggage worked very well also.T-shirt is a great design and very high quality. Medal was very special and possibly my favourite ever (I do have a fair few).Overall a very solid marathon and one I'd recommend trying. People complain about small organisational issues but it's easy to forget about what are ultimately pretty small issues. The important things are all taken care of.Like a lot of people, I will be back next year.Date of review: May 28, 2012
In short: Very solid and enjoyable eventIn full: Ok so good points: The event offered very good value with a technical t-shirt, medal AND a toffee crisp included in the finishers bag. There were several sections of zero support but there were surprising amounts of support in the more built up areas. Overall organisation seemed to be to a high standard.Bad points: We were led to the start line quite early and many there were no portaloos alongside the start line, meaning many people were just going in the starting pens or outside local shops. I doubt the owners were too pleased. A few toilets next to the start could fix this. There needs to be more seperation of runners into ability based zones, as after the sub 75 and sub 85 minute section it was basically a free for all, and I'll bet there was plenty of traffic problems for some of the faster runners. Course is quite hilly and not lighting fast but the downhills are at least gradual enough to take full advantage of them.Overall a good event with some great atmosphere in places, so I may well be back next year.Date of review: May 14, 2012
In short: Lovely stuffIn full: Ok, bad stuff out of the way first!Water pouches were a bit pointless and gimmicky: some were easy to open and others were a real pain, whilst it did sometimes taste a bit funny.The powerade station were really inconsistant and there was a huge gap in the middle of the race without one (surely I can't have been the only one annoyed by this!)Miles 18 and 19 were very quiet compared to the rest of the race.The course is largely unimaginative and features A LOT of out and back sections, which runners generally hate as they are demoralising.Now the good stuff: the whole event feels like it is a big event; something special. There's some properly good organization behind the whole thing.The course is generally pretty flat with only small inclines to slow you down in the first half.Water stations are frequent.Crowd support is on another level here.Some solid scenery throughout the course. Even the power station has a certain charm about it. Overall a very good event, especially for beginners. If you are thinking about doing it next year I would not hesitate in signing up as entries fill up VERY quickly if previous years are anything to go by, and this event is only going to get bigger and more prestigious.Date of review: April 16, 2012
In short: Great race; some great scenery and atmosphere amongst runners!In full: This was my second consecutive Loch Ness Marathon. This whole event has a very special, different feel you don't quite get from other events. It starts in the middle of nowhere, and most of the course is much the same so there's a special atmosphere as throughout. Scenery is good but you cannot see as much of the loch as you would hope!Quite a challenging course, very downhill overall but many undulations and punishing climbs to go with it. Final 3 pancake flat miles in Inverness were a relief!Organisation was disappointing after last year. The buses left for the start line quite late, then took a VERY long time to get there (1 hour 30 mins approx) so we were 15 mins from the race start upon arrival. This was followed by stewards and the commentator rushing us to get our bags dropped and get to the start line in time for the race. We had JUST got there. Give us a chance guys! Not impressed. Also, once again the park at the end was absolutely caked in mud, meaning runners and spectators alike were tip toeing around the place. Use mats or something instead.Overall a very different and special event and I would definitely recommend giving it a try.Date of review: October 3, 2011
In short: Lives up to it's name, and the hype.In full: This was my first great north run. Atmosphere at the start was fantastic, couldn't wait to get going! I had heard so many hardcore horror stories about how bad the traffic in this race is, and how you can't move for people. I can't speak for everyone, but I was at the back of zone B (the front public zone) and had a few thousand people ahead of me when i crossed the line, and I had no such traffic issues. I finished in 1 hour 28, and was able to maintain this pace amongst the pack for the whole race; yes it was a thick crowd but everyone appeared to be up to speed!The course was not scenic at all, with the notable exception of the Tyne Bridge, with it being mostly dual carriageway/ residential area. There was a lot of support though, as expected.Not exactly a fast course despite getting a clean run throughout, but not exactly a fell run either. You're generally either climbing or falling slightly.Great finish area and intense crowd support at the end, T-shirt and medal are also good. It's a long trip back to Newcastle because of queuing, but you should expect as much!Overall a great race let down only by some bland scenery!Date of review: September 20, 2011
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She asked for my credit card number. Fortunately, I don't use credit cards so she sent me this order invoice. For some reason I decided to call the Readers Digest office. When I got half done explaining this, the woman at R.D. said don't send them money. This is a scam. All the Readers Digest renewals are handled at Harlan, Iowa. She further said they've been trying to track down these people for years and asked for their phone number and address, which I gave her. She thanked me and said everytime Readers Digest get close to catching them they move to a different location. So be warned if someone calls to offer to extend your subscription. She thanked me many more times for calling the Readers Digest office.
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