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Six plants I can't live without
What are the six plants you can't live without? The Grumpy Gardener—aka Steve Bender, Southern Living's senior garden writer and blogger—posed this question to the writers of ten garden blogs across the U.S., including me, inviting us to join him in a "blogathon" about our favorite plants.
As I mentioned on Friday, I don't believe in absolute lists. If I were to move tomorrow to the Pacific Northwest or the Arizona desert or the Florida panhandle, I have no doubt that my list of favorite plants would soon be completely different. Heck, it may be different tomorrow as I stay right here in Austin, Texas.
Nevertheless, it was a good mental and emotional exercise trying to pick my very favorite six plants. It felt like distilling my current plant obsessions down to their very essence. So without any more equivocation here are my six favorites, arranged from tallest to smallest.
Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica). That silver-blue color! That fresh-cedar fragrance! I fell in love with this pyramidal tree while touring Deborah Hornickel's garden in October 2006, when I took this photo. This conifer grows happily in limestone soils and needs good drainage and sun. I'm trying a couple of 'Blue Ice' Arizona cypresses in my side yard and hope they'll one day make a silvery vertical screen like this one.
Mexican weeping bamboo (Otatea acuminata aztecorum). The only image I have is this uninspiring look at a tiny one I recently purchased. Click here for a look at a full-size weeping bamboo. I've admired established clumps in several gardens around town and knew I had to have some. Its feathery texture and movement in the breeze is unbeatable. And it's not a runner, so you don't have to fear this bamboo.
Sharkskin agave (Agave ferdinand-regis x scabra). Does this shock you? Regular readers know of my obsession with agaves, in particular my love affair with the 'Whale's Tongue' (A. ovatifolia), which I painstakingly moved to my new garden. But currently I'm crazy for the shark, not the whale—the sharkskin agave, that is. With handsome, smooth leaves that look just like sharkskin, contrasting black-tipped spines, and a strong, stiff-armed silhouette, this agave caught my attention during the Austin garden-bloggers' tour of Peckerwood last November, when I took this photo. It's on my must-have list.
Bamboo muhly (Muhlenbergia dumosa). This evergreen clumping grass from Arizona is a staple in my new garden, as it was in my old one, and I use it in almost every garden I design professionally. It's such a beautiful, versatile plant with touchable, feathery texture, great color, drought hardiness, and deer resistance. It grows upright and almost hedge-like in full sun, looser and weepier in part-shade. It looks chartreuse in the morning and evening light, and in spring it's even more feathery with tiny, cream-colored blooms. Responding to each breath of wind, it dips and waves in the breeze.
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). Have you ever seen a cheerier plant? For me, almost any coneflower would fit the bill, but this is the one I grow most often. It's easy to start from seed, it's a great attractor of butterflies in the summer and finches in the winter, and it looks smashing with spiky, evergreen plants like the softleaf yucca (Y. recurvifolia) pictured. What more can I say? I'm a conehead.
Mexican feathergrass (Nassella tenuissima). This little grass is a workhorse. You see it everywhere, and for good reason. It's elegant; beautifully bright green in spring, tan in summer; very drought tolerant; irresistible to the touch and responsive to the wind. Of course there's a downside—a tendency to invasiveness. But I've always found the volunteers easy to pluck out or transplant to a new spot. Mexican feathergrass also works beautifully in containers.
That's my list. I can easily imagine a beautiful, sunny, central Texas garden made up entirely of these six plants. If it were mine, would I want other plants? Without a doubt. I found it very hard to leave salvias off my list, for instance, as they provide long-blooming color and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. But structure and texture won out over flowers and fragrance, much as I love them too. While only the coneflower provides significant seasonal change, a garden such as this would look great year-round, even with just six plants.
By now you're probably thinking, "That's crazy! I'd never pick those." Or, "How could she leave ______ off her list?" If so, why not play along? If you could choose only six plants, what would you pick?
While you're thinking it over, go see what the other garden bloggers chose as their favorites by clicking on the links below:
Defining Your Home Garden. Cameron in Chapel Hill, NC
Diggin' It. Judy Lowe in Boston
Fairegarden. Frances in Tennessee
Fresh Dirt. Jim McCausland in western Washington is posting his choices on Monday, and Sharon Cohoon in southern California is posting hers on Tuesday.
Gardening With Confidence. Helen Yoest in Raleigh, NC
The Grumpy Gardener. Steve Bender in Alabama
Hoe and Shovel. Meems in Florida
Sweet Home and Garden Chicago. Carolyn Choi in Chicago
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Dja Dja Wurrung people are Traditional Owners of Country across Central Victoria and our ancestors have cared for it over countless generations.
The Traditional Owners of this country are sometimes called Dja Dja Wurrung people and sometimes called Jaara meaning people in their language. Both names are correct. It is believed that 'Dja Dja Wurrung' is the name of the language and 'Jaara' is the language name for the people.
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The first intensive exploration of the unrecognized psychological and social aspects of this increasingly controversial American cultural practice. Endorsed by dozens of professionals in psychology, psychiatry, child development, pediatrics, obstetrics, childbirth education, sociology and anthropology.
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"What's done to children, they will do to society."
"Parents do not know what they are choosing, and physicians do not feel what they are doing."
"In response to circumcision, the baby cries a helpless, panicky, breathless, high-pitched cry!...[or] lapses into a semi-coma. Both of these states...are abnormal states in the newborn."
"Doctors who circumcise are the most resistant to change. They will not admit that they made a critical mistake by amputating an important part of the penis."
"In this case, the old dictum 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' seems to make good sense."
"A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not."
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Psychological Impact of Circumcision on Men
"I feel violated and abused."
The dissatisfaction of some circumcised men can be described in detail. It has been expressed in an increasing number of letters from men all around the country to the Circumcision Resource Center and to several other organizations that educate the public about circumcision. Moreover, in an issue of a major medical journal, twenty men signed a letter saying, "We are all adult men who believe that we have been harmed by circumcision." We do not know how widespread the discontent is, but that these feelings exist at all is a noteworthy development and reason for concern.
Following are some statements about circumcision excerpted from letters written by dissatisfied circumcised men and received at the Circumcision Resource Center:
I have felt a deep rage for a long time about this.
My penis feels incomplete, deformed, maimed.
Circumcision has given my life a much diminished and shameful flavor.
The single most traumatic event of my life with the greatest psychological damage was my circumcision as an infant.
Circumcision: it's taught me how to hate.
Being circumcised has ruined my sex life.
I feel violated and abused.
I have felt unhappy about it all my life.
I am very angry and resentful about this. I've had many physical, psychological, and emotional problems all my life.
No one had the right to cut my foreskin off!
I feel cheated at having been robbed of what is my natural birthright.
I never mentioned it to my parents.
I've always felt I'm missing normal male experience, and I'm embarrassed when in public dressing rooms.
I wish I could circumcise every uncircumcised man in the world so they'd be like me. I don't have a foreskin, and no one else should have one either.
I feel like the best part of me was severed from my body, and I have ugly scars to remind me. I am so ANGRY!!
The responses of men dissatisfied with their circumcision tend to include at least one of the following feelings:
anger, resentment, revenge, rage, hate
sense of loss, deficiency, diminished body image
disbelief, lack of understanding, confusion
embarrassment, shame
sense of having been victimized, cheated, robbed, raped,
violated, abused, mutilated, deformed
fear, distrust, withdrawal
grief, sadness, pain
envy, jealousy of intact men
Similar feelings were reported in a preliminary survey in which over 300 self-selected circumcised men responded to a request to document the harmful effects of their circumcision. Over 80 percent of respondents cited emotional harm.
References are available upon request.
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text: Hi Jean,On 10/31/06, Jean Delvare <email@example.com> wrote:> On 10/28/2006, someone who remains multinymous wrote:> >On 10/28/06, David Zeuthen <email@example.com> wrote:> >> What about just prepending the unit to the 'threshold' file? Then user> >> space can expect the contents of said file to be of the form "%d %s". I> >> don't think that violates the "only one value per file" sysfs mantra.> >Jean, what's your opinion on letting hwmon-ish attributes specify> >units as "%d %s" where these are hardware-dependent?>> I fail to see any benefit in doing so, while I see several problems (see> above) and potential for confusion. So my opinion is: please don't do> that.Well, we have to do *something* about those devices that don't havefixed units (see my mail to Greg from a few minutes ago), so whichalternative do you prefer?> >The tp_smapi battery driver did just this ("16495 mW"). But I dropped> >it in a recent version when Pavel pointed out the rest of sysfs, hwmon> >included, uses undecorated integers.> >Consistency aside, it seems reasonable and convenient. You have to> >decree that writes to the attributes (where relevant) don't include> >the units, of course, so no one will expect the kernel to parse that.>> But what value should then be written? One in an absolute aribtrary unit?> That would make reads and writes to the sysfs files inconsistent, in> direct violation of the sysfs standard. Or in the same unit read from> the file? It means that userspace must first read from the file, parse> the unit, then convert the value to be written. This doesn't match my> definition of "convenient".The latter. Yes, writing is not as convenient as reading; but the samedrawback exists in the other two suggestions for dynamic units - youstill have to read another attribute, or parse a filename, to get theunits.The "capacity_remaining:mV" option at least saves you the parsing ifyour're only interested in mV readouts. But battery gauge applets, forexamples, shouldn't be hardcoded to specific units, so they will haveto do the filename parsing dance. Shem-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP's) Marker, NW-23
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), including Gloucester resident Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner (1917-2009), transported and flight tested aircraft and towed targets for the U.S. military during World War II. More than 25,000 female pilots applied but only 1,074 completed the rigorous training and were accepted. The WASPs delivered more than 12,260 aircraft, often with only a road map for navigation, but Congress disbanded them in 1944 without benefits. Due largely to the efforts of surviving WASPs like Tunner, in 1977 Congress acknowledged their military service and granted them Veterans status. In March 2010, all WASPs were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
Marker Information:Date Approved by DHR: 06/17/10
Year On Marker: 2010
Original Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources
Geographic Location: Gloucester County
Physical Description of Location: 7800-7808 Ware Neck Rd (Rt. 623), Gloucester, VA 23061. Marker is on left about 400 feet south of intersection between Ware Neck Road and Routes 14 and 3 (John Clayton Highway). Marker is NOT visibile when traveling on Routes 14 and 3.
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Ford losses top $1 billion, restructuring under way
Ford Motor Co. said Friday it lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter as revenues fell and the nation's second-biggest automaker started a massive and costly North American restructuring effort.
Ford's stock fell 63 cents, or nearly 8 percent, to close at $7.32 on the New York Stock Exchange, approaching its 52-week low of $7.13. The loss of 64 cents per share for the January-March period compares with a profit of $1.2 billion, or 60 cents per share, a year earlier. Sales fell 9 percent to $41.1 billion from $45.1 billion a year ago.
It was Ford's worst quarterly performance since the fourth quarter of 2001, when the company posted a $5.07 billion loss due to $4.1 billion in costs for a previous restructuring plan.
Savannah Bancorp reports first-quarter earnings
The Savannah Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAVB) reported net income of $2,351,000 in the first quarter 2006, up 32 percent from $1,781,000 in the first quarter 2005.
Net income per diluted share was 50 cents in the first quarter 2006 compared to 42 cents per share in the first quarter 2005, an increase of 19 percent. The earnings increase is primarily attributable to growth in interest-earning assets and higher net interest margin. Average outstanding diluted shares increased 455,000, or 11 percent, in the first quarter 2006 compared with the first quarter 2005.
The increase in average shares outstanding resulted from the private placement sale of 397,000 shares in August and additional shares being issued upon exercise of stock options.
Return on average equity was 16.14 percent, return on average assets was 1.29 percent and the efficiency ratio was 54.5 percent in the first quarter 2006.
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text: On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > From > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html#s9.1.6 > > > When a security fix is prepared, packages are prepared for unstable > > and the patch is back ported to stable (since stable is usually some > > minor or major versions behind). Packages for the stable distribution > > are more thoroughly tested than unstable, since the latter might just > > provide the latest upstream release. > > > > Security updates are available immediately for both branches (but not > > yet for the testing branch). > > But this is not always true. Sometimes the DSA reports "For the unstable > distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon." This is misleading. Security fixes for stable are prepared by the security team, while security fixes for unstable are usually prepared by the package maintainer (often by incorporating a new upstream release). Sometimes they happen at nearly the same time, and sometimes they do not. > > If no (new) bugs are detected in the unstable version of the package, it > > moves to testing after several days (usually over a week). However, this > > does depend on the release state of the distribution. > > Uploads that fix a security hole should have the priority set to high, and > this should reduce the transition delay to less than a week [1], shouldn't > it? It will reduce the best-case delay, but if the package is blocked from entering testing by its dependency relationships, the urgency does not change that. -- - mdz


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) – A young woman claims that she was raped by a man she knew.
The 20-year-old woman reported that the 22-year-old man had sex with her without her consent. The rape allegedly happened on Sunday but wasn't reported to Riley County Police until two days later. Police have yet to make an arrest but continue to investigate the young woman's claim.


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Hi Stampers:
On Thursday, I drove up to my downline's house (hi Casey!) to stamp with her and another demonstrator, Amy. We had a great time! And I was so busy working on other projects that I DID NOT stamp anything for SFF! So, guess what? You're right! I used My Digital Studio again. Before I show you my creation, let's look at our sketch this week:
Tammy Fite is our artist this week, and I think it's a great sketch! Here's my creation:
I used 2 of the Botanical Gazette papers plus a Pear Pizzazz layer and a Very Vanilla layer. The base is Daffodil Delight. Now that spring is on it's way--don't laugh!--I decided to use a couple of brighter colors. I love Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzazz! The different layers were made with the 1-1/4" punch resized. And you can also see Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon and bow. I wish they would add Daffodil Delight to the Satin Ribbon selections in MDS. Hmmm, maybe I should send that suggestion to Stampin' Up!
To see more examples, you can go to Melinda's Blog or to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog. Please join us by uploading your creation to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog!


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Bridge (Teach Yourself Visually) : Tricks. Trumps. Auctions. Contracts. Bridge is a challenging game, but you can quickly grasp its basics with this guide that shows how it's played. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge covers everything from evaluating a hand and bidding it through playing the cards and scoring the results - guiding you play by play and trick by trick. With this book and with practice as declarer or defender, you'll quickly be playing your bridge cards right. Maybe you'll even make a slam - doubled, redoubled, and vulnerable! Concise lessons show you the keys to successful play and are ideal for quick review. Text helps to de-mystify bridge rules, lingo, and traditions. Each strategy or tactic is clearly explained. Graphics help you visualize concepts and build your bridge skills. Helpful tips provide additional guidance.
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June 2016 - Norwegian Pearl to Alaska - Inside Passage
This was our first cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line. It was Awesome! Ship facilities were Super with Great crew.
We really liked the casual dining concept.
Weather during the week was excellent with no rain, warm temperatures and clear sky.
Norwegian will be our first choice for future cruise.


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Double Festival Weekend
by Dan Nadel
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
PictureBox will be in two places at once this weekend: SPX in Bethesda, MD and the Brooklyn Book Festival in NYC!
First: We will be at SPX in Bethesda, MD, tables G5-G8. Frank will of course be occupying one table, foisting his epic back issue selection on you, the unsuspecting yet increasingly discerning consumer!
There will be many wonderful things at PBox for you to blow your cash on:
-We will be hosting Brian Ralph and Paul Lyons as they launch the new issue of Monster, featuring work by Brinkman, Chippendale, CF, Drain, Goldberg, and many others.
-Advance copies of Renee French's H Day and Julie Doucet and Michel Gondry's My New New York Diary for sale!
–Karl Wirsum: Drawings 1967-70 – A deluxe oversize new catalog from the master accompanying the exhibition I curated at Derek Eller Gallery, NYC.
–Garo Manga: The First Decade – Ryan Holmberg's essential history
-A new zine by Matthew Thurber and Billy Grant
-Yuichi Yokoyama's BABYBOOMFINAL – Yokoyama's insane art/comics heavyweight tome
-Our full line of vintage Brazilian porn
-Deep and dark publications from the Paris house United Dead Artists, including Permagel by Charles Burns
-And because no one except Jason Miles asked for it: Complete runs of the early 1980s classic: New York City Outlaws!
-We will also have one, that's right, ONE, copy of If 'n Oof for you to ogle and be amazed by.
If that wasn't enough, we will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, with all of the above, and more! Come see us in Suburban D.C. or downtown Brooklyn.
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Color design in It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
An excellent analysis of color in "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" by Justin Hilden.
Thank you all for your support and loyalty over the past few years! We are proud to announce today that Strategic Internet Solutions is now FileSpring, Inc.
This name change comes with the significant transformation of our company away from providing "internet solutions" to best focus on becoming a leading FileMaker development company in the Midwest. We've raised the bar in everything we do - with new standards for planning, development, testing, and delivering FileMaker solutions for our clients. Our commitment to superior service is now stronger than ever.
We have enjoyed working with you as SIS, and now look forward to serving you even better as FileSpring, Inc.
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An excellent analysis of color in "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" by Justin Hilden.


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Gables, a 22 year-old monument in New Jersey town of Morris Township, once use to be a property of Charles Scribner, New York publisher. It was only in 1994 that the present dwellers were blessed with the estate. The property includes a country kitchen, second-floor library, another office, as well as numerous guest rooms & baths. Another fact that will invite all your eyes and ears is that the huge property has over 20 rooms and 12 fireplaces. Just visit the place and grab the room you like, but only as a guest don't think otherwise.
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The Co-op Bank will on Friday face fresh questions over its future as it announces losses for last year of as much as £1.3bn.
Its annual report and accounts, belatedly published on Friday, are expected to highlight mounting losses at the troubled lender, which is attempting to raise £400m after being hit by hundreds of millions of pounds in new mis-selling compensation claims.
On Thursday, the Co-op was forced to offer its members a vote on the mutual's future in the wake of the shock resignation of its senior independent director, former Labour City minister, Lord Myners.
Lord Myners has been undertaking a review of the Co-op and had pushed for all his reforms to be put to a vote as soon as possible.
He declared himself "pleased" the Co-op would be holding a vote on changes that could see the mutual radically cut the size of its 21-strong board.
"I am confident that there is a good future for The Co-operative Group if it commits to doing the right things on governance and leadership," he added.
Lord Myners has faced opposition to his plans from Co-op members, including the Midcounties Co-operative, Britain's largest independent society.
Pat McFadden MP, a Labour member of the Treasury Select Committee, said he was concerned at the uncertainty over the organisation's future.
"It's been a terrible year for the Co-op, and Paul Myners' resignation will add to the sense of crisis at the group. It is really important the Co-op agrees a plan for the future."
Amid the debate over its future, business experts have warned the mutual risks a period of upset at a time when it should be focusing on the big strategic issues facing it.
Professor Andre Spicer, at Cass Business School, said: "This could mean management takes its eye off the big strategic questions. These include whether the Co-op Group should still hold a stake in the bank, how it might renew its retail chain, and how it can build the Co-op ethos into the group's activities."
The Co-op Group retains a 30pc stake in the Co-op Bank after last year's £1.5bn recapitalisation, which led it to cede control of the business to its bondholders, but has yet to confirm whether it will invest the required £120m it will need to spend to support the lender's latest cash call.
Friday's results are expected to highlight the continuing difficulties facing the Co-op Bank, which was forced to launch its latest fund raising after warning that new losses and compensation costs had left its capital levels close to the minimum level allowed by the regulator.
The bank is expected to signal that it will withhold millions of pounds in deferred bonuses of senior staff deemed to be responsible for its problems.
The results will also reveal the pay packages awarded to the bank's new senior management team, including chief executive, Niall Booker, who joined last year. Last month, Euan Sutherland quit as chief executive of the Co-op Group after details of his £3.7m pay package were leaked.


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Getting ready to watch end of season 1 of Game of Thrones. Love Sean Bean, he's going to be an excellent star of this show for many years.
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) December 6, 2012
"So you have TV phones, but you'd rather typewrite telegrams?" – confused time traveler from 1957
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 6, 2012
Soy milk is spanish for 'I am milk'
— UHH (@cervixsmash) December 6, 2012
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text: On Thu, Jul 08 2010 at 12:17am -0400, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita tomonori lab ntt co jp> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:59:58 -0400 > Mike Snitzer <snitzer redhat com> wrote: > > > Here is a minimalist patch that 1) removes the discard request's page > > leak 2) preserves the prep cleanup rules covered above. Fixing the leak > > is a priority, introducing additional error path code sharing/cleanup is > > secondary and can come later. > > This patch doesn't work. I hit kernel oops since now this patch frees > a discard page twice. I load tested my v2 patch quite a bit but didn't hit the oops. Guess you're just lucky ;) > If scsi_init_io hits BLKPREP_DEFER (e.g. due to scsi_init_sgtable), > scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd calls scsi_unprep_request. So sd_unprep_fn > frees a page. Then, scsi_setup_discard_cmnd frees the same page again. OK, thanks for catching this. > From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita tomonori lab ntt co jp> > Subject: [PATCH] scsi: fix discard page leak > > We leak a page allocated for discard on some error conditions > (e.g. scsi_prep_state_check returns BLKPREP_DEFER in > scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd). > > We unprep on requests that weren't prepped in the error path of > scsi_init_io. It makes the error path to clean up scsi commands messy. > > Let's strictly apply the rule that we can't unprep on a request that > wasn't prepped. > > Calling just scsi_put_command() in the error path of scsi_init_io() is > enough. We don't set REQ_DONTPREP yet. > > scsi_setup_discard_cmnd can safely free a page on the error case with > the above rule. > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita tomonori lab ntt co jp> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer redhat com> Jens, it'd be great if we could get this fix in now.


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UK staff get fat in work canteens
UK workers are piling on the pounds in subsidised workplace canteens because they cannot resist unhealthy foods, according to a...
UK workers are piling on the pounds in subsidised workplace canteens because they cannot resist unhealthy foods, according to a survey by recruitment group Pertemps.
A survey of 500 workers revealed that:
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- 56% ate chips with their lunch at least once a week
- 36% took consolation in stodgy puddings
- 34% ranked burgers and fry-ups as the most common choices.
Despite the widespread availability of vegetarian dishes and low-calorie foods, workers are not choosing the healthy option.
Of those surveyed, 58% said they eat in the staff canteen every day. Convenience (56%) and the subsidised cost (30%) lunches were cited as the main reasons for this. Ten per cent of workers said they rely on the canteen to provide their main meal of the day.
Janet McGlaughlin, a director at Pertemps, said, "More workers are turning their lunchtime meal into the main meal of the day. After a long day in the office, workers do not want to cook at home. The longer people work, the more difficult it is for them to find time for exercise and healthy living. It is no surprise that as working hours are lengthening, waistbands are broadening.
"It should be a major concern to businesses that people may be storing up health problems for later in life by failing to adopt a healthy lifestyle."
Pertemps chairman Tim Watts said, "It sounds difficult, but it only takes a few slight adjustments to your daily routine to make a big difference."
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text: It's time for Mammals March Madness, the tournament in which animals battle for supremacy based on their physiology and behavior, with a little bit of luck thrown in just as you would want in any competition. Note: This is a completely pretend tournament, and absolutely no animals are in any way actually fighting. There are 64 animals going through a tournament of head-to-head match ups based on their fight – and flight – capabilities. This year's divisions include social, marine, fossil, and "who in the what now", and there are even a few non-mammal contenders thrown in. Rather than just being passive bystanders, we humans are encouraged to make our best guesses as to who will come out on top. In making your picks, you have to consider where the battle will be fought, and whether the animals are working as individuals or in groups. During the match ups themselves, the contest organizers will tweets facts and fun for the play-by-play. So it's a wonderful opportunity to learn about cool mammals both in the bracket making and in watching the results unfold.The tournament started tonight with a wild card game between Australpithecus afarensis versus Australpithecus sediba, but it's not too late to join in the fun. You can follow along using the #2014MMM hashtag on Twitter, or by checking in for updates on the MMM website. Organized by Harvard's Katie Hinde, Mammals March Madness had hundreds of participants last year, and looks to have even more this year. We played along last year, but this year we're going public with our brackets and daring our readers to join in the fun. Anne's graduate students have taken up the challenge; will you?


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"Great story, but definitely not Crichton"
Too many loose ends - Crichton wouldn't have left soo many holes (I'm sure he would have loved to finish it)
predictable, loose ends
very good
The book is definitely worth listening to - especially if you are a Crichton fan. But its definitely not his best. Lower your expectations a bit and you'll be fine.
"3 stars is being very generous!"
Micro was published almost three years after after Michael Chricton's death and was completed by Richard Preston. The genre is medical thriller. The book falls into the"barely worth one credit" category. My advice is skip Micro in favor of another novel. Nevertheless, for serious Chrichton fans it is likely worth listening to.
Yes, this book I would listen to again. Although I know the ending, this books is so scary and so awful in its insides, it's just one of the top books ever, and over 75 years I've read and listened to plenty of books.
It's so scary in that its something that really could happen in our lifetime. A wonderful story that asks us to believe whether or not it could happen in our lifetime. Awesome listening.
He is very smooth in his narration. He can make you feel that you are part of this book. He is wonderful, so good that I would pick HIS narration over many of the readers who miss the mark in tone and and in creating a world that's truly possible.
Is this our world to come?
I'm unable to read books any longer, but I know a good listen when I hear it. The author and narrator are both on the same page. You won't be disappointed.
"OK story bad narrator preparation"
I am a big fan of Michael Crichton. I love the way he makes his listener examine the real science of a subject that popular culture has ignored.This is not his best work but it is still an engaging story. What spoiled it for me was the bad preparation the narrator did before recording this book. The story is set in Hawaii and therefore full of Hawaiian names and places. The narrator mispronounced and over pronounced almost every Hawaiian word. Admittedly, I am a long time Hawaiian resident and use many of these words daily. However almost any tourist who has been to Hawaii knows that the main street through Waikiki is pronounce
same as above
??? Good voice and good characterizations. Needs better prep on location
"Trite and Ridiculously Implausible"
The premise and the writing.
This is the first audio book that I could not finish listening to. The narration is good but the story is so implausible that it is just silly. And I'm a Crichton fan. I have loved all of his previous books because the stories, while being futuristic, were plausible and even prescient, but Micro is no Prey or Jurassic Park. Add to that the frequently trite writing, especially the dialog, and I found the well-narrated book to be unlistenable.
"Exciting! I'll go to the movie!"
What a wonderful movie this will make! I can imagine the images, but special effects could go wild. I'm tempted to say how believable this micro-world became to me.
This isn't so much a review as a warning. The author(s) take an exquisite delight in the gory details - especially of the deaths of several of the characters. If you're squeamish, you might want to pick another book.
Otherwise, the book was entertaining and a bit thought-provoking. You'll never look at your lawn in the same way ever again!
Predictable, more like a chore to read. I didn't actually finish it, just went on to the next book with about 2 hours left.
"Waste of time and money."
Nothing, this should never have been published.
Not this author.
Nobody could narrate this piece of trash.
The entire book
Don't waste your money or time. The plot is ridiculous. The dialogue is stilted and insipid; no one talks like this.
"Striking Gold again"
Michael Crichton hits it home again with another well researched thriller. His attention to detail and forethought capture the imagination yet again.


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john Russell & elizabeth Murray & 13 of their children Belledune N.B.
Thought I would post again and hopfuly get some more clues or info on these Russell`s
I know it can get confusing at times especialy when we find the surname in many differnt spellings such as Rousselle,Rousell,Russel,Russell,Restel,Riddel and so on
Anyway john Russell was born 1802 New Carlisle Bonaventure Quebec, he married elizabeth Murray in Beresford New Brunswick they had 13 children born in Belledune New Brunswick, some of the children were baptized in Petit- Rocher with spelling of surname as Rousselle.
1. elizabeth Russell baptized july,25th,1830,Godparents were, nazaire Cormier & emile Doucet,married ?
2. elizabeth Russell born june,25th,1832,baptized sept,22,1832, Godparents were frederic Cormier & antonette Cormier, married ?
3. john Russell baptized sept,13th,1836 posibly died as later there is another son named john
4.rosanna Russell brn abt 1835, 1st married nicolas Normandeu, 2nd married pierre Baillargeon, rosanna died sept,21,1905 burried chico California
5.martha Russell born abt 1837, married ?
6. jane Russell born 1839/1840, married charles McDonald
7. sarah Russell born abt 1841, married ?
8. isabella Russell born oct,14th,1844 baptized oct,21,1844,married ?
9. james Russell born, nov,16th,1846, married ?
10. caroline Russell born abt 1848, married ?
11. john Russell baptized jan,1851 , married ?
12. harriet Russell baptized jun,15th,1854,Godparents were, elie Godin & marie Doucet,married john Boyle
13. robert Russell born, may,20th,1856, baptized jan,5th,1857,Godparents were, pierre Pelletier & luce Hache,1st married emma Curo, 2nd married miriam Matthews.
Thankyou all in advance
Heidi Russell


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An appeals court in Palermo has released six senior Sicilian mafia leaders that were once top deputies for Bernardo Provenzano. All once loyal lieutenants of the infamous Provenzano they were all convicted in the Gotha trial and sentenced to each 10 years in prison. But an appeals court judge decided that a penalty based on expectations that they would offend again upon their release attached to their original sentence was not just and revoked it which in turn shortened their sentence. Gaetano Badagliacca, Salvatore Gioeli, Settimo Mineo, Nunzio Milano, and Rosario Inzerillo with this recent ruling are now free and back on the streets of Palermo. Its not clear as to where and if these former leaders fit in with the current leadership of the Sicilian mafia and if they are allowed to step back in and continue their criminal careers if they intend to do so.
"Bernardo Provenzano"
Provenzano is currently serving a life sentence after being arrested in 2006 after being on the run for 43 years. He was convicted for having a part in several murders including ordering the bomb attacks on Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino both anti-mafia prosecutors back in 1992. Recent reports are that Provenzano's health is failing and his family of late has been calling for leniency. Although it is hard to see any act of leniency being offered to one of the most violent and blood thirsty bosses in Italian mafia history. Law enforcement has made major strides against the Sicilian mafia or Cosa Nostra in recent years seizing large amounts of money and convicting many of its top leaders and it is no longer Italy's strongest mafia organization.


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WARREN, OH (WKBN) – A Warren man, who survived explosions during combat in the Middle East, died doing missionary work in Indonesia while saving the life of a young boy.
Tim Adams grew up in Warren and the people who knew him said he loved life and joking around.
His brother, Lenny, described him as "very humble, very caring, and loving."
From Warren, Tim enlisted in the Army — fighting in both Afghanistan and Iraq — where he survived three explosions.
"He was a combat engineer. His main duty was to disarm explosives and clear ways for infantry to come in," Lenny Adams said.
Roy Mack, pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Niles — the church Tim attended — said Tim carried some guilt for killing people in the line of service.
"He said, 'You know, I want to spend the rest of my life not carrying bullets to other parts of the world, but I want to carry the word of God and live out my life serving Christ this way.'"
Tim Adams — a Warren hero
In January, then 35 years old, Tim signed on to be a missionary intern through Grace Fellowship Church in Niles and Liberty University.
That's what placed him in Indonesia on March 5. He was swimming off a beach with some children when the water quickly rose above their heads.
"He stayed out to get the kids in and he sacrificed himself for a 6-year-old," Lenny said.
The boy's name is Daniel, the son of one of the missionaries.
"In fact, Daniel still had Tim's hat in his hand. He had put him up on his shoulders to keep him from going under and I mean, literally, just gave his life to make sure that little boy had a life to go to," Pastor Mack said.
Lenny was not surprised his brother died saving a life. He said that was just Tim.
The missionary told Pastor Mack that Tim decided to dedicate his life to kids, possibly by working in an orphanage.
The funeral service for Tim Adams will be held 10 a.m. Saturday at Grace Fellowship Church. It will be done with full military honors.


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Lisa-Jo returns today with her group of Five Minute Friday writers. We arrived home yesterday after three weeks in the USA, so five minutes is all I can spare while surrounded by eleven suitcases worth of stuff spilling onto every surface and an empty refrigerator. Thanks for stopping by–I look forward to meeting here again for five minutes every Friday.
Today's prompt: Opportunity
I get a little nervous when people start throwing around resolutions. Things like eat less cake, lose ten pounds, read the Bible in a year, stop yelling at the kids. I get nervous because as a recovering pessimist, I tend to see these as opportunities to fail rather than opportunities to succeed. I can't help it, it's in my DNA. I don't do resolutions for this very reason.
Three years ago, I resolved to learn how to snowboard. With the exception of one unplanned journey down the wrong side of the mountain, this was an epic fail. Maybe I should have resolved to make my children laugh. Because after they got over their embarrassment, they bent over double in laughter. I have countless stories like this, stories where I set a goal, fail miserably, but discover something funny or new or profound in the process. I suppose the New Year is a reminder that we can always begin again. Opportunities for failure and success don't require resolutions, just the guts to view them as another chance. An opportunity to make a left while flying down the mountain as the kids laugh all the way down the right.
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F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone "is expected to seal a sponsorship deal for Formula One with Emirates Airlines" in Dubai on Tuesday worth about $200M, according to Kerr & Blitz of the FINANCIAL TIMES. Ecclestone is understood to have convinced Emirates to sign a five-year deal that in terms of size "would make it one of the biggest in motorsport." Gulf states have been big sponsors of F1 over the past few years but Dubai entities "have been largely absent from F1." Emirates is expected to be a title sponsor of F1, joining a clutch of other companies, including UBS, Rolex, Pirelli, Tata Communications and LG. It is understood that under the terms of the agreement "its livery will not be on display at the Abu Dhabi and Bahrain Grand Prix." Emirates declined to comment. Ecclestone could not be reached for comment (FINANCIAL TIMES. 2/5).
Marketing and Sponsorship
German airline Air Berlin "will not extend any of its sports sponsorship deals as it is in financial trouble," according to Hoffmann, Bardow & Dach of DER TAGESSPIEGEL. Air Berlin "will withdraw from its sponsorship deals with Bundesliga club Fortuna Dusseldorf, 2nd Bundesliga side Hertha BSC and Handball Bundesliga (HBL) club Füchse Berlin." The airline "will not extend its deals with the teams," which are due to expire in the summer, in order "to reduce company expenditures." Air Berlin has already informed its partners about its decision. The company said that an extension "is due to extensive cost cutting measurements currently not justifiable." The airline has been a partner of both football clubs since '05 and of the HBL club since '10. Füchse Berlin Managing Dir Bob Hanning said, "This is extremely painful. However, it won't be a problem for us" (DER TAGESSPIEGEL, 2/1).
Brasileiro Fluminense midfielder Deco "has become the latest athlete to be sponsored by Nike," according to MAQUINA DO ESPORTE. The length and terms of the contract "were not disclosed." The former Portuguese int'l and Barcelona midfielder will begin wearing shoes made by the company. He will join fellow Brasileiro players Neymar, Paulo Henrique Ganso, Paulinho and Alexandre Pato who are also ambassadors of the brand. Deco said, "I have played with Nike shoes in the past, and I am very happy to be sponsored by the brand again, which is a global reference" (MAQUINA DO ESPORTE, 2/4).
Swiss watchmaker Omega VP & Int'l Sales Dir Raynald Aeschlimann "has expressed confidence" in extending the brand's five-year title sponsorship of the Dubai Desert Classic and Ladies Masters golf tournament when it expires next year, according to Ashley Hammond of GULF NEWS. Aeschlimann said that the "deal's continuity was important" for Omega, which is owned by The Swatch Group. Omega is "heavily associated with swimming and sailing," and is the official timekeeper for the Olympic Games and the PGA Tour. With golf set for re-inclusion into the Olympics in '16 after a 112-year hiatus, Aeschlimann suggested that "the firm's sponsorship could continue." Aeschlimann said of the sponsorship deal: "We are talking together [with the relevant parties] and we are looking forward" (GULF NEWS, 2/4).
F1 team Scuderia Ferrari announced that it has reached a sponsorship agreement with Chinese heavy powertrain system and machinery vehicles manufacturer Weichai Power. The agreement will last four years and will expire at the end of the '16 season. Weichai Power is part of the Weichai Group and will be the first Scuderia sponsor to come from China (Ferrari). ... The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that Yorkshire Tea has signed a commercial agreement to become the official brew of England Cricket. The deal will run through Oct. '15 (ECB). ... U.K. insurance intermediary Bridle Insurance revealed that it will not extend its sponsorship of League Two club Oxford United (Bridle Insurance).


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by Justin Huffman
"And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and [ran] to bring his disciples word" (Matthew 28:8).
This is Matthew's account of the resurrection of Jesus, and the women who encountered an angel at the empty tomb.
How true to obvious human experience this is! These disciples witness the empty tomb of Jesus and the angelic announcement of his resurrection – and so they, in great awe and joy, run to to bring the good news to others. The empty tomb occasions a full heart, overflowing with joyful, evangelistic zeal.
It is hard to imagine any other response to such breathtakingly good news!
Similarly, the resurrected Jesus sends all of his disciples, in every age of the world, to do the same:
"Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" (Matthew 28:18-20).
Notice the repetition of the word "all" – I have all power, so go teach all nations all things I have commanded, because I will be with you always.
The force of the passage is Jesus' statement "I have all power/authority"; and then "I am with you always" refers back to that claim. This bookends and undergirds the more well-known, but dependent, Great Commission.
The great comfort and power behind the Commission is the "all" power and the "all" presence of Jesus!
The constant presence and help of the almighty, resurrected Jesus is promised to the disciples who are fulfilling this Great Commission.
We who have heard the wonderful, reliable news of Jesus' substitutionary death and glorious resurrection – who have trusted in Jesus' work for salvation – are to "Go"! And as we go, teaching all nations this wonderful truth, Jesus goes with us!
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Now that we're well into the off-season (with the declining frequency of posts to this blog as an example), we're either hunkered down in our Snuggies on the couch waiting for spring or trying to improve/maintain that hard-earned fitness we developed last season. While riding indoors or out is probably most cyclists'primary off-season activity, combined with various cross-training activities (aerobics/pilates classes, nordic or alpine skiing, snowshoeing, running, etc.), I'm proposing an additional element to the winter program to improve your cycling next season – strength training.
Back in the day, the only model we had to emulate was that of the Euro-pros riding 7 hour races and three week grand tours. The winter program then involved a couple of months of rest, followed by weeks of long steady distance riding in low gears, sometimes on a fixed gear, to re-establish your "base" and in search of the holy grail of souplesse, which the Google translator defines as flexibility, smoothness, pliability, remissness, versatility, suppleness, flimsiness, nimbleness, springiness, pliancy, litheness, limberness (no wonder it was so difficult to achieve) – the butter-smooth spin that our heroes had. To pick up weights, to do anything except ride, unless you were a track sprinter, was viewed as heresy.
Meanwhile, back behind the Iron Curtain, those mad scientists were throwing tradition out the window in every Olympic sport and were soon kicking our butts in just about all of them. Though some of their success, we have since learned, was due to better living through chemistry, they dragged sport, including cycling, into the 20th century with their innovative regimens. They had their cyclists running, tumbling and , say it ain't so, lifting weights.
Beginning with the 1976 Montreal Olympics, some of those Eastern Bloc coaches embraced capitalism and defected to the west for the big bucks (think Bela Karoly), and their secrets slowly became known. At that point it became acceptable for cyclists to do "circuit training" on weights – moving from station to station without rest, doing high reps with low weights, getting a cardiovascular workout while slightly strengthening both cycling and non-cycling muscles. I did it, many still do, and I'll discuss it below.
In the late 80's I saw an article in a cycling magazine about Harvey Newton, Olympic strength training coach, and a program of strength building using resistance training for cyclists, based on a paper published by him and Ed Burke in 1983. The program involved four periods of approximately a month each, working out three times a week. For the first three periods, weights would be increased and reps decreased; during the last period, the load would be reduced and the exercises done more rapidly and explosively. I showed the article to one of my team mates who had some prior experience with weights before, and we agreed to try the program through that winter.
Time for the usual disclaimers – I'm not any kind of licensed health-care or fitness professional. The activities I'm describing are from knowledge accumulated personally or anecdotally over the years as a competitive cyclist. I'm assuming that you're already a fit cyclist, racer or not, who wants to improve. Before commencing any exercise program, consult your physician, yada yada…
First, "modified" circuit training. Cycling is a highly repetitive exercise (thousands of times in a single ride, millions of reps in a season) which uses a limited number of muscle groups in limited ranges of motion. Long-term, this is not a good thing. If you ride a LOT and are trying to minimize your weight to improve your cycling, as described in Eric's previous post, your upper body and other non-cycling muscles will get smaller and weaker – your body is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Good cycling form demands a still upper body, and also remember (from Eric's post) that bike racing is all about violent accelerations. Without the minimal upper body strength to maintain good form and to use when accelerating out of the saddle, you'll be bobbing and weaving like a punch-drunk fighter. Not maintaining all-body muscle fitness can also lead to imbalalnces which can result in oversue injuries – been there, done that. What we want to do is to strengthen the non-cycling muscles throughout the body and core without gaining weight. Set up a circuit of exercises, either with free weights nr on machines at the gym. Use weights that you can complete 12-15 repetitions (reps) of, but, unlike traditional circuit training, don't race from station to station trying to drive your heart rate up – do your cardio after or on another day. A short rest between stations will allow some recovery so you can do more effective working of the muscles, and will also keep you from getting thrown out of the gym by all the other members who you keep cutting in front of at the next station (who are probably all bigger and stronger than you, wussy cyclist). Always warm up first, maybe 15 minutes on your trainer or an exercise bike, some calisthenics and stretching. Try to include bench press, bicep curls, bent over rows, dead lifts, squats or leg press, leg curl, lunges and core exercises for the abs and back. The leg curls are to strengthen the hamstring, which doesn't get used much in cycling, and usually ends up out of balance with the quadriceps. Even for these exercises with relatively low weights, you may want to pick up a weightlifting belt to protect your lower back. And one exercise I like to avoid is the leg extension machine – it isolates a portion of the quad muscles instead of working the whole quad and gluteus (the major cycling muscles, in case you hadn't figured that out by looking in the mirror or noticing what hurts the most after a killer ride), and is also hell on the knees. Stick to squats with weight and/or the leg press machine. Go around your circuit two or three times, then cool down (back on the bike?) and stretch some more. Do it twice a week, unless you're a chicken-chested skin-and-bones type – then do it three times.
Want to add one cycling-specific exercise? My favorite, which works the legs, back and upper body in an imitation of an out of the saddle acceleration (or a lineman coming out of a four point stance) is the power clean. First, go out and get that weight belt and put it on. Start with light weight on a barbell (There is no machine I know of for this one.) and learn the exercise first. Squat down, bend over and grab the bar with hands shoulder width apart. Now you are going to do the "up" part of a squat, dead lift, upright row and overhead press, all in one smooth motion. You will start squatting and bent over and finish standing upright with the bar extended over your head. Lower it slowly and repeat – again, 12-15 times, 2-3 sets.
Disclaimer #2. As in most sports, technique is IMPORTANT – both to avoid injury and to get maximum benefits from the exercises. Ask one of the gym instructors to help you, or get a weight lifting book out of the library.
Now for the fun stuff – Newton's specific strength training program for cyclists. My buddy and I did this with a single exercise, the leg press, which works the two major cycling muscle groups, the quads and glutes. You can do squats with free weights instead, but I don't recommend it. You will work up to BIG weights, and even if you have access to Olympic free weights, a squat rack, weight mats on the floor, a weight belt and two experienced spotters, you can get seriously hurt doing squats with from 200 to 400 pounds on your shoulders. A good friend of mine loves big weight squats and has done them for years – I think he's nuts. We were both using a leg press sled with free weights, and not bragging, but by phase 3 I was getting a hell of a workout just loading on the six 90 pound plates.
We kept doing the circuit first, as a warmup, with a little more concentration on the leg curl, to balance the hamstring against the quads – but no big weights, hammies are too easy to tear. Here are the four stages, each of which will last about a month –
– 3 sets of 10-12 reps, at a weight that you can barely finish each set, about 65% of your max (the most you can do one time).
– 4 sets of 6-8 reps, again to exhaustion at the end of each set, about 80-85% of max
– 4-5 sets of 4-5 reps, at 90-95% of max. These are killer, and where the real strength building occurs – the first two phases have been leading up to this. If you're using a leg press machine, you may be moving the whole stack and still not working to exhaustion in 5 or less reps – do the best you can. Again, be careful and use good technique or you can get hurt, even on a machine. Even though sitting in a machine, I wore my weight belt while doing these.
– 3 sets of 10-12 reps, dropping back down to 50% of max, but doing them explosively – push the weight out fast, bring it back down slowly. I have to confess that my buddy and I , after one week of this, had the sorest knees we ever have, and quit. This was probably exacerbated by being sick to death of the weight room where it seemed we had spent the entire winter, and the warm (?) weather of March beckoning us to ride more.
We did three sessions a week, which is what the program called for. This obviously doesn't allow much time for cross-training or little more than recovery rides on the off days (Your legs will be TIRED and it will be a real challenge to ride with any intensity). If you can't do it three times a week, do it twice – you'll still get some benefit.
So did it work? The holy trinity of cycling are speed, power and endurance (more about them in the future, and this obviously is for power, which will help you with accelerating, climbing (as long as it doesn't add weight) and time trialing. I gained two pounds over the winter, and my sprinting and climbing seemed about the same as the season before, but I took 30 seconds off my 10 mile time trial time (same course, same equipment) – I felt like I could turn one gear higher than before at any given point on the course.
Strength training, in moderation, will help your cycling, but cycling is, bottom line, a speed sport – the first guy to the line is the winner. I chuckle when I hear racers comment, "Wow, he's a strong rider." I rarely hear "Wow, he's fast." But if the strongest guy won the race, bike racers would look like Arnold.
For more information on this, search the web for Harvey Newton – he now has a web site, and a book and program Strength Training for Cyclists, so none of this is secret anymore.


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I've had this draft mocking me from my wordpress dashboard for weeks. (Months, actually) Hospitality is one of my things. You know, that thing that's simultaneously important to you and a pet peeve when others fail at it. So this week when Mr Hawaiian Shirt preached about hospitality and fellowship I was like, "Dude. Me = choir."
Then I sent him an email because he still hasn't accepted our dinner invitation. *cough*
Seriously though, opening my home to people is one of the few standards that I manage to set and keep for myself, it's that important to me. Even now I make a point to have someone over for dinner at least once a week. It would be so easy to want to take these gifts that God keeps sending through you guys and keep them to ourselves. To store them up in case even harder times are ahead.
But then I remember the imagery of the closed and opened fists – only one can accept more incoming blessings.
So, here are my top three reasons Christians should practice hospitality.
1. Deepening Friendships
You can't truly get to know someone unless you have one-on-one time with them. Loitering after church or Sunday School is nice but if you want to truly learn someone's story you have to separate them from the crowd and give them your full attention. Period.
Take it from someone who has to make new friendships every time she moves – it's easy to never make a real friend. Especially if you already have a spouse who is your best friend. We've spent years traveling around the globe without any close friends because we didn't put in the effort.
2. The Bible Says So
Seriously, it does. This is the part where I should give you some sort of concordance of proof but I'm too lazy. But hospitality is at the very heart of Christian community, I swear. Google it.
And, frankly, Christians should know that. We once joined a church and within a week or two had invited the pastor's family over for dinner. They confided in us that in the 6 years they had been pastoring that church we were the first people who had ever invited them to our home. Christian fail, people. Christian. Fail.
3. Cleaning Motivation
Really now. Nothing inspires a more thorough and lightening fast house cleaning than putting the pressure of guests on your shoulders. If I didn't invite people over my house would never be clean. Ever. Because I just don't care that much if me and mine are the only people that see the mess.
To keep this method working though you have to keep throwing new people into the line up once in awhile. Because there's a distinct line where all friendships cross over into the comfort zone where you no longer care if they see the food crumbs under your dining table. This is unacceptable and won't help your attempts to not live in a pig-sty. Invite someone new.
So there you have it, the top three reasons you should absolutely be practicing hospitality – no excuses. This is one instance where I don't want to hear any personality test results that prove you're an introvert and need a special quiet cave for charging your humanity batteries. That's fine, I respect that – but you can charge when company leaves.
As Christians there's really no way to worm our way out of this one. I understand that everyone has different spiritual gifts and whatnot but we're all called to fellowship and community – which involves hospitality. I'm not saying you have to be Martha Stewart (I mean really, do I come across like a Martha?) but anyone can at least throw a frozen pizza in the oven and engage in conversation for a couple of hours.
So do it! I challenge you. Or something. Have someone over for dinner this week. Deal?
Be honest, on a scale from 1 t0 10, where do you rank in the hospitality department?


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Larimer County Cooperative Extension Advisory Meeting
March 9, 2006
The meeting was held at the Larimer County Extension Office in Fort Collins. Those present were Rob Ryan, Rob Knebl, Dixie Dick, Ralph Bender, Extension Director Laurel Kubin, Extension Agents Stephanie Tarry and Kate Merkle, and Fred McClanahan, Jr.
The meeting was called to order at 8:05 a.m. Introductions were made and minutes of the previous meeting were approved.
Agent Report
Stephanie Tarry & Kate Merkle, Extension Agents, Food Stamp Nutrition Education, gave a presentation to the committee about the importance of whole grain foods in a healthy diet. This is one of the classes they teach the FSNE program participants.
Directors Report
The Larimer County Extension Office received the In Service to Agriculture Award from the Fort Collins Rotary. The committee congratulated staff on their accomplishments.
Committee members were encouraged to attend the ground breaking ceremonies for the new Thomas M. McKee 4-H Youth and Community Building on Saturday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. Laurel showed building profiles and layouts.
DeeDee Smidt has been hired as the new campus-wide Events Manager at The Ranch. Bob Holt, who served as Fair Manager, is now landscape manager.
Laurel showed the new Larimer County Cooperative Extension marketing DVD. Discussion followed on the importance of continued marketing so that county residents know the value of Extension. It would be advisable to talk to the commissioners or the county manager every time you see them to reiterate the value of Extension.
All positions at the Larimer County Extension Office are currently filled. Edie McSherry will be at 75% time working with Food Safety and Health Education. Jacque Miller begins work April 1.
Advisory Committee Vacancies
We are in need of applicants to fill vacant positions on the Larimer County Extension Advisory Committee. If you know of anyone that would be interested, please have them contact the Commissioners Office for an application and guidelines.
The meeting adjourned at 9:35 a.m. Next meeting will be on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at the Larimer County Extension Office.
Respectfully submitted,
Fred McClanahan, Jr.


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I have been doing research on youth gangs from New York City in the 1950s. Think West Side Story but with more grit. These gangs from the 1950s are much different than the gangs we see today. The gangs of today mainly fight over drugs, but the gangs from yesteryear fought over "turf," patches of land that might not seem much to us today but were very important to the participants back then.
Please don't hesitate to email me at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments (positive or negative). Also, if you lived in NYC during the 1950s, or were in a gang I want to hear from you. I have talked to many former gang members over the years and even have had situations of putting old acquaintances in touch with each other.
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Fully furnished gorgeous 4 bedroom, 4+ bath, home in Fayetteville, located within one mile of Dickson Street, one block west of Razorback Stadium.
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Features include:
- Over 12 party decks
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- Four Large HDTVs with Digital Cable (three with surround sound)
- High-speed Wi-Fi (50mbps)
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- Ice machine (500lb/day capacity)
- Three refrigerators
- Locked garage parking for motorcycles
- Four queen beds and four couches that make into comfortable beds
- Total sleeping capacity is 16
- Scanner, copier and shredder available in the Study
- Lavish landscaping throughout the grounds
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Payments can be made online with credit card. No smoking indoors, no pets, no public intoxication (if you get drunk, go to bed!). We are making this home available either as a whole (subject to availability) or by individual area.