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A year after it was canceled at the last minute by Hurricane Sandy, more than 50,000 runners participated in the 43rd running of the New York City Marathon, taking on the 26.2 miles through the five boroughs.
In a double victory for Kenya, Geoffrey Mutai successfully defended his title and Priscah Jeptoo rallied to win the women's race.
Mutai set the course record the last time the marathon was held in 2011. In windy conditions Sunday, Mutai had an unofficial time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 24 seconds, well off his mark of 2:05:06 set in nearly perfect conditions.
Jeptoo came from behind to win the women's title Sunday. She trailed Buzunesh Deba by nearly 3½ minutes at the halfway point, but started making her move as the race entered Manhattan and passed Deba with just more than 2 miles to go.
Jeptoo won in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 25 minutes, 7 seconds Sunday. The London Marathon champ clinched a $500,000 bonus for the World Marathon Majors title. Deba, an Ethiopian who lives in the Bronx, finished second for the second straight NYC Marathon.
In 2012 the race was called off because of Sandy's destruction, but not before the week's events enraged many residents and runners. City and marathon officials initially vowed that the race would go on, and many New Yorkers recoiled at the idea of possibly diverting resources after a natural disaster. The decision to cancel didn't come until a day-and-a-half before the scheduled start time, and by then, many out-of-town entrants had already made their long trips to the city after hearing the earlier assurances.
Then in April, at another major marathon in the Northeast, the scene of cheering fans packed along the race course lost its innocence. Two bombs exploded near the finish line in Boston, killing three people and injuring more than 260.
On Sunday, Hundreds of police officers were posted along the route. Police helicopters patrolled the skies, and police boats kept watch from New York Harbor and the East River. As with any large-scale event in the city, the police department also deployed bomb-sniffing dogs and plainclothes officers to blend in with the crowd.
The NYPD bought 100 mobile security cameras after the Boston attack and said those cameras were positioned to keep an eye out for anything suspicious along the route where there were gaps in the sight lines of permanent cameras.
For the first time, the city fenced off a portion of the western perimeter of the Central Park for the race. Spectators had to pass through security checkpoints, where bags were searched, before entering that area. There was also an additional layer of fencing around the finish line.
A record 50,740 runners started the race Sunday and security was tight from the moment they arrived on Staten Island. They were corralled into long bag-check lines, and officers and volunteers repeatedly reminded them to keep cellphones out.
"Security is 100 percent tougher than what I've seen at other races," said Chris Patterson of Rochester, N.Y., who was signed up for New York last year and ran Boston in April.
Elizabeth Hutchinson of Seattle recalled the joy at the starting line in Boston this year. People were handing out sunscreen, Band-Aids and energy gels with a smile.
On Staten Island, she said, "the machine guns are very visible."
"The atmosphere is so different," she said, "It kind of makes me sad."
Charles Breslin, who lost his home in the storm and was volunteering at the marathon, welcomed the race's return.
"I don't know how the rest of Staten Island feels about, but it can only be a good thing," he said. "You have to get back to normalcy."
As the professional women approached Central Park, only a sprinkling of onlookers stood at the police barricades. Ginny Smith, a Manhattan resident who comes to watch each year, said she felt "very frustrated."
Three hours after she first arrived at the park, she was finally allowed to walk in. At Columbus Circle, near the 26th and last mile of the route, police kept her waiting for two hours.
"It was difficult, it was horrible — for something that's basically for the people," she said. "It's unbelievable; you would think there was a war in the city."
Ashley O'Brien of Brooklyn was ready with a bullhorn to cheer members of her running group, the Hudson Dusters. She got teary-eyed remembering the events of the past year.
"It's a nice time to all come back together," she said. "You still remember why it was canceled last year and you remember Boston. So it's a little bittersweet."


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Elsewhere on the internets, I've heard the current ebook boom being described as a bubble. One that will eventually burst.
That's incorrect.
A bubble is when people invest more money in something than it is actually worth. Real estate, technology, dot com companies, housing, the stock market, etc. all are investments that might not pay off, and have been called bubbles.
Ebooks aren't an investment. We're not dumping money into them, hoping we can sell them at a profit later on.
Rather, ebooks are more like a commodity. But not quite, because they don't conform to the rules of supply and demand, as there is an endless supply. But I believe there is also an endless demand. I come to this conclusion by looking at other digital media, and seeing the never-ending, constantly regenerating market.
An ebook is forever. Forever is a long time to find readers. I'm selling over 1000 ebooks a day, but it would take me forty-one years to completely saturate the current Kindle-owner market (assuming there are currently 15 million Kindle owners.)
However, people read ebooks on more than just their Kindles. There are Kindle apps, Nooks, Kobos, smart phones, computers, tablets, and so on. I could sell 10,000 ebooks a day, and it would still take the rest of my life to saturate the current market.
But the market won't stay current. Ebooks will become the dominant format for reading fiction. They'll proliferate the US and Canada, the UK and Australia, and eventually the world.
There's no ebook bubble. There is only unlimited potential sales. I referred to it in an earlier post as a Gold Rush. But, unlike a Gold Rush, where there is limited gold available, I don't see this gold vein ever running out. The gold is readers, and there are billions of them. It doesn't matter how many miners are trying to get rich. There is enough for everybody, assuming writers work hard and stick with it until they get lucky.
Now, while I consider the ebook forecast for the next few years to be bright, with a high chance of riches for me (I'm currently earning $1300 a day), there is a tech precedent that might show otherwise.
That article is worth reading, because it shows what could happen in the ebook world once there are no longer any gatekeepers. If the market gets flooded with crap, consumers could stop buying ebooks and instead do something else with their time and money, just as they did with videogames.
But there are some key differences.
First, there is now unlimited retail space, and consumers and etailers have made it easy to find the worthy books.
Second, while there are competing ereading devices, authors can make their work easily available on all of them without an extra time or money investment.
Third, there is no boom/bust bubble, because we don't have to dump money into development, advertising, or speculative stock trading. We don't have to spend money to make money.
Also, even though the 1983 video game crash ruined many companies and temporarily soured the public on videogames, by 1985 videogames were back, and they've been growing ever since. Videogames now make more money than Hollywood.
I've also seen some authors who are doing both self-publishing and legacy publishing, calling it diversification.
That isn't diversification. It's buying a ticket on the Titanic.
I could make a logical, persuasive case for chain bookstores disappearing (as chain record stores and video stores have), and then draw the obvious conclusion that ebooks will replace print as the dominant format, but I've done that often enough to bother repeating it all here. Go back to April 2009 and read my blog from then until now if you want a blow-by-blow report of how the publishing industry is collapsing and ebooks are taking over.
Instead, I want all authors reading this to ask themselves two questions.
1. Will ebooks eventually outsell print books? (hint: they already are in many cases)
2. Do you want to give up 70% royalties and instead accept 14.9% royalties by signing with a legacy publisher? (assume you'll be locked into the contract forever, because you will)
How you answer those questions is how you should approach the next legacy publishing deal you're offered.
For years, I've talked about the importance of luck. You can't succeed without it.
But writers need to fight Stockholm Syndrome and escape the siren song of legacy publishing. For decades they were the only game in town, and trying to get accepted by the gatekeepers has become imprinted on our brains. Getting lucky meant finding a publisher.
These days, signing with a publisher, who will give you an advance in return for the majority of all your royalties, forever, isn't lucky at all. It's like signing a balloon loan, where the payments get bigger every year. Or a life insurance policy, where you keep paying more annually for fewer benefits.
A much better route to take is self-pubbing. At least there, if you get lucky, you get to keep most of your money.
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Alicia Keys Has the Blues in 'Tears Always Win' Video
Alicia Keys always delivers a good plot for her music videos. The visual for her song, 'Tears Always Win,' is no different.
The singer is a starving artist with dreams of making it big in Las Vegas, where she performs as a showgirl. She gets glammed up and makes it in time to her performance, but throughout the video she can't shake off the thoughts of her long gone lover.
"These lips are missing you / 'Cause these lips ain't kissing you / These eyes put up a fight / But once again, these tears always win," she sings.
She also sits at her piano and performs at a nightclub, where the audience members feel her pain as she belts out the lyrics, co-written by Bruno Mars. No happy endings here -- just Keys walking off into the sunset.


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Thats why I said they were incompetent.tautologies wrote:You know what though...saying all these things in retrospect doesn't matter at all. You do not get a second vote because you did not inform yourself about If someone voted then they voted. You can't really undo your vote when electing representatives. Complaining that they didn't know what they were voting for makes this even worse. The only time it would be a valid excuse is if someone have been behaving fraudulently...deliberately lying and covering up stuff. Anything else is nonsense. Sorry to be harsh, but an organization really should know better then such excuses.ronnie wrote:[
I'm sure there are other things going on. There are a lot of influences in the Olympics and the ISAF involving politics and money.
There never was a majority in favour of kiting. Kiting got in by one vote and the Council member who represented Spain was supposed to vote for windsurfing and claimed that he voted for kiting by accident.
A woman who represented Canada said she voted for kiting to get more women into sailing. Well she got more women into kiting because some of the many hundreds (maybe thousands) of women racing RSX and the Techno feeder class switched over to join the few kite racers (there were 3 women entered in the PKRA 2012 O'Neill Kiteboard World Cup)
Now I don't know the rules and regulations 100%, but it still seems like this process was part of a mickey mouse rinky dink organization that have no rules if someone high up complains a little...this is only perception.
The way I see it is if everything happened by the book, their rule book needs updating, because a system where you can vote in and out sports from the olympics every 6 months is absolutely retarded...if not everything were by the book ie 68% to 75% vote thingy, then someone needs to take their hat and leave...it would also invalidate the final vote as far as I can see.
The other point I was making was that there never actually was a majority of them in favour of kiting - ever. Kiting got in by accident, so it wasn't actually a big change-around when they went to 68% for windsurfing in November.
I was surprised that after failing to get the 75% to change things at the Council level they then changed things at the AGM. Whats the point of having the 75% then? Why not just keep it at 50% if you are going to then decide that actually there was a majority in favour of windsurfing so we should change it back.
So I agree that it shows their procedures are either wrong or they dont stick to them.
The windsurf reps were caught with their pants down too and if they had ended up out of the Olympics they would have to accept it was their own fault.
The only consolation is Rio is not a windy place, so this may be the result.
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Colchester United are hoping to close in on the signing of Alex Wynter this week.
The Crystal Palace youngster impressed during his recent loan spell with the U's, helping them stave off the threat of relegation.
Wynter's existing contract at Selhurst Park is due to expire and he is waiting to hear whether or not the Premier League side want to keep him beyond this summer.
Joe Dunne has already made contact with the defender's representatives.
And now the U's boss plans to speak to his Palace counterpart Tony Pulis about the possibility of Wynter returning to the Weston Homes Community Stadium.
Dunne said: "We've spoken to his representative at Palace and I'll speak to Tony (Pulis) over the next couple of days.
"Alex is someone I'd like to bring to the club and everybody knows that.
"I hope that we'll have some news on that in the next couple of days."
For more on this story and all of the latest U's news, including the final Duguid's Diary of the season, see Thursday's Gazette.


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MCAPI and MPI: take two
My last blog post and MCAPI and MPI is worth some further explanation…
There were a number of good questions raised (both publicly in comments, and privately to me via email).
I ended up chatting with some MCAPI people from PolyCore Software: Sven Brehmer and Ted Gribb. We had a very interesting discussion which I won't try to replicate here. Instead, we ended up recording an RCE-Cast today about MCAPI and MPI. It'll be released in a few weeks (Brock already had one teed up to be released this weekend).
The main idea is that Sven and Ted were not trying to say that MCAPI is faster/better than MPI.
MCAPI is squarely aimed at a different market than MPI — the embedded market. Think: accelerators, DSPs, FPGAs, etc. And although MCAPI can be used for larger things (e.g., multiple x86-type servers on a network), there's already well-established high-quality tools for that (e.g., MPI).
So perhaps it might be interesting to explore the realm of MPI + MCAPI in some fashion.
There's a bunch of different forms that (MPI + MCAPI) could take — which one(s) would be useful? I cited a few forms in my prior blog post; we talked about a few more on the podcast.
But it's hard to say without someone committing to doing some research, or a customer saying "I want this." Talk is cheap — execution requires resources.
Would this be something that you, gentle reader, would be interested in? If so, let me know in the comments or drop me an email.
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My mother should write a self-help book. With over 30 years logged as a kindergarten teacher, she has lots of great advice. My husband quoted her in our local paper this week and I have received a few calls and emails saying that her words inspired them. She has certainly inspired me over the years, so I am going to share some of her wisdom.
Steady Pressure. This is a central tenet of my mother's philosophy. When you are feeling overwhelmed, buried under a pile of obligations and work, do not despair! Tomorrow is another day, and if you just apply steady pressure to your goals you will, like the hundreds of students my mother taught over the years, eventually learn to read, or climb Mt. Kilamanjaro, or get your inn open in time for the summer season. Insert your problem here: __________. Now apply steady pressure. (Ping me in a few months and let's see how this maxim is working for you, it's a powerful one.)
Life is a series of sorting and collating exercises. This gem has a lot of meaning for me. Remember the simple sorting skills you mastered in kindergarten? Place all the red apples in the bin with others, move the oranges to the basket with their friends, place the bananas in another spot. Put your coat on the coat hook with all the other children's coats. Keep your boots on the mat by the front door. These exercises bring order to that first collaborative work experience (yes, I mean your kindergarten classroom) and help you start thinking about math. But your adult work flow can be thought of exactly the same way. Match like with like and you simplify, bring order, establish rules and systems. Get in a rhythm, find the patterns and then refer to step one (apply steady pressure:). At the very least, you will always know where your snow boots are.
Share the sandbox. If you are always stealing the shovel from others, you will be isolated, lonely and bored when the other children stop playing with you. If you were lucky and you had my mother in kindergarten, you were gently cajoled away from this, and coaxed into more civilized attitude. Sadly, many people missed this key lesson. The result, in it's adult form, is hard to watch — angry, greedy and alone, these are the people who we all love to hate. They are the staple of reality television. To them I say, we are still here waiting to share the sandbox with you, so come on in and try again.
A Rising Tide Floats All Boats. The slowest learner in the classroom is helped by the fastest, and buoyed along by the general skills of the group. In my mother's kindergarten, this meant working in groups, completing ambitious projects where everyone worked together. To mix metaphors, think of it like tennis — you always play better with a better partner. In business, this means you make your business the best it can be and you help your competitors improve as well. The better you are together, the more will keep coming your way. I certainly see this in Woods Hole, and not only out in Great Harbor where the boats all move together with the relentless tides.
Find the Farmyard. My mother grew up on a farm, and as a teacher she developed what she called her "farm curriculum." She focused on the seasons, taught the kids all about farm life, even brought a baby lamb to school for a few weeks each spring during lambing season. The benefits of this were huge. The kids were enthralled with the information, and left her classroom with a knowledge that never gets covered in the years beyond. Now her instincts are so in vogue! At the Woods Hole Inn and the Quicks Hole restaurant, we are part of the "farm-to-table" movement, and because of my mother I never feel out-of-place when I visit the farms from which we source our incredible pea-green sprouts, our arugula and our fresh hot peppers. It's not too late for you to learn all about your local farmer; if you visit Cape Cod, the Coonamessett Farm right here in Falmouth is a great place to start.
Don't Hold a Grudge. You are the sum of your grudges, and they will only bring despair and unhappiness. In kindergarten, the children were brought together, each holding my mother's hand, crying and shouting at each other until they fully vented their feelings. There may be no real resolution to their real feelings of hurt and betrayal, but waiting until they express, apologize (sometimes:) and it blows over kept the whole classroom open, vibrant and warm. How great would it be if we could still do this as adults? But the conventions of society shackle us in this effort, so take this to heart — work hard on your own feelings to air and move on from petty grievances with employees, customers and your competitors. It leaves so much more open space for happiness, clear thinking and good work. The benefits will be felt by all, but mostly by you.
My debt to my incredible mother inspired this, and I hope she will not mind my posting the lovely photo I took of her this weekend. And now a few shots of Woods Hole, some from the walk we took on Sunday and others on my peregrinations later in the week…
Ferry crossing from Martha's Vineyard back to Woods Hole, as seen off of a wintery Nobska Beach…
A wonderful house out on Bar Neck Road where it meets Gosnold. Love the Cape light on broad shingles…
One of my favorite houses in Woods Hole, on Church Street, still all decked out for Christmas…A lonely bike waiting in the edge of the Eel Pond reminds me of Ireland.
I never thought I would finish this blog post, but I used my mother's advice, applied steady pressure, and look at me now!


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Conference In Croatia Has Strong New Mexico Tech Ties
SOCORRO, N.M. June 8, 2009 – The week of May 25 to 29 marked the culmination of a year's worth of planning by Tech physics graduate Dr. Zeljka Fuchs, Dr. Branko Grisogono from the University of Zagreb, and Tech physics professor Dr. David Raymond.
The trio hosted a workshop for east European graduate students in atmospheric and oceanic physics in the historic Croatian city of Split on the Adriatic coast.
Dr. Fuchs is a 2006 graduate of the New Mexico Tech atmospheric physics program and is now an assistant professor of physics at the University of Split. Fuchs will be visiting Tech during July to maintain her scientific collaboration with Raymond.
Dr. Zeljka Fuchs, New Mexico Tech physics graduate, at the recent conference in Split, Croatia, that she and her advisor, Dr. Dave Raymond, organized.
The workshop brought in a distinguished international panel of lecturers from Germany, Mexico, United States, Australia and Croatia.
In addition to the host country, the workshop attracted graduate students from Italy, Austria, the Ukraine and New Mexico Tech doctoral student Saska Gjorgjievska, a native of Macedonia.
"We hope this is the first of an annual series of workshops designed to promote connections between east European students in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences and institutions world-wide, including New Mexico Tech," Raymond said. "I certainly do see this conference strengthening ties between Eeastern Europe and the United States. Hopefully, we can get more graduate students coming to New Mexico Tech.
Raymond said the workshop had two uncommon features. First, speakers were not given pre-assigned topics, but were encouraged to discuss the area of their research they consider to be most important.
Second, the conference had a strong pedagogical focus. They keynote speakers assigned pre-conference work to graduate students from universities in eastern Europe. The students reviewed and reported on pre-assigned topics.
Saska Gjorgjievska, a doctoral student in physics, gives a presentation at the conference in Croatia.
"A lot of the student reports filled in finer details that the presenters spoke about in broad terms," Raymond said. "These students had to work to understand beforehand what these researchers are doing."
Gjorgjievska, who is studying atmospheric convection, said she found the conference very informative and engaging. She also appreciated meeting some of the top researchers in her field and getting acquainted with people of similar interests.
"I enjoyed hearing the lecturers from around the world," she said. "And the open discussions where we could ask whatever we wanted to know. I think I learned a lot."
One of the major themes of the conference was the discussion and theories about the maximum possible strength of tropical storms.
"A well-known theoretical model by MIT professor Kerry Emanuel predicts the maximum strength OF a hurricane or typhoon, given certain conditions like sea temperature," Raymond said. "Recent work has shown that this result is only an approximation that may or may not be a good model. So the debate goes on."
Atmospheric physicists and graduate students enjoy a relaxing, informal discussion in scenic Split, Croatia.
Raymond's assignment to the graduate students was his seminal paper, "Thermodynamic Control of Tropical Rainfall," published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2001.
Raymond spoke about his research into tropical precipitation. For nearly 20 years, he has been studying the conditions that might predict precipitation in the tropics including those in tropical storms. Using airplane-based data gathering and instruments dropped from planes, Raymond has developed a model explaining what conditions lead to rainfall.
Thanks to Dr. Fuchs, the conference enjoyed strong financial support from the Croatian government. Somewhat isolated from the larger academic centers in Europe, the conference was a welcome event to bring scholars to the coastal country, Raymond said.


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I have difficulty understanding the sentence from my textbook:
Non is sum ut mea me maxime delectent.
The literal translation is easy ("I am not such a man that is most please with my family") but unfortunately this doesn't make much sense. Does the word mea have other connotations than "my family"?
The sentence is taken from a portion of Cicero's Epistulae ad Brutum 1-15
w w w.latin.it/autore/cicerone/epistulae/ad_brutum/01/15.latego autem (sed erro fortasse nec tamen is sum ut mea me maxime delectent) nihil mihi videor hoc bello sensisse prudentius.
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Rivers hit Malcolm Floyd for that touchdown, his third of the half and part of an overall 16-of-18, 218-yard performance on the heels of another good game against the Chiefs. Knock the levels of the defenses all you like, but it's a positive development after weeks of turnover-plagued performances.
The Bucs started out hot on offense, taking the ball 80 yards for a touchdown, but they have picked up just 67 yards since that point. Most of those yards came on one 54-yard pass to Mike Williams, so there's clearly some work to do on that side of the ball as well. A heavier dose of Doug Martin — seven touches for 74 yards — could be one way to get that work done.


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transit man wrote:Does anyone have a date for the last passenger train to operate on the E-L former NY & GL RR north of Mountain View and from which station?
Greg wrote:transit man wrote:Does anyone have a date for the last passenger train to operate on the E-L former NY & GL RR north of Mountain View and from which station?
October 1966 was the last shuttle from Wanaque-Midvale to Mt. View for transfer onto the Hoboken bound trains.
Roadgeek Adam wrote:Greg wrote:transit man wrote:Technically, September 30, 1966 because October 3, 1966 was the first Monday after the service can. That's at least how I've interpreted it. Correct me if I am wrong. No routes without weekend service had service after September 30.
TSTOM wrote:Rather than start a new thread, I'm gonna back-up this subject title East to Montclair in the vacinity of the Walnut Street station.
Now I'm admittedly lacking much facts/details but AIR, the ERIE - maybe around 1900 - had serious plans to dig a tunnel for a new ROW West thru the mountain from Montclair over to somewhere North of Bloomfield Avenue in either Verona or Cedar Grove. This project/proposal was apparantly desired/considered for a more direct routing of the Caldwell Branch.
Now, here's the kicker. Some 40 or so years ago when I first heard this story, a fellow rail buff took me to a home - I think on either Valley Road or Upper Mountain Ave. - to view the 'proof' of the story. In the large backyard of this home ( on the side of the mountain ) was on obvious man made, large tunnel/bore somewhat hidden by brush/trees. It appeared to have been started and then filled-in a long time ago perhaps when the ERIE had a change of heart and abandoned the idea.
Soooo, is anyone else familiar with this story or has seen/visited this home/tunnel landmark ? Would obviously be cool to get some photos with the current homeowners permission. Maybe there's an ERIE book out there that might deal with this ?
TSTOM wrote:Greg -
I think that field is MKA's and it's location seems logically on a feasible alignment West from Walnut Street station. So you think the bore is near the West side of it ? That's generally when the incline up and over the mountain developes.
So you also knew of this subject ? Do you recall if it was in an ERIE book ?
TSTOM wrote:I've never seen the Sanborn's before....facinating....much, much thanks !
BTW, use Google Earth to compare/follow along with the Sanborn plates....pretty sure/obvious I see a remnant of the ROW/property line by the shape of a parking lot at 58 N. Mountain Avenue....107 years later !
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MANASQUAN, NJ -- The Atlantic Club is inviting other club companies to participate in a program to help raise money to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The program, launched by the Manasquan, NJ-based club's Clubs for the Cure team, is 12 Days of Fitness, scheduled to coincide with the winter holiday season.
During November and December, participating clubs will open their doors to members of the community by inviting them to experience 12 consecutive days of fitness at their local health club with a donation of $20 to ALS.
"We are asking health and fitness clubs around the world to open their doors to support the 12 Days of Fitness Program," says Patricia A. Laus, CEO of The Atlantic Club and founder of Clubs for the Cure. "The 12 Days of Fitness Program offers clubs the opportunity to invite everyone in their community to expand their wellness and extend their lives. It is a proven promotion that The Atlantic Club as well as numerous health and fitness clubs worldwide have utilized over the years with great success."
Doug Miller and Ray Gordon, co-founders of Sales Makers International, provided the exclusive rights to 12 Days of Fitness to The Clubs for the Cure/Augie's Quest Team. This program will be the promotional vehicle used this holiday season to increase the number of health and fitness facilities joining this global effort in finding the cure for ALS. It also provides a new venue to raise donations to support Augie Nieto in reaching his goal of $30 million in donations by March 2010. Nieto and his wife, Lynne, founded Augie's Quest in 2005 after he was diagnosed with ALS. Nieto was the founder of Life Fitness.
Clubs that are interested in enrolling in Augie's Quest 12 Days of Fitness can visit The Clubs for the Cure Web site at www.clubsforthecure.com. This site includes sample newspaper ads, direct mail cards, e-mail blasts, press releases, program overview for outreach this upcoming holiday season as well as a special in-club 12 Days of Fitness Program by Sandy Coffman.
Kevin McHugh, COO of The Atlantic Club and Clubs for the Cure, says, "Our goal with the development of our new Web site, donated by Laurie Metrick and his team at Joinonline247.com is to develop an information center platform that will provide not only the tools for clubs to incorporate into their local market but act as a resource to learn more about Augie, Augie's Quest and other fundraising programs that clubs have been conducting for Augie over the past 18 months."
The Clubs for the Cure Web site also provides videos that will further explain the upcoming Augie's Quest 12 Days of Fitness program along with contact numbers and e-mail addresses of the entire sales and marketing support group for this program.
Laus founded the Clubs for the Cure Team in 2006 as a grassroots health and fitness effort to harness the power of members, staff and communities to make a difference for those in need. In 2006, Pat and her team partnered with The Avon Foundation's Two Day Walk in New York City to find the Cure for Breast Cancer. The effort provided The Avon Foundation not only with their largest team globally but also with a record-level team donation, raising over $1 million during its three years.
In 2007, The Clubs for the Cure Team expanded its mission and partnered with Augie's Quest.


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This September, the Lazy E Arena will be transformed into the state's largest indoor and outdoor recreation event – the
Oklahoma Wildlife Expo.
This three-day event celebrates our great state's natural diversity and opportunities for the sporting enthusiast.
The Wildlife Expo is a great opportunity for family and friends to celebrate the outdoors together. Through all the activities available, Oklahomans will become educated on the importance of wildlife and how to support wildlife management and outdoor recreation. Over 40,000 people showed up for the fun last year and this year is going to be even better.
And the best part of it is that everything is completely free, even admission and parking.
Those looking to shop for hunting items can stroll through the Outdoor Marketplace, a large tent with 8,000 square feet of vendor exhibits. Everyone is sure to find something they want and many great door prizes will be given away.
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The Salt Plains Loop includes public lands such as the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, the Great Salt Plains State Park and Byron Hatchery Watchable Wildlife Area, which is managed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. In addition, the town of Cherokee manages the Cherokee Nature Park which was created simply to attract birds and butterflies for residents and visitors to enjoy.
Whether you wish to bird watch from your car or walk the trails, this Loop has what you need. Other outdoor recreational opportunities exist on the Salt Plains Loop including fishing, camping and horseback riding on equestrian trails.
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Yesterday, the Detroit Tigers went out and acquired starting pitcher, Anibal Sanchez, and Omar Infante, from the Miami Marlins. In return the Marlins received the Tigers top prospect Jacob Turner and two other prospects. The Tigers already had one of the best rotations in baseball, largely due to Justin Verlander, but you can never have too much pitching. The Tigers also had a glaring need at second base and Infante should help that a ton. The Marlins are also unlikely to make the post-season and Sanchez is a free agent at the end of the year. Continue reading
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