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Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Train harder
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Cats, dogs and geese
At the end of the rainbow is a...
For "pot of gold" read "port-a-potty"
It rained all night and it is still raining. Good weather for geese.
Last night we trained north of Parliament House, down by the lake at Reconciliation Place. I said sorry to all those with beards. There is a pair of grassy slopes that looks like it is modelled on a skate board rink, that's where we trained. By the end of the session we would have run up thirty times and down thirty times. It was fun, and it was steep but probably an easier session than we usually do.
1. This week I am the proud owner of a 150 Vets Handicaps t-shirt
2. Charmaine the person behind our new ACTVAC membership cards was at training last night. Everyone says the cards look fantastic! Shisei turned up late and couldn't find us; probably a good thing as he is recovering from calf injuries brought on by doing too much too soon. James turned up on time but couldn't find any running shoes in his bag, so missed out.
3. My friend Bill Egan (ten Thredbo marathons) is 70 today. Happy Birthday Bill! I see that everyone's friend Rob de Castella is fifty today. That means Deek was born on Bill's twentieth birthday. Another friend Scott McTaggart (Mountain Running champion) turned thirty yesterday. He asks "what's a spiral"? I had to tell him there were no official records for our spiral runs. If he does join us, and there is every indication he will, there go all the M30 records. It will be great to see.
Monday, 26 February 2007
No goslings were harmed in the making of this post
My training progress
last week's target: 80k
achieved: 80k
year total to date: 841k in 8 weeks
this week's target: 120k
weight: 64kg - too high! But it will come back down as longer distances resume.
song of the week: "How to save a life" The Fray. The video clip of this song is among the best I have seen. Rather appropriate at the moment, I know that there are readers who sadly have lost loved ones recently; my condolences to you. All the more reason to invest in and support those around you.
In Sunday's Vets handicap, Cathy Newman was outstanding, her secret? A 16km warmup run. And in the 3k, Gary Bowen is back in form.
The 6.3k (hilly)
11 Cathy Newman W45 27:00
13 Rod Lynch M45 23:30
25 Amanda Walker W35 28:27
27 Roger Pilkington M45 25:48
32 Charmaine Knobel W50 30:54
34 Ruth Baussmann W55 33:14
36 Maria O'Reilly W50 27:12
44 Colin Farlow M45 24:03
46 Richard Faulks M45 25:09
56 Alan Duus M60 29:48
57 Mick Charlton M55 33:10
66 Barbara Tucker W55 34:24
69 Helen Larmour W45 27:53
71 Tony Booth M65 34:02
88 Michael Freer M75 35:33
90 David Baussman M45 30:07
99 Peter McDonald M50 31:41
109 Kathy Sims W55 32:30
111 Christopher Lang M55 32:01
The 3k (flat)
11 Ken White M50 11:31
12 Neil Boden M55 12:58
19 Gary Bowen M45 11:37
24 Geoff Moore M55 11:29
25 Katie Forestier W40 11:59
51 Maureen Rossiter W55 16:18
Thursday night's track times
M50 Ken White 2:22.59
M55 Neil Boden 2:55.98
M60 Kevin Chamberlain 2:28.50
W40 Katie Forestier 2:44.98
W55 Kathy Sims 3:04.22
W55 Maureen Rossiter 3:27.48
M45 Colin Farlow 6:32.12
M55 Neil Boden 8:24.02
10,000m championships
M45 gold Richard Faulks 39:04.51
M45 bronze Mick Horan 40:00.98
M45 4th Roger Pilkington 40:28.05
M55 silver Geoff Moore 41:19.04
W30 gold Jeni Greenland 43:55.14
W35 gold Amanda Walker 44:52.87
W60 gold Margaret McSpadden 55:41.74
1. I will race BBQ Stakes this week. They have put me a long way back, I will see if I can catch anyone! Otherwise I won't race, I will come out and watch the Vets 800m and 1500m championships on the weekend.
2. It is only two weeks to the Weston Creek Half Marathon. That's my first important race of the year.
3. Yesterday's quote WAS from "Throw Momma from the Train". A great little movie. I enjoyed it. Somewhat under-rated by the critics, I thought. Anyway, we don't need critics. The main theme of the movie is "writer's block". To which I can relate! It took me ten minutes to think up a catchy title for this post!
Will we still be running if we make it to 100 years?
Sunday, 25 February 2007
The night was sultry
ACTA 1500m from Saturday
Aki 6:00.12
Colin 4:34.69
Handicap today at Curtin
In the 3k I ran about 11:28, Ken something similar, Gary not much slower, Katie under 12 minutes as well. We all four blitzed "that M55" we were targeting, well done!
In the 6.3k, Maria and Helen had strong runs, others did too, results will appear here soon. Charmaine was awarded her 50 run t-shirt, and a nice new look it is too with slightly new colours. I received my 150 run t-shirt.
It was unusual to get cooler weather, I ran 6k this afternoon to top up the week's distance. Someone said, "winter is early". Huh! Sultry, for winter!
Coaching is an art... a science.. a project..
What movie is this post's title from?
Saturday, 24 February 2007
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
I am still pondering, in April's Canberra marathon, will I offer to pace the 3:30 group? For - it would slow me down to a reasonable pace and give me more chance of finishing. Against - I might want to run faster than that on the day, especially if I see an M55 ahead. (Aargh, who cares!) For - I am not really taking the marathon seriously, the halves are more important this year. Against - I did it last year, time for something new. For - I do like helping others, there is a lot of satisfaction seeing others achieve their goals. Against - by running the marathon I only want to see how I am progressing so I might know if my attempt on sub 3 hours in 2009 is still a possibility. For - a 3:30 would still be on track for 2009. Against - pacing is a big responsibility and I am inconsistent and injury prone, letting the side down should my normal calf or ankle niggles occur would be devastating.
I think that last is the killer, let's not do the pacing job. I will still run though, and just see how I do.
1. It's a clock! Do you like it? Can you see how it works? It's quite simple.
2. No Thursday results out yet..
3. But I can't think, my brain is addled, from watching the movie "eXistenZ"; enough to confound and confuse anyone. Don't think I will ever eat amphibian again!
Friday, 23 February 2007
fearful symmetry
From the Canberra Marathon newsletter: "We are asked regularly if it is OK to run with headsets. The answer is yes. The only thing we do ask is that you are cognizant of the fact you are running under the care of marshals who may need to provide instructions to you during the race. You need to be able to hear any instructions and also pay attention to the marshals on the course. Also be aware of other runners and the need to be courteous. Of course, this does not apply just to those runners wearing headsets but to all runners on the course." Phew, CJ, you don't have to have the operation to surgically remove your ipod.
1. Last night, trying to break 40mins for the 10k for the first time in about 12 years, I ran 39 minutes and 138 seconds. Close!
2. In the Canberra marathon in April, should I run as a pacer? Pat Carroll would like me to, I haven't replied yet. But if I do run as a pacer, what group? 3:30? 3:15? 3:00? Other? A possible reason to be a pacer is, the marathon is not my main target this year; the half marathons are. On the other hand, it is tempting to think I could run a reasonable time if I feel OK on the day. And I have entered the M55s, with an outside chance of a place. So, what should I do? Advice please!
3. Check out a REAL speedy goose - from Joan Nesbit Mabe's website/blog - http://www.runningland.com/2005/10/23/honk-honk/. This is a site I will be reading regularly! We are not alone.
Ewen is the one standing.
Well that's what they looked like in my delirium
after a few laps!
Thursday, 22 February 2007
A likely story
A man is dining in a fancy restaurant, and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He had been checking her out since he sat down, but lacked the nerve to talk with her.
Suddenly she sneezes and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.
"Oh my, I am so sorry," the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. "Let me buy you dessert to make it up to you."
They enjoy a wonderful dessert together, and afterwards, the woman invites him to the theatre followed by drinks. After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place and stay for breakfast the next morning.
The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed! Everything has been incredible! "You know," he said, "you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?" "No," she replies, "you just happened to catch my eye."
Geese Fly North
1. Reminder - Sunday's run, 8:30am, the new start location is off the Cotter Road, opposite the equestrian park entry, near Bowser Place Curtin.
2. At track tonight we need your ACTVAC championship entries. The 10k is tonight, the 1500m is Saturday 3 March. The 800m, Sunday 4 March.
3. Charmaine is to be thanked for her part in getting the ACTVAC membership cards out.
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Much less here than meets the eye
Speedygeese in the summer series race 3 Lake Ginninderra 7.1k
7. Cathy Newman W45 31:40
24. Margaret McSpadden W60 39:41
18. Richard Faulks M45 28:01
27. Mick Horan M45 29:26
31. David Webster M55 29:49
41. Roger Pilkington M45 31:29
58. Neil Boden M55 37:27
61. Mick Charlton M55 38:11
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From "Canberra Marathon news"
We have never succumbed to the well worn euphemism of "international" but each year we attract a growing number of runners from around the world. Not only do these runners enter the race, they become friends over the email and part of the Canberra Marathon group of friendly runners. 2007 is no different and we welcome runners from many countries.... USA (hi Lenny!), Canada, Estonia (g'day Eero!), Indonesia, Germany (welcome Monika & friends), Poland (cheers Tomasz), Singapore, UK and a big welcome to our group of 16 athletes travelling from Taiwan (good on'ya Dale). We welcome you all to Canberra and wish you well for safe travel to Australia in April.
1. I had a day off yesterday because I realised that I had not had a day off running this year and it used to be my practice to have a day off most weeks. The only other reason was to rest up for Thursday's 10k, but I will do yesterday's run today and today's tomorrow morning. Then attempt 95s. Even in the 7:30pm heat.
2. ACTVAC track events this Thursday include
6:00pm 2000m
7:00pm 800m
7:30pm 10000m CHAMPIONSHIPS
7:45pm 300m
8:00pm 4 x 100m relay
3. I had a massage on Monday. My worst fears were realised when the masseur said I was OK to continue to train for the marathon.
click to see detail.
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
sisters celebrate sixtieth
A twin sister sixtieth birthday party
Photo by Strewth
1. Monday night training saw Alan, Amanda, Christopher, David, Emma, Ewen, me, Helen, Joel, Ken, Maria, Mick C, Mick H, Neil, Ruth & Yelena suffer eight intervals of 80 seconds on gravel paths in the shade at East Parliament House. Several had "wins", even I took out one of the intervals. Emma I believe set the distance record in one of her "wins".
2. Ah the World Wide Web! Check out Estonian fan Kati and her cool links!
3. Those running the Summer Series at Lake Ginninderra today, enjoy. I will give it a miss, I am resting up, or trying to.
Monday, 19 February 2007
wild geese travel long distances
My training progress
last week's target: 100k
achieved: 100k
year total to date: 761k in 7 weeks
this week's target: 80k including a 10k race
weight: around 63kg
song of the week: … "Where I End and You Begin", from "Hail to the Thief" by Radiohead... "i am up in the clouds, i am up in the clouds..."
Because I am running longer distances this year, running in the heat is now much less a problem than it used to be. Long distance training results in heat adaptation!
Long distance running also brings improvement to every distance from 1500m and up. And it makes longer distance races feel easy, too. When I moved up from 14k to 18k for my regular long run, the 14k became much easier (but not the 18k). Then when I moved up from 18k to 24k, the 24k initially felt tough, but made the 18k a cinch.
I think I will start promoting over-distance training more vigorously than I do even now.
1. The wait is over! Online registrations for the Australasian Masters Games (Adelaide, 5-14 October) will be open from 9am today. Participants are encouraged to register online at http://www.australasianmasters.com/. And the next edition of the Games Newsletter is available here.
2. The official Games Registration Booklet will be accessible for download via the Games website and also available in hardcopy from the week commencing 19 March 2007. If you would like to receive a hardcopy of the Games Registration Booklet in the post click here to complete an Expression of Interest form.
3. Local athletes, don't forget, this Sunday's monthly handicap is early, an 8:30am start. And the location is North Curtin, although the start area has been changed to the opposite end of the playing fields from usual.
Sunday, 18 February 2007
Friends of the Geese
Congratulations to two Friends of the Geese, Martin Dent, and Sarah Salmon, on making the Australian Cross Country team for the World Championships to be held in Kenya. Martin is a "Customs Jogger"; Sarah has run with Vets and was the first Fun Run winner in "green shoes", as well, she sold me my first pair of green shoes when she worked in the runner's shop. Go Go (friends of the) Speedy Geese!
Australian team:
Men: Martin Dent, Michael Shelley, Collis Birmingham, Andrew Letherby, Liam Adams, David McNeil.
Women: Lisa-Jane Weightman, Kristy Villis, Anna Thompson, Victoria Mitchell (subject to fitness), Eloise Wellings (subject to fitness), Sarah Salmon (subject to eligibility status)
Junior Men: Ben Guest, Chris Hamer, Ben Ashkettle, Sam Crowther.
Junior Women: Lexy Gilmore, Rachel Green, Lara Tamsett, Lucy Starratt.
1. More race results: the official times for the Pennington 1500m last Thursday:
1 Colin Farlow M45 4:40 - wins the series with maximum points.
2 Kevin Chamberlain M60 5:12
4 Rod Lynch M45 4:58
5 Ken White M50 5:08
14 Katie Forestier W40 5:37
15 Helen Larmour W45 5:51
18 Neil Boden M55 6:08
19 Alan Duus M60 6:20
22 Amanda Walker W35 5:55
24 Ruth Baussmann W55 7:09
25 Margaret McSpadden W55 7:11
2. Saturday Track: Aki went in just about every event. The ones of interest are, 800m 2:53.1, and 5000m championships, first, 23:26.65. Southy ran 2:30.7 in the 800m, I think approximately equal to her W50 record.
3. Sat training "was fun". We ran five of the following, on 5 minutes, of a 900m run consisting of: 50m sprint 50m jog + 100m sprint 50m jog + 150m sprint 50m jog, turning around & continuing with 150m sprint 50m jog + 100m sprint 50m jog + 50m sprint 50m jog.
Saturday, 17 February 2007
You knooooow, what I liiike!
I feel real loose, like a "red faced" goose .. because, oops I won the Adler handicap this week. And in the 3000m I ran 11:23, not 11:25.. my priority being to sprint through the finish line, rather than hitting the stop watch.
Watching the BBQ Stakes (as timer) on Wednesday was interesting, every single finisher (except speedyHelen) slowed up before they reached the line. Some were even walking as they crossed the line. And it's a downhill finish! So now I know why the person handing out place cards always stands so close to the line. I always miss him/her and have to backtrack to get my place card.
Runners: finish strong! Run PAST the finish line before you even THINK about decelerating!
Unless of course, you are deliberately slowing, as some might in a handicap race. Colin in Thursday's spiral did an "un-lunge" so he would finish behind Dale. It would have looked even funnier if Dale had tried to finish behind Colin at the same time!
Vets track results, Thursday 15 Feb
M45 Rod Lynch 10:45.92
M55 Geoff Moore 11:23.91
M55 Geoff Sims 13:03.36
M60 Alan Duus 13:16.36
W45 Helen Larmour 12:03.40 pb
W55 Kathy Sims 13:19.89
Spiral 6
5 Geoff Moore M55 10:06 – first on handicap!! oops.
6 Kathy Sims W55 11:25
9 Neil Boden M55 10:44
11 Roger Pilkington M45 09:27
13 Colin Farlow M45 09:55 - complete with un-lunge
14 Ewen Thompson M45 14:40
15 Ken White M50 10:16
19 Katie Forestier W40 10:04
20 Amanda Walker W35 10:21
23 Ruth Baussmann W55 12:28
24 Margaret McSpadden W55 12:43
30 Tony Booth M65 11:32
32 Kevin Chamberlain M60 10:21
35 Gary Bowen M45 10:45
Friday, 16 February 2007
The irreverant "uncyclopedia" has a variant on "Health" which begins:
"Health is a generic term used in video games and RPGs to describe the amount of vitality left in a certain unit. Various equivalent terms are in use, such as hit points (HPs), cohesion, energy level, etc., but they all refer to the same basic concept of health. Generally, higher health is regarded as better, as it makes a unit more difficult to terminate. However, due to the inability of game creators to keep anything simple, various complicating factors enter the mix. Such things as shields, or other bonuses and forms of defense, can increase a unit's resilience, and make it even more difficult to terminate."
The article continues in the same vein. You can read it here.
1. Great turnout at Vets last night. It was good to see Gwen and Julie there; also a group of supporters there to see Luckylegs run the 1500m.
2. My 3000m time was a season's best by 13 seconds. I felt much stronger than I have for a long time. An 11:25 at last. The first lap was 95; the kms were 3:51, 3:49 and 3:45. Negative splits. And it was hot and windy!
3. Helen, after a great BBQ Stakes on Wednesday where she ran a near pb, did achieve her best 3000m time, running 12:05, then equalled her 1500m best of 5:49. Others to run well included Kevin in the 1500m, 5:10, Ken, 5:06, and Colin 4:39 just pipping Kevin and taking out the Pennington series. Katie's 5:35 is a pb too. All times in the Pennington are approximate (expect Norma's when I get the official times, as she started with the gun).
Thursday, 15 February 2007
Twenty year old sets half marathon record
Half Marathon World Record Progression
61:21 Alex Hagelsteens Belgium 23.09.1984 Remich-Grevenmacher
61:14 Steve Jones United Kingdom 11.08.1985 Birmingham
60:57 Michael Musyoki Kenya 15.09.1985 Philadelphia
60:56 Xolile Yawa South Africa 25.07.1987 East London
60:46 Dionicio Cerón Mexico 16.09.1990 Philadelphia
59:47 Moses Tanui Kenya 03.04.1993 Milan
59:17 Paul Tergat Kenya 04.04.1998 Milan
59:16 Samuel Wanjiru Kenya 11.09.2005 Rotterdam
58:55 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 15.01.2006 Phoenix
58:53 Samuel Wanjiru Kenya 09.02.2007 Ras al Khaimah
from http://www.iaaf.org:
58:53 Half Marathon World Record by Wanjiru in Ras al Khaimah
Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates - Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya broke the World Half Marathon record with a scintillating display of front-running in the Ras Al Khaimah International Half Marathon in the United Arab Emirates early this morning (9 February).
Wanjiru, just 20 years old, clocked 58:53, and in fact retrieved the World Record, taken from him by Ethiopian 'great' Haile Gebrselassie, who ran 58:55 in Phoenix, Arizona on 15 January 2006. Then officially a junior, Wanjiru had set the previous record one year earlier, with 59:16 in Rotterdam.
When 'Geb' set his World Record, he was paced in what became a solo run, whereas Wanjiru today dismantled one of the best fields ever assembled, thanks to the record overall prize money of $155,000 on offer in Ras Al Khaimah.
The youngest man in the field, Wanjiru was up against the former World champion at the distance, Fabiano Joseph of Tanzania, who eventually finished seventh; winner of the Boston and Chicago Marathons, Robert Cheruyiot, who finished fifth; and a host of other top east and north Africans, the acknowledged masters of modern distance running.
More at http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=37521.html
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
It's Time for Something Great
Speedy geese in the Summer Series:
Race 2 Reconciliation Place 5k, 13 February
8. Maria O'Reilly W50 21:40
14. Thea Zimpel 23:30
39. Carolyne Kramar W40 28:43
56 finishers
30. Richard Faulks M45 19:35
41. David Webster M55 20:26
43. Bob Harlow M55 20:32
70. Mick Horan M45 23:27
76. David Baussmann M55 24:44
92 finishers
1. Long time ACTVAC club member Jack Perry died at Clare Holland House yesterday after a long illness.
2. The ACTVAC 5000m championships have moved to 29 March at 7:30pm. All the more time to get fit then. Southy will be pleased.
3. Track events this Thursday include:
6.00 3000m
6.15 10,000m walk
7:00 1500m Pennington
7.30 400m
8.00 4 x 200m relay
8.15 spiral 6
I cannot see the 10k walk being finished by 7:00pm.
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Geese among the Griffins
Saturday training at Aranda oval on the grass was sets of 50s and 100s in a session of 10 x 450 on 2 1/2 minutes;
Monday training at Parliament House was three easy runs over 900m on 8 minutes with a stand-around-and-chat recovery.
What was I thinking? Easier training sessions because peoples' races are becoming more important. The much cooler weather made the training very pleasant.
A gaggle of griffins
Spot the geese. For non-Canberrans, a Griffin is someone who has completed ten Canberra Marathons. A Griffin is a mythological creature, with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle. A Griffin belongs in heraldry. The Canberra Marathon runs alongside Lake Burley Griffin. The lake is named after Walter Burley Griffin, the architect of Canberra. (Yes Canberra was made, not born). Finally, one of this blog's contributors is cool-runner Griffin. Curiously, Griffin has not yet completed ten Canberra marathons, so he is not in the photo, taken at the 2006 marathon. But he is very close. (to running ten).
What is the collective noun for Griffins? Anyone?
Monday, 12 February 2007
Back On Line
quote of the week: " Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."
My training progress
last week's target: 120k
achieved: 117k
year total to date: 661k in 6 weeks
this week's target: 100k
weight: 62.5kg and falling
song of the week: - "Run", by Snow Patrol, from "Final Straw". This song and the album could be dedicated to CJ - as the track before "Run" is "Chocolate", and the track following is "Grazed Knees"!
1. I enjoyed the Sprint Marathon Relay on Sunday. I wasn't in a team, but totalled 29km running with the participants, who in turn didn't quite run a marathon but each team did complete 36k. There were ten teams, an excellent turn-out.
2. Tomorrow the Summer Series has a 5km run at the National library.
3. Some of the Mountain Running events coming up. As I know there is interest out there. Somewhere.
18 February: MAROONDAH DAM TRAIL RUN 50KM & 30KM (VIC). The 50km event starts at 8am at Fernshaw Reserve and the 30km event starts at 9:30am at Dom Dom Saddle. Both events finish below Maroondah Dam. email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Web site: http://www.coolrunning.com.au/ultra/auradam/
18 February: Mt Tennent King and Queen of the Mountain, ACT. 6.5kms uphill, 13kms return, Bushfold Flats 19kms. See entry form and race details at www.mountainrunning.coolrunning.com.au Contact John Harding (02) 6248 6905.
20 February: Black Mountain Run Up, Canberra, 2.6kms, 12.45pm, Clunies Ross Street, Acton (100m east of Botanic Gardens entrance). Free. Contact John Harding (02) 6248 6905 firstname.lastname@example.com
25 February: NSW Mountain Running Championships, Mt Burelli, Wollongong. Organised by Kembla Joggers Athletics Club. Contact Geoff Stalker (02) 4627 1246. Web site: http://www.kemblajoggers.org.au/
6 March: Mt Ainslie Run Up, Canberra, 2.3kms, 12.45pm, Treloar Cres, Campbell. Free. Contact John Harding (02) 6248 6905 firstname.lastname@example.com
10 March: Six Foot Track 45kms Ultra Mountain Run, Australian Long Distance Trail Running Championship, 8am, Katoomba to Jenolan Caves. Web-site www.sixfoot.com
But as for me:
Saturday, 10 February 2007
falling cows
M45 Colin Farlow 10:32
M45 Rod Lynch 10:55
M45 Roger Pilkington 11:25
M50 Ken White 11:35
M55 Neil Boden 13:34
M60 Alan Duus 13:47
W40 Katie Forestier 12:12
W55 Kathy Sims 13:41
M45 Rod Lynch 2:29.50
M55 Neil Boden 3:03.76
M55 Shisei Oya 3:18.26
M60 Kevin Chamberlain 2:25.90
M60 Alan Duus 3:13.24
W40 Gabrielle Brown 3:05.32
W45 Helen Larmour 2:55.94
One Hour
M45 Richard Faulks 14.690
M60 Alan Duus 12.037
M75 Michael Freer 11.058
W35 Amanda Walker 12.668
W55 Ruth Baussmann 10.793
W55 Margaret McSpadden 10.747
Friday, 9 February 2007
Evermore Forever!
Those who watch Spicks and Specks (and if not, why not????) know their guests don't just perform, they participate in the whole program, which takes the form of a music-oriented quiz show. All forms of music, Aki. It's brilliant! Not to be missed.
And with Dann Hume on the show, what a fantastic start to the year.
Thursday, 8 February 2007
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Weston Creek Half Marathon (website here)
The next Weston Creek Half Marathon is to to be held at 7:30am Sunday 11 March, 2007. The 21.1km Athletics Australia Certified Accurate course starts at the Canberra Irish Club, Parkinson Street, Weston and follows bike paths along the Molonglo River, across Scrivener Dam and around Lake Burley Griffin to Black Mountain Peninsula. Runners turn here and retrace their steps to the finish.
Runners can enter by mailing in an entry form, they can register online, or enter on the day.
The Weston Creek Half Marathon is a great dress rehearsal for the Canberra Marathon. I plan to run as hard as possible in the Half, to try out my race preparation, wear the shoes I will be wearing in the marathon, and from my final time, determine what sort of pace I should set out at in the marathon.
speedygeese in the Summer Series
Race 2, Tuesday 6 Feb,Edison Park 5.3k
6. Cathy Newman W45 22:57
22. Annette Sugden W40 25:44
34. Ruth Baussmann W55 29:26
52 finishers
20. Richard Faulks M45 20:35
30. David Webster M55 21:30
38. Bob Harlow M55 22:07
40. Roger Pilkington M45 22:22
60. David Baussmann M55 24:56
62. Neil Boden M55 25:32
71. Mick Charlton M55 27:02
80 finishers
BBQ Stakes
I ran 24.47 yesterday, which is a 16 second pb despite the heat, my first time under 25 minutes for the hilly 6k, and I won the handicap for the first time. Mission accomplished! The much longer training regime is actually working.
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Kids Marathon
From the website:
The 2007 Canberra Kids Marathon is on SUNDAY 15 April at 8.00am, at the Telopea Park School. Kids begin their final 2.195km from the Marathon Start/Finish line.
The Canberra Kids Marathon has a unique format that allows kids kindergarten through high school to run a marathon...one kilometre at a time. The Canberra Marathon feels strongly that exercise should be a healthy part of every child's life, however we also think it should be fun!
Every child leaves the event feeling like a winner and sporting a gold medal. We do not award prizes to the fastest children overall nor is the event timed, but rather reward and acknowledge each and every child that comes out and participates.
The goal of the Kids Marathon is to give participants the opportunity to increase their level of physical activity while focusing on reaching a goal. We hope to motivate children and their families to commit to a healthy lifestyle and develop a daily fitness routine, which will ultimately give the child and their family the positive effects of better health and self confidence through achieving goals, not only in crossing the finish line but in life.
The KidsMarathon
Canberra Marathon website
Marathon Photos
AIS Connect
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
everything paraging
I am terribly sorry if I cause offence with anything I say and do as a running adviser and motivator. Sometimes, just sometimes, I am dealing with so many people at once that I overlook the sensitivities of one or two. So if that is happening, I apologise, I mean only to assist and instruct.
And if I seem to favour one over another, it is not my intention, I have no favourites, "everyone is my favourite".
No one need feel they are less worthy of advice and encouragement and support than any other. So once again, sorry, I will from now on determine to make only paraging remarks.
nothing disparaging here
Monday night's training was a great session of 2 x 5 x 350m on 2:15 on 15. That is, we did some quick little circuits near the eastern rose gardens (which are now dug up) with only a short break, in two sets of five. I enjoyed actually finishing in front in three of the ten circuits! Running were Amanda, Christopher, Emma, Ewen, Helen, James, Joel, Ken, Maria, Michael, Neil, Peter, Ruth, Shisei, Yelena, David W and I. Welcome back David; welcome new starter Shisei! And Michael Freer at 77 continues to amaze; he backed up at the Tuesday group this morning!
1.T&F this Thursday
6.00 3000m
6.15 60m
7.00 800m
7.30 hour
7.45 200m
8.00 4 x 100m relay
2. ACTA relays this Saturday
On Saturday 10 February 5:35pm 4 x 400, 6:15pm 4 x 1500m, 7:20pm 4 x 100. Entries close 15mins before start time; cost $5, additional gate fee not required.
3. Tomorrow I am running the BBQ Stakes; I probably survived today's long run OK. Then I am busy and will next attend the Sprint-Marathon relay, 8am Sunday, Dunrossil Drive (as well as training Saturday).
Monday, 5 February 2007
The correlation between the price of petrol and the 400m
My training progress
last week's target: 120k
achieved: 126k
year total to date: 544k in 5 weeks
this week's target: 120k
weight: 63kg -ish
song of the week: My American Dream
When success is equated with excess
The ambition for excess wrecks us
As top of the mind becomes the bottom line
When success is equated with excess
If your time ain't been nothing for money
I start to feel really bad for you, honey
Maybe honey, put your money where your mouth's been running
If your time ain't been nothing but money
I want out of this machine
It doesn't feel like freedom
This ain't my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I'm tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
When success is equated with excess
When we're fighting for the Beamer, the Lexus
As the heart and soul breath in the company goals
Where success is equated with excess
'Cause baby's always talkin' 'bout a ring
And talk has always been the cheapest thing
Is it true would you do what I want you to
If I show up with the right amount of bling?
Like a puppet on a monetary string
Maybe we've been caught singing
Red, white, blue, and green
But that ain't my America,
That ain't my American dream
A new and scary conspiracy theory: the possibility of a correlation between the price of petrol and the 400m. Did prices creep up to $1:24, even $1:30, as my 400m times deteriorated in parallel? If true, I missed a big window of opportunity when the price mysteriously dropped to $1:04 the other week. But normalcy resumes, it was back to $1:17 when I bought petrol yesterday. Must run a 400m before the price goes up again.
A new tip for improving your time over 400m: spend more than $30 at Woolworths and you will take 4 seconds off!
Now I can see you all checking your local Caltex Service Station on the way into the track, to see what your 400m goal is each week.
1. It will be hot at Parliament House again today, with 37 degrees forecast, and sunny. I will devise a cool shady session close to water. I wish they would turn their sprinklers on! Please hydrate.
2. I will run early Tuesday, Thursday & Friday this week to avoid the heat. The "afternoon storms" foreshadowed for Tuesday on, will probably only mean humidity added to the searing heat.
3. I won't run Thursday night; sounds like the worse conditions one could race the "one hour run" in. But I will have a go Wednesday lunchtime at a BBQ Stakes win. Marathon training develops heat tolerance, marathon trained runners should excel this week! However, one 6k race will be enough.
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Ten Tips
1. Wash your running gear as infrequently as possible. And only wimps wear deodorant.
2. No matter how slow you are, put yourself at the front of the start line at races.
3. Guys: Run up behind female runners and then stay there (they love it … really they do).
4. Gals: Treat all male runners who smile or say "hi" to you while running with disdain because of your suspicion they're like the guys in #3.
5. Run on the road whenever possible; ignore traffic lights; cross streets in heavy traffic because it "toughens you up".
6. Don't thank cyclists coming from behind so they know that you heard their bell, ignore them.
7. Be very quiet when passing other runners or walkers and then scare the heck out of them by brushing quickly past their shoulders.
8. At the gym, leave your gear in a pile at the bottom of your locker for several days so it ripens for everyone's enjoyment.
9. When running in a group, make sure you use the width of the path, to show any other users who's boss.
10. Handkerchiefs are extra weight; blow your nose on your t-shirt, or better still, aim at a passing cyclist.


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Latent response time analysis of students on an electronic version of the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE) provides information on student reading patterns and the role of mental models in student reasoning. Regression analysis looked at the dependence of response times on characteristics of questions, such as amount of text and inclusion of graphs. Results indicate that students generally read through the question text and instructions when first presented, but do not systematically read through answer choices and graphs. Comparison of average response times between pre- and post-instructional assessment found a drop in response times when students used Newtonian ideas but no change for responses using the main alternative concept. The average response time for students who answered using a mix of Newtonian and alternative concepts was not different from those using primarily one or the other; questions rarely activated both concepts at the same time.
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Iota Lambda Sigma is an national honorary professional society in Workforce Development. It recognizes individuals for excellence in their various endeavors in workforce education and development.
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Have Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj kiss and made up yet after their blowout feud on American Idol? Not quite.
The new judges on the hit Fox show were forced to address their backstage battle — a shocking video leaked in October — during the 2013 Winter TCA tour at Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. on Tuesday, Jan. 8.
"How did it get better between you two? Did you have a bottle of wine?" a reporter asked the ladies, who were joined by host Ryan Seacrest and fellow judges Randy Jackson and Keith Urban on stage.
"I put on my sex tape," rapper Minaj, 30, joked. (Rumors have spread numerous times that the "Starships" singer has a sex tape, including reports in December 2010 and October 2012.)
"And there it is," Carey said. "The whole thing is convoluted. It's a distraction from the show and a distraction from the contestants."
"Every time we try to talk about the contestants, we have to field questions about [this]," Minaj complained.
"Time heals all wounds," Carey explained, to which Minaj added, "And we watched my tape . . . We're professionals. Have you ever had an argument with someone you work with?"
After video footage of their argument surfaced online, speculation swirled that the feud was stage.
"It's authentic," Mike Darnell, the President of Alternative Programming said. "They disagree about a lot of the talent. It's not just the girls, it's everybody."
So, could the two judges say something nice about each other during the panel?
"I say nice things about Mariah all the time," Minaj said. "She's one of my favorite artists of all times. She's really shaped a generation of singers. To be on a panel with her, it's kind of crazy."
"That was obviously a very sweet thing to say," Carey replied. "Nicki and I worked together very early on in her career and did a song — it's called 'Up Out My Face,' ironically. I did know, and feel, she was going to go very far."
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KEEPING AHEAD of the JONSES (Mar, 1941)
KEEPING AHEAD of the JONSES
ONE sure sign of spring is that annual urge to "do something" about the house and furniture.
Perhaps it's because we stay at home more in the cold season and get a bit tired of looking at the same walls, floors and furnishings. Whatever the reason, the recent growing demand for change in the home has stimulated the invention and manufacture of more and different furnishings, gadgets and building materials than ever. Hundreds of these innovations will be found in your favorite department store, furniture showroom or building supply house this spring with possibly one exception, and this exception is likely to produce the greatest change of all in the home when it is ready for market.
The research experts of one of the greatest electrical corporations in the world are perfecting a newly patented method of turning glass bricks, such as home owners are now installing as walls for brightening up hallways and foyers, into electric lights. The use of spot illumination by electric bulbs will start to vanish from the modern homes. The very walls which make interior lighting necessary will provide it. In daytime by glass walls admitting sunrays. At night by the flip of a switch lighting up walls themselves.
Illumination may be made dim or bright, as desired. Pleasing combinations of soft colors may be made at will.
The glass bricks will be hollow with the air pumped out and an ionizable gas such as neon, argon, xenon or mercury vapor substituted at low pressure. Thin metal plates will be imbedded in the mortar to serve as electrodes. Fluorescent paint in the mortar or on the surface of the glass will give a luminous glow and diffuse the lights throughout the wall.
Ultraviolet lights will turn any room into a health-giving solarium and the home can be made germproof by rays already used for the purpose.
The use of luminescent material in carpets and floor paints, already on the market, will permit the floors themselves to help light the room, cutting current costs. Ceilings, pictures and even furniture can be made to glow.
The window, as we know it, will no longer be necessary, since its principal functions, supplying light and air, can be supplanted by the new glass bricks and air-conditioning equipment.
Another revolutionary illumination control device, so small it can be hidden away under a couch or on a shelf, will be on the market this spring. Using the photoelectric cell, it turns on the lights in dark hallways, staircase wells and corners as evening shadows fall, and turns them off again early in the morning. Circuits can be so arranged that lights on the dark side of the room will flash on at dusk and those near windows will remain off.
Fluorescent tubes, which have been favored for permanent wall fixtures, will appear this spring in a great variety of portable lamps.
Making attics into bedrooms, and cellars into playrooms will get a new impetus from manufacturers of wallboards. These materials now not only come in curved surfaces, making rounded corners and artistic niches simple, but in reversible color combinations with different hues on each side and the color material built in, not painted on. Surface problems of wallboards have been solved so they will take wallpaper, paint, calcimine or enamel. Gypsum layers make some fireproof. Plywood, now bound together with plastics, is stronger than natural wood, and the finishes are more uniform.
Automobile slip-cover material is being applied like wallpaper or with zippers or buttons, on living and bedroom walls, because of durability and the pleasing effects of the fine, woven stripes. Leather is finding favor as wall covering in better-class homes, particularly in libraries, where it harmonizes with bookbindings, and in powder rooms, where it gives the whole room the effect of a cosmetics case. Cork layers on the walls and floors of children's playrooms deaden noise and lessen the danger of a hard bump from a fall.
Folding walls are being used to cut portions of living rooms with kitchenettes, bedrooms with studio couches, and alcoves. Some of these extending walls are masked with heavy textile material when pulled out. When pushed in, the concealing cloth looks like drapes.
One recently designed living room has a nicely finished, glass-paneled wall which turns out to be a garage door. When a button is pressed, the door slowly rises and vanishes into the ceiling and the family can walk right into the garage, get into the car and drive off.
Windows are being converted into doors by replacing the wall below them with two sections on hinges. A sawed-down door can be used. This gives the family a new, around-the-corner entrance and exit to porch or terrace. When the hinged section is closed the window is still a window. It's called a "jib window."
Slanted glass roofs are being installed on porches, and curtains of running water are permitted to flow across, shading and cooling the porches while providing a restful atmosphere. The water is collected in drains at the roof's edge and pumped back to the highest point to flow down again.
Wall switchplates have not only blossomed out in hundreds of hues to match wall finishes, but they come with a variety of outlets for radio power, ground and antenna connections as well as lamps in the same plate. A tiny masked lamp may be thrust into a switch plug, faintly lighting the floor of a hallway.
Two new window devices make washing easy. In one, the window is divided into six panes top and bottom. One pane in the bottom section slides up so the arm may be thrust outside. The other type has a sash within a sash in the top section and the interior sash can be pivoted, again leaving the arm room to reach out.
Venetian blinds have come down from the luxury level and may be bought for two dollars a window, made of heavy cardboard, reinforced with wood strips. They can be washed and neither rain nor sun will harm their finish. Tape which holds the slats need not be replaced when soiled. New decorated tapes come with clips to fasten over old tapes.
Furniture is feeling the urge toward change. A modernistic end table, shaped like a U laid sideways, can be used to hold a typewriter for a writer who prefers the ease of an upholstered armchair. What appears to be a graceful desk becomes a sewing machine when opened. Tables fold into the walls of tiny, city apartments.
Natural wood and novelty finishes are being photographed upon furniture surfaces. Covering picture frames, lamp shades, wastebaskets and table tops with textiles zippered on is becoming a fad. The number and variety of tables, chairs, window seats, divans and cabinets which can be whisked into beds at night is growing steadily.
In the bedrooms, doors are wallpapered to increase the apparent size of the room, closet shelves are lined with quilting and leather, and window draperies are looped through rings on each top corner so that one piece of material covers both sides of a window and hangs gracefully across the top. Curtain rods are made in zigzag sections so curtains will fall into pleats.
In the kitchen, tables can be hooked onto the sink when in use and folded up for concealment in wall or cabinet. Electric dishwashers on wheels can be rolled from sink to closet. Garbage receptacles made of waterproof paper can be discarded; foot pedals open and close them. New stoves have control panels as elaborate as autos.
A two-foot rubber clothesline with rustproof hooks stretches eight feet when desired. A new mending tape can be ironed onto a torn sheet where it hardly shows. Plastic shelf edging can be wiped clean and lasts indefinitely. Kitchen doors are glass paneled to eliminate dangerous collisions.
A circular food bar has been devised for large kitchens so most operations like mixing, kneading, toasting and percolating may be done without taking more than a step or two. It is also arranged so that dad can cook his breakfast when the family is away without moving from a swivel chair on rollers. The ingredients and cooking equipment for his breakfast read from left to right around the circle.
In the bathroom, shower hooks come in bright-colored plastics. Wide edges on bathtubs make comfortable seats while dressing. Clay is replacing iron as bathtub material and it has a glasslike finish. A new cabinet contains a heating element to keep the room warm in the winter and to dry out wet towels and washrags. In the summer it is a storage receptacle for linens. Bathroom linen closets have glass doors and plastic index tabs for shelves so that the number of sheets, towels, etc., on hand may be determined at a glance.
Shower curtains are coming equipped with little chromium-plated magnets which, attached to the bottom are attracted to the tub, thus holding the wet curtain away from the body. And to cap it all, the new bathtubs come snugly covered in overcoats of scuffproof, acidproof and waterproof material so that they cannot be damaged in delivery. After installation, the overcoat peels off and there is the new tub, sparkling and clean without a scratch.
Indeed, the revolutionary spirit of change will be knocking at everyone's door this spring.


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New objects shown at South By Southwest Interactive will be shiny whether or not the sun comes out in Austin, Texas.
My message to marketers: beware.
I'm not anti-innovation. Quite the contrary, in fact. I'm in tech as much for the unknown as the known. But let's concentrate on the known for a minute. The estimated 30,000 going to Austin are not the norm (in more ways than one). We seemingly all carry iPhones and Macs, and many of us check in on Foursquare.
The norm is likely your brand's target — about half of U.S. mobile subscribers don't yet carry a smartphone, much less line up to buy a Mac. Their idea of a check-in involves questions of smoking versus non-smoking, a room away from the elevator, and the time the buffet opens in the morning.
What we saw at the Austin Convention Center and environs last year were early-adopter models, ones that caused a ripple on Twitter but not so much on Main Street.
The geo-location startups came into a marketplace that today shows only 30 million global users of leader Foursquare (for perspective, there are well over 300 million mobile subscribers in the United States alone and more than 6 billion worldwide).
So what is a brand manager to do? The smartest ones are relying on a mix of products and services that aren't necessarily aimed at early adopters. Ford employs a variety of mobile strategies and tactics, including a text call to action in traditional media that produced a 15.4 percent lead conversion. An influencer on Twitter described the program as "meat and potatoes." As a CMO who hasn't touched beef in decades, I'll dine on "meat and potatoes" all day and all night for such lead success.
We'll certainly again hear lots this year about the mobile wallet. There surely will be hype around near field communication. But cash gone by Tuesday? Ummm, no.
So what should we do in Austin? Live. Learn. But don't jump in blindly, sunshine or not.
(article first appeared at http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/blog/2013/03/06/beware-of-shiny-objects-at-...)


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Taylor Swift's Grammy Revenge: Why She Sang 'Mean'
Not only did Taylor Swift win two Grammy awards last night, she performed her single 'Mean' flawlessly. Take that, critics!
When Taylor Swift took the Grammy stage with Stevie Nicks two years ago, she choked and butchered her harmonies, leading critics to question her talent. One music business blogger in particular, Bob Lefsetz, even claimed the then 20-year-old country crooner "ruined" her career with the performance.
"Now, everyone knows that Taylor Swift can't sing," he wrote in the scathing critique.
"Taylor's too young and dumb to understand the mistake she made. And those surrounding her are addicted to cash and are afraid to tell her no. But last night Taylor Swift SHOULD have auto-tuned. To save her career."
Following that hurtful review, it is widely believed Taylor, now 22, penned her single, "Mean," which talks about "words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me" and says, "All you are is mean — and a liar and pathetic and alone in life."
In the song, Taylor also talks about her bully saying "[she] can't sing" and flip flopping sides (Bob had once praised her talent) — so it's very fitting she would sing "Mean" at her first Grammy performance since her failed duet.
At first I speculated Tay would sing "Safe & Sound," her new song with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games, but was gleefully surprised when "Mean" started playing. Not only is Taylor talented, but she always gets her revenge one way or the other and makes her enemy look stupid.
The business savvy singer performed "Mean" flawlessly, complete with a cool set, choreography and pitch pitch perfect vocals, in addition to winning two awards for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song. Ha!
Bob Lefsetz, I hope you were watching the show at home on your TV and wishing you could take back your words from two years ago. See…all you are is mean.
What did YOU think of Taylor's performance last night? Did she get her revenge?
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Application forms
More and more employers use application forms rather than requesting applicants to send CVs with covering letters.
This is not always good news for the job hunter, as application forms take longer to write and it's harder to stand out with a form than with a well-crafted CV. But it is possible, and coming across well on an application form is a skill that's likely to prove invaluable at some point in your career.
Here are a few tips:
Answer the questions
Take time to study the guidelines and make sure you cover the points they ask for. It can be easy to go off at a tangent and it will bring you no benefit at all, so be careful.
Shout a little louder
The anonymity of an application form means you need to do more to stand out. So highlight your achievements and qualities with a little more boldness than you would on a CV (but be careful to stick to the truth!).
Keep a copy
Most application forms ask for the same basic information, such as academic qualification, employment and work experience history and referees' contact details. Keep an old application on your computer and you can copy and paste at will.
The Physicist's Guide to Application Forms (member sign in required) features in-depth advice on application forms, including tips on common mistakes and ways to make a good impression. To request a hard copy or large print version of this booklet, email email@example.com.
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Have CentOS 6.2. I'm trying to install Audacity, and I'm getting package problems. The Audacity webpage says I need the wxWidgets library, which I think I've installed correctly (./configure, make, and make install seemed to go through ok.) I also think I've installed the libsndfile library correctly.
- Is wxWidgets the same as wxGTK?
- Why does the Audacity install (using yum) still seem to think I need the packages, if the installs appear to have gone through correctly?
- Is there a nicer way to do this? I want to do something like type "Install Audacity", and some package manager finds all required packages and installs them automatically. I do not want to have to hunt down a raft of packages to install a simple program!


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Ireland manager Joe Kernan has described the standard of refereeing in this morning's second International Rules test as 'diabolical'.
The Armagh man shone a light on the performance of referees Maurice Deegan (Laois) and Matt Stevic (Australia) in his post-match interview and to say he wasn't impressed is something of an understatement!
"I thought the refereeing was diabolical," he told The Irish Independent.
"Michael Murphy was tortured all day. He was being dragged all over the place and never got a free.
"I don't mind a man being targeted if he gets cover. There was no cover for him today."
The 2002 All-Ireland winning manager continued: "And Aidan O'Shea got a forearm smash right in front of the dug-out.
"It should have been a straight red but it wasn't even ticked."Tweet


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Some nicknames are obvious. Take the forlorn overgrown parcel at the corner of routes 250 and 240 just east of Crozet. An ambitious dreamer once planned a restaurant called Café No Problem where a gutted eyesore now stands.
But in 1995, that dreamer, Richard Cooper, was shut down by Albemarle County, and Café No Problem quickly evolved into Café Big Problem, both literally and figuratively.
Nearly three years later, when the county finally approved his site plan, Cooper no longer had the money to start a restaurant. The property went on the market in September 1998, where it languished off and on until July 8, 2004, when Five Guys Burgers and Fries partners Bill McKechnie and Melton McGuire, trading as Mechum's Trestle LLC, bought the derelict site for $275,000.
Although their plan was to build someone's dream restaurant on the site, today– more than two years after their purchase– the wind is still whistling through the wall-less framework. The tattered structure stands at the confluence not only of two major roads but also of Lickinghole Creek, Mechum's River, and an elevated railroad bridge. And now another dreamer has stepped forward to take on the challenge of what some might call Café Big Problem.
That would be local real estate agent Stu Rifkin, who thinks his restaurant creds will spell success where so many others have failed.
"I move in those circles," says Rifkin, who created West Main's noted Northern Exposure and recently bought the Nook. "Sometimes you need a facilitator."
Rifkin is trying to find tenants for the LLC, which will build to suit. And it doesn't have to be a restaurant.
"I'm just doing the leasing," says Rifkin, "whether it's a veterinarian's office, a dental practice, or a restaurant." He points out that Crozet is a growth area so "lots of people" need convenient services.
Rifkin says the $60,000 a year rent is a pretty good deal for a 4,000-square-foot facility built to order in a prime location. "That's a lot cheaper," he claims, "than if someone built it themselves."
Better yet, the landlords guarantee the septic will work, a worry previous owners faced in the early 1990s, when Ridge Restaurant discovered the septic field had washed away, and waste was going into Lickinghole Creek. Eventually, the Board of Supervisors granted a rare exception and allowed the building to hook up to the main sewer line, the Crozet Interceptor.
"The perception is that the site's wacky," Rifkin acknowledges. But he doesn't foresee a tenant having any of the problems that bedeviled prior owners. "We have every reason to believe the county will approve something on the current footprint," Rifkin says. "We know what they'll accept."
For decades, the site was a diner called Pop and Ethel's, and for much of the 1980s, it was the home of an upscale French restaurant called Galerie. The county has long desired a more welcoming structure on such a visually prominent site than the current skeletal wreck, which last had walls 12 years ago in January.
Former owner Cooper, reached in Jamaica, sees no reason why someone can't succeed at that site. "It's just a matter of everything aligning to make it go through," he says, "and I think everything is aligned."
No problem.


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Two women were killed tonight when a motor vehicle crashed along the border of Lyons and Forest View Saturday, authorities said.
The crash involved one vehicle, which fell at least 50 feet from Harlem Avenue in Lyons to Canal Bank Drive in Forest View, according to the Lyons Fire Department.
The Cook County medical examiner's office identified the two victims as Michelle Miranda, 37, no home address available, and Sandra Frankum, 36, no home address available.
The Illinois State Police are assisting in the investigation but referred questions to the Lyons Police Department, which did not immediately respond to requests for information.


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"AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL" � (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)
"The Girl Who Goes Bald" (TV-PG, L)
MAKEOVER MADNESS! � Tyra gives the girls a sneak peak at their makeovers at a Beverly Hills salon. Most of the models get dramatic makeovers, but one is driven to the breaking point when she has to cut off all her hair. Later, the girls participate in a runway challenge and "pose-off" in a jungle photo shoot. The judges send one model home. The special guests are make-up artist Kristen Barker, Cover Girl representative Brent Poer and photographer Lionel Duluy (#904).


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In the D3 and D4 year, students have internal rotations in pediatric dentistry and oral surgery, where they learn the clinical techniques specific to these disciplines, in a setting that optimizes patient care as well as student learning. External rotations in specialty clinics outside the dental school, such as hospital dentistry, provide experiences that help students understand how oral care is provided in other practice settings and to learn how to work effectively with dental specialists and other healthcare professionals.
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1/2 day rotations in Implant, Oral Hygiene Instructions, Instrument Sharpening, CPR, MiDent Training, Motivational Interviewing and Pathways training
D4 Rotations
|Oral Surgery
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BigDye™ terminators are proprietary dideoxynucleotide conjugates of energy transfer dyes, which are optimized for excitation using single light sources, and provide spectrally separable emissions. The energy transfer dyes are molecules in which a fluorescein is coupled through a patented linker with a dichlororhodamine dye. Light is absorbed by the fluorescein and energy transferred to the second dye, giving rise to longer wavelength emission.
Our BigDye terminators are available for inclusion in your kit as ready-made, one-tube mixtures containing four distinct fluorescent dideoxynucleotide conjugates, a sequencing enzyme, a balanced mixture of unlabeled nucleotides, and an optimized reaction buffer. These terminators are generally used in combination with cycle sequencing for high-sensitivity detection and sequencing of low-abundance targets. Ask us about reaction mixes that are optimized for reading through difficult regions, such as AT- or GT-rich sequences.
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is also an ideal platform for DNA fragment analysis. Choose CE when fragments vary in length by only a few nucleotides, when varying numbers of repeat sequences are present in a fragment, or when multiple fragments of varying length are analyzed simultaneously in the same sample. CE is the nucleic acid detection platform of choice when size matters. A major application of this technology is human identity analysis. We provide a series of fluorescent dye labels for use in this application, all of which were designed to be spectrally distinct from one another, and which migrate uniformly and efficiently in an electric field. Our fluorescent dye labels (FAM™, PET®, TET™, HEX™, NED™, TAMRA™, and ROX™ dyes) are available as oligonucleotide conjugates, for resale in kits, or for use in commercial services, for human diagnostics, and other applications.
These fluorescent dye labels can also be used for primer-based DNA sequencing or for other primer extension–based applications, and are available as stand-alone oligonucleotide conjugates or in combination with other reaction components as desired.
Fluorescent Size Ladders
To simplify your assay development process, we can also provide your company with size ladders, which are DNA fragments of varying length labeled with the fluorescent dye of your choice. These ladders are designed for use in combination with CE, and are available with the same fluorescent dye label used in your kit for your test sample or for your internal control. Please ask about our off-the-shelf solutions as well as our capability for custom development and custom manufacture.
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In addition to standard dideoxy sequencing, we also have developed and can provide access to a broad portfolio of tools for use in combination with next-generation sequencing platforms. These tools include magnetic particles, microspheres, fluorescent dyes, their conjugates, and antifade reagents, enzymes , oligonucleotides, and others. We can help you choose the best reagent for each step in your sequencing process, from sample preparation through detection.
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Boom Shankar's classic Guru Pants are back for this Autumn/Winter season in awesome new colours and prints! These 100% cotton best sellers can be worn with just about anything! For the cooler months team with boots and as the weather warms pair with sandals or flats, they will take you right through the seasons! The loose leg makes them comfy yet super stylish and they look amazing no matter your size or shape! A true must have and a real Boom Shankar signature piece!
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James Brokenshire has taken over as the UK's security and counter-terrorism minister following the resignation of Baroness Neville-Jones on Monday.
Brokenshire, a former banker and Conservative MP since 2005, was previously parliamentary under secretary for crime reduction before receiving his promotion this week. The crime reduction brief has been handed over to Baroness Angela Browning, who joins the Home Office as minister for crime prevention and anti-social behaviour reduction.
This brief includes responsibility for the drugs strategy, licensing and football safety. Baroness Browning inherits Baroness Neville-Jones role as chief spokesman for the Home Office in the House of Lords.
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Donald Coxeter's father was Harold Coxeter (born London about 1878) who was a gas manufacturer and his mother was Lucy Coxeter (born Lincoln about 1872) who was a painter.
Donald was educated at the University of Cambridge, receiving his B.A. in 1929. He continued to study for a doctorate at Cambridge under H F Baker, and this was awarded in 1931. He then became a Fellow continuing his researches at Cambridge. During this period he spent two years as a research visitor at Princeton University working under Veblen. He was Rockefeller Fellow during 1932-33 and Procter Fellow during 1934-35.
In 1936 Coxeter took up an appointment at the University of Toronto. He remained on the faculty at Toronto until his death. A celebration was held in the department in 1996 to celebrate his 60 years at the University of Toronto.
Coxeter's work was mainly in geometry. In particular he made contributions of major importance in the theory of polytopes, non-euclidean geometry, group theory and combinatorics.
Coxeter polytopes are the fundamental domains of discrete reflection groups, now called Coxeter groups, and they give rise to tesselations. In 1934 Coxeter classified all spherical and euclidean Coxeter groups.
His work was motivated by the beauty of mathematics. Robert Moody, proposing Coxeter for an honorary degree from York University in Toronto, said:-
Modern science is often driven by fads and fashions, and mathematics is no exception. Coxeter's style, I would say, is singularly unfashionable. He is guided, I think, almost completely by a profound sense of what is beautiful.York was not the only university to honour Coxeter. He received nine honorary doctorates and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Among his most famous geometry books are The real projective plane (1955), Introduction to geometry (1961), Regular polytopes (1963), Non-euclidean geometry (1965) and, written jointly with S L Greitzer, Geometry revisited (1967). He also published a famous work on group presentations, which was written jointly with his first doctoral student W O J Moser, Generators and relations for discrete groups.
His 12 books and 167 published articles cover more than mathematical research. Coxeter met Escher in 1954 and the two became lifelong friends. Another friend, R Buckminister Fuller, used Coxeter's ideas in his architecture. In 1938 Coxeter revised and updated Rouse Ball's Mathematical recreations and essays, a book which Rouse Ball first published in 1892.
Coxeter had many artistic gifts, particularly in music. In fact before he became a mathematician he wanted to become a composer. However his interest in symmetry took him towards mathematics and into a career which he loved throughout has life. Coxeter wrote:-
I am extremely fortunate for being paid for what I would have done anyway.He attributed his long life to vegetarianism, a regular regime of exercise that saw him do 50 push-ups a day at the age of 89, and, perhaps most importantly, as he related himself
I am never bored.Allow me [EFR] a personal note:-
A colleague and I visited Donald in Toronto in the 1970s and I will always remember his office full of mathematical models. I remember the extreme kindness and wonderful hospitality of Donald and his Dutch wife Rien. When I said I had never had pumpkin pie before, Donald vanished into the kitchen and staggered back with a huge pumpkin which his frail figure hardly looked able to carry.In 1997 Coxeter was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. This is the highest of the three levels of honours that Canada makes.
He taught me how to write a mathematics paper. He was a craftsman at constructing a paper, counting the symbols to make sure that formulas did not break across a line.
When Donald visited me and a colleague in St Andrews we took him a walk down the pier at the harbour. He insisted, much to our trepidation, on climbing an insecure rusty ladder at the end of the pier. He was certainly not as frail as he looked!
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"I can't believe I have my sunglasses on," said Susan Travis, as she opened the ceremony Friday night for the Relay for Life event held at Shelby County High School.
The rain, that had fallen earlier that day, made the field too wet and campsites were moved to the SCHS back parking lot.
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The Miao Lab is currently focused on the development of gene therapy strategies for treating genetic diseases and immunomodulation protocols to overcome immune responses following gene or protein replacement therapy. Two prominant gene therapy model systems were investigated: hemophilia and primary immunodeficiency disease (PIDD).
1. Nonviral gene delivery for hemophilia.
The study from our lab is the first to demonstrate that phenotypic correction in hemophilia A and hemophilia B mouse models can be achieved by nonviral naked DNA delivery.
I. Ultrasound-mediated gene delivery. We have demonstrated that nonviral gene transfer of factor IX plasmid into the liver achieved long-term and therapeutic-level gene expression, leading to a complete phenotypic correction in hemophilia B mice by a hydrodynamic-based method. Liver-directed gene transfer of naked factor VIII plasmid also produced high-level factor VIII expression. In order to develop a clinically feasible method, we recently showed that ultrasound can significantly enhance gene transfer of naked plasmid in the presence of microbubbles (MBs, contrast agents). The enhancement was associated with the significant increase of cellular DNA entry induced by an ultrasound/MBs-mediated cavitation effect. We continue to optimize and modify different ultrasound parameters as well as develop targeted and more effective MBs for ultrasound-facilitated gene delivery to achieve the greatest enhancement with our collaborators at Applied Physics Laboratory of University of Washington. Next step will be to test this gene delivery method in larger animal models including rats and dogs.
II. Cell permeable peptides (cpps) and receptor-mediated gene delivery. We have previously screened various cell permeable peptides (cpps) for in vivo gene delivery efficiency. Although this peptide-mediated gene delivery is less efficient than hydrodynamics-based gene delivery, this method is much safer. We are also in the process of combining the carrier-DNA complexes with ultrasound-mediated gene delivery to further enhance the gene transfer efficacy. Furthermore, with our collaborators, we have developed a factor IX variant with much higher specific activity. By incorporating this factor IX variant into our liver-specific gene expression cassette in the nonviral vector, it is anticipated that therapeutic levels of factor IX may be achieved by the combined approach.
2. Drug and cell immunotherapy for modulating immune responses following replacement therapy.
The development of inhibitory antibodies is a major complication following protein replacement therapy for hemophilia. Approximately 30percent of hemophilia A patients developed inhibitory antibodies against FVIII after repeated infusions of protein concentrates. This problem is also predicted to occur following gene therapy treatment. Our laboratory is taking several approaches to combat this problem.
I. Monoclonal antibody therapy. We have previously shown that nonviral gene transfer of a liver-specific FVIII plasmid produced persistent, supra-physiological/therapeutic levels of FVIII in immunodeficient mice using a hydrodynamics-based delivery method. However, robust FVIII-specific immune responses occurred in immunocompetent hemophilia A mice and eliminated functional FVIII two weeks following gene transfer. This murine model permitted us to evaluate effective immunosuppressive regimens in combination with nonviral gene therapy to achieve a long-term therapeutic effect. Our previous studies showed that compared to non-specific immunosuppressive agents including rapamycin (RAP), cyclosporine A (CSA), cyclophosphamide, and Mycophenylate mofetil (MMF), monoclonoal antibody (mAb) therapies were demonstrated to be safer and more effective to prevent antibody response in plasmid-treated animals. Effective regimens include a combination of CTLA4-Ig and anti-murine CD40 ligand mAb (MR1) or single agent anti- inducible costimulator (ICOS) or T cell depleting anti-CD3e antibody. Persistent expression of therapeutic levels of FVIII (50-150percent) was achieved, indicating the establishment of long term tolerance to FVIII. Among these, modulation regimen by anti-ICOS is closely associated with the early depletion of CD4+ T cells and production of regulatory T cells (Tregs) following treatment. We are in the process of studying the mechanisms of tolerance induction by different regimens.
II. Regulatory T cell therapy. It has recently been demonstrated that CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells play a critical role in the regulation and suppression of autoimmune and alloimmune responses. Our preliminary data showed that an adoptive transfer of transgenic CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells significantly reduced anti-FVIII antibody titers in FVIII plasmid-treated HemA mice. We are currently devising strategies to induce and expand FVIII-specific Tregs from FVIII-specific T responder cells and test if adoptive transfer of these cells will effectively prevent the formation of inhibitory antibodies in the recipient animals following plasmid challenge or repeated infusions of FVIII protein.
III. Combination of drug and cell immunotherapy. In order to modulate pre-existing anti-FVIII antibodies, we plan to further improve and/or combine drug and cell therapy. The goal is to eliminate pre-existing anti-FVIII antibodies and induce long-term tolerance to FVIII.
3. Lentiviral gene therapy for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome.
We have developed several lentiviral-WASp plasmids by incorporating either retroviral MND promoter or endogenous WASp promoter and several strong enhancer/LCR elements to restrict enhancer/promoter activity to appropriate cells. In addition, a defined insulator element was incorporated into these vectors to reduce the occurrence of promoter silencing and the risk of enhancer mediated mutagenesis events. The expression profile of pan-hematopoietic and lineage-specific vectors are being compared in human cell lines representative of the lymphoid (B, T, NK), megakaryocytic, myeloid, and erythroid lineages. Furthermore, vectors (with and without flanking insulators)-mediated WAS expression and rescue of WAS dependent function will be compared in transformed human T-cell lines and primary T cell populations.
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I had the opportunity to attend the recent swearing-in of Lancaster County Council members. As it is the first time that County Council will have a Republican majority, it was a historic moment.
While I was encouraged by the general show of unity among council members, I was disappointed to see Council-member Charlene
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The Edge Brackets system is easy to install and once installed no tools are needed to remove your saddlebags. Edge Brackets are installed by removing the two bolts from your fenders and replacing the two OEM bolts with the Ghost Bracket bolts and hardware which are called "keepers". The Edge Brackets are then bolted on to your saddlebag and simply slide right on to the keepers.
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Albert Fromenteau, an artist from Liège who sometimes used the pseudonyms "Afrom" or "Alef", started his illustrating career in 1938 by creating two painting books. During World War II, he worked for the publisher Charles Gordinne (Chagor), where he illustrated various comics and books for children. From 1941, he produced stories with characters like 'Hercule Petit-Pois', 'Boulou', the cat 'Romuald' and 'Pouss-Pouss', which he mostly signed with Alef.
During the same period, he was contacted by Paul Nagant to work at the C.B.A. animation studios, where Eddy Paape worked with Jacques Eggermont at the time. Fromenteau accepted and made a comic adaptation of one of the studios animation films, 'Un Mauvais Rêve de Bobino', published by Fromenteau's publisher Gordinne. Nagant wanted Gordinne to finance his animation projects, and showed the publisher some samples of an American animation film, and pretended it was produced by his studios. Disgusted by this deceit, Fromenteau promply ended his collaboration with CBA and returned to Gordinne.
Gordinne offered him to begin an animation studios of his own. There, Fromenteau produced cartoons featuring the fox 'Wrill'. Wrill subsequently got its own magazine, published by Gordinne from 1945. For this periodical, Fromenteau made comic adaptations of his 'Wrill' cartoons, as well as some other stories like 'Pouss-Pouss' and 'Cric et Croc'. In 1946, Fromenteau cancelled his animation activities and in the following year, he began a collaboration with another new magazines published by Gordinne, Cap'taine Sabord. For this magazine, Fromenteau made new stories with 'Wrill' as well as 'Cric et Floc'. In the late 1940s, Albert Fromenteau also quit his comic activities and returned to work in the field of communication.


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Hundreds of Kenyan youths who converted from Christianity to Islam—and then went to fight alongside jihadists in neighboring Somalia—are returning to their home churches. But these prodigal sons are not being welcomed back with fully open arms.
Instead, pastors are on high alert—with good reason. Al Shabab, an al-Qaeda affiliated militia, has begun using young men from predominantly Christian ethnic groups to attack churches.
In November, an assailant hurled a grenade into a church located inside a police station, killing the pastor. In September, assailants threw grenades into a children's Sunday school class, killing a 9-year-old boy. In July, similar grenade attacks at two churches killed 17 worshipers.
Last October, Kenyan military forces entered Somalia to engage Al Shabab. The militia responded with a recruitment drive of Kenyan youth, offering cash incentives for the families of would-be martyrs.
"[Jihadists] have changed their recruitment tactics," said Wellington Mutiso, head of Evangelical Alliance of Kenya. "Instead of enlisting from predominantly Muslim communities such as the Somali, Boran, and others, they are targeting those from tribes that are majority Christians, such as the Kikuyus, Luos, and Luhyas."
Mutiso believes this is "an act of disguise," given that security forces have been concentrating on suspects from Muslim communities. "With the new recruits, the security forces have been left in a spin."
Jihadists have an easier time recruiting within Christian communities today because of Kenya's high unemployment rate (40 percent) and widespread poverty.
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