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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Voyageur 50 Mile Fun Run
I left home by 315 AM, after 4 hours of sleep and pulled into Carlton a bit early, it was only 6 AM and the race didn't begin until 7.
Plenty of time for catching up with old friends and making new friends. These races are a social outlet for me. Sure, it takes training, but the race for me is really the party..the visiting the socializing. Lots of fun and smiles all around.
The weather was gorgeous, a start of 62F, clear sunny skies, with a forecast high of 83. Pretty sweet.
I had decided to take the race easy, don't push it, don't fall, don't try to PR..but if everything seems easy peasy then go for it. After speaking with Beth Simpson-Hall, 3 time Leadville finisher and will be out there again next month, I knew my plan was on the right track. Easy. Beth and husband Larry had recently returned from Colorado as Larry AGAIN finished Hardrock and Beth paced him for 56 miles. Incredible. She'll be a Hardrocker in the future.
I didn't line up in the first pack this year. The last two times I've run this race I have, just because I then push through the rocky rooty first few miles. I have fallen down each time, too. Yesterday I went more slowly and didn't fall during this section.
I decided to carry one bottle and I added a 'luggage' compartment to my bottle that connected via velcro. I could jam 8 gels and Advil in there. I decided to use a drop bag for the 1/2 way mark were I had 8 more gels and some Hammer Heed. The course uses Ultima, which I didn't think I liked, but as it turned out, it was just fine.
I didn't have any appetite, again, I don't know what is up with this change in eating and racing, but it seems that I am not hungry for pb&j this year as I always have been. I did gels on the 45 minute and drank 24 oz of Ultima every 30 minutes. This is a new phenomena for me as well..drinking more than 24 oz an hour. I did grab a few pretzels, some cantaloupe, strawberries and watermelon along the course. The aid stations were well stocked.
The day was just beautiful. The course is a nice blend of rocks and roots, bridges, steep ups and downs, creek crossings, grassy areas, a bit of road and the powerlines where there are 10 or so 350' hills that are very steep and climby. It's an out and back course so on the way back the powerlines can kill a person. Hot and tough.
As I was feeling so great I began to run harder and began to think about that 1025. At about 20 miles I was running hard, coming down a steep creek bank. I came to the bottom, tried to jump across but didn't make it. The ground made a sharp V shape. See that V? My feet were at the top left of it, my butt in the point and my shoulders and head on the top right of it. I some how spun around, was facing the wrong direction. My shoulder hurt the most, I really slammed it. I kind of laid there for a while, stunned. Then I became scared and couldn't get out of my position. I ended up rolling out of the V into the creek and righted myself. This was my wake up call..or my excuse to slow down. I told myself to be careful, Leadville is 3 weeks out, no need to hurt something for heaven's sake.
As I was running along I noticed that my skirt was falling off. The waist has become too large. Oh man. I could feel it falling down off of my hips, exposing my butt crack! How bad is that? Pretty soon Greg..Greg? Olson? It was his first 50, and he introduced himself at the start to me. He reads this blog and told me that I motivate him! He said it is funny because when I began running I would write about these ultra runners that were of elite status, that I was kind of nervous around them, that I felt unsure, and not adequate around them, and he said now here you are, friends with them and running with them! I told him it was I that had the problem with feeling unsure of myself, they were always there, and kind. So, as Greg was following me we were running down down down hill, a real long down hill. I was holding up my skirt. I told him it was falling off. He says "I thought so, but I'm not looking"! I had to laugh. Then I realized I had 4 pins holding my number, I could use a pin to make the waist smaller. It worked! I no longer had to hold it up as I ran. Sheesh.
I measured my waist this morning, it is 2" smaller since I last measured a few months ago. No wonder the skirt, and everything else for that matter, no longer fits.
As I was running down into the turnaround near 25 miles I saw Dawn Long ahead of me. She took a hard fall. I felt badly for her. Her sister was at the turn around so she said she would clean her up and make sure she was ok. Another reminder to me to slow down.
I came into the 1/2 way point at 4:50, grabbed my gels and Heed and got out of there.
I like the out and back. On the way out there I was able to see all of those in front of me. Wynn Davis was winning the race, John Storkamp was about 5, Rochelle Wirth was in 1st and Helen Lavin was in 3rd. I cheered loudly for the girls!
As I came out of the turn around and headed back I was able to see everyone else in the race. I love it! Lots of good jobs and high fives and hugs.
Pierre was ahead of me, I figured I'd try to catch him again. We had been going back and forth on the way out and I enjoy his company. Pierre. If one would have told me a few years ago that I would be brave enough to even talk..much less run with Pierre I would have called him a liar. I never thought I'd be able to run with Pierre, much less, actually be his friend. I have always thought so lowly of myself, that those that are faster, stronger, 'more tough/elite' wouldn't have the time to speak with me. Sad, hu? I'm glad I am trying to get over that..I still have a hard time breaking through that.
Anyhow, eventually I caught Pierre and we ran the rest of the race together. We trudged through the powerlines again, oh man, how tough! It was 2 PM, hot as hell, and our legs were tired. As we came out of the powerlines I noticed that I was freezing. Freezing! I had goosebumps, the hair on my arms was standing straight up. The gal at the aid station said my lips were turning blue. Nuts. Dehydration. I had been drinking 24 oz every 3 miles. I was sweating like crazy. My top and skirt were streaked with white salt. Then I realized I hadn't peed ONE time. Not once! That is so unlike me. I usually pee every hour. I became a little nervous.
We came into mile 39.5 on a 10:15 hour finishing pace. Kim Holak was working the aid station. She just finished Hardrock, too! I told her when I became tired the next 10 miles I was going to think of what she had just accomplished.
Pierre and I trudged on. I was slowing. I no longer cared about the 1015 or the 1025 or whatever. I was worried that I was so damn cold when it was 80F. I was freezing.
We continued on, past the last aid station, thank god, ready to finish up the last 3.4 miles. The last section takes for flipping ever. It's all rocky and rooty, along the river. I was sucking it up. I went slowly, I didn't want to fall, I wanted to come out in one piece. I began to get a bit dizzy, slowing down. I told Pierre to go on, that I was fine. He went up ahead just a bit. I finally saw the bridge that goes to the asphalt bike path. Oh! Happy days. I came out on the bike path and saw Pierre up ahead. I ran to catch him, but wasn't getting too far! As Pierre came to the road he turned backward, running, waiting for me. We ran in together at 1055. I was 8th woman out of 32. A record 139 entrants in total. I don't recall where I fell overall, I'm sure the results will be up shortly.
A spectacular day!
Those that finished earlier than us, were spectation, or had dropped, were all sitting on the grassy hill at the High School cheering. It's awesome! We came in, hugged and asked how everyone else was doing.
John Storkamp finished in just over 7 hours! Holy balls. Helen won the woman's in just over 8 hours! Wow. Crazy fast runners. I'm so proud of them.
Hey, all of us that were at BETA two weeks ago running the SHT, finished Voyaguer today! John and Helen came out on top :)
I took a nice warm shower and sat with the others to cheer on our friends. We swapped stories and laughs. This is one of the best parts of the race. Laughing and being silly afterward. Everyone is exhausted and delirious and out of hand...good stuff.
A nice meal of lasagna, bread and hot coffee..I was satisfied and happy.
At the award ceremony Rochelle Wirth, 2x woman's winner of Voyageur came up and introduced herself to me. She told me that she reads this blog and wanted to introduce herself. I was star struck and didn't know what to say at first. I began to feel unsure of myself. I can't quite explain it. I wanted to say that I was flattered that she read my blog and that she come up and to say hello to me. I did remember to congratulate her. Thank you, Rochelle! I hope I didn't seem cold to you.
After everyone came in we visited a bit and then headed off for home. I wasn't tired at all. I drank 4 cans of Diet Pepsi before I left the race, another 3 on the way and finally at 10 PM I stopped to pee in Cambridge! I hadn't peed since 6 AM. WHAT is up with that? I do not know. It was wonderful to crawl into my own bed post race, curl up with my book and relax, smiling to myself about the day.
I'm drinking drinking drinking water today. I feel very dehydrated and am down 4 pounds. THAT never happens either. I don't get it.
Hope everyone had a grand time at Voyageur yesterday, thanks for the party!
4 comments:
- Jeffrey S. said...
Nice work Julie,
Good times, eh?
I'm so sore today that I'm going to have to train more if I want to keep the party going... :-)
Jeffrey 12:09
- Helen said...
GREAT report Julie - it was a party up there!! I love the bit about your skirt falling down - hilarious - and not a bad complaint to have I suppose!
Best of luck with next few weeks training before Leadville.
- Karla said...
Julie - thanks so much for stopping and commenting on my BLOG! You are a BLOGGER - I am a neophyte!! BUT, I almost died when I read about you - I moved to the East Bay of SF from Mpls, MN almost 4 years ago, and I grew up with a cabin outside of Two Harbors, and my parents have a house between Two Harbors and Duluth - so we are all OVER the north shore area all the time!!!! What a taste of home in your pics and stories!! Congrats on your run - I can't even IMAGINE putting "50 mile run" and "fun" in the same phrase!!!! :)
- Karla said...
Darg, I should have added that I went to UMD for college, and my dad is on the board at Wolf Ridge, so we go up there and to the Superior Hiking Trail all the time! Okay, that's it! :)


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JERUSALEM — It would be an understatement to say that King Herod's place in Jewish history is ambiguous.
Reviled for his cruel, harsh domestic policies, distrusted for his close affiliation with the Romans and seen as inauthentic because of his Idumean background, the Judeans did not much like him despite the relative economic prosperity he helped bring about at the time. Herod was feared and hated by the people of Judea, and respected and admired by his Roman overlords, and even by others who marvelled at the acuity of his esthetic, architectural vision.
He was a ruler on a grand scale and was responsible for vast building programs and majestic architectural structures in Judea, which at the time was but a tiny province in Rome's quite large and expansive empire.
A sense of who the Idumean King of Judea was is now on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in a newly installed exhibition called Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey.
The exhibit opened on Feb. 12 and is attracting wide international interest and attention. The scale, pageantry and pomp of Herodium, the king's palace just south of Jerusalem, have been recreated in part for the world to see. So, too, is his final resting place, the massive mausoleum there.
Herodium is located some 12 kilometres south of Jerusalem on the edge of the Judean Desert. It was built by Herod to commemorate his decisive victory over the Parthians and their alliance with Antigonus, Herod's Hasmonean opponent, in 40 BCE. It housed a massive administrative centre, palace, fortress, theatre, sport complex and his final resting place.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem archeologist, Prof. Ehud Netzer, spent some 40 years exploring the site and eventually, in 2007, made a breakthrough discovery of Herod's tomb, an 80-foot tower-shaped mausoleum.
More than 250 artifacts, weighing some 30 tons, were collected by Netzer's team and are now on display at the Israel Museum, curated by David Mevorah, Silvia Rozenberg and Rodney Soher.
The doors of the exhibition open onto a replica setting of the calm Judean desert and from there into a series of chambers highlighting the world in which Herod lived and many of his accomplishments during his 33-year reign.
According to the museum, Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey seeks to provide a better understanding of this ancient figure through the monumental architecture he created and the art and objects with which he surrounded himself. The exhibition examines Herod's remarkable building projects, complex diplomatic relations with the Roman emperors and nobility, and dramatic funeral procession from Jericho to the mausoleum he constructed for himself in Herodium. A striking reconstruction of the burial chamber of the mausoleum is a centrepiece of the exhibition."
Herod had a penchant for the lavish and the opulent. A sampling of his tastes is on display in the exhibit: mosaic floors, painted frescoes, heated rooms, running water, sumptuous baths, statues, busts of Roman emperors and paintings. There is even a royal room – a VIP box – to the theatre on the premises.
He emulated the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar and ensured that all of his palaces enjoyed the same level of luxury as those of Caesar. Mosaic floors carpeted many of his rooms.
The gathering and display of Netzer's findings is a breathtaking view of a person who was at the centre of events in Judea at one of the most critical periods of the development of western civilization.
Tragically, Netzer did not live to see the public presentation of his life's work. He died after a fall while working at the site in October 2010. The exhibition is dedicated to his memory.
The exhibit runs until Oct. 5, 2013.

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Last week, the Washington Post reported some unwelcoming news to AquaBounty Technologies, the producers of genetically engineered (GE) salmon : grocery stores are lining up to sign a pledge saying they won't sell the fish if, or when, it is approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
This action by some of the nation's largest retailers, including Meijer, HEB, Target and Trader Joe's , reflects widespread consumer opposition to GE salmon. But where consumers see potential health concerns, environmental problems and a lot of hype surrounding the benefits of this fish , the state of South Dakota apparently sees dollar signs.
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This troubling lack of transparency appears to be how things operate at SDSU. Back in 2011, Food & Water Watch asked the university for funding records related to the university's research projects. SDSU fought our request for more than a year, even working with a private law firm—presumably with taxpayer dollars—before finally granting the records. By contrast, other land-grant schools openly publish their research grant awards or provided us records in a timely fashion.
If SDSU wants to follow the governor's lead in pursuing AquaBounty, it should at the very least, walk in the light of day so the public can know where and how public resources are being spent. Because SDSU appears to be doing everything in its power to keep its relationship with AquaBounty out of the public eye, Food & Water Watch filed a legal complaint in South Dakota last week to force SDSU to hand over the records.
SDSU's partnership with AquaBounty on a field trial doesn't serve the public interest, and it won't answer the many lingering safety questions surrounding GE salmon; it'll just add to the pile of studies that AquaBounty has produced, designed or funded. Even federal regulators at the Food and Drug Adminsitration are basing their decision on scientific studies submitted by AquaBounty, which loves to boast that GE salmon is the most studied fish in the world. Unfortunately, the company fails to note that it is producing most of the science itself.
Unfortunately, our public institutions increasingly are depending on partnerships with the private sector, putting industry goals ahead of public-interest research.
Food & Water Watch examined the biasing impact of industry funding on scientific research at public universities in our report Public Research, Private Gain, with a special section about SDSU.
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Josko -
Did you happen to see Adrian's mesh body crabs? I witnessed their effectiveness on South Monomoy (from a distance) last year and he posted them a short while ago.
I'm convinced that fish are learning to avoid the popular patterns. Any doubters can easily confirm that the effectiveness of Gotcha's on Andros is inversely proportional to distance from Cargill Creek, where angler density on the island is highest.
And there's definitely somethhing to be said for throwing a big, flashy patterns to fish that are refuising waifs.
Back to the original thread, I'm still looking for a small lifelike crab fly. Velcro crabs turned out to be a disappointment wrt their lack of action. I managed to tie up some #6 merkins and bitters for my next trip, but I'm all ears for other suggestions.
Josko -
Somehow I missed this last post, thanks for the follow up. I couldn't help but think of the spawning shrimp, which aside from being such a big gawdy fly has been a 'closer' for me on recent outings even when stealthy little tan flies would fail. The only rationale I could place on this was (a) it is rarely used by anglers and (b) it's so juicy of a treat they can't ignore it.
I am wondering if there is an element of fish 'learning' what is typically a dangerous offering verses what has been consistently safe to eat? Certainly they learn which fish to eat and which to avoid over time. They learn which shadows to avoid (herons and ospreys) and which noises mean trouble. I would think that their ability to focus on the things they consume even exceeds their ability to be wary of other goings-on, which we can clearly see they do react to as they rooster tail off a flat.
I'm very glad to have expanded my fly collection, as Andros bones seem to be getting pickier every time I go down there. A Hoy-type fly turned out to be just the ticket on several occasions. They would see a fly, come behind it, follow for 2-3 feet and then quiety veer off. At times it took a half-dozen changes, but when the fly was what they wanted, they'd pounce on it like the bones of old. Pop's Bonefish bitter was another fly-of-the day. I tied up some velcro flies, following idrirecitons on the mustad site, but they fell apart on me, and didn't seem that lifelike in the water.
Interestingly enough, the guides I talked to hadn't really gotten into the fly-of-the-day mode. Yes, they'd have sports change flies here and there, but I couldn't detect a coherent effort. Maybe it's a case of the fish outpacing tyhe fishermen?
In ant case, I felt this selectivity adds another great dimension to a great pastime.
Yeah, I think the fly above roughly what I wish I had.
Juro, White Bight is right near Cargill creek, which has 3 large lodges (2 of them may have merged reently) and puts out some 40-50 skiffs on a good day. So the fish are jumpy as heck, especially now since the guides are told to go easy on fuel and can't be talked into running any diustance from the lodges.
I had some #8 tailing flies and was managing to lay 70+' casts well ahead of fish schools. Thay'd come on it, one or two would swing in to check it out, and then the whole school would spook like you threw a rock at them. My guide had a light tan #8 Bonecrusher that took one fish, and that was it.
With the lodges near-full, any fish near north bight were as jumpy as anything I've seen near the peak of the bnonefishing boom in the later 90's. A great challenge if you're a good caster and don't mind very technical fishing, but it was a disappointment to most of the lodge sports I talked to.
small dime size crab
Maybe not the thing you are looking for but i thougt i'd post it anyway, you'll might get some ideas..
Tied on a Tiemco 811S size 8 hook.
Legs are made of flexi-floss (of course i couldn't find the right coulour)
Eyes are burned mono, some white sparkle flash for the mouthpiece
Body is made of a material they refer to as furry foam, but without the foam back
I used some coloured epoxy to hold it all together, you could of course glue another patch of this furry stuff together.
I used some epoxy otherwise the crab could float hookpoint down..still real easy to let the crab land softly on the surface.
You can also use some wool to make the body, just like the merkin-carb.
Or...one of my favorite patterns....the velcro crab , bring some markers and find the right colour for your crab...
hopefully usefull in some way.
I've fished small felt crab patterns I bought down in Islamorada. Essentially they are small eyes on a hook with rubber legs tied madamX style and a small grizzly hackle 'claw', then a pad of felt is glued on (top in tan).
My experience has been that when fish are tailing in skinny water they are actively feeding and stealth is the biggest factor to success. As of this writing I've only done 10 bonefish trips but it seems any decent fly placed correctly without detection gets eaten.
Your question gets me all fired up - I love pursuit of tailing bonefish like few things in fishing. I've literally have laid on my stomach on marl mounds to get my profile down and cast more tenderly than in any spring creek to place a weightless fly (like the one Adrian gave me) in their lane of advancement with great success when the presentation is right.
As the light fades on the flat, I found light colored flies less effective and a dark colored fly (with more contrast at least) fared much better so it pays to have more than one.
I can't wait to see silver tails waving in the low angle light again!
Hi Josko
Tie up a couple of these - it's one of the best tailing crab patterns out there. The body is dubbed or wound fuzzy wool palmered with a soft webby hackle. Tail and wing are marabou or any mobile material (arctic fox etc.). Vary the colors to suit local crab pattern colors - e.g. tan with purple/blue wing.
I tied one of these for Juro's Acklins trip with tan wing and orange marabou tail.
His reports were very favorable
There is no weight and you need to soak the fly well before casting otherwise it will float but the great thing is it lands on the water like thistledown!
With a bulky wing it should ride hook-point up. It seems to work best when allowed to "drift" down-current (or down-wind) into tailing fish.
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|When I fished the Canun area a couple of years ago the guide had a dynamite pattern that was tied on a number 8 hook. Legs and mono eyes were tied on the shank and a small piece of felt was glued on then one side coated with epoxy - no weight. You could cast these right on the head of the permit and not spook them - they just slammed this fly. I know I have seen pretty small patterns tied with yarn and light lead eyes that have legs - got a bunch from a good friend of mine, Bill Kiene ,who has a shop in Sacramento.
Small crab for tailing fish
I'm looking for a small crab fly (pattern) to cast to tailing bonefish. I'd like it about dime size, size 8 hook, very light and sparse, but with prominent legs and round body.
For those who know the area, I'd use it in White Bight, Andros.
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This is a PetSmart National Adoption Weekend. Tri-County Animal Rescue will be looking for good homes for our cats and dogs so please come out and help us get these pets adopted!
UPDATE: Last week�s featured pet, Stormy, was adopted!
We�ve all seen dogs riding in the back of pickup trucks as the trucks fly down the highway. Many people see nothing wrong with letting their dog ride un-tethered in the open bed of a pickup truck. Sometimes the dog seems to be enjoying this open air experience, while other times the dog looks terrified as he tries to maintain his balance. Regardless of whether the dog is having fun or is frightened, transporting them untethered in the back of a pickup is placing them in a very unsafe situation. It not only endangers the dog, but other motorists who could have a wreck when they swerve to miss the dog if he or she falls out.
A loose dog in a pickup truck bed can easily become a projectile if the driver has to slam on his brakes, swerve to avoid something in the road, or hits an unexpected bump. A dog falling off the truck bed or jumping out of the truck bed can result in broken bones, road rash, bruises and even death if they get hit by another vehicle. Even if the dog manages to survive falling out of an open truck bed, treating his injuries could incur a sizable vet bill.
This same logic applies to allowing pets to ride with their heads and bodies hanging out the car windows. One of our Tri-County dogs jumped out of a car window on Franklin Boulevard immediately after he was adopted. The car was stopped in traffic and the new owner thought it was cute for her new pet to have a in-your-face fresh air experience. Thankfully we were able to find the dog after searching the busy road area for several hours. The dog was not injured but the new pet owner was hysterical. This was a hard lesson learned for this new pet owner � her new pet could have been killed just hours after adoption.
Please don�t put your pet at risk. A responsible pet owner is one that makes sure their canine companion stays safe and healthy, both at home and on the road.
Tri-County Animal Rescue is a non-profit organization serving Lincoln, Gaston and other surrounding counties committed to ending pet homelessness in this area. Volunteers and donations are needed to continue the mission of finding homes for these unwanted animals. For more information, call 704-263-2444, send an email to email@example.com, visit us on the web at www.tcar.us or on FaceBook at Tri-County Animal Rescue.
Donations can be sent to Tri-County Animal Rescue, PO Box 483, Alexis, NC 28006.
Joann Hager is founder of Tri-County Animal Rescue. She writes a weekly report for The Gazette.


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All bugs in the WeBWorK software should be reported at http://bugs.webwork.maa.org. This is also the place to request new features or enhancements to the software.
What is Bugzilla?[edit]
For more information, see the Wikipedia article on Bugzilla.
Bugzilla is an on-line bug-tracking tool, developed by the Mozilla Foundation, and is the system we use to track all open issues with WeBWorK.
The reason we use Bugzilla is that it allows the developers to easily find, track and discuss issues, to spot duplicates and ultimately to resolve them.
Reporting a bug[edit]
- Go to bugs.webwork.maa.org.
- Use the search box on the main page to see if your bug has already been submitted. You can also perform more advanced searches on the search page.
- If you are sure that your issue has not already been reported then click enter a new bug] in the toolbox on the left. You will be prompted to log in if you have not already done so (see 'Why must I register?', below).
- Select the subsystem of WeBWorK on which you are reporting the bug. (Called a "Product" in Bugzilla)
- Fill in the following boxes (the rest can be left blank):
- Component (if you don't know, select 'General/Unknown')
- Version (if you don't know, select 'unspecified')
- Summary - a short one-sentence summary of the issue
- Description - full details of the issue, giving as much detail as possible
- Click 'Commit'
That's it! For maximum chance of your bug being fixed, you are advised to read the bug writing guidelines first.
See also: How to Report Bugs Effectively by Simon Tatham
What syntax can I use?[edit]
Bugzilla comments are plain text, you cannot use HTML. However, Bugzilla will automatically make hyperlinks for certain type of text in comments:
- most types of URL, e.g. http://bugs.webwork.maa.org
- bug 12345
- comment 7
- bug 23456, comment 53
- attachment 4321
- r12345 - link to a revision in Subversion (Special:Code/system)
Why must I register?[edit]
We need you to register in order to use Bugzilla. This is primarily so that we can contact you if there are further questions regarding your bug submission. For example, if a developer is unable to replicate your problem they will ask for more information.
Registering is free and easy. Simply click the 'create account' link at the top right of the page, enter your e-mail address (and optionally your real name) and click 'create account'. Then simply log in using the password you receive in the confirmation e-mail (which can be changed in your preferences once you have logged in).
Once logged in, you can change your preferences to specify what kinds of e-mail Bugzilla sends you (with the option of turning off all e-mail). To do this click 'my preferences' in the top right and select the 'email settings' tab.
Please note that your email address will be visible to everyone. Some people prefer to set up a separate e-mail account (using a free webmail service) for working with Bugzilla.
Why can't I report bugs here?[edit]
You can. You can also report by writing them in chalk on the pavement. However, if you want a developer to act on it then you need to put it somewhere they are likely to see it, namely Bugzilla.
How do I link to a bug?[edit]
If you want to create a link from a page on this wiki to a Bugzilla bug, use
[[bugzilla:XXX]], where XXX is the bug number you want to link to. For example
[[bugzilla:1690]] will result in the following output: bugzilla:1690.
See also[edit]
- Bugzilla products and components - finding the right product/component when filing a bug report.
- Bugzilla fields - how to fill out different fields in a bug report
- A bug's life cycle - how the Status and Resolution fields should work.
- Forum post on Deskzilla - a desktop Bugzilla client.


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I have a project that makes MadExcept fail, but I can't figure out why. Here's the basic information:
* Delphi 2010 Version 14.0.3593.25826 (Update 4) on Windows 7
* MadExcept 4.0.16
* Until last week, MadExcept worked just fine with this project. Then it stopped working for this application only.
* If I create a new project and enable MadExcept, it works just fine.
* Already tried uninstalling MadCollection, then cleaning up the registry and file system for mad* entries, deleted the project's .mes, .dproj, .local and .identcache files, then rebooted and reinstalled MadCollection fresh.
* Already tried to enable the "debug" configuration, with detailed map file generation and conditional define of "madExcept".
* Confirmed that the conditional "madExcept" is defined by executing {$ifdef madExcept} ShowMessage('madExcept defined'); {$endif}
* The application does not have any exception handlers defined (like Application.OnException).
Where else can I look? Is there a list of known issues that would make MadExcept fail? Any possible interaction with, say, Jedi or Indy or any other popular component?


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The BBC are broadcasting a documentary about XL recordings tonight. It's made by the extremely talented Becky Jacobs and is well worth a listen as Richard Russell's label is one of the most influential we've ever had, right up there with Island, Factory and Rough Trade.
XL started out as a hardcore breakbeat label born out of the acid house explosion, releasing the music people started making when the Roland 303 acid bleeps faded out and breakbeats took over. They were there when Prodigy did their first gigs at rave chaos-pit Labyrnth and that signing bankrolled the label for the whole first phase of their life. Happily, and unlike other label heads, they chose to spend the money on more music rather than a big diamond watch and a Boxster.
There's a million things you could say about XL: the way they shifted to bands in the early 2000s; the finely-tuned radar-ears that allowed them to sign Dizzee on the back of the I Luv U white label and allowed them to release Boy In Da Corner in all it's pristinely raw-from-road honesty; the genius of re-releasing the first two White Stripes albums and getting Jack front and centre of their newly-expanded internationalist roster. And that's only the half of it. All record labels go on about only releasing music they like but either a) some of them are lying or b) some of them like horrible music. XL have remained like that music loving person you know: slightly arrogant but pretty much right about everything, and hallelujah for that.
If you were to ask me which labels are doing the same thing now, I'd have one answer. The Rinse family of labels, events and radio. They're connected to the roots of their culture in exactly the same way XL were, and to a pretty large degree, still are.
One way of ensuring that you stay relevant is to focus on the roots, not fruits of a culture, and XL are definitely in camp roots.
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Women of Faith simulcast Saturday
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- Category: Community
- Published on 06 December 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Members of the First United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon will be hosts for a Women of Faith Christmas live simulcast on Friday, December 6. The event will be from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the Family Life Center.
The simulcast will be an evening of hope and joy for the whole family. For more information, see the December 5 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Gov. LePage now says that no one in the administration should talk with reporters from the three papers of Maine Today Media — the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel.
LePage's spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, informed a Press Herald reporter of the new policy following a request for the governor's public events calendar. Bennett would not provide the calendar, a public document, and said the administration would no longer participate in stories reported by the three newspapers. [Source]
It was just a few weeks ago that LePage barred administration officials from testifying to the Appropriations Committee, as it was working on the budget. He said that he'd do all the testifying for them.
But at least then administration officials could talk to legislators by phone and answer emails. Now they are barred from talking to reporters from the three papers and he won't talk to them either.
This is a rather unusual decision. So how does the administration explain itself?
Well, according to the publication of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, there are multiple reasons, but the "straw that broke the camel's back" "was Colin Woodard's recent series on Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Patricia Aho."
As I discussed in "Behind closed doors, lobbyists set the rules for LePage administration," a seven-month probe by Colin Woodard found that a lobbyist hired to oppose environmental laws is now heading Maine's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and has been thwarting those same laws.
This same lobbyist has reassigned experts who were trying to carry out the laws. One DEP staffer won damages in court for retaliation.
More than this is covered in the remarkable "The Lobbyist in the Henhouse" series by Woodard and the whole thing is worth reading.
What does all this mean?
1. Well, Gov. LePage has never been a fan of newspapers. More than once he's said that buying a paper is like paying someone to lie to you.
2. At the same time, the administration is paying attention to the media and devoting resources to this project.
As the governor's spokesperson told the Maine Heritage Policy Center's publication, "We've been monitoring this for a long time."
They track where positive and negative stories are put in newspapers. They pay special attention to whether articles about the governor mention Rep. Pingree's husband's ownership share in the Maine Today papers.
3. Yet the administration has restricted coverage of many events, including some that are rather positive. As reporter Steve Mistler notes in the Press-Herald:
The communications staff has given limited information about the governor's public events schedule since he took office. In May, Bennett removed reporters from a ceremonial signing of a bill that requires public school personnel to receive training in suicide prevention and awareness. The bill received unanimous support in the Legislature and LePage pledged $44,000 from his contingency account to fund the effort.
Rep. Paul Gilbert, D-Jay, the bill's lead sponsor, told the Press Herald that he was surprised that the governor's staff didn't want press in the room. Gilbert also noted that LePage complained during the ceremony that the press wouldn't cover the event because it was a positive news story.
4. But it was Woodard's series that bothered the governor enough to break ties.
Showing what has been happening behind closed doors often bothers chief executives. They want privacy for their administrations.
But that goes against our democracy's commitment to transparency whenever possible. LePage himself pledged during his campaign to have the most transparent administration in Maine's history.
Investigative reporter Woodard, using interviews and internal documents, cracked the door open.
Granted, the governor has a different view of what happened when no one was watching government, but he isn't willing to answer questions about it in public.
(When was the last time LePage held a press conference?)
Instead, the administration is taking the very unusual step of cutting communication with these papers.
A final note on the politics of this step:
On the one hand, trashing the media will likely play well with elements of LePage's base. As such, it's another element of a strategy he'll probably pursue through the 2014 election to ensure his base turns out to vote for him.
However, a leader who looks unwilling to stand and argue his point, preferring to limit interaction, doesn't look confident. And that does not exactly attract support. Instead, it raises questions of temperament that may turn off some supporters and others who might have been.


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The Art of Catching Some Zzzzz's
Being a mother is extremely demanding. Somehow you are the first one up and the last one to bed. You are always extremely tired and can be found falling asleep as you practice reading with your daughter. You anxiously await the anticipated bed time where you can snuggle in your sheets, lay your head on your puffed up pillow and fall gracefully to sleep the way princesses do in movies.
However is that really the case?
I can be falling asleep on the way home from work, on the couch, the dinning table, even as you move about assembling the essentials for the next day. However, as soon as I lay in bed, it gets COMPLICATED!!
Ideally I want to lay on my back. If I position my pillows just right, both my shoulders properly proportioned equally on the pillow will make for a nice restful sleep. See, this is the type of Science they should be teaching in school. The physics of perfectly aligned shoulders.
But still, I can't fall asleep. This is not the position I am used too! You see, we recently got my baby boy to stop sleeping with us. When he was a baby, we messed up by putting him in the bed with us all because we wanted an extra few hours of sleep during feedings and diaper changings.
Then he just grew super fast and pretty soon I was the one hanging off the edge. Everyone morning, my shoulders would ache because I was forced to sleep on my side all night!
So we moved him into his room. Then we felt guilty and I was cold. So there he went back into our bed. T-ball started for him. He then decided that he was a big boy and could not sleep with us. So there he went back to his bed in his room. I was sad. I missed him. But my shoulders didn't. In one night I was cured and could never go back to the old way again.
But like all great things, the season ended as well as Ryan's desire to be a big boy. We couldn't get him to stay the night in his room. Finally, it donned on us to bring his bed into our room. So we did that… and we have our bed back. Hopefully, we will have our room back.
So I lay there fully enjoying the arms space I have. I now have the power to roll up in a little ball, spread out like an X and even sleep side ways. The possibilities are endless! But I just ache for comfort and want to fully enjoy the space laying on my back.
Still, it doesn't feel comfortable. What do I do with these arms of mine? Do I cross them over my chest like Wednesday from The Adams Family?
No that's weird and uncomfortable. Imagine if I died like that… the medics will think I am some kind of witch or satanic sleeper.
I finally give up and just roll on my right side like always. I curl my legs up practically in my body and relax. Hopefully, I will just know to change it up in the middle of the night.
Then I start to feel something uncomfortable.
My ankles are touching each other and it's driving me CRAZY!! My knees are boney and rubbing against each other! If I spread my legs that feels foreign… uhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I just wanna sleep!! I finally just roll over on my stomach and hope the smothering of my face in the pillow will be enough to knock me unconscious!
What is that my feet are hitting?!?!
Ryan is now sleeping horizontally on the edge of our bed!!!!


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Hospitals are increasingly pulling their heads out of the sand when it comes to the social media activity of their employees, recognizing that they're active on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube regardless of whether the IT department blocks access to them from work computers.
Time to face facts: Employees post online comments from their computers at home and use their smart phones to update their Facebook status while at work. And yes, they're talking about your hospital online.
1. Keep It Short
Your social media policy should be short—about one page—and should be written in the simplest possible language. Sure, legal is going to make you put some jargon in there; just try to keep it to a minimum.
Examples of policies that are downright unreadable abound. However one facility that got it right is Danbury (CT) Hospital. The introduction sets up clearly the difference between personal and professional online activities:
- "Personal blogging is not a business-related activity and should be done during personal (non-work) time only.
- "Company-sponsored blogging may only be done after express authorization of public relations/marketing."
Other bullet points are just as straightforward. One that I particularly like: "Since your site is a public space, we require that you will be respectful to the company, our employees, our customers, our partners and affiliates, and others (including our competitors)."
Read more of Danbury Hospital's social media policy online.
Similar language can be found in other hospitals' policies, suggesting this is one area where smart hospitals are already borrowing from each other. Mayo Clinic's policy, for example, reads in part: "Be respectful and professional to fellow employees, business partners, competitors and patients."
2. Keep It Simple
Mayo, a pioneer among hospitals in developing social media best practices, also drills down into some of the nitty-gritty of posting online—yet still manages to put it in easy-to-understand terms. Take this list, for example:
- "Mayo Clinic blog posts and comments will be accurate and factual.
- "Mayo Clinic will acknowledge and correct mistakes promptly.
- "When corrections are made, Mayo Clinic will preserve the original post, showing by strikethrough what corrections have been made, to maintain integrity.
- "Mayo Clinic will delete spam and/or comments that are off-topic.
- "Mayo Clinic will reply to emails and comments when appropriate.
- "Mayo Clinic will link directly to online references and original source materials.
- "Mayo Clinic staff will disclose conflicts of interest and will not attempt to conceal their identity or that they work for Mayo Clinic."
The full Mayo Clinic social media policy is also available online.
3. Keep It Encouraging
I like policies that don't just tell employees what not to do, but give them guidance on best practices, as well. Vanderbilt University Medical Center's online "social media toolkit" avoids the finger-wagging tone that some policies take on and manages to make social media sound (gasp!) fun.
It asks its employees to think about their purpose in blogging and other forms of online communication with questions such as "Who are you trying to engage?" and "What would you like to accomplish?" and "What is your message?" The answer to that last question is a useful one: "Social Media is all about connecting, not pushing a message. To be a good participant, you must first be a good listener. Your online community will tell you what they want to hear from you."
"To be successful at social media takes not only time and some strategy, but it also takes an outgoing personality. If you've been described as a people-person or friendly, you probably have what it takes. Or you may be a connector—someone who enjoys making connections and providing helpful information. In any case, you'll need to have some personal or professional experience with social media before hosting an account on behalf of VUMC."
Why take a positive tone? Because social media can, in fact, be good for your hospital and its reputation. Employees can be among your best brand ambassadors—it's better to help them succeed than to simply point out all the ways they can fail (and then mention discipline if they break the rules, to boot).
4. Keep It Educational
Whenever someone tells me I can't do something, my first question is always "Why not?" Although Kaiser Permanente's social media does have a warning tone to it, it also gives clear-cut explanations of why it's in an employee's best interest to comply with the rules. Even better, the policy references Kaiser's mission.
"Blogs, wikis, and other forms of online discourse are individual interactions, not corporate communications. Kaiser Permanente staff and physicians are personally responsible for their posts. Be mindful that what you write will be public for a long time," the policy states. "One of Kaiser Permanente's core values is 'trust and personal responsibility in all relationships.' As a company, Kaiser Permanente trusts—and expects—its workforce to exercise personal responsibility whenever they blog or participate in any social media medium. This includes not violating the trust of those with whom they are engaging. Kaiser Permanente staff members should not use this medium for covert marketing or public relations purposes. If and when members of Kaiser Permanente's Communications, Marketing, Sales or other functions engaged in advocacy for the company have the authorization to participate in blogs, they must identify themselves as such."
Read Kaiser Permanente's social media policy online.
5. Keep It Transparent
What to do with your employee social media policy once it's done? Share it with the world. Although many hospitals do post their policies on internal sites, many are making them public by posting them online. In fact, you can find a list of hospitals with policies and, in some cases, links to the policies online, on Ed Bennett's Found In Cache blog.
If you have a social media policy, leave a comment on the post and he'll add your organization to the list. (Just make sure you follow your organization's social media policy when doing so!)


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Cocoa Genome Released... But Is It Really In The Public Domain?
from the the-public-domain-has-no-restrictions deptLast week, a PR person working for Mars (makers of M&Ms and such) sent me an email about how scientists from Mars along with the USDA and IBM (among others) had sequenced the cacao genome and that "the results of the research will be made available to the public with permanent access," at the accurately named Cacao Genome Database. Sounded interesting, but it was a busy week, and I wasn't able to spend much time digging into it. I was intrigued, however, by the claim in the press release that the team had "released the preliminary findings of their breakthrough cacao genome sequence and made it available in the public domain". It's so rare to hear of some big companies doing research and release it into the public domain, that it, alone, seemed newsworthy, and something I wanted to explore.
Thankfully, before I even got the chance to, I saw Glyn Moody point me to Glen Newton's analysis of the claims of public domain and open access for the data, only to discover it's not true. While they are making the data available, it's hardly public domain. You have to agree to a license that has some serious restrictions in it (and some contradictions). For example, it lists out the ways you can use it -- and leaves out commercial use. Real public domain doesn't care (and doesn't require a license).
Then there's this:
The User shall not transfer the information referred to in this agreement, or any copy of them, to a third party without obtaining written authorization from the Providers which will only be provided subject to the third party user entering into this same IAA.I'm kind of wondering if this is just boilerplate that the lawyers threw into this not understanding what public domain means. But it seems pretty silly to (a) create a license for supposedly public domain data which (b) doesn't allow you to tell anyone about what's in the license!
There is a nice bit in the "license" where it says you can't use the data in a patent application, but one would hope that the data being in the public domain would exclude it from being used in a limited fashion elsewhere anyway (sans license agreement). Separately, someone in the comments notes that the original license agreement said that if you used the data, you couldn't publish any articles about your findings until some period in the future -- but that clause was later removed (though, it's unclear if those who signed in prior to the removal still need to live by that).
However, I do have a pretty serious question: is this data in the public domain? Last year, we pointed out how difficult it is to put something into the public domain. Here, we have a case where Mars, the main company behind the research, has put out a press release, which clearly states:
Today, Mars, Incorporated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM released the preliminary findings of their breakthrough cacao genome sequence and made it available in the public domain.Thus, one could easily read that and believe these findings are public domain. But, then, when you go to the actual site, it claims all sorts of license restrictions. So, if someone goes and copies all the data and puts it on their own site, is that legal? It certainly looks like the company put the info into the public domain via the press release, and once something is in the public domain, you can't reverse that (well, unless you're the 10th Circuit appeals court). So, it certainly looks like someone could make the argument that the license Mars is trying to put on this data is meaningless. The company has already declared it in the public domain, and thus, no license applies. But, here's where the lack of any clear rules for how you officially make something public domain come into play. Would Mars claim that the press release "misrepresented" the company's position?
I don't mean to come down too hard on Mars. It's actually quite nice that a company would do such research and try to make it "open" and try to prevent it from being locked up in patents. I really do commend such actions, and don't wish to negate that point. But, I think the public domain is a really important thing, and if a company wants to put content into the public domain, they should be clear about what's really in the public domain.
Filed Under: cocoa, genome, licenses, public domain
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I just installed Windows 7 on a Compaq laptop that was previously running Vista. It was a clean install, meaning I wiped the hard drive rather than simply upgrading the OS. (I had my reasons for doing so, but I won't bore you with them here.)
The install went perfectly, with one exception: the display wasn't running at its maximum, native resolution (which on this system is 1,200 by 800). Instead, it was stuck at a rather chunky 800 by 600, and when I went to increase it (by right-clicking the desktop and choosing Screen resolution), the only option was 1,024 by 768--still shy of optimal.
What happened? Simple: Windows 7 had failed to detect and download drivers for the laptop's ATI Radeon video hardware. Thus, I had to grab them manually, which was surprisingly easy:
1. Click Start, type device manager, then press Enter.
2. Expand the tree for Display adapters. You should see an entry that says "Standard VGA" or something similar.
3. Right-click that entry, then click Update Driver Software.
4. Click Search automatically for updated driver software. Windows should be able to locate, download, and install the proper drivers for your video hardware, as it did on my Compaq.
When it's all done, you'll need to reboot. When Windows starts up again, your display should be running at its optimal resolution. If not, right-click somewhere on the desktop, choose Screen resolution, and choose your desired setting. Easy-peasy!


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It seems that's the case from what I've read as well. Our draft is scheduled for Wednesday, November 30th. I think I'll leave it there, so the draft is only five days away. We could use some more teams as we're only at five right now. Eight is a nice minimum.
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From The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (Gary Harmon):
The cleanup of a uranium mill-tailings pile along the Colorado River in Utah has removed 200 million gallons of contaminated groundwater as well, officials said. In removing about one-third of the 16 million-ton pile, the Moab, Utah, uranium mill tailings removal project also extracted the contaminated groundwater. The groundwater contained more than 785,000 pounds of ammonia and 3,900 pounds of uranium.
The project in 2003 installed a collection system aimed at removing water from the pile using eight extraction wells. The extracted groundwater is pumped to a lined four-acre pond on top of the tailings pile and sent to forced-air evaporators. The extraction system "efficiently and cost-effectively protects the river, which is a drinking-water source for millions of downstream users," Donald Metzler, federal project director, said. "We intercepted it before it got to the river."
The uranium is stored in the bottom of the evaporation pond, where it will remain unless he can find a market for it, Metzler said. If he can't, it eventually will be buried in the disposal cell, Metzler said.
More than 38 percent of the tailings pile, which was left over from the Cold War, has been taken by rail to a disposal site below the Book Cliffs near Crescent Junction, 30 miles north of the river.
Removal of the entire pile and the contaminated groundwater is expected to be complete in 12 years.
High concentrations of ammonia can harm endangered fish in the Colorado River.
Project officials estimate that removal of the contaminated water from the 130-acre site has cost less than 10 cents per gallon of water removed.


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Option #1: "Colourful and Healthful"
Super Salad
There's nothing like a fresh salad for lunch...can I get an amen? There's so many different veggies and fruits you can mix in and you feel like such a nutty health nut after you eat it!
Keep in mind though that vegetables are not the highest in calories so if you eat a salad of only lettuce and carrot shavings with just a wee bit of dressing you probably won't have enough energy to stay awake and energized for the rest of the day.
To give your salads that extra energy boost add in high calorie items like dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, chopped apricots), fresh fruit (berries, orange segments, diced apple), avocado (can you say healthy fats?), nuts (almonds or walnuts that have been soaked overnight) and seeds (pumpkin seeds are cheap and give a nice texture).
Now what to use for dressing??
Buying dressing from a bottle can get expensive so here are some options that are just as good and will save you money in the long run:
- Salsa from a jar
- A dollop of hummus (I love that word...dollop)
- Raw Sauerkraut (It's scary if you've never made it before and laughable if you have. Check out Yum Universe's site for instructions on how to make it. You should consider adding this to your diet especially if you have stomach issues)
- Tahini (Mix a little lemon juice, salt and pepper to your tahini and you've got dressing!)
Here's a super salad with mixed greens, red cabbage, shredded carrot, almonds and crans drizzled with a dijon mustard dressing made by Jac.
Option #2: "It's cold outside and I'm feeling asian-ish..."
Miso Soup with "Asian Ingredients"
I hope I didn't offend anyone by saying "Asian Ingredients" ha! But you can't just put frozen peas and macaroni noodles in your miso soup. It's gotta be asian inspired! Am I right??
So all you really need for miso soup is white miso paste which you can buy for pretty cheap and you've got soup for a long while! Just boil the water and add in a spoonful of miso paste and it will slowly dissolve into a broth. Next just add in your asian ingredients!
So in my version I put kelp that I soaked and sliced thinly and chopped shiitake mushrooms which were previously dried. The mushrooms were a much needed "meat type item" for the soup and the thinly sliced kelp was sort of like seaweed-y noodles.
Oh yeah and about this "kelp" business. You can buy it dried at basically any health food store and you just have to soak it for a couple minutes before you add it to the soup. It has essential minerals like iodine which a lot of people seem to be low in. It's also a great addition to your diet if you have a sluggish thyroid. (fun fact?)
So what else could you add to your miso soup? Oh I dunno...maybe....
-Tofu cubes
-Tempeh (we prefer this over tofu...less sketchy)
-Other kind of seaweed...like wakame
-Green onions
-Baby bok choy
-Soba noodles
-Brown or wild rice
-Handful of greens like spinach or arugula
-Edamame beans
The soup got pretty cloudy so I had to wait until the cloudiness sunk to the bottom.
Ok the colour is pretty ugly...it's hard photographing soup ok!
Anyways, this one is alot more visually appealing..
Option #3: "Filling and fun to make"
Ok has anyone ever been to Urban Herbivore? It's a vegetarian restaurant in Toronto and you can build your own salad or "bowl" which consists of either black rice or quinoa on the bottom and whatever you want on top drizzled with dressing and a crunchy topping. I decided to make my own "bowl" out of simpler, more economical ingredients. I used millet for the grain (probably the cheapest gluten-free grain besides rice) and topped it with roasted sweet potato, avocado, salsa, green peas and raw sauerkraut. Topped with a dressing made with raw carrots, hemp seeds, lemon juice and salt all blended up.
Perfect lunch!
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We offer a variety of servo gearboxes and although they may appear the same, they function differently. Kyle goes through each style of gearbox and when they would be ideal for specific projects.
In this episode of Control Issues Jason will be talking about how encoders work.
We're excited to launch our new Tech Tip video series - The Secret Life of Servos!
Let's talk about the differences between bushings and steel ball bearings.
In our latest Tech Tip video Jason shares four quick and easy ways to strengthen or box in your Actobotics channel.
We decided to push our Heavy Duty Linear Actuators to their limits and demonstrate their capabilities by crushing a bunch of stuff!
ServoBlocks™ are hands-down a ServoCity favorite and for a good reason. Check out their strength as we put them to the test with over 20lbs on them!
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Nathan Davis, founder of Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert, is recognized for "uncompromising commitment to jazz education"
PITTSBURGH—As the annual University of Pittsburgh Jazz Seminar and Concert enters its 43rd exciting year, its founder, Pitt Professor Emeritus of Music Nathan Davis, accepted the BNY Mellon Jazz 2013 Living Legacy Award in a special ceremony Oct. 5 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
A program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the award honors living jazz masters from the mid-Atlantic region who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and education. The celebration included a reception, the ceremony, and a performance by pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal, with a solo opening piano set by Jason Moran.
"Nathan's world-renowned talent and his steadfast and uncompromising commitment to jazz education are truly remarkable," said Jim McDonald, BNY Mellon's managing director of global philanthropy and employee programs, adding that the saxophonist is "a longtime friend who has used his gifts to help thousands of students while entertaining audiences globally."
Davis arrived at Pitt in 1969 as director of the Jazz Studies Program and soon founded the annual seminar and concert—the first academic jazz seminar of its type in the country. It features international artists connecting with aspiring musicians and the general public in a lecture format, then performing together as an ensemble.
For more than four decades, the event has hosted some of the greatest names in American jazz history, including saxophonists Grover Washington Jr. and Sonny Stitt, drummer and band leader Art Blakey, trumpet master Dizzy Gillespie, and many others.
Davis says he was encouraged to teach at Pitt by longtime friend and Pittsburgh-born drummer Kenny Clarke, with whom he had performed throughout Europe for seven and a half years.
"I wanted to bring dignity—the same dignity and respect afforded physicians, philosophers, and other scholars in academia—to jazz," said Davis. "And that, I think, I was able to do."
Visit www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/living_legacy/index.html for more information on the BNY Mellon Living Legacy Award and the Oct. 5 event.
About Nathan Davis
As a 16-year-old in his native Kansas City, Davis answered phones for a jitney company for $14 a week to save money for a down payment on a saxophone. Soon, he was playing local gigs and enrolled at the Kansas City Conservatory. He received his bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Kansas in 1960 and a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 1974.
After two and a half years in the U.S. Army's 298th Army Band in Berlin, Germany, he remained in Europe working with Kenny Clarke. While in Paris, Davis taught, performed, and recorded with some of the era's most elite jazz stars—Donald Byrd, Eric Dolphy, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Bud Powell, Johnny Griffin, and Dexter Gordon. During that time, he enrolled at the Sorbonne to study ethnomusicology. He studied composition under French composer André Hodeir and wrote more than 200 original compositions, including film scores, four symphonies, and a jazz opera Just Above My Head, based on the book by James Baldwin. It premiered in Pittsburgh in 2004.
Davis has published four books, including a scholarly text on the history of jazz. He served as faculty director of the Kennedy Center's career development residency program for young artists, Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead, from 2000 to 2011 and was a jazz master faculty member at the annual Ravinia Festival in Chicago for many summers. He also served as the musical director for the Thelonious Monk Institute in Aspen, Colo., and in 2010 was an artist in the newly formed Jazz Masters München Program, held in Munich, Germany.
He has recorded more than 20 albums as a bandleader with the Paris Reunion Band and Roots. He is founder and editor of the prestigious University of Pittsburgh International Jazz Archives Journal, which is distributed throughout 20 countries. His recordings include Nathan Davis: Suite for Martin Luther King Jr. (Tomorrow International, 1976), I'm A Fool to Want You (Tomorrow International, 1999), and The Other Side of Morning (Tomorrow International, 2005). His composition Matryoshka Blues, written for cellist Misha Quint, premiered in January 2013 at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
Davis was named professor emeritus at Pitt in Summer 2013.


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BREAKING: Trent Lowman chosen to lead Trojans
Bandys High School is trading one Lowman for another as its football coach next fall.
The Trojans announced Tuesday that Trent Lowman, the youngest son of retiring head coach Randy Lowman, will take his father's place as the head coach at Bandys.
Trent Lowman has spent the past four seasons as the defensive coordinator for the Bandys football program.
Starting at quarterback for Bandys under his father in 1999 and 2000, Trent threw for a combined 3,329 yards and 41 touchdowns in his career at the school.
Trent went on to play for Lenoir-Rhyne University's football program and spent time after his playing days as an assistant/wide receivers coach for the Bears from 2005-07.
It was announced this past Wednesday that Randy Lowman would be retiring as head football coach and athletic director effective Dec. 31. Randy was head football coach at Bandys for the past 26 years and also spent a combined 38 years total as both a player and a coach at the school. He compiled a 206-118-1 record during his long tenure.
Trent Lowman becomes the fifth football coach at Bandys High School since 1964, joining Dick Foster (1964-77), Randy Burroughs (1978-83), Tony Paroli (1984-86) and Randy Lowman (1987-2012).
To read more of this story, pick up the Wednesday edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.


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Remember the Liberty-print Nike Dunks of 2008 and the Nike Blazers of 2009? Well, having skipped 2010, they're back - tomorrow! Yep, on 1st April, Nike Sportswear launches its biggest-ever Liberty collection yet (and this ain't no April Fools).
There are 10 different sneakers to choose from, in four models - Nike's High Dunks, Blazer Mid Dunks, Blazer Low Dunks and Air Force 1's – with prices from £72 to £78.
The collection launches with four styles available tomorrow from 10am, instore and online, with more styles being released throughout the month. Plus, from the 1st May, the collection will be available from Office stores nationwide.
The trainers shown above are two of the styles that go on sale on 1st April: the Nike Dunk High Skinny Premium trainer in Umbel Print A, exclusive to Liberty, and the Kara's Trees print. Both £78 each.
Below, from top:
High Skinny Premium Dunks in Umbel print A, £78
High Skinny Premium Dunks in Umbel print D, £78
High Skinny Premium Dunks in Tom's Jets print, £78
High Skinny Premium Dunks in Kara's Trees print, £78
Blazer Mid Dunks in Tatum print, £72
Blazer Mid Dunks in Kara's Trees print, £72
Air Force 1 Dunks in Tatum print, £78
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Here I am, recovering nicely from the tough effort at the marathon on Sunday.
I'm surprised at how sore my upper body is. I recall scrunching up my shoulders during the race, then letting them go, trying to run relaxed. I was so tense and must have been scrunched up most of the race.
My neck, shoulders and arms are SO sore! I don't think I've ever had such a stiff and sore upper body after a race before. It was very sore before I lifted weights last night. It actually felt good to lift and stretch everything out.
After lifting weights I attended a beginning Yoga class. I have gone to the pilates classes before; but never Yoga. I enjoyed it very much. I felt like my cat, Toffee, doing all those stretches! I'll definately attend again.
I wish I could afford a massage! That seems like such an expensive luxury; I think I spend enough on this running habit-I don't really need to spend more for recovery :)
Tonight is run club but I may opt for a kinder, more gentle run on the trail with Topaz.
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° The Flying Dutch are headed to the national championships of the NCAA Division III volleyball tournament for the first time in school history. In a showdown of top ten ranked teams, Coach Becky Schmidt's Flying Dutch won the school's first-ever regional championship by defeating Ohio Northern in four sets, 21-25, 25-14, 25-22, 25-20, before more than 2,400 DeVos Fieldhouse fans.
° The Flying Dutch are headed to the national championships of the NCAA Division III volleyball tournament for the first time in school history. In a showdown of top ten ranked teams, Coach Becky Schmidt's Flying Dutch won the school's first-ever regional championship by defeating Ohio Northern in four sets, 21-25, 25-14, 25-22, 25-20, before more than 2,400 DeVos Fieldhouse fans.
° Hope advances to the Elite Eight and will face Tufts, Mass. (31-4) in a quarterfinal match Thursday (Nov. 19) at 3 p.m. on the campus of John Carroll University in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
° Tufts University is located in Medford, Mass. and has an enrollment of 4,500. The Tufts Jumbos are appearing in the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in school history (1996-2005-08-09) and like Hope are making their first trip to the national championship round. The Jumbos also won the regional they hosted winning three-set matches over Maine Maritime, Wellesley, Mass. and Williams, Mass.
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#1 - Washington, Mo. (31-4) [winner Wash U regional] vs. Colorado (35-4) [winner Redlands regional], 12:30 p.m.
#2 - Hope (33-3) [winner Hope regional] vs. Tufts, Mass. (31-4) [winner Tufts regional], 3 p.m.
#3 - Juniata, Pa. (34-3) [winner Juniata regional] vs. Trinity, Tex. (30-11) [winner Southwestern regional], 5:30 p.m.
#4 - UW-Oshkosh (38-2) [winner WI-Oshkosh regional] vs. Christopher Newport, Va. (36-6) [winner NYU regional], 8 p.m.
winner Match #1 vs. winner Match #2, 4:30 p.m.
winner Match #3 vs. winner Match #4, 7 p.m.
National championship match, 7 p.m.
° The Flying Dutch are appearing in the NCAA Division III volleyball championships for the seventh time. The previous appearances were 1987, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2008. Hope is 7-6 in NCAA matches and is advancing to the championship round for the first time.
º The Flying Dutch are ranked 6th in the latest AVCA Division III national poll. Hope has been ranked as high as fifth.
° Hope's won the regular season championship of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) with a 16-0 record. The Flying Dutch were defeated by rival Calvin in the championship match of the conference tournament giving the Knights the MIAA's automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. Hope received a Pool C at-large bid. The Flying Dutch rebounded to defeat their rival in the semi-finals of the Great Lakes Regional tournament.
° This is the third season that a Hope volleyball team (33-3) has won 30-or-more matches. The other years were 1987 (32-3) and 1998 (33-8).
° Coach Becky Schmidt has guided the Flying Dutch for six seasons compiling a 154-61 record. She previously coached at Redlands, Calif. and has a career collegiate record of 191-93. A 1999 Hope graduate and outstanding volleyball player, she was named a Division III All-American middle blocker as a senior. She was a member of the 1997 and 1998 teams that competed in the NCAA championships.
° Five players on Hope's MIAA champion volleyball team were presented all-conference honors highlighted by two individual awards. Senior setter Andrea Helminiak of Maumee, Ohio (Anthony Wayne HS) was voted the league's most valuable player while senior libero Kristen Johnson of Naperville, Ill. (Wheaton Academy) was named the defensive player of the year. Helminiak was joined on the All-MIAA first team by teammates Jacie Fiedler, a sophomore from Richmond, Ill. (Richard Burton HS), and Kara VandeGuchte, a junior from Hamilton, Mich. (Hamilton HS). Helminiak and VandeGuchte were honored for the second year. Johnson was joined on the All-MIAA second team by teammate Cassidy Bulthuis, a junior from Nunica, Mich. (Spring Lake HS).
° Three Hope players were named to the NCAA Division III All-Region team by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). Hope honorees are junior outside hitter Jacie Fielder of Richmond, Ill. (Richmond Burton HS), senior setter Andrea Helminiak of Maumee, Ohio (Anthony Wayne HS), and junior middle blocker Kara VandeGuchte of Hamilton, Mich. (Hamilton HS). VandeGuchte is receiving all-region honors for the second consecutive year. It marked the first time in the 23-year history of the all-region program that three Hope players have been honored in the same year.
° Jacie Fielder was voted the outstanding player of the regional tournament and was joined on the all-tournament team by Andrea Helminiak and junior outside hitter Sara DeWeerdt of Holland, Mich. (Hamilton HS).
° During the regular season, Hope played seven teams that are in the NCAA tournament
field, posting a 6-3 record. Hope's three losses this season were all to nationally
ranked teams.
9/4 - defeated Webster, Mo. 25-17, 25-14, 25-15
9/5 - defeated Washington, Mo. 25-23, 25-20, 18-25, 25-23
9/18 - defeated Mt. Union 19-25, 20-25, 25-20, 25-20, 15-12
9/19 - lost to Ohio Northern 25-15, 25-23, 30-28
9/19 - defeated Wittenberg 25-19, 25-27, 25-23, 25-11
9/26 - defeated Calvin 25-22, 25-15, 25-18
10/3 - lost to Uw-Platteville 16-25, 25-18, 27-25, 25-13
10/28 - defeated Calvin 25-22, 22-25, 25-27, 25-12, 15-6
11/7 - lost to Calvin 15-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-13


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Not every week can a movie bring in $100,000,000 at the box office. With theaters still full of blockbusters such as Avengers, Mad Max, Pitch Perfect 2 and Furious 7 there's not a lot of room for new movies. That didn't stop the good folks behind Spy, Insidious 3 and Entourage from trying.
Both Sean and Josh claim that Spy is far and away the funniest movie so far this year. Sean claims that Insidious Chapter 3 is equally as strong as it's predecessors and that Entourage is an embarrassing piece of crap. The filmmakers behind Entourage grossly over estimated their audience.
The I Hate Critics podcast has been asked to be a part of Lebowski Fest in Milwaukee Wisconsin the weekend of Aug 21 and 22nd. Please if you're in the area we'd love to hang out and get to know some of you.
They are going to remake Big Trouble in Little China with The Rock. We're hoping to do a Kickstarter campaign to convince Fox to not remake Big Trouble in Little China
We asked the audience in honor of Entourage being released this week, what their favorite movies about movies were. We talked Sunset Blvd, Mulholland Drive, The Player, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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I'll be sheltering in place, thank you.
I'm experiencing the uneasiness I used to feel when I walked out of my house, leaving my 13- and 11-year-old home by themselves. I figured everything should be OK, probably would be OK — if they didn't set the house on fire or hit the Ketel One or decide to take a road trip in the family car. I trusted them, of course, but then, how do you trust young people whose brains aren't fully developed? According to a study published by Stanford University, teenagers are notoriously unreliable because the part of the brain that controls rational behavior isn't fully developed until age 25.
That pretty much describes why I won't travel these days. We have an unreliable teenager at the helm of our ship of state, and while he's way past 25, he seems like a case of arrested development. There's no telling what trouble he might get into while I'm away.
Now, many folks refer to President Trump as the Toddler in Chief, referencing his temper tantrums and self-aggrandizing tweets. I give him more credit than that. I believe there's more intentionality in his seemingly erratic behavior — flying off to the border, flogging the immigration issue from the Oval Office in a low-energy non-speech, threatening to declare a state of emergency to get funds for his border wall and generally doing the Trump smoke-and-mirrors routine. All of it is intended to distract us from the fact that he's failing at his primary job: keeping America safe from the bad actors in the world.
Like a teenager, he lacks impulse control, and that scares the stuffing out of me. How can anyone think of traveling now and leaving America in Trump's hands? What if I'm in South Korea and he decides to bomb the North? What if he gets really annoyed with Emmanuel Macron or Theresa May or Justin Trudeau? Will the tariff battle with China escalate into World War III while I'm sightseeing in the Forbidden City?
You get what I'm saying? We can't leave home if we can't count on stable leadership to keep America out of trouble while we're gone. And who feels comfortable spending money on vacations when the future seems so uncertain?
There are always risks to traveling abroad, but it's never felt like this, as if anything could happen. Years ago, people we met on trips to Europe, Asia and Australia pretty much loved Americans. Despite some political differences, they admired our values and more or less respected our leaders.
Today, according to a study by the Pew Research group, "Of the 25 countries surveyed in 2018, a median of 70% lack confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs." It's shocking that 30 percent actually believe he might make a good decision.
I don't know what I think I'm accomplishing by not traveling, but it doesn't feel prudent to me at the moment. Look at the front page of any major newspaper. The ocean temperatures are rising faster than scientists predicted, Trump is considering using emergency storm relief money to fund his blasted wall, farmers are struggling to make a profit with his new tariffs in place, federal workers can't put food on the table because of the ongoing government shutdown. TSA employees are calling in sick; people who work to ensure the safety of our food aren't being paid. Folks can't access government loans or safely travel in our national parks.
We all know the "build the wall" hullaballoo and the shutdown are the Teenager in Chief's frantic effort to distract national attention from the investigations closing in on him. He's saying, don't listen to Robert Mueller or the prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. Don't look at my tax returns or the testimony of my former lawyers and campaign workers. Don't even think about Russian interference in our elections.
Look here, he's shouting, without a shred of supporting evidence: Rapists and murderers and terrorists are streaming over the southern border. Be afraid.
Whenever I've traveled outside the U.S., I've returned home with the same warm and wonderful feeling that this is safe, this is home base, and this is protected space. Until I can feel that way again, I believe I will use my bully pulpit to challenge the fake promises and mendacity emanating from the White House. I will stay stateside and observe as events unfold, hoping that, eventually, our country will find its way.
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Sunday, July 2nd 2017
July Farmers' Market Loch Lomond Shores
10:00 - 16:00
Loch Lomond Shores welcomes the Loch Lomond Farmers' Market to the beautiful Loch Lomond area.
With fresh and local produce piled high on every stall you really must come along. There's free parking, lots to do for kids and families and plenty of local shopping – all in all, a great day out.
The market producers vary depending on the seasonal availability of products, but at most markets you will find fresh cheese, home-baked breads and cakes, seasonal vegetables, chutneys and oils, freshly baked pies, fresh meats and fabulous smoked fish.
The market not only offers food and drink but other gifts such as hand-made Scottish soaps and gifts.
The market kicks off at 10am and runs till around 4pm, but it's best to arrive early as stock is limited to keep everything as fresh as possible.
For information on the market visit the Loch Lomond Shores Farmers' Market facebook page.BACK