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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Preakness News-May 4 2010
BALTIMORE, 05-04-10---While it was back to business Tuesday morning for Todd Pletcher, who was at his Belmont Park barn three days after his colt Super Saver won the Kentucky Derby, the field for next Saturday's $1 million Preakness Stakes® continues to evolve. The $1 million classic is the headline event of the May 15 card at historic Pimlico Race Course.
"I am trying to respond to all of the phone calls, texts and emails," Pletcher said. "It has been fun but the focus now is moving forward and getting ready for the Preakness. It is not the time to rest on laurels."
"He looks awesome," Borel said. "I saw him this morning and he was on his toes. He is peaking at the right time."
Borel said one of the keys to the Derby victory was getting Super Saver to rate off the pace.
"I got him to relax in a 20-horse field," Borel said. "It should get easier with fewer horses in the next race. He's calm, cool and collected."
Super Saver is scheduled to return to the track Wednesday morning to jog. Pletcher is expected to return to Louisville before the end of the week and decide whether Super Saver will work or gallop up to the Preakness.
"I am pleased with the way he is eating and with his energy level," added Pletcher. "He is versatile and athletic. I have heard a lot about the trip he got and the trouble some of the others got into. My point is that the tactical speed, agility and other qualities he possesses helped Calvin give him a perfect trip. Both deserve credit."
Pletcher's other likely Preakness starter, Aikenite, who was second in the Grade 3 Derby Trial on Apr. 24, galloped a mile and a quarter under Kevin Willey after the renovation break and is scheduled to work Sunday.
Derby Trial winner Hurricane Ike tuned up for the Preakness with a five-furlong work in 1:00.40 under Borel after the renovation break Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs.
Working in blinkers as is his norm, Hurricane Ike broke off at the half-mile pole and recorded fractions of :12.20, :24.40, :36.40, :48 and galloped out six furlongs in 1:15.
Borel, who rode Hurricane Ike to his victory in the one-mile Derby Trial as well as a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Bay Shore, liked the work.
"It was very good and he galloped out well," Borel said. "He was a very happy horse the last time I rode him and I thought he was about the same today."
"My assistant (Lupillo Alferez) told me that he cooled out good and seems to have come out of it in good order," said trainer John Sadler from Santa Anita." Our plans are to work him back on Monday and if that goes well then we'll run him in the Preakness. Robby Albarado will ride him if he runs in the Preakness."
D. Wayne Lukas, who has saddled a record 34 Preakness starters, has informed Pimlico officials that in addition to confirmed starter Dublin, the Hall of Fame conditioner is considering Northern Giant for the middle jewel. The son of Giant's Causeway finished second in the Grade 2 Lane's End and third in the Grade 3 Risen Star earlier this year.
The Lukas contingent, which will also include Black-Eyed Susan starter Tidal Pool, will be the first to arrive at Pimlico a week from today. The Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan headlines the May 14 Pimlico card.
Lukas has lifted the Woodlawn Vase five times with Codex (1980), Tank's Prospect (1985), Tabasco Cat (1994), Timber Country (1995) and Charismatic (1999). He has had multiple Preakness starters on 10 occasions (1986, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 & 2009).
Dublin, who finished seventh in the Derby, is the only confirmed runner planning to test Super Saver again, though Noble's Promise, who led at the quarter pole before finishing fifth is possible, according to trainer Kenny McPeek.
"He's a really good horse," McPeek said of his star who has finished in the money in seven of nine starts. "He always tries hard. He really tried hard the other day, got a little heavy on him the last part of it. He does deserve one more try and I think that's what we're going to do."
Six other runners who competed in the Derby are under consideration at varying levels but there has not been a final decision on the status of the Nick Zito duo of Ice Box and Jackson Bend, the Bob Baffert pair Lookin At Lucky and Conveyance or of Paddy O'Prado, and Make Music for Me.
"I've talked with Mr. LaPenta (Robert LaPenta who owns both Zito entries) and he said the decision is up to me," Zito said.
Jackson Bend is possible for the Preakness with Ice Box listed as doubtful.
"I am still undecided," said Alexis Barba, who conditions Make Music for Me, the fourth place finisher Saturday in Louisville. The son of Bernstein is expected to skip the Preakness and head to the Belmont Stakes on June 5.
Potential new shooters include Pleasant Prince, Schoolyard Dreams, Caracortado, Turf Melody, A Little Warm and Bushwhacked.
Pleasant Prince, who was second to Derby runner-up Ice Box in the Grade 1 Florida Derby, will work five-furlongs Sunday at Keeneland for trainer Wesley Ward.
"The good thing about him is that unlike Ice Box who seems to settle way, way back and make one big run, he can lay close," Ward said. "In the Preakness you sort have to be a little bit in contention and he seems to run that way. Hopefully everything works out pace wise where we're in a good spot."
Schoolyard Dreams will put in his final Preakness work either Wednesday or Thursday at Monmouth Park for trainer Derek Ryan. The son of Stephen Got Even finished ahead of Super Saver in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby before a fourth place finish in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial.
Caracortado will work seven-eighths at Santa Anita Park for trainer Mike Machowsky. The son of Cat Dreams won the first five races of his career, including the Grade 2 Robert Lewis Stakes. He finished a troubled fourth in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on Apr. 3.
"He's going great right now so I'm really happy with how everything is going," said Machowsky, who has not been to Pimlico since winning the Grade 1 Pimlico Special with Southern Image six years ago. I'm just hoping everything goes well once I get into the race. It's kind of confusing criteria with who gets in, and who doesn't, but he's doing great and if I'm going to take my shot at these horses now is the time. He runs really well fresh and everything seems to be coming together."
Graham Motion has put on hold a scheduled weekend work at Pimlico for Turf Melody. The trainer is now considering the Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park this Saturday.
"At this point we're on the fence with the Preakness," Motion said. "There's a 50-50 chance. We're going to wait and see who confirms from the Derby and how the field develops."
A Little Warm, who was second in both Grade 2 Louisiana Derby, and Grade 2 Lexington runner-up Bushwhacked are battling high temperatures, according to trainers Tony Dutrow and Jonathan Sheppard respectively. Both have missed three days of training.
The Preakness is limited to 14 starters. The post position draw will be held at Pimlico next Wednesday, May 12 at 5 p.m. and televised live on HRTV. If more than 14 starters are properly nominated, the starters will be determined with the first seven horses given preference by the highest lifetime earnings in graded stakes. The next four starters will be determined by the highest lifetime earnings in all "non-restricted stakes," which means those stakes whose conditions contain no restrictions other than age or sex. The remaining three starters will be determined by the highest lifetime earnings in all races.
While the Preakness is rightfully the centerpiece of the Pimlico spring meeting, fourteen other stakes (six graded) will provide a weekend full of excitement for racing fans. A total of 397 horses were nominated to those added money races.
The $175,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (Grade II) tops the May 14 card that features six other stakes races. Twenty-six three-year-old fillies were nominated to the Black-Eyed Susan. Twenty-eight fillies were nominated to the $70,000 Miss Preakness Stakes. Thirty-four horses were nominated to the $70,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint. Thirty-three female turf specialists were nominated to the $70,000 The Very One Stakes, while twenty-eight were nominated to the $70,000 Skipat Stakes. Twenty-three three-year-old fillies were nominated to the $70,000 Hilltop Stakes and another twenty-four to the $25,000 Kattegat's Pride Starter Handicap for Maryland-breds.
The May 15 undercard features seven added money races, including five graded. Twenty-eight top grass specialists were entered in the $200,000 Dixie Stakes (Grade II). The $100,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap (Grade III) features thirty-five nominations. Twenty-five fillies and mares were nominated to the $100,000 Gallorette Handicap (Grade III). Thirty-three horses were nominated to the William Donald Schaefer (Grade III). Twenty-five three-year-old sprinters were nominated to the $100,000 Chick Lang (Grade III). Twenty-nine turf specialists were nominated to the $70,000 James Murphy. There were twenty-six horses on the list for the $25,000 Deputed Testamony Starter Handicap.
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This could be chalked off to playstyle to a degree, because picking him up on the fly or not is sort of related to what you tend to walk into a dungeon with. I think this whole conundrum could be made right if his desecration penalty was different, so that when he's a complete waste in a dungeon you can at least waste him. I'm sort of annoyed that EM has such a non-existant desecration penalty while being a generaly all-purpose usefull god, while monomaniacal douches like Taurog or GG can't be touched most of the time.

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There was Oliver Emmerich in McComb, Hazel Brannon Smith in Lexington, Hodding Carter in Greenville, Ira Harkey in Pascagoula, and so many others who served their readers and their state so well. Most of them, at one point or another in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, faced threats, intimidation and the very real prospects of violence and bodily harm.
Perhaps none faced those dangers in a more isolated venue than did Smith, who became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1964. Smith's national recognition only emboldened her enemies to starve her out financially and they eventually succeeded.
In modern Mississippi journalism, the ranks of independent small town newspapers are dwindling as new technologies and changing reader habits have combined to make the newspaper business difficult. Chain ownership, both Mississippi companies and out-of-state enterprises, continue to grow.
But nobody told stubborn, feisty editor and publisher of the Deer Creek Pilot about any of the problems confronting independent community newspapers. It wouldn't have done any good if they had.
Harold Ray Mosby Jr. is, for my money, the last of his tribe in Mississippi journalism. Ray is the quintessential independent newspaper publisher in a town that is almost too small to adequately support a newspaper. Rolling Fork's population is about 2,100 and the lovely little town is located on Hwy. 61.
Ray is a simply marvelous editorial writer. For a small, wiry man who smokes a pipe and mostly keeps his own counsel, Ray writes like Pier 6 brawler. His columns don't just criticize; they strip the bark from his adversaries. Asking no quarter from the politicians he challenges, Ray Mosby gives none. Whether it's Gov. Phil Bryant or Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge "Butch" Walker, Ray calls it like he sees it.
Twice, in 1999 and again in 2009, Mosby has been honored by his peers in the Mississippi Press Association as the state's best editorial writer. No one at the state's largest daily newspapers disputed that fact, either.
What most people outside Rolling Fork haven't known is how hard Ray's life has been away from work. Producing an award-winning, respected community newspaper in a town the size of Rolling Fork as more-or-less a one-man show is hard enough.
But for the last decade, Ray was increasingly challenged by the declining health of his parents and his wife.
Ray's had a nightmare of a year. First, his father Harold Ray Mosby Sr. passed away in February. Then a couple of weeks ago, his mother Stanley Eleanor Williamson Mosby died after a long and debilitating illness. Mrs. Mosby was an old school English teacher and her influence on Ray's writing talents are undeniable.
On Saturday, Aug. 31, Ray's wife Phyllis Trelling Mosby - the love of his life and a talented lady who had worked alongside him at the Pilot and earlier at the Clarksdale Press-Register - passed away after a long struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's Disease.
Like Job, Ray Mosby has endured more suffering in the last year than one man ought to endure. For that matter, the last decade has been a struggle. But his troubles never stopped him from giving Rolling Fork and Sharkey County a truly great Mississippi newspaper each week.
The second time Ray won the Emmerich Award as the state's best editorial writer, the applause lasted for two solid minutes with every hard-bitten journalist in Mississippi on their feet. Why? Because they knew how truly hard it was for the best editorial writer in Mississippi to be Ray Mosby - son, father, husband and tough old pipe-smoking Delta journalist.
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Jane Read (1743 – ?) & Richard May (1740 – bef. 1800)
This is the line of descent from Cozens Read's daughter Jane. I am still delving into the May line and it looks like there is quite an Oxfordshire connection!!
Descendants of Jane READ (1743 – ?)
Generation No. 1
1. JANE4 READ (COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1743 in Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She married RICHARD MAY 11 Feb 1766 in St. Mary Magdalene, Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He was born 1740 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, and died Bef. 1800 in Westcott, Buckinghamshire.
Children of JANE READ and RICHARD MAY are:
i. ELIZABETH5 MAY, b. 1766, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire; m. WILLIAM SAUNDERS.
2. ii. ROBERT MAY, b. 1767, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
iii. MARY MAY, b. 1771, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
3. iv. JANE MAY, b. 1774, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
v. RICHARD MAY, b. 1776, Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire.
4. vi. SARAH MAY, b. 1779, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; d. Bef. 1844, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
vii. ANN MAY, b. 1781.
Generation No. 2
2. ROBERT5 MAY (JANE4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1767 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. He married ELIZABETH ROSE 1801 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
Child of ROBERT MAY and ELIZABETH ROSE is:
i. WILLIAM6 MAY.
3. JANE5 MAY (JANE4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1774 in Lower Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She married WILLIAM HELEY1 13 Oct 1802 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire1.
Children of JANE MAY and WILLIAM HELEY are:
5. i. WILLIAM6 HELEY.
ii. JANE HELEY.
iii. THOMAS HELEY.
iv. SOPHIA HELEY.
4. SARAH5 MAY (JANE4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1779 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, and died Bef. 1844 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. She married (1) THOMAS PIGGOTT. She married (2) GEORGE TAYLOR 14 Jun 1802 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. He was born 1774 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, and died Bef. 1804 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
Child of SARAH MAY and THOMAS PIGGOTT is:
i. SUSANNAH6 PIGGOTT.
Child of SARAH MAY and GEORGE TAYLOR is:
6. ii. FRANCIS6 TAYLOR, b. Bef. 1803, Westcott, Buckinghamshire; d. Bef. 1874, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
Generation No. 3
5. WILLIAM6 HELEY (JANE5 MAY, JANE4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) He married JANE ?.
Children of WILLIAM HELEY and JANE ? are:
i. JANE7 HELEY, b. 1830, Wing, Buckinghamshire.
ii. CATHERINE ELEANOR HELEY.
iii. JAMES WILLIAM HELEY.
iv. THOMAS SOMES HELEY, b. 1839, Wing, Buckinghamshire.
6. FRANCIS6 TAYLOR (SARAH5 MAY, JANE4 READ, COZENS3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born Bef. 1803 in Westcott, Buckinghamshire, and died Bef. 1874 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. He married (1) ANN EVANS. She was born Abt. 1812 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, and died Bef. 1891 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. He married (2) MARIA SPENCER 20 May 1836 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. She was born Abt. 1808, and died Bef. Oct 1836 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. He married (3) SELINA STANTON 29 Jan 1851 in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. She was born Abt. 1812 in Hitchendon, Warwickshire, and died Aft. 1881.
Child of FRANCIS TAYLOR and ANN EVANS is:
i. HARRIET7 EVANS, b. Bef. 1836.
Children of FRANCIS TAYLOR and MARIA SPENCER are:
ii. FRANCIS7 TAYLOR, b. Bef. Oct 1836, Westcott, Buckinghamshire; d. Bef. 1914, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; m. (1) LOUISA BECK, 02 Aug 1857; m. (2) SARAH HOMAN, 25 Dec 1865, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; b. Bef. 1838, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; d. Bef. 1895, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire.
iii. GEORGE TAYLOR, b. Bef. Oct 1836.
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This week, our Babe of the Week winner made history. Not only did she beat her competitors, but she beat two mostly naked babes intertwined on a bed.
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Kylee now moves on to fight for the title of Babe of the Month. After this win, we're feeling good about her chances. Your thoughts, sirs?
Here's the deal: At the end of the week, each Babe of the Day will compete for your votes and the winner will become Babe of the Week. Each week's winner will then face off to become Babe of the Month, and those winners will then duke it out for – you guessed it – the Babe of the Year title. Only those lucky ladies will be inducted into GuySpeed's Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the hottest of babes.


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The Chronicles of Building Cisco's Allen Data Center
Early in 2010 Cisco started construction on its greenfield data center in Allen, Texas. From inception, the goal was for this facility to embody our data center vision for consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, and new approaches to power and cooling, uniquely done all under one roof.
There were many details and many stories, so Cisco on Cisco began chronicling the buildout of the Allen data center. In August 2010, we launched the video interactive called Data Center 2011-Texas, covering topics from facilities design to IT design and implementation. Through this journey, we have taken you inside the walls of the building as it progressed to hear firsthand from Cisco facilities managers, IT leadership, and IT architects who planned, designed, and now support the Allen data center.
The facility is 162,000 square feet, with more than 35,000 square feet of data hall and networking space. It's been built to maximize use of the high-density Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Nexus switches, and other core IT technologies. This infrastructure has enabled Cisco IT to reduce costs and increase resiliency, and is the foundation for Cisco's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering.
The data center also plays a significant role in our business continuity strategy, and is the second in an active-active metro virtual pair. This pair forms a dynamic IT services cloud and provides back up for each other. Plus, the Allen data center supports multitenancy, allowing Cisco IT to provide services for clients with diverse business requirements.
Cisco received U.S. Gold LEED certification by meeting third-party standards for the design and construction of an environmentally sustainable building. By integrating energy efficiencies from the ground up, along with technology, Cisco has yielded several ongoing benefits:
- The airside economization system design ventilates the facility with outside air 50 to 60 percent of the time, freeing up demand on the chillers.
- The onsite rainwater retention system, recycled water in the retention pond, and water-efficient fixtures conserve significant amounts of water annually.
- The facility reduces power consumption by using rooftop photovoltaic panels, and interior and exterior LED lighting.
- By using rotary UPS as part of the backup power system, Cisco avoids the ongoing, long-term maintenance costs associated with lead-based batteries.
- Automated provisioning of IaaS (network, compute, storage, and OS) reduces delivery time of services from months to minutes, and reduces costs over 50 percent to internal clients.
Today construction of the Allen data center is complete, and we have enjoyed chronicling its buildout to share with you. To learn more about the facilities and IT infrastructure, we invite you to explore the Data Center 2011-Texas interactive.
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Global Village Day Opens Doors To The World
SOCORRO, N.M. November 15, 2012– New Mexico Tech's international students will put their cultures on display for the annual Global Village Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in the gym.
The event will feature exhibits of the many cultures at Tech, performances, door prizes, music, food, and more. Get your "passport" to have stamped at each country's booth. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the East Gym.
In addition to the ever-popular food samples, the international booths typically include books, postcards, clothing, music, videos, art and other items from each country.
Students from these countries will have booths in the gym: China, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway and Romania.
Four performances scheduled for the day:
11:30 a.m. - Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
12:30 p.m. - Mariachi Music Bernie Romero & Friends feat. Darlene Torres
1 p.m. - Morning Dew Dance Group
1:30 p.m. - Aditi Natesa Belly Dance
Door prizes from various countries will be given out throughout the event as well.
"Global Village Day is a culmination of a week long of International Education Week, celebrated throughout the United States," said Lillian Armijo of the Student Services Office. "We've been doing this for many years and it's a great way to bring the Tech community together and learn about other cultures."
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BIO318 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology Lab I
This course, the laboratory component of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology I (BIO 317), is the first half of the two-term laboratory series exploring the evolutionary connectivity among diverse organisms of the animal kingdom. It will trace the changes that have occured by focusing on one organ system at a time through a series of a few representative animals. The organ systems to be covered are the skeletal, muscular, nervous and sensory system. They will be eplored through the dissection of preserved specimens, models and interaction with computer software. Physiological aspects will be explored through a variety of experiments that highlight the differences and similarities among vertebrates. This course must be taken concurrently with BIO 317 (Lecture)
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"poor food"
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The environment welcomes you to an excellent spot to enjoy the marvels of Cuban nature, abundantly populated with local flora and fauna. In the middle of rich forest vegetation, the traveler finds Las Yagrumas, a hotel protected by the waters of the Ariguanabo River.
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San Antonio is more traditional than any other Cuban city I have been to, it's not like Havana or Baracoa that are more western, is the city you go to if you want that Cuban feel on your vacation. This hotel is probably the best choice in this part of town but I can't really say because it's the only one I have actually used or stayed in. One advice I should give to you when planning to visit this hotel is that you should tune down your expectations, like I said earlier on, it's pure Cuba here, nothing western at all. I stayed here for just like 3 nights and it was great just that it's not a 5 star hotel when using European standard. It's not a big luxury hotel but a descent accommodation to stay in. The rooms are nice, small enough and they are clean. The TV, air condition and bathroom functions well. You should request for rooms with swimming pool view, they seem better than those rooms at the corridor. The rooms look old but had this traditional kind of charm, if I visit San Antonio again, I will stay in this hotel. I noticed that cleaning out the rooms were a problem for the staff but it wasn't that bad just that they can improve in their cleaning routine. Food was disappointing for a place like this that was really Cuban, I expected more from them, breakfast was horrible. When next I visit, if it's not improved, I will probably eat in an off site restaurant.


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Graves and Mullen take UK 70.3
Phil Graves rides for the win and Ireland's Eimear Mullen takes maiden 70.3 title
By Emma Bishop
Despite the challenge and guarantee of less than perfect conditions Wimbleball served up a dry, albeit very cold, race for it's 2,000 athletes. Extremely demanding and a gutsy challenge, the pay off for those who take on Ironman 70.3 UK is that the undulating hills are surrounded by the traditional picturesque English countryside.
The pro start list was deep in British racing talent looking to make a mark with a scattering of international contenders in the mix ready to take the Brits on in their backyard.
One contender that didn't make the start line was 2006 Champion, Australian Chris McCormack. A delayed passport renewal prevented the Aussie making the trip to the Northern Hemisphere, but he has tweeted it is on his schedule (passport in hand) for next year.
The men's field took a favorable tilt towards Philip Graves. Graves knows the course inside out and, after a 2011 sabbatical, he has returned to racing in 2012 fired up and ready to go.
Graves burst onto the scene in 2009 winning Ironman 70.3 UK. He then came second in 2010 to Fraser Cartmell. It doesn't look like he has lost much time in getting back to the form that propelled him onto the world stage in 2009. Hammering out an almost exactly the same bike split he had for his win in 2009, he easily claimed the quickest bike split on this grueling course. Running legs always take a little longer to come back into form, but Graves held it together to take the win from chasing Markus Thomschke of Germany, who posted the quickest run of the day. Compatriot, Mark Threlfall pipped Fraser Cartmell on the run and rounded out the podium in third spot.
In the ladies racethe British duo of Emma-Kate Lidbury and Lucy Gossage had been pre-race local favorites. 2011 runner up, Ireland's Eimaer Mullen, put a stop to a double British win. After a slow start in the swim she put her foot down to blitz the quickest female bike split and quickest run spilt of the day. The result was a maiden Ironman 70.3 title.
Lidbury was in the second lead pack out of the swim and had four minutes on Mullen as she started the bike. But, despite Lidbury's notable biking strength, it was not enough to catch the speeding Mullen and she had to settle for second place. Rounding out the female podium was Swiss Simone Braendli. First out of the swim, Lidbury and Braendli were neck and neck after the bike and it came down to a little extra in the Lidbury legs that gave the edge over chasing Braendli.
Impressing on her home ground, congratulations to British age grouper Amy Forshaw (30-34) who finished 8th overall with a time of 05:05:10.
Top 5 PRO Male
1. Philip Graves (GBR) 00:22:33 02:29:39 01:23:45 04:19:45
2. Markus Thomschke (GER) 00:24:28 02:33:37 01:18:27 04:21:01
3. Mark Threlfall (GBR) 00:22:24 02:36:24 01:21:22 04:23:51
4. Fraser Cartmell (GBR) 00:22:25 02:35:42 01:22:58 04:24:30
5. Joe Skipper (GBR) 00:25:13 02:32:20 01:25:33 04:27:06
Top 5 PRO Female
1. Eimear Mullan (IRL) 00:28:24 02:53:38 01:27:16 04:53:33
2. Emma-Kate Lidbury (GBR) 00:24:17 02:58:02 01:29:14 04:56:23
3. Simone Braendli (SUI) 00:22:16 02:58:15 01:30:18 04:57:16
4. Holly Lawrence (GBR) 00:24:06 02:58:15 01:33:45 05:00:3
5. Susie Hignett (GBR) 00:26:33 02:57:23 01:31:58 05:01:21


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Aggressive kitty (the showdown of the males!)
I am the proud mama of a 2.5 year old male (neutered) tabby named Dante. He's always been a very friendly, affectionate and snuggly cat. He never leaves my side and his favourite place is sleeping next to my head on my pillow. However, my roommate recently got a young (4 mo.) rescue cat, who is also male. I expected a certain amount of hostility, while he adjusted to no longer being the only kitty in town, but despite being in another wing of the house and the kitten being behind 3 closed doors, he won't come near me, and growls if I so much as touch him. I've heard from many that male cats who are neutered will eventually learn to tolerate oneanother, but if one is still unneutered, does that discount everything?
The other cat is getting neutered next week, so we're hoping that'll help. What confuses me is that HE is perfectly content... shouldn't he be the scary hormonal one?
Is there anything I can do to put my kitty more at ease? I hate seeing him so stressed out. Plus, I miss our cuddles.
I have 3 males of various ages living with me. The last boy I brought in, Nino was not a cat friendly cat but I had to have him :) He's a huge silver tabby Maine Coon. Anyway's I kept him seperate for about a week, then started leaving the door to his area open a bit and just let him come out and poke around and then I'd put him back after he'd had a bit of out time. Now the resident two boys were a bit stressed cause he tended to be a bit on the aggressive side, chasing and smacking and screaming!! So I discovered calming collars, they have a pheromone and lavender in them. So I bought one for everybody and they really worked well. Took the chasing and stuff down to a manageable level and everyone was able to chill out. I can't remember exactly what they're called but you can get them in Petsmart. They're purple. So fast forward a few years and two years ago I rescued a female kitten, she spent the first little while seperated until her vet visit and an all clear. Now I think because she's female, everyone accepted her pretty quickly and other than going into heat...wow!! (never again!!) That and being a kitten, they put up with alot from her. So I would try the collars for both the kitten and your cat.
I'm experiencing some aggression issues lately too. I have a 4 month to 5 month kitten unaltered and Bobby who's close to 1 year that hasn't been neutered yet who are brushing with violence. Bobby wants to play but the Cow hates playing with poor Bobby and hisses and growls big time on the other side Boris (2 year old neutered) has begun to show strange behavior like going in front of my dad and pee in his bedroom right to his face, a cat who has always been clean I'm guessing all this is due to having unaltered males at home (since Boris is perfectly healthy) I'm hoping this all goes away as soon as we have a neuter/spay fest (also have a 6 month old [U]tiny[/U] female that looks like a little kitten she hasn't been in heat yet but she needs to be fixed soon too. She's petite, she's healthy it's just she's tiny)
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- Patricia Lim charts 8,500 graves, weaves stories in 624-page book
- She pored through now-defunct newspapers, accounts, old records, histories
- Out of it emerges a social history of Hong Kong and the cemetery
- Doctors were prominent, fever was high; brothels, bars very popular
Amid exotic trees in a garden setting rest Hong Kong's extraordinary and ordinary, those who died heroically in wars, ignominiously in drunken brawls, or suicide; victims of accidents, pestilence, and pirates; barkeepers, prostitutes, children, and luminaries whose names are today borne on street signs.
It's a far cry from the highway overpass outside the gates.
Charting the 8,500 or so names and weaving their stories together into a 624-page book, "Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery," is Patricia Lim, who spent about a decade on the project.
The cemetery had only a record of graves -- which date from 1841 to 2007 -- identifying them by section but not with precise locations, while the earliest graves had no information, Lim said.
A "fanatical friend" from the UK spurred her on to the cemetery project after Lim had dedicated a chapter of her last book, "Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: Hong Kong and Kowloon" to the Happy Valley cemeteries. The friend was none other than Susan Farrington who has recorded graves in the Himalayan foothills of Pakistan. She came to Hong Kong to help. When she left, Lim couldn't stop.
"Since I was in it, I might as well finish," she explained.
With inscriptions as a starting point, Lim and a host of volunteers recorded each grave into a database, assigning it a section, row and number. Then she pored through now-defunct newspapers -- like The China Mail, the Friend of China, the Daily Press -- personal and travel accounts, histories and every book on Hong Kong she could get her hands on.
"It seemed such a waste of opportunity -- and stories -- not to link them," Lim said. "If you just go through the cemetery, plot-by-plot...no one would have taken any interest. It seemed imperative to link, if people were going to get to know them."
Out of it emerged a social history of, if not Hong Kong, then of the cemetery whose names have included the "Protestant Graveyard" and the "Colonial Cemetery." Adjacent to it are separate cemeteries for Catholics, Jews, Parsees, and Muslims, while Hindus were given land for their temple.
The Chinese, on the other hand, "were always at the bottom of the pile" despite being the majority, said Lim. "They weren't trusted, and they weren't accorded respect of other nationalities here." Although some 225 Chinese are buried in the Hong Kong Cemetery, Chinese didn't get their own permanent cemetery -- in Aberdeen, on the south of the island -- until 1915, decades after other groups got theirs.
Hong Kong was "a hard, unhealthy place to live," Lim said. "It was a gamble. You sacrificed health for wealth. But that was maybe why they were so wealth-conscious. It was very important. You knew you were sacrificing, that you'd probably die."
The cemetery opened at its current location in 1845 after its former spot -- just east of where the office tower Pacific Place 3 now stands -- overflowed beyond capacity. Hong Kong had become a British colony only three years earlier.
Particularly prominent at the time were doctors, two of whom -- Dr. William Aurelius Harland and Dr. William Morrison -- have the cemetery's biggest monuments and most appreciative epitaphs, according to Lim. They were among four colonial surgeons who died within a 12-year period of malarial fever in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong wasn't really "happy" or a place for European women, Lim said. With a high ratio of lonely bachelors in a transient population, brothels and bars were in high demand.
"There were German taverns, English taverns, American taverns," including Edward Thomas' Uncle Tom's Cabin, which opened in the 1850s after its namesake novel was published, said Lim. Thomas, a New Yorker buried in Section 9, died at age 29, leaving his widow to run the business.
Among the 465 graves that belong to Japanese are ship crewmen, shop owners, employees of trading firms as well as prostitutes, according to Lim. One monument to Kiya Karayuki bears the signatures of 58 girls, suggesting she was either a much-loved prostitute or a brothel keeper.
Also buried at the cemetery are the first to not only make their fortunes in Hong Kong but also give to it: financier and developer Sir Catchick Paul Chater, who transformed Hong Kong and Kowloon waterfronts; Sir Kai Ho Kai, founder of the medical school that would evolve into the University of Hong Kong; and Robert Ho Tung, who built a commercial empire.
Others meanwhile died without a trace except for the inscription on their tombstones, Lim said.
Old graves were difficult to read, requiring multiple trips under different light conditions. "Some I never managed to read." she said.
There were also family members who had the same names. And then there were Chinese who went by as many as three or four names during the course of a lifetime, whether it was during school, used for family purposes or attained upon wealth.
In the late 19th century, the Botanical Garden staff helped the cemetery evolve from a simple graveyard to a lush cemetery garden inspired by those in Europe, like Pere Lachaise in Paris and Glasgow's Necropolis, according to one landscape architect.
The experimentation with exotic plants helped enrich the cemetery's landscape, turning it into a habitat for dozens of butterfly and moth species, said Ken Nicolson, who wrote "The Happy Valley: a History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery."
For Lim's husband, Po Chye, cemeteries are for ceremonies, not for idle strolls. "You don't go there for recreation."
Lim, who is "over 76," has had some close calls -- she once tripped, cutting her knee on a metal railing with jagged points; another time she got locked in the cemetery after hours and had to climb out through a government building. She also once borrowed somebody's grave to rest while suffering what a doctor later diagnosed as "broken heart syndrome," an incident similar to a minor heart attack.
"Not everyone is willing to do all this hard work and then put it out in the open for everyone to benefit from," wrote David Bellis, who has listed the names, graves and inscriptions compiled by Lim on his website, Gwulo, which is dedicated to historic Hong Kong.
"The database gives the basic details, but the book adds the stories that bring the people to life," he said.
Stella Loterijman, who's based in the UK, had been trying to find her grandfather's first wife, Mary Constance Reilly, since 1979. All she knew was that Reilly was born in 1869, married Dr. Charles William Reilly and died at age 20 of dysentery, while he was on a tour of duty with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Hong Kong.
Then last month, Loterijman was resuming research into her family tree when she found Mary's information on Gwulo: "In loving memory of Mary Constance Reilly, wife of Captain Reilly" in section 18.
In an e-mail to CNN, Loterijman described being "thrilled and elated."
Craig Bissell also credits Lim and Gwulo for helping solve a years-long mystery over Miller Robb Dickson, the favorite brother of his Scottish grandmother, who has always said he went off to Canada to join the Hong Kong Police Force and died unexpectedly. Even so, Bissell, who lives in Toronto, Canada, could never find evidence of Dickson's ever being in Hong Kong until it suddenly appeared on Gwulo one day.
"It was a marvelous breakthrough," Bissell wrote, adding, "It solved a mystery no one else seemed terribly concerned about." Dickson's listing identifies him as a police sergeant for the Hong Kong Police Force from Dundee, Scotland, and who died in 1928 at the age of 30.
Nicholas Belanovsky and his wife, Tatiana, are among 108 Russians buried in the cemetery. All that was known of him for decades was that he had escaped for China after the Russian Revolution, said his grandnephew, Dmitry Belanovsky, in an e-mail from Moscow.
Then in 2004, Dmitry typed "Belanovsky" into a browser -- and to his "amazement" discovered that Nicholas' name appeared as an engineer for the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Surety of the Sinners in Shanghai during the 1930s. With the help of a Russian priest, he found the grave and subsequently learned that Nicholas' work with the British Cigarette Company had taken the couple to Hong Kong in 1948. He lived to the ripe old age of 88 on the second floor of a Kowloon apartment building, surviving Tatiana by nearly 30 years and leaving his entire estate to his longtime amah, or maid.
Having been regarded as "stateless" and the "people's enemy," Nicholas had never gotten in touch with his family in Russia apparently fearing harm would come to them, said Dmitry.
He has since posted the info on Gwulo in hopes of learning more about Nicholas Belanovsky's life.
"It's full of stories, this cemetery," said Lim, who now splits time between Hong Kong and England. "They are like old friends, yes."
For now, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department operates the cemetery, which has yet to attain heritage status.


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Godfrey "Fred" and Lillie (Augustine) Lang will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary today with a card shower.
Attendants were Norma Augustine and Lawrence Lang. Parents of the couple are the late John M. and Clara Augustine and the late Ignatz Lang Jr. and Rosa Lang.
Lillie Lang is a graphic artist and a member of Trego County Recreation Commission. Fred Lang served in the U.S. Army during Korea. He then completed his bachelor of education and master of administration degrees at Fort Hays State University. He had several teaching and administration positions until his retirement as principal of WaKeeney Grade School in 1990.
Children of the couple are Dr. Stan Lang and wife, Sheri, DuBois, Pa., Dr. Gordon Lang and wife, Jane, WaKeeney, Trish Langley and husband, Rick, Grand Junction, Colo., and the late Kathy Connors.
The couple has eight grandchildren, Noel DeGray and husband, Doug, New Haven, Conn., Beth West and husband, Justin, Atchison, Greg Lang, Indianapolis, Dr. Jamie Lang and husband, Dr. Cole Ritchie, Nashville, Tenn., A.J. Langley, Grand Junction, and Maria, Kathrine and Christopher Lang, Dubois.
The couple has three great-grandchildren, Felicity, Kepha and Samuel West, all of Atchison.
Godfrey "Fred" and Lillie (Augustine) Lang were married Dec. 30, 1952, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Ellis, with Father Virgil officiating.
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A residence permit may be granted on grounds of family ties in Finland, employment or studies, Finnish descent, return migration, on humanitarian grounds or for other exceptional reasons.
According to the EU visa rules, one of the requirements for granting a Schengen visa is that the person must leave the Schengen area before the visa expires. For this reason, a visa cannot be granted to a person who has come to Finland in order to obtain a residence permit or to wait for the decision on a pending residence permit-related matter. This also applies to family members of Finnish citizens.
Nationals of other Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland) can enter Finland without restrictions and stay in the country without a residence permit. They also do not require a worker's residence permit.
EU and comparable nationals (Liechtenstein, Switzerland) do not require a residence permit. However, they must register with the Finnish Immigration Service no later than three months after arriving in the country.
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Applications must be carefully completed and signed. All necessary attachments must be obtained in advance before filing the application. Applications may be submitted in Finnish, Swedish or English. All attachments must be translated into one of these languages. Applicants will be fingerprinted at the time of filing the application.
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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Activists in Bahrain say police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters who took to the streets after an annual address by the Gulf nation's king.
The sporadic clashes took place shortly after King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa called for unity Sunday in a speech for the kingdom's national day. They highlight the country's sharp divides after more than 22 months of near nonstop unrest between the Sunni monarchy and the country's majority Shiites, who seek a greater political voice.
Acting head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Yousef al-Muhafedha says hundreds of protesters were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas in a neighborhood near the capital Manama. Elsewhere, masked youths blocked roads with burning tires.
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Usage & Faqs
Use Mrs Meyer's Clean Day Hand Lotion after cleansing to lock in moisture and to maintain those soft, hard-working hands. Use daily for a perfect addition to your hand care routine. Apply the lotion to your feet and put on your socks for an overnight pedicure treatment.
Can I use this as a body lotion?
- • Yes, the hand lotion can be used for your body. It could take a little longer to rub in those rich emollients in the formula.