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Craftsman 21'' 159cc OHV Craftsman Engine, My Stride Rear Drive Self-Propelled Lawn MowerItem# 07137591000 | Model# 12ABD32J799
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|Lawn Mower
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|Resin and steel
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|My Stride™ Pace Control System
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|Pull Start
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|1.25 - 3.75
|Disposal by Bagging:
|Yes - included
|Disposal by Rear Discharge:
|Yes - installed
|Disposal by Side Discharge:
|Yes - installed
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Product Description
Craftsman 21 in. Rear Drive Self-Propelled Lawn Mower Matches You Stride for Stride
The Craftsman 21 in. OHV engine lawn mower provides a comfortable experience by matching your natural stride, using the My Stride Pace Control System. As well as getting the perfect mowing speed, you also enjoy durable and long-lasting parts from the trusted Craftsman brand. The mower runs cooler and cleaner than competitors with an overhead valve system, too. In addition, the mower adjusts quickly and accurately with its single-lever deck height adjustment feature; there are six positions in total for the mower that start fast with auto choke.
The Craftsman 21 in. rear drive self-propelled lawn mower handles a range of terrain, too. When you're on uneven or bumpy land, the lawn mower's 11 in. high rear wheels easily handle the challenge. For hills, the 159cc engine provides the power easily to meet the challenge. You can even personalize the mower's height by simply pulling the 3-position handle, helping prevent you from straining your arms while you cut the grass. Speaking of grass, it will be cut cleanly and look amazing thanks to the built-in high-performance 21 in. Precision Plus cutting system. This quality lawn mower also comes with a two-year warranty.
- Craftsman 21 in. OHV engine with 159 cc provides strong, reliable power for moving over hills and other terrain
- Bumpy and uneven surfaces are a breeze to mow over with the 11 in. high rear wheels
- My Stride Pace Control System provides the perfect speed every time, moving at your natural stride for a comfortable experience
- Adjust deck height with single lever for added comfort; there are six positions
- Engine runs cool and clean, starting fast with auto choke
- High-performance 21 in. Precision Plus cutting system provides clean cuts
- 1.9 bushel Dust Blocker bag
- All adjustments are fast and accurate
- CARB compliant
- Durable and long-lasting Craftsman parts, with two-year warranty included
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My first new mower in 12 years, what a difference a decade makes. Easy to assemble, much lighter easy to start and quieter. Yes, the My Stride takes some getting used to and it's a little tricky on hills, but I can live with that. We'll see how it holds up from a durability perspective.
Houston, TX
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Just got mine, easy set up, just adjust the handle and assemble the grass catcher, fill it with oil and gas and you are on your way. I have a average size lot with full St, Augustine grass. I do not bag my clipping and was concern about the mulching ability. It handled the 4 inch grass blades without any problems. The performance was outstanding. The walk behind accelerator was easy to get use to after a few a laps. If your are considering a lawn mover? This one has all the bells and whistles with the exception of a key start at a great price.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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After reading the reviews decided on this model. My lawn has a gentle slope. Works great going up hill, has plenty of power in tall grass using the exhaust shout. Mulches well in the shorter grass. The rear wheel drive and large wheels make mowing a breeze.
Decatur, AL
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The "My Stride" function was nearly impossible to control when I first tried out this mower. The problem is that there is no resistance on the speed control bar when you go forward, so it jerks & stops, over & over. I fixed the problem by using a bungee cord attached to the pull-start bracket, running under the bottom handle and attached to the red speed control handle. Gives good resistance to pushing forward, and does not hinder stopping.
Whitehall, PA
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I had a craftsman mower for 13 years before I finally gave in a bought a new one. After the initial period of getting used to the way this My Stride mower handles, I would say it is the best mower I ever used. Cuts beautiful and inclines were no problem. I bought this in April and took it to the Sears repair shop in July only to find out it needs a new transmission and a gear case and a carburetor clean out... And on top of that, I won't get the mower back for almost 4 weeks! I did purchase an extended warranty, but this repair is covered under the original warranty. I have spoken to no less than 6 Sears/sears.com/sears repair center employees today only to find out that I will be stuck with a 3 month old "refurbished" My Stride mower. They will not replace the mower if they can fix it. I have never had a transmission go in any mower I have ever used. Obviously, this mower is a lemon. That being said, I am sure I will eventually get my money back from using my extended warranty over and over and over again the next 3 years if this is they way this all started. I am very disappointed in the way Sears is standing behind this product.
Minnetonka, MN
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I recently bought a Craftsmen "My Stride" mower. The handle was very comfortable, but as you mow, the handle (that controls speed) naturally moves back and forth a little, so the mower speeds up and slows down all the time. This happens on slightly rough terrain, hills, and around tight curves - extremely frustrating. The tendency to do this is almost impossible to avoid or correct for. Even if you could - you would be concentrating the whole time on the effort required to do so, as well as the effort to just mow the lawn - unacceptable in my mind. This seems to be an excellent mower, but when I returned it to Sears, even the salesman said that it really is only good on smooth flat lawns. So if you plan on using it to mow football fields, it should work great!
Midland, TX
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Reading, PA
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I purchased this mower about six weeks ago. I used to have a Toro Recycling with Pacesetter. I selected this mower because it had the My Stride feature and that it had a larger rear wheel (and rear drive). Something Toro does not offer with the Pacesetter. Overall, I had been somewhat satisfied, until yesterday. Up to yesterday, two things bothered me. The mower is not as smooth in the My Stride feature as the Toro. The mower often jerks forward rapidly when you really want it to just start off slowly, which is annoying in some tight cutting areas. The other annoying item I noticed is that the mower did not cut the grass evenly. I noticed this mostly in areas that I would cut on a curve, like around an oval flower bed. This problem might have been related to what happened yesterday. This was about the sixth or seventh time I used the mower. I started it up (it took several pulls, all the other times it started on pull one). As it ran, It sounded louder with a knocking sound. I wear ear plugs, so I couldn't tell what the noise was. I stopped the mower and checked the oil. It was fine. Restarted it and the noise was even louder. So, I stopped it right away. I backed it up onto my driveway to turn it over and as I backed it up, I saw that the mower blade had fallen off with the bolt and securing metal plate. Needless to say, I was fortunate that it didn't spin itself out from under the mower. I needed to sharpen the blade, as it was badly scored, and then I reattached the blade, as tightly as I could. Hope it was tight enough and much tighter than the factory job. I was lucky.
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I purchased at first a mower that was suppose to be ultra quiet and stronger then this one. It was horrible so I got this mower and it is very great! I mean this engine plows through any terrain like butter. Yes I am sure it has weaknesses, but I have not seen them yet. Also it always and I mean always starts with one pull. It uses very little gas. I have a customer with about a 20,000 sq ft property it might be more. I mowed the whole thing and it still had little gas left. Now some people do have difficulty with this mower running the drive. I will put on here a trick to make this mower so easy to use. If you place one hand on the drive you see you have another handle below which is the main handle bar. Place one hand on the drive and another on that bar. That will make things 100% easier for you. Once you get used to this mower it outperforms any I have used.
Charlton, MA
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Stock pick: ARM Holdings
The technology company looks like one of the winners from Apple's iPhone 5S
I'm still poking through the details of the iPhone 5S and 5C that Apple (AAPL) introduced on Tuesday, looking for winners and losers.
One of the biggest winners I've found so far is ARM Holdings (ARMH). Apple uses ARM's technology in the processors that run the iPhone. Until Tuesday's announcement, that meant the 32-bit technology in the A6 processor. But the iPhone 5S will use ARM's faster 64-bit technology in it's A7 processor. (Apple says the move to 64-bit technology will make the 5S twice as fast as the iPhone 5.)
Apple's move to 64-bit technology means ARM will gain more royalty revenue from Apple. UBS estimates that ARM's royalties from each iPhone will rise to 60 cents for the 5S from 50 cents for the iPhone 5.
But besides the 20% increase in royalty revenue from Apple, Apple's adoption of 64-bit technology will push other smartphone makers such as Samsung (SSNLF) to move to the faster 64-bit technology earlier than expected. And that should accelerate what was already looking like a big increase in royalty rates and EBIT margins for ARM Holdings that began in 2012.
Before Apple's announcement, Credit Suisse had projected blended royalty rates at ARM Holdings would climb to 2% by 2015 from 1.5% in 2012. That would drive EBIT margins to 56% in 2015 from 46% in 2012. Before Apple's introduction of the iPhone 5S, earnings looked likely to grow by an annual compounded 25% from 2012 to 2017, according to Credit Suisse.
Shares of ARM Holdings always look expensive because of the company's business model, and that's certainly true right now. At the Wednesday close, the shares traded at 49.3 times projected 2013 earnings per share. But I don't think you can apply normal PE ratio parameters to a company that makes its revenue from collecting royalties on technology it licenses to other chip makers, rather than from making and selling chips itself. That results in an extraordinary portion of revenue turning into profit. In 2012, for example, ARM Holdings saw revenue of 577 million pounds and pre-tax adjusted profit of 279 million pounds.
I think the near-term upside on these shares is at least 20% even after Wednesday's bump on the news that Apple has moved to 64-bit technology in the iPhone 5S.
Full disclosure: I don't own shares of any of the companies mentioned in this post in my personal portfolio. When in 2010 I started the mutual fund I manage, Jubak Global Equity Fund, I liquidated all my individual stock holdings and put the money into the fund. The fund did own shares of Apple as of the end of June. For a complete list of the fund's holdings as of the end of June see the fund's portfolio.
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We look back at Norwich and ahead to West Brom.
Ahead of the first home match against West Brom on Saturday, we have produced a new podcast rounding up this week's Blues news.
From post-match thoughts on last Saturday's opening 2-2 draw away at Norwich, to the rejected bids for two players and the Under-21s' narrow defeat against West Ham, the podcast is packed full of interviews and reaction.
Ross Barkley, Roberto Martinez and assistant boss Graeme Jones all feature, while Seamus Coleman looks ahead to the visit of the Baggies.
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Thomas L. Millner '76
Thomas L. Millner '76, president and CEO of Cabelas, Inc., presented "Curiosity
and the Cat: Lessons from the Corporate Jungle" to students, faculty and alumni
on Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
Millner, who has had a long and successful career in corporate leadership, told
the audience, "You all know the story: Curiosity always gets the cat in trouble.
I submit to you that a key component of success in the corporate world and happiness
in life in the broader sense comes from insatiable intellectual curiosity."
Millner shared with the audience tips for success. "Many factors contribute to success,
not the least of which is luck," he said. "Some of the others include work ethic,
respect for individuals, tenacity, brains, fearlessness, passion and a solid ethical
In closing his presentation, Millner addressed R-MC students, advising them to have
fun, work hard and never stop learning. "Most importantly, let this great college
ignite your flame of curiosity," he said. "I guarantee it will take you as far in
your life as you want to go...maybe even beyond your wildest dreams."
Before his appointment to the helm of Cabelas, Millner was the chief executive officer
of Remington Arms Company, Inc., a leading manufacturer of recreational firearms
and ammunition, from 1999 to 2009, and was a director of Remington from 1994 to
2009. From 2008 to 2009, Millner also served as chief executive officer of Freedom
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If you ever see me freeze in public, I'm probably trying to figure out what song is playing
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Australian cast of The Lion King sings on a plane. Because actors are nerds no matter where they are.
Are tears what you wanted because that was fucking beautiful.
whenever i have those brutal searing being-dissolved-from-inside period cramps during school or work i pretend i am a viking warlord who has been stabbed in the abdomen but i killed the assailant so i'm the only one who knows im injured and i have to carry on normally til the end of the battle to keep up my mens morale
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Tuscaloosa, AL (SportsNetwork.com) - Trevor Releford pumped in a game-high 24 points as the Alabama Crimson Tide completed an 83-58 rout of the Arkansas Razorbacks in a Southeastern Conference tilt at Coleman Coliseum.
Shannon Hale added 18 points for the Crimson Tide (13-18, 7-10 SEC) and Levi Randolph contributed 10 points. Jimmie Taylor tallied 10 points and six rebounds in 18 minutes before fouling out.
Rashad Madden led Arkansas (21-10, 10-8) with 19 points on 5-of-10 shooting from the floor. Bobby Portis chipped in 17 points as the Razorbacks had their six-game winning snapped.
Alabama wasted no time taking control as it knocked down 55.5 percent of its field goal attempts in the first half en route to a 39-16 lead at the intermission. The Razorbacks were limited to 4-of-23 shooting from the floor in the opening period.
The Crimson Tide continued to light up the scoreboard after the break as they shot 53.8 percent from the floor and converted 13-of-15 shots at the charity stripe. Arkansas was outscored by two points over the final 20 minutes despite its 7-of-13 clip from 3-point range in the second stanza.
Alabama held a dominant, 41-25, edge in the rebounding battle and outscored Arkansas, 42-6, in the paint.
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Streak by Johnson and Kenseth is impressive
By admin | September 8, 2008
By Richard Allen
NASCAR has had the Chase for the Championship since 2004. At first, the Top 10 drivers were allowed to race for the title over the last ten races of the season. Then, after some big stars missed out on the playoff, NASCAR expanded the field of Chase participants to 12 drivers.
In the five years in which the Chase has been used to determine the Sprint Cup champion only two drivers, Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth, have qualified each year.
While a streak of five consecutive years may not sound impressive when put up against Cal Ripken, Jr. or Brett Favre, it is worthy of mention when considering those who were not able to do it.
Former Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch are among those who have been unable to pull off the feat. Add to that list the names of perennial contenders Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton, Ryan Newman and Kasey Kahne and the accomplishment grows in stature.
Kenseth had only one victory along with a season full of Top 5 and Top 10 consistency while winning the 2003 Sprint Cup title. Many believe it was that championship run which gave rise to the Chase format.
Although he has qualified for the Chase in every year it has been held, he has failed to win the playoff.
Johnson has made much more of his Chase qualifications. He has taken the title in each of the past two seasons. He is bidding to become only the second driver in modern NASCAR history to win the championship over three consecutive years. Cale Yarborough is to date the only driver to have pulled that off.
While five consecutive seasons of making the Chase for the Championship may not match Ripken or Favre, it does place Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth as the sole members of a very exclusive club.
Richard Allen is a member of the National Motorsports Press Association. His weekly column appears in The Mountain Press every Wednesday.
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Some sort of a sona. My hair's natural color is brown and my eyes are brown so I've decided to use all tones of this color on her. Some sort of a mad face because.
Personal sona
Common names: Tofu, Toffie, Tofupie
Species: fennec
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Heigh: 5' 3" (160 cm)
Body Shape: Slim
Breast size: B
Weakness: She hates swimming pools. When she was a kid she almost drowned. She hates chlorine's smell because of that, it brings bad memories to her. She can't swim.
Dislikes: Being in the center, people who try to approach her in a too short period of time, people who judge her before they ever speak to her.
Character: selfless, curious, gentle, precise, reliable, creative, lazy sometimes, impatient, irritable if she's loosing her nerves, devoted, responsible, helpful, friendly once she know people better, cheerful, scatty in cloudy days, modest, funny, silly, tolerant, grateful, sensitive sometimes but she tries to stay strong, determined.
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Summer Reading Book Review: 100 Cupboards
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning. Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes.
Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room–with a man pacing back and forth!
Henry soon understands that these are not just cupboards....but portals to other worlds.
100 Cupboards is the first book in a triology written by N.D. Wilson. His writing is influenced by C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia series. 100 Cupboards has been published in more that 20 languages.
N.D. Wilson has been featured on the Today show on NBC, and was invited to come on the show and talk about 100 Cupboards. Here is a clip if you want to see more.


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When a closed-head injury — meaning one in which no object penetrates the skull — causes a change in the normal functioning of the brain, it's called a concussion. The injury might be from a violent blow, a fall, or a severe shaking.
A child with a concussion may lose consciousness or have problems with his vision, memory, or balance. This sounds scary, but in most cases the effects are minor and temporary and the child recovers completely.
Look for any of these symptoms if he's suffered a trauma to the head:
If your child hits his head and starts breathing irregularly, has convulsions, or is unconscious, call for immediate help. Don't move him unless he's in danger of being hurt further. Perform CPR if he isn't breathing, and if he's bleeding, cover the wound with a clean cloth and apply pressure.
It's common for children to hit their head when they fall, and in most cases there's nothing to worry about. If your child loses consciousness, though, have him checked out by his doctor or by the doctor at the emergency room.
Sometimes, even with a minor blow, the brain can be injured. Also take your child to see a doctor right away if he hit his head and in the next day or two he:
Only in rare cases. But a second concussion before symptoms from the first one have cleared can be dangerous — with a higher risk of brain damage and even death. So if your child had a concussion and lost consciousness, the doctor will probably advise you to keep him from playing contact sports or getting too rambunctious for a few weeks.
Try to keep an eye out for hazardous behavior like running on wet concrete by a swimming pool. Make sure the playground he uses has sand, rubber padding, or wood chips around the equipment.
Have your child wear a helmet when he's riding a bicycle or skateboard, using inline skates, or playing contact sports. And make sure he rides in a booster seat in the car.


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I have pockets of arm fat that I find embarrassing. Short sleeves ride up and get stuck behind the pocket of fat. I've been slowly losing weight but I just don't want to wait to reach my goal weight before doing something about my arms. My right arm (shown in pictures) is worse than my left arm. Is it possible to get liposuction even though I am 5'9 and 270 lbs? I don't think weight loss will solve much of the issue as I had the issue even when lighter. I don't want to wait any longer!
Can I Get Arm Liposuction (And Potentially an Arm Lift) Before Reaching my Goal Weight? (photo)
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Liposuction and Arm Lift
Good luck with your upcoming surgery. Hopefully you are getting an arm lift as part of the surgery to help with the skin.
Don't Wait For Goal Weight - Give Yourself An Arm And Emotional Lift Now
Thank you for this important question. Too many people set hard and sometimes impossible goals for themselves and don't give themselves a break (or in this case, a well deserved surgery). Whatever got you to over 270 pounds may, in fact, have had something to do with low self esteem. As you are in recovery now, give yourself little rewards. They will help your appearance. They will help your self esteem and give you that emotional uplift necessary to keep on going to the final weight goal.
A Board Certified plastic surgeon experienced in brachioplasties can liposuction your arms and take out a portion of the skin which will probably be all your will need done on your arms. However, if a second surgery is necessary once you lose more weight, you will only more skin resection since once the fat cells are gone, they are gone.
From your pictures it looks like you would benefit from a mini arm lift and some lipo. It's very hard to give you more direct advice without seeing you and knowing your history.
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Honda has just announced pricing on the all-new 2011 Odyssey minivan, with roughly a $1,000 increase on all models.
Base LX models with features like keyless entry, cruise control, stability control an auxiliary jack, 8-way power driver's seat and 4 LATCH positions start at $27,800. EX models add 17-inch wheels, five LATCH positions and power slide doors for $30,950 while the EX-L trim tosses in a power tailgate, heated leather seats, Bluetooth, XM Radio and a backup camera for $34,450. Both a navigation (with a lifetime subscription to Real Time FM Traffic and a 3-view backup camera) as well as a rear entertainment system (with 9-inch screen) can be included, although if you're going to go all-out the $40,775 Touring model adds the 6-speed transmission (with improved fuel economy), 18-inch wheels, parking sensors and a memory seat. And for 2011 a new Touring Elite model tops out the range for $43,250 with that incredible home theater system.
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What Success Feels Like
Today, everything is different.
The sun shines brighter, the air a little crisper, and the morning recovery run a whole lot easier.
I didn't win, place, or break the top 10.
In fact, as the 34th finisher out of 61 runners, I didn't even crack the top 50%.
But, considering that four months ago I was lying horizontal, in a horribly uncomfortable hospital bed, with a tube stuck in my gut, draining "Arthur juice" out of my liver while jacked up on Oxycontin, Oxycodone and mainlined Dilaudid, and wondering if I'd live to $%^%! crawl again, I'm pretty damn happy.
Breaking All the Rules
You aren't supposed to come to Laurel Valley if you don't feel fit and ready.
It's not your typical ultramarathon.
There aren't aid station tables every six miles full of M&Ms and gummy bears.
There are no smiling volunteers taking your bottles, telling you how great you look, and offering a plethora of hydration choices while you rub cold potatoes in salt and mumble appreciation.
There are no pre-race coffee stands, no sponsor tents, nor porta-potties.
Just a bunch of nervous gristled ol' runners who like it this way, self-supported and standing in the dark at the trailhead in Rocky Bottom, waiting for a simple "GO!", before heading off into the foothills for yet another day of memorable experiences in the deep dark woods.
You eat what you brought, you drink from many water sources, and you pray each time that you won't get "Laurel Valley Liquid Belly" for two weeks afterwards.
With all I have been through, and the current training times I was posting, I wasn't sure if I was ready.
Other people weren't sure I was ready.
That should have been enough for me to skip Laurel Valley this year – but I just couldn't do it – The race means a lot to me, I've done it five years in a row, and as cheesy as it sounds, this is where I always, ALWAYS, get to connect with my deceased grandmother spiritually.
Sitting in the Horsepasture river at mile 19 with the loud-mouth, shaved-head, freshly-tattooed Mad Mexican, good ol' grandma showed up for a visit as her usual butterfly self. As I ran solo for the next 13 miles, she showed up for more visits; and as I made my way along that awful Bad Creek section, she showed up for a visit, only this time as a horse-fly to get my butt moving.
My grandmother was always a supportive lady, just never a patient one.
What Did I Learn?
I've written 5 race reports about this event over the years, as slow as 12:14 as a sweep, to a 7:40 5th place finish in 2010, so I won't subject readers to yet another rehashing of the course. I'll just summarize by saying that it's hard, with tons of climbing, and is known as feeling more like a 50-miler, than a really long 50K; but, with all that comes some of the most varied and beautiful terrain that is just as much spooky as it is beautiful.
Here are some of the ah-ha moments I had as I made my way through the 10-hour course:
Trekking Poles
Yup, they help like crazy. Even though I already knew this from the UTMB race in Europe, my poles broke descending in the Alps, so I didn't get a long time with them. I don't think they help me climb faster, but instead more consistent throughout the race. I did end up with cramping triceps late in the race, but some stretching and S-Caps usually took that away quickly.
Man, I hate that I love my Hokas so much. I am so proud of the whole minimal runner thing and my usual choice in footwear, but there is no denying the leg-saving benefit of the Hokas. I was a little sore for 24 hours after the race, but today, two days later, I feel like a million bucks.
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I really enjoyed the race this year because I rarely found myself in any kind of state of suffering. That's impossible when you are truly racing, but when you are simply out for a great run in the mountains, you see and experience a whole lot more things. During the miles I ran with the Mad Mex, we stopped to take photos, sat in various creeks along the way, and talked enough smack to make Howard Stern wiggle uncomfortably.
Babette is a Great Volunteer
My wife volunteered at the finish and she took photos of just about every finishing runner. She followed finishers around getting them drinks and making turkey sandwiches and finding chairs for them to sit in – it was awesome to watch her. On the way home she kept saying how much fun volunteering is and I was both inspired and humbled by her satisfaction at doing for others. My wife is a pretty great lady.
Gotta Do A Mad Mex Shout-out
Lastly, something happened out there that I can't let go without a mention. It was sorta intense, but at the time, we blew it off and kept moving, but it bears mention because it could have been really bad.
As the Mad Mexican and I descended a particularly steep and slippery section, with him in front and me behind, I had a momentary loss of equilibrium, tripped, and slid down a rock face with enormous momentum. The fall flipped me over, and while I was grabbing for trees and rocks along the way down, I couldn't grab anything and I started barreling down quickly, scared sh*tless…
Then I just stopped.
The Mad Mexican had reached out, almost losing balance himself, and grabbed me at the last second by the arm.
I'm a beefy 200 lb man, and I was sliding down that rock face with a lot of freaky speed, and for him to grab me and stop my fall in mid-slide took a lot of strength.
Say what you will about strength-training for runners and whether or not its necessary for endurance athletes, but I'm damn glad my boy V-dub Mad Mexican is a Crossfit junkie, cuz his lightening fast reaction coupled with humbling strength, saved me from a very, very bad fall, into a very remote part of nowehere.
So, thanks V-dub. I just wanted you to know I knew what happened out there, recognize it for what it was, but was in a little bit'a too much shock to acknowledge it at that moment.
Thanks fo' looking out.
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A crazy buddy of mine got me back into running 3 years ago after 25 years away from it…then of course his trail ultra insanity wore off on me. Hooked ever since. Stumbled across your blog after Cheaha 50K last Feb as I investigated adding Mtn Mist for this year. Your story has been inspiring and humbling…can't express the empathetic gratitude I experienced reading your latest. Thrilled you're on the trail again, although in the ways that really matter, you were never of it. Hope to run into you if you tackle Mtn Mist or Cheaha this season. Blessings…
@Patrick – thank you man. That was a very nice sentiment. Im happy to be back in the game too, while still reaping the "benefits of change" associated with my injury
Everyone that runs ultras has a story, and this back of the pack ultra runner from Arkansas has enjoyed your story immensely over the years. Your writing is filled with wonderful physical and mental experiences, but more interestingly, to me anyway, is that they portray a person with a deep underlying spiritual capacity. That is precisely what I like about your writing although I suspect you may not even be aware that you are conveying it. When I read your stories, I'm seeing the journey of a good natured soul.
I'm extremely glad to see that you are back on the trail and that a new and richer chapter in your life has begun.
Happy Trails,
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Big smile for you! Congratulations to both you and Babette!!! The world is a little less off-kilter with you out there running around once again.
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Hey Christian,
I'm so glad you're back!!!! Your race/run reports have inspired me for several years now. It's your great attitude and your… pervasiveness that help me to keep gettin' out there.
@Tatiana: are you saying I'm not writing as much? Careful what you say …I'll flood y'all with prose
@Juli: wow, thank you Juli. I was stoked that you came to LV and I have a picture to prove it!
@Denise: thanks Denise. Babette enjoyed meeting you (and all) as well.
Nice report and congratulations on finishing! I was thrilled when you pulled ahead of me and hoped I wouldn't find you suffering on the trail somewhere. You could have backed down from the challenge after nearly dying not long ago — you proved once again who Christian really is. You were always inspiring but you have outdone yourself this time! And Babette — what can I say that hasn't been said? She truly seemed to be having a blast and loving doing for others. Thank you beautiful and sweet Babette! We love you! I told you once how cute you two are together, and you just keep getting cuter
Juli (no longer an LV virgin)
So glad to see you back at it and meet your wonderful wife. I can relate to the joy of just being out there feeling good and the totally different experience of not suffering. Weird, in a great way, wasn't it? Congrats on all your progress in such a short time!
@JohnnyD: man, you are on fire bro. 6:13???? what what???? You missed Vic'tah. he wanted to see you man. You gotta quit being so fast and then dippin' so soon. Nice work King Dove.
What an accomplishment after your recent illness! The finish is what matters at this point, not the place you finished in. Even without your usual full on race report, this was great to read and also good to know your on the road to recovery. Congrats!
Glad you are back in the mix. You should enjoy the Jewell 100 it is much easier than LV.
You do have a great wife. She was always helping someone at the finish.
@JR: as you know, Claude likes first-timers to sweep and you could do that now. It's hard, but you know hard, so whatever, right? After Pinhoti and few 2013 sringtime races, you'll feel more-than-ready for LV. Question is, is LV ready for JR?
@Sully: I'm ready for another night run, backwards, through those spooky trails, dood.
@Emily: Thank you. I'm happy to have one to post. {grins}
@Claude: Yea, but you're running, and that's the blessing. And you look fit as a drum. You'll be back next year.
@Kelley: Breath-taking and brutal is right. I should have titled the report with 'dat. Thanks for your support, girl.
Back at the ultras! I'm proud of you, man. I want to qualify for Laurel Valley sometime this year, although I'm sure there will be times when I'll be wondering why I was so eager when I get my wish.
I was scared about you running this and I only kept quiet about it because you knew exactly what you were in for.
another trip through the valley – it's always life changing.
Thanks for the race report, Christian. It's so good to finally get another one from you. Glad you are feeling better. ~Emily
Christian, It was really good to see you finish. There were already reports that I was dead on the trail and that you were dying. OK, reports were that I was having heart problems and that you were really sick. It is difficult to finish that course in 10 hours being very sick. Your will power conquered any sickness that you were experiencing. Martha said that you have a beautiful wife and she said that Babette was a huge help. I saw her helping runners and I loved the way that she got into helping others. She just didn't sit around doing nothing. I felt almost ashamed to show up at the finish having to turn around at 10-11 miles.
For some reason this years race was very special. I rarely allow so many newcomers run at one time but the ones that did run really proved that they were up to it.
Wonderful report!! Not every race is about speed and what place you came in. So happy for you that you could run, enjoy and finish it!! The race is breathtaking and brutal. Huge accomplishment for you to finish!! Congrats . Babette was the most awesome volunteer and cheering everyone in! Tell her thank you. Always wonderful to see her!!
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The Road to Become an MBBS Doctor
Medicine is a noble profession which has been there since ages. From hakims to vaidyas, the field of medicine has come a long way to specialised areas which are intense, exhaustive and crucial to the understanding of the human body. Being a doctor is not only a job of extreme responsibility, but it also requires intense hard work and dedication coupled with the desire to help mankind heal in the best possible way.
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With changing lifestyles and high-stress levels there has been an increase in the diseases and ailments affecting the large population of India, thereby making the role of a doctor even more important and multifarious in today's context.
The growing demand for doctors is reflected in the amplified number of diseases as well as growth of healthcare sector which currently stands strong as a $34 billion industry. By 2012, it is estimated to grow to nearly $40 billion. India's increasing life expectancy and an ever growing population also demand that healthcare professionals are pitched in to take care of the old and the new borns of the country. Besides this, with a projected figure of 73.5 million diabetes patients in India by 2025 and several millions suffering from lifestyle diseases like hypertension and cancer, communicable diseases like AIDS, dengue, tuberculosis and malaria, India is set to fight a battle against these diseases for which it will require a strong army of doctors.
Selection Procedure
There are several common entrance examinations for the selection of candidates for the seats of MBBS in medical colleges all over India. Of these, the prominent ones are the CBSE PMT (Pre-Medical Test), DPMT, and UPMT. You have to give a separate entrance prestigious colleges like AIIMS and AFMC.
A lot of other private colleges hold their separate entrance tests too. Also, each state also conducts its own entrance exams for medical colleges.
CBSE PMT, conducted by the CBSE, is a highly-coveted national level entrance exam. It is conducted in two stages, the preliminary and the final exam. The exam is objective type and tests you rigorously in subjects like physics, chemistry and biology. Since negative marking is the rule here, the test is extremely competitive.
The Uttar Pradesh combined PMT is meant for the residents of Uttar Pradesh only.
For admissions in colleges like Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), Lady Hardinge Medical College, and University College of Medical Studies (UCMS), the Delhi University Medical-Dental Entrance Test (DUMET) is held. For this exam, there are about 410 seats in MBBS and 20 seats in BDS. You can give these exams soon after passing your class XII board examinations. These exams are conducted during the month of April/May and the results are out by June/July.
The Road to Become a Doctor
To start with, one has got to have a strong commitment, when one decides to become a doctor, as there is not only a lot of competition, but also the number of seats are far lesser than the number of students who want to pursue it as a career. With around 1.6 million students vying for a few thousand seats, the competition is tough, but it's worth all the toil. Knowledge of subjects like physics, chemistry and biology at class XII level is a must. A regular course in MBBS from any recognised medical college is of four and a half years in duration, followed by an internship for a year or six months. During the course of these four and a half years, students who get selected for an MBBS course have to study several subjects which include anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, dermatology, obstetrics and gynaecology, forensic medicine and toxicology, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology, anaesthesiology, community medicine, medicine, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, psychiatry and surgery.
The course work is intense and requires 18-20 hours of devoted hard work to know your subjects well. As Shobit Gupta, a student of dentistry explains, "Everyday is a challenge for a doctor. You can't be referring to your course books when a patient comes to get treatment from you. Last minute cramming doesn't work in medicine."
Places to Study Medicine
Depending upon the college, the total course fee for an MBBS degree can range from a few thousands at a government college to around Rs 20 lac and even higher in private institutes. Among the prestigious institutes for MBBS courses are All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi to name a few.
The curriculum is distinguished in each college by the competency of the faculty and the exposure given to the students in terms of practical training. For example, it is important that a medical college have a good student-teacher ratio, a well-stocked library, a state-of-art lab and even a healthy ratio of students working on a dead body to get their basics of anatomy right.
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What Does the Course Prepare You For?
A course in MBBS prepares you not only to be an eternal healer, but also paves your way to the specialisations that you might take in the future for your MD or MS. It's not just about teaching you how to diagnose and treat a health problem but acquainting you to the various nuances and degrees of applied medicine to administer to your patients as well as conduct community health programmes at all levels.
You are taught to handle allopathic medicines, know their effect on the human body as well as their side effects, if any. You will be mastering the make-up of the entire human body, know about each nerve and vein present in the human body. But an MBBS not only grooms you in these qualities, it also spruces you up to be efficient managers in handling financial or human resources and successful delivery of healthcare services as desired by a patient in the most helpful and generous manner.
You also acquire and hone the instinct of research as one should not forget that medicine is a dynamic field and people should be ever-ready to embrace constant flux that the field undergoes. To keep an eye on the pulse of developments in the world of medicine is a doctor's job and he learns the way to do it in his MBBS degree.
Scope & Salaries
The scope is immense for all those who choose to join the medicine brigade. Apart from going the conventional way and joining a private or government hospital, youngsters these days, armed with their MBBS degrees, can find lucrative placements with attractive starting salaries in corporate hospitals.
Hospitals like Apollo, Max and Fortis are quite popular destinations. The starting salary can be anywhere between Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 depending upon the competence of the individual. There is a lot of money in private practice as well and it only gets better for candidates as they win the trust of the patients and the goodwill is spread by word of mouth to attract more patients to the clinic.
With a boom in the healthcare sector, there are other areas too where medicine professionals are highly in demand. MBBS doctors can find placements in hospitals like Wockhardt Hospitals which promote medical tourism. Besides this, the emerging health insurance market, growing pharmaceutical industry, telemedicine sector, clinical research, pharmaco-vigilance etc hold great charm and promise for doctors.
Padded with a degree of MD, and a couple of years of work experience, a doctor could well be earning Rs one-12 lac per month depending upon his area of specialisation. There is no upper ceiling to the earnings of a competent and capable doctor. You can also be a visiting doctor at several hospitals and charge by the hour.
Studying Medicine Abroad
With so many aspirants and so little seats, a lot of contenders prefer to do their MBBS from abroad. The favourite destinations include US, UK and Australia. The degrees abroad are competitive and the infrastructure and facilities are excellent yet, students have to clear a lot of tests and hurdles before they get admission.
First of all they have to get an eligibility certificate from the Medical Council of India (MCI). After returning from the completion of the course too, students have to undergo a screening test and get registered with the MCI.
The cost of studying medicine can be more expensive than you can imagine but student loans and scholarships help students cover the costs. You need to also be aware of the choice of college you make whether in India or abroad and be sure that the institute you take admission in is not a fake.
The road to becoming a doctor is a challenging but rewarding one—not only monetarily but also in terms of job satisfaction and the help you extend to the ill. So take on the journey, if you are a warrior of the healing powers.


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Source: ACC Football Blog - Oct 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM
It's going to take a lot for an ACC player to crack a Heisman lineup that currently includes Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson, Kellen Moore, Trent Richardson, and Robert Griffin III. If Clemson remains undefeated, though, the Tigers could be the league's best hope. The question is who will get the most attention: true freshman receiver Sammy Watkins or quarterback Tajh Boyd? Here's a look at how both of them stack up nationally after seven games: BOYD National rankings: No. 31 in passing, No. 16 in passing yards per game, No. 7 in total passing yards, and No. 13 in passing efficiency, No. 13 total offense, (tie) No. 5 points responsible for. Stat line: 145-of-232 passing (62.5 percent), 19 touchdowns, three interceptions, 2012 yards, 159.79


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A phone call in the middle of the night.
When I woke, it was still dark. My room was only illuminated by the soft glow of my alarm clock and the orangey light of the street lights seeping in from outside. My clock blared the numbers 4:23 at me.
I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling, suddenly wide awake.
I could still feel the tracks the tears had left down my face and smell the faint scent of Gerard after he'd sat with me for so long. It was comforting, slightly.
As I lay there, my thoughts wondered to Frank, when he'd kissed my forehead earlier. It was such a simple gesture, probably nothing, but still it left me thinking...what if? What if it was his way of telling me he liked me? It couldn't be though, why would someone as perfect as Frank like me?
Just as I was pondering this my cell phone rang, Manic Street Preachers floating softly into the depths of my room. I jumped slightly before reaching out and picking my phone up from my bedside table, flipping it open and placing the receiver against my ear.
'Hello?' I whispered. A tired sigh emitted from the other end of the line.
'Mikey, hey. How are you?' Frank asked. My stomach clenched a little as I exhaled slightly shakily. Franks voice caused me a comfort I couldn't explain but also a agitation I couldn't fathom nor deny. I have a strong feeling it's because of the powerful hold the boy has on me.
'I'm -yeah, I'm....okay, I guess,' I said, not really sure of the answer myself.
'Mikey, you're not,' Frank stated simply, causing my stomach to drop slightly, 'I've never seen you like you were earlier. What did they do to you, Mikes?' My stomach and my heart rose at the emotion Frank spoke with, the caring.
'Frank I-I can't say it over the phone,' I replied quietly. I could hear Frank sigh as I rolled over onto my side and into the foetal position, phone resting between my ear and the pillow.
'Mikey, I'm so worried about you. I can't fucking sleep you prick,' Frank breathed. I let out a small laugh as the corners of my mouth turned up involuntarily.
'Well I'm sorry I'm such an inconvenience,' I replied. Frank stopped his soft giggling abruptly.
'You'd never be an inconvenience Mikey, got that?' Frank said sincerely. My heart rose. Frank meant it, I know he did. I could practically feel the intense gaze his russetty eyes would be giving me right now.
That's a good word for Frank; intense. Everything about that boy, my best friend, is intense. Not specifically good or bad, both.
I realised had no idea how to reply to Franks previous statement.
'Okay,' I whispered uncertainly after a pause.
'Good,' was all Frank said in reply.
I just lay there, staring at the Anthrax poster on the back of my door and listening to Franks steady breathing.
'Mikes, do you think you're gonna be in school tomorrow?' he asked quietly. My stomach churned at the thought of the long corridors, the bustling students, droning teachers. It made me feel sick, trapped.
'I-I don't know Frank, I don't know if I can,' I say, voice cracking slightly.
'Oh Mikey. You don't have to. Jesus, sorry. I can't imagine how you feel...' Frank said softly. My heart fluttered.
'Frank, you don't have to. You...you don't want to.' I heard Franks delicate sigh on the end of the line, but he didn't say anything. I stayed staring at the poster in the dim light of my room, wondering what to say, whether to just tell him what happened to me, tell him how I feel. I mean, what harm can it do? He wont judge me for what happened to me, I know he wont, he's Frank.
If i tell him how I feel, he might even feel the same way about me.
No. There's no way, no hope in hell he feels the same. I decide to mention neither.
'Can we just...talk?' I ask.
'Of course we can Mikey, what about?' I let out a deep sigh I didn't know I'd been holding in.
'Anything. What gigs you're going to in the next month, how much your mum yelled at you last time you came home stoned, how amazing you are at guitar, anything.' Frank laughed into the phone and my stomach flipped. His stupid laugh.
'Mikey, you make me sound like such an arrogant rebel!' Frank gasped, mocking shock. I choked out a laugh.
'You are, Frank,' I replied. He gasped again.
'How dare you! I'll have you know, I'm the most well behaved young man within a fifty mile radius.' I snorted, a warm comforting feeling seeping though me at Franks usual sarcastic and cocky words.
I didn't say anything in reply, just smiled gently into my room.
'Three,' Frank said suddenly.
'Three what?' I asked confused.
'Three gigs in the next month, silly. Lostalone on the thirteenth, Cage The Elephant on the twenty seventh and Thrice in the thirtieth.'
My smile grew. Frank had always loved music, it made him, him.
'Sweet. I bet they'll all be awesome,' I replied.
'Mikey?' Frank asked after a short period of silence.
'Yes Frank.'
'Do you want me to skip school and come over to keep you company tomorrow?' he asked. I let out a shaky sigh.
'No, Frank, you can't. If you get in any more shit with school, you might get expelled and your mum would kill you. Besides, I have Gerard, I'll be fine.' Frank stayed silent for a moment.
'No Mikey, fuck the school and fuck my mum, and Gerard has shitloads of artwork to do for his course, he can't spend all day with you. I'm coming over at 10am sharp and don't think you're stopping me, Michael Way.' I smiled at Franks determination. I do want him to come, but I'm nervous about telling him what happened to me. I still don't know if I can.
'Okay Frank,' is all I say.
'Good,' comes his reply, followed by a yawn.
'Go to sleep,' I say, 'I'll do the same and I'll see you at 10am tomorrow, yeah?' Frank sighed.
'Yeah. It's your fucking fault I'm so tired anyway,' he said. I could ear the slight smirk in his voice.
'Yeah yeah, night Frank,' I said.
'Night Mikes.'
'I love you,' I whispered, unsure of what he would make of it. My heart sped up when he replied with a defiant,
'I love you too,' before he hung up.
I closed my eyes, stomach spinning wildly.
It didn't take long for me to drift off to sleep again, phone still pressed to my ear.


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- 1 cup dried apricots, chopped
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The artifacts come from the Serra da Capivara national park in Brazil's northeastern Piaui state, on the border of the Amazon and Atlantic Forests, which attracted the hunter-gatherer civilization that left behind this hoard of local art. Since the 1970s, Franco-Brazilian archaeologist Niede Guidon has headed a mission to carry out large-scale excavation of Piaui's interior. "It's difficult to think there exists a site anywhere with a higher concentration of cave art," the 80-year-old Guidon told AFP. Many paths led to Americas Other traces of the civilization include charcoal remains of structured fires, explained Guidon, who hails from Sao Paulo. "To date, these are the oldest traces" of human existence in the Americas, she emphasized. The widely held theory has suggested human beings only reached the Americas some 12,000 years ago from Asia, crossing the Bering Strait to reach Alaska. Some archeologists contend flaked pebbles at the Brazilian sites are not evidence of a crude, human-made fire hearth made some 40 millennia ago, but are rather geofacts — a natural stone formation, not a man-made one.
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Matthew Bate, 2011) 3/4
Eddie Lee and Mitchell D. moved to San Francisco in the late 1980's. While living in an apartment that looked like a Pepto Bismol bottle, they had neighbors that would yell and shout at each other at all hours of the day. The two men that lived in the apartment were Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman. Eddie and Mitchell attempted to deal with the noise but were unsuccessful in trying to have the two men quiet down. Dealing with it in a way that any person in their early 20s would, they decided to begin recording the arguments. Circulating the tapes within their close friend circle, the tapes began spreading and eventually became a worldwide underground phenomenon.
This documentary is simply two men explaining their story of the "Shut Up Little Man" tapes. Although a great amount of the footage is of the guys sitting in front of the camera talking, the documentary is really interesting. Mixed in with the interviews is reenactment footage and attempts to talk to other people involved with Peter and Raymond. The samples of the tapes mixed with the reenactment footage are hilarious and seem too good to be real. The documentary also shows the struggles that Eddie and Mitchell had to deal with when the tapes became famous. When people starting getting a hold of the tapes they wanted to exploit it and make money off of it. Of course the most obvious way to do that is by making it a movie or a play. The play did end up happening and the film does its best to explain what happened to the production of a movie.
One part of the film that annoyed me was when they would be explaining a situation that happened and they would censor someone's name. They would basically bleep it out and then when they had sometime written on the screen, over the person's name it would say "censored". I know that documentarians have to do their best to tell a story and not upset people who didn't agree to do the film but things like that just really annoy me. Maybe I need to see more documentaries. What I really enjoyed was the way the film addressed people's need to know what other people are doing and how they love to exploit others. They brought up how YouTube has brought that curiosity to the mainstream. People love to see other people go crazy and yell. I think that it makes the viewers feel more normal and better about themselves because they can say, "oh, I'm not as crazy as that person". Shut Up Little Man is an interesting documentary that attempts to show the thin line between exploitation and art.
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"To a real wise man the judicious and well-weighed approbation of a single wise man, gives more heart-felt satisfaction than all the noisy applauses of ten thousand ignorant though enthusiastic admirers."
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
"To this universal benevolence, on the contrary, the very suspicion of a fatherless wrold, must be the most meloncholy of all reflections; from the thought that all the unknown regions of infinite and incoprehensible space may be filled with nothing but endless misery and wretchedness. All the spleandour of the highest prosperity can never enlighten the gloom with which so dreadful an idea must necessarily over-shadow the imagination; nor, in a wise and virtuous man, can all the sorrow of the most afflicting adversity ever dry up the joy which necessarily springs from the habitual and thorough conviction of the truth of the contrary system."
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
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"During the ignorance and darkness of pagan superstition, mankind seem to have formed the ideas of their divinities with so little delicacy, that they ascribed to them, indiscriminately, all the passions of human nature, those not excepted which do the least honour to our species, such as lust, hunger, avarice, envy, revenge. They could not fail, therefore, to ascribe to those beings, for the excellence of whose nature they still conceived the highest admiration, those sentiments and qualities which are the great ornaments of humanity, and which seem to raise it to a resemblance of divine perfection, the love of virtue and beneficence, and the abhorrence of vice and injustice. The man who was injured, called upon Jupiter to be witness of the wrong that was done to him, and could not doubt, but that divine being would behold it with the same indignation which would animate the meanest of mankind, who looked on when injustice was committed. The man who did the injury, felt himself to be the proper object of the detestation and resentment of mankind; and his natural fears led him to impute the same sentiments to those awful beings, whose presence he could not avoid, and whose power he could not resist. These natural hopes and fears, and suspicions, were propagated by sympathy, and confirmed by education; and the gods were universally represented and believed to be the rewarders of humanity and mercy, and the avengers of perfidy and injustice. And thus religion, even in its rudest form, gave a sanction to the rules of morality, long before the age of artificial reasoning and philosophy. That the terrors of religion should thus enforce the natural sense of duty, was of too much importance to the happiness of mankind, for nature to leave it dependent upon the slowness and uncertainty of philosophical researches."
- Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
"Are you in adversity? Do not mourn in the darkness of solitude, do not regulate your sorrow according to the indulgent sympathy of your intimate friends; return, as soon as possible, to the day-light of the world and of society. Live with strangers, with those who know nothing, or care nothing about your misfortune; do not even shun the company of enemies; but give yourself the pleasure of mortifying their malignant joy, by making them feel how little you are affected by your calamity, and how much you are above it. "
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Can you believe it? We went to Japan. The land of earthquakes. And we didn't feel one. Not a quiver.
Some of you may not realise that I am home from Japan now. As I sit and type, I can hear out of one ear and the other…. well, the other is not a happy little camper. See, on Sunday while standing in my brother's kitchen waiting for the typhoon to reach us later that night, my left ear suddenly felt "funny." I may have said something out loud. My brother may or may not have harumphed a half-answer in acknowledgement of having heard some noise emitting from my general direction (he was reading, on the computer, don't you know not to interrupt him? Choh!). So I did what anyone would do – I stuck my finger in my ear and pulled it out…. I won't describe what I fetched, but it wasn't "normal".
I played it down, blotted the slow leak with a tissue and put my sudden lack of hearing in that side down to "my stupid sinuses" and kept on packing.
That evening, we had to go to a piano recital for my 10-year-old niece (as you do when a typhoon is coming… sure, let's all bunker down in the auditorium and hope the cars are still there when we come out! Sounds like a hoot!). Strangely, I was feeling worse and worse but I couldn't put a finger on just what it was. Nausea? Pain? Not exactly. Just…. pressure. In my body. Perhaps I could feel the impending doom of what was to befall me the next day when I attempted to fly home. While we sat and joined in the polite quiet golf-clapping after each performance over the next hour and a half, for some weird reason my brother's clapping behind me was ear-splitting. Certain frequencies were beginning to hit me in the short and curlies and it was very unpleasant. Still, I had no *actual* pain. Curious. I began to feel like an empty can buckling under unseen air pressure.
In the morning, I thanked the heavens that although I had felt as if I had spent the night in a boat what with all the rocking of the house and squally winds that threatened to shake the window shutters clean off, the house was still standing. Even if the long grass in the adjacent vacant lot was not (it had been flattened sideways overnight by the high winds). I was on the final day of what had been our wonderful trip to Tokyo and surrounds. We were heading home.
That is, if the ENT doctor cleared me to fly.
While I sat in the waiting room next to my sister inlaw, she filled in a patient sheet for me. In Japanese. I watched as she deftly wrote out my details and explained my symptoms and I couldn't decipher a thing on the page. A young boy who had gone in ahead of us was heard screaming out. I asked Kyoko if I could get a jellybean if I was a good girl. Chortle-chortle. Little did I know what awaited me.
Stay tuned for part 2 of this happy holiday ending. It's already gone on far too long. And I haven't even got to the bit about the trip in the ambulance.


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The Youth Hostel Oia is backpackers first choice on Santorini Island! With its friendly and peaceful atmosphere our hostel offers you an unbeatable budget-accomodation in the heart of the islands most beautiful village.
It is also one of the few privileged spots of the village from where you can see the world famous sunset!
Our family was the first, establishing tourist-business in the early sixties in Oia. 1980 we opened our first hostel in the village and now, more than 30 years later, we still are the guarantee for reasonably priced holidays with excellent service and comfort.
Every day starts with a tasty breakfast on our large sunny roof- terrace with excellent view over the Agaen sea. Our daily boat-excursion (for special reduced prices) gives you the unique possibility to visit the still active Volcano with its hot springs and the neighbour island of Thirassia. In the evening you can join our famous "Happy Hour" at sunset-time on our roof-patio, watching the world-famous sunset, sipping delicious cocktails and meeting fellow travellers from all over the world.
Disponibilité et tarifsPour vérifier la disponibilité et les prix, veuillez sélectionner vos dates puis cliquez sur "Mettre à jour les dates"
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- Parking gratuit
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- Parking
- Service postal
- Coffre-fort
- Bureau des excursions
- Serviettes à louer
Politique d'annulationCette propriété a une politique d'annulation de 1 jours. Si vous n'annulez pas dans cet intervalle de temps, vous devrez payer des frais d'annulation du montant de la première nuit de votre séjour.
Infos à connaître sur HostelCette propriété dispose de conditions générales spécifiques.
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Cancellations are accepted 24 hours prior your arrival date. In case of later cancellation or now-show, the first night will be charged to your credit-card. During High Season (July 15 - August 25) the hostel reserves the right to charge the full accomodation fee to your credit card.
Payment must be made in cash upon arrival. (We keep the credit card details ony for booking-security)
The number of days you have reserved will be charged full after your check-in.
We make every effort to accommodate you in the dormitory size of your choice. However, because of the nature of our business (especially during high season) we may have to place you in a different sized dormitory.
Reception Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Earliest Check in: 11:00 a.m.
Latest Check out: 10:30 a.m.
Open: May 1 - October 10
Age restrictions: 5 - 60 years Groups are welcome
PAYMENT must be made in cash upon arrival!
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If you arrive by ferry:
At the port of Athinios you take the bus to Thira (Main Town) and get off at the central station (about 25 min. ride). There you change the bus to Oia (about 20 min. ride). Bus tickets are available in the bus; fare from Athinios to Oia :
ca € 3,50.
If you arrive by plane:
There is a bus-connection between the Airport and Thira: (about 20 min. ride). In Thira you switch the bus to Oia. (about 20 min. ride). Bus tickets are available in the bus; fare from the airport to Oia: ca € 3,50.
The hostel is only three minutes walking distance from the terminal station in Oia. Just follow the sign on the corner which will lead you to the hostel.


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The P-3s are in "high demand for hurricane work," the report said. From June through the end of September each year, the aircraft are required to be available for hurricane research and usually are not available for any other purpose.
Yet the P-3s are nearly 40 years old, and NOAA officials say the aircraft will only be operational for another 15 years.
The agency plans to re-wing the planes in fiscal 2017, but as repairs become more expensive, NOAA must decide "whether to invest in additional costly service life extensions or replace the aircraft," the report stated.
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Predictive diagnostics and analytics solution company broadens GE's software capabilities used to maximize the performance of critical equipment in Power Generation and Oil & Gas industries
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA JANUARY 6, 2011 GE Intelligent Platforms today announced that it has completed the acquisition of SmartSignal, a privately-held, analytics software company based in Lisle, Illinois. SmartSignal specializes in providing Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics solutions to the Power Generation, Oil & Gas and other industrial sectors. SmartSignal is a leading provider of predictive diagnostic software and monitoring services used to anticipate, prevent, and avoid equipment failure. The company has more than 40 product and technology patents, and has won more than 25 awards for product excellence.
"The acquisition of SmartSignal shows our commitment to continue investing in GE Intelligent Platforms' Software & Services business, and will serve as an important catalyst to rapidly expand the capabilities of our Operational Intelligence platform," said Maryrose Sylvester, President & CEO for GE Intelligent Platforms. "SmartSignal is a recognized leader and innovator with technology that detects looming equipment problems early and with confidence. This acquisition complements GE's existing capabilities in diagnostics and equipment analytics, and gives us the ability to cover a much wider range of asset types and equipment manufacturers for our customers. "
"With GE's commitment to solving difficult challenges in today's business environment," said Jim Gagnard, President & CEO of SmartSignal, "we believe our solution can help provide a holistic approach to Operational Intelligence across many industries no matter what type of equipment the customer is trying to manage."
SmartSignal detects and identifies abnormal equipment behavior and provides exception-based notifications of developing problems along with diagnoses and prioritizations. Its solutions are device-agnostic and are found on equipment from GE, Siemens, Rolls Royce, Alstom, Flowserve, Waukesha, Byron Jackson, Cooper-Bessemer, and others.
"The integration of SmartSignal's proven monitoring and diagnostic technologies will play a significant role in delivering on GE Intelligent Platforms' vision of providing comprehensive Operational Intelligence solutions to customers," said Erik Udstuen, Vice President of Software & Services for GE Intelligent Platforms. "It is a proven Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics solution that aligns nicely with the Proficy® architecture to help customers address availability and efficiency challenges in a robust way. The SmartSignal team also brings tremendous domain expertise in predictive diagnostics that aligns very well with GE's key vertical industries."
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