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OKLAHOMA CITY – Kevin Durant had 23 points and 10 rebounds, Russell Westbrook scored 19 points and the Oklahoma City cruised to a 110-87 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.
Kevin Martin added 15 points for Oklahoma City, which improved to 25-8 at home. The Thunder led 29-19 after one quarter and 50-28 at halftime.
Gordon Hayward scored 20 points to lead Utah, and Enes Kanter had 12. The Jazz lost for the eighth time in 10 games, but remained one-half game behind the Los Angeles Lakers for eighth place in the West.
Durant struggled early, recording more turnovers (6) than points (5) through the first 22 minutes. The NBA's leading scorer didn't convert until 3.8 seconds left in the first quarter and finished the half with eight points.
Westbrook picked up the slack, leading all scorers with 13 points at the break and adding five assists. The Thunder All-Star was able to keep the offense attacking while Durant struggled and Utah had problems of its own.
Durant found his rhythm in the third quarter, scoring nine of Oklahoma City's first 11 points and 15 overall to push the Thunder's lead to 32.
His only assist of the night came during halftime when he helped an elderly fan to her feet after she had fallen courtside.
Durant also had eight turnovers, including six in the first half.
The Jazz shot 35 percent from the floor, committing 24 turnovers and getting outrebounded 37-22.
Before the game, Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said Utah's big men would pose the greatest challenge to his team. The Thunder wound up scoring 38 points in the paint and held Utah's frontcourt of Demarre Carroll, Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson to just 15 points.
Millsap, who scored seven points to go with seven rebounds played for the first time since Friday in Chicago after missing two games with inflammation in his right knee. The Jazz were also without backup point guard Jamaal Tinsley, who missed his second game due to illness.
NOTES: Oklahoma City has won nine of its last 12 games. ... Utah slipped to 10-24 on the road. ... Five technical fouls and two flagrant fouls were called on the night.


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This cake, although called a key lime cake, doesn't actually call for any key limes, using regular limes instead. So, being somewhat of a lime purist (but who isn't?), I decided to step it up a notch and use real key limes.
This turned out to be a Very Bad Idea.
In case you aren't familiar with key limes, they are much smaller than their standard equivalent. They are little spheres, walnut-sized or smaller. They are perfect for, say, garnishing a margarita, but, as it turns out, not ideal for my purposes today.
This particular cake has a lime-sugar syrup that you pour on the cake. This step calls for a half cup of lime juice, which I was planning to squeeze by hand, requiring me to slice each lime in half. And, being that these little balls of joy are round, they roll. So, yes, I also sliced my finger.
It wasn't stitches-worthy, but had to be dealt with, and of course happened when Jeff was in the shower, and Jelly was "helping" me, which at that moment consisted of making handprints in the flour on the counter. She refused to leave the kitchen, so I had to carry her out with my non-bleeding hand, while still maintaining constant pressure on my finger, and holding it above my heart for good measure.
Bandage applied, I looked forward to the opportunity to get a lot of citrus juice in the cut, and returned to slicing the little green balls. When I thought I had enough limes, I started juicing what I now refer to as Satan's testicles.
I quickly learned that each little green nugget of joy gives out about one teaspoon of juice. I needed half a cup. I asked Siri and she told me that there are TWENTY FOUR teaspoons in a half cup. After juicing about twelve limes, I couldn't take it any more, and went out to pick a few regular limes off our tree and finish the job.
Hey, at least I didn't resort to juice from a bottle.
(I'm totally doing that next time.)
Limes juiced, syrup made, and cake in the oven, I embarked on the cream cheese frosting: cream cheese, margarine, powdered sugar, and one third of a cup of lime zest. Wait, what? How the hell am I supposed to zest these little f-ing limes, especially now that half of them are already juiced and squashed?
Do you know how many key limes it takes to get a third of a cup of zest? Neither do I.
I did my best, got as much zest as I could, which turned out to be plenty because this recipe makes about a gallon of frosting, about a third of which I used.
Also, it does not take a genius to predict that I zested my knuckle.
In the end, the cake was delicious. And now I have a bag of unused key limes. Margaritas, anyone?


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This has been floating around the internet.
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House.
One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.
"Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900 -- $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me."
The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me."
The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700."
The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"
The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."
"Done!" replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan will work.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
How a government stimulus plan works
out-of-control government
5 comments:
- naturegirlApril 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM
That also totally sums up how Chicago does business, too.....LOL
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 18, 2011 at 6:12 AM
Its sad but that is exactly how business is done at all levels.
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Added by Nico Herbig about 16 years ago
Hi @all,
I am a newbie in reference to Redmine. I installed Readmine under Apache 2 (openSuSE10.3). I use the mod_fastcgi module to load the application. Everything is fine but no css is loaded. It means I see the text but no design. Please take a look http://projects.the-green-modeling.de.
Here is my configuration part for the public directory:
<VirtualHost 18.104.22.168:80> ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80 SuexecUserGroup green.modeling psacln ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /srv/www/vhosts/the-green-modeling.de/subdomains/projects/cgi-bin/ DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/the-green-modeling.de/subdomains/projects/httpdocs/public <Directory /srv/www/vhosts/the-green-modeling.de/subdomains/projects/httpdocs/public> AllowOverride all Order allow,deny Allow from all <IfModule sapi_apache2.c> php_admin_flag engine off </IfModule> <IfModule mod_php5.c> php_admin_flag engine off </IfModule> <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> AddHandler fastcgi-script fcgi Options +ExecCGI +Includes +FollowSymLinks </IfModule> Options -Includes -ExecCGI </Directory> </VirtualHost>
I would be very happy if anyone can help me ;-)
Thanks a lot,
Nico Herbig
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RE: No Design - Added by Martin Herr about 16 years ago
Hi Nico,
I may be wrong but I think this is a misconfiguration of apaches rewrite module. Please post the content of your .htacess file.
RE: No Design - Added by Michael Pirogov about 16 years ago
Take a look on HowTo_run_Redmine_with_a_Mongrel_cluster
RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig about 16 years ago
Here is the .htaccess file content:
# General Apache options <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi </IfModule> <IfModule mod_fcgid.c> AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi </IfModule> <IfModule mod_cgi.c> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi </IfModule> Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI # If you don't want Rails to look in certain directories, # use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won't rewrite certain requests # # Example: # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.* # RewriteRule .* - [L] # Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails # By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow # # For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one # # Example: # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] RewriteEngine On # If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive, # then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file. # # Example: # Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public # RewriteBase /myrailsapp RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] </IfModule> <IfModule mod_fcgid.c> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] </IfModule> <IfModule mod_cgi.c> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] </IfModule> # In case Rails experiences terminal errors # Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which will be rendered instead # # Example: # ErrorDocument 500 /500.html ErrorDocument 500 "
Application error
Rails application failed to start properly"
RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland about 16 years ago
If you are using Apache, I would seriously consider using Phusion's Passenger.
No Mongrel's to deal with here.
We recently migrated our Redmine instance from a NGINX / Mongrel Cluster configuration to Passenger and have been very happy so far.
If you do try out passenger, you need to delete your "public/.htaccess" file or you will get no styles like you are seeing here.
RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig about 16 years ago
So I downloaded and installed passenger with the command gem install passenger. Can you explain me the next steps to run Redmine?
RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland about 16 years ago
Did you watch the RailsCast?
The instructions here should be enough to get you started. If not, let me know where you are getting stuck.
RE: No Design - Added by Martin Herr about 16 years ago
@all: Nico is using PLESK and I can't see why using Rails in FastCGI-mode with plesk should be a bad idea. It's slow and there are better (and more complex) solutions but fastcgi with PLESK works out-of-the-box :)
You should check your file permissions because I can't find an error in your .htaccess-file.
RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig about 16 years ago
So I changed the file permissions to 777 but it didn't work. Do you have any other idea to solve this problem?
RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig about 16 years ago
Jim Orton: Hi Jim it didn't work with Passenger, too. I see no design. Now, I would like to explain you my steps.
First I downloaded Passenger with the command "gem install passenger". Second I installed Passenger with "passenger-install-apache2-module". The next step was to set up loadmodule and the other paths. I create a new file named "mod_passenger.conf" and saved this file in the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/" folder. I added the following lines.
# Configuration for mod_passenger to deploy ruby on rails applications LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.1/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.1 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
Next, I restarted Apache and saw that Passenger was loaded. I think great and downloaded Redmine with the svn-command "svn export http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk redmine". I used the trunk version because I have installed Rails 2.1.
I copied all files in the "/srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects" folder and edit the "/config/database.yml" file with my settings. It means, I followed the instructions on the Redmine website "http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall".
The next step was to change the file permmissions and delete the .htaccess file in the public folder:
chown -R wwwrun:www * (set new owner for every file and folder) chmod -R 755 files log tmp
The last step was to create a new config file to set up a new virtual host. I create a new file named "redmine.conf" and saved this file in the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/" folder. I added the following lines.
# This is the configuration file for Redmine installations # Redmine installation for projects.the-green-modeling.de <VirtualHost 220.127.116.11:80> ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80 ServerAdmin "email@example.com" DocumentRoot /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public </VirtualHost>
Now, I restarted apache again and saw no changes.
I hope this settings can help you to resolve my problem.
RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland about 16 years ago
It appears to be a permission issue.
The below url should display your CSS file not give a "Access forbidden!" message:
Try adding the "public" folder to your chmod statement.
chmod -R 755 public
RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig about 16 years ago
It works ;-)
I changed the file permissions for the "public"-directory to 755 and modify my "redmine.conf"-file for Apache. Here is the new conf-file.
# Redmine installation for projects.the-green-modeling.de <VirtualHost 184.108.40.206:80> ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80 ServerAdmin "firstname.lastname@example.com" DocumentRoot /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public <Directory /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>
Thanks to all people that help me to solve this ugly problem.
RE: No Design - Added by Matt Cushing almost 16 years ago
I'm having the same issue, I changed the /var/www/redmine/public directory to 777, but it's still not showing the css.
I followed this pretty closely: http://mugunth.blogspot.com/2008/07/steps-to-deploy-redmine-application-in.html
but got to this point:
NameVirtualHost * ServerName ServerAlias DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ServerSignature On
and didn't know what to do. In it he says something about installing it to etc/www, but there is no /etc/www directory.
What else can I show to see what's up? I can sign in and everything seems to be working okay in that manner.
RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland almost 16 years ago
Hi Matt,
Did you delete your "public/.htaccess" file? This would cause you to get no styles to render in your application through Passenger.
- Jim
RE: No Design - Added by Matt Cushing almost 16 years ago
I had read in this post that it might solve the problem. I can't FIND it :), that's the problem! Isn't it supposed to be right in redmine/public? I didn't see it using find in explorer(or what linux explorer is called) or using ls in terminal.
RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland almost 16 years ago
.htaccess is a hidden file.
From your terminal, you should be able to see it by doing a
ls -la public/
and delete with
rm public/.htaccess
RE: No Design - Added by Matt Cushing almost 16 years ago
Jim, you're awesome. Thanks for helping me find that, it's exactly what was wrong.
RE: No Design - Added by julien aubert over 15 years ago
I am trying to setup Redmine with Passenger, Ubuntu 8.0.4.
Passenger is installed, Redmine is configured. It works in: https://myserver/redmine
In /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/.htaccess I have added:
RewriteBase /redmine
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/myserversite I have:
Alias /redmine /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/
NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName ..
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/demo.se.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/demo.se.key
DocumentRoot /var/www
SetEnv HTTPS 1
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.trac.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.trac.log combined
<Directory /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/>
SetEnv RAILS_ENV production
Options +FollowSymLinks
order allow,deny
allow from All
OK all good. But now here you say I should delete .htaccess, I tried deleting it and remove the Alias command, but then trying at https://myserver/redmine-0.8/public
only lists the directory. It doesn't execute any scripts.
So: why do I need to delete .htaccess?
That is, what parts in it is it that is "bad"?
Also, do redmine need both cgi and passenger? well then if we remove .htaccess then I should add cgi execution etc to my site under the directory?
Would be very thankful for an explanation.
Best regards
RE: No Design - Added by Ве Fio about 15 years ago
Why delete .htaccess? Those .htaccess rules are only for using CGI or FCGI as a Rails server, both very outdated and not recommendable. If you have a real Rails server, as Mongrel or Passenger, you don't need CGI or FCGI. Actually you shouldn't run Passenger and FCGI together. Also, Passenger isn't compatible with custom rewrites.


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The FDA has approved Ruconest, the first recombinant C1-Esterase Inhibitor product for the treatment of acute attacks in adult and adolescent patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE).
Hereditary angioedema, which is caused by having insufficient amounts of a plasma protein called C1-esterase inhibitor, affects approximately 6,000 to 10,000 people in the United States. People with HAE can develop rapid swelling of the hands, feet, limbs, face, intestinal tract, or airway. These acute attacks of swelling can occur spontaneously, or can be triggered by stress, surgery or infection. Swelling of the airway is potentially fatal without immediate treatment.
"Hereditary angioedema is a rare and potentially life-threatening disease," said Karen Midthun, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. "Today's approval provides an important treatment option for these patients."
Ruconest is a human recombinant C1-esterase inhibitor purified from the milk of genetically modified (transgenic) rabbits. Ruconest is intended to restore the level of functional C1-esterase inhibitor in a patient's plasma, thereby treating the acute attack of swelling.
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Ruconest received orphan-drug designation for acute attacks by the FDA because it is intended for treatment of a rare disease or condition.
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August's "Inside/Outside" edition of The SEO Newsletter is hot off the press. As the name suggests, this month's newsletter takes you inside with a look at in-house SEO content strategies and outside with a dive into competitor research. The SEO Newsletter also has the scoop on all the latest SEO and SMM news, including corporate shuffles and industry shindigs.
In "5 Internal Resources to Mine for SEO Content," I reveal 5 in-house resources content creators can tap into when they're looking for compelling content subjects. Learn how to create content (including articles, blog posts, infographics and static pages) based on:
- Insights and data from your your customer service and accounting departments
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Congress zooms in on drone killings
WASHINGTON -- Once a month, a group of staff members from the House and Senate intelligence committees drives across the Potomac River to CIA headquarters in Virginia, assembles in a secure room and begins the grim task of watching videos of the latest drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.
Sometimes they see Hellfire missiles hit buildings after suspected terrorists have entered. Other times they can make out a group or a vehicle consumed in a fiery blast. Occasionally, a smaller explosion kills just one person, as officials say happened when a missile this month crashed into a room in Pakistan's tribal areas and killed Abu Yahya al Libi, Al Qaeda's No. 2.
The videos are much sharper than the grainy drone imagery that can be viewed on the Web. "You can see exactly what is going on," said a senior congressional aide, who, like other officials, spoke about the highly classified program on the condition he not be identified.
The regular review of some of the most closely held video in the CIA's possession is part of a marked increase in congressional attention paid to the agency's targeted killing program over the last three years.
The oversight, which has not previously been detailed, began largely at the instigation of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, officials said.
The lawmakers and aides with the intelligence oversight committees have a level of access shared only by President Obama, his top aides and a small number of CIA officials.
In addition to watching video, the legislative aides review intelligence that was used to justify each drone strike.
They also sometimes examine telephone intercepts and after-the-fact evidence, such as the CIA's assessment of who was hit.
"We receive notification with key details shortly after every strike, and we hold regular briefings and hearings on these operations," Feinstein wrote in May in a letter sent in response to a column that ran in The Times questioning the oversight of drone strikes.
"Committee staff has held 28 monthly in-depth oversight meetings to review strike records and question every aspect of the program including legality, effectiveness, precision, foreign policy implications and the care taken to minimize noncombatant casualties."
Feinstein did not respond to requests last week for an interview.
The United States faces international criticism for its drone strikes. Officials in Pakistan, in particular, have complained that strikes have killed many civilians, and some members of Congress have recently raised questions about "signature" drone attacks based on an individual's pattern of behavior.
Congressional officials say their review has made the CIA more careful. They are hard-pressed, however, to point to any changes the agency has made. The CIA declined to comment.
If the congressional committees objected to something, the lawmakers could call CIA leaders to testify in closed investigative hearings. If unsatisfied, they could pass legislation limiting the CIA's actions.
"I don't know that we've ever seen anything that we thought was inappropriate," one senior staff member said.
Still, the drone program is under far more scrutiny than in the past, congressional officials say. Even after drone strikes against militants in Pakistan were expanded significantly by President George W. Bush in summer 2008, the strikes were subject to little congressional review, according to former intelligence officials.
"During my time, the committees didn't do any oversight on drone strikes to speak of," said a former senior CIA official who left in 2009. "They would be informed when a strike was carried out. No staffers ever came out and watched video."
As the program intensified under Obama, Feinstein became determined to ensure that it was as precise as the CIA had been claiming. "That's been a concern of mine from the beginning," Feinstein said in little-noticed comments after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. "I asked that this effort be established. It has been. The way in which this is being done is very careful."
Senators and House members occasionally watch the videos. But much of the oversight is conducted by a core group of intelligence committee aides. They include some veteran analysts, such as Tom Corcoran, senior policy advisor to the House committee, who is a Navy Reserve intelligence officer and who worked for seven years for the Defense Intelligence Agency. He did not comment for this report.
Other top aides have less intelligence experience. The Republican staff director and another advisor to Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the ranking Republican on the intelligence panel, spent most of their careers on the agriculture committee, which Chambliss once headed. They bring a fresh perspective, colleagues say.
Members of the oversight committees are limited in their ability to challenge the CIA's conclusions, a senior staff member cautioned. "I can watch video all day long -- I'm not an imagery analyst," he said. "I can only look to see if the description reasonably concurs with what my untrained eyes are seeing."
Critics argue that drone strikes sometimes hit the wrong people.
"I know for a fact that civilians are being killed in these strikes," said Brigadier Abdullah Dogar, defense attache at Pakistan's embassy in Washington. He cited a now infamous attack on March 17, 2011, in Datta Khel, North Waziristan, which the Pakistanis insist struck a tribal council and killed as many as 45 people, most of whom were not connected to Al Qaeda. The U.S. has been equally insistent that those killed were militants.
The Washington-based New America Foundation says that as many as 471 civilians have been killed in the strikes since 2004. Peter Bergen, an analyst who supervises the foundation's tally, called it "the least unreliable thing out there in the absence of any real U.S. government transparency."
But lawmakers on the House and Senate oversight committees say media reports out of the tribal areas of Pakistan and Yemen list casualties that are refuted by video evidence. For example, the BBC and other news organizations quoted local officials saying that 15 "suspected militants" were killed in the June 4 Pakistan strike that killed al Libi. But the video shows that he alone was killed, congressional aides say.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat from Burbank and an intelligence committee member who has watched videos of the strikes, said, "If the American people were sitting in the room, they would feel comfortable that it was being done in a responsible way."
Congressional criticism of drone strikes has been rare. But this month, 26 lawmakers, all but two of them Democrats, signed a letter to Obama questioning so-called signature strikes, in which the U.S. attacks armed men who fit a pattern of behavior that suggests they are involved in terrorist activities.
Signature strikes have been curbed in Pakistan, where they once were common, but this year Obama gave the CIA permission to conduct them in Yemen, where an Al Qaeda affiliate that has targeted the United States has established a safe haven in the south.
The lawmakers expressed concern that signature strikes could kill civilians. They added: "Our drone campaigns already have virtually no transparency, accountability or oversight."
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) signed the letter even though he is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, which oversees some drone attacks. "We need to know that innocent people are not being haphazardly killed because of bad information," he said.
Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, said he had seen firsthand that the CIA took "extraordinary care" in its targeting.
But he also said he was not convinced, in signature strikes against military-aged males, that every person killed was a militant, suggesting some could have been tribesmen paid to help terrorists.
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African Storybook Mini Review: Free Reading Practice
African Storybook
Struggling to find beginner-level Afrikaans or Yoruba reading materials? Spanish books relevant to Equatorial Guinea instead of Spain or Colombia? Stories in Nigerian Pidgin or Cape Verdean Creole? African Storybook has thousands of free-to-read children's stories in various African languages, from Acholi through to Zinza. Most of them were written by African authors. The website is best for beginner and lower-intermediate students. The stories are generally designed for young children, with easy-to-read sentences that introduce you to basic vocabulary and some variation in tenses. The difficulty is graded from one to five, with five being the most challenging. You can normally find the English translation of the book, too, although you would probably be better off using a dictionary. Don't give up if at first you don't see your language on the website. Some languages have been entered with their English name, others with their original name, and others under several different names. For example, for Swahili, you would need to look under "Kiswahili", while French texts are under "French". Frustratingly, not all languages on the dropdown menu currently have texts. According to African Storybook, they have a greater number of books for languages in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. However, as this initiative continues to grow, hopefully they'll have stories for more and more languages.
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'Friends' Reunion: Everything We Know So Far
So no one told you...? The long-awaited Friends reunion is almost here!
On Thursday (May 13), HBO Max unveiled the first teaser for the upcoming special, which will air a whopping 17 years after the sitcom's original run came to an end back in May 2004. The reunion special was also filmed on Friends' original soundstage: Warner Bros. Studio 24 in Burbank, California.
Friends star Jennifer Aniston shared the teaser on her Instagram page. The clip shows the original six friends — Aniston as Rachel, Courteney Cox as Monica, Matt LeBlanc as Joey, David Schwimmer as Ross, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe and Matthew Perry as Chandler — linked arm in arm as the walk in a backlot, as an instrumental of the Friends theme song plays.
Watch the brief, emotional teaser below:
Below, find out everything we know about the highly-anticipated Friends reunion special.
When Does the Friends Reunion Air?
The Friends reunion will premiere on Thursday, May 27. According to the teaser, the reunion is apparently titled "The One Where They Get Back Together."
Will the Entire Original Cast Be in the Friends Reunion?
The special will indeed feature the six original cast members: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, each cast member will be making between $2.5 million and $3 million for the special.
Will There Be Any Celebrity Guest Appearances in the Friends Reunion?
The special will also feature a number of celebrity guest stars, including: David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon and Malala Yousafzai.
What Is the Friends Reunion About?
The Friends reunion is an unscripted conversation with the original cast members along with special appearances from celebrity fans. Ben Winston directed the special and also co-executive produced the reunion with original Friends producers Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane. Nothing has been officially confirmed in terms of what the episode structure will be like.
How to Watch the Friends Reunion:
Although the series aired on NBC for 10 years, the Friends reunion will stream exclusively on HBO Max. Fans can also catch up on the entire series exclusively on HBO Max following its exit from Netflix in 2019.


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Businesses that lead in the digital world can pivot within days, hours or even minutes as new threats and opportunities emerge. In contrast, laggards often fall victim to a technology function that need months, quarters or even years to adapt.
By now, most large companies are using digital technologies to do things such as launch apps, build e-commerce solutions and harness data to learn more about their customers. But these "quick hit" efforts inevitably fall short of their goals when they must contend with legacy IT systems and data that can't interface with new digital apps and architectures. Data is scattered across the company, rendering it useless. Outmoded and sluggish IT operating models slow the company down.
The companies that take digital to its full potential learn to integrate their front-end digital solutions with their aging legacy stack. They build technology functions that are flexible, fast, collaborative and creative—hardly the adjectives most companies use to describe their IT departments. But unlocking the true potential of technology can be transformative. Consider two examples:
The first involves Facebook and its Open Compute Project. After building new, cutting-edge data centers, Facebook in 2011 made the controversial decision to release its hardware designs to the rest of the world as open-source material. While most companies closely guarded their server designs, Facebook realized that its core strength was creating innovative social media products, not building servers, and it stood to gain more by fostering collaboration in the engineer community. Collaboration led to vast upgrades of Facebook's state-of-the-art servers, further reducing the company's energy demands and leading to more than $2 billion in cost savings in the first three years. The Open Compute Project has also served as an incubator for other initiatives, such as the Telecom Infra Project, which will reduce the company's dependence on traditional telecom providers, while increasing global Internet connectivity.
The second example might lack Silicon Valley swagger, but the results are just as impressive. It involves HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax authority that years ago set out to shift from a clunky paper-based system to one that allows customers to complete most transactions online or through integrated software. Hamstrung by inflexible legacy systems and a lack of in-house knowledge, HMRC started by reconsidering its governance and decision models, putting the right inner-game mechanisms in place so that it could tackle its outer game. HMRC then invested in developing new digital capabilities and an IT operating model that supports the company's digital strategy and ambitions. These steps helped the organization move a large portion of its systems to faster, cheaper and more stable cloud-hosted platforms. All told, this digital transformation is expected to improve the customer experience, increase revenue and reduce costs by 25%.
As companies look to reboot their IT capability to make it more responsive to the needs of a digital enterprise, we find they typically need to focus on four key areas:
- How technology work gets done: Digital leaders make IT move faster by proactively changing ways of working through concepts such as Agile product development methods and DevOps. They also generate speed by adopting governance and decision models that prioritize opportunities and quickly pivot resources when necessary. They excel at effectively allocating scarce IT resources between business-as-usual IT, modernizing legacy IT and investing in new digital capabilities.
- How IT works with others: Leaders also use Agile, DevOps and product vs. project development models to change how IT engages with other parts of the business. The key is to create a more collaborative, team-based approach to designing and building technology solutions, as well as supporting and eventually decommissioning them.
- How technology fits together: Gravitating toward adaptable enterprise architectures will increase the probability that the many pieces of a complex technology puzzle will fit together in the future.
- How to navigate a journey that is affordable and achievable: Orchestrating this level of change requires clear prioritization to guide investment in the few initiatives that are both practical and potentially valuable. But it also relies on self-funding of some critical initiatives through continuously removing unnecessary complexity in the IT function and trimming costs from the legacy IT environment.
Linking this inner game IT transformation to the company's outer game objectives will provide the best road map for what will be a challenging multiyear journey. To get started, organizations must:
- Define the major technology implications of the company's overall digital strategy.
- Determine what components of the legacy IT environment must be modernized to support this vision.
- Launch Agile pilots to begin to test and learn, using this important new way of working to build winning solutions prototype by prototype.
- Define the relative priorities of funding business-as-usual, modernizing legacy infrastructure and investing in new digital initiatives.
The inner game is about addressing the technological, organizational and financial impediments that get in the way of speed and execution. Given the blinding pace of digital innovation, companies can no longer afford a technology function that takes months, quarters or years to react.
Rudy Puryear leads Bain & Company's Global Information Technology practice and is based in Chicago.


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Day 5: Teachers Presented on Lessons Exploring Texture, Narrative Art, Tableau, and More
July 31st, 2010
It has been a long but incredibly rewarding week at the Getty Center. On the fifth day of the seminar, teachers incorporated the strategies we discussed all week in their own arts-integrated lesson plans. I was so impressed by what they were able to accomplish in just a couple of days. Thank you to this year's class of Art & Language Arts teachers. It has been so much fun discussing works of art and art education teaching strategies with you all week!


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And now it's time for sports, which are often a respite from life-and-death news, but this week there is sharp concern about the safety of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. She's not been seen in more than two weeks, when she leveled accusations of sexual assault against a top Communist Party official in China, and her apparent disappearance raises questions about how international associations are addressing or avoiding questions about her safety just 90 days before athletes from around the world arrive for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media joins us. Howard, thanks so much for being with us.
HOWARD BRYANT, BYLINE: Good morning, Scott.
SIMON: These are very serious accusations she made, and Peng Shuai must've known there was risk in talking and making those accusations about Zhang Gaoli, former vice premier.
BYRANT: Yes, and no question. I know that - we don't get a chance to talk about tennis very often, but this is really not a tennis story. And she was a No. 1 doubles player, very well respected in the game, champion-level player, represented her country on three occasions in the Olympics. And the allegations that she made November 2 against the high-ranking Chinese official, who's 40 years older than she, that there was a coercion of sexual favors three years ago. No one has seen or heard from her, and her social media has essentially been scrubbed. And there was - a few hours ago, a state-run media outlet announced that she will be seen very soon.
And this is a challenge. This is not just a human rights challenge. Certainly, the question, of course, of where is she has spurred all kinds of questions from her fellow players - from Serena Williams, from Novak Djokovic, from Naomi Osaka, from all the top players. And the No. 1 question, obviously, is where is she, and what is the status of her safety? And three days ago, a message went out supposedly from her, a statement from her saying that she was fine and that she denied all of the allegations at the same time that the Chinese government was denying the existence of any allegations, including her post. And so the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association - Steve Simon, the president, came out and immediately said he did not believe any of these - any of the response from China. So they're very, very concerned.
And what it really does, Scott, more than anything else on this is it puts into question going into business with a country with an oppressive human rights record. You've got the Olympics coming up in February. The WTA has 11 events in China. They've gone all-in on China, billions of dollars into their sport. And what is this going to do in terms of the United States' response? How are you going to square all of the money that you've put in against your supposed claim that you care about human rights? This is a huge story.
SIMON: Yeah. And let's note at the end today, allegations of sexual misconduct, of course, also surfaced in the National Women's Soccer League this fall. But today, the Washington Spirit and Chicago Red Stars are facing off in the final championship match. What do you look for?
BYRANT: Well, hopefully what you're looking for is a good game, and I think this is one of the things that people want from sports is to get away from some of the issues. But if you're in the NWSL, you need a great game. You need something to take away from - you need better conduct because you had an entire league with a league shutdown at one point because the players have been alleging horrible inaction against allegations by the coaches in this league. So people need to behave better, and even the best game in the world isn't going to solve this if they don't.
SIMON: One day, my friend, we'll talk about the playing of sports again, won't we?
BYRANT: Hopefully.
SIMON: All right, Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media, talk to you soon. Thanks very much.
BYRANT: Thank you, Scott.
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It's 10 o'clock on a Thursday night. I'm currently sitting in my bed in the dark with my four-year-old passed out asleep on my right arm. The one I type with. Her tiny baby face is lit up by my computer screen, her hands tucked together under her head. She lied there and watched me work until she finally fell asleep.
This tiny part of me thinks it's sweet; snuggled up next to her. The rest of me feels like shit. My co-worker absolutely would have understood if I'd pushed our conversation back ten or 15 more minutes. But I'd also just returned from a late night at the office, and my brain was still in work mode. Dad allowed her to stay up late until I got home, so this was the only time we had together today, and I squandered it.
It's not like this every day. Some days. Sometimes a lot of days. That's why I don't have the luxury of playing quality/quantity game.
Carla Birnberg recently wrote about the quality/quantity debate on her blog. I adore Carla. She's brilliant, generous with her time and brain cells, has an energy that I crave and covet, and does not care at all what anyone thinks. Everything she writes almost always has me sit back, nodding my head, mumbling uh-huhs under my breath in agreement.
This time, though, I paused. She made me stop and think about which parenting camp I fall in — quality or quantity. I loved her analogy of saturating the market "with mama-product and hoping, along the way, I'd churn out at least a few quality stuffs."
Who amongst us doesn't feel the same way? We all want to do the very best job we can; that's why we are killing ourselves with guilt and Pinterest projects. My mom never worried about that stuff. Her mom certainly didn't. And I'll take a safe bet that neither my great- nor great-great grandmother messed with it either. They just loved their kids the best they could and that was good enough!
Somewhere along the way we allowed ourselves to be ruled more by the opinions of other mothers than by our own two cents and intuition. It became easier to declare Worst Mom Ever and Mom of the Year than to just own the decisions we were making, own the circumstances in which they were made.
Some days, like this one, my daughter and I get so little time together that the quality/quantity argument doesn't even factor in. Tonight there was no real quantity and there was absolutely no quality… but we were skin to skin, and we made small talk, and I kissed her and hugged her a dozen times, and played with her hair in between chat IMs. Instead of a book, between chat IMs, I read an old blog post to her from when she was two. She loved it, and asked for another.
And so maybe my definition of quality is skewed. Because on the surface I look at how we spent tonight and I'm just appalled with myself. Then I read that scene back and think, you know, that's not so bad. After all, it shouldn't be about how I define quality, but how she does. For her, she got to have snuggle time with mom in bed, hear a story, and fall asleep in … on… her mom's arms. That's all she needs, right?
Tomorrow I'm taking the afternoon off work. I wish I could say it was by choice, but we're between nannies and we're sharing the load with her. She's having a friend come over to play and I'm throwing our usual super healthy food rules out the window. I stressed for 20 minutes at the grocery store tonight trying to figure out what to make for the kids and what nice thing I could make for my friend and then decided that I'm absolutely exhausted, the most tired I've been in recent memory, I still have to work while she's at school in the morning…and then make lunch? We're ordering pizza and making sugar cookies. She'll be thrilled!
And in that, we'll score a little quality and a little quantity.
I get frustrated when I can't do some big awesome red-banner star-spangled actual Mom of the Year level thing with her every. single. day. It doesn't matter to her though. She likes riding the escalator at Target three times in a row. She likes to help load the washing machine and unload the dishwasher. She likes to read an extra story at bed time. She likes when I lean my head over the tub so that she can wash my hair for a change. She likes to sneak in an episode of Gilmore Girls. She likes getting an iced tea at Target to share while we shop. She likes looking at pictures on Instagram. She likes when I help her do the math for a pizza game on the iPad. She likes walking to school instead of riding in the car. She likes when I take even 5 minutes to play "getting married" with her.
This is what's important to her. This is what she remembers. This is when I get to hear "you're the best mama ever;" she means it so I need to stop doubting it.
In that list is a lot of quality and a lot of quantity — by her definition.
So it comes back to my rule of all things in moderation. Sometimes there is quality. Sometimes there is quantity. Sometimes there is neither. I'm OK with that.


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There's a word I thought I knew at some point, but can no longer remember what it was.
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the Koran never mentions those Christians who believe that Jesus was fully man on earth and not God anymore but was God before He was born inside Mary's womb, makes me think that the Koran is not against one type of Christian, the Christian who believes in the pre-conception Divinity of Christ
Word of God is not God. Its just God appointing a being to utter and confirm His words on earth. Spirit of God is not God. Its just God appointing a being to breathe spirits to give life on earth/heaven. Face of God is not God. Its just God appointing a place on earth as if facing Him.
Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allah is like that of Adam. He created him from dust; then He said to him, "Be," and he was. (3:59)
He created him from dust; then He said to him, "Be," and he was. (3:59)
Spirit of God is not God.
Adam and Jesus become alive
Adam was created from dust and if Jesus was created, He would have been created from dust too but the Koran does not say that.If Jesus was created, why involve the Spirit of God upon Mary ? and I believe the Spirit of God entered Mary's womb to become Jesus
When Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than mere magic (5:110)
In addition to my comments above, can you point to a Koranic verse that says that the "Spirit of God" is not God ?
Say: The holy Spirit hath delivered it from thy Lord with truth, that it may confirm (the faith of) those who believe, and as guidance and good tidings for those who have surrendered (to Allah) 16:102.
elements inisde womb were used (Jesus)
the requirement of a womb was that so there will be substances inside it for usage to form Jesus prior to breathing life onto him. The Spirit cannot breathe life onto nothingness.
The Spirit cannot breathe life onto nothingness.
Does the Koran contradict the statement below or is it silent on the subject matter ?Just before Jesus appeared inside Mary's womb, what if God said, " I want to "be" human" and through a process ( analogous to "binary fission" in biology) God "be"came Spirit (God, the Father and Spirit, the Son of God ) and
by saying that both Adam and Jesus are human, the Koran clearly implies they were not human before they became human as clarified belowWe know that the Koran clearly states that both Adam and Jesus became human but before Adam came into existence, Adam was not human but dust and before Jesus came into existence as a human, Jesus was not dust but the Spirit of God as seen in the Spirit of God appearing upon Mary and I believe that Spirit entered Mary to "be" or "become" Jesus
We are simply dots of liquid. Adam was dust. Jesus was substances inside womb.
'Allamah Al-Alusi, the author of the famous Tafsir. Ruh al-Ma'ani has reported an episode from the court of Caliph Harun al-Rashid where a Christian physician entered into a debate against the scholar 'Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Wiqidi challenging him that his Book (the Qur'an) has a particular word which indicates that Sayyidna 'Isa (as) [i.e. Jesus] is a part of Allah. And as a proof, he read out the verse [4:](171) which carries the words: [Arabic for: ruhim-minhu] (a spirit from Him). 'Allamah al-Wiqidi came up with a rejoinder and recited another verse (45:13) of the Qur'an: [Arabic text of verse] (The meaning of the verse is that everything that there is in the heavens and the earth is from the same Allah where the word - minhu: from Him - serves to attribute everything to Allah) and said: 'If (ruhim-minhu: a spirit from Him means, as you think, that Sayyidna 'Isa (as) is a part of Allah, then, the verse I have just recited would mean that every thing in the heavens and the earth is also a part of Allah?'
Be! is a word
Jesus was substances inside womb.


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I do not see this as a competition between us as to who is the better scholar, but as simply a matter of who to trust: someone who presents carefully researched, carefully worded, carefully reasoned work on this subject, with a minimum of mistakes (because as I've said, I make them, too), or someone who doesn't.The part after "who to trust" is tendentious, of course. Bart Ehrman's books are fantastic, and they show he's a good scholar and perfectly prepared to be a skeptic (he abandoned the Christian faith of his youth). In rounds one and two of the web-debate, I think Ehrman slaughters Carrier. But here's what really destroyed Carrier's reputation in my eyes. It so happens that the first thing Carrier wrote after he joined Free Thought Blogs was an astonishingly cocky yet unbelievably stupid diatribe called "Meat not Bad". The thing was shot through with errors, yet the tone invited the reader to think Carrier was Mr. Smart slaughtering all the dummies. His conclusion: "I think being a vegetarian out of 'compassion' is irrational. I mean that in the classic sense: it's a non sequitur, and thus illogical. It's to treat animals like people, which they are not."
You could not read the literature on the treatment of animals, or watch videos put out by reliable groups like the Humane Society, and come away with this opinion. Could not. Yet he holds forth with certitude, and make the other side out to be illogical. This, I take it, is Carrier's modus operandi. It's exactly what you see in his current debate with Ehrman. So I have no time for Richard Carrier, but Ehrman's book sounds fun--perhaps just because it's intriguing how some atheists are so determined to move from "No God" to "No Jesus". I'd like to see this passion for no-Jesus dissected.


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Hoka One Rapa Nui Trail |
Update: Boulder Running Company has an early US release of the Rapa Nui Trail (model I have) and Rapa Nui Tarmac (road version) both $129.95 available today November 20th, 2013.
Update 1/20/14: the Rapa Nui is now the Rapa Nui 2 and more broadly available in the US. Biggest change a new upper that does away with the burrito toe area shown below replacing it with a seamless toe box area. Midsole and outsole construction and thus the ride appear the same as described below. A fine review of the Rapa Nui 2 by fellow NH blogger Nate Sanel over at Runblogger.
Runblogger.com: Rapa Nui Trail |
Basic Info:
Height: 20mm forefoot height/26mm heel height: 6mm drop. About the same as other Hokas.
Weight: exactly 10oz for my size US 8.5 so likely about 10.3oz for standard 9. At least an ounce less than the comparatively svelte (for Hokas) Tarmacs.
Upper: Mesh with welded overlays. Unlike many 2013 shoes there is still stitching particularly in the toe box area. This likely adds to weight. The tongue is a thin suede like material with a bit of mesh cushion on the inside. Similar to the Tarmac's tongue but thinner and softer. The tongue (white in picture) extends almost all the way to the toe, unusual construction as part of the toe box is actually the soft tongue.
Toe Construction: Hoka One Rapa Nui Comp |
The sides wrap around the foot and over the tongue like a burrito up to the stitches by the toe. I believe this helps with overall flexibility but means several seams over the toes. These seams have not been an issue at all so far. Fit is comfortable with decent forefoot volume if a bit narrower than Tarmacs. True to size with my high arch, narrower feet wearing thin socks.
Update: The new version of the Rapa Nui now coming on sale in the US has a new toe area construction. The somewhat complex "burrito" construction with many seams is replaced by a open toe box.
Photo Boulder Running Company: Hoka Rapa Nui Trail Toe Box |
Midsole: EVA as other Hokas but at 1.5x volume vs. 2x volume for older models. The Rapa Nui has injection molded EVA (IMEVA) vs. the compressed EVA in all other models for what is claimed to be a more responsive feel and more rebound. I think this is true, if subtly and may also contribute to the fact they also have more forefoot flex by far than other Hokas I have run in.
The midsole extends up and around the upper to create a "bucket seat" for the foot, a signature of all Hokas and what also creates the illusion they are far off the ground and somehow not stable, not true.
Outsole: Decent lugs for most trail terrain. Lugs are are not noticeable on the road. Harder rubber (black) in heel and toe areas. I am seeing some accelerated wear in a few of the heel lugs as I have run many miles on the road. Par for the course for Hokas. The Shoe Goo may come out in a month or so...Carved out areas in the midsole for increased flexibility, and these Hokas flex in the forefoot as well as any trail shoe, a first for Hokas.
Outsole: Hoka One One Rapa Nui Comp |
Overall geometry: overall width of outsole is narrower at heel and forefoot than Tarmacs. This is positioned as a racing Hoka. Far more flexible than other Hokas. The rocker effect is less pronounced.
Laces: One pull speed laces as on Tarmacs. I have found them effective
The Ride:
I have run 190 miles so far [Update: 300 plus miles] in the Rapa Nui, about 150 road miles. Still very much the cushioned like running on grass while on the road Hoka feel. A bit surprised that they felt almost as cushioned particularly in the heel as Tarmacs which have about 10mm more of foam cushioning front and back.Of course super cushioned even more so than the adidas Energy Boost I reviewed earlier but responsive and smooth in a way similar to the new Pearl Izumi E:Motion Trail N1, also reviewed here yet without nearly as much of what is almost a too firm road trail feel.
At the forefoot they generally feel as flexible as a "normal" running shoe and the characteristic rocker effect of other Hokas is far less noticeable. I have not had the occasional metatarsal pain at my big toe that I have on occasion experienced with the Hoka Mafate and Tarmac. The soft forefoot cushioning and flexiblity seems to lack a bit of stability on the very technical rocky, rooty NH trails of my first trail run. A band of denser rubber outsole on the outside of the forefoot to the midfoot such as on the New Balance 1210 Leadville or or an embedded rock plate, web or frame of plastic such as in the Inov-8 or my adidas Energy Boost could help make them a bit more stable.
I have run and hiked about 90 miles on the smoother less technical trails in UT and the RapaNui climb far better for me than other Hokas. Much more trail feel with no rock push throughs despite no rock plate. Not quite the bomb proof downhill performance of "traditional" Hokas but nonetheless very smooth over obstacles.
At speed on the road they felt great. I did a test 3 days apart on essentially the same 6 mile course running at a moderate easy pace for 5 miles then clocking a fast last mile on a Strava segment. First run was in Nike Lunar Fly racing flats from several years ago. Second run in the Rapa Nui. I was overall 50 seconds per mile faster , I did push a little harder on the easy miles the second time, but more significantly my last fast mile was to the second identical to the prior run and a segment record for me, with less perceived road shock and effort.
I think the Rapa Nui will, given their lighter weight, lower profile, and flexibility be a faster shoe than prior Hoka models and a good candidate for my mostly downhill fall St. George Marathon as well as Park City's Jupiter Peak Steeplechase with its 3000 feet of climbing and then fast downhills. I believe as with all Hokas this is a great shoe for folks struggling with injuries such as PF or worn out joints.
Given the flexibility I believe Rapa Nui's is a more responsive uphill trail running shoes than the bigger Hokas. As slope increases and the rocker angle of traditional Hokas is exceeded (about 10 degrees) I have found you need to have plenty of knee lift to drive up and forward. Last year I ran most of my trails in Tecnica X-Lite, a lower profile close technological cousin to the Hokas, a great shoe but quite heavy and with a somewhat loose upper. As far as downhills Rapa Nui have the great confidence building Hoka cushion on a somewhat narrower less stable platform but also have greater responsiveness and terrain feel than its beefier cousins: Mafate, Stinson, and Tarmac.
A little less of the Hoka "cloud", more flexibility, less weight. What I have been waiting for from Hoka in a longer run trail and also road runner. A true hybrid good for anything you can throw at them except maybe a 5K-10K road race with no compromises for road, trail, and hiking.
Another great review of the Rapa Nui over at Runblogger


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What's happening in Craig's World - March 2016
Statistically, Easter is the most dangerous period on our roads after the Christmas holidays.
While Christmas sees a much larger total volume of traffic on the roads across the country every year, it's over a longer period of time … Easter is just four days for most people, and a huge number of them hit the roads during that time.
I guess Easter comes a couple of months after most people go back to work or school, so they're looking for a bit of a break before winter sets in.
The weather is another contributor to the road toll at Easter time, because in the southern states the roads are often wet for the first time in months, and drivers aren't used to that.
We from the northern states, of course, are very used to wet roads by Easter and are looking forward to the opposite … a bit of dry bitumen!
No matter what the weather or traffic conditions, it's a wise idea to check your tyres before hitting the road. Check that the inflation pressures are correct, check there's sufficient tread depth, and check the tread and sidewalls for damage.
And don't forget the spare, if your car still has one!
Same goes for caravan, boat or trailer tyres … except that it's even more important because they've often been sitting around deteriorating since last being used during the Christmas holidays.
Since we last caught up, the racing season has finally got underway and, two events in, it's shaping up pretty well.
Incredibly, I made my 251st Touring Car/V8 Supercar event start during the Clipsal 500 weekend in Adelaide, an all-time record!
I can honestly say I don't know where that time has gone … seems like only yesterday I was making the first one!
Anyway, the Clipsal 500 weekend was a case of ironing out the teething troubles in my new team-within-a-team, TeamVortex, working with a new crew assembled from the Triple Eight team and fine-tuning a new #888 Holden Commodore racecar.
Days of hot and humid conditions in the build-up led to a massive monsoon just before and during Clipsal's big Sunday race, leading to the most chaotic race I can remember!
Despite the constantly changing conditions, we had a great car at Clipsal on the Sunday and we got to the front pretty quickly and then comfortably maintained our pace there or thereabouts.
We had great pitstops and a good strategy too … in the end the only thing that beat us was luck. With the race shortened because of the rain and a stoppage, our fuel plan didn't pan out and we were forced to stop late in the race to meet the regulations – we didn't actually need fuel!
Two weeks later we reassembled in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix and, would you believe it, after a really hot and humid first day, we had two days of rain. It was like Adelaide all over again!
Fortunately the weather cleared for Grand Prix Sunday and, all in all, it turned out to be a pretty strong weekend for us.
To be second overall for the weekend and score the first podium for TeamVortex, a real milestone for us, and even better, the team really gelled on and off the track.
Across the four sprint races -- which are non-championship so we don't score any points, feature rolling starts and restarts, and a progressive grid so you move up or down according to your finish in the previous race -- I had some great on-track battles with my teammates too.
It showed how strong the Triple Eight trio will be this year. Can't wait!
Finally … have a safe Easter everyone.