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Hiya friends! I am totally playing catch-up as it has been over a month since I blogged....why you might ask? Life is busy and I honestly have not taken the time to sit at my computer and tell you about our lives. This definitely has been a season of change for our household.
So what is so different from August to September?? Aidan has started Grade 7 at a new school, Addison has started kindergarten and attends every morning of the week for half days, and Asher has started playschool Wednesday and Friday mornings. So my role of being a stay-at-home mom has had to transition into "driver" and be and have everyone ready to go out of the house for 8:15am. As this is the third week in, I feel a lot less anxious about it as I have proved I can do it. Yes there may have been yelling and yes there has been frustration on my part. You see I have faults....I hit snooze on my alarm at least twice (I am not the best morning person), I like to shower and put myself together (but it isn't all about me), I like to enjoy a cup of coffee (but am getting used to drinking it lukewarm and eventually cold), I like to be organized (but don't like to do the organizing), I feel anxious about being late for something, anything (am working on it), like everyone to eat a big, good breakfast to start their day off right (but am realizing the more I rush and push Addison to eat the slower he goes...I am learning he will eat a very little bit but eats better at his school snack time so I pack him 2 snacks and talked to his teacher about him and who he is...he is not a morning eater)....But I am getting it...slowly and surely. (And Big Daddy Gies helps out as much as he can which I am ever so thankful and lovin' and he often makes and brings me a dolled-up cup of coffee to me as I do my hair and sits on the bed and we chat about God...what we are reading or learning and that is a grrrreat way to start off my day!!). AND that is just the school stuff...our Life Group has switched to Friday evenings now so we can enjoy a family day together on Sundays. We have some friends who have left to start their own groups (yaahh for leaders) and we have new and old friends stay with us and keep encouraging and living the lives God calls us to live. I am thankful for couples and families who make time in their schedules to spend with us and our family for this greater purpose in community, sharing and growth in Him.
Because there is too much to catch up with from August I am just going to start anew in September and show you the boys in my life on their first days of school.
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Hiya friends! I am totally playing catch-up as it has been over a month since I blogged....why you might ask? Life is busy and I honestly have not taken the time to sit at my computer and tell you about our lives. This definitely has been a season of change for our household.
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Plan your BLACK FRIDAY CHARGE: Google shop maps go desktop
Bags of smoke, loads of aggression, straight up the middle
Google Maps' indoor offerings - floor plans, often of shops or other public spaces, until now browsable on Android devices only - are now browsable in browsers too, so one can plan a day out down to the smallest detail.
Floorplans launched in America just over a year ago, and in the UK back in July, but only on Android devices on the (quite reasonable) grounds that it is when one is mobile that one needs indoor maps. This was a differentiator for Android too: but not any more, as now anyone with a decent web browser can get floorplans for more than 10,000 locations.
The maps only cover the most compliant of places: City Airport but not Heathrow, airports in Las Vegas but not in Los Angeles. Only sites which have delivered the data to the Googleplex themselves are included - there's no Streetview-like team team armed with 3D laser volume scanners yet, amusing as that would be.
Quite how useful internal mapping is - when GPS is unlikely to be working indoors - is debatable, but Google is clearly thinking ahead to a time when proper indoor location will be available. Next-generation systems such as the European Galileo have slightly better building penetration, and then there's the use of Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth unique device ID techniques and even clever use of white space systems.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Against all odds, "The Killing" lives.
This AMC whodunit, which solved a tangled murder case — Who killed Rosie Larsen? — during two often gripping, sometimes exasperating seasons, then was canceled last July for low ratings, will rise from the dead for a welcome third season on June 2.
With this new lease on life, it's preserving one of TV's most delicious acting duos — co-stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman — while also restoring the faith of Kinnaman, who, in an interview last June, when the future of the series seemed dim, declared he was planning to come back for another season even if he had to "go up there and shoot it myself."
That won't be necessary. Veena Sud, who developed the series and has served as an executive producer, is back in charge, armed with a troubling new case for Stephen Holder, the glib, gangly Seattle homicide detective played so splendidly by Kinnaman.
It's a year later, and a year after homicide detective Sarah Linden, Holder's glowering, pint-sized ex-partner, had left the force. Her nerves and dedication were shattered by the Larsen case, a gruesome drowning murder of a local teen. Linden is now a ferry worker, waving vehicles on and off the ferry at its Vashon Island landing on Puget Sound.
But a serial killer she helped put away a couple of years before is nearing his execution date — even as similarly grisly murders have resumed in Seattle. Holder worries that the wrong man may have been convicted for those earlier crimes.
Initially, Linden scoffs at Holder's efforts at belated justice.
"Not every victim's worth it," she tells him glumly. "You start caring, you'll end up like me, working minimum wage on a ferry."
What she isn't saying (not yet, anyway): She, too, has been tormented by doubts that she collared the right man. How deeply will she be drawn into Holder's frantic make-good probe as time is running out for the convicted culprit?
Meanwhile: How, if at all, is psycho-inmate Tom Seward (played chillingly by Peter Sarsgaard) linked to the rash of new murders of runaway teen girls?
Serial murder isn't the freshest idea for a TV crime drama (just in the past few months "The Following" and "Hannibal" have joined the fray). And by the way, why does "The Killing" keep killing teenage girls?
Never mind. Judging from the two-hour premiere, "The Killing" could snag its audience's interest as the mystery unfolds. The premiere plants its share of provocative clues, including a grove of trees that keeps appearing in a child's crayon drawings.
And it reintroduces the irresistible Holder, a lovably skeezy ex-narc and recovering addict who radiates a blend of hip-hop-spiked elan and fidgety insolence. These days, he seems to have it made: less scruffy than when last seen, preparing for the sergeant's exam, with a perfect closure rate for his cases the past year and a cool girlfriend. Aglow with success, is he bucking for a setback? Will this case trigger it?
In any case, Kinnaman steals every scene he's in, and, teamed with Enos' prickly, pushy Linden, they still crackle with the chemistry of siblings who bring out the best in each other, whatever the friction between them.
That much hasn't changed about the series.
At the same time, past viewers of "The Killing" should know the show has undergone some noticeable tweaking.
Its original format — drawn from the original Danish series that inspired it — called for tracking 12 consecutive days of the investigation, with each episode covering each successive day. That structure has been scrapped.
Another change: The mystery, though it will surely reach in unexpected directions, doesn't seem likely to swamp the entire Seattle community, as the Rosie Larsen case did. (The mystery of who killed Rosie shed suspicion on at least two dozen characters, including a popular candidate for mayor.) And most of the sizable original cast, which played characters tied intrinsically to the Larsen case, is unsurprisingly gone. In the premiere, the only hold-overs are Annie Corley as Linden's friend Regi and Liam James as her teenage son, who make brief appearances.
The gloomy mood that prevailed for the first two seasons has been lifted, if ever so slightly. The show's palette seems a teensy bit brighter. And the rain that seemed to soak every scene so atmospherically before has been scaled back. Indeed, the premiere is one-third over before the action is pounded by a full-out thunderstorm.
One final note: To avert a repeat of the misunderstanding when season 1 ended not with the awaited Big Reveal, but instead a cliffhanger that had viewers howling, the show pledges to solve this new case by the season's 12th and final episode.
Between now and then, the more "The Killing" keeps Holder and Linden in the picture and in the same frame — grasping for the truth and pushing each other's buttons — the more fun this never-say-die show is likely to be.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier.


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(Reuters) - Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd plunged more than 20 percent on Friday on fears that a new fee structure for its high-margin services segment could put pressure on the business that has set the company apart from its competitors.
It was the stock's biggest, single-day, percentage price drop since September 2008. But shares were still nearly 80 percent above the year's low, which was reached in September. They started to rally in November as investors began to bet that RIM's long-awaited new BlackBerry 10 phones, which will be unveiled in January, would turn the company around.
The services segment has long been RIM's most profitable and accounts for about a third of total revenue. Some analysts said there was a risk that the fee changes could endanger its service ecosystem and leave the Canadian company as just another handset maker.
The fee changes, which RIM announced on Thursday after market close, overshadowed stronger-than-expected quarterly results. The company said the new pricing structure would be introduced with the BlackBerry 10 launch, expected on January 30.
RIM said some subscribers would continue to pay for enhanced services such as advanced security. But under the new structure, some other services would account for less revenue, or even none at all.
Chief Executive Thorsten Heins tried to reassure investors in a television interview with CNBC on Friday, saying RIM's "service revenue isn't going away".
He added: "We're not stopping. We're not halting. We're transitioning."
Since taking over at RIM in January, Heins has focused on shrinking the company and getting it ready to introduce its new BB10 devices, which RIM says will help it claw back ground it has lost to competitors such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.
But the new services pricing strategy came as a shock to markets, and some analysts cut their price targets on RIM stock.
RIM will not be able to sustain profitability by relying on its hardware business alone, said National Bank Financial analyst Kris Thompson, whom Thomson Reuters StarMine has rated the top RIM analyst based on the accuracy of his estimates of the company's earnings.
Thompson downgraded RIM's stock to "underperform" from "sector perform" and cut his price target to $10 from $15.
Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin said the move was likely about stabilizing market share: "At the moment, they need to stem the bleeding."
He said the tiered pricing might line up better with RIM's subscriber base as it expands in emerging economies.
RIM's Nasdaq-listed shares closed down 22.7 percent at $10.91 on Friday. The stock fell 22.2 percent to C$10.86 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The success of the BB10 will be crucial to the future of RIM, which on Thursday posted its first-ever decline in total subscribers. Heins said on CNBC that the company expected to ship millions of the new devices.
He cautioned that this will require heavy investment, which will reduce RIM's cash position in its fourth and first quarters from $2.9 billion in its fiscal third quarter. He said, however, it would not go below $2 billion.
Still, doubts remain about whether RIM can pull off the transformation. Needham analyst Charlie Wolf said the BB10 would have to look meaningfully superior to its competitors for RIM to stage a comeback.
Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley said it was highly unlikely that the market would support RIM's new mobile computing ecosystem, and he remained skeptical about the company's ability to survive on its own.
"We believe RIM will eventually need to sell the company," said Walkley, who cut his price target on RIM shares to $9 from $10.
Baird Equity Research analysts said BB10 faced a daunting uphill battle against products from Apple, as well as those using Google Inc's Android operating system, and, increasingly, phones with Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system.
Baird maintained its "underperform" rating on the stock, while Paradigm Capital downgraded the shares to "hold" from "buy" on uncertainty around the services revenue model.
"RIM has gone from having one major aspect of uncertainty - BlackBerry 10 adoption - to two, given an uncertain floor on services revenue," William Blair analyst Anil Doradla said.
RIM will have to discount BB10 devices significantly to maintain demand, Bernstein analyst Pierre Ferragu said.
The BlackBerry, however, still offers the security features that helped it build its reputation with big business and government, a selling point with some key customers.
Credit Suisse maintained its "neutral" rating on the stock, but not because it expected BB10 to be a big success.
"Only the potential for an outright sale of the company or a breakup keeps us at a neutral," Credit Suisse analysts said.
Separately on Friday, ailing Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia said it had settled its patent dispute with RIM in return for payments.
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(Reporting by Chandni Doulatramani in Bangalore and Allison Martell in Toronto. Additional reporting by Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Ted Kerr, Dale Hudson, Janet Guttsman,; Lisa Von Ahn, Peter Galloway and Leslie Gevirtz)


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1. If a city is in the 3rd declension, the ablative would be -e, wouldn't it? But someone corrected my sentence and turned it into this:
Nunc in regione Los Feliz in Angelopoli, California habitat.
Is this sentence correct? Why would the ending be -i? Was the person perhaps mixing up the ablative and the locative?
2. Am I wrong in believing that words ending in -ista, -ae can be either gender, depending on the gender of the person referred to, and so any adjective modifying the noun will have the endings of the chosen gender? I thought I knew this, but someone changed one sentence into:
Josephus Matt est cartoonista Americana.
Shouldn't it be "Americanus"?
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Are books following the horse and carriage down the road to obsolescence?
Obsolescence is short of extinction. But it's also short of popular use, which books have been in since not long after Gutenberg invited moveable type, which soon brought printed books to the Western world. Obsolete puts you in museums, where you're let out for special nostalgic occasions like horse-and-carriage rides around West Annapolis at this weekend's It's a Wonderful Life holiday shopping event.
Certainly books are not obsolete in the minds of people who want to write them, which is just about everybody.
Over the centuries, books have been the treasure houses where human knowledge, understanding and wisdom were stored. Before Gutenberg made his printing press, books were treasures in content and form, labor-intensive and beautiful works of art, written and illuminated one at a time.
Even now — perhaps especially now — when everybody can make and publish a book with online specialty houses, books are places people put their treasure.
That truth came home to me as I was preparing this week's feature story, Winter Reads, a come-to-hand compendium of 2011 books with something to say to, about or from this place we live.
A great deal goes into making a book. The author has to know a whole lot about a subject; immersion, if not obsession, are words that came to mind as I considered the commitment these women and men made. Learning that much takes months, years, even a lifetime.
Writing the book is no short subject, either. These authors had to sit in one place, hands on a keyboard, for long, long stretches, sit long after their butts became sore, fingers numb, eyes crossed and brain curdled.
What's more, they had to write with a purpose, and not only that but a purpose of their own devising. Conceiving, researching, organizing and then writing a book are marvels of discipline.
Clearly, these authors believed they had a treasure, and they wanted to store it wisely and well, so it could be used but never used up.
They are not, hope as they may, likely to be richly rewarded for their time and effort. "You're not going to make any money off writing books," Marlin Fitzwater told me. "You're doing it for your own pleasure."
Even more daunting is the thought where this week's letter began: Is anybody going to read the books these devotees have so painstakingly produced?
Or have reading habits evolved past the solid, print-filled page?
Notice how short I'm writing my paragraphs? That's because I want you to read them. Centuries ago, when paper was a luxury, unindented paragraphs covered pages, themselves tightly filled margin to margin and sometimes writ over on the diagonal.
Nowadays, new media are teaching our minds to think — and read — in different ways. We like smaller blocks of words, lots of white space and pictures, please. Hence the rise of the graphic novel, amid other new media.
Even if a publisher has artfully designed a book to make its pages friendly to new readers, as has the designer of 1812, only a few of us will ever read those pages. That's for the same reason books are so valuable to their authors and to civilization: They know it all, or rather so much of a subject that only other devotees will care to know even some of it.
Do we want, anymore, to read as much on a subject as a book contains?
That question has an easy answer: Only if we care about the subject. There are people who will devour all of 1812, just as I'm savoring all of Death in the Polka Dot Shoes. There are people who read books for knowledge, the way I read newspapers, and people like me who blissfully drown in a good story.
If we like the book, it doesn't matter if it's printed in real ink or eInk. Death in the Polka Dot Shoes is primarily an eBook. Fitzwater acknowledged ePublishing as the state of the art, after agents and publishers told him that was their read on the future of fiction.
Still, he had a few hardcover copies printed to give away, and the book can be ordered in paper. But my hardcover copy, bound on the cheap, he acknowledges, has to be wrestled to be read. The last book I read, State of Wonder, came to me as an eBook on a Nook, and I enjoyed reading that way. Not much different, it seems, than talking books, which I've listened to with great pleasure for three decades.
Give me a good story and I'll read it; that's my message, regardless of medium.
I hope this issue brings you many good stories.
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I have just read an incredible political thriller ebook. I was browsing around at amazon.com and found this ebook called The Cain Sanction, I read the preview and a few chapters.
It really was a page turner can't put it down kind of book.
I didn't know how it ends until the last sentence of the last page.. great read!!
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BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel highlighted Germany's economic strength as she kicked off campaigning Saturday for an important state vote that comes months before national elections, and she brushed aside worries about the weakness of her party's coalition partner.
Merkel's center-right party faces a tough battle to extend its 10-year hold on Lower Saxony state, a northwestern region of 8 million people, in the Jan. 20 election there. Polls suggest the center-left opposition has a good chance of winning, which would give it a significant boost ahead of September national elections in which Merkel will seek a third term.
Merkel made clear that her Christian Democrats will make "economic competence, together with jobs — and jobs that are well-qualified and fairly paid," along with economic strength, a keystone of this year's campaigns. She identified opposition plans for tax increases as one battleground.
"We believe that we do, of course, need income for the state, so we are not talking about tax cuts at this point," Merkel said at a televised news conference after her party's leadership met in Wilhelmshaven, a port city in Lower Saxony.
"But we believe that tax increases ... are not good for current economic developments, for medium-sized companies in particular but also for big companies," she added.
The number of Germans out of work averaged just under 2.9 million last year, the lowest since 1991. Germany's jobless rate of less than 7 percent contrasts with figures well over 20 percent in troubled eurozone partners Greece and Spain.
The strong German economy, and Merkel's hard-nosed management of Europe's debt crisis, have helped keep her popularity high and her party ahead in polls.
But the weakness of the pro-market Free Democratic Party, her junior coalition partner, means that her center-right alliance lacks a majority in surveys. The party, which campaigned at Germany's last election for tax cuts that it failed to obtain, has taken much of the blame for frequent coalition squabbling.
In Lower Saxony, polls show the FDP short of the 5 percent support needed to stay in the state legislature, which endangers popular conservative governor David McAllister's chances of keeping his job.
However, Merkel said she is "very optimistic that the (Free Democrats) will, on their own strength, with their ideas and their share in the success of the work of both the Lower Saxony state government and the federal government, be able to convince people."
The Lower Saxony election follows a rough start for Merkel's center-left challenger in the national elections, former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck.
He drew criticism this week for saying the chancellor earns too little and that Merkel has an advantage because she's a woman — adding to earlier controversy over his high earnings from public speaking. Merkel coolly dismissed a question about her challenger's performance.
"To be honest, I take care of my own performance and I'm very satisfied with that," she said. "The rest is for others to comment on."


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Apropos of nothing, if the Kiss classic "God of Thunder" is not on the soundtrack to this film, there should be an official investigation by the Justice Department. How can you have a movie about Thor and not roll that out during the closing credits? I don't see a way.
Anybody going to see this over the next few days?
Caught it this afternoon, and I actually thought it was really good. Better than I expected actually. I've heard some putting it almost on par with the first Iron Man, and I could see that. It is a different type of movie (from Iron Man), sure, but I thought it was really well done.
Saw it last night. It was good. I have no idea what the thing after the credits is (even after reading the above posts) but I love that Marvel does that. I also really enjoy the Stan Lee cameos.
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This thread is a classic in my mind because of Baldwin's response.
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I almost could not believe what I was hearing. The President touting the boom in U.S. energy and manufacturing and said that we can't get in the way with needless regulation. During President Obama's Jobs Tour in Texas, the home of "Big Oil" and the heart and soul of the U.S. energy industry, the President embraced the industry that he had disparaged insulted and degraded. Perhaps the President is starting to realize that if it was not for the boom created by "Big Oil," then perhaps our economy at this point would not be the brightest in the world but more look like the struggles ones they are having in the EU. The U.S energy Industry has been the one of the key ingredients that has allowed the rest of the economy to recover. Big oil and the shale gas revolution is the President's secret weapon creating the headwinds that have improved the jobs number and the economy as a whole and without the boost that the energy industry has provided, the economy would be going backwards.
Not to mention the fact that the U.S. Energy industry has contributed more tax to the Federal Government than any other industry. In the top-10 list of companies paying the highest 2012 U.S. income taxes, U.S. oil industry companies took three of the slots. The top taxpayer was Exxon Mobil at $31 billion despite the fact they gave up their title of world's largest company to Apple for a time. Exxon Mobil paid more in tax than they took in U.S. profits. Number 2 (no, not Apple) Chevron, which paid a cool $20 billion in Federal taxes. Sixth was ConocoPhillips at $8 billion. That is about $60 billion in taxes among them, which is more than any other industry and more than the other seven companies on the list, including Apple and Microsoft, combined. Not to mention that Obama's favorite company GE paid zero in U.S. taxes.
On top of that the President is pushing for natural gas exports. He must have run the numbers and now realizes what a positive impact it will have on his economy. Without the U.S. Energy boom brought to you courtesy of "Big Oil," the economy would be flatter than a pancake.
Speaking of exports the Financial Times reports that "Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum have agreed to a deal making it possible for the UK to import liquefied natural gas from their proposed $10bn export project at Golden Pass in Texas, opening up a new source of potential gas supply for Britain. Exxon said the two companies had agreed to make capacity available at their South Hook receiving terminal at Milford Haven, south Wales, to take cargoes of LNG from Golden Pass, and would soon start negotiations on the commercial details of the plan. The sales would require US government approval."
The long term bull outlook for natural gas remains solid! Short term Bloomberg reports that U.S. natural gas inventories rose last week, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Inventories rose 5%, or 88 billion cubic feet, to 1.865 trillion in the week ended May 3. A Bloomberg survey expected inventories to rise 86 billion cubic feet to 1.863 trillion cubic feet. It is pulling back as the S&P looks ripe for a pull back and strong supply. Gasoline got a boost on refinery rumors as well as the fact that the weekly jobless claims increased demand expectations.
The market is also watching the Brent-WTI spread. Robert Campbell of Reuters writes "For two years the dominant story in the North American oil market has been a shortage of pipeline capacity, leading to the buildup of gluts of oil as producers cannot get their crude to market. That era is coming to a rapid end."


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BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for a wave of bombings across the country, as shootings and explosions into the night killed at least 12 people.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaida affiliate in Iraq, took credit for attacks Monday that killed at least 58 people on a website commonly used by Sunni extremists. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified, but its style was consistent with earlier al-Qaida statements.
The blasts on Monday — 18 in all — were the latest in a surge of bloodshed that has swept across Iraq since April, killing more than 3,000 people and worsening the already strained ties between Iraq's Sunni minority and the Shiite-led government. In July alone, nearly 700 people have been killed in insurgent attacks, according to an Associated Press count.
The scale and pace of the violence have fanned fears of a return to the widespread sectarian bloodletting that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Al-Qaida's Iraqi branch and other Sunni insurgent groups have targeted the country's security forces in a bid to undermine faith in the Shiite-led government and to stir up sectarian tensions. But the group has grown emboldened in recent months following a government crackdown on Sunni protests calling for better treatment by the state.
Last week, the group carried out simultaneous attacks on two prisons that allowed hundreds of inmates, including senior al-Qaida members, to escape and left dozens of people dead.
A spokesman for al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, described the jailbreak as a "great victory" in an audio message posted on the same website Tuesday.
Last year, al-Qaida launched a campaign called "Breaking the Walls" that made freeing its imprisoned members a top priority. Al-Adnani said that effort came to a close with the twin attacks on the prison, and announced a new campaign dubbed "The Harvest of the Soldiers." He offered no other specifics on the new campaign.
Attacks continued on Tuesday. Police said the deadliest assault took place when a bomb went off inside a crowded cafe, killing five diners and wounding 20 others in the former al-Qaida stronghold city of Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
Earlier, a bomb missed a police patrol in Tarmiyah, killing two civilian passers-by and wounding seven others, officials said. Tarmiyah is 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Baghdad.
Gunmen killed three policemen in two separate shootings in the northern city of Mosul, authorities said. Two Sunni worshippers also were killed when a bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad, officials said.
Hospital officials confirmed the death tolls in Tuesday's attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information to the media.
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Since we last watched ourselves some Archer there have been rumblings that Adam Reed, the show's creator and sole writer, is getting bored with espionage. Thus the switch in direction from a spy show to a drug cartel show. It makes no sense as to how this could be the same series. After watching five episodes of the fifth season it's clear that Archer Vice is indeed a new premise, but it's blissfully the same show we've all come to adore. Somehow Reed has been able to build a new show that feels, and makes you laugh, the same as the previous iteration.
Like Community going forth with a "re-pilot," Archer Vice finds the ISIS crew kicked out of their destroyed headquarters and embarking upon the season with what is essentially a new pilot episode. The FBI have seized everything, including Sterling's swank pad, and have left the team with only one remaining possession from their spy game days: a tonne of coke. That's a metric tonne, not a ton, as Cyril explains to the team.
For all of the changes, things still remain familiar. Here are the five things that have us excited about the new direction of Archer Vice when Season 5 premieres Monday, January 13 at 10:00 pm ET on FX...
ISIS Is GoneIt turns out that all of the time ISIS has been running spy missions, they've really been more like Blackwater missions. Malory Archer never had government approval to do the things she's done. Essentially the entire core premise for the series has been ripped away, and exposed as a lie. This has been talked about already by executive producer Matt Thompson, and the news lead to wondering how this will alter the show.
The answer, it turns out, is that it flips the series on its side. It then kicks old Archer with a steel toed boot and watches as the series we knew and loved dies a bloody death. The ISIS offices are gone, Krieger's lab is gone, Lana's reduced to only having her guns but no bullets since she got those from work, and everything else iconic is gone. Except that these are still the same people, and while ISIS has been confiscated by the FBI, the team that ran the missions remains intact. They're just performing a new task, which brings us to...


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This week's Shelf has a DVD box set celebrating a milestone in the annals of TV comedy, a box set bidding farewell to one of the darkest shows in TV history, and the release of the second part of a movie franchise about older people kicking ass. No, not that one. Also, chivalry on cycles and blind people playing with swords. What's all this then, Shelf?
Mystery Science Theater 3000 25th Anniversary Edition
It's no secret that without Mystery Science Theater 3000, most of us people who think comedy is great wouldn't have nearly the same idea about it. For me, if not for MST3K and Monty Python's Flying Circus, I'd be little more than a paper-pushing feeb wearing sweatpants and orthopedic shoes. I mean, maybe; who knows?!?! Anyway, the show is 25 years old this year and Shout Factory is continuing its fantastic box-set releases with this Limited Edition tin case set featuring four never-before-released titles and two old favorites from different eras of the series' history.
Disc one features Episode 111 (meaning the eleventh episode of the first Comedy Central season) Moon Zero Two, a weird British sci-fi/western/comedy made by Hammer Films in 1969. The disc features an intro to the film by Hammer historian Constantine Nasr and part one of the three-part documentary, "Return to Eden Prarie: 25 Years of MST3K."
Disc two features Episode 422 The Day the Earth Froze, a Nordic fantasy from 1959. The disc also has MST Hour wraps featuring Mike Nelson as Jack Perkins and part two of the documentary.
Disc three features Episode 802 The Leech Woman, the very second Sci-Fi Channel episode. The disc features part three of the documentary and another installment of "Life After MST3K, this time with Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester).
Disc four features Episode 909 Gorgo, the episode featuring Leonard Maltin and a British rip-off of Godzilla. The disc features a making of Gorgo and some stuff from Leonard Maltin.
Bonus Disc Five features two fan-favorite episodes: Episode 512 Mitchell and Episode 513 The Brain That Wouldn't Die, the final Joel episode and the first Mike episode. Both are honest-to-goodness classics. Special features include "The Last Fight of Joel Robinson" about creator/star Joel Hodgson's decision to leave the show.
As with all the box sets, this one also includes four mini-posters. It's a must-own for fans of the series. Many belly laughs.
For more about the 25th anniversary of Mystery Science Theater 3000, check out my interview with creator Joel Hodgson. He's a cool guy.
Breaking Bad The Complete Series
This summer saw the end of the long, strange, violent, and bald adventure that was Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan's televisual masterpiece about a high school science teacher who becomes a meth kingpin. As if you didn't know the premise. Today sees the release of the complete series on Blu-ray in a snazzy and awesome plastic barrel case, the kind you'd put your money or dissolve a dead guy in. The set comes with over 55 hours of special features, an all knew two-hour retrospective documentary, a 16 page booklet with letter by Vince Gilligan, Commemorative challenge coin, and a Los Pollos Hermanos apron. This is for you if you don't have all the seasons already.
Also, the Final Season is available by itself in a regular Blu-ray case and featuring all eight episodes of the last days of Walter White on two discs. This is the season where everything comes to a head and no one is safe. If you thought someone was safe, you were wrong. Episode 6, "Ozymandias," might well be the greatest hour of television of the last ten or so years. It's jaw-dropping.
I'm not going to beat around the bush; I never saw the first Red. I worried for a few minutes prior to the start of Red 2 that I might have a bit of trouble being brought up to speed on who everybody was and where the events of the first film had brought them. I needn't have worried. Red 2 does a good job of not hampering itself with the events of the first film. In fact, it doesn't really hamper itself with anything save the exact thing we're watching at that exact moment. It's a movie that feels like edited highlights of some other movie, and at nearly 2 hours long, that larger movie would probably have to be Lawrence of Arabian.
The movie reunites Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovitch, and Helen Mirren and adds new players Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and the mucho butt-kicking Byung-Hun Lee. Red 2 is all plot, action, and funny dialogue. There's a thread about Willis and Parker's relationship being put to the test, but it's the thinnest of strands. Zeta-Jones plays a Russian agent and is described as "Frank Moses Kryptonite," and one might assume that there will be a tug of war for his affections between his former flame and his new love, but there isn't, really, at all. Zeta-Jones is quite superfluous, in fact. We get exactly who the characters are at the very beginning, and they're more or less the same at the end; really, no internal struggle to speak of. It's a lot of fighting, shooting, exploding, infiltrating, visiting glamorous locations (Paris! Moscow! London!), and getting in and out of scrapes.
It's a mission movie, and in that it's a lot fun, but there's really no meat. I will say that it was refreshing to have an action movie with older characters where they aren't forever griping about how old they are. Clearly, everyone is still at the top of their game, especially Mirren's character, who is easily the most badass of the bunch.
The Blu-ray is pretty light, with only a few making-ofs and some other sundries. If you liked the first one, I'm pretty sure you'll like the second one. Otherwise, it's a rental rather than a buyal.
Knightriders – In the deal to make a third Dead movie, George A. Romero stipulated that he get to make this movie, an epic (some would say too long) adventure about knights in shining armor who ride motorcycles instead of horses.
Zatoichi Complete Collection – The Criterion Collection is kind of the best. They've been releasing really excellent movies on great Blu-ray editions recently. This here is a monumental example of their film-distributing prowess. All 25 films in the long running Blind Swordsman samurai series are presented here in new digital restorations and with the level of care that you've come to expect from Criterion.
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NEW YORK – The National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum reopened Tuesday in Lower Manhattan, but planned to close again Wednesday temporarily along with city parks as a precaution against high winds from a coming Nor'easter.
The memorial's reopening Tuesday left just a few major New York City landmarks — including the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island — closed indefinitely to visitors in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.
However, the expected Nor'easter was forcing a new round of temporary precautionary closures, with city parks and zoos — which just reopened Saturday following Sandy — now scheduled to shut again Wednesday at noon. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the closures were in anticipation of potentially high winds. A spokesman for the Sept. 11 memorial said the World Trade Center park would close as well Wednesday.
The High Line, which reopened Monday following a Sandy-related closure, also planned to close Wednesday at noon because of the Nor'easter.
The good news at the 9/11 memorial, however, was that the reflective fountains, ringed by the names of those who died in the terrorist attacks, were undamaged by Sandy. The memorial's so-called survivor tree, which survived the 2001 attacks as well, also was not harmed by Sandy. However, full power has not yet been restored to the memorial site, with some areas, including the visitor center, still relying on generators.
The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, meanwhile, remain closed to visitors while damage assessment and repairs continue. The New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn, is also closed due to storm damage.
Major museums have reopened, including downtown sites such as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which is located on the Battery. Broadway theaters and the Empire State Building reopened last week.
Carnegie Hall, which had canceled or postponed all performances since Oct. 28, was expected to reopen Wednesday. The concert hall sits on West 57th Street where a crane left dangling by the storm's winds caused street closures.
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Read any report on HIV in black America, attend any HIV conference or look up at an HIV prevention billboard and it's clear who is most impacted by this epidemic in the U.S.: black men who have sex with men (MSM) and black heterosexual women. Perhaps that heavy focus, along with homophobia in the black community, is what led to the belief in the down-low phenomenon, according to which duplicitous and sinister bisexual men are sleeping with men and also having unprotected sex with women.
Kellee Terrell, News Editor for TheBody.com
And while so many in the African-American community buy into this myth, science demonstrates that that just isn't so. The down low is not fueling the HIV epidemic among black women. So, if it's not about men on the down low and the main source of HIV transmission among black women is heterosexual contact, at what point are we going to address the elephant in the room?
Heterosexual men do have HIV, and they are falling through the cracks.
In order to fully address this epidemic head on, we have to include heterosexual African-American men. But how do we go about doing this given the stigma and homophobia in the black community? What work is being done now that is making an impact among this demographic? And where are the heterosexual men living with HIV who will speak out?
Participating in this discussion on the subject are Ingrid Floyd, the executive director of Iris House in New York City, and Larry Bryant, the national field organizer for Housing Works in Washington, D.C. Bryant has been living with HIV since 1986.
This is part two of the discussion; you can read part one here.
Ingrid Floyd, Executive Director for Iris House
Larry Bryant, National Field Organizer for Housing Works
Kellee Terrell: The more I see how prevention gets framed, the more I see that the bulk of the responsibility for condom use is placed on women. I hear so much of this "Women, save yourselves, love yourselves," and while it's empowering, because we do need to love ourselves, this approach suffers from tunnel vision. Because it's really counterproductive to leave heterosexual men out of these types of conversations, especially given who is really controlling when condoms get used.
Ingrid Floyd: What we've seen in our work with women -- and this is how we've come to start to do programs for heterosexual men -- is that women aren't the ones who make the final decision about whether a condom is going to be worn or not.
Most of our programs focus on: How do we teach women how to negotiate? How do we teach women how to use a condom? And I agree that women need to have these skills and to know what to do in those situations, but in a lot of cases what we find is that at home and in the bedroom, a lot is being led by the male in the relationship. And that's due to the gender norms that we have in our society.
So men have to be as willing to use a condom. Men have to be as willing to know their status, and as willing to seek care and treatment if they know that they're positive. And it can't be the pressure of the woman to make that decision for him.
Larry Bryant: It works both ways, too. There are some women who see the idea of using a condom with their man as a challenge of trust. And there are women who may not be educated on prevention or protection, but for whatever reason believe that condomless sex is what is truly sexual, in the purest sense.
I have received those kinds of pressures from women even among the ones who knew my status from the beginning. So I think that in more "equal" and ideal situations -- definitely not counting in situations that involve sexual violence, rape or control -- we all need to have some accountability.
Ingrid Floyd: Larry brings up a good point. People feel that there's a lack of intimacy when condoms are used. So how do we make sure that, in those cases, people are educated enough to know each other's status? We often tell people that it's great to know your status, but if you don't know your partner's status, and you don't want to use a condom, then it doesn't benefit you. So, in those cases where people feel that condom use prevents intimacy, how do we make sure that both parties are educated and are aware of their status and have shared that information? How do they get to a place where they can at least have that kind of dialogue or communication?


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Spring/summer 2014 looks debuted on the runway a month ago, and if you're anything like us, then patience isn't exactly your strongest suit. Instead of waiting for the snow to melt, we sprung forward to next season for trends that we can wear now—and beyond. At Milly, Elizabeth and James, and Vera Wang, athleticism was the name of the game, with mesh integrated into tops, skirts and dresses. Layer the netted fabric over long-sleevers for wintry days and wear it solo, come spring. On the 3.1 Phillip Lim, Lanvin and Marc by Marc Jacobs runways, light-refracting iridescent pieces were the star players. Gravitate toward mesmerizing holographic dresses and skirts (perfect for holiday parties) or keep the high-shine material to a minimum with a small clutch. We shopped out 10 spring trends that pull their weight (two seasons' worth of weight, in fact). Relevant until at least next fall, start racking up fashion mileage points now with these investment pieces that essentially pay for themselves in wear count alone.
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PLANO, Texas: Oct. 27, 2010 – Iroquois® has added a former insurance agency owner to its staff. Dick Clark, who has 26 years of experience in the industry, will serve as regional manager in Texas.
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Chicago, IL - The Auto Club Group (Chicago) recently recognized Philip Dawson of Iroquois Group Great Lakes, LLC as its 2009 Agent of the Year. Iroquois member agencies wrote a total of $2,500,000 in personal lines premium with AAA in 2009. Iroquois Group Great Lakes was honored at the annual Sales Award Banquet held in Chicago.
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Olean, N.Y. — MetLife Auto & Home recently awarded The Iroquois Group® its National Accounts Agent of the Year award for the third consecutive year.
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Climber, author is 2008 Montana Teacher of the Year
Billings teacher Steve Gardiner is accustomed to scaling heights. He has climbed some of the highest peaks in the world, including Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mt. Aconcagua in the Andes (highest peak in the Americas), and the north ridge of Mt. Everest.
Steve Gardiner with students
He has run the Boston and New York marathons. He has published over 500 articles in publications such as the New York Times, plus a book on teaching and three books on mountain climbing.
And this September, Gardiner reached the highest summit a Montana teacher can attain by being chosen as the 2008 Montana Teacher of the Year.
The Teacher of the Year program annually honors a teacher who exemplifies the best in the teaching profession. The program is sponsored and administered by the Montana Professional Teaching Foundation.
An interview committee composed of the 2007 Montana Teacher of the Year, Gary Carmichael; other educators; a parent; and a high school student chose Gardiner as Montana Teacher of the Year from among three finalists.
Gardiner, an MEA-MFT member, teaches English, newspaper, and yearbook and is the head cross country coach at Billings Senior High.
He said he never expected to spend 29 years teaching English-it was his least favorite subject in high school. But in college, Gardiner found four professors who changed his thinking forever.
"They gave me a love of reading, writing, and publishing that has become my way of life," he said. "I'm lucky."
Gardiner's students apparently feel lucky, too. They clamor to get into his newspaper classes, even though it requires vast amounts of writing.
"His students have a respect for him that is almost reverent," said Billings High English teacher Judy Barnes.
"They win awards; they publish; and most of all they grow as I have never seen students grow."
Go with the Flow. Gardiner has two strong beliefs about the learning process. First, "successful learning is a Flow activity," he said. He cited psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who defined Flow as the "state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter." Teachers who get students engaged and self-motivated, he said, foster students who love learning.
Lead by example. Second, Gardiner believes in modeling the behavior he wants to see from his students. "Modeling is the way every child learns, from how to tie a shoe to how to drive a car," he said.
Gardiner brings his own writing to class so students can observe his process and discuss it with him. He does each workout he assigns to his cross country runners. And every day he joins students in "Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)," a program he has used for 29 years to fight what he calls "aliteracy" in students.
Most high school students "are capable of reading but choose not to," Gardiner said. Through SSR, students choose books they want to read and share 15 minutes of daily reading with him and other students. He has seen SSR turn many non-readers into avid readers. "I have hundreds of success stories," he said.
Banish aliteracy. Gardiner has published a book on SSR-one of the many ways he shares his expertise with other teachers. He is also involved with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and earned his own National Board Certification in 2002.
Make it happen. Gardiner sees a strong similarity between his mountain climbing, running, and teaching. "You can't run a marathon without significant planning and preparation," he said.
Mountain climbing, too, takes enormous logistical and mental preparation. So does working with a new school newspaper staff and launching a new yearbook. "You have to envision, plan, and make it happen," he said
He is still making it happen in the climbing world as well as in teaching. Gardiner is part of a campaign called "50 for Tibet" that is raising funds for Tibetan people by climbing the highest mountain in each state. He is also raising money for a desperately needed hospital in Kenya. "Because I have traveled the world, I have an expanded sense of community," he said.
Gardiner will represent Montana at the National Teacher of the Year event and will serve as a spokesperson for the teaching profession in Montana throughout the year.
Teacher of the Year finalists. This year's Teacher of the Year finalists include Carrie Thiel, an English teacher at Flathead High School in Kalispell; and Brian McGeehan, a science and mathematics teacher at Chief Joseph Middle School in Bozeman. Along with Gardiner, they will be honored at a special celebration during the MEA-MFT Educators' Conference in Belgrade October 18.
Congratulations to these outstanding teachers and MEA-MFT members!
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- Make sure your vehicle is sufficiently winterized – check the battery, antifreeze level, heater, defroster, wipers and windshield washer.
- Dress warmly for the weather –in layers of loose-fitting, lightweight clothing, in anticipation of unexpected emergencies.
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A Fuego Y Agua Survival Run Race Report
At the end of 2014, my wife left me.
And for good reason. The damage I did to her, has now been transferred to me, and I have been a chaotic mess since. It consumes me. It's something that hurts every single day, and something that deeply affected my training, and my goals leading into this challenging event.
Therefore, this report isn't going to be your usual report. There will be very little obstacle challenge clues, no turn-by-turn explanations, and certainly no holier-than-thou suggestions for next year – so if that's what you want, there are 50 other race reports popping up all over social media, and from far more capable athletes than me.
My report is going to focus on the Survival Race from a personal perspective. I'm going to expose some things that are difficult to talk about. I'm going to share how, halfway through my year of training, the race took on a whole new meaning for me, and most importantly, I'm going to focus on how the people I met affected me. How new individuals came into my life at exactly the moment I believe they were supposed to show up. A living Celestine Prophecy.
I'm selfishly writing this for me, more than you.
This is Survival Run, Christian Griffith stylee, so yea, it's gonna be a little weird.
Let's start with Mikey
On the ferry over to Isle de Ometepe, the volcanic island in Nicaragua where the Fuego Y Agua 25k/50K/100K and Survival Run events take place, we met Mikey. Well, ok, "Mike." Mike Jay. But, I call him Mikey.
Mikey impressed me within the first 10 minutes of meeting him, and this stoke only grew as I learned more and more about this man. He's a retired Navy diver, currently living between the Nicaraguan surf town of San Juan del Sur, and Flagstaff, Arizona, in the states. He's a veteran who has literally been through the shit, having served in the armpits of Afghanistan, and the Middle East, and who has scars from multiple bullet wounds.
Yup, real, live, honest-to-goodness "bullets." Getting shot is still something I can't truly comprehend.
In fact, I was lucky enough to meet one of his deepest homeboys – a man who carried him miles to safety as a wounded soldier in Afghanistan.
Heavy stuff. Heavy stuff in which I have no real frame of reference due to my sheltered existence, but stuff for which I carry great admiration and thankfulness.
Knowing that our room on the island sorta "feel through," Mikey immediately stepped up to not only translate for me with the broken hotel, but also, and most graciously, offered us his room as roomies for a few days. This turned out to be the first in many "giving" moments with Mikey. Truly one of those people who cares more about stoking others, than himself.
I could go on and on and on about Mikey, and even his kick-ass lady, but unless you were there, it would probably be boring to you, and since I have the glorious gift of gab, I should probably just end his piece right here.
I love you, Mikey. I look forward to doing rim to rim to rim with you at the Grand Canyon this year, and hope that we remain boys, and grow our friendship for many years to come. You are one of those men that I admire, and aspire to emulate in my own life.
Buena onda, amigo.
Nervous Energy
Knowing there would be significant swimming in Survival Run, my arrival on the island had me worried. Because of my paralyzed diaphragm, I continue to struggle in the water – at least in comparison to the way I used to be where I was practically a human fish. The weight of the water constricts my chest and makes breathing a little more difficult, which in turn, creates small bouts of panic. Panic in the water es no bueno, so I have to concentrate intently on keeping my breathing steady and calm, keeping my heart rate low, and not allowing myself to panic, …ever.
Conditions on the island were very, very choppy, so being the cool dude Mikey is, we hit the water for some "comfort swimming" where I gained some confidence by swimming way out, a couple days in a row, to get comfortable with the challenging conditions. He taught me the combat swim stroke, and he and my friends Will, Haidar, and Shanna, swam distance and knocked out beach workouts to keep the butterflies away.
I went into the swim portion of the race with hella confidence, and actually crushed that part of the event, and I have Mikey and Will to thank for it. Chalk up yet another point for "the athletes" of Fuego Y Agua.
Race Day Doesn't Always Go Your Way
Remember when I said I killed the swimming? Well, that was quickly negated by my inability to find my race number, so I might as well have just floated out there.
When Josue said, "go" we had to run about 5K down the beach, across some rocks, and then start swimming a little less than a mile towards "Bird Shit Island." We were to retrieve an egg with a number on it, and then swim back with it without letting it break. I passed a lot of people on the swim to the island, and on the return swim back.
But once I ran to the plantain orchard to find my number, which was one of 45 numbers randomly attached to plantain trees somewhere in orchard, I couldn't find my tree. I was there for what seemed like 45 minutes, seeing every number except my number. I heard runners come in, quickly find their tree, cut it down, cut off the bushel of plantains, and take off running for the next checkpoint, all while I floundered around, lost in the orchard, and number-less.
It got dark. I pulled out the headlamp, and finally found my tree.
Away I go, to the next checkpoint, with 16 pounds of plantains, my 25 lb pack, and a heavy load of frustrated aggravation.
Long Beach
I spent the next 30 minutes completely alone along a dark beach. Dark in Nicaragua is black-dark. No street lights (or very few), and very few "establishments." It was so dark and lonely, I started to wonder if I had gone the wrong way down the beach. I came into the previous checkpoint around a lot of other athletes, but all of sudden found myself around no one.
On the beach, near the small hostel town of Santa Cruz, a drum circle of latin hippies pointed to a peninsula in front of me, and kept yelling "rocas" (which means rocks).
"Seriously?" I thought.
All that was there was a jagged, wet, slippery coastline of rocks. No discernible trail. No course markers. No confidence ribbons. Just rocks and trees and debris. We were to traverse this rocky coastline, for a looooong way. Slow, slippery and painful.
Luckily, Paul (American) and Luz (Nicaraguan), came up behind me, and I stayed with them almost the entire way to the dive challenge. Again, chalk one up for the athletes of FYA, as I never expected that section to be that long, and I started to turn back many times.
Early Low Point
The frustration associated with falling behind early, and then struggling on the rocks, had me a little mentally low. I started to question whether or not I was "Survival Race" material. "Should I have just stuck the ultramarathons like years past?"
I mean, "I'm no Nick Hollon, y'know…"
More miles passed, more challenges, and by the time I arrived at the grueling sand bag carry challenge, I just put my head down, ground out five trips up the 200 meter hill, with my heavy bags of sand, and spoke to almost no one.
Making It Up on Maderas
"Christian, you're going to need to make up some time on the climb up Maderas," said race coordinator, Sean Meehan.
Talk about another mental blow… I mean, I realize many of you don't know about these volcanoes, and how hard they are, but imagine gaining about 1000 feet per 1K of distance. We're talking 4,500 feet of climbing, about 3.5 – 4 hours of straight-up, with no switch-backs, and hella muddy. Like, shoe-sucking muddy. Hardly the place to consider "making up time."
And worse, I was completely out of water.
People who know me are shaking their heads right now. Go ahead. It's ok, I know what you are thinking. "Christian is such a race planning mess."
And you'd be right.
And Then, The Lowest Point
After trying to tough it out sans water, I finally started sitting down at various points in the climb, fatigued, thirsty, probably dehydrated, and waiting for others to catch up, so I could beg for a sip of water.
Probably my biggest savior at this point was the incredibly strong female athlete, Ekaterina Solovieva. She came up behind me all positive and bubbly an' shit, and offered me all kinds of water. I think I fell in love.
This started a pattern of drinking from "Solo," then moving ahead. Stopping. Waiting for Solo. Drinking from Solo. Then, Moving on ahead… repeat.
Until we eventually summited the volcano, dropped into the crater, and then, promptly told, "Christian, I gotta turn you around…" Gabi Stephens was volunteering and climbing back out of the crater, unaware that the cut-offs had been extended, and thus turning us around, which then had me turning around people coming up behind me.
And I thought my race was over.
BUT, like I promised myself coming into Survival Race, I was NOT going to quit. The only way I am walking off the course is if I am told specifically to do so. Otherwise, I will keep moving, no matter how slow and damaged.
I caught up to Nicaraguan, Luz, and although we didn't say much as we ran down the mountain, it was nice to be together, and I think we both benefited from the mutual company. I stopped her from getting lost multiple times 🙂
The sun came up. I was 12-13 hours into the race, and starting to come alive.
Better late than never.
It a'int Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings
Running at a decent clip, Luz and I came cruising into the checkpoint at the bottom of the volcano, just as the course designer, Ben, was instructing other athletes on the challenges necessary to complete this checkpoint.
Challenge: Roll a rock, well over 100 pounds, through a dried creek bed, and up a hill, for somewhere around a ridiculous 50 yards or more, before sawing down a bamboo stalk and climbing a tree with it. Looking back, and hearing all racer stories, I learned you could have carried the rock, and some did, which would have been right in my wheelhouse, but nope, I'm stupid, and actually tried to roll a square rock for 45 minutes…
I was about to time out again, so I left, with female competitor, Nele Schulz, before we both got pulled, and finally getting a chance to get to know her. Nele is a Spartan Death Race competitor, and popular athlete in our little sick circle, and I was curious to learn what she was all about.
Another challenge skipped, but still in the game.
I was about to regret being "still in the game."
The Mean, Nasty, Evil, Slippery, Dangerous, Challenging, Rocks
Nele and I were actually having a rather pleasant morning, minus the 150 degree temps at 8:00 a.m., and the piercing sun searing our skulls on the open dirt road. We took time to talk to competitors, who had made the previous challenges, and thus were walking down the road carrying bamboo. Female leader Corinne, and somewhere-in-the-front-pack John Taylor, were both in decent spirits considering we were all shot-out, sleepy, and somewhat shocked at the race difficulty thus far.
The four of us happened upon a little local store, …well, really, just a house with a Nica family selling sodas out of an Igloo cooler…, and scored some sugary sex. It's was an ice cold life-saver, but like most cold things in the jungle, fleeting.
It wasn't long before we found ourselves at what I found to be the most difficult challenge of any of them – the long, "who-knows-how-many-miles," rock traverse. Course designer, Ben, said he's done this traverse in 2.5 hours, but fresh. It took us over 4 hours, not even close to fresh, and feeling unsure and lost the entire time.
By this time, Nele and I had teamed up with Mike Ruhlin, the quiet beast, and the three of us scattered across the rocks, swam around difficult sections (with our packs, of course), and did our best to bush-whack around points that we simply could not find a way around otherwise, or that we thought might be smarter – which it never was. But, had it not been for Mike and Nele, I may have, at best, had a complete nervous breakdown out there, or at worst, flat-out froze on the rocks, convinced I was lost, and waiting for a rescue boat.
I cannot express how helpful it was to find slivers of shade during this rock-climbing-scrambling-crawling section, and sit down with my new friends, and bitch about how crazy Ben and Josue are to think this is something we should be doing, now 15-16 hours into the race. "Adapt or Die," the race motto, continued to pound in my head, and we'd suck it up, slip on our soaked packs, and scramble on.
"Guys, You're Done"
Oh my God, music to my ears. The race directors made the decision to stop us from climbing Concepcion, the final section of the race, as it was most likely that we would not make the cut-offs, and bringing down the volunteers made sense. Nele, being the bulldog that she is, argued for a mere second, and I shot her the most searing stink-eye. "NOOOOO, NELE. SHUT UP." I was done. Dehydrated, hot, tired, and dead-legged. I did not want to climb, and was happy to get pulled; but if they would have let us, and Nele would have gone, I would have had to have gone, too, dammit.
We made our way to the final checkpoint before the Concepcion climb, and I cried to whoever would listen about how thirsty I was, and how badly my body hurt. Then, promptly crawled in the back of a pickup track, laying on an empty kayak, took off my mud-caked shoes, and waited for the ride back to start/finish, where I'd eat 2 full meals of fish, lobster, shrimp, chicken, beef and pork with gallo pinto (beans and rice), fried cheese, salad, plantains, and 8 glasses of passion fruit juice. Oh, and a bowl of ice cream. Maybe, two.
Success …kinda.
What Makes a Successful Race
Let's be perfectly clear, I did not finish Survival Race. Not officially, not unofficially, not even close. I did not cover the entire distance, did not complete all the challenges, and even if time permitted, some things were just too challenging for me; but I did not quit. Even when I thought my race was over, I kept moving as though I was still in the fight – and I was. It's a good lesson, both for racing and life:
Never give up, never give in, and never walk off a course until you are specifically told to do so. And even then, continue to question it. Continue to fight until the bell rings.
But besides the event itself, 2015 was yet another Fuego Y Agua success because, like every other year, I came away with new friends, new perspective, and new growth. If it wasn't for the following people, my race and experiences on Isle de Ometepe would not have been the same.
Check out these shout-outs, and while you are, imagine yourself being here next year, and experiencing the same kind of things:
Ben, Sean and Josue
You guys out-did yourselves, and Josue, once again, I cussed your name a record number of times, convinced that you are a true masochist. I feel sorry for Corinne. But seriously, we've been boys for 5 years now, and you continue to impress me with your growth as an RD, your vision, and your dedication to making the most difficult events on the planet.
Anna Dager
Sharing this event experience with my cousin continues to make this event a new kind of special for me. Watching you come in, 4th female, and blazingly fast, during the grueling 50K impressed me so much, and I pounded my chest saying, "that's MY cousin," all weekend. I sure hope this becomes tradition for us.
Ryan Allday
Dude, sharing some serious shit with you has my mind stirring. I appreciate the straight-up advice, calling me on my bullshit, and helping me to see past my fears and reliance on money, pride, popularity and all the other shallow, meaningless crap. Love you, brutha'.
Shanna Bordner
Seriously? You're human? I won't believe it until its proven to me. Congratulations on your 100K finish, and knocking out beach workouts with you was a blast. I had a total conversation with you while you slept in the hammock, post-race. 🙂
Mike Jay
Whatever, dude. I already threw a bunch of love at you. And, by the way, Annie is the bomb, and I love her, and you should marry her, and live happily ever after in Arizona, …and then sell me your beach place in San Juan. Done… I'll pay you $20 month.
You, along with others, saved my life on Maderas by hydrating me. I'm not sure how or why I thought I could clear that section with no water; but, the biggest thrill of all was being carried 3/4 of a mile, on your back, during the beer mile. My first Beer Mile, and as usual for me, done uniquely and differently.
Nele, Haidar, John Taylor, Paul, Will (and family), Mike Ruhlin, Colin, Jamie, Amie and all the Survival Race competitors
Many tightly formed bonds, some new, and some renewed, that will continue to run past the life of Facebook. You are all family, and if anyone of you doesn't make the trip next year, there will be a hole in the game. Love my Survival Tribe. Love this band of weirdos.
Jason Rita (and film crew)
Thank you for being such a strong supporter of me. I loved doing the interviews for the show, and love talking about the Survival Run experience. I can't help but get really excited and expressive – like a kid – and you totally feed it, allowing me to just express myself. Thank you.
Jeff Genova
G-Unit, we've been boys for years now, but I watched you blossom as a photographer during these events. You went over and above to score great shots, and I encourage everyone to go buy some. Incredible. You made me feel good, and proud, and like a real athlete.
Gabi Stephens (and friends)
As usual, you surround yourself around special people. Jenni and Kate were flat-out awesome, and I feel lucky to have gotten to know them both; and of course, Brendon and Andrew being around is super special for me. It's so cool watching them grow up inside this FYA family, and the relationship I have developed with the kids makes me feel part of the family. "Christian Stephens." It has a ring to it, ya know?
Mark Wheeler
A special shout-out to Devil's Double finisher, Mark Wheeler, cuz bro, you are the real deal, man. At 45 years old this year, I struggle so much with getting older, and feeling like it's starting to take its toll; and then athletes like you show up and destroy all preconceived concerns about age. You became my biggest inspiration, and I admire you greatly – not only your athletic prowess, but as a damn good man, as well. (with a beautiful wife, too, doh!)
Volunteers and Anyone Else I missed
Without the volunteers, there is no race. No safety. No instruction. No guidance. Seeing a smiling face, even when I know you guys were working like 12-14 hour days, was really uplifting. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you to all the individuals who touched my race, and FYA experience, and sent me home feeling like this.
I feel complete. Strong. Good. …and happy.
Another successful Fuego Y Agua event experience. Who's in for 2016? We have a an extra bed…


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