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Australian scientists are warning that the planet is nearing a tipping point beyond which polar melting will be irreversible in some areas, triggering a rise in sea levels of metres.
John Church, a marine scientist at the Australian CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, told news agency Reuters: "Observations are at the very upper edge of the projections [in the IPCC report published in February]. I feel we are uncomfortably close to the threshold."
He argues that ice-sheet melting in Greenland and parts of Antarctica is close to being irreversible, and that warming in the Antarctic peninsula is happening faster than anywhere else on Earth.
In 2002, a 500 billion tonne iceberg - about the size of Luxembourg - broke off from the Larsen ice shelf. While this scale of break up has not been repeated yet, the reduction in the ice around the continent is making it possible for glaciers to flow into the sea much faster.
Elsewhere, the glaciers are actually retreating. One thousand kilometres to the north of the Antarctic continent, glaciers at Heard Island are in massive retreat.
And while western Antarctica has always been regarded as particularly vulnerable, new data from the much colder and higher eastern parts of the continent shows that the Tottenham Glacier's height has fallen by 10 metres over the last 16 years.
Church notes that the last time the planet was as warm as it is expected to be by the end of this century, sea levels were between four and six metres higher than they are today. The ice sheets of western Antarctica hold enough water to account for roughly that kind of sea level rise.
Meanwhile, about 100 million people live within a metre of today's sea level. Steve Rintoul, Church's colleague at CSIRO, told Reuters "Those people will need to go somewhere." ®
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New pterosaur species discovered at fossil colony in Brazil
Huge flying reptile had striking sail-like crest
Scientists announced on Wednesday the remarkable discovery of about 50 fossilized skeletons of a creature called Caiuajara dobruskii, a type of flying reptile known as a pterosaur that lived alongside the dinosaurs, at a site in southern Brazil.
These pterosaurs, whose wingspans measured up to nearly 2.35 meters, inhabited a lakeside oasis in a large desert region during the Cretaceous Period, living in vibrant colonies with others of the same species of all ages, they said.
"This helps us to have a glimpse on the anatomical variation achieved by this species from young to old," said Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist with Brazil's National Museum at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who led the study.
Many pterosaurs, especially the later ones, boasted elaborate and sometimes large head crests. Caiuajara's head was topped with a big triangular crest that looked like "a bony sail," according to Kellner. "It looks bizarre," he said.
Both sexes had crest
There is no indication that the crest was limited to either males or females, but it appears to have become ever larger relative to the rest of the body as the pterosaur matured.
"The size of the crest was small in young animals and very large in older ones," Kellner added.
Pterosaurs were Earth's first flying vertebrates, with birds and bats making their appearances much later. They thrived from about 220 million years ago to 65 million years ago, when they were wiped out by the asteroid that also doomed the dinosaurs.
The researchers described 47 skeletons in their study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE and said they have identified 10 more not described in the paper. They said this species lived about 80 to 90 million years ago.
Caiuajara was toothless and most likely a fruit eater, Kellner said. The skeletons of the juveniles strongly suggested they could fly at a very young age, Kellner added.
Knowledge about pterosaurs has been spotty, with their fragile skeletons not lending themselves well to fossilization. The sheer number of Caiuajara individuals discovered and their variety of ages have made it one of the best understood pterosaurs ever found, the researchers said.
Chinese scientists in June said they had unearthed no fewer than 40 adult individuals of another newly identified pterosaur species as well as five pterosaur eggs — very rare indeed — preserved beautifully in three dimensions.
No eggs of Caiuajara have been found at the site in Brazil. "Not yet. But one is allowed to dream, correct?" said Kellner.

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Founded in 1997 by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, Netflix is a U.S.-based provider of on-demand streaming media. Netflix started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999. It also offers flat-rate DVD-by-mail in the United States.
In March 2011, Netflix announced plans to acquire original content for its streaming service. Netflix also maintains exclusive deals with movie studios, including Relativity Media, DreamWorks Animation, Open Road Films, The Weinstein Company, Pixar and others.
In January 2013, Netflix signed an agreement with Time Warner subsidiaries Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros. Television to distribute content from Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and Adult Swim.


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- Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add shallots and garlic, and sauté for 2-3 minutes.
- Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to boil and cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and oil.
- Reduce skillet heat to medium and add wine. Cook until wine is reduced by half, 3-4 minutes, and then add scallops. Sauté until cooked through, about 5-6 minutes. Add basil and tomatoes, and sauté another 1-2 minutes.
- Reduce heat to low and add spinach to skillet. Stir until just wilted, 1-2 minutes, and then season with salt and pepper. Mix with the drained pasta and serve.


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Great-grandmother Irene McBride received a rapturous reception from 30,000 fellow fans at White Hart Lane before her team smashed Bournemouth 3-0 last week.
Having first watched from the stands in 1927, Irene has seen her club through hard-times and good. Her great-grandson, Julian Stringle, 54, accompanied his great-grandmother to the match and said they had a "fantastic day".He said: "It was just a great day. We sat in the front row of the East-Upper Stand and at half time they invited us onto the pitch and presented my nan with a shirt. "It was fantastic.


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At one time, visually recording a maintenance task for later use (e.g., training) was hardly worth the effort. It required using a film camera, getting the film developed, and then getting people into a room to watch the film. But today, you can make a decent recording with an inexpensive digital video recorder (DVR). Or even a smartphone. And you can make the recording available to anyone with an MP3 player or browser. Especially with the younger generation of electricians and maintenance techs, a how-to video helps people understand what the maintenance task entails and how to do it right.
Training tends to grow stale over time. People forget some important details, and then begin altering the procedures. To prevent this, it used to be necessary to put people through classes they'd already taken. But now you can cycle individuals through refresher self-training modules that include watching video clips of maintenance being performed. Be sure to edit or record in a way that highlights what's important, so viewers don't get mired in mundane detail.


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For over 25 years, Unitronics has been a global leader in developing and manufacturing PLCs with onboard HMIs. They were pioneers of this market, being one of the first companies to bridge the gap between PLC and HMI; forever changing industrial control processes.
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I think in this day and age with all the technology we have, umpires would not get away with being bias towards one team. I think if anything an Australian umpire would act a little bias towards England because he'd be scared of being acused of being bias.
I say a contest between the no.1 and 2 test nations in the world should be officiated by the 2 best umpires in the world regardless of their nationality.
I have no problem with the 2009 Ashes series (or this series for that matter) being officiated by 2 English umpiries if they are deemed to be the two best umpires in the world.


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I've been remiss in adding links – places I go for my WoW reading.
THE reference for shadowpriest play is ShadowPriest.com . Like all forums there's good and bad, but more of the former than the latter and all specifically for the dark side. I'm still looking for an equally good site for the light side.
As for individuals' websites, I've come to like two priest sites. For the light side there's Cayleigh's at priestpower.blogspot.com . And as balance, but with WAAY to few posts, I'll reference BRK's friend the Diet Coke of Evil (still snickering about that name) at [deleted]. They've friends of their own who I read rather regularly, but since they're neither priests nor playmates, I'll just let you get there from the two I've referenced. [4 Sep 2007 removed DCoE's link. She changed her site to "invited only". I'm uncomfortable giving a public link to someone who wants more privacy. If she goes public again I'll undoubtedly link her again. ]


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Steve Hanks
An artist could not create art with such an endearing reflection of the beauty of this world unless they themselves burned bright with a passion, sensitivity and embrace of life. One look at his art will tell you that Steve Hanks was a truly gorgeous man, his brush telling tales of the whispering caress of light. In the art he created, we bore witness to the passage of the tides of life -
An artist could not create art with such an endearing reflection of the beauty of this world unless they themselves burned bright with a passion, sensitivity and embrace of life. One look at his art will tell you that Steve Hanks was a truly gorgeous man, his brush telling tales of the whispering caress of light. In the art he created, we bore witness to the passage of the tides of life - family, love, heartache, and healing. With each image he created, we were drawn further into the human drama—What are these subjects thinking. What are they feeling. Everything he painted was rich and multidimensional. His figurative paintings, combined with their titles and layered images, rewarded viewers who looked beyond a surface glance. Light and shadow conveyed comfort or indecision. An ocean hinted at the expanse of life; a river, a transition; a lake, a place of serenity and stillness. Highways and train stations represented points of transition. The simple location of a woman on a stairway between a door and the sidewalk told the tale of how far she traveled on her journey of emotional healing.
"Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction. It starts with a re-evaluation of your own life, from a search for the source of the impulses and the mystery of it all," said Hanks, whose limited edition fine art prints are immensely popular across the country, marking him as one of the top selling artists in the United States. "I think of myself as an emotional realist. Emotion is what I want to portray. Realism is just my way of doing it."
And no one did it better. The detail, color and realism of Hanks' paintings are unheard of in this difficult medium - A softly worn patterned quilt, the play of light on the thin veil of surf on sand, or the delicate expression of a child. Hanks captured these nuances of life better than anyone. His astonishing realism came from a skillful control of washes, edges and layers, and his intimate knowledge of the properties of water and pigment. "Now I understand how to gain control by letting go," he explained in his 2006 book, Moving On. "I just want to be part of the ride."
At its core, Hanks' art is about the simple beauty in life - the innocent divinity of infants and children, the maternal link between mother and child, the aesthetic beauty of the female form, cast in light and shadow, in stillness and in dance. Each composition serves the emotion Hank sets out to paint, the mysterious air a woman glancing downward, the confidence conveyed in the upward tilt of a chin, the delightful abandon of a girl's spiraling limbs on a beach, the determined conviction of young woman's steady gaze at the wide horizon ahead of her. The deeper the emotional landscape of his subject that he wanted to express, the vaguer the location. The complete expression of the figure was his way of saying, "This is where you are in the world."
But Hanks' paintings are much more than realistic images of women and children. Rather than conveying a specific message through his paintings, he prefers to explore memories and emotions. "My paintings speak to the vulnerability that we all feel from time to time. They evoke nostalgia, transporting us back in time," he said. "All art is an escape to somewhere you want to be or a feeling you want to have. People see different things in my paintings because we all have different backgrounds and feelings."
His highly collected nudes convey an introspective solitude that invites viewers to reflect on the life path we follow. The emotional impact of these detailed, photorealistic paintings lucidly captures his nuanced appreciation for this particular subject matter - "Women occupy a special niche in my sensitivity. They express more storytelling ability. There's more magic in them," he explained. Whatever his subject—children, families, women, nudes, landscapes, water, textile patterns—the paintings are also about light, shadow and emotion. They each reveal a personal challenge, pain, or joy of the artist.
Although known for his enormous artistic ability, Hanks' main interest while growing up in Southern California was sports. As a young teenager, he pursued surfing and tennis with passion. He eventually tired of competitive tennis but continued to surf, finding a spiritual connection with the ocean, a connection that stayed with him his entire life. "Surfing had a strong influence on my paintings," he said. Though he lived most of his life in landlocked Albuquerque, his heart was forever near water as evidence by his art. Contemplative figures were sometimes painted near shimmering lakes and rivers but the Pacific Ocean is where both pure joy and the complications of relationships played out in his art... "The ocean often appears in my work, because I have such strong feelings for it... It was good for the soul to be out in the water—surfing, swimming, or simply getting in touch with its mysterious power."
While it was apparent early on that he had talent, his art career didn't blossom until the age of sixteen when his parents moved the family from Southern California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In California, he had been very active in sports. Devastated by the move, Hanks spent much of a year in his room listening to music and drawing posters for music groups. Hanks remained rebellious, refusing to do the required assignments in his high school art class, earning a "C" in the course. "To prove I was good, I did a one-man show at the high school and sold my first painting to another art teacher," he says.
After high school graduation, Hanks "jumped in the car and went back to California," enrolling in summer session commercial art courses at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. "The only way I could convince my parents to let me go was to say I was going into commercial art," he said. "I didn't even know what that was." He did well in his classes, but it was a life drawing class that captured his interest. He focused his energy on the study of anatomy and figure drawing, transferring into the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, eventually graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Initially, he drew in pencil and painted in oils. His paintings were impressionistic, while his drawings were more realistic. However, an allergic reaction to oils forced him to experiment with watercolors. Using the techniques learned from other media, he found he could create watercolors as "finished" as oils.
Following college, Hanks took a job as a caretaker at a Campfire Girl's camp near Cuba, New Mexico in 1976. The pay was minimal, but the rent was free, and all during the winter months his time was his own. For the next four-and-a-half years, Hanks focused on his art, experimenting with different media—watercolor, pencil, acrylics—and honing his craft. "If I hadn't spent so much time perfecting my drawing skills," he comments, "I would not be the painter I am today." His first romantic piece, "Daisies and Lace", was a harbinger of his developing style—it featured a lacy dress and a serene sunlit setting.
As a result, a unique talent gave birth to his genius through hard work. Few artists could duplicate the emotional depth Hanks achieved in his spectacular watercolors. Each painting was meticulously drawn with great attention to detail, each watercolors reflecting a moment in time. The viewer's reward was a grand interconnectedness with the artists' favorite moments, which reflect the our experiences as well, a style that Hanks called "emotional realism." He often leaves the faces of his figures obscured or turned away, not only to leave the face to the imagination of the viewer but also to allow the entire image to express the emotion. Backlighting is also a signature element of his style - "Sunlight has become one of my favorite subjects. I'm fascinated by how it filters through things, how it floods a whole room with color. Often my paintings are really more about sunlight than anything else."
Jurors, galleries and collectors have long recognized Hanks' formidable talents, considering him the preeminent artist working in the technically exacting domain of realistic watercolor painting and justly rewarding him with many accolades. Hanks won the Arts for the Parks Marine Art Award of Excellence in 1990 and 1994, and has been one of the Arts for the Parks top 100 artists since 1989. In 1991, Hanks received the National Watercolor Society Merit Award and the National Academy of Western Art awarded him the Gold Medal in 1992. Since 1993, he has been one of U.S. Art Magazine's top ten American artists. When the Pacific Rim show in Seattle, WA decided to open the show up to a wider variety of art in 1999, they selected Steve as Artist of the Year. Steve was one of five winners selected to the U.S. Art Hall of Fame 2000. He was named as one of the top 25 selling artists in the June, 2002 issue of Decor magazine. The 7th Annual Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children chose Steve as their Feature Artist in 2002.
In the fall of 2014, Hanks painted a rare self-portrait in his studio. It is both layered and complicated, befitting its subject. In the painting, there are reflections of reflections, and he includes the tools of his trade and the studio artifacts that surround him. The life model, perched on the artist's chair, studies her portrait on the easel. The tumbling quilt and her leg convey the tall verticality of the painting, yet the horizontal portrait and the framed art on the wall keep the eye focused on the center of the painting. The artist has stepped away from the easel and is framed in the circular mirror. Viewers are left to wonder, "what is he studying. The model, the painting, life. In the mirror, above his head to the right, is the leading edge of a surfboard and below that, another mirror and within that, the reflection of the artist in the circular mirror and so on.
"Steve Hanks was a man driven by private passions," wrote a colleague in the introduction to The Art of Steve Hanks - Poised Between Heartbeats. "He never painted to sell, but only to survive and follow his star. Each painting is a momentary glimpse through the moving curtain that hides the secrets of his craft. Each painting is a mystery that needs to be sorted out and unraveled." These words suggest something of the complexity that was Steve Hanks. A product of the turbulent sixties, his artistic vision began with hard-edged caricatures, moved through the artistic fads of the day, and, finally, to a quiet, curious celebration of the world around him.
"I've tried to be responsible and put positive images out into the world... I hope that my work brings comfort, pleasure and insight into people's lives," explained Hanks, who resided with his wife, Laura, in Albuquerque, New Mexico where they raised their three children who were often portrayed in his art. "I want my whole body of work to tell a story when I'm gone," he said. "It will tell the story of my life emotionally."
Hanks passed away in 2015 from complications of treatment for cancer.
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GOOD GOD, NYC is SOO HOT. I was told that it was nice and cool out here. IT IS A LIE. A LIE FROM THE DEVIL. The worst thing is that all I've packed this week are jackets....jackets and coats and layers. I'm gonna die. On the flip side, NYFW day 1 was very fun and eventful. It loved meeting everyone! If you see me on the streets, say hi!


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Finger Millet and Whole Wheat Bread
April 10, 2011
The experimentation with millets continues. Today I made a bread of 1/4 Finger Millet and 3/4 whole wheat with fresh yeast.
I baked two loaves, one in the round and the other a standard loaf shape.The round one rises better in the pan and is softer.
Home made bread is so head and shoulders above commercial bread and actually worth eating !
Here is the recipe I used:
3 1/2 cups whole wheat
1 cup Timbaktu Organic Finger millet flour
2 cups warm water
34 gms fresh compressed yeast.( equivalent to 2 packets dried yeast)
1 tbsp brown sugar
1/3 cup Timbaktu Organic Peanut oil
2 tsps salt
1/2 cup brown sugar.
Dissolve 1 tablespoon of the brwon sugar in the warm water and then dissolve the yeast in it. Let stand for a few minutes. Now add the oil to the water.
In a bowl mix 3 cups of the the wheat flour ,1 cup of the finger millet flour, the salt and sugar. Slowly add the water and yeast mixture and gather up into a ball of dough. Knead for 15 minutes by hand, slowly adding additional flour if required till the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
Let the dough stand to rise in an oiled bowl. Turn once after oiling. Cover and keep in a warm place for an hour or till doubled in bulk. Punch down and divide trhe dough into two. Roll out one half into a long rectangle and roll up into a 3" x 8 " loaf turning the ends under. .Make the other half into a round. Place both into oiled tins and cover. Let rise till doubled in bulk for 1 hour.
Bake in preheated oven (200 C) for 15 minutes. reduce heat to 175C and continue to bake for half an hour more.
Remove from oven and tip out on racks to cool.
It taste yummy with a bit of butter and a slice of cheese.
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The 5770 is, in general, an odd prospect right now. On the one hand, you get functionality that supports DX11 and its suite of goodies, such as hardware tessellation and improved multi-threading support.
However, as the first mid-ranger with true DX11 capability, we have to remind ourselves that it's just that: a mid-range card. The extra features offered by DX11 require a resource overhead, and when you add in anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, that's an awful lot for a sub £150 card to do.
The HIS HD 5770 offers features close to the best of the 5770s, with two DVI ports, DisplayPort and HDMI-out. And like most 5770s, it's a double-width card. Its ATI-reference looks are fairly sleek, providing you're into the red-and-black thing, and it features a bonnet that KITT would be jealous of.
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Has this article been subbed by the same person that lets "calliper" (sic) through?
Forza's cyclocross Cirrus Pro CS Cantilever brakes are really very very good cantilever brakes, stiff and powerful, probably the best I've tried.
Check to see they fit your bike first though. As I'll explain in detail below, I had issues on some bikes, and not others. Having said that, when they do fit, they are good, so we'll ignore that detail for now.
If you don't mind the fiddly set up, and the brakes actually line up with your bike and wheel rim combination these Forzas are a good buy.
Forza, or 4ZA, to confuse you, are the components arm of Ridley bikes. Previously only available on the Belgian bikes Forza parts are now available for everyone to use.
Hidden among their bars, stems, wheels and saddles the Cirrus Pro CS is their cyclo-cross cantilever brake and you'd hope that as Ridley know their way round a cyclo-cross course they'd make a decent CX brake. They do, mostly.
Setting up the Cirrus Pro is fiddly, as is almost traditional with cyclo-cross brakes. To fit these to your bike you'll need a 10mm spanner, a Phillips screwdriver and 2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm and 5mm Allen keys.
If you're used to old-fashioned cantilevers and have The Knack this won't be a problem, you'll probably even enjoy fiddling with the brakes to reach your favourite feel. Less experienced mechanics and ham-fisted fettlers might get frustrated and want to look elsewhere.
One nice touch though is that the end barrels of the straddle wire that slot into the brake arms aren't circular like some similarly styled cantilever brakes, but are a 10mm hexagon shape instead, perfect for holding firm with that 10mm spanner while you tighten the straddle wire bolt, making that job a fair bit easier with the circular barrels of other brakes. The barrel on the other end has an in-line cable adjuster allowing for a certain amount of brake cable adjustment without reaching for those tools again.
There are two slots in the rear of each brake arm to pop the spring into for a modicum of tension adjustment. With no other independent spring fine-tuning available, centering the brakes is done by shifting the straddle yoke from side to side and tightening the 2.5mm bolts to keep it in place.
Brake pads are standard road pads so it's easy enough to get replacements and the shoes are mounted on conical washers for perfect alignment to the rim, or to get a bit of toe-in if needed.
Continuing with the fiddly set up them there was a bit of an issue with the front brake in that the pad wouldn't hit the rim. Bit of a major design flaw there.
Despite the brake arm having plenty of up/down adjustment for a brake pad at just over 15mm, the slot doesn't sit low enough on the brake so even with the brake pad rammed as low as it would go it was still sitting too high and hitting the tyre and not the rim. Ah. Hmmmm.
A result of Forza parts having to only fit Ridley bikes up til now and not having to deal with the multitude of differences in the rest of the world's bikes?
Anyway after a bit of a panic and then a bit of chin rubbing with a cup of tea and a bit of swapping the washers round in the brake-pad post, the brake pad managed to hit the rim. It was still a tight squeeze, mind you. What was that about these brakes suiting tinkerers?
The Forza cantis were bolted onto two other cross bikes that were kicking around and they fitted just fine - it just seemed to be a problem on the bike with the brake posts set inboard.
All of that is a bit of a shame because the Cirrus Pro CS is a really very very good cantilever brake. With stoutly constructed aluminium arms angled somewhere between a traditional wide stance CX cantilever and a more modern in-board design they feel reassuringly solid and stiff, giving smooth and consistent braking with good modulation. Even at white-knuckled clamping on the brake lever levels there's no fade or flex. They're also tight on the brake posts and there hasn't been a hint of squeal, chatter or rattle from them.
A very good cantilever brake, but fitting it is not for the fainthearted - and you'd better check they will fit your particular bike first
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
Make and model: Forza Cirrus Pro CS Cantilever brake
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Forza don't say too much actually, merely mentioning the improved mechanical ratio for superb braking power, ease of setting the brake pads to the correct toe-in angle and obtaining the perfect brake setup with barrel adjuster.
I can't argue with any of that, they're great brakes, although they don't mention the design flaw that means they might not work with your bike.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Aluminium arms, optimised mechanical ratio brake adjuster, angle adjustable brake pads, straddle wire and yoke included.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
For a set of cantilevers they were incredibly good - tight, solid and powerful. Make sure they fit with your bike first though.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Fiddly set up, lovely feel and great stopping power.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Fiddly set up, potential schoolboy error brake/rim alignment issues on some bikes.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes. Once they'd checked to see if they worked with their bike.
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
I usually ride: It varies as to the season. My best bike is: The one I\'m on at the time
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, cyclo cross, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Fun
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Has this article been subbed by the same person that lets "calliper" (sic) through?
yolk is wrong, yes. bit stretchy for the job
calliper [sic] is the correct british spelling of that word so far as we're aware; certainly either is an acceptable spelling.


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Swipe right to display later hours.
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I put this on FTA on FB as well: I have one extra ticket each for the Frank Turner show with Jason Isbell in Phoenix on September 19 at The Van Buren and the Frank Turner DJ set after party at Valley Bar. In the spirit of the FT community, I'd like to give them (no cost) to someone who otherwise couldn't go. Let me know!
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With the deadline looming for Bowman Properties development at 8200 Germantown Ave., the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee deferred voting and scheduled another meeting on Wednesday night, Dec. 7.
The LUPZ will meet an hour before the Dec. 7 special meeting of the Development Review Committee, and, if necessary, hear additional presentations from Bowman and the negotiating subcommittee. Both the LUPZ and DRC want to have recommendations formulated in time for a specially scheduled Dec. 12 meeting of the CHCA board, which is intended to preempt City Council's vote on legislation to change the zoning of the site and the direction of traffic on Hartwell Lane.
At Thursday night's LUPZ meeting, approximately 60 residents filled the meeting room of Chestnut Hill Hospital to discuss the project. Bowman Properties Managing Partner Richard Snowden presented an amended site plan that featured a five-story building, one less townhouse along Shawnee Street, increased landscaping on the parameters of the site, improved circulation in the parking lot, and additional parking under the Germantown Avenue condominiums.
While the changes were the result of ongoing negotiations between the CHCA sub-committee for the project and Bowman Properties, the group still was not able to offer a formal recommendation.
Joyce Lenhardt, who co-chairs the sub-committee said the negotiations continue.
"Without a formal recommendation from the subcommittee it's hard to decide," said LUPZ co-chair Cynthia Brey.
Bowman's architect Richard Gelbart, project manager Seth Shapiro and lawyer Matt McClure presented the amended plans and fielded questions from neighbors. One neighbor, Ben Brown, said he felt the renderings were deceptive. The angle, he said, made it look as though the large retail project was no larger than the neighboring Cat Clinic, a veterinarian practice located in an old, single-family home on Germantown Avenue.
Shapiro responded by explaining that several perspectives were included in the presentation to provide context from multiple angles.
While neighbors continued to question the scale and scope of the project, some said they were worried that the Community Association process was taking too long and could potentially threaten the project's existence.
McClure explained that their urgency was to pass the rezoning through the current city council – a new council would mean starting over, which could set the project back months. In addition, he added that they had a tenant, Fresh Market, who could walk away if the project were delayed much longer.
"We have a lease," McClure said. "If the tenant walks, then the project is dead."
He added that construction wouldn't begin immediately after receiving an ordinance from City Council. Part of the agreement between Bowman and the Community Association includes a provision for a design review before construction can begin.
LUPZ committee co-chair John Landis emphasized that while the sub-committee was still working, progress has been made and there continues to be a fair amount of give and take.
"Can we settle this in two weeks?" Landis said. "We're going to give it a try."
At one point Brey asked McClure what Bowman would do if the CHCA rejected the proposal. "We're still going to ask City Council to approve the rezoning," McClure said.
He emphasized that it's no different from any other project, and that council could deny the request without support from the CHCA.


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A lightened version of this classic dessert served with frozen yogurt.
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It was another wild day in the grains this time heading lower. For corn it is pretty amazing how well it has held its trading range over the last 3 weeks staying right at the 200 day moving average. Leading into this report it is expected that we won't see much more movement unless there is some massive liquidation from MF Positions that are getting transferred without the total funds (at least that was the rumor today).
Near the grain close the CME Group petitioned the USDA to request that the November 9th Supply and Demand report to get pushed back until Monday the 14th to allow time for all the positions/money to be transferred adequately. This is very unprecedented and we will update you with any fresh news to their response. As of right now the report will still be held on Wednesday November 9th.
Our report estimates are listed in the spreadsheet below. We still think that the market may be overestimating demand, and underestimating supply for corn. We are still going with a 41.5 soybean yield which would be unchanged from the latest USDA report. With such a large world wheat stocks number we expect it will continue to weigh on feed grain prices, especially the most expensive one-US corn. If you have extra bushels to sell before the report, it may not be a bad idea to lock some more in while the basis is decent for many areas.
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AILA Doc. No. 99042159 | Dated April 15, 1999
April 15, 1999Attorney General Janet Reno
Dear Attorney General Reno:
The American Immigration Lawyers Association urges you to take immediate action in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision (on March 8, 1999) declining review of lower court decisions which diverged from your opinion in Matter of Soriano. We urge you to:
As you know, the American Immigration Lawyers Association is a voluntary association of nearly 6,000 attorneys and law professors practicing and teaching in the field of immigration law. We are committed to the fair and humane interpretation and application of immigration law and policy. We believe that principles of fairness require you to revisit the Soriano decision at this moment.
The recent Supreme Court action declining review leaves vulnerable long-time lawful permanent residents in confusion and subjects them to disparate treatment, depending solely on the circumstance of their place of residence. This is an undesirable and unfair result that requires your immediate action.
Two years have passed since the Attorney General opinion in Matter of Soriano. Your decision in that case held, in contradiction to the position taken by the Board of Immigration Appeals, that Section 440(d) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) must be applied fully retroactively.
However, subsequent to your decision in Soriano, the Supreme Court decided Lindh v. Murphy, 117 S.Ct. 2059 (1997), a case involving the retroactive application of another section of AEDPA. This case provided important guidance in determining the scope and reach of new statutes such as AEDPA.
In Lindh, the Supreme Court held that adjudicators must first determine Congressional intent regarding the temporal reach of a new statute by using traditional rules of statutory construction. In Lindh specifically, the Court held that Congress did not intend for the provision to be applied to pre-Act events and therefore, the Court did not need to reach the question of whether the provision had genuine retroactive effect.
Three courts of appeals have followed Lindh and have rejected your conclusion as to the temporal scope of section 440(d). Sandoval v. Reno, -- F.3d --, 1999 WL 31489 (3d Cir. 1999); Henderson v. INS, 157 F.3d 106 (2d Cir. 1998); Goncalves v. INS, 144 F.3d 110 (1st Cir. 1998). Furthermore, several district courts in these and in other circuits have rejected the holding in Soriano, e.g., Machado v. INS, 1999 WL 44340 (D. Mass. 1999); Farquahurir v. INS, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73 (D.N.J. 1999); Wallace v. Reno, 24 F. Supp. 3d 104, 114-15 (D. Mass. 1998); Perez v. Reno, 18 F. Supp. 2d 674 (W.D. Texas 1998); Lee v. Reno, 15 F. Supp. 2d 26 (D.D.C. 1998); Pak v. Reno, 8 F. Supp. 2d 1001 (N.D. Ohio 1998).
The Supreme Court action denying certiorari in Goncalves and Henderson means that different interpretations of the law are now being applied in different circuits. The hardship imposed by these circumstances on lawful permanent residents and their family members is harsh. Many are being held in detention while cases are pending. Many more live in fear that they will be detained and deported. Furthermore, Department of Justice personnel continue to argue the Soriano position and for full retroactive application of Section 440(d) of AEDPA in circuits that have not yet ruled on the matter. Clients, their families, their attorneys, and staff of the INS and EOIR are all operating in constant uncertainty about whether hearings will go forward or whether past hearing decisions will be honored.
It is clearly urgent that you act to end this uncertainty and adopt a uniform national rule that is consistent with Congress' intent not to apply retroactively section 440(d) of AEDPA.
AILA urges you to announce immediately that AEDPA section 440(d) should no longer be applied to deportation cases that were pending on April 24, 1996, the date of enactment of AEDPA. This is the holding of the Second Circuit in Henderson. This immediate action would not require a new analysis of the Soriano case. It would simply recognize that it is unfair and untenable for different interpretations to be applied in different circuits, where the result is that persons in certain circuits have access to potential relief, while those in other circuits in exactly the same circumstances do not.
Furthermore, the ability to seek relief before an immigration judge is no guarantee that relief will be granted. Individual case by case adjudications could and should go forward; the outcome will be determined by the equities in each individual case.
Once you have taken this immediate step, AILA further urges you to revisit your opinion in Soriano, apply the analysis in Lindh, and hold that AEDPA section 440(d) may not be applied to pre-Act conduct and convictions.
We are aware that the circuit courts have not reached this question. Several courts have, however, faced the question of whether section 440(d) can be applied in cases where the INS had not instituted proceedings prior to the enactment of Section 440(d). These courts have held against such retroactive reach of the statute. See Wallace v. Reno, 24 F. Supp. 3d 104, 114-15 (D. Mass. 1998); Mojica v. Reno, 970 F. Supp. 130 (E.D.N.Y. 1997).
We would be pleased to discuss these matters further in person, if you determine that would be helpful. We would also be more than willing to provide further detailed briefs on the issues we have raised. We look forward to your response and favorable action.
Jeanne A. Butterfield
Executive Director
cc: John Morton
James Castello
Paul Virtue
© 1999, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 99042159.
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There will be home runs and strikeouts, ninth-inning rallies and 9-0 blowouts on Friday. Before the day is over, long series will be swept and split, three-team trades will change the balance of power in leagues and Bryce Harper will be drafted a hundred times in a hundred family rooms and email threads. Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout will renew their quests for the American League pennant and the MVP award on dozens of kitchen tables and computer screens. And there will be dozens and dozens of first pitches, in the form of three dice being rolled and two opponents searching tiny type on blue-and-red cards to determine whether Austin Jackson worked a walk against Barry Zito, popped out meekly or forced a fielding chance for Brandon Crawford at shortstop.
Friday is opening day for Strat-o-Matic baseball, the day the 52-year old game company releases its player cards and software sets for the 2013 season. For tabletop managers across North America, it's the first chance to lay hands on the latest version of the game that spawned the fantasy sports phenomenon, laid the groundwork for the sports video game business and paved the way for sabermetrics and "Moneyball." For Strat-o-Matic loyalists, it's the start of baseball season, days before pitchers and catchers report for spring training, and it is so important that they will not wait for the cards to be shipped. Hundreds of Strat-o-Matic gamers will travel to Glen Head, N.Y., to fetch them straight from company headquarters.
And they won't let a little thing like a snowstorm stand between them and their game.
Neither Snow nor Sleet nor Sandy: Kevin Thomas has a tight itinerary. He will wake up at the crack of dawn on Friday in Wheaton, Ill., drive to O'Hare Airport, and take a direct flight to LaGuardia. He will probably be working his way from the airport to Strat-o-Matic headquarters as you read this: first the Q33 bus to Jackson Heights, then the E-train to the Long Island Railroad station in Jamaica, Queens. The LIRR will take him straight to the modest Glen Head location of the Strat-o-Matic company. Thomas will wait in line with other diehards, collect eight sets of shrink-wrapped cards, store them in a backpack and retrace his steps to Illinois on Friday evening.
Thomas plans to be in Glen Head, snowstorm or not. Getting in should be no problem; getting out (or around Long Island) could be tricky. Thomas is not too worried about getting stranded in New York. "I'm a diehard Rangers fan, so that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world," he said earlier in the week.
Marty Bender has a much shorter trip to collect his cards: just 30 minutes down the Long Island Expressway from Rego Park, N.Y. "It's a labor of love," he said, calling the trip "relaxing," even in bad weather and metro traffic. "Nothing is going to stop me, no matter what."
Tabletop gamers have been visiting Glen Head for decades. Before the Internet age, the pilgrimage was almost a necessity for the serious gamer. Strat-o-Matic was only available via mail order, or in a handful of hobby stores that were lackadaisical about stocking the board game. If you were part of a 10-team league and eager to start playing, the best thing to do was head straight to headquarters. As a bonus, you might meet game creator Hal Richman, as well as dozens of other hardcore enthusiasts from around the country. "It's a happening for them," Richman said of the gamers who queue up at his company's door every February.
Richman tells stories of a grandfather from Canada flying to New York just to retrieve cards for his grandson, another group of Canadian players who rented a hotel room to hold their league draft as quickly as possible after collecting their cards and a gamer from Houston who each year purchased several sets, delivered them to fellow diehards in Philadelphia and Detroit, then flew home.
The trip to Glen Head is no longer necessary, even for the hardcore gamers. Strat-o-Matic's computer game (not an EA Sports-style video game, but a digital version of the board game, cards and all, with some basic graphics) can be quickly downloaded, as can a book of player ratings that gives gamers every scrap of information they need to hold a draft. "The lines are not what they used to be, but the interest is as high as ever," Richman said.
Bad weather is also likely to keep some gamers away on Friday, though nothing stops opening day. Thomas flew into a snowstorm just three years ago; Strat-o-Matic employees kept in touch with him by phone, noting the conditions would not only slow his travel, but could delay the shipment of the cards themselves from the printer. "When I arrived, I saw the truck [from the printer] parked," Thomas said. A storm in the early 1990s also jeopardized opening day, but did not cancel it. "Even if you lived in New York, it was a hassle getting here. But 75 people still got here," Richman said. "It was shocking."
Thomas began playing Strat-o-Matic in 1973 but did not start flying to Glen Head until 2005. "I thought it would be something to do one time, to have the experience of traveling to Mecca," he said. "It evolved into this monster where my league is almost depending on me." Thomas' eight sets will be distributed among the members of his league, a few of whom have continuously played together for nearly 40 years. Thomas and his friends will draft in March and conduct a 135-game season that will run through October, players meeting weekly at each other's homes.
Bender has been making his shorter trip for 25 years. In the past, he strove to be first in line, a quest that led to some ridiculous extremes. One year, he and three friends arrived four hours before the company doors opened, on a 15-degree morning with 15 mile-per-hour winds. "It was brutal. We were like four stray dogs," he said. Strat-o-Matic employees took pity on them, let them in the building, and gave them their card sets on the QT.
Members of Bender's league faced a much bigger weather threat than opening day snow last year: Hurricane Sandy. One gamer lost power for a week and had to take in family members whose homes were flooded. Others found travel difficult because of flooded roads and gas shortages. Bender's league shortened its 120-game season but kept playing. "We play for the enjoyment, and we decided that when we could get back together, we would," he said. The gamer without power played over the telephone, his opponents accepting his die-roll results and card readings sight un-seen, honor among Strat lifers.
While Thomas flies back to Illinois (hopefully), Bender will meet his league partners as a pub in Forest Hills for their annual league dinner. "I will distribute the goods," he joked. Other gamers will arrive home, tear apart the perforated card sets, assemble teams and start playing. Many others will make do with the computer game for a few days. "You have levels of fanaticism," Richman said. "The greater fanatics will be here. The lesser fanatics have the ratings guide and the computer game until the cards come."
Count Thomas among the greater fanatics. He will bring an empty carry-on bag from Illinois to make sure that he does not have to check the cards as airline baggage. "I've never checked the bag, and I don't want to do it," he said. "The game means a lot to me, and these cards are gold."
How Hal Richman Changed the World. Last year's American League MVP debate rages on in Strat-o-Matic circles: Mike Trout or Miggy Cabrera?
The cards and their ratings shed some light on the issue. Trout has a "1" fielding rating at all three outfield positions. When the all-important "Fielding-X" chart is consulted, he can turn doubles and triples into outs. Cabrera, meanwhile, is a 4-e-14 at first and third base, meaning that some line drives become three-run-doubles at his expense, though as Bender notes, a 4-e-14 at the corners "isn't that bad."
Here is Bender again, who owns the rights to Cabrera in his keeper league, consulting the ratings guides before opening day: "As good as Miggy is, this really wasn't his best season. He has more on-base potential against left-handed pitching, but all of that power against right-handed pitching. So I can expect to see a lot of lefty relievers."
Most longtime Strat players talk and think this way. It is incorrect to say that they approach baseball like Moneyballers or sabermetricians; sabermetricans and Moneyballers approach baseball like Strat-o-Matic gamers. Thomas' league started as a high school club in 1973, with some of the teacher-moderators of that club still playing in his Illinois league. Bender was introduced to the game as a college student in the mid-1970s. "I ended up majoring in Strat-o-Matic," he said. "My BS is a Bachelor's of Strat."
Bill James was just starting to mimeograph the "Baseball Abstract" to a tiny audience in those days. Billy Beane was a young teenager (and tabletop gamer). Richman was the creator and owner of the company that produced the most respected sports simulation in America, a card game advertised in the corners of The Sporting News and found in the backs of toy stores that influenced the generation that changed baseball.
Richman began marketing Strat-o-Matic out of his basement in 1961. The game grew slowly until it was a small-but-established part of the sports landscape in the early 1970s. The game's realism and complexity expanded quickly in those early years, as Richman added error ratings and introduced the advanced version of the game, with left-and-right handed player splits, in 1971. In those days, Richman and his small staff had to do all of their research from box scores and play-by-play data, the same labor-intensive work that James was doing in the 1970s to introduce novel concepts to the baseball public: Left-right platoon splits were very real and very large, pitchers had as great or greater an impact on base stealing as catchers, and batting average was a pretty poor measure of player quality.
At a Strat-o-Matic event last year, Richman showed me a 1970s Gene Tenace card, one of the ones which legendarily inspired Beane and helped introduce the world to the importance of on-base percentage. In 1974, Tenace batted .211, but his 110 walks raised his on-base percentage to .367. Factor in 26 home runs and the ability to play catcher and other positions, and Tenace was a great player whose batting average only told a fraction of the story. "At that time, the guideline for being an outstanding player was batting average. These days, it's third or fourth," Richman said. "He was always looked down upon as an offensive player. He didn't have singles. So what?"
Strat-o-Matic has always appealed to a very stat-savvy segment of the baseball market. Richman's staff still does its own research to fine-tune things like fielding range and pitcher hold ratings. In addition to the 2012 season cards, the company launched a 1938 card set this season ("If you are a Yankees fan, you'll love it," Richman said), and software discs for the 1891 season and some Negro League seasons, meaning Josh Gibson, Jimmie Foxx and Kid Nichols are as almost as likely to see some playing time this weekend as Cabrera and Trout.
Because they love both baseball stats and baseball history, Strat-o-Matic gamers tend to be diplomatic about the Miggy-Trout debate. Bender would not speculate on which player he would select if he did not already own the rights to Cabrera. "You cannot deny the MVP to someone who wins the Triple Crown," Thomas said, adding that in a Strat draft, "I'd take Trout."
When pressed, Richman took a side. "Trout had everything. Cabrera is a great hitter, but a barely adequate fielder and a slow runner. It's a tough call, but I think Trout was MVP."
As for Richman's influence, Strat-o-Matic players do not mince words: He was as influential as James, Beane, and the other giants of sabermetrics and the "Moneyball" era, if not more so. "He belongs right up there along with the others," Bender said. The board game was also popular with Daniel Okrent and other pioneers of rotisserie-fantasy sports, some of the founding members of STATS, Inc., and some of the designers of the flashy video games against which Strat-o-Matic must now compete.
Richman does sometimes get acknowledgement from the greater baseball world. "I have had my name mentioned, which makes me proud. It's humbling to have made a contribution," he said. "Bill James was the one who really made the change. He was the motivator."
James was the most influential figure of the statistical revolution. It's just not clear who would ever have picked up a "Baseball Abstract" if they had not already picked up a deck of Strat-o-Matic cards.
Fun, Pride and One-Upmanship. Richman stopped playing his own game as the years went on. "It lost its hobby for me," he said. Still, he shepherded his game and company through troubled times. Tabletop gaming, always a niche market, took a huge hit from the video game market it helped inspire, then the rise of fantasy gaming, then the collapses of major hobby stores and toy chains.
Strat-o-Matic has evolved with the times. The company now offers an online mode that allows players to draft teams, set lineups and play nightly three-game series in just a few minutes. A Strat-o-Matic Express version of the game features scaled-down rules and all-star rosters to appeal to eight or nine-year old gamers. "It's a wonderful tool to learn about baseball, and a great math tool," Richman said. "They are working with numbers and dealing with probability, and they don't realize it."
"It's a bonding thing, for fathers and sons," he added.
Computer games and kids' games aside, the core Strat-o-Matic experience still centers on sitting across from an opponent for a few hours, rolling dice, checking charts and playing whole series in your imagination, especially as adult life brings not just snowstorms and hurricanes, but time commitments that keep friends from getting together and adults from simply playing. Strat-o-Matic players almost never play for money, the way fantasy players do, and their face-to-face time is not limited to a yearly draft. "We play for fun, for pride, for one-upmanship and for managerial capability," Thomas said. "These days, as we get older, it's important to just get together and play the game," added Bender.
For players with 40 years of devotion and a willingness to travel across the country in a snowstorm, it's not whether they win or lose that matters, just the chance to play the game. "We say it every year," Bender said. "This season will be our best season."
Kevin Thomas will be live Tweeting his Strat-o-Matic odyssey on Friday. Follow him @KTsGreyhounds .


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Lipscomb cross country teams had two of the program's best-ever showings at the 2011 NCAA South Regional, Saturday. The Lady Bisons were seventh in a field of 27 teams, while the men's team finished 13th out of 24 squads.
Florida State and Vanderbilt automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships on the women's side, while Florida State and Florida earned automatic bids among men's teams.
"Overall, we were happy with the finishes," said Lipscomb head coach Bill Taylor. "We're still young and need some more seasoning, but we're on the right track."
The Lipscomb women's team placed three runners in the top 50 overall, led by sophomore Tessa Hoefle. She finished 42nd with a 21:55.90s run in the six-kilometer event. She was the fourth runner from the Atlantic Sun across the line.
Joining her in the top 50 were freshman Minna Fields (45th, 21:58.60s) and senior Ashley Lehman (47th, 21:59.40s). Fields finished ninth among freshman to cap off a stellar first season with the Lady Bisons.
Rounding out the scoring for the Lipscomb women were sophomore Missy Dowd (68th, 22:17.30s) and freshman Maggie Lawrence (77th, 22:30.60s).
"We got out slow and got chewed up early," Taylor said. "We recovered and formed a nice pack through the middle. We earned a best-ever finish at Regionals, and it wasn't our best race. With more experience, we'll get better."
With two freshmen, two sophomores and a senior scoring for Lipscomb, the Bisons were among the youngest teams in the field. No team that finished ahead of the Lady Bisons relied on more athletes that were in their freshmen or sophomore seasons.
The men's team was led by junior Isaiah Greer. The Johnson City, Tenn. native finished 41st overall, and was fourth among A-Sun runners with a 32:33.30s mark in the 10K.
Junior Geoff Musick finished 53rd overall with a 32:59.70s mark.
Freshman Ryan Gadsey finished 72nd overall, and 13th among freshmen, with a 33:24.00s run.
"Isaiah, Geoff and Ryan ran very well," Taylor said. "Our finish matched our USTFCCCA ranking, so I was pleased with that. I know we can be better though."
Juniors Ashton Fisher (102nd, 33:57.60s) and Ben Wright (107th, 34:06.10s) rounded out the scoring for the Bisons in Tuscaloosa.
That wraps up the cross country season for Lipscomb. Lipscomb will send its track sprinters to the MTSU Christmas Invitational, Dec. 10. The full indoor track and field season for the Lady Bisons will begin Jan. 7 at TSU's Ed Temple Classic.
Check LipscombSports.com for all the Lipscomb cross country and track and field news, and be sure to like us on Facebook (Lipscomb-university XC-track).


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Cory Booker is all but certain to win the New Jersey special election for U.S. Senate.
But as polls show Republican rival Steve Lonegan tightening the race, Booker is getting an uncomfortable reminder that he will have to campaign hard to defend the seat just a year from now, when he'd be up for a full term.
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Booker faces a tough test of the truncated race against Lonegan on Friday, when the Newark mayor and the former Bogota mayor face off in their first debate. For Lonegan, it's a chance to test whether Booker has a glass jaw.
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For Booker, it's a chance to show he is engaged in the race, and not the celebrity candidate who's off giving donors attention out of state, as Booker has, during the waning days of the campaign. It's that sense of distance that has caused the race to close in recent days – so much so that Booker is underperforming Republican Gov. Chris Christie in a blue state.
Working in Booker's favor is the fact that the debate is on a Friday, in the middle of the day. It won't be widely broadcast, meaning most voters will learn about it from the media. It minimizes the potential impact of any gaffe or slip-up.
Still, Booker's team is aware the race has become more competitive. If he wins by a relatively close margin, it could be an invitation to other Republicans to try their hand at challenging him next year. At a minimum, it would take the sheen off a national brand that Booker has cultivated for years.
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"As long as he wins, he'll end up dealing with whatever [the] margin" is, said Monmouth County pollster Patrick Murray. "He's got a year to get over that, and it'll be a wakeup call to work harder next year. … If he doesn't win by a lot, I think most people are going to put the blame squarely on Cory Booker, and not on his advisers."
He added, "What we've always known about Cory Booker's popularity is it's broad but it's not deep."
Among New Jersey politicos, one thing is not in dispute: Booker has, by almost any measure, run a flawed race. And many people have all but forgotten that this is a special election for a seat that will be up again in Nov. 2014.
Unprepared for the abbreviated special election called by Christie after Sen. Frank Lautenberg died in June, Booker hastily assembled a team to help him during the split-field primary election.
He has become rather relaxed since that August vote, and has resumed traveling out of state frequently to raise money, a fact that Lonegan has made great hay of in radio ads. Booker has painted a portrait of a celebrity who prefers to boost himself on the national stage than to be around the voters of New Jersey, and the attacks have worked.
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