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Of course I'm not related to all these memorials!
Help me link all these memorials in Polk County, Iowa. All info I have added come from census's, SSI, cemetery records, and YOUR info. I do not keep records of where this info comes from. Please send obits, etc by CLICKING ON THE EDIT TAB IN THE UPPER RIGHT OF THE MEMORIAL. You can do a lot of corrections yourself now! Send transfer requests, obits, etc. by clicking on the "Suggest..." button & I'll do those ASAP. And remember... EVERYBODY is adding corrections!
Please, Please, Please do the corrections that you can do yourself, because my cable provider is now charging by the mile, so help me out!
It's getting so cool now! There are so many memorials & people are adding so many links. It pleases me so much that people can add a memorial & immediately connect to parents. I do a lot of connecting from censuses & it's so great to find HUGE families already connected.
Those of you who add memorials from obits, add the obits that don't list a cemetery too. I know it's time-consuming to transcribe, but Find-a-Grave is removing the scanned images of obits big time now, so be safe & transcribe. What a pain! We may never find the gravestone, but at least the obit will be saved!
With the addition of the public cemeteries in Polk county adding records on line (http://cemeterysearch.dmgov.org/), I have SLOWLY
been adding memorials for people who have no stone. I will generally add a family stone or someone else's stone from that lot so that you can find the location of the lot. If I was dedicated to just a few surnames, I would hunt endlessly for the stones, however, that doesn't mean YOU can't go looking in your family lots. You may also add a stone for someone who has none by buying a stepping stone kit & a bag of letters & numbers. No idea how long it will last, but take a photo & put it on the memorial!
It's very easy for me to approve your edits when you add them yourself. Now having gone thru tens of thousands of records for Woodland cem, I have found lots that are missing or incorrect. You can check yourself. To get these records corrected, the RELATIVES must call the cemetery & request a search of records & correction. Expect a long process. I've found entire lots of stones with the same surname, & yet the records show each interment with a slightly different spelling.
Feel free to ask me to transfer. Even though my goal is to link everybody to everybody else, I'll need your help! And if I transfer it to you, be sure to add stuff! You must be a member of FAG to maintain a memorial. See instructions on the left under "Help with Find A Grave."
Please be patient! My e-mail is pretty heavy. Most e-mails are straight forward. Do this, transfer that, but then there's those ones that get me scurrying around in the files trying to find a trail, a connection, a vague memory of something, someone. The more memorials I add, the burieder I get.
Also remember, there are mistakes on gravestones. Mistakes on marriage records, death certificates, birth records, census records. Recent records appear to be more accurate, but people have told me of engravers making mistakes on very recent stones. Whatever info is on a memorial, it's the LATEST info provided.
And remember-I make typos all the time. Let me know or correct it yourself. Lots of my info comes from 1925 Iowa census. If you see "s/o Joe Blow & Bibbity Boo", I'm just copying it straight from the census and they've got terrible spelling & transcription mistakes.
I have a challenge for those of you who do not live in Iowa. Snoop around in Find-a-Grave & find obits or look for them by Googling a name. (easiest way: Full Name followed by city) As more & more memorials are added here, it becomes easier to link children to parents, wives to husbands.
I'm finally getting better at taking photos. At first, the max was 50k. Very bad photos! Now it's 8M. What a difference!
So here's what I know:
Sunny, Sunny, Sunny. Early morning, you can get light under the trees. Late afternoon, you can get light under the trees. Summer's full of plants, decorations & grass clippings. Fall's full of leaves & mud. Spring's full of mud & peonies. Winter light is poor but no leaves! Plus you get the light at an angle that creates shadows you may not get in June. You need to go in the morning & in the afternoon, every season. The hardest is the north facing stones. Iowa is not known for its north sun. Luckily there are not many such stones. You may have to go back several times to get a good shot. I use a 2" paintbrush to clean stones. A nice one for grass clippings, an old one for dirt & mud. Scissors for clipping grass. If you are doing very old stones, remember shadows. You can create them by using a 4' mirror, the kind you tack to the closet door & it costs around $5-$15. Helps to have a helper but sometimes that's not possible. Just play with the mirror until you can cast sunlight at an angle across the stone, creating shadows that make the stone legible. Have fun!
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S. McCoskey
Maria Velman
So, you lost me. How can I help you?
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on Oct 08, 2015 4:14 PM
Johnson Transfer?
Would you please transfer?
Charles Johnson - 102724566
Christine Johnson - 102727845
Mildred Johnson - 102726315
they are my gg grand parents and my gg aunt
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Neal Hesser
Grave Memorial# 51202459
Can you provide any evidence that Mary is the daughter of this Sarah?
1. The 1850, 1860 and 1856 Iowa census all support Mary being in 1848.
2. The George Hesser book "The History of the Hesser Family" says Mary's Father was born in 1830. (Supported by the 1850 and 1856 census...but not the 1860 (1860-26 = 1834)
1. Using the 1850 census Mary's mother would has been born abt. 1830. But I think this may be a lie, as she didn't want to admit to being several years older than her husband.
2. The 1856 Iowa census, supports this with John born in 1830 and Sarah in 1824.
3. Thus the 1860 census should show John as 30 (vice 26) and Sarah as 36 (vice 30) and looking at the document both scribbles are perhaps possible.
Possibly, she was born in 1822 and was 8 years older than her husband and just want to live the lie...which would be proven if you can help me verify that Mary is the daughter of the Sarah.
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Jon Richeson
Thank you so much for letting me know where he is buried. I really appreciate you taking the time to send me a message.
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Paul Anderson
Thanks Katie for transfering Paul and Ruby to me. I appreciate it.
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Cheryl M.
Alvena Brandt Hill
The headstone that is pictured sunken is fixed I spent over a hour fixing it the cementery wanted to charge ahuge amount to fix it Every Year I spend the day caring for the graves of my loves that have past Are you related to Alvena?? I think I have a picture of it after i fixed it Thanks for posting this Memorial Cheryl M.
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Elizabeth Slayden
Thank you for the photo. I was so glad to find her on findagrave. She is my gg grandmother. I am researching my family history and was wondering in remarks you had Joseph may have been her second husband. Do you remember why you thought that. I am wondering if Campbell is her maiden name or 1st husband's name. She is buried with her daughter and son-in-law. Any information would be appreciated. Joanne Slayden Hughey
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Katie Lou-
I am doing research for my children and grandchildren. Frank was my ex father-in-law and my children's grandfather. Could you transfer the memorial to me?
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Martha Cram
Hi Katie Lou,
Thank you so much for the pictures of Frank and Martha Cram's headstones. Martha was a huge brick wall for me as I couldn't find her death information anywhere.
Again, many thanks.
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Thank you so much for the photos
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Pats Peak annual 'homecoming' is a chance to feel the fall
HENNIKER — Though the highlights of most Oktoberfest celebrations may be beer and bratwurst, at Pats Peak Ski Area, the annual event marks the beginning of a new ski season.
"Beer and bratwurst are great," said Jim Wall, director of services at Pats Peak, "but for us, Oktoberfest is really kind of a homecoming."
Oktoberfest will be celebrated on Pats Peak on Sunday, Nov. 3, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and features a breadth of activities for kids and grown-ups.
Wall said the annual event reminds him of homecomings celebrated at high schools in the Midwest where he grew up, but instead of college kids returning to their alma maters, it's staff and instructors coming back to the mountain.
Though the ski area works with a skeleton crew of about 25 during the off-season, Wall said at Oktoberfest, many of the 900 to 1,000 seasonal employees, including 300 ski instructors, pay a pre-season visit to the mountain to hoist a stein and reconnect before the snow starts to fly.
"We see faces at Oktoberfest that we haven't seen since last March," said Wall.
Many of the mountain's customers and season's pass holders also attend the event to cash in on the last discounted passes of the season, and to attend the ski and snowboard sale held as part of the day's activities. The sale runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and donated items that are sold to benefit a junior ski-racer non-profit.
"The Ski and Snowboard Sale is an excellent opportunity to get excited for upcoming winter season by buying new equipment for ski season," said Wall.
The Oktoberfest celebration at Pats Peak is free, and includes all the trappings of an authentic German festival including German food, beer, and the music of King Ludwig's Bavarian Band.
To get a bird's-eye view of the festivities, there will be chairlift rides, and the rugged types will enjoy both the woodsmen show and the timberart chainsaw sculpture demonstrations. The New Hampshire Cowboy Mounted Shooters will perform their daring tricks, and a few brave souls will show off their skijoring skills (skiing while being pulled by horses, dogs or even cars).
"The Oktoberfest celebration is the place to be to celebrate fall. "Even if you don't ski or snowboard, it's a fun time to hang out and take in the gorgeous views of the mountain."
And while the 11th annual Oktoberfest may include adult beverages, the event is always family-friendly, said Wall.
"Everything we do here at Pats Peak has to pass the family litmus test," Wall said. "Our face painting line is always longer than the beer line."
A special place for kids called "Bear-varia" is the center of activity for the younger set and includes candy apple decorating, the donut dangle, keg bowling, and a bouncy house that resembles a castle.
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Hmm, then that leaves me wondering about Huston's claim. I mean, I don't think he was a big Trek fan or trying to impress anyone. I mean, I'm the Trekkie in my family; my father was neutral toward it, and he was the one Huston told, as was the
Maybe Huston misremembered and it was a different series from the '60s that he did it for. Or maybe he just assisted Courage with some of the arrangements for those two episodes? If he was Courage's arranger for those episodes and the
episodes, but not the TOS pilot and first-season scores, that could explain the similarities and differences cited above.
Scott Huston
isn't someone who would've been known as a film/TV composer. He was mainly a composer of orchestral and choral music (and one opera) and a longtime member of the CCM faculty. He did write the music for a locally produced TV documentary series about Cincinnati history back in the '80s -- probably 1988, since that was the city's 200th anniversary -- and that's probably around the time he was interviewed in the
Anyway, thanks to
and Lukas Kendall for clearing this up for me. I can't say I'm not disappointed; for more than half my life I've believed that I was just a couple of degrees of separation from someone who'd written music for
Star Trek
, and that as a result I was privy to a little-known secret, albeit one I've wanted to make known for a long time. It's not easy to discover that something like that isn't true. But at least now I have a solid answer about who scored those episodes. Although that leaves the mystery of why Huston
he'd done them, which is probably unanswerable. (Is there any way to find out whether he might've assisted Courage as an orchestrator?)
Oh, well. My father did interview David Bell once, years before he became a Trek composer. Not as cool as the Huston connection would've been, but it's something...
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A magazine called "Al Qaeda Airlines" has surfaced on the internet and is filled with how-to guides on conducting terrorist attacks like the Boston Marathon bombing.
The 676-page "rivista" aims to encourage "lone wolf" terrorist attacks like the Boston bombing. Various stories tell the reader how to create homemade weapons of mass casualties like pressure-cooker bombs.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center discovered the Al-Qaeda documents along with other jihadist materials. Information in the other publications showed how to make napalm, build radio-controlled detonation devices and how to start forest fires.
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"Whoever does not die by the sword dies by poison," read the message with the instructions.
"The Internet has allowed people with hate to be able to hate even more and be able to carry out some things that would have been impossible before," Democrat Representative Eliot Engel of New York said. "They can easily resort to violence and have it at their fingertips. As a New Yorker who lived through 9/11, and we all lived through Boston more recently, it's probably just [un segno] of what's to come."


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ATLANTA — MARTA will conduct its annual emergency training exercise involving a staged emergency incident at College Park Station from 8 p.m. Oct. 5 until 5 a.m. on Oct. 6.
According to a MARTA press release the annual training exercises and drills are intended to provide the opportunity for the MARTA Police Department, MARTA staff and other emergency response agencies to address simulated incidents such as terrorist attacks, pandemics or natural disasters in real-life settings.
MARTA officials said in the press release, the exercise will have a minimal impact on regular service, and the major portions of the exercise will occur either at the end of or after revenue service.
Street closures will take effect at approximately 11 p.m. on Oct. 5. These closures are listed above.
Emergency vehicles will be on-site and running, with responders simulating normal responses. Residents of the vicinity of the station may hear loud noises, combined with light and smoke in the area. The use of sirens and public address systems will be limited to reduce the overall level in the neighborhood surrounding College Park Station.
With this exercise, MARTA is serving as a test location for a joint U.S. Transportation Security Administration Intermodal Security Training and Exercise Program (I-STEP), designed to enhance security capabilities, build partnerships and gain valuable insights into transportation security.
This year's emergency drill is being conducted in coordination with the TSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the College Park Fire and Police Departments, the East Point Fire and Police Departments, Atlanta Police and Fire Departments and other local partners.
The Federal Transit Administration and Department of Homeland Security require that transit agencies of MARTA's size conduct these training exercises to evaluate plans and response capabilities in the event of an emergency situation.
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I've just made my first porridge and I think I must have done something wrong. It was really weirdly lumpy and had a horrible consistency. Any tips for improving it?
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I've just made my first porridge and I think I must have done something wrong. It was really weirdly lumpy and had a horrible consistency. Any tips for improving it?
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I had the plain porridge yesterday and I've just finished the apple and cinnamon, both are pretty poor - I ended up drinking them?! I think some of the lumps are supposed to imitate porridge oats..?
It seems to make a bit of a difference whether/how much you stir them when they come out of the microwave, but I think I'm going to switch to the recipe ideas for the shakes, lattes etc, for breakfast once I've used up the porridge I've got.
Hope it's all going well!
I had my first Porridge this morning, I mixed it in the shaker bottle first then put it in a bowl it heat it up. It only had a few small lumps and as Cherryhead has said i think they were suposed to imitate porridge oats. I made it up with slighly less water and it was quite nice.
Hey, thanks for the input both.
On my second attempt I used a blender before microwaving it and it was much better although still weird. I'll try less water tomorrow I think. I also think that there won't be any porridge on my next order. ....
I keep hearing rumours of making biscuits with it. Could such wonders possibly be true?
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I saw a recipe for biscuits made from the porridge, I think it might've been on the lighterlife threads - you make it up as a paste, I can't remember if you bake or microwave it though, sorry.
Thanks lovely. I actually swapped most of mine with a nice girl on a fb group. I might try biscuits with what is left.
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Had a new idea this morning.
I split / mix alot of my meal packets. So today I added 10g of chocolate shake to a pack of normal porridge. An idea I got from the old army ration packs. (Mixing chocolate drinking powder with the rolled oats mix)
It was really nice, just have to remember to add slightly less water to the shake later on today.
With the porridge I always use less water than it says you need - I find quite a lot of the packets recommend more water than is needed actually. I use 150ml and it comes out a lot thicker and tastier. X
I just tried my first porridge. It didn't come out well at all so now I'm a pack down on my first day. I'll definately try these tips when making my next one tomorrow.x
If peeps here don't like porridge i will happily swap it as its my fave!
I am still not getting on with the shepherds pie either, no matter what's done to it :-/
I have to admit - i like the porridge too
I have the apple and cinnamon porridge and i hate it! I loved the shepards pie though! My fave is the spag bol, I could just eat that forever lol! I found the choc bars to be a bit gooey? x
I bet you like the turkey dinner too? Shout if you want to swap as I am about to stick a load on Ebay this morning otherwise! Oh those and the mushroom risotto as I find that totally vile - they need to make it chicken risotto! lol
I don't like mushrooms so have never tried the risotto I haven't tried turkey dinner either lol! How many shepards pie do you have? Your only in warrington? I could meet you as I am just along the m62 xx


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May 3rd, 2014 9:04 AMMrElephantOh I didnt know that. By the way how does Jambo on here block off everything like post a visitor message, friends , and everything else? I was just wondering as I go around looking at old posts (Man I wish hackmew was back. I think I found him on facebook though with his real name)
May 3rd, 2014 9:00 AMChristosThat's an alt account I registered so I can keep that username, wouldn't want someone else taking it, haha. :P
The Beginner's Lounge was created to replace the Simple Questions thread. So you can post a new thread there with screenshots/information of your problem and you can get help.
May 3rd, 2014 8:42 AMMrElephantThat sounds like the easier way of doing it. Maybe I should do that. By the way here is the other fake christos profile http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=468058 Also for some reason some of my tiles are appearing pink inside the game. Do you know where I could ask someone about that besides the simple questions thread?
May 3rd, 2014 8:39 AMChristosWell I usually just keep the levels of the trainers in the game I'm editing, then adjust accordingly when I play through the game.
May 3rd, 2014 8:36 AMMrElephantHey you and I should exchange games that we have made and tell each other what we think about them. I have actually advanced pretty far into this last game I have made, but since I have inserted new tiles I have been redoing the maps (because the maps got all messed up). But after I do the map redoing I should send you my game. Also I am planning on making the trainers a little bit weaker since I think the game is too hard. (what is the proper way of leveling up trainers when making a game?)
May 3rd, 2014 8:28 AMChristosWell if all you have is an idea, you can always start off by posting a thread in the Beginner's Lounge.
EmberOrange never advanced very far, though Liquid Ocean has been restarted too many times, there's even versions of it I haven't released.
May 3rd, 2014 7:58 AMMrElephantOh haha man am I out of this or what. Sorry about the confusion. Also Pokemon Liquid Ocean and Pokemon Ember Orange sound like cool games (just wondering why you didnt put up a beta for ember orange). I actually havent ever been able to submit a good enough game on here that the mods liked But I am working on a good one right now and hopefully will post it soon.
May 3rd, 2014 7:51 AMChristosThat was actually me. I usually go by Christos, this is just a temporary name change.
May 3rd, 2014 7:49 AMMrElephantIt is kind of funny because I saw someone named christos inside the chatbox on kiwi or whatever on here and I thought that person was you. But it turns out someone stole your old name. For some reason I can never keep track of name changes.
Also thanks for getting back to me on my question. I have always wondered about it.
May 3rd, 2014 7:29 AMChristosThat's not really a screenshot from a hack.Yes, I'm back, and I changed my name for 3 months, because I can. :)
May 2nd, 2014 10:13 AMMrElephantHey you are back? Maybe? I have wondering for a long time how you did that picture in your profile up there ^ The sprite is obviously bigger than 64x64 . Can you point me to a tutorial or something? Also just a side question why did you change your name?
November 17th, 2012 7:21 AMMrElephantHey Cristos I was just wondering how you made the person appear like that in your profile picture. (You know the one of the girl mentioning the leaves blocking the entrance).
April 13th, 2012 11:39 AMMrElephantHow did you do that ^
How did you get her to pop up?
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With the recent change in cookie law, the topics of privacy and the tracking of our online behaviours are becoming increasingly hot.
So is personalisation. But when a more personalised experience means a trade-off in personal data, how do we create better online experiences while respecting the privacy of the user?
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Ethics in mind, a growing number of studies are starting to look at the relationships between online behaviours and personality, with interesting results.
We've touched on this subject in previous posts, and now researchers are finding increasingly ingenious and non-invasive ways to measure our personalities remotely.
Previous studies have found correlations between extroversion and the speed of human movement [1], with extroverts interacting faster with the user interface than introverts [2]. Now, psychologists are finding that some of the main personality traits can be measured from our keyboard and mouse use.
Different strokes
In 2008, Kahn et al. devised an experiment in which they could measure their users' personality profiles without needing their explicit involvement. Their setup was straightforward – they would measure participants' interactive behaviours by recording the log files of their keyboard and mouse interactions.
To determine personality, they used a short online test designed to measure the Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism [3].
Then, capturing the type of application that was in use at specific event time (such as Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, etc) they aimed to identify users' personality types and their keyboard and mouse behaviour with each different application.
The result? They found that by recording the standard deviation of the average time between events, they could gain insight into a users' activity level, a sub trait of extraversion. In laymen's terms, the faster the time between events, the more likely the individual was an extrovert.
Although it may not sound ground-breaking (this is one of the earliest studies of its kind), Kahn et al.'s research suggests that it might well be possible to measure aspects of our personalities from the way we use our mouse and keyboard.
Business implications
These are early days, but if further research is able to establish a firm link between keyboard and mouse use and personality traits, this quick and easy technique may come to replace more tedious, traditional questionnaire-based psychometric tests.
It goes without saying that if you understand the personality profile of your users, this can help online businesses to personalise their online experience to boost engagement. For instant if you know what kind of user interface your users prefer, you can tailor that interface with a skin that is relevant to that particular trait [4].
Facing the future…
Of course, if we're moving towards a more gestural model of interacting with out online worlds (swiping your iPhone and using gestures in online gaming tools such as the Wii) then the question may become not how do we measure personality through binary keyboard clicks, but rather through an altogether more expressive, qualitative medium altogether.
Want to know more?
[1] Doucet, C. and Stelmack, R.M. (1997) Movement time differentiates extraverts from introverts. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, pp. 775-786
[2] Saati, B., Salem, M. & Brinkman, W.-P., Towards customized user interface skins: investigating user personality and skin colour, Proceedings of HCI 2005, vol. 2, pp. 89-93, 2005.
[3] Buchanan., T., Johnson., J. A., and Goldberg., L. R. (2005). Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the internet. European J. of Psychological Assessment. vol. 21, pp. 115-127
[4] Fine, N. and Brinkman, W-P. (2004). Avoiding Average: Recording Interaction Data to Design for Specific User Groups. In M. Rauterberg Entertainment Computing – ICEC-2004 p.398- 401. Berlin: Springer.
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May 12th 2010
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Ultra-Marathon Madness:
The visible skyline on the transfer from the airport made for a welcoming sight. No pollution! Apparently the 2008 Olympic games had transformed Beijing form a typical Chinese city into a city that was more in tune with the west. It was a relief to see what could have been any major city in North America or Europe. Still, with only a few days before my first race (The North Face 100k), I had to hit the ground running. I needed to pick up race packets, find transfer, buy food, etc.
After dropping off baggage at my temporary residence, I took the subway down to The North Face's flagship store to retrieve my race packet. While it was faster than a taxi, it was anything but tranquil. I have never seen so many people on a subway. Packed like sardines in a can, there was no room for the personal space. However, because I was taller than most, it made little difference to me. Still, I felt sorry for the shorter ones in the group. As the saying goes, "a crowded elevator smells different to a midget"; or something like
Beijing Subway
that. You get the point. None the less, I continued on, picked up my packet without incident, and over the next two days, squared things away so I could relax as much as possible.
At 0230 Saturday morning I found myself in a car somewhere outside of Beijing, China. I had been somewhat anxious earlier that morning because the only transfer that I could find was from a so-called tour guide on the street the day before. I had negotiated a price with him in advance, but was unsure if he would show. True to his word, he appeared early that morning and we were off. Isn't it funny how things workout.
After the hour ride, I was dumped out at a stadium where I boarded a bus with about 9 million other Chinese and a smoking bus driver. Again, it was so packed that for many there was standing room only. Consequently, I was fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to get a seat, which made me the midget in the crowded elevator.
After our arrival at The Great Wall, it hit me what was about to happen. I was about to knockout one hundred
Peking Duck
kilometers (62 miles) over terrain that would encompass the Great Wall, mountain passes and valleys, rural villages, gorges, and highways. Is there a better way to see a country first hand? I think not.
While meeting some of the elite runners, I contemplated strategy. I would start conservatively and get faster as the race went on, eat anything that was not fast enough to get away, and drink like a fish. Everything else would take care of itself. At 0535 (20 minutes later than schedule due to some late arrivals) 200 runners toed the line for the start of my first ultra marathon.
As the gun sounded I tried to get out so that I was not boxed in at the wall. However, that effort proved futile. Once we hit the wall, it was reduced to a crawl for the next couple of miles due to the steep staircases and unsure footing. I accepted the pace and decided to make it up on the road.
After the wall we hit a short stretch of road that took us through some local townships and then into the mountains. The steep rocky ascents that lay before
us were near vertical in places and forced me to run on all fours at points. Laboring and cut from the brush, I emerged over the first summit just in time to see the sun break the horizon and saturate the valley below. Now anyone that knows me, knows that I am not all emotional and sensitive, but I will say that sometimes where you experience things like that it makes you happy that you are alive. Enough said. With my moment of reflection and emotion behind me, I prepared for the gnarly decent to the valley gorge below. Deciding to use the momentum behind me, I motored down the trail laden with roots, rocks, brush, streams, etc. and soon passed several racers. While I relished the pace, I feared that my speed might be a little too much for the terrain. As I neared the bottom, my fears were realized. In mid stride, I hit a rock wrong with my right foot and felt my ankle roll and pop. I originally had been more worried about my knee, as I fresh off of knee surgery (18 Feb). At first it scared me, but my momentum was so much that
I could not slow and so I decided to not stop. By the time I reached the bottom, I could feel my ankle beginning to swell, but I continued anyway. My pace slowed some through the gorge, as I stepped gingerly over the rocky and now wet terrain. I continued through the valley and began to climb again eventually popping out onto a dirt road where I would wind through small villages lined with local spectators.
The first few aid stations I blew through only slowing to snag a cup of water, but never stopping. I had perfected eating, drinking, and even peeing on the run (this can be problematic sometimes). By the time I had reached the 25-kilometer mark I was out of fuel and water. Luckily, this was where the first gear drop was. Needing to resupply, I decided to stop briefly. In four minutes, I had changed out my water and fuel, popped some ibuprophen for my ankle, and was back running while eating a McDonald's cheeseburger and drinking a coke that I had strategically placed in my race bag beforehand. Before re-entering the woods, I handed the leftovers to a policeman standing on the
side of the road. He had somewhat of a puzzled look on his face.
Sometime down the road, I hit my first obstacle. While running through local fields, I rounded a turn to find that the same markers used for the race course had also been used by the farmers to stake out their crops. Long story short, I lost the route. Over the next several miles, I had to locate the trail through trial and error. Getting lost several times cost valuable time, which I had not allotted for. I had been alone when going into the fields, but because of the miscalculations another racer had caught up to me. I decided to sit back and let him take the lead instead, so that I could conserve energy while he hunted for the trails.
With the water stops getting fewer and farther between the need for fuel and water increased. At around the 38-kilometer mark I noticed that there were no food or sports drinks at the aid stations anymore. The only thing that was supplied was water and salt water. This was not good because no food means no fuel and no sports drinks
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means that sodium and electrolytes in the body can get dangerously low during strenuous exercise. To compound this, salt water, if taken in large quantities, can cause nausea and vomiting. This was somewhat worrisome. While I had taken care of myself, I had been cramping a little, but still felt good, other racers had started to hit their first wall and were stopping.
As we entered the stage with the longest mountain ascent, I began to pick other racers off one by one. I was building speed and felt strong. Over the following kilometers I began to pass more and more competitors as I climbed, hitting only one snag in a wooded area where the trail was lost again. As I came upon a saddle I observed two racers standing and wandering aimlessly. One Chinese man starting yelling at me and I soon understood what he was saying. Again, we had lost the poorly marked trail and all three of us spent valuable time searching for it. Once on the trail again, I passed them and eventually intersected a highway. Hitting the 50-kilometer point I was feeling good and now halfway through the race. While on a flat
The Start
part of the course I decided to cruise at a quicker pace. A couple of kilometer later I hit the 52 kilometer aid station. As I pulled in, I relished in taking in large amounts of water and salt water to replenish what I had burned in the previous climb. After doing so I began to exit the station and this is where the problems started. As I exited some of the race staff began yelling at me and stopped me. As they encircled I soon realized what they were saying. I had come in to the checkpoint at just over 7 hours and 30 minutes, a workday for many. This pace put me well within range of the 15 hour cut off for the race. I had held to my strategy and it was working. I was only getting faster as the race progressed while other racers perished. The problem was that they were saying I was over my allotted time limit. Because the race was broken up into stages, unrealistic time limits had been placed on stage. When I realized this I became livid. I pushed past the race staff and made my way to the road. Six
The long Road
or seven of them grabbed me and encircled me again. By this time I was ready to fight. We went back and forth until the race director came out in a car to calm me down. I could tell that she was nervous because as she spoke with me, her lip twitched as if she was going to cry. Regretfully, by tee time that all of this had transpired, I was so far behind in my time that I had no chance of continuing. Angry and disappointed, I finally relented and boarded the broom bus for a ride back to the finish, where many other racers had already been transported. On the bus ride and at the finish, I sat trying to figure out what had happened. This was the first race that I had not finished. It had never entered my mind that I would not finished going into it, but here I was. As I talked with friends that I had made and other racers, a bigger picture began to emerge. This was a new course this year and the cutoff times were derived from an easier course last year, thus making them bogus. This was proven by
The Canyons
the Japanese elite runner, than won the race. He came in 2 hrs. slower this year than last, a large gap for an elite. Still, I also learned that out of the 200 runners nearly 80% of the field had been disqualified. Some of the toughest races in the world do not even have a DQ rate this high. And finally, when the race started 20 minutes late the timer was not reset, meaning all racers lost 20 minutes of running time. This ultimately would have put me under all time limits. While poor race management played a large part in my disqualification, I ultimately have no one to blame but myself. I should have been better prepared and given more effort.
12 hours and 15 minutes after the start, only 15 racers had completed the 100 kilometers. With 2 hours and 45 minutes to go we figured only a limited number would complete it and decided to leave. My new found friend, Solomon, offered to give me a ride back to Beijing, but we needed to get back to the stadium in Changping, where his car was. So with no taxi in sight, we started walking. After
The Trauma
a mile or two, we were able to hitch a ride with the local police. They took us further down the road to where we caught a taxi (or a ride with some dude and his girlfriend that had a vehicle). Arriving back at the stadium, we loaded up into the Fiat and fought traffic back to Beijing. I gave Solomon some money for gas, said our goodbyes, and I headed up to the hotel room to soak in an ice bath. The end of a long effort filled day, full of both triumphs and failures.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
The Plan:
My experience was both bitter sweet. While I was thoroughly disappointed in my performance, I fell in love with the allure of ultra-marathoning and can't wait until my next one. I will try to redeem myself this next weekend with my next race The Great Wall Marathon (26.2 mile, 42 kilometers). This weeks theme will be three fold; recovery, recovery, recovery. After which I will go to Jixian and stay in the Chinese Sports Complex for athletes and prepare
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for the quad killing staircases of the wall.
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Community banks are on a roll.
A review of third-quarter earnings reports suggests that they're performing considerably better than their bigger rivals. In fact, many have racked up eye-popping profit gains.
The nation's smallest banks have steadily gained customers from larger banks undergoing mergers, according to bankers and analysts. As a result, many small banks have outpaced the rest of the industry in loan growth.
And lacking the credit card exposure of their larger competitors, small banks have been spared the writedowns that have dampened earnings at many of the nation's biggest institutions.
"We had good, strong loan demand this quarter," said Donald R. Mengedoth, chief executive of Community First Bankshares in Fargo, N.D., whose upper Midwest and Mountain States loan portfolio grew by 11.4% in the last year.
Reports from smaller banks have been "across-the-board excellent," said Steven J. Didion, analyst at Hoefer & Arnett in San Francisco. "We've been seeing improvements in credit quality, stronger margins, and loan growth."
"This is their time," said Michael Abrahams, a Sutro & Co. bank analyst: "Community banks will have plenty of opportunities to snag customers."
Such assessments, and a sampling of community banks considered bellweathers for their regions, suggest that even the most phenomenal earnings increases were largely driven by core operating performance, as opposed to the one-time gains that characterized community bank earnings in the early '90s.
By contrast, large banks are generating their earnings growth mostly by cutting costs.
Jerry Jones, managing director of Duff & Phelps in Los Angeles, said small banks are reaping the advantage of lower insurance premiums and strong interest margins, while increasing fee income and keeping costs down.
In the Northeast, the rash of big-bank mergers last year yielded extra benefits for the region's community banks.
Barry B. Davall, president and chief executive of Community First Banking Co. in Tinton Falls, N.J., said its earnigs rose 66% thanks to new business from rival Central Jersey Bancorp, which was acquired by National Westminster's New Jersey unit. The Natwest unit was subsequently bought by Fleet Financial Group, Providence, R.I.
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Thomas R. Venables, president and chief executive officer of Grove Bank in Chestnut Hill, Mass., attributes his bank's 24% jump in earnings to higher-than-normal loan demand; the bank's loan portfolio grew 12% in the year ended Sept. 30.
Chip Wittman, a bank analyst at Wheat First Butcher Singer in Richmond, Va., said community banks in the Middle Atlantic states generally saw a 10% to 12% growth rate, even with the special deposit assessments to recapitalize the Savings Association Insurance Fund, the one blot to community banks' and thrifts' bottom lines.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was eager, according to campaign aides, to attack former Sen. Fred Thompson for his remarks about Cuba being a state supporter of terrorists. "Our porous border is unable to distinguish between friend and foe. My feeling is that Cuban Americans share this concern," Thompson said last week.
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So Clinton went out and said she was shocked that Thompson would lump members of the Cuban diaspora with terrorists, something Thompson did not do.
There's a reason Clinton attempted to hit Thompson: her own record with Cubans is shoddy at best. Recall, that back during the Elian Gonzalez crisis, she went out and announced that Elian's seizure -- by goons sent in by her husband's attorney general -- ''was accomplished rapidly and without injury.''
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Two More Democrats Target Bank BonusesFebruary 16, 2010 - by Eric Naing
Two Senate Democrats are throwing another log on the now-annual firestorm over excessive bank bonuses.
Earlier this month, Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA] and Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] unveiled a proposal to tax employee bonuses at certain banks and Wall Street firms that received bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Dubbed the Taxpayer Fairness Act, Webb and Boxer's bill would impose a one-time, 50 percent tax on the bonuses at those firms and banks that exceeded $400,000 last year. Only the amount of the bonus over $400,00 would be taxed.
Webb and Boxer aren't the only Democrats with a plan to tax Wall Street and bank bonuses, however.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10] has the Responsible Bankers Act (H.R.4414), which would impose a 75 percent tax on bank bonuses. Also, Rep. Peter Welch [D, VT-0] has the Wall Street Bonus Tax Act (H.R.4426), which imposes a 50% tax on bank bonuses over $50,000.
Just as the percentage of the bonuses tax seems to shrink with each successive bill introduced, the number of banks being targeted also decreases. Kucinich's bill taxes "certain businesses." Welch's bill narrows that to a tax on banks that received TARP funds.
Webb and Boxer's bill further narrows that target to banks that received at least $5 billion in TARP funds. The Hill reports that just 13 banks would be taxed:
According to Boxer and Webb, there are 13 firms that would fall under their proposed tax because they received at least $5 billion in TARP money: American International Group (AIG), Bank of America, Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, General Motors, GMAC, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, PNC Financial, Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp.
You can read a draft of the bill here.


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