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Extended quote from The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, 1874:
"But now, my dear Cyrus, all this industrial and commercial movement to which you predict a continual advance, does it not run the danger of being sooner or later completely stopped?"
"Stopped! And by what?"
"By the want of coal, which may justly be called the most precious of minerals."
"Yes, the most precious indeed," replied the engineer; "and it would seem that nature wished to prove that it was so by making the diamond, which is simply pure carbon crystallized."
"You don't mean to say, captain," interrupted Pencroft, "that we burn diamonds in our stoves in the shape of coal?"
"No, my friend," replied Harding.
"However," resumed Gideon Spilett, "you do not deny that some day the coal will be entirely consumed?"
"Oh! the veins of coal are still considerable, and the hundred thousand miners who annually extract from them a hundred millions of hundredweights have not nearly exhausted them."
"With the increasing consumption of coal," replied Gideon Spilett, "it can be foreseen that the hundred thousand workmen will soon become two hundred thousand, and that the rate of extraction will be doubled."
"Doubtless; but after the European mines, which will be soon worked more thoroughly with new machines, the American and Australian mines will for a long time yet provide for the consumption in trade."
"For how long a time?" asked the reporter.
"For at least two hundred and fifty or three hundred years."
"That is reassuring for us, but a bad look-out for our great- grandchildren!" observed Pencroft.
"They will discover something else," said Herbert.
"It is to be hoped so," answered Spilett, "for without coal there would be no machinery, and without machinery there would be no railways, no steamers, no manufactories, nothing of that which is indispensable to modern civilization!"
"But what will they find?" asked Pencroft. "Can you guess, captain?"
"Nearly, my friend."
"And what will they burn instead of coal?"
"Water," replied Harding.
"Water!" cried Pencroft, "water as fuel for steamers and engines! water to heat water!"
"Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements," replied Cyrus Harding, "and decomposed doubtless, by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force, for all great discoveries, by some inexplicable laws, appear to agree and become complete at the same time. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. Some day the coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be stored with these two condensed gases, which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific power. There is, therefore, nothing to fear. As long as the earth is inhabited it will supply the wants of its inhabitants, and there will be no want of either light or heat as long as the productions of the vegetable, mineral or animal kingdoms do not fail us. I believe, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future."
"I should like to see that," observed the sailor.
"You were born too soon, Pencroft," returned Neb, who only took part in the discussion by these words.
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Alan is one of our co-founders and has served as a member of our board of directors since 2006 and our chairman since 2009. From our founding until 2009, Mr. Crane served as our Chief Executive Officer. Currently, he is a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners and was a Venture Partner at Polaris from 2002 until 2009. From 2002 until 2006, Mr. Crane was President and Chief Executive Officer of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.. Mr. Crane serves on the boards of privately held life sciences companies Visterra, Inc., T2 Biosystems, Inc., Ocular Therapeutix, Inc., Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc., Calorics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Vaccinex, Inc. Previously, he served on the boards of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by Glaxo SmithKline), Adnexus Therapeutics, Inc. (acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb), and Hydra Biosciences. Mr. Crane received his B.A., M.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard University.
Oliver S. Fetzer, Ph.D.
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Oliver has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since 2009. From July 2004 until September 2007, Dr. Fetzer served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Research & Development at Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From January 2003 to July 2004, he served as Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Business Officer and, from July 2002 until January 2003, he served as its Senior Vice President, Business Development. Before his time at Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., commencing in 1993, Dr. Fetzer held various positions of increasing responsibility at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global leading management consulting firm, including Consultant, Project Leader, Principal, and Partner and Managing Director. Since December 2005, Dr. Fetzer has served on the board of directors of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and since April 2011 on the board of Tecan Group AG. Oliver received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the College of Charleston, his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Medical University of South Carolina and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Paul A. Friedman, M.D.
Paul has served as a director since January 2014. From 2001 to January 2014, he was Chief Executive Officer of Incyte Corporation, a public biotechnology company, and he served as President of Incyte from 2004 to January 2014. From 1998 until 2001, Dr. Friedman was President of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Research Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company (formerly The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company), from 1994 to 1998 he served as President of Research and Development of The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, and from 1991 to 1994 he served as Senior Vice President at Merck Research Laboratories. Prior to his work at Merck and DuPont, Dr. Friedman was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Friedman is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Friedman is a director of Incyte, public biopharmaceutical companies Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Durata Therapeutics, Inc. and private biopharmaceutical company Gliknik, Inc. Dr. Friedman was a director of Bausch & Lomb Incorporated from 2004 until its acquisition in 2007 and was a director of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from March 2008 until its acquisition in June 2008. Dr. Friedman received his A.B. from Princeton University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Steven E. Hall, Ph.D.
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Susan L. Kelley, M.D.
Susan has served as a director since October 2014. Dr. Kelley has been developing drugs in oncology and immunology for over 25 years. From 2008 to 2011, she was Chief Medical Officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium and its sister organization, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. From 2001 to 2008, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals and Bayer-Schering Pharma, including Vice President, Global Clinical Development and Therapeutic Area Head – Oncology, where she led the Bayer team responsible for the development and worldwide regulatory approval of Nexavar® (sorafenib), including a renal cell carcinoma indication. She also held positions of increasing responsibility at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Oncology and Immunology drug development from 1987 to 2001. She was a Fellow in Medical Oncology and Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a Fellow in Medical Oncology and Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, where she also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine. Dr. Kelley currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of ArQule and Alchemia, oncology-focused biotechnology companies. Dr. Kelley received her M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine.
William T. McKee
William has served as a director since January 2014. Mr. McKee served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at EKR Therapeutics, Inc., a private specialty pharmaceutical company, from 2010 until 2012 when EKR was sold to Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc., a public pharmaceutical company. Until 2010, Mr. McKee served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Barr Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a generic pharmaceutical company, and the successor entity to Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public specialty pharmaceutical company, which was acquired by Teva in 2008. Mr. McKee was also Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Barr prior to its acquisition by Teva, after having served in positions of increasing responsibility at Barr from 1995 until its acquisition. Prior to joining Barr, Mr. McKee served as Director of International Operations and Vice President-Finance at Absolute Entertainment, Inc., a private developer and marketer of entertainment software, from 1993 until 1994. From 1990 until 1993, Mr. McKee worked at Gramkow & Carnevale, CPA's, an accounting firm, and from 1983 until 1990, he worked at Deloitte & Touche. Mr. McKee serves on the board of directors of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public specialty biopharmaceutical company. Mr. McKee received his B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
William H. Rastetter, Ph.D.
William has served as a director since January 2014. He is a Co-Founder of Receptos, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, where he has been a director and Chairman of the Board since May 2009 and was Acting Chief Executive Officer from May 2009 to November 2010. Dr. Rastetter served as a Partner at the venture capital firm of Venrock Associates from 2006 to February 2013. Prior to his tenure with Venrock, Dr. Rastetter was Executive Chairman of Biogen Idec, from the merger of the two companies (Biogen and Idec Pharmaceuticals) in 2003 through the end of 2005. He joined Idec Pharmaceuticals in 1986 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Idec, he was Director of Corporate Ventures at Genentech, Inc. and served as well in a scientific capacity at Genentech. Dr. Rastetter also serves as the Chairman of public life sciences companies Illumina, Inc., Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. and Fate Therapeutics Inc. and as a director of Regulus Therapeutics, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Rastetter has held various faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University and is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Dr. Rastetter holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University.
Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D.
Ram is one of our co-founders and has served as a consultant and as a member of our board of directors since 2006. Dr. Sasisekharan has been a Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1996 and is Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Biological Engineering & Health Sciences & Technology and also a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Dr. Sasisekharan founded Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Visterra, Inc., and he serves on the board of directors of Visterra, Inc. Dr. Sasisekharan's research on complex polysaccharides has led to over 125 publications and over 50 patents, including the core technologies of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He has won both the Burroughs Wellcome and Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Awards and was the recipient of the 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 CaPCure Awards from the CaPCure Foundation. Dr. Sasisekharan serves on the steering committee of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics. Dr. Sasisekharan received his B.S. in Physical Sciences from Bangalore University, his M.S. in Biophysics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Harvard Medical School.
Robert I. Tepper, M.D.
Robert has served as a member of our board of directors since 2006. Dr. Tepper has over 25 years of experience building and operating leading research and development operations. Dr. Tepper co-founded Third Rock Ventures, L.P. in March 2007 and focuses on the formation, development and scientific strategy of its portfolio companies, as well as actively identifying and evaluating new investments. Prior to joining Third Rock Ventures, L.P., from 2003 to 2007, Dr. Tepper served as President of Research and Development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Before joining Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 1994, he served as principal investigator in the laboratory of tumor biology at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. Dr. Tepper is also a founder and former member of the scientific advisory board of Cell Genesys/Abgenix. Dr. Tepper serves as an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and is an advisory board member of several leading healthcare institutions, including the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Tufts Medical School. Dr. Tepper is a board member of private life sciences companies Alcresta, Inc., Allena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Constellation Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as well as public biopharmaceutical company bluebird bio Inc., and is also on the board of overseers at Tufts University. Dr. Tepper holds an A.B. in biochemistry from Princeton University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.


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High temperatures were predicted to range into the mid-50s, down about 15 degrees from Wednesday's daytime readings.
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The Utah Division of Air Quality graded breathability statewide as "Green," or healthy. The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website noted that sagebrush was "very high" and ragweed "moderate" on the organization's pollen index.
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With the feeling of fall in the air, the Utah Division of Water Resources (DWRe) reminds northern Utahns it is time to shut down your automatic sprinkler systems for the year.
"The state's reservoir systems worked perfectly this year, storing the below average snowpack and releasing water to users throughout the dry, hot summer", says Eric Klotz, the Water Conservation manager for the DWRe. "But, because the reservoirs were not full at the start of the season, we are asking people to be a little more conscious of their water use this fall. With the recent cold storm and another on the way, you can shut down your sprinkler system for the year."
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has set a statewide goal of reducing per capita water use by at least 25 percent by the year 2025. Since the year 2000, water conservation efforts have resulted in a statewide reduction in per capita water use of about 18 percent. This year, water use is on par with last year, even though it has been an extremely hot and dry summer statewide.
"This shows that people are really trying to change their habits, watering only what the landscape needs and creating a long-term water conservation ethic. We want to thank the citizens of the State of Utah for becoming more water-wise," says Klotz.
Residents can refer to the website slowtheflow.org for tips on how to conserve water.
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- Friday, September 22, 2006
Author Claudia Mair Burney didn't think she'd publish her novels in the Christian market. In her mind, CBA [Christian Booksellers Association] publishing was for white women who lived perfect lives. It wasn't for a black woman who'd overcome tremendous abuse and struggled with disabling depression. But one day, during a time of intense discouragement, Burney sat in a hospital lobby and read Today's Christian Woman. Inspired, she clutched it to her heart and told God that if He'd let her write for Him, she'd write for broken people like herself.
When she whispered that prayer, Burney had no idea what the Lord had in store. In 2004, she started a blog where she poured out her struggles, her love for Jesus, and her passion to live in His grace. Inspired by Brennan Manning's book, "The Ragamuffin Gospel," she called herself the Ragamuffin Diva. From there, the rest is history. ...
It's the dream of every writer to be "discovered" as you were. Tell us the saga of that first book contract.
I was a big ol' mess at the time – disenfranchised from church and much of life. I loved writing, but felt unworthy to write for Jesus. To me, Christian women writers were all perfect: homeschooling moms with husbands who pastored a little white church on a hill. Even if they weren't, they seemed different from me. I had chronic, disabling depression, three suicide attempts, and a husband who struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. I certainly couldn't write for God, but my heart wanted it so.
Soon after reading that issue of Today's Christian Woman, I started my blog, the Ragamuffin Diva. A talented novelist liked my blog and told her publisher he needed to look at it. Amazingly, he did, and wrote me cold, asking if I'd like to write a book for his house. It didn't work out to publish there. He quit a few days after I finished the book, but he ended up becoming a literary agent, taking me on as one of his first clients, and selling "Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man" to NavPress within months. God is awesome. Truly.
Could you give readers an idea of what "Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man" is about?
It's about a woman who walled herself off from the abundant life Jesus had for her, and how a red dress, a fine man, and a mysterious murder impact her life and force her to make changes. Changes like letting love in and letting go of the past. It's funny, funky, and has CSI stuff. It's the book I wished I could have read.
You said that there is something "magical and perfect" about writing a story and that your life would be impoverished without fiction. You first longed to write fiction when you were eleven.
Yes, I walking down the hall at school. There was a slip of paper on the floor and I was compelled to pick it up. It must have been a God thing. Of course I didn't think it was then. It had dialogue on it from a play and I thought, "Wow. I could write this." So I wrote a play, and my teacher, Mr. Wilson, let me perform it. Later, when I dropped out of high school, it was Mr. Wilson that persuaded me to go back. He even offered me a scholarship.
After you accepted Jesus, you felt fiction wasn't spiritual enough and quit writing your stories. Why? What happened that allowed you to write fiction again?
I didn't grow up in a book lover's house. My mother loved [Edgar Allan] Poe, and old poetry, but there weren't many books to choose from. Unfortunately, there were some pornographic novels, and as a curious eight-year-old I read them. I can't tell you the damage those books did to my soul. I'm still casting off the muck. So, there was guilt about reading anything not "Scripture" in my early Christian life. I needed stories, though. At fourteen, I met my friend Keysha, and "fiction" came back into my life because I told her my stories.
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BA Hons Linguistics with Chinese
Linguistics is the study of the phenomenon of language. The ability to use language is something which separates human beings from other animals, and so helps to define what it means to be human. Linguists ask such questions as:
- Do the different languages of the world share any universal features?
- How does language relate to thought?
- How does a child acquire a first language?
- How do we understand spoken and written language?
- How can we use computers to aid the study of language?
To see how our staff answer some of these and other questions, see the A-level English Language pages on our web site.
Linguistics relies upon the empirical study of various aspects of language, such as the sound, grammar and meaning systems of different languages. The methods of study vary from computerised study of texts corpora, through acoustic analysis of sound patterns, to analysis of texts, interviews and audio-visual recordings of natural dialogues. Many of the issues addressed by linguistics are of central relevance to our society - for example the relationship between dialect and social prestige, the problems of education in a multi-cultural and multi-lingual environment, or the development of technology which will allow computers to produce and recognise speech.
In your first year you will take Part I Chinese, an intensive language course, taught ab initio, with an element of the course relating to the society, culture and history but with the greater part of the course devoted to the teaching of practical language skills. In your second and third years you will take Part II Chinese, this will build on the intensive language introduction offered at Part I and increase the level of your language skills through further language tuition and understanding of the structure of Chinese. You will engage more thoroughly with the social and cultural context of (especially twentieth century) China.
What will I study?
In Part I you will take the following:
- Part I Linguistics
- Part I Chinese
- A third Part I subject of your choice (perhaps English Language?).
In Part II you take eight units in total, four in each year. All eight units must be taken within the Department.
The following courses are compulsory:
- LING220 Structures of the World's Languages (second year)
- LING221 Sounds of the World's Languages (second year)
- CHIN200 Chinese Language 2 (15 credits)
- CHIN201 Chinese Language 3 (15 credits)
- LING301 Dissertation (final year)
- LING324 Cognitive Linguistics (final year)
- LING325 Topics in Phonetic and Phonological Theory (final year)
- CHIN300 Chinese Language 4 (15 credits)
- CHIN310 Chinese Culture and Society (15 credits)
The remaining units can be selected from the Department's Part II courses.
What qualifications will I need?
We normally expect successful applicants to have AAB inc. English Language, English Language and Literature Combined or a modern/classical language. We normally expect three A-levels. One (but only one) of these grades may be achieved from the average of two AS-level grades, one of which should have been taken in year 13, with each contributory grade in a different subject.
For the degree scheme with Chinese, an additional requirement will be normally made for a grade A or A* in the study of a modern or classical language at GCSE, or a B at AS or A2 level, to ensure students are prepared for the ab initio study of a new foreign language.
How is my work assessed?
As in all courses, there are examinations at the end of the first year before proceeding to the second and final years. In the second and final years, you will normally take an examination for each course at the end of the year in which you study it. Coursework typically involves an essay (2000-2500 words) each term for each course, but it often comes in other forms. The weighting of coursework varies with departments: in the Department of Linguistics and English Language the final mark is usually based on 40% coursework and 60% examination.


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I bought the other day. That is my way of not forgetting we have an election coming!
Women are going to lose their rights and it's scary? I had no idea Ms. Lapore that if I don't vote for Obama I'd "lose my rights". My rights to what? If she's encouraging women to vote she isn't offering the other choice being presented and given this position of typical liberal fear and drama I won't buy any of her products. I am voting with my wallet.
Being a successful dress designer does not necessaily make one knowledgeable in any other field. Ms. Lepore has demonstrated this. Perhaps if she could list the rights I may be losing if Gov. Romney wins the election. Oh! I know one, the right to be jobless.
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A collective breath could be held among the Florida Panthers fan base. Whereas during the Olympics in Sochi where they lost two players to injuries, none fell victim of the injury bug during the World Championships.
Team USA lost their elimination game against the Czech Republic, meaning the tournament came to an end for Jimmy Hayes, Vincent Trocheck, and Drew Shore.
It was a quiet tournament for all three players, combining for three points – two of which were by Shore. He scored one of the best goals of the tournament so far, a shorthanded goal against Germany.
Trocheck didn't register a point during the series but was among one of the best in the faceoff dot throughout the tournament. Hayes had a lone assist, and averaged less than ten minutes of ice-time per game.
Despite none of them really making a big splash during the tournament, all three picked up invaluable experience going into next year. Hayes established himself as a likely regular going into the upcoming year, but Trocheck and Shore will need any help they can get to get them a roster spot.
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A short video from this weekend!
Malta, here we come!
Yesterday I finally got the okay from my boss that I could take two days off of work. Well, I can't only blame my boss. We had talked about it, but then I forgot to put it in the computer system and when I remembered it last week I didn't get a replay until now. But anyway, I have tomorrow and friday off. So last night I booked a flight to Malta.
This trip has kind of been planned (without doing any actual planning, if you understand what I mean) for a month or two, and during this time my brother has been talking about coming with me. He hasn't been sure though, so I was actually quite surprised (pleasantly so) when he today decided to come with me. It'll be the first time we travel together.
So we're taking the car down to the airport tomorrow at 6.30 am. Early morning, but it'll be worth it!
A year later and it's time again!
A few days ago it was one year since we started school in Rangsit Thailand. It's crazy how fast time flies! And I still haven't sorted through all photos I took during last year, so I couldn't easily find any pictures from the first few days in Rangsit, but here are some random photos anyway.
Now, with it being three months since I left Thailand and the university in Rangsit it's time to start studying again. This time in Sweden though, and only as a part time student (while working full time). I just started the Master of Public Health Science Program at a university close to where I live. However, I will be a distance/online student. The entire program is a program without any physical classes or meet ups. Which is fantastic since it's four years of studying and I don't know how long I'll be staying here. But now I can study from anywhere in the world.
Planning a diving trip
Since I just started my job I can't take any vacation days this summer. In Sweden we get 2 vacation days for every month we work, and since I'm working 6 months, I get 12 vacation days. I want to use them to go diving. But my plan is to use two weeks (or maybe 1,5 week) in November or December and go to Mexico or somewhere else warm and sunny where I can spend some time on the beach as well as diving.
That leaves me with a couple of days that I would like to take in the end of August (but I think that's difficult, people aren't back from their summer vacations yet so I might not get the days off) or the beginning of September. With only a long weekend off, I can't travel very far, but I would like to dive in somewhat warm water (Norway and the UK feel too cold…). When I've done my "best diving in Europe" searches on Google one country keep popping up on the list: Malta.
The problem is now to figure out which dive center to go with. There's so many! Do anyone have any experience with diving in Malta? I'll take all the tips and ideas I can get.
Swedish thrillers
If there's something Sweden is good at, it's making thrillers. Swedish author Henning Mankell has written my favorite detective book series, and those books have resulted in over 30 movies. I was so happy to see that they had released a third season now.
So this is the movie my sister and I are watching now. In english the title would be translated into "missing" or "lost". Seems like a good movie this far!
The Wallander series has been remade by English BBC, but I have to say that I'm not a fan of British Kurt Wallander. All he does is crying and drinking? Not sure what's up with that.
Anyway, back to focusing on the movie!
Weekend in Stockholm
Last weekend I went to Stockholm to visit friends and my goddaughter. Since I don't have any vacation this summer, I could only go during the weekend. I left work early and took the 2 pm train south. The train was actually in time (which is unusual for being Swedish trains, believe it or not) and everything went smoothly.
Saturday I spent playing with my goddaughter and it was so much fun. I will never understand how children can have so much energy, it's impossible to keep up with them! We went to two different playgrounds, we played with cars, and the kitchen, and water and painted… When she had gone to bed and we were watching football I almost fell asleep sitting up. Had to go to bed during halftime, haha.
Sunday I was heading back home again. I had booked a bus ticket since the train had been too expensive to book earlier that day. After breakfast I headed to the metro to catch the train to the central station, that's where I hit trouble. The train came 13 minutes late and I ended up arriving at one end of the central station at 10.14 and the bus left from the other end at 10.15. I hurried to try to catch the bus incase it was late, but when I came to the busstation side of the station my bus had disappeared from the sign with all departing busses, so I couldn't even go see if it was still there.
Anyway, I found a rather "cheap" last minute train ticket so it was okay. That was the first time I ever missed a bus/train/flight, and I guess statistically I was just getting closer and closer to the day I would miss something. And it was a rather good day to miss the bus, compared to what it could have been. I was only heading home, after a weekend away. It could have been on the way down when I would have come down to Stockholm way too late instead, or could have been me missing a flight going abroad.
I ended up spending a few hours at a café, reading and people watching. Could have been worse, but of course it would have been better if I had been in time for the bus, or if I could have spent the extra time with my friends.
But overall I had a great weekend. So much fun seeing my friends and my goddaughter, and her younger sister of course (who's too young to play but so cute and happy all the time). One of the best things with being back in Sweden is to be close to my friends and family again.
Random thoughts
Did I tell you about the hours I spent on the train station in Bangkok watching the filming of a Thailand's Got Thailand intro? I was there hours before my train to the south left because I wanted to be sure I got a ticket (I was heading to Phuket for my diving trip) and was forced to watch the recording of the intro time and time again. It looks like it's all shoot in one sequence, but let me tell you it isn't. And no reactions are spontaneous, incase you were wondering.
Anyway, I just suddenly remembered it and started looking for it. It's the first intro thing in the following video. Don't ask me how I suddenly got thinking about it. It was easy to find though…


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Hello, I'm Bretta Riches, founder of Run Forefoot. I research biomechanics, specifically foot strike mechanics of forefoot running. I am an avid minimalist, forefoot runner who was once a heel striker. I launched Run Forefoot to help others understand and learn forefoot running.
The effortless forefoot strike running style of Ethiopian elite distance runners, Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele fuels my interest in foot strike mechanics. Unlike most joggers, Dibaba and Bekele are forefoot strikers and ran barefoot in their earlier years, which most likely accounts for their forefoot strike running style.
With regards to foot strike, I have been on both sides of the fence. When I began running, I was a heel striker, always sore, battling injuries to the point where I had difficulty walking.
After intensive research on biomechanics, I found that the scientific literature painted a grim picture of heel striking running, implicating that this style of running may be the underlying cause of most running-related injuries.
Statistically speaking, running injuries in habitually forefoot strike running populations were either very low, or rare, demonstrating that a forefoot strike may provide greater impact reduction than a heel strike when running. Lastly, I became inspired by Dibaba's forefoot running style which motivated me to learn forefoot running.
Although my transition to forefoot running certainly did not happen over night, as a forefoot striker, my landings are softer, regardless of surface hardness, running feels easier, more natural, I flow.
I may be far from elite status, but having adopted a forefoot strike allows me to run consistently with great results, without discomfort and injury.
I want to share my past transition process with you and provide key information from the scientific literature that helped me along the way. And, I want aspiring forefoot runners to learn from my mistakes by avoiding the 'too much, too soon' pitfall.
Nevertheless, my goal is to advocate the importance of running with a forefoot strike and raise awareness on the potential health harming effects of heel strike running.
Finally, by showing that forefoot running is safe and easy to learn, I hope to inspire more people to run and banish the false perception that running is 'dangerous'. Less pain, more gain with forefoot running.
Do whatever works for you. In my opinion, I believe the human form was designed to run with a forefoot strike, not a heel strike. Again, that is just my opinion which is certainly biased based on my bad experience with heel striking.
Many runners believe runners aren't built for 'this and that' and that is fine, to each their own. However, I also believe that if you are a heel striker, or a midfoot striker who has never been injured, keep doing what you are doing. But, for those who are chronically injured, adopting a forefoot strike might be a sensible alternative to consider.
What are your thoughts on this post? Were you impacted? Looking forward to hearing from you!
Harrison, PC and Davis, IS. Gait retraining to reduce lower extremity loading in runners. Clin Biomech (2010); 26: 74-83.
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Yes,I do! But, I like to do a video analysis for free as well!
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A couple of stories concerning the former Golden State Warriors head coach and current coach broke out on Saturday.
For one, Mark Jackson will be returning to his old gig at ESPN. Jackson reached a "multiyear agreement" with the network and will be calling games alongside Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy. In fact, you'll be able to hear him Sunday afternoon, as the trio will be calling Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Heat and Pacers.
Jackson spent five seasons at ESPN before being hired as Warriors' head coach in 2011. So, get ready to have the phrases "Mama, there goes that man," and "hand down, man down" ingrained in your head once again.
According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, Steve Kerr chose to become the Warriors head coach because Phil Jackson and the Knicks lowballed him.
Jackson offered Kerr a three-year, $13.2 million deal, before the Warriors jumped in with a four-year, $22 million offer. A source told Berman that Kerr "wasn't moving across the country for less money than the Warriors were offering."
If Jackson had given Kerr what he wanted, he would have gotten his man. Instead, the Knicks are stuck without a coach, while the Warriors have one of their top choices as head coach.


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Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard
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8 July 1960
Liverpool, England
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Christopher John Rennard, Baron Rennard (born 8 July 1960),[2] is a British life peer in the House of Lords, suspended in January 2014 from membership of the Liberal Democrats. He was appointed in December 2010 to chair a commission on the Big Society on behalf of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO).
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Rennard was educated at the Liverpool Blue Coat School[3] and gained a BA Hons Social Studies (1982) from University of Liverpool.[4] From the age of 12, Rennard was an active member of the Liberal Party. He began his political activism in Liverpool in the late 1970s where he chaired the University Liberals and Social Democrats. The Liberal Party's agent Trevor Jones, had a major influence on him. Rennard was Deputy Chair of the Liverpool Liberal Party and organised many of the party's successful election campaigns. His first successful parliamentary by-election campaign was Liverpool Edge Hill by-election in March 1979 at which the party's candidate was David Alton; Rennard was Alton's agent for the Liverpool Mossley Hill constituency in 1983 (after boundary changes) and helped to achieve a 14% swing against the Conservatives.[5]
In 1984, he became one of the party's national Area Agents based in Leicester when the party won its first seats there for over 20 years. He was a key member of many of the Liberal/Alliance by-election campaign teams including West Derbyshire by-election, 1986, and Greenwich by-election, 1987. He was a member of the standing committee of ALC (Association of Liberal Councillors) and wrote many of the party's publications on election campaigning and party organisation.
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In 1989, Rennard was appointed as Director of Campaigns and Elections for the Liberal Democrats. He married Ann McTegart[6] (whom he had met when they were both Liberal Party agents in Merseyside in the 1980s) and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1989 New Year Honours.[7]
In the general election of 1997 he oversaw the party's target-seat campaign, which resulted in the Liberal Democrats more than doubling its number of MPs from 18 to 46. In 2001 and 2005, with Tim Razzall (Baron Razzall) as Campaign Chair, and Charles Kennedy as Leader, he also directed the Liberal Democrats' general-election campaigns, which further increased the number of Lib Dem MPs to 52 and 62.
He was the party's Chief Executive between 2003 and 2009. During his employment with the Liberal Democrats at a national level he was credited with masterminding 12 parliamentary by-election wins for the party, out of 78 by-elections held between 1988 and 2009 (a success rate of 15%). Ten of those victories were gains; two others were holds. A by-election in Christchurch in Dorset during July 1993 saw the Liberal Democrats replace the Conservative Party in the seat by the largest swing against any UK government since 1918.[8]
Former party leader Charles Kennedy has described Rennard as "a quite extraordinary figure in British politics", while his predecessor Paddy Ashdown praised Rennard as "a formidable and widely-respected practitioner of political campaigning across all parties".[9] Iain Dale said in an interview in Total Politics (June 2011) that Rennard "is probably the most formidable and feared political campaigner of the last 20 years. It was he who invented the concept of "pavement politics".[10]
Concerning the 2001 general election, one frontbench Lib Dem is reported as saying:
- "Last time people didn't follow Chris [Rennard's] instructions and the difference between those who did and who didn't – like in the Isle of Wight [which the party lost] – was very clear. The message got through."[11]
Rennard is credited with pioneering the successful Lib Dem election strategy of claiming narrow majorities when in second or even third place and ruthlessly squeezing third party votes in Tory – Lib Dem and Labour – Lib Dem marginals.
Later posts[edit]
Rennard served as the Liberal Democrats Chief Executive from 2003 to 2009 during which time he was in overall charge of the party's election campaigns and organisation. His campaigns team continued to build the party's successes through by-elections such as Brent East by-election, 2003, Leicester South by-election, 2004, and Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, 2006, taking the Liberal Democrats to 63 MPs. He chaired the Liberal Democrat general election campaign between summer 2006 and summer 2009 when he stood down as Chief Executive of the Party.
Rennard announced that he would be standing down as chief executive of the Liberal Democrats in May 2009.[12] He indicated that he had discussed standing down some time earlier with the party leader, Nick Clegg, and that this was for family and health reasons, saying that he had "struggled to maintain good diabetic control with the rigours of a very demanding lifestyle".
Since relinquishing the full-time position, Chris Rennard has continued to contribute to party strategy. He has been appointed to Chair a Commission on Big Society set up by the ACEVO to articulate a civil society vision of what charities want to achieve through the Big Society agenda. Lord Rennard is also a trustee of the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), and a member of the Advisory Board of the Magna Carta Institute Brunel University and of the Advisory Council of 'Yes to Fairer Votes'.
Lord Rennard has been appointed a Vice President of the Local Government Association (LGA).
House of Lords[edit]
Rennard was created a life peer on 21 July 1999 as Baron Rennard, of Wavertree in the County of Merseyside,[13] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 27 July 1999,[14] where he originally sat on the Liberal Democrat benches. He is Treasurer of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Diabetes and a Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.
Lord Rennard is a frequent contributor in the House of Lords. He concentrates on Constitutional Affairs, Localism issues and health matters related to his interests in diabetes and the cessation of smoking.
Rennard was among a group of Parliamentarians whose expense claims came under scrutiny in May 2009. The allegations were investigated by the Clerk of the Parliaments Michael Pownall following a complaint by the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics.[15] Pownall's ruling did not uphold any of the complaint. Lord Rennard's case was the first of a number of similarly controversial complaints against several peers to be resolved.
Allegations of sexual harassment[edit]
On 21 February 2013 Channel 4 News ran a report on Lord Rennard, alleging a history of sexual harassment during his time as an official of the party.[16] He has strongly denied the allegations.[17]
The earliest claims about Rennard from within the Liberal Democrats go back to 2007 when two women met Paul Burstow, then the party's chief whip in the Commons, to raise the issue with him.[18] In a February 2013 statement shortly after Channel 4 News had broken the story, Nick Clegg wrote that claims about the improper conduct of Lord Rennard had been brought to his attention in 2008, but Rennard had denied any wrongdoing when challenged.[19] The "indirect and non-specific concerns" he had been told about meant that he could take no further action,[19] but his chief of staff at the time Danny Alexander had warned Rennard that the alleged behaviour would be "wholly unacceptable".[20] A subsequent independent report in June 2013 by Helena Morrissey concerning Clegg's conduct in 2008 concluded that he should have ordered an independent inquiry into Rennard's alleged behaviour at that time.[21]
On 23 April, the Metropolitan Police announced they were investigating Lord Rennard into allegations of sexual harassment, seeking corroborating evidence and asking for any witnesses to come forward.[22] On 26 September 2013, the Metropolitan Police announced they had dropped the investigation as they had found "insufficient evidence".[23]
The Liberal Democrat party conducted an internal inquiry, chaired by Alistair Webster QC. On 15 January 2014, the inquiry concluded that there was broadly credible evidence of "behaviour which violated the personal space and autonomy of the complainants". It was "unlikely that it could be established beyond reasonable doubt that Lord Rennard had intended to act in an indecent or sexually inappropriate way".[24]
In response, the president of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron asked Lord Rennard to apologise to the women involved. It was reported in The Daily Telegraph that Nick Clegg had stated that "it is right that Chris Rennard has been asked in this report to apologise, to reflect on his behaviour." Clegg went on to state that Rennard would not be "playing any role in my general election plans for the campaign in 2015." The Telegraph further reported that Clegg had been accused, by the alleged victims of Rennard, of "cowardice" for his position on the matter.[25]
On 20 January 2014 Rennard was suspended from the Liberal Democrats, after he refused to apologise over the claims. He stated that he may take legal action against the party.[26] Rennard's suspension will last 14 weeks while the party investigates whether it has been brought into disrepute by Rennard's refusal to apologise "for causing distress to a number of women".[27] Rennard is seeking legal advice over whether the Liberal Democrats have correctly followed their procedures, and at least one of the women involved is considering a civil action.[27]
A statement was issued by Rennard on 21 August 2014:
|All allegations made about Lord Rennard have now been investigated thoroughly. This included a seven month investigation by specially trained officers of the Metropolitan Police. The police decided that there could be no charges and did not even a send a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. In addition, there was a lengthy investigation by independent QC Alistair Webster. He also concluded that there was insufficient evidence even to proceed to a disciplinary hearing. The Liberal Democrat Party has now dealt with all the allegations and the matter is closed. We must advise anyone against publishing or broadcasting defamatory remarks. Accusations that were rejected by both the Metropolitan Police and an independent QC would be treated as such.[28]
- ^ a b "Lord Rennard". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ Westminster Parliamentary Record. "Westminster Parliamentary Record". Publications.parliament.uk.
- ^ Hansard, House of Lords. "House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings, 9th January 2003". Publications.parliament.uk.
- ^ University of Liverpool. "University of Liverpool Events, 6th July 2012".
- ^ Iain Dale interview with Lord Rennard. "Iain Dale interview with Lord Rennard".
- ^ The Peerage. "The Peerage".
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51578. p. 15. 31 December 1988.
- ^ "Top Ten Lib Dem 'breakthrough moments'". Epolitix.com. 24 April 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Paddy Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries: Volume One, 1988-1997 (Penguin, London, 2000) p.64
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Branigan, Tania (8 April 2005). "Kennedy launches big push for 70-plus seats". The Guardian (London).
- ^ "Chris Rennard Personal Letter to Members".[dead link]
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 55564. p. 8076. 27 July 1999.
- ^ Minute Office, House of Lords. "House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings, 27 July 1999". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Complaint against Lord Rennard". www.parliament.uk. House of Lords. 20 October 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ^ Newman, Cathy (21 February 2013). "Lib Dems allegations of sexual impropriety". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ "Lord Rennard denies sexual impropriety claim". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ Rowena Mason "Timelime of the Lord Rennard sexual harassment allegations", telegraph.co.uk, 12 June 2013
- ^ a b "Clegg aware of 'concerns' about Lord Rennard", Channel 4 News, 24 February 2013
- ^ Juliette Jowit and Steven Morris "Nick Clegg admits he heard of Rennard 'concerns' in 2008", The Guardian, 24 February 2013
- ^ Rowena Mason "Nick Clegg 'should have ordered Rennard sex harassment inquiry after 2008 warnings'", telegraph.co.uk, 12 June 2013
- ^ "Met Police Formally Investigate Lord Rennard". http://news.sky.com. Sky News. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ Syal, Rajeev (26 September 2013). "Police drop Lord Rennard sexual misconduct inquiry". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- ^ Ross Hawkins (15 January 2014). "BBC News - No action against Lib Dem Rennard over sex harassment claims". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Nick Clegg accused of 'cover up' and 'cowardice' as Lord Rennard is cleared". Daily Telegraph. 15 January 2014.
- ^ "Lord Rennard suspended from the Lib Dems amid apology row". Bbc.co.uk. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Rennard may take legal action over Lib Dem suspension", BBC News, 21 January 2014
- ^ Statement from Lord Rennard Liberal Democrat Voice, 21 August 2014 Accessed 22 August 2014
External links[edit]
- Profile From The Guardian, July 2004.
- Interview with Lord Rennard [2] From Third Sector February 2011
- Article on the AV Referendum [3] From The Guardian March 2011
- In depth interview with Lord Rennard for Civil Society [4]
- In conversation with Iain Dale for Total Politics [5] June 2011
- Lord Rennard's article about the Big Society [6] June 2011
- The They Work For You website [7]


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In the game Neighbours from Hell, the player creeps around the neighbours house performing tricks upon the unsuspecting resident. The player is the star of a new TV show with the same name, with cameras that track every move as the player sets traps such as sawing the chair, banana peels/soap on the floor, smeared paintings and messing with home equipment. The game's objectives are to create disarray, increase ratings, and win awards. Obstacles in the game include the watchful neighbour himself, also – his guard dog, and a parrot called Chilli, both of whom will try to alert the Neighbour of Woody's presence.
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TownFunder – alternative, attainable funding eventBy Jamie • Nov 28th, 2012 • Category: Events, Insight December 2012, Insight January 2013, News
Alternative, Attainable Funding for Town Improvement Projects
5th March 2013, Central Birmingham
Sponsored by Unity Trust Bank
'Top down', large Government funding programmes for town and neighbourhood improvement schemes are in short supply. Those that do exist have been hugely oversubscribed. Towns can commit enormous amounts of time to writing funding bids with no certainty of the result.
But a new breed of alternative financing is emerging. Crowdfunding, community share issues, community development finance and alternative, ethical financial institutions can all be used to fund and finance towns' plans for improvement. Many towns have successfully used these kind of schemes already. Can your town or neighbourhood benefit?
TownFunder is brought to you by Action for Market Towns, a national charity and membership organisation supporting several hundred towns (and some cities) across the UK.
Building on our expertise and long experience of how to make town improvement projects that work, TownFunder will help you to understand:
- the new funding landscape and how it can benefit you
- how to structure a Community Share Issue
- whether Crowdfunding is for you – and if so how to choose a platform, write an offer, and market it to your community
- what community development finance can offer towns and neighbourhoods
- how to approach 'ethical lenders' who can support your community asset transfer or help to finance your community enterprises
- generating revenue through ideas like a town lottery
This packed one-day national event comes at a critical time for towns and cities. With central government funding both harder and more competitive to secure than ever, but a huge appetite for schemes to develop places and localities, towns, cities and neighbourhoods need to understand how new and alternative funding methods can work for them.
And as an added bonus, all delegates have the opportunity to submit their own town improvement project for potential funding. 5 projects will be selected and will present their idea at TownFunder. Delegates will choose one winner which will receive £500 to fund their project.
Venue – city centre, Birmingham
BVSC, The Centre for Voluntary Action, 138 Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6DR.
Close to Birmingham New Street and Moor Street stations, BVSC offers excellent modern, comfortable facilities. Location map and directions are here.
The programme
Speakers and workshop presenters include Ben Hughes, CEO of the Community Development Finance Association; Andrew Teacher, Director of PR & Communication of crowdfunding platform (and Big Venture Challenge winner) Spacehive; Simon Borkin from the Community Shares Unit; technology expert Barry James; a speaker from Unity Trust Bank on investment readiness for capital projects; Barbara Cooper of Community Energy Warwickshire; and Richard Dixon of Sterling Lotteries.
The programme includes 8 practical, participatory workshops and will also feature real life example towns that have secured funding from all of the methods we cover – delegates will return to their towns armed with knowledge of how to secure the finance they need!
We've assembled a fantastic array of 'thinking and doing' speakers and workshop leaders – read more about them here.
You can view the programme and workshops in full here or download the programme as a pdf here.
Who should attend TownFunder?
- Town teams and town partnerships
- Town and parish councils
- Town trusts
- Chambers of Trade and of Commerce
- Business organisations
- Town centre managers
- Local authority officers
- Fundraisers
- Community enterprises
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- Advisors and consultants
- Academics, researchers and policymakers
Like most AMT events we expect TownFunder to be oversubscribed.
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We are very grateful to Unity Trust Bank for their sponsorship of TownFunder.
Jamie is Jamie is Towns Alive's Communications and External Affairs Manager and works for Towns Alive for 1 day per week looking after press, external affairs, website content, social media, marketing, some events and some membership support.
A freelance consultant to charities, social enterprises and small businesses, Jamie co-founded and was managing director of the respected 'New Start magazine' (now owned by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies) and has worked in a PLC. Jamie lives in Sheffield, is an active rock climber and mountain biker, and is a volunteer board member for a local social enterprise.
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WASHINGTON -- Fifteen or 16-hour workdays are normal for Jean Bager.
The same goes for Juan Manuel and Gloria Benedikt. All three are from the D.C. region.
Each says they work much more than the typical eight-hour workday, but that's contrary to a new study that found Americans worked an average of 7.6 hours each workday.
The 2013 American Time Use Survey, published Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provided insight into how Americans spend their days -- including how much they work, how they split household labor and how they spend their free time.
"My time -- I spend every second of it doing something," says Bager, who lives in Maryland. "It's after 3 [p.m.], and we're just taking a break. We're just having lunch."
For Manuel, "Eight hours is just like saying a fairy tale. ... I have to work from 8 (a.m.) to sometimes 10 o'clock at night.
"Sometimes you have to spend more time at the office or even outside of the office."
The study found that people living with children younger than 6 had about an hour less of free time, on average, each day than employed people without children living with them.
Benedikt has free time, but it's hard to enjoy.
"The time you consider work and the time that is spare time -- there's no real distinction," says Benedikt, who lives in Georgetown.
"You kind of never stop, but you're actually not as efficient as you could be. It's just you don't make that time to take a break."
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Explore Yellowstone's dynamic beauty through the Atlas of Yellowstone, published in 2012 by the University of Oregon. A collaboration between the museum and the UO InfoGraphics Lab, this exhibit celebrates the world's first national park through large-scale maps, photography, video, and a variety of remarkable historical objects.
On view through October 19, 2014.
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The people behind the Atlas (L to R): Alethea Steingisser, Ann Rodman, James Meacham, and Andrew Marcus
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In 2006, Alabama Crimson Tide football was at a crossroads. What had once been the hallowed ground on which Bear Bryant trod, was a killing field where opposing teams could score with near impunity.
A series of bad decisions by those in power had put the Tide football program in the hands of a series of increasingly unworthy hands. It was time for a change.
In the face of opposition by some UA power brokers who wanted a safe hire, director of athletics Mal Moore made a bold gamble, pursuing an NFL coach that could potentially change the landscape of SEC football.
With the future of Alabama football in the balance, Moore courted and landed Nick Saban; the rest is, literally, college football history.
Alabama basketball is at a similar crossroads.
After a second half implosion against Missouri this past weekend, Alabama sits at 8-9 on the season and hosts 15-2 Florida on Thursday. To say an Alabama win would be an upset is to state the blindingly obvious.
Crimson Tide head coach Anthony Grant rode a wave of positive press in his first season at Alabama. He's well-liked, and represents Alabama with class and dignity. Further, he preaches solid defense, and slows down games so they don't become shootouts. None of that is in dispute.
However, Grant is 27-46 versus RPI top 100 teams in his four-plus seasons. He is 6-31 against the top 50. He has coached the Tide to 18 straight losses against the top 50.
Alabama's offense is, in a word, stagnant. The Tide rank 223rd overall in points per game, and 125th in field goal percentage. Alabama slows it down on defense because they have to; there's no chance they will win a scoring contest.
Alabama's recruiting has not been as good as expected, and player development is a concern. Outside of Trevor Releford, does Alabama have anything close to a scoring threat?
Another missing piece seems to be halftime adjustments. If what Alabama does in the first half isn't working, the solution seems to be more of the same.
Anthony Grant is being paid nearly $2 million for the product he puts on the court. Five years in, that product is in a state of regression. Fans are staying home in droves, and the excitement that Tide football, softball and gymnastics have brought to the Capstone is nowhere to be found in Coleman Coliseum on game nights.
Current athletic director Bill Battle will soon have a decision to make, based on his goals for the Crimson Tide basketball program. Perhaps fielding a team is enough; Alabama is football-first, and no school can excel in both football and basketball at the same time, right?
Pipe down, Gator fans.
Some are calling for Anthony Grant to be fired, while others insist that one more year is just the cure. It's very much like the divide among Alabama fans when Mike Shula strode the sidelines. Shula was a good man in a bad situation, so the refrain went, and all he needed was more time.
Shula ran out of time when the Alabama fan base, and Mal Moore, ran out of patience. It remains to be seen how patient Bill Battle and the Tide basketball fans are, but one thing is becoming increasingly clear:
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