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Samardzija shakes off nerves in spring debut
MESA, Ariz. -- Jeff Samardzija's goal this season is to be more efficient, so walking the leadoff batter wasn't a good start.
"It must have been the fireworks or something," Samardzija said, laughing. "I think it was the first time the Cubbies ever had fireworks."
MESA, Ariz. -- Jeff Samardzija's goal this season is to be more efficient, so walking the leadoff batter wasn't a good start.
"It must have been the fireworks or something," Samardzija said, laughing. "I think it was the first time the Cubbies ever had fireworks."
Samardzija started in the Cactus League opener in the first game at new Cubs Park on Thursday, and survived that first-inning glitch and the fireworks to turn in two scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts.
The right-hander has been a hot topic in trade rumors, and there were plenty of scouts at the game, and not just for the commemorative pin celebrating the stadium's debut.
"You're not really worried about too much," Samardzija said of the scouts. "You assume they're there every game. I want to put on a good show for them."
The Blue Jays and D-backs were among the teams believed to be interested in adding the right-hander to their rotation. Did he even think about pitching for Arizona?
"No, I've only played for the Cubbies, so I only know one team to play for and that's here," he said. "I don't worry about that too much."
Samardzija is spending this spring thinking more about throwing more strikes, and he has talked to teammate Travis Wood about that.
"That's one of our goals, to cut down on walks for me and him and for the staff and give it everything," Wood said. "We want to try to take a young team and try to win with it."
Cubs manager Rick Renteria has watched Samardzija from the other side of the field and been impressed.
"He's a guy who's going to take the ball every fifth day, very competitive, continues to want to hone his craft beyond just pitching 200 innings a year," Renteria said. "He wants to be a good pitcher. He wants to be a polished guy who can attack hitters in any given situation. He's got most of that battle already taken care of.
"I think every year he goes out there is basically showing he's getting closer and closer to what he wants to be in the end as a polished Major League pitcher."
That's what the scouts are looking for.
"If anything [the rumors] just put a chip on your shoulder and make you want to go out and prove even more," Samardzija said. "That's the thing about this game is that you're constantly going out to prove yourself. It doesn't matter what your contract situation is or anything like that. The only thing that matters is proving yourself that day against the team you're playing against.
"It's a tough game, so when you do do well, it feels good personally and you build on that for your next time out and the time after that," he said. "If you're not your own hardest critic and not checking yourself harder than anyone else, then you have a problem. I'm my hardest critic and I'll always be that way."
The rumors are not going to go away, and Samardzija knows that. The Cubs have talked to him about a long-term deal, but the two sides obviously haven't agreed on terms. The right-hander said he'd be surprised if he was dealt before the season began.
"From what it sounds like right now, we're going head over heels for the season with this team," Samardzija said of the Cubs. "Rick's made it very clear we're here to win, which I love. I love to hear him talk about his excitement for winning. Not development -- development is part of it, but Rick's No. 1 goal is winning, and me and him are 100 percent on the same page when it comes to that. We want to win, we want to win here and we want to win now."
To do that, Samardzija has to focus on his goal, which is being more efficient.
"His mentality is way different," Chicago catcher Welington Castillo said. "What I see the difference is that he's down in the zone. He told me, 'I want to get quick outs, early outs, so I can go longer in the game. I want to get my best pitch down in the zone and let them hit it.' He's pretty good. I hope he can continue to get better and better. He's one of those key guys for us, too."
Said Samardzija: "It's more a mentality change. It's preparation for each pitch. I get in trouble when I get caught up in my pitches and not taking my time and preparing for the next pitch. Today I was going through my sequences in between pitches and was confident with my pitch selection going in with the pitch."
Don't think the scouts didn't notice that.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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By Bob Kellogg at OneNewsNow
The Departments of Education and Justice have decided to back away from its highly controversial "blueprint" for defining sexual harassment on college campuses nationwide.
William Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says last May the University of Montana, in a settlement agreement with the feds, was required to adopt a sexual harassment policy that was shockingly dangerous to free speech. That policy, he explains, broadly defined sexual harassment as "any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature" – including speech.
"Of course, if applied as the federal government wanted it to be applied, this would cover an immense array of protected speech under the First Amendment, rendering virtually every student and faculty member on campus guilty of sexual harassment," he tells OneNewsNow.
Creeley, FIRE's director of legal and public advocacy, says the pushback from the public against this impending policy was enormous.
"As a result of that pushback, I think the policies installed eventually not only at the University of Montana, but also recently agreed to at the State University of New York system, indicate that the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have dialed back their previous requirements," he states.
Creeley says the Departments of Justice and Education had planned to implement this contentious policy on college and university campuses nationwide. And FIRE points out "serious" First Amendment and due process problems remain with the blueprint – such as student discipline and reporting of faculty names who don't attend training on the policies.
"A great deal of work remains to be done," Creeley concludes, "but advocates of free speech and academic freedom on campus should be cheered by this progress."
View this article at OneNewsNow.
Schools: University of Montana Cases: Departments of Education and Justice: National "Blueprint" for Unconstitutional Speech Codes

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A son learns many things from his father. Among the things he learns is courage. And this courage is not only that which conquers fear. It is also the courage to be true to oneself and to one's own inner compass that is the guide as to what is right and what is wrong.
Today, as we honor all fathers for Father's Day, we say a special prayer for Bob Bergdahl. We are inspired by the courage he has shown in his fight to bring Bowe home. We know, and can see, that his son has learned to be courageous by this same inspiration.
In remembrance of this day, we share with you a little poem about a son learning to be brave.
Father, Son.
The boy watched the ghosts
on the far side of the valley.
There under the black hill. He
stood by the farm gate and
watched. He was his father's
son, a brave boy. But his
courage failed. He thought
about his father who he
revered. What would he do?
Should he tell his father?
There are ghosts. I've seen
them. They flicker and dance
about down there – and I am
so scared. His father had told
him: I believe what I can see
and touch, in what others proved
by bravery, by hard work.
Hard work. And so this was
hard; to go down there in
the dark, down to the river, under
the black hill. The boy set off.
A last look at the house where
his mother read him stories,
where his father ruled the roost
with his clear sight. It rode like
a ship in the night. He headed
for those shifting lights, chill in
the dark, stumbling over clods,
pants soaked by the drag of
lucerne. I can see him still.
When he got to the pigs, heard
them rooting, snuffling – content
in their sty – he almost turned.
He pushed on though, on trembling
legs, heart pounding fast enough
to die. And so he came to where
the ghosts danced – in triumph
ruled. They triumphed round him,
this clear-eyed son. He looked
around. A mile away cars swung
out at the junction, their sweeping
lights touching river mist. Joy.
He could go home. He could go
home, holding his dad's hand.
by John Garth Raubenheimer


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Students begin creating personal narratives from the time they're able to construct sentences, and are familiar with the idea of writing about themselves. (It's All About Me!) Using this background knowledge to begin the initial discussion, we review the concept of an autobiography. Inevitably, there are students who misidentify it with the definition of a biography instead. This leads to good discussion about the difference between the two.
My students know me well, and one thinks she has the day's lesson figured out saying, "I bet we're comparing autobiographies and biographies today." Comparing Autobiographies with Biographies of the same person is a wonderful idea, and I give her credit for coming up with a fabulous future idea, but our focus with this lesson is comparing the autobiographies of well known figures to one another. RI.5.5 is utilized as they examine the similarities and differences between the events and ideas in each person's life as well as RL.5.6 where they describe how the narrator's point of view influences how they tell their life story.
I also ask them if they've ever written their own autobiography, and the kinds of things they included.
In most basal textbooks, there is a section on Autobiographies. The Houghton Mifflin 5th grade reader includes four examples of Autobiographies. Out of the four, I tell the students to read two autobiographies of their choice carefully. Ahead of time, certain students are challenged with the task of reading three of the autobiographies. Everyone's always given the opportunity to do this, but my higher level readers are aware that it's required of them. Additionally, when students finish the two initial autobiographies in record time, they take on another, as well. My reasoning here is to send a message. I don't want anyone speeding through- just to be finished. When they're aware that there will be extra to do if they rush, it dissuades skimming the material and hopefully leads to careful reading. I don't hand out the worksheet on demand...not until at least twenty minutes have passed, due to experience with the kids who are more eager to look at the questions first, and then read to find the answers.
After reading the autobiographies, they write down an experience that was important to each of the authors (Writing experience information). The worksheet is set up in a table format so they're essentially filling in boxes. After they write down the author information, they include themselves in the bottom box with an experience from their own life that's been significant (Autobiographical info).
As a group, we discuss each of the autobiography subjects and I ask volunteers to write the important events of each on the Smart Board. The students put the information about the autobiographies they didn't read into their chart as we go over each (Chart example). After a vote, we pick two of the autobiography personalities and do a quick Venn Diagram of their information on the board.
The first part of the objective, to compare autobiographies, is complete, and it's time to move on to the second part which is the kids' autobiographies.
Using information the student wrote as their significant experience from the last section, they create a Book Jacket This illustration is one they'd like to use as the cover, if they could publish their own autobiography (Book Jackets). They give the book jacket a catchy title (Designing Autobiography Titles), and write its name and author (themselves) on the spine. They write a mini autobiography inside the jacket though there isn't a lot of room to go into detail. (Having said that, it's amazing how much some of the kids can fit in that space!) (Mini autobiography inside jacket II).
Writing a full autobiography is an activity for another time, but writing a bit about themselves and some fun experiences is necessary for the final activity. This is when they move around the room and find classmates to read their mini-autobiography (Reading the Reviews!) Once a student reads another classmate's autobiography they write a creative review onto that student's back cover.
I collect all of the Book Jackets and line them up as if they're on a book shelf showing the Book Spines and the kids love it.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2012 18:16 UTC
Apple has released both iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 today. We already covered iOS 6 when it was announced (as has the rest of the web). The OS X update adds a number of small features and addresses a load of bugs. Have fun!


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Welcome back to another "Sunday With Sarah." It's been more than a month since I've posted, and I've missed you!
I've returned from my AMAZING trip to Africa, and today want to tell you about the Waldorf school I visited for Samburu children in the Laikipia region of Kenya.
After viewing the video, you can learn more about the Samburu Trust's efforts to provide health care and education to the Samburu people. You can also make a donation on their website. The children who attend the school pay no tuition, and the school gets no government funding. Having visited, I know that any donation, no matter how small, will be much appreciated!
Video Highlights:
00:05 Happy to be back after a long absence!
01:07 Today I want to tell you about my visit to the Waldorf school for Samburu children.
01:27 Meet Julia Francombe, founder of the Samburu Trust and the Waldorf school.
01:55 Our long walk through the bush to reach the grade school.
02:42 We arrive at the grade school and meet the 1st and 2nd graders.
03:10 The teachers are all young men. Samburu warriors!
04:50 I shared songs with one of the eager young teachers.
05:10 Waldorf teacher training in Kenya.
05:40 Visit to the kindergarten.
06:10 I came bearing gifts of Waldorf toys, and felt like Santa!
09:21 Meeting the needs of a nomadic culture. The "three moons" school calendar.
10:35 The work of the Samburu Trust.
11:35 Learn more and donate at www.samburutrust.org
After viewing the video, I'm sure you'll have as many questions as I left with! Leave your questions and comments here, and I'll do my best to answer them, or find answers for you.


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I would also like to try out again the N.AES 2,0 that I did not try previously. Alway good to re-discover old software.
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Heart bypass surgery creates a new route, called a bypass, for blood and oxygen to reach your heart.
Alternative Names
Off-pump coronary artery bypass; OPCAB; Beating heart surgery; Bypass surgery - heart; CABG; Coronary artery bypass graft; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Coronary bypass surgery
Before your surgery you will get
Once you are unconscious, the heart surgeon will make an 8 - 10-inch surgical cutin the middle of your chest. Your breastbone will be separated to create an opening. This allows your surgeon to see your heart and aorta, the main blood vessel leading from the heart to the rest of your body.
Most people who have coronary bypass surgery are connected to a heart-lung bypass machine, or bypass pump.
- Your heart is stopped while you are connected to this machine.
- This machine does the work of your heart while your heart is stopped for the surgery. The machine adds oxygen to your blood, and moves blood through your body.
A newer type of bypass surgery does not use the heart-lung bypass machine. The bypass is made while your heart is still beating. This is called off-pump coronary artery bypass, or OPCAB. This procedure may be used if you could have problems while on the heart-lung machine.
During bypass surgery, the doctor takes a vein or artery from another part of your body and uses it to make a detour (or graft) around the blocked area in your artery.
- Your doctor may use a vein, called the saphenous vein, from your leg. To reach this vein, a surgical cut will be made along the inside of your leg, between your ankle and groin. One end of the graft will be sewn to your coronary artery. The other end will be sewn to an opening made in your aorta.
- A blood vessel in your chest, called the internal mammary artery (IMA), can also be used as the graft. One end of this artery is already connected to your aorta. The other end is attached to your coronary artery.
- Other arteries can also be used for grafts in bypass surgery. The most common one is the radial artery in your wrist.
After the graft has been created, your breastbone will be closed with wires. These wires stay inside you. The surgical cut will be closed with stitches.
This surgery can take 4 to 6 hours. After the surgery, you will be taken to the intensive care unit.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Your doctor may recommend this procedure if you have a blockage in one or more of your coronary arteries. Coronary arteries are the small blood vessels that supply your heart with oxygen and nutrients that are carried in your blood.
When one or more of the coronary arteries becomes partly or totally blocked, your heart does not get enough blood. This is called ischemic heart disease, or coronary artery disease (CAD). It can cause chest pain (
Coronary artery bypass surgery can be used to treat coronary artery disease. Your doctor may have first tried to treat you with medicines. You may have also tried exercise and diet changes, or angioplasty with stenting.
Coronary artery disease is different from person to person. The way it is diagnosed and treated will also vary. Heart bypass surgery is just one treatment. It is not right for everyone.
Other procedures that may be used:
Angioplasty and stent placement
- Heart bypass surgery - minimally invasive
Risks for any surgery include:
- Blood clots in the legs that may travel to the lungs
- Breathing problems
- Infection, including in the lungs, urinary tract, and chest
- Blood loss
Possible risks from having coronary bypass surgery include:
- Chest wound infection, which is more likely to happen if you are obese, have diabetes, or have already had this surgery
- Heart attack or stroke
- Heart rhythm problems
- Kidney or lung failure
- Low fever and chest pain, together called post-pericardiotomy syndrome, which can last up to 6 months
- Memory loss, loss of mental clarity, or "fuzzy thinking"
Before the Procedure
Always tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, even drugs or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the days before your surgery:
- For the 2-week period before surgery you may be asked to stop taking drugs that make it harder for your blood to clot. These might cause increased bleeding during the surgery. They include aspirin, ibuprofen (such as Advil and Motrin), naproxen (such as Aleve and Naprosyn), and other similar drugs. If you are taking clopidogrel (Plavix), talk with your surgeon about when to stop taking it.
- Ask your doctor which drugs you should still take on the day of the surgery.
- If you smoke, try to stop. Ask your doctor for help.
- Contact your doctor if you have a cold, flu, fever, herpes breakout, or any other illness.
- Prepare your home so you can move around easily when you return from the hospital.
The day before your surgery:
- Shower and shampoo well.
- You may be asked to wash your whole body below your neck with a special soap. Scrub your chest two or three times with this soap.
On the day of the surgery:
- You will usually be asked not to drink or eat anything after midnight the night before your surgery. This includes chewing gum and breath mints. Rinse your mouth with water if it feels dry, but be careful not to swallow.
- Take any medications that your doctor told you to take with a small sip of water.
Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital.
After the Procedure
After the operation, you will spend 3 to 7 days in the hospital. You will spend the first night in an intensive care unit (ICU). You will probably be moved to a regular or transitional care room within 24 hours.
Two to three tubes will be in your chest to drain fluid from around your heart. They are usually removed 1 to 3 days after surgery.
You may have a catheter (flexible tube) in your bladder to drain urine. You may also have intravenous (IV) lines for fluids. You will be attached to machines that monitor your pulse, temperature, and breathing. Nurses will watch your monitors constantly.
You will be encouraged to restart some activities and may begin a cardiac rehab program within a few days.
It takes 4 to 6 weeks to start feeling better after surgery. Your health care providers will tell you how to take care of yourself at home after the surgery.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Recovery from surgery takes time. You may not see the full benefits of your surgery for 3 to 6 months. In most people who have heart bypass surgery, the grafts stay open and work well for many years.
This surgery does not prevent the coronary artery blockage from coming back. You can do many things to slow this process down, including:
- Not smoking
- Eating a heart-healthy diet
- Getting regular exercise
- Treating high blood pressure
- Controlling high blood sugar (if you have diabetes) and high cholesterol
You may be more likely to have problems with your blood vessels if you have kidney disease or continue to smoke.
Ferraris VA, Mentzer RM Jr. Acquired heart disease: coronary insufficiency. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 61.
Gopaldas RR, Chu D, Bakaeen FD. Acquired heart disease: coronary insufficiency. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 60.
Morrow DA, Boden WE. Stable ischemic heart disease. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwalds Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 57.
Greenhalgh J, Hockenhull J, Rao N, Dundar Y, Dickson RC, Bagust A. Drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents for angina or acute coronary syndromes. Cochrane Database of Syst Rev. 2010:5:CD004587. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004587.pub2.
Moller CH, Penninga L, Wettersley J, Steinbruchel DA, Gluud C. Off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for ischaemic heart disease. Cochrane Database of Syst Rev. 2012:3:CD007224. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007224.pub2.
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Reviewed By:
Shabir Bhimji MD, PhD, Specializing in General Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Midland, TX. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Frank Horwill
- These articles were first published many year's ago and whilst some are as relevant today as they were when new, many are now mostly of historical interest as modern research and coaching methods have superseded them.
If You Want to Win, Train at a High Percentage of VO2 Max
By Frank Horwill
The world's leading work physiologists agree that about one-third of the total weekly mileage should be devoted to work between 80 and 100 per cent of VO2 max.
All this is very well, but supposing the athlete has never raced many of these distances (speeds), and has no access to a heart-rate monitor? One quite accurate assessment is to use the 4-second rule for men and the 5-second one for females. This is how it works.
John is a 4:00 / 1,500m runner, which is 64 secs a lap. If we now add 4 secs to this (68 secs), that is his forecast for running 3K. If we add a further 4 secs to the 3km prediction (72 secs), that is his forecast for 5km. The forecast for 10km would be 76 secs / 400m.
For women, we follow the same method using a 5 sec differential. For instance, Mary is a 4:30 / 1,500m runner, which is 72 secs / 400m. Thus her predicted times for 3km, 5km and 10km are 77 secs / 400m (9:37.5), 82 secs / 400m (17:17.5) and 87 secs / 400m (36:15) respectively. In John's case, his forecast is 8:30 / 3km, 15mins / 5km, and 31:40 / 10km. At world-class level, the 4 second and 5 second rules are considerably less - for example, the speeds per 400m in the 5km is 62 secs, and in the 10 km, 64.8secs / 400m.
The athlete is now in a position to work out fairly accurately what speed he needs to run at to get into the high-boosting VO2 max zone.
Here's John's programme
Let's assume that John is about to start winter training. On Sunday he goes for a long-slow run of two hours at around 70% VO2 max. Next day he wants to run for one hour at 80% VO2 max. He has never raced 10km but his estimated speed is 31:40 or about 5:03 per mile. 80% VO2 max is 16secs / mile slower (5:19 / mile). So he runs, or attempts to run, for one hour at this speed, and if all goes well he will cover about 11 miles. He can always make adjustments if it proves a little too exhausting, but at least he knows the target to aim at.
The day after this, he wants a recuperative run, so he runs for 45 minutes and is able to talk to his training partner most of the way. Refreshed from the easy run the day before, he decides to train at his estimated 10km pace of 31:40 (76 secs / 400m), and does 3 x 2 miles in 10:06 with 200m jog recovery or 90 sec rest.
Next day is a slowish run for an hour but the day After this he goes for a big VO2 max booster, the estimated 5km pace. Repetition miles look a little daunting, so he opts for 6 x 1km at the estimated speed of 72 secs / 400m, which is 3 mins / 1km with 60 secs rest. He has a day off and starts the same type of work again, but this time he swops the 95% VO2 max session (5K pace) for one at 100% VO2 max (3km pace) - so he tries 16 x 400 in 68secs with 45secs rest.
The overall week's work would look like this:
Sunday: 70% VO2 max, two-hour run (about 16-18 miles).
Monday: 80% VO2 max, one hour (about 11 miles).
Tuesday: 70% VO2 max, 45mins (about 6-8 miles).
Wednesday: 90% VO2 max (10km speed), 3 x 2 miles in 10:06, 90 secs rest.
Thursday: 70% VO2 max, one hour (7-9 miles).
Friday: 95% VO2 max (5km speed), 6 x 1K in 3mins with 60 secs rest.
Saturday: Rest
Sunday: Begins cycle again.
Why to start fast
Now, traditionalists of the old Lydiard school will look a little askance at winter work starting with so much comparatively fast work. The Lydiard concept of working up to 100 miles a week at 75% VO2 max certainly does improve the oxygen uptake by about 17 per cent to 75 miles per week, but after that there is little return.
Research has shown that in two groups of equal ability who started their winter build-up in different ways (one concentrated on steady running which progressively increased, the other incorporated the preceding high VO2 max sessions from the outset and maintained a set mileage pattern without progressions) that, while both groups advanced, the high VO2 max percentage group were vastly superior when tested. What's more, their injury was no worse and no better than the other group.
The point which must be stressed over and over again to European and Western distance runners is that research shows that, on average, black runners in Africa are doing one-third of their total mileage each week in the 80-100% VO2 max zone, compared to only 10 per cent by European athletes.
Here's an alternative programme
Astrand has a programme with which he believes the oxygen uptake can best be improved. The advantage of his method is in its simplicity and variety. Here is a week-by-week table of his recommendations.
Week 1: Run five minutes at maximum effort. Note the distance run. Then run the same distance 20 per cent slower. For example, supposing 2km is covered in five minutes (you would have to be world- class to do this! but most male club runners can handle 1,800m and most females 1,600m). Twenty per cent slower to run the same distance would be 300 secs + 60 secs = 6 mins, repeated many times with 30 secs recovery. This is about 85% VO2 max.
Week 2: Run the same distance as achieved in Week 1, this time 15 per cent slower, eg, distance run, 2km, run 2km in 5:45 with 45 secs rest, repeated until the time cannot be recorded. This is about 90% VO2 max.
Week 3: Run the same distance as in Week 1, now 10 per cent slower (10 per cent faster than in Week 1), eg distance run, 2km, run 2km in 5:30 many times with 60 secs rest. This is about 95% VO2 max.
Week 4: Same distance as Week 1 run 5 per cent slower, eg, distance, 2km, run 2km in 5:15 with 75 secs rest. This is about 100% VO2 max.
In the second following month, a maximum time of only four minutes can be run. For example, if 1,600m is covered during this time, 20 per cent slower would be 240 secs + 48 secs (4:48), repeated four times with 90 secs rest. This is about 95% VO2 max. Ten per cent slower would be 1600m in 4:24 x 3 with two minutes rest. This is about 105% VO2 max. In the third month, a maximum run of three minutes can be done. For example, if 1,200m is covered in three minutes, 20 per cent slower would be 180 secs + 36 secs (3:36). Repeated as many times as possible with 60 secs rest. This is about 90% VO2 max. Ten per cent slower (3:18 for 1,200m) would be about 97% VO2 max.
Or try this
Another variation is to do a five-minute run one week, followed by a four-minute effort the next week and concluding with a three-minute outing in the third week, starting with 20 per cent slower efforts reducing to 10 per cent. Two such efforts per week will suffice. Although there have been criticisms about the validity of VO2 max readings as a means of forecasting performance, these are mainly directed at times achieved in longer distances. World-class performers up to 10km have had consistently high readings. Here are some scores: Roger Bannister, VO2 max 78, world mile record in 3:58; Seb Coe, VO2 max 82.6, 1:41.73/800m, 12 world records; Steve Cram, VO2 max 82.1, world mile record in 3:46.31; Said Aouita, VO2 max 82.1, world 1,500m record in 3:29.45; Ingrid Kristiansen, VO2 max 70, world 10km record in 30:59.42.


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Seven in just over five weeks... bad trend, eh? And the 'refuse' was down to 40psi after sitting in the shed for a week, so there's something going on there as well.
I cleared up my (huge!) pile of tubes in the shed and cut the valves out of a pile of them that were past their use-by date - one had 8 patches on it! These dead ones will get dumped at work as frame protection for the racks. For the fixable ones, I will take a couple to work each day to patch while waiting for jobs to run. That should leave me with about eight new tubes for race use and about ten patched tubes for commute/training.
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I'll start by saying that i havent found any (recent) post about the tille i wrote. Sorry in advance if there is one already.
Well, getting where i want to get!!! lol
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What brought me here is requesting that LEGO allows to be bought online and in future sets. My opinion is that Lego removes the slope piece and replace it with normal legs and gives the skirt avaiable in the star wars set 7676 - Republic Attack Gunship the item in that set is http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=61198.
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Gallery hop through three of the cities trendiest neighbourhoods and discover Barcelona through its art and contemporary culture.
We'll weave in and out of Barcelona's hidden streets and alleys to visit some of its main contemporary galleries. Along the way, we'll also pop into a street art gallery, an artist's studio and see some of the city's best graffiti, giant murals, and outdoor sculptures.
On route, you'll have the opportunity to talk to gallery owners, discover new-emerging artists, and uncover the concepts behind the artwork.
Halfway through, we'll stop at Enkel – a great food spot that serves up fusion tapas and locally brewed craft beer, where we'll have a drink and a selection of seasonal tapas dishes.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 9, 2009) -- With a new claim on sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Sun Conference, the ETSU men's basketball team will try to hold onto this precious territory Monday evening as the Buccaneers welcome conference foe Stetson into the Memorial Center. Tip is scheduled for 7 p.m.
ETSU's 102-78 win over Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday, coupled with Jacksonville's last second loss to Mercer earlier in the day, has given the Bucs (17-6 overall, 11-2 A-Sun) a one-game lead over both JU and Belmont in the conference standings.
The meeting with the Hatters will be the last home game for the Bucs before they face a daunting four-game road swing that will take them to Belmont, Lipscomb, USC Upstate and Campbell. ETSU -- which has seven league games remaining -- will then return home to close out the regular season Feb. 26 against Kennesaw State and Feb. 28 against Mercer.
For more on Monday's game, click on the game notebook link above or read the game notes below:
The series against Stetson
The Bucs and Hatters have met 10 times, with ETSU holding a 7-3 advantage in the all-time series ... Since joining the A-Sun in 2005-06, the Bucs are 4-2 against Stetson ... ETSU won the last meeting between the two schools 73-67 back on Jan. 10, 2009 in Deland, Fla.
Last time against Stetson
DeLAND, Fla. (Jan. 10, 2009) - Senior Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) finished with a game-high 26 points and grabbed seven rebounds and junior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) added 17, as the Bucs rallied past Stetson 73-67 Saturday afternoon inside the Edmunds Center ... The win keeps ETSU's conference record unblemished, as the Bucs move to 11-4, 5-0 in the A-Sun. Stetson dropped to 6-8, 3-3 with the loss ... In addition to the stellar play of Tiggs and Smith, red-shirt freshman Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) and freshman Adam Sollazzo (Tampa, Fla.) enjoyed their homecoming to the Sunshine State. Brown tallied his first career double-double, finishing with 10 points and a career-high 12 rebounds; while Sollazzo came off the bench and added four points, five rebounds and three assists in 32 minutes ... Trailing 40-36 at the break, ETSU came out on fire to start the second half, as the Bucs posted a 14-3 run to capture a 50-43 lead when senior Greg Hamlin (Flint, Mich.) came through untouched to slam home a (Mike) Smith miss with 15:08 remaining in the game. From there, the Hatters scored 10 of the next 14 points to creep back into the contest, 54-53, after Tim Lang nailed a jumper with 10:01 on the clock ... After the Hatter run, the game became a slugfest as both teams couldn't pull away from one another ... Fortunately, for the Bucs, over the next six and half minutes they looked to build momentum by moving their margin up to six (65-59), following a Smith jumper at the 3:39 mark; however, A.J. Smith's third 3-pointer of the game pulled the Hatters to within three, 67-64, with 1:49 to play in the contest .... Then, with the Bucs leading 67-64 and coming out of a 30-second timeout, Sollazzo was double-teamed at midcourt, but found Hamlin open and he dished a pass across to Brown for an uncontested dunk with 49 seconds remaining. The slam solidified the game as Tiggs scored the last four Buccaneer points and ETSU walked away with its sixth road victory of the season ... Hamlin tied a career high with seven rebounds and was one point shy of tying a career high in points - finishing with eight points, three assists and two blocks. Senior Courtney Pigram (Memphis) ended with five points and three assists before going down with an undisclosed ankle injury late in the first half.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 7, 2009) - Well aware that they were facing one of only two teams to beat them in Atlantic Sun Conference play this season, the ETSU Buccaneers produced their best offensive game of the season and rolled to a 102-78 win over Florida Gulf Coast Saturday afternoon in front of 4,045 fans at Memorial Center ... The win avenged a 64-61 loss to the Eagles earlier this season, and moved the Bucs to 17-6 overall, 11-2 in A-Sun play. With Jacksonville's 72-71 loss to Mercer earlier in the day, ETSU now holds sole possession of first place in the conference standings ... ETSU's "Big Three" - seniors Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and Kevin Tiggs (Memphis), and junior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) - were certainly on their game in this contest. Smith collected his third straight double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds, while Tiggs posted a game high 29 points on 9-of-12 shooting. Pigram finished with 27 points, moving his career scoring clip to 1,874 and overtaking former ETSU great Calvin Talford for fourth place on the all-time scoring list ... The first half did not start out in a good way for the Buccanners, as the Eagles used some pinpoint 3-point shooting to shred the ETSU man-to-man defense and build a 23-15 lead with 13 minutes left in the half. However, from there the Bucs changed to a 2-3 zone and clamped down defensively, allowing just one field goal over the next six minutes and kicking up the offense on a 21-4 run that ended with the Bucs holding a 36-27 advantage ... ETSU didn't let up at that point, outscoring FGCU 16-8 the rest of the half to post its best offensive first half of the year and lead 52-35 at the break. In the first 20 minutes, the Bucs shot 57 percent from the field and were 58 percent from 3-point range, while holding the Eagles to just 27 percent shooting. The Bucs outrebounded FGCU 24-18 in the first half ... The second half was more of the same for the Bucs, as ETSU posted another 50 points in 20 minutes of play and shot 48 percent from the field. Ultimately, the Bucs out-rebounded FGCU 47-38 and forced 17 turnovers by the Eagles. ETSU shot 52 percent from the field and an impressive 50 percent from 3-point range in the victory ... For FGCU, Reed Baker and Reggie Chambers had 18 points apiece, while Derrik O'Neil added 10.
"Big Three" making their mark in A-Sun this year
Watching the ETSU men's basketball team this season has shown that there is power in the number three ... With seniors Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and Courtney Pigram (Memphis), along with junior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), the Bucs put three of the best players in league play on the floor at the same time. Currently, Tiggs and Pigram and No. 1 and No. 2 in the league in scoring, while Smith ranks No. 9 on that list ... Meanwhile, at least one of the three rank in the Top 10 of at least seven other major statistical categories, such as field goal percentage, rebounding, 3-point field goal percentage, steals, assists, assist/turnover ratio, defensive rebounds and minutes played.
Pigram moves to No. 4 on the all-time scoring list
With his 27-point effort Saturday afternoon against Florida Gulf Coast, ETSU senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) moved to No. 4 on the all-time scoring list ... Pigram now stands at 1,874 points passed former ETSU great Calvin Talford (1988-1992), who collected 1,872 points in his career ... Here are the Top 5 scorers in ETSU history:
1. Tim Smith (2002-2006) 2,300 points
2. Greg Dennis (1987-1992) 2,204 points
3. Keith "Mister" Jennings (1987-1991) 1,988 points
4. Courtney Pigram (2005-2009) 1, 874 points *
5. Calvin Talford (1988-92) 1,872 points
* at present time
Three 1,000-point scoreres on the same team?
While it is not rare to have multiple players on the same team that "eventually" become 1,000-point scorers, having multiple players on the same team that have already eclipsed 1,000-points is rare ... This season, the Bucs have a possibility of having three players that have all reached 1,000 points in their careers ... Those players include Courtney Pigram (Memphis), Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) and Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) ... Currently, Pigram has already reached that mark and stands at 1,874 points for his career, while Tiggs has 943 points and Smith has posted 935 for his career ... With a guaranteed 8 games left, Tiggs would have to average 7.1 points a game and Smith would need 8.2 a contest to reach 1,000 points ... The only two times in ETSU history that the Bucs have had three or more 1,000 point scorers on the floor at the same time was in 1990-91 and 2003-04 ... In 1990-91, four 1,000-point scorers were on the floor together at the same time, Keith "Mister" Jennings, Calvin Talford, Major Geer and Alvin West were on the floor together ... The other season this occurred was in 2003-04, when Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood and Tim Smith all reached 1,000 points.
ETSU the "only" A-Sun team picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 22, 2008) - Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball - marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 - the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to a new "Prestige" ranking released by ESPN.com ... The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed six NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, seven 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. The Bucs also were placed ahead of every current member of the Colonial Athletic Association with the exception of Old Dominion ... In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.
Pigram, Tiggs impressive on offensive end in 2008-09
Seniors Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) have enjoyed impressive offensive performances this season, and the two rank among the nation's best when it comes to offensive production ... As of Jan. 25, Tiggs leads the Atlantic Sun Conference and ranks 23rd nationally with a 20.3 points per game average (as of Feb. 2), while Pigram ranks second in the A-Sun with 18.3 points a game (as of Feb. 2) ... Pigram is one of just four active players nationally with more than 1,500 points, 350 assists and 200 steals in their careers ... That list includes:
Player, School......................................................Asts Stls Pts
David Holston, Chicago State 419 204 1959
Courtney Pigram, ETSU 376 213 1874
Dominic James, Marquette 576 208 1631
Jerel McNeal, Marquette 375 245 1606
17-6 start ranks as one of best ever for Bucs
The Bucs 17-6 mark matches is the best start for ETSU since the 2003-04 season, when that team opened the year at 19-4 through 20 games ... The Bucs' three non-conference road wins this season (Tn. Tech, Marshall and Appalachian), also fall just one win shy of the 2003-04 season in which the Bucs won four non-conference road games (Houston, UNC-A, Tn. Tech and Fresno State) ... That 2003-04 squad ultimately finished with 27 wins, a SoCon regular season and tournament title, and a trip to the NCAAs.
Bartow reaches 100th victory at ETSU;
recently eclipsed 200 career wins with Wingate victory
ETSU head coach Murry Bartow reached 100 wins at ETSU with the Buccaneers 81-61 win over Mercer (12/5), a milestone which comes after just having reached 200 career coaching wins as the Buccaneers defeated Wingate (11/20) ... Bartow is now 215-150 for his career, a 59 percent winning percentage ... Bartow, the son of legendary coach Gene Bartow, is also 113-67 (.628) at ETSU, which gives him the best winning percentage in school history ... In his previous five seasons at ETSU, Bartow has averaged 19 wins a year.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 128-39 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the championship of the A-Sun Tourney... In 2007-08, the Bucs were 11-2 at Memorial Center ... This season the Bucs are 9-1 at home.


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After a pair failed attempts at Beacon Hill in recent years, Jim Stanton claimed a seat on Walpole�s highest board on Saturday night, joining selectman incumbent Mark Gallivan in a full ballot of hotly contested races.
Beth Muccini was the top vote getter in the School Committee race as incumbent Sue Curtis held on to her seat by just a handful of votes. Incumbent Town Moderator Jon Rockwood was re-elected in another close contest as incumbent planners Jack Conroy and John Murtagh also won back their seats.
Stanton took the shortened 2-year term seat with 1,290 votes � beating out Finance Committee member Susan Lawson by 65 tallies. He�ll move from his seat as the chairman of the Zoning Board to take over for Mike Berry, who stepped down as a selectman before his term ended.
"I�m happy with (the results)," Stanton said. "I knew it would be close. It could have gone either way."
The Park Lane resident thanked all his supporters, but his wife most of all for going through three elections in five years with him. He cited the search for a new town administrator and the Superfund land building plans as top concerns going forward.
"It�s going to be exciting," Stanton said. "I think it�s an exciting time to be going on the board. I�m ready to hit the ground running."
Voter turnout was 16 percent, about 10 percent lower than the average Walpole Town election.
Lawson said she thought she�d have a better chance at taking the race if the turnout was higher, but was glad to be part of the process regardless of how many voters turned in ballots.
"I believe in democracy, I really do. If that�s what people wanted," she said. "I don�t just say that I mean it."
This was Lawson�s first election � saying Saturday night that she hasn�t given any thought to running for again for a board seat. She thanked her supporters for working with her during a new experience.
"I had a wonderful bunch of people working with me and helping me through this," she said.
Gallivan, the current Selectmen chairman, outpaced challenger Joe Monahan with 55 percent of the vote � taking a second term by 270 tallies.
"It�s always good to win. I thought it was a good election � I got to know Joe a little bit," Gallivan said, thanking voters and volunteers and adding that he�s looking forward to continued municipal building planning in the future.
On a night of tight races, the School Committee contest was the closest with newcomer Muccini coming away as the top votegetter at a mark of 1,281. Curtis won back her spot on the committee with 1,281. Chris Sheehan, in his second consecutive attempt to become a school district leader, lost out by just 38 votes.
Also beating out incumbents was former selectman David Sullivan, who earned a seat on the Sewer and Water board with 1,573 votes. Roger Turner retained his seat with 1,563 tallies as incumbent Jimmy Taylor was ousted.
Incumbents on the Planning Board ticket, however, both won the day. Conroy and Murtagh won new terms with 1,404 and 1,271 votes respectively. Building Inspection office staff assistant Elizabeth Gaffey fell 87 votes short of taking a seat.
Pick up a copy of the Walpole Times on Thursday for the full story.
Stanton and Gallivan win Selectmen races in a day of close votes
After a pair failed attempts at Beacon Hill in recent years, Jim Stanton claimed a seat on Walpole�s highest board on Saturday night, joining selectman incumbent Mark Gallivan in a full ballot of hotly contested races.


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Is Natal really called Kinect?
An Italian only ad has outed the new slim-line Xbox 360 and given away the final name of motion-sensor controller Natal.
That's what bloggers are saying tonight - just hours before Microsoft is poised to begin a 24 hour no-expenses-spared hoopla to promote its new devices and kick-off E3.
A now-removed ad running at console-tribe.com showed a picture of the purported redesigned Xbox 360 - pictured - and touts that the device, which comes with built in wi-fi and a 250GB hard drive.
Most importantly, it says the new look console is 'compatible with Kinect' (screenshot at bottom of article).
While it's not yet clear if the ad is a fake or part of a campaign that has simply launched 24 hours too early, Microsoft does own the Kinect name - it registered the trademark over the name just last month.
And the ad itself, meanwhile, appears to have been taken down, lending credence to its authenticity.
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Officials inaugurated a new building for Haiti's Parliament yesterday, more than 15 months after an earthquake destroyed the national assembly's headquarters.
The $700,000 prefabricated structure, built on the site of the destroyed assembly building, gives the 129 newly elected representatives a place to conduct business. Until yesterday the reps were using makeshift facilities as they coped with rebuilding the 20 percent of the country devastated in the January 2010 disaster.
During our recent visit to Haiti, photographer Bob Roller and I saw a team of construction workers hurrying to finish the building so that the new leaders would have a place to work. Reconstruction elsewhere lagged, however. Large mounds of debris and collapsed buildings were common throughout the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas.
Hundreds of thousands of people remained in tent camps in parks, public land and vacant lots. People we talked with held out little hope of moving from the ragged settlements. Many rolled their eyes and smiled when asked about their choice of candidates in the election.
This morning pop singer Michel "Sweet Mickey" Martelly was confirmed as the winner of the March 20 presidential vote. He outpolled former first lady Mirlande Manigat by more than two-to-one as Haitians turned to his populist message out of frustration over the lack of progress in the rebuilding effort under outgoing President Rene Preval.
Martelly will be inaugurated May 14.
The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, co-chaired by Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, said that $1.7 billion in contributions from countries around the world has been disbursed since March 31, 2010. The money represents 37 percent of the $4.6 billion pledged during a meeting at the U.N.
The commission reports that another $1.6 billion has been committed.
Those funds are in addition to the estimated $1 billion collected for humanitarian efforts by dozens of nongovernmental organizations since the quake.
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Back when my parents got married, all you needed was a one-man-band photographer to snap some shots of the ceremony, the happy couple, the bridal party, the families, and a bunch of guests sitting around big round tables, and boom, done! My, how times have changed. Now, you feel like you're missing out if you don't have amazing photographer(s), videographer(s) (or if you wanna get really fancypants about it, a cinematography team!), and a photo booth, which guests seem to go crazy for every time. Bye-bye, budget!
However, a supercool new trend may be the solution to killing at least two of those birds with one stone: A slow-motion video booth! It's exactly what it sounds like -- aka AWESOME. Recently married couple Quang and Ellie had video production company Super Frog Saves Tokyo set one up at their reception, and it looks like their family and friends had a blast. Check it out ...
Ah, so fun!! Why didn't I know about this six months ago?! Having something like this really would make you question whether you'd need to spend on a full-fleged videography package, right? Although, I'm happy we have footage of our venue and ceremony, really, the most important part is seeing all of our loved ones having a blast, and clearly, this accomplishes this to the nth degree. And what couple wouldn't want that?! Hence why this is definitely the next big thing for weddings.
Would you want this/do you wish you could have had this at your wedding?
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A checklist is the master system. It allows you to organize the hard drive of your brain on a piece of paper and lets you go about your business. The trick is, having a checklist that works for you, and one that you enjoy working with.
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At Linn Area Credit Union, we're always striving to be the BEST! Last week was the culmination of a management training program called Leadership University. I thought that the program was so cool and innovative that I wanted to make sure you guys all knew about it! Patricia, our Training Specialist and one of the people who taught Leadership University, was kind enough to write a summary of the program:
As Linn Area Credit Union strives to be the Employer of Choice, we see our Leaders as the voice of our culture. The concept of the leadership training program originated many years ago as our organization renewed our determination to be the best employer possible. We believe that our managers are our most vital link in connecting our employees to the vision and mission of the credit union by helping them be engaged and motivated. Managers are not born with innate leadership qualities, but rather learn the needed skills through the process of education and experience. So this year we set out on a Leadership Journey.
With 12 leaders in our company, with varied levels of experience, Leadership University classes set out on the trek of learning. We explored, learned and practiced many skills.
- We started with the map to success with our personal & professional visions of leadership.
- We explored the key leadership qualities and how we can use them every day.
- Then the climb took us to; thinking of our co-workers, how we best understand them, communicate with them, assist them on their climbs to success.
- At one base camp we re-grouped and examined how coaches impact the journey. We then planned how we can become the coach for our teams.
- As we navigated the climb by engaging team building and success into our routines.
There were times the leaders felt the steep incline of the growth by looking at themselves, skills and daily interactions. There were times during the journey we all stopped and celebrated the many wonderful CORE Values and how they can guide the individuals to the summit. The journey was long, weather was good and the climb made us "Think Huge" (by Mark Arnold) while practicing how to "Bringing Out the Best in Others" (by Thomas K. Connellan, PhD.). Want to join the climb?
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Sequel To 'It's a Wonderful Life' Due Christmas 2015 [UPDATE]
The cinematic gods have smiled upon us and it looks like there will be no sequel to It's a Wonderful Life.
According to several sources, producers of the intended sequel, It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, failed to realize that they don't have the necessary rights to do a sequel. At the present time, the rights to the story and characters are owned by Paramount Pictures who do not intend to make a sequel. In an official statement, a rep from Paramount said,
No project relating to It's A Wonderful Life can proceed without a license from Paramount. To date, these individuals have not obtained any of the necessary rights, and we would take all appropriate steps to protect those rights.
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Adding to the list of sequels that don't need to be made, cinematic classic It's a Wonderful Life will be getting a sequel due in theaters for Christmas of 2015.
Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods. will collaborate on the sequel, titled It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, focusing on the grandson of Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey, who is visited by an angel who shows him what the world would be like had he never been born. The angel is set to be played by Karolyn Grimes, who played George's daughter Zuzu in the original film and who spoke the iconic line about every time a bell rings and angel gets his wings.
Bob Farnsworth of Hummingbird is set to produce the film based on a screenplay written by him and Martha Bolton. Commenting on the spirit of the film, Farnsworth said,
The storyline of the new film retains the spirit of the original – every life is important as long as you have friends.
Grimes noted that this isn't the first time she's been approached for a follow-up film, but it is the first time the script was worthy,
I've probably read close to 20 scripts over the years suggesting a sequel to It's a Wonderful Life, but none of them were any good. The script by Bob Farnsworth and Martha Bolton was wonderful, and I wanted to be involved with his version of the film immediately.
It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story is set for a late 2015 release, though it is still in the early pre-production. Producers intend to shoot most of the film in Louisiana with a budget of $25 to $35 million. Casting is scheduled to begin in February, though producers have already started negotiations with original cast members Jimmy Hawkins (Tommy Bailey) and Carol Coombs (Janie Bailey) to reprise their roles.
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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb's Heather Parker collected her second career Atlantic Sun weekly softball honor as Pitcher of the Week after leading the Lady Bisons to two shutout wins in conference action this weekend.
Parker, a junior right-hander, gave up only one hit in each game, winning 8-0 Saturday and 7-0 Sunday. The Lady Bisons did not allow a run against ETSU in the three-game series in Johnson City. Tanner Sanders pitched the opening game and won 2-0.
It was the second week in a row that Parker has earned A-Sun Pitcher of the Week honors.
She collected 16 strikeouts in three appearances for the week including an outing against UAB. She had eight strikeouts in game three against ETSU, one short of tying her season high.
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Comptroller Dugan Urges Regulators Around the World To Set Minimum Mortgage Underwriting Standards
TOKYO — Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan said today that regulators around the world should address the problem that sparked the financial crisis of the past two years by establishing minimum underwriting standards for all mortgages made in their respective countries.
These standards "would be the true minimums that we believe must be observed to keep lenders from risking too much loss to both themselves and their customers," he said in a speech to a seminar on international banking and finance sponsored by the Japan Financial News Company. "These standards would not dictate every underwriting feature of a mortgage product; instead, they would focus on core practices of sound underwriting on which there is the broadest consensus."
The Comptroller added that these standards should not be the same everywhere in the world.
"Each country has its own unique credit culture and different approaches to mortgage financing, and what works well in one might not work well in another," Mr. Dugan said. "What I am suggesting, though, is that each country should articulate what those standards are for their lenders, and should report periodically on how well those standards are working."
In the United States, for example, at least three underwriting standards should be mandated:
"We also should generally prohibit the lowering of monthly payments through so-called 'negative amortization' mortgages, which have performed terribly," Mr. Dugan added. "These mortgages lowered initial monthly payments by allowing borrowers not to pay the full amount of interest due, with the unpaid interest added to the principal balance of the loan. Borrowers should not be allowed to dig deeper into debt with each monthly payment."
In addition, Mr. Dugan said it is critical that any new mortgage regulations apply to all providers in order to prevent the kind of competitive inequity and pressure on regulated lenders that eroded safe and sound lending practices in the past.
The Comptroller said that with house prices sharply increasing in recent months in some countries, this is a good time to address mortgage underwriting. The Joint Forum, an international regulatory group that he chairs, has been asked to provide recommendations to the Financial Stability Board to address differences and gaps in the regulation of financial services around the world. One set of recommendations under consideration involves minimum mortgage underwriting practices, he added.
Mr. Dugan said he is normally much more comfortable with markets establishing the terms for credit extension by willing lenders to willing borrowers, with supervisors focusing on lenders' ability to manage the credit risks they assume, and on lenders' compliance with consumer protection laws.
"But sometimes, when underwriting standards get so out of balance that they cause widespread damage to borrowers and lenders alike, it becomes necessary for regulators to act more prescriptively," Comptroller Dugan added. "If ever there was a demonstrated need for such intervention, the searing U.S. mortgage market experience of the last several years fits the bill."
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Interesting Fact: In 1977, the St Helena gumwood was adopted as the national tree of St Helena, a UK Overseas Territory.
As its name suggests, the St Helena gumwood is endemic to the small volcanic island of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. This highly branched tree has a crooked, knarled trunk, an umbrella-like canopy and thick, hairy, wrinkled leaves. During the winter and spring, the St Helena gumwood produces white flowers which droop from the ends of the branches. This hermaphroditic plant was once a regularly occurring species within subtropical and tropical forests on inland cliffs and mountain peaks, with large amounts of seed falling around the parent plant and germinating freely.
Since 1659 when the first settlers arrived on St Helena, the St Helena gumwood has been exploited for use as timber and firewood, and forests have been cleared to make way for pastureland. In addition, this species faced further pressure from introduced goats which grazed heavily on its seedlings. By the 1980s, the St Helena gumwood population had been drastically reduced, and this spurred conservationists to put a management plan into action.
This species is now protected by the Endangered Endemic and Indigenous Species Protection Ordinance 7 of 1996, and the instigation of the Millennium Gumwood Forest Project resulted in 4,300 St Helena gumwood trees being planted in previously degraded wasteland in 2000. Other replanting and weed clearance projects are underway, and a successful biological control programme has helped to combat the destructive jacaranda bug which was responsible for a decline in the St Helena gumwood population in the early 1990s.
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We know you're still sad about Polaroid, but no amount of crying will bring them and their instant cameras back. Yes, Polaroid still exists, but the new company is a different version of its former self. You can pay homage to the old camera pioneer, though, with the Carbon One Mini, a small replica of the Polaroid SX-70 One Step that actually works.
Made by the Hong Kong-based design firm Carbon, the One Mini not only looks like the original Polaroid, it features the rainbow stripe under the lens. OK, it's not going to fool anyone into thinking it's a real One Step, but the One Mini's retro housing contains a modern 5-megapixel digital camera with support for MicroSD memory up to 32GB. There's a viewfinder for you to look through, but the camera handles autofocusing (from 1.2 meters and beyond). PetaPixel has posted a few image samples.
What it won't do, however, is churn out instant prints like the iconic Polaroid cameras of yore. Those looking for instant gratification will want to tote along a printer, as the One Mini is compatible with any PictBridge printer. The plus side is you won't have to shake it like a Polaroid picture to dry, and the One Mini lets you shoot with the signature white border frame that made them so famous.


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The purpose of the San Diego City College International Book Fair is to serve as a cultural nexus for the various communities of the city, provide a vital site for cultural exchange and growth, and to showcase literature, arts and music from both sides of the border.
Thus, the Fair promotes and provides a growing forum for local, national, and bi-national writers, artists, and musicians.
It thereby exposes diverse San Diego City College students and residents to the work of national and international authors and artists to provide insights into both local and international cultures and experiences.
For the past 19 years (since 1994), San Diego City College's literary journal, City Works, has published poetry, fiction, prose, and artwork of City College students as well as works by local and national writers. In 2003, noting that San Diego did not have a local press dedicated to the publication of local writing, the editors of City Works set themselves the goal of creating one. They formed the San Diego Writers Collective, a group of City College faculty as well as writers and supporters from all around the San Diego region. The Collective's mission is to promote innovative, progressive, ethnically diverse local writing. Their purpose is to publish the first chapbooks by talented student writers, and to publish novels, creative nonfiction and collections of short fiction and poetry by professional writers. The San Diego Writers Collective started working with the San Diego City College Foundation to raise funds to support its publications. Collective members contribute part of the funds and labor that go into each publication; the income from book sales goes toward the publication of subsequent books.
After receiving matching funds from the American Federation of Teachers (Local 1931) and support from City College's radio station Jazz 88, in 2004 the San Diego Writers Collective was able to establish a local literary press, the City Works Press. It is committed to creating a literary culture in San Diego and to publishing the finest work of local writers. City Works Press is a nonprofit funded by local writers and fans of the arts, and committed to publishing a diverse range of San Diego's emerging voices in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. It does not receive any funding from City College.
After several years of attending packed readings for the City Works Journal and other publications of the City Works Press, San Diego City College then President Terry Burgess suggested that the San Diego Writers Collective create an international book fair to showcase the work of local, regional, national, and international authors, artists and musicians. President Burgess supported this recommendation by creating the City College Literary Center and naming Dr. Jim Miller, a long-time editor of City Works, as its director. In this capacity, Dr. Miller coordinated the activities of the City Works Press and developed the San Diego City College International Book Fair. Held on a (rainy) day in October 2006, the first annual International Book Fair attracted over 2,500 people. As a sign of its growing popularity, the second annual International Book Fair gained the attention of over 3,200 attendees. In 2007, the attendance reached 6,000, nearly tripling the attendance since the fair's inception.
Virginia Escalante, Professor of English, now serves as the project director. She has a master's degree in communications from the University of California San Diego, where she is also earning a doctorate in the same field. A former journalist for The Los Angeles Times, she is a Pulitzer Prize recipient for her contributions to a series on "Southern California's Latino Community,' which received the award's gold medal for meritorious public service in 1984.


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Samsung's new Galaxy Notes to go on sale in October
Samsung said on Friday that its new versions of its Galaxy Note smartphone and tablet, along with its new smartwatch, will go on sale in the US next month.business Updated: Sep 07, 2013 10:24 IST
Samsung said on Friday that its new versions of its Galaxy Note smartphone and tablet, along with its new smartwatch, will go on sale in the US next month.
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and US Cellular all will carry the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. Some of the cellular carriers will also sell the Galaxy Gear smartwatch.
Major retailers including Best Buy, Amazon.com, RadioShack and Wal-Mart also will carry the smartphone and smartwatch.
Samsung unveiled the products on Wednesday. The smartwatch is designed to let users check messages with a glance at their wrists or have a conversation through a speaker phone.
The watch must be linked wirelessly with a smartphone to perform its full range of functions. It acts as an extension to the phone by discreetly alerting users to incoming messages and calls on its screen, which measures 1.63 inches (4.14 centimeters) diagonally.
AT&T said it will sell the phone for $299.99 with a new two-year agreement, or for $35 a month under its AT&T Next installment plan. It will begin shipping orders on October 1.
T-Mobile said it plans to sell the smartphone for $199.99 down with 24 monthly payments of $21. It's also selling the smartwatch for $299.99. US Cellular confirmed that it will start selling the phone next month, but didn't announce pricing.
The smartwatch will be available in jet black, oatmeal beige, rose gold, wild orange, lime green and mocha gray. The phone and the tablet will be available in jet black and classic white. Colors will vary by seller, Samsung said.
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I'm using Crystal Reports 2008 in one of my projects, and I'm fairly new to Crystal Reports 2008. I have a couple of reports that we would want to deploy on the client side. The back-end database for these reports is MySQL. So, my first question is, If I have a locally developed report which fetches data from MySQL db and if I change the data in the database the report gets rendered accordingly on a refresh, so If I use the same report on a different machine could be a client machine and we asume that the schema for the reporting database is same and we have created a connection to that database with the same connection name on a different machine, would the data rendering work in that case i.e would the data get updated in the report on a different machine if it gets a connection with the same connection name??
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Perfect for a cycling class or a morning jog, this pair of bebe capri pants feature a figure-contouring design and black and white colorblocking. Made for high-impact activity from moisture-wicking fabrics.
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Opera hopes to change the way we use the web with Opera Unite. "We promised Opera Unite would reinvent the Web," said Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's CEO, "What we are really doing is reinventing how we as consumers interact with the Web. By giving our devices the ability to serve content, we become equal citizens on the Web. In an age where we have ceded control of our personal data to third-parties, Opera Unite gives us the freedom to choose how we will share the data that belongs to us."
Opera's website gives a decent short introduction to Opera Unite, and what, exactly, you can currently do with it.
This is just the beginning, though, as developers can build applications that make use of Opera Unite to do all sorts of things. Data shared via Opera Unite can be accessed via other browsers too, but some applications may be designed specifically around Opera-Opera interaction.
Opera Unite is based on web standards, so web developers should be able to pick it up rather quickly. "Opera Unite is based on common Web technologies like HTML and JavaScript," Opera's FAQ on Unite reads, "When building Opera Unite, we sought to use documented open Web standards wherever possible. This ensures that Opera Unite applications can easily be created using the techniques Web developers use every day. In addition, during the development of the technology we have made various key parts available for standardization."
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