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Dear Lena,
I had this check all enclosed sealed addressed and the stamp on it, but I though as long as I have to stay on an other hour that I would write a letter. (Be a sport you know. I am sergeant of the gaurd for twenty four hours. This is not outpost, but interior gaurd. We have ninteen prisoners, two of which are bad ones. It is a shame the way some of these fellows carry on. For instance one fellow was brought in a few minutes ago with his left hand in a sling. He has been missing for three days, the Lord only knows where he has been. Another fellow was brought in at nine oclock with the jimmies and we had an awful time to get him quited down. I know I should not mention these instances, but they give you an idea what the Gaurd has to put up with, and also a chance to write some kind of a letter.
I guess you have received those post cards, (that speaks of the drill we were to be checked up on this morning,) by this time and I want to say that as far as I can make out, (I dont thing I was looking crooked either) we got a very good mark. It is half past one A.M. now, and I turn in for a nap at two thirty, so you see I am both writing a letter and keeping awake in doing so. (You know that saying Hay while the moon is bright) I hope it is as cool there tonight as it is here, but I hope you can use it for more sleep than I am to get. Cheer up, we are off tomorrow afternoon and night. May be.
I wish you, Pa, and Em could see me writing this letter. Here I am sitting on a roughly constructed chair, and a very roughly constructed d-e-s-k. I thought Id spell it out so that you would know I wasn't kidding. Well on this desk sits a lantern, that throws a very good light. Up in front of me lays my gaurd roster, special orders, sick report book, and a watch (oh no not mine). Out side of my two elbows, the for finger of my left hand, the tip end of this pencil, and my beautiful blue eyes, there is nothing else ornamenting it. Laying at my right is the officer of the gaurd (my right hand man you see. I have him pretty handy. If he saw this I would probably be put in the prissy tent where these poor fellows are waiting trial. It would put you in mind of Cival War days, I think if you were here now. Out side on both sides of the tents walk two sentinels. Every two hours the gaurd is changed. OH it's a gay life, as Harry Lauder would say in the wee small hours of the morning.
There is a faint dreary call of the sentinal on post #6, for the corporal of the gaurd, and as I write it, it is being repeated back through the chain of sentinals until now it has reached the man on #1 post and the corporal has started out to see what the matter is. Another prisoner for us to take care of, (this makes twenty. Trying to get into camp with out pass. We have to do it. Well this little event has past, my time to turn in is here and I will simply put this in an envelope and mail it in the morning, (that is when I wake up, for it is half past two now.
I am sending 25 days pay home, for I know if I keep it (well I won't that's all. Indorse it on the back just as it is made out, as Helena Avery.
Dear Em.
You may talk about it being hot, but beleive me it is some hot here today. After the last two days of pretty cool weather we feel this hot spell. The sun just beats down and seems to burn up every thing. I guess the rainy season is over, and a few drops of rain wouldnt hurt anything right now. Remember, Im not wishing for it to rain, for it can't do any thing down here unless it is over done.
Did Lena get my letter? I cant figure out now how I did it.
© Copyright 2008 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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I am a blogger, y'ulz.
Kinda realised it for real
When I got Thando's request 2 'blog as a contributor'
When I got RTed 100+ times in one day
When I got a bunch of free stuff from Citi Golf / Woman's Health / Nomu
But it really hit home when some small-time "designer"
Insulted me in the open on a friend's facebook page
Because I wasn't a person 2 him
2 him, I was a "subject"
"somefing 2 gtalk about while waiting 4 illustrator 2 render pattern-heavy-repetitive designs"
(even tho I know his wife, & that they had 2 get married 2 have sex, via extreme Christianity)
I am no longer a person y'ulz
"Sad face"
I am a blogger y'alls
In the beginning, was just me & wordpress
Just wanted 2 'write outside of work"
Just wanted 2 develop a discipline I could apply 2 my "novel-in-progress"
Just wanted 2 make others out there "feel less alone"
While copychecking financial reports / advertorials / pushing a 2cent coin around the gaps in the Checkers spreads
Just wanted 2 pay homage 2 "god" (via blog-god hipsterrunoff)
But "life finds a way" (miss u John Hammond. Miss u Jurassic Park)
And even though my blog was cre8ed a female
It changed sex and mated with itself 2 create "a life of its own".
Shazam y'uls. Just like that.
I am a blogger, y'alls.
Just wanted 2 reach ppl via "speaking their own language"
Just wanted 2 cre8 an efficient self-marketing tool
(That wasn't a cruddy bunch of layouts in a big heavy leatherbound portfoliobro)
Instead, cre8ed a monster munch of a non-personality
4 ppl 2 judge me on b4 they meet me
or LOL at if they have already met me
or stalk if they have met me, romanced me, gone Britney on me & been rejected by me
Miss the days b4 ppl recognised me in Gardens Centre
Miss the days when I could share my "innermost thoughts" without being misquoted by myself (via being "a different character at the time")
I am a blogger
Had such big dreams y'all.
Was going 2 'become a writer' 2 'honour my cre8ive spirit'
Not sure how it "all went so pear-shaped"
Can't figure out "Where I went wrong"
Thinking of doing "The Artists Way" to reconnect with my soul (miss u soul)
Hope I can some day "find my way back home" y'ulz.
In the meantime, I can haz a favour?
Pray 4 me. 4 eva. And checkmyblogeverydaysomyhitrategoesupsoicanchargemoreforads kthanksbye.
Peace y'ulz.
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Braised beef with bacon and mushrooms
We all have our favourite stewing steaks, and while I usually favour blade, for this recipe I think topside is best. A casserole is a hearty dish perfect for cool nights, and one that's easily extended if more arrive at the table than you expected. You can always mix in a can of drained cannellini beans or add extra vegetables.
|50 g
|1½ kgs
|Topside beef, or stewing steak, cut into 5cm cubes
|2 Tbsp
|Olive oil
|Onions, peeled and sliced into rings
|6 cloves
|150 g
|Bacon strips, cut into lardons
|250 g
|Button mushrooms
|Bay leaves
|2 Tbsp
|Fresh rosemary, finely chopped
|400 g
|Whole peeled tomatoes, in juice
|2 Tbsp
|Red wine vinegar
|1 tsp
|3 Tbsp
|Tomato paste
|½ cup
|Red wine
|2 cups
|Beef stock
- Preheat oven to 150C. In a heavy-base deep casserole dish or saucepan, melt the butter and brown the meat. Remove the meat and set aside.
- Add the oil and gently cook the onions, garlic and bacon and then add the mushrooms.
- Return the meat, with the herbs and season with salt and pepper. Mix well and fry for a further minute.
- Add tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, tomato paste, wine and beef stock. Stir well, then bring to the boil.
- Cook in oven for 2½ hours until meat is tender. Transfer to stove-top and remove lid. Simmer until thickened, or if need be, thicken with a little flour mixed with cooled casserole liquid. Serve with mashed potatoes and steamed greens.


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The Central Connecticut women's lacrosse team fell to Monmouth, 12-7, on Thursday afternoon. The Blue Devils (5-5, 3-1 NEC) outpaced the Hawks (4-9, 3-2 NEC) by a 6-4 score in the second half, but the comeback fell short. Senior Cara Momnie scored a pair of goals for the Blue Devil offense.
Junior Betsy Vendel got the Blue Devils on the board with an unassisted goal at the 10:52 mark in the first period. The score allowed the Blue Devils to go into the half trailing, 8-1.
Central scored two quick goals to start the second half. Junior Meaghan McCurry scored off a pass from freshman Jessica Sudock. Momnie followed with a free position goal that cut the deficit to 8-3.
A goal by Monmouth's Kaleigh Gibbons interrupted Central's run before the Blue Devils posted another pair of scores.
Momnie scored her second goal of the game on a free position shot and seniors Ashley Mara and Ashley Perkoski teamed up to put a shot past Monmouth's goalkeeper. The goal was Mara's 12th of the season.
Monmouth increased its lead to 11-5, but Perkoski was able to put in a pair of goals in the final five minutes to give the Blue Devils seven for the game.
Senior goalkeeper Erin DeLancey falls to 5-5 on the season, despite stopping 12 of 24 shots on goal in the game.
Junior Cierra Ward caused two turnovers and picked up a pair of ground balls to help the Central defense.
Perkoski led Central with three points in the game. Vendel contributed six draw controls to go along with her goal. The Blue Devils controlled 10 of 19 draws in the game.
The Blue Devils return to action on Saturday at Mount St. Mary's. That game will begin at 1 p.m.


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As we covered earlier today, Jack Messman, CEO of Novell kicked off LinuxWorld 2005 with the announcement of Novell's Hula project. Messman mentioned that Novell has been focusing on security, ISV certifications, and intellectual property indemnification. According to his figures, 53 percent of all CIOs see Linux as becoming the dominant technology within the next few years, and there are currently 10 million Linux desktops worldwide. Messman concentrated on simplification, maximizing effectiveness of IT staff, and better cost containment. The buzzwords "flexibility" and "agility" seemed to be the focus of his speech.
The atmosphere here is decidedly corporate, with the .Org Pavilion representing open source projects from around the world. IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Sun, HP, AMD, and Intel have the strongest presence, with their respective partners filling in the gaps between the booths. We spent most of our time hovering around the .Org pavilion, where the hackers from all the companies sought refuge from the corporate veneer. Notable dot-org presences included KDE, the Gnome Foundation, Linux Terminal Server Project, Gentoo, Debian, X.org, and Mambo.
Nice rack!
Several products have been announced to coincide with LinuxWorld 2005. Red Hat unveiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, a long awaited upgrade to their enterprise line. The list of improvements to RHEL4 are substantial, though Newsforge seems to think otherwise. We think that SELinux, kernel 2.6 and the accompanying EAL4+ certification will go a long way towards getting Linux into large government projects.
In the past, we criticized the selection of products in the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards, and this year is much better. This year's awards feature some open source products, but still remain lopsided towards the more commercial products. On a more positive note, the winner of the Best Open Source Solution and Best of Show award was the free content management system Mambo. If you are not up to speed on Mambo, you should probably familiarize yourself with this fast-rising star in the Content Management System arena.
The non-commercial .Org Pavilion was packed most of the day. The KDE, GNOME, LTSP, Gentoo, X.org, and Fedora booths saw lots of activity, and it was fun to see attendees interacting with the hackers that make their software. We checked on the progress of Beagle, the desktop search engine from Novell, which is coming along nicely according to Robert Love and Joe Shaw. Unfortunately, no one working on iFolder was present, so we'll have to revisit that project in a future issue.
O'Reilly and Associates, long a familiar face at open source conventions, had a well stocked booth of their books, as well as issues of their new publication, Make Magazine, which is defined as a "mook", a magazine-book. Make's primary focus is encouraging technically-minded folk to make (get it?) the projects outlined in the mook. Think of it as a cookbook for everyday geek projects, a veritable source of geeky blueprints for all your solder-laden fantasies. The example project at the show (demo'ed by the company MakingThings) was a remote controlled car controlled by programmable integrated circuits (PICs) that the builder can put together in different combinations to make the car do certain tasks.
O'Reilly's new Make Magazine
If you wanted to get started on certifications, The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is offering free tests for the LPI 101 exam at the expo this year. If you're unfamiliar with the LPI, it is a distribution-agnostic certification program that is available around the world. LPI has been administering a junior and senior level certifications since 1999. The 301 courses (which are still unavailable) will branch out in a more modular approach and specifically target certain areas of expertise.
It is obvious who is serious and who is just coming along for the ride. Novell inexplicably featured a short video testimony from ATI during their keynote, where they proclaimed how important Linux was to their business. Let's hope ATI gets around to actually supporting their Linux customers instead of wasting our time with meaningless rhetoric. (OK, that's kinda mean but we just call 'em like we see 'em.)
Havoc Pennington (GNOME) and Lars Knoll (KDE)
Overall, day one has seen some great things. Although the show is decidedly corporate, the strength of the .Org Pavilion proves that Linux and Open Source are still all about the volunteers that brought these projects into the mainstream in the first place. People that formerly were here on a volunteer basis are still here, just wearing cleaner clothes and getting paid to work on the same thing they did before. Regardless of the marketplace, watching hackers from different companies and projects collaborating to further open platforms and standards is pretty fscking sweet.


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Lima Bath (14-0-0, 8-0-0) is at Ottawa-Glandorf (12-1-1, 7-0-1) at 7p tonight for title-deciding match.
*Both are ranked #10 in their respective state polls. Bath is D2, while OG is D3.
Liberty Benton (10/8 at Cory-Rawson, 5p) and Upper Sandusky (no matches remaining) are currently tied atop the league with 19 points, while Van Buren (10/8 v Riverdale, 5p) sits with 17 points.
Kalida (10-2-2, 3-0-0) is at Continental (9-4-1, 3-0-0) at 5p today for outright title match.
So if you're free tonight around Putnam County this evening, you could watch the PCL title game at 5p, then take the 20min trip down SH15 to watch the WBL title game at 7p.
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First-year coach Nate Price will build the defending Michigan
Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) champions around five
returning letterwinners.
Familiar with the Hope scene as head tennis professional of the
college's DeWitt Tennis Center, Price is filling the position created
by the death from cancer of longtime coach Karen Page in July, 2009.
He will be assisted by 2009 Hope graduate Samantha Stille who was the
conference MVP last spring.
The 2009 Flying Dutch won the MIAA championship for the first time in
a decade posting a perfect 8-0 dual match and 3-0 conference
tournament mark. They posted an overall 20-6 dual match record,
including a string of 15 consecutive victories, and advanced to the
second round of the NCAA Division III championships.
The returnees include three-time senior letterwinners Marissa Kooyers
of Holland (Holland Christian HS), team captain Elizabeth Olson of
Ankeny, Iowa (Ankeny HS), and Danielle Werley of Holland (Holland HS).
Returning junior letterwinners are Katherine Garcia of Battle Creek
(Battle Creek Central HS) and Nicole Spagnuolo of Okemos (Okemos HS).
Garcia and Spagnuolo received All-MIAA second team honors last spring.
Each won 15 singles matches as sophomores and combined at second
flight doubles to record 23 wins including two victories at the NCAA
A season highlight will be hosting the MIAA championship tournament on
April 30-May 1.


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The fifth entry in the gonzo racing series, Burnout Paradise gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. Gone is the need to jump in and out of menus and aimlessly search for fun like many open world games; in Burnout Paradise, every inch of the world is built to deliver heart-stopping Burnout-style gameplay. Every intersection is a potential crash junction and every alleyway is an opportunity to rack up moving violations.
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is a special edition release that includes all the gameplay of the award-winning Burnout Paradise game plus the previously-released Burnout Paradise Cagney and Burnout Paradise Bikes content updates, and the brand new Burnout Paradise Party content. Burnout Paradise Party is an offline multiplayer mode designed to allow up to eight friends to "pass-the-pad" in dozens of Burnout challenges.
- Explore Paradise - From big-surf beach, to downtown gridlock, there's over 30 square kilometers of the ultimate driving playground to explore from the get-go. Nothing is blocked off.
- Burnout Your Way - Just pull up to over 120 stoplights and spin your wheels to start one of five different events - the classic Race, Road Rage and Burning Route, and the all-new Stunt Run and Marked Man games.
- Instant Online - Burnout Paradise sets the new standard in online social gameplay. See your friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game.
- Team up or Takedown - Join forces with up to seven of your buddies to beat hundreds of online FreeBurn Challenges together or heat up the competition and go head-to-head in user created race routes.
- Road Rules - Make and break the rules of each road by setting speed and destruction records all over town. Track how many you own against your friends!
- Mugshots - Track the length and breadth of up to 2,500 online rivalries. In your moments of victory, grab mugshots of opponents who have connected a PlayStation Eye camera. Gloat over them even more in your trophy room or export them for ultimate bragging rights!
- Speed, Speed and Even More Speed - The rebuilt, race-tuned Burnout game engine delivers intense speed boost gameplay at a super-smooth and super-fast 60 frames-per-second.
- Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time - Feel like bringing chaos to the streets of Paradise? Send your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake.
- Crash Deformation - Burnout Paradise features an all-new deformation technology that gives players an astounding close-up and slow-motion view of super-real destruction.
- Cars - Muscle cars, exotics, hot rods and even supercharged SUVs, engineered to look beautiful whether they're brand new or mashed into scrap. Choose from stunt, speed or aggression car classes, each built with their own unique boost ability to give you the upper hand for specific challenges. Shut down roaming rivals and rack up wins on your license to strut the streets in a wide selection of unique rides.
- Take it Aerial - Go airborne and pull boost-earning barrel rolls and spectacular mid-air spins. Find the hidden jumps to reach secret rooftop routes and 120 smashable Burnout Billboards.
- Driver's License - Start with a Learner's Permit then rack up wins to progress all the way up to a Burnout Elite Driver's License - the ultimate accolade for any safety-unconscious motorist.
- Burnout Paradise Party brings the social fun of Burnout Paradise into an offline environment where friends can pass the pad to play competitively. There are dozens of quick-fire, turn-based challenges where players compete in different stunt, speed and skill events.
- Features a new restart option added for racing.
- Easier control of the early vehicles.
- Packs in the Burnout Paradise Cagney and Burnout™ Paradise Bikes content updates
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text: by Dale Gavlak The run-down streets of the Baqa'a camp may be buzzing with activity, but the mood among its residents is somber. Khalid Arar, a lawyer in the camp, said he and others fear Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to gain full membership status for Palestine at the United Nations will leave them stranded. "The Palestinian issue involves refugees," Arar said. "This is a refugee camp. What is the fate of refugees in the camps? What's our fate? Will we return to Palestine if a state is established on what remains of the West Bank? Are we going to return to Palestine? I don't think so. This is not a solution. We won't accept anything that doesn't include the right of return for the refugees to their homeland." The largest host of Palestinian refugees and their dependents, Jordan has 2 million seeking shelter inside its borders. That's 40,000 more refugees than in the West Bank and Gaza. For these refugees, the right of return means their right to go back to land or property they were forced to leave decades ago in what is now Israel or the Palestinian territories. This has long been a sticking point for Mideast peace negotiators. And residents here don't see that changing with u-n membership for Palestine. Ismail Quteit is an employee at the camp's orphanage. "The UN initiative doesn't give Palestinians their full rights," he complained, "and a UN-recognized state would cover just a fraction of the land that used to be Palestine. Quteit said he's also worried about who would represent refugees stuck outside the new state. Another resident, a social worker named Fadi Abid, said Palestinian refugees feel let down by the world community. They see assistance given to Libya and other Arab countries undergoing major changes with moves toward freedom and perhaps even democracy. But the Palestinian refugees, he noted, have been caught in a holding pattern for more than 50 years. "We're frustrated by the biased attitude towards us in the world," Abid said. "The UN helps refugees from other conflicts return home, but not Palestinian refugees. Now, I'm very afraid of this announcement. I don't trust there will be an independent sovereign Palestinian state. The declaration at the UN would be very dangerous because I feel at that moment my rights as a Palestinian refugee would collapse." That's not necessarily so, said Daoud Kuttab. He's a columnist here in Jordan and a former journalism professor at Princeton University. Kuttab said the status of Palestinian refugees is not affected by the membership bid at the UN. "Their own status as refugees is to be dealt with in negotiations or as part of an agreement with the United Nations organization about who would stay, who would go, who would go to a third country, who would get Palestinian passports, who will be integrated in the countries they are in. These are issues that have to be dealt with at a later stage," Kuttab said. When that is, remains as uncertain as ever. And Palestinians say that's not good news for the refugees who've already been waiting for a solution for decades.


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Official race time:27 hours 33 minutes.
Race day was nice and cool. It had been stormy and windy on Friday, but the weather forecast was spot on for the race and everything was in place. In fact, everything was in place for this entire race for me. I truly had a great race.
I had my goals for the race: hit the 50 mile mark in 12 hours. Finish around 28 hours.
First loop is the most fun.Most of us went out fast, invigorated by the cool weather and seeing old friends. There is an out and back, called the airport spur, where you see everyone ahead of you. Lots of laughter and greetings as you see folks you may not have seen in months or since last year.
As I approached the Aid Station at mile 6.9, I glanced at my watch. One of my goals was a fast in and out of AS.Folks have pointed out to me that I waste time in AS. That was something I wanted to improve upon. Fill up of the water bottle, quick glance over the food, eat a banana part, grab a PB bagel piece and out! 1 minute! Woohoo!
First few loops uneventful, I ran them in around three hours. I did notice when I did make another stop at AS to apply more sunscreen and grab a hamburger-seven minutes there-whee! Does AS time go by faster or what?
It was warming up, and for a "Yankee" a bit on the warm side. I was really hoping it wouldn't get all that warm out, not like the high 70's like in 2007. I was managing my drinking and eating well. I discovered soup at both AS and I switched to that-easier and quick to get the calories into the stomach. I did supplement that on the loops with whatever I had in my waist bag-ClifBlock shots, jelly beans, Pay Day bars.
Going through loop 4 was fun. We were going to hit the 50 mile mark, where some runner's races were finished and the rest of us were just beginning the countdown. I spent some time running with both a Jim and a Jimmie through here, but I ran my own race. When someone slowed down or sped up, I just kept going.
Heading into the AS for the 50 mile, I had many things to do. Drop off the visor and camera, pick up the headlamp, swap drug bags, pick up the Garmin. I was very happy to see Gombu, Bob Combs, the president of NEO Trails Club, running toward me. He told me Moose was 36 minutes in front of me. He said he'd run into the HQ AS and help me before he caught up with Moose out on the trail. So that helped cut down some time, especially with him dogging me as I downed more soup.
Bob stayed with me on the airport spur, catching me up on the Barkley. A lucky coincidence, my pacer, Steve Leopard, was just parking his bike at the turnaround-I didn't even have to call my pacer, he just majically showed up! Bob, Steve, and I ran for a bit together, then Bob split off to rejoin the Moose. Bob said he thought I might be able to catch the Moose by the end of the race.
Steve was my original pacer on my newby 100 Umstead, and he commented that I had improved. In fact, he'd been out earlier on his mountain bike looking for me, and wasn't able to find me until he parked by the HQ and just waited. This is a pic Steve snapped of Tammy and myself. Tammy and I have pretty close to the same pace, and ran a bunch of this race together.
It was really great to have Steve with me. We were able to catch up with each other's lives. Steve has been doing Crossfit and it's really helped increase his strength and subsequently his running has benefited from this also. Steve paced me in for this loop. Mile 56.9 AS pic.
A great feature at Umstead is the pacer desk. They man a station at HQ where you can enquire if there is anyone to go out on a loop with you. Some of the local running clubs volunteer for this, and then there are the 'volunteer pacers'. I picked up Dan, who was fired up to get out and run, since his runner had dropped from the race for medical reasons. Dan was an excellent pacer; an Ironman and exercise enthusiast, he made this loop almost effortless. In fact, I didn't even notice we had walked up the long hill where you make the turnoff to Grayland Trail-now that's some good pacing!!
Becky was my next new friend, she was from Atlanta, and her friend had also dropped from the race, and she just wanted to get a few miles in. She was also a veteran runner and knew some of the same people I did, and entertained me with stories about running in the Atlanta area. She got me through that long night loop. I continued to eat and drink and caffeinate and actually started to look at my watch. I knew I wanted to be in the HQ AS by six am to have time to do make my 10 am goal. I was using the Garmin to keep my pace going, I would continue to glance at it to keep myself honest.
One area I had worked on over the winter, on the treadmill, was improving my walking pace. I had my pace down to around a 14 minute mile on the tread, which was great for me. Now, I know I wasn't doing a 14 minute out there, but I would try to keep it as quick as possible. It was a very focused walk, as many people would comment to me later. I would pass runners on the hill by just having a better walk going uphill.
I got into the HQ AS after 5 am. Becky went ahead to see if there was another pacer available, and there was, Donna! I got some more soup and was ready to head on out. This was the last lap. I was almost to the point of thinking to myself I was having the race of my short running career but held off. 12.5 miles is still a long way to go. Donna asked me if I had my splits worked out and I laughed, and said I just run. But I did tell her I had my Garmin to help keep the race. Somewhere along the way I did tell her I wanted to run in before 10am.
This was actually the coldest part of the day. It may have been in the forties. I had actually put a short sleeve shirt on 12 miles earlier, and I had thought of adding my gloves. But my hands were just cold and uncomfortable, just like a run at home in the wintertime.
Oh, I haven't mentioned my blisters yet! Right after I left the AS on lap four, I felt the blister which had formed on my right heel callus burst. Boy that hurt. And I was only about 100 feet out of the AS. But I was not turning around, the idea was to go forward. So I stuffed some lambswool around it, and was able to run. I told myself I would duct tape it at the next AS, but the pain had really dulled, so since it really didn't hurt any more I wasn't going to touch it.
Even though I had taped my feet, I could feel blisters form on the balls of my feet, right up by my toes. I always get these. And since I had already taped my feet, what else could I do? I just ran on. I could feel them pop; they did hurt, but nowhere near as bad as 2007. (more on the blisters in the next post.)
Donna and I got to AS # 2 for the very last time, drank some soup and coffee, thanked everyone and started off. For some odd reason, I thought I only had 3 miles to go, so I was a bit startled when Donna said "mile 7, only five left"! Gah. Well, I had been up for 24 hours plus at this time. The Garmin also died around here, so I packed it into the drop bag and continued on.
Now I was really looking at the watch. A sub 28 was definitely, unless something bad happened, in the works. I mentioned to Donna finally that my dream goal was a sub 28. I started to calculate at a 20 minute mile, always getting to the next mile before 20 minutes. We passed one guy. We chicked two more.We passed another runner on his phone. We spotted Kat ahead of us, whom I thought was behind me. Kat started to move faster. I wanted to catch Kat but she did have a good lead on me.
We turned on the gravel road to HQ. Kat was running ahead of me (I was walking briskly.) This made me smile,to see Kat staying ahead.
I ran down the bumpy gravelly hill. I hit the incline going to the finish. I even ran up that (well, it felt like running to me!!!!) I finished just behind Kat, and an offiical 27 hours 33 minutes!!!!


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Nothing is yet being implemented, but there's cause for hope that getting a tourist, student, or other nonimmigrant visa won't be as slow a process as it has been since 9/11, based on a recent Executive Order by President Obama. (The order is called "Establishing Visa and Foreign Visitor Processing Goals and the Task Force on Travel and Competitiveness" and was issued on January 19, 2012.)
A lot of the order simply tells the relevant federal government agencies to come up with a plan, but it does contain some specific instructions to:
- increase nonimmigrant visa processing capacity in China and Brazil by 40% over the coming year
- ensure that 80% of nonimmigrant visa applicants are interviewed within three weeks of receipt of application, while still taking resource and security considerations into account
- increase efforts to expand the Visa Waiver Program and travel by nationals of Visa Waiver Program participants, and
- expand reciprocal recognition programs for expedited travel, such as the Global Entry program.
If it leads to real change, this will be good news for Chinese and Brazilian citizens in particular, who have faced waits of up to three months just to get a visa appointment.
But the Economist is doubtful whether the needed resources will truly be allocated in this direction, as described in its article, "Obama moves to simplify visa process."


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Catholic Colleges' 2013 Commencement Speakers
Highlights and Concerns From Graduations Across the Country
For graduation ceremonies, the outlook was a bit brighter than in recent years, as many Catholic colleges and universities chose as commencement speakers high-profile Catholics who are exemplars of the faith.
Among them are Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.; Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston at Regis College in Weston, Mass.; Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.; Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md.; Colleen Carroll Campbell at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio; and George Weigel at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen in Warner, N.H.
In comparison to previous years, this year there are fewer speakers who are problematic.
"Any scandal is extremely troubling," said Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, "but thus far, the trend is very exciting. It appears that we have more cardinals and bishops speaking at commencements than we have scandals and other issues. That's outstanding."
Yet he does note that out of 200-plus Catholic colleges, it is still a small percentage, as compared to the speakers who are prominent businessmen and women or political leaders. The Cardinal Newman Society keeps tabs on which colleges promote an authentic Catholic identity.
Reilly said Notre Dame's leadership deserves as much praise for inviting Cardinal Dolan as criticism for honoring President Barack Obama in 2009. "This is precisely what a leading Catholic university ought to be doing," said Reilly, who was also excited to see Archbishop Lori speak at Mount St. Mary's.
"It would be appropriate if every Catholic institution would honor these leaders, especially in this year, for what they are doing for the Church universally. If not for fighting as hard as they are, the hope for a resolution to the HHS [Health and Human Services] mandate would be far less."
Cardinal Dolan, who serves as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke at Notre Dame's 168th commencement on May 19.
On Pentecost Sunday, Cardinal Dolan focused his address on what a Jewish alumnus told him was the "secret of Notre Dame": the Mother of Jesus, Our Lady — Notre Dame (whom the Jewish people call Miriam).
As a new "classmate" with his honorary degree, the cardinal emphasized that "she's not just our patroness, but our model. It all comes down to this: She — Miriam, Mary, Notre Dame, Our Lady — humbly, selflessly, generously, with trust, placed her life in God's hands, allowing her life to unfold according to his plan."
Cardinal Dolan said the university challenges everyone to reply, "Fiat! Yes!" as Our Lady did. "Here, our goal is not just a career, but a call; not just a degree, but discipleship; not just what we've gotten, but what we're giving; not just the now, but eternity; not just the 'I,' but the 'we'; not just the grades, but the Gospel."
Counseled Cardinal Dolan, Our Lady reminds us that "we're happiest when our plans are consonant with his (God's)."
"There, indeed, was the secret of Notre Dame — not something, but someone: Our Lady, who gave the Divine a human nature and invites us, equipped, please God, with what she's given us here to do the same," he concluded.
On Sunday May 12, Archbishop Lori, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty for the USCCB, delivered the commencement address at Mount St. Mary's.
In his commencement address, Archbishop Lori quoted a sentence from a writer in YouCat (the youth-focused Catechism) as the major message he wanted graduates to leave with: "Mastery of the moment is mastery over life."
He showed them how this plays out in every decision each day to build character through authentic virtue.
"If you want to know who you are and who you can become, know Jesus!" he said. "If you want to know what real virtue is, follow him!"
And he spoke of trusting the Blessed Virgin Mary, the patroness of the university.
"In every circumstance of her life, in every single moment," Archbishop Lori emphasized, "Mary chose what was good and true and beautiful — and conceived in her womb the Author of goodness, truth and beauty. … She knew better than anyone else that 'Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.'"
In Ohio, at Franciscan University of Steubenville's 65th commencement exercises on May 11, author, EWTN host and journalist Colleen Carroll Campbell addressed the graduate students, while R. James Nicholson, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, addressed the undergraduates.
Campbell, who will soon anchor EWTN's new nightly television newscast live from Washington, encouraged the graduates to "know how to say Yes when God calls you to scrap your plans and do the unexpected." She also urged them to avoid growing too comfortable in their plans, vocations, careers and more, so as not to get "stuck clinging to what God asked of us yesterday, and so find ourselves unable to heed his call on our lives today."
"Imagine what the world would have lost," she said, "had [St.] Francis gotten stuck on his original interpretation of God's call and failed to embrace the more radical mission the Lord had planned for him."
And Nicholson urged graduates to persevere in faith: "When the going gets tough, and it will on occasion, resort to prayer. God doesn't want you to fail."
He reminded them of Jesus' words — that his yoke is easy, and his burden is light — and said that, through the power of prayer, he both survived Vietnam and found his wife of 46 years.
Noting the graduates are at a time when freedoms of religion and conscience and the sanctity of marriage are threatened, he said, "therein lies your mandate and your opportunity" to reverse the downward spiral of culture.
But not all commencements were so faith-enriching.
"On the other hand, you have the choice of Boston College," Reilly pointed out. "It's really more scandalous than the honors to our American president at Notre Dame [in 2009]."
Boston College, a Catholic and Jesuit institution, honored Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who delivered the May 20 commencement address.
"The Prime Minister Enda Kenny is very actively trying to legalize abortion in Ireland and has even threatened to imprison priests if they do not break the seal of the confessional," noted Reilly. "He is not simply a man unfriendly to Catholics, but an enemy of the Church."
In fact, Cardinal O'Malley announced his decision to boycott the event. Boston archbishops traditionally deliver the Benediction at Boston College's commencement.
"Since the university has not withdrawn the invitation, and because the (prime minister) has not seen fit to decline, I shall not attend the graduation," Cardinal O'Malley said in a news release. "It is my ardent hope that Boston College will work to redress the confusion, disappointment and harm caused by not adhering to the bishops' directives." He referred to the USCCB's instruction that Catholic institutions must not honor those whose views conflict with Church teachings.
While he did not attend that commencement, Cardinal O'Malley gave the commencement address at Regis College on May 11.
Citing the need to bring the Gospel to contemporary society, Cardinal O'Malley told graduates, "Our task is to turn consumers into disciples and disciple-makers."
Using vivid examples and stories from Blessed John Paul II and Benedict XVI and others, he said that Catholic education must offer "training in a way of life which is increasingly alien in the secular world, where our concern about unborn children or the sacredness of marriage makes us appear quaint and even nettlesome."
He added, "We must also break the bad habit of presenting the Church in such a way that people are deceived into thinking that they can be Christians and remain strangers. The privatization of religion in today's climate of New Age individualism is anathema to the Gospel message of community, of connectedness in the body of Christ."
Concluded Cardinal O'Malley, "Our hope is that today's graduates will discover more deeply the radical sense of our vocation to live the social Gospel, to put others first and seek the last place, to be close to Jesus, who came to serve and not to be served. Love and justice must motivate us to work for a transformation of our own heart, so that we can transform the world around us."
Meanwhile, a problem surfaced at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, the same day, with commencement speaker Maria Otero, former undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights at the Department of State under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Cardinal Newman Society reported that Otero was a leader promoting access to reproductive services, including contraception and abortion, even before her work with the current administration, including being a member of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health.
Reilly also pointed out a few other problematic situations, among them the University of San Francisco, which "has been clearly compromised on the issue of homosexuality," he said. "This comes up repeatedly."
The choice of Barbara Garcia, San Francisco's public-health director, as one of the commencement speakers, "who pushed through funding for sex-change operations, is part of the ongoing scandal at the university," said Reilly.
On the other hand, down the California coast, on May 11, at Thomas Aquinas College, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo addressed the largest graduating class in the college's history.
During his address, the cardinal told the graduates to be confident in their faith: "Don't water down Catholic doctrine.
"The culture needs correctives, but also positive enrichment of the kind of thinking you learned — to bring it into the public square in your jobs or occupations, whatever it may be."
He also referred to Pope Benedict XVI's emphasis on beauty to transform culture. Catholics need to "go through the beautiful," Cardinal DiNardo said. "It may be the beautiful that will transform things — because the true and the good are not being picked up by lots of people."
Looking eastward, on May 4, Wyoming Catholic College hosted commencement speaker Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, Okla.
And on May 18, the University of St. Thomas in Houston welcomed Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and founder and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and a former member of the President's Council on Bioethics, to give its commencement address.
Across the nation, truth was a popular theme.
On the East Coast, Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., welcomed Archbishop Charles Brown, the apostolic nuncio to Ireland, to address the Class of 2013 for commencement on May 11.
"You enter a world which, more than ever, is drifting aimlessly on a sea of relativism, while at the same time is being convulsed with spasms of anger directed at traditional moral values," Archbishop Brown told graduates. "In such a world that you enter into as college graduates, what is the gaudier — the joy — that a Catholic carries in his or her heart? What is the spes — the hope — that this gaudium can bring to the anguish of our contemporary world? And I would propose something very simple and foundational — something that your education at Christendom College has reinforced, nurtured and explored: truth."
As Archbishop Brown explained, "Truth exists. … And that truth and the search for truth is worth everything. … By loving the truth and living the truth, you will have an effect on everyone you come in contact with."
Truth was also discussed at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen's May 4 ceremony, which welcomed George Weigel as its commencement speaker. Weigel — whose latest book is Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church — is distinguished senior fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Weigel focused on the importance of living what is true, good and beautiful, especially as an exemplar to the challenges of today's world — "the challenges posed by the erosion of Western culture and its slackening grasp on the true, the good and the beautiful," he told graduates.
Weigel told them their role now is what history and Providence is casting them into.
He called this "the role of being the lead generation in an evangelical Catholicism that is a culture-reforming counterculture." That means, he said, to "live in the truth."
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Ah, the Apple iPad, that 10.1-inch window on the future, the multipurpose, multitasking slab left behind by some visiting alien race to make all our lives better. Starting at $499 and boasting a gorgeous touch-screen, this premiere tablet is creeping up against the established high-end, custom-installed remote control brands that require professional integrators to set up. However, the iPad faces certain design realities that limit its out-of-the-box readiness as a consumer electronics controller. (Note that all of our comments herein are applicable to both the original iPad and the newer iPads.)
The iPad communicates with other devices one of two ways: It connects to the internet via Wi-Fi, supporting the fastest, state-of-the-art 802.11n version. Bluetooth is the second flavor of wireless inside the iPad, typically used for connecting accessories such as earpieces or keyboards or even a compact speaker systems. In my experience, Bluetooth range is a robust 30-35 feet and does not require a direct line of sight between linked devices.
Now, most of the remotes currently littering your coffee table use infrared (IR) signals to send their commands to the television or Blu-ray player, etc. It's an older technology which requires line-of-sight between the remote control and the component's IR receiver. And, IR is not supported by the iPad (some Android tablets do feature built-in IR). However, if we search The App Store via the iPad itself using the term "tv remote," we will see a variety of paid applications from a host of independent publishers to help us bridge the gap. Some offer to replace the remote control that came with your Mac computer or Apple TV. Some require the addition of a dongle that attaches to the iPad, a physical plug in that is operated by the user and the iPad to control the TV, or any other supported device via IR commands that are generated on-the-fly. Such an adapter (sold separately of course) is mandatory if we want to fit our rectangular iPad into the dodecahedronal world of IR.
The alternative method of control takes advantage of the iPad's aforementioned Wi-Fi prowess, particularly useful in the age of the Internet-ready TV. Wi-Fi-based control applications use the iPad to access our wireless home network. The local network receives the commands that we input on the touch-screen and sends them out in turn to the connected television, wired or wirelessly. Some TV manufacturers require the use of their own proprietary apps in order to operate their specific televisions, but all of those that we found - for the Samsung, LG and Panasonic brands, some exclusive to the iPad - were free, which makes perfect sense: You already paid a pretty penny for the latest in high-tech IPTVs, they want you to make the most of it, say "wow" a lot, and brag about it to your friends.
Service providers such as DISH Network, DirecTV and others as well as stalwart TiVo also offer their own free custom apps that allow us to access their set-top boxes in a variety of newfangled ways, even managing our content, scheduling new recordings and watching live TV from anywhere in the world. There are also paid third-party applications in The App Store that allow us to control a vast array of home theater components, assuming that they too are somehow internet-connected.
Taking the iPad control concept a step further, to uses such as Blu-ray playback, Deluxe Digital Studios offers the free pocket BLU app, supported by a long list of Universal Blu-ray discs with a few Fox titles as well. Included among its many features is an enhanced remote control which utilizes two-way communication to deliver a custom interface optimized for the large tablet screen, bringing an instant-access video timeline for that disc as well as a virtual QWERTY keyboard to expedite data entry. Discs from Universal, Sony and Disney also enable some variant of a "second screen" function that displays relevant, synchronized content on the iPad during a small-but-growing collection of movies, much like picture-in-picture (Bonus View) but without obscuring the movie itself in any way. In actuality, second screen programs are sizable downloads to the iPad performed before we press Play, but the experience is all but seamless.
Or course, now that we are using the iPad as the remote control of our Buck Rogers dreams, we run the risk of it sprouting legs and disappearing just like remote controls of yore. Wonder if there's a LoJack app for that…. Click on "view this slideshow" in the blue bar to see each product.
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At Mozilla, I'm responsible for brand strategy and services. This means that I work with the Firefox product and Mozilla program teams to craft the stories and experiences we want to share with the people. And I work with the brand engagement content strategy, creative, project management, web development and events teams to bring those stories and experiences to life through all sorts of different campaigns, projects and programs.
Prior to joining Mozilla, I worked for several years in brand consulting, and had the chance to partner with organizations like the Smithsonian, SFMOMA, Google and Target to help identify what makes them unique and relevant to their audiences, and then apply that strategic idea both internally to guide their culture and capabilities, and externally to influence their products, services and communications.
I've also worked for big retailers like Target and McDonald's where I learned that no matter how brilliant you think an idea is, what really matters is how it resonates with your customers, and how well it can come to life on the ground, every day, in real life.
All of these experiences have taught me to build brand and marketing strategies that are aspirational yet achievable, grounded in insights about what people need today and our foresight about what they might need in the future.
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DLW: Pasta Carbonara!
May is always a very busy month…and this one has been no exception. Two college graduations, a multitude of birthdays (including my own), leaving my 8 to 5'ish job, and having visitors – all of a sudden I cannot believe that it is almost June! Many meals have been light snacks or potlucks, happy hours or small bites late in the evening. We did manage to get this some-what homemade meal on the table a week or so ago…and it is one of my favorite quick dinners.
This particular evening, we used 1 package of fresh pasta (from the refrigerated section of the grocery store), half a package of bacon, 2 eggs and some grated parmesan cheese. First – cook the bacon using whatever method you like the best. When the bacon is close to being done, boil some water and salt it heavily. Cook the pasta according to the package directions and then drain it, but make sure to keep 1-2 cups of the cooking liquid. Meanwhile beat the eggs and season with salt and plenty of fresh cracked pepper I throw the pasta back into the pot (make sure the heat is off) and then add 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of the cooking liquid and stir a bit. Next you are going to slowly pour in the beaten eggs into the very warm pasta and the heat from the pasta helps cook the egg a bit and the starchy pasta water helps turn it into a delightful sauce. It will thicken quite a bit, so don't be shy with the pasta water. Sprinkle in the parmesan cheese and the crumbled bacon and top with some fresh chopped parsley or thinly sliced green onions and another hit of black pepper. Serve immediately.
Dinner is done!