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FreeYourID made the following changes to its online Privacy Statement: Reorganized discussion of cookies for greater clarity in the reasons that FreeYourID uses them; modified language regarding collection and use of unidentified user visits to FreeYourID websites and use of cookies and other tracking technologies, such as in retargeted advertising; added more clarification regarding when and how we use cookies; provided better clarity regarding retention of personal information; indicated FreeYourID's EU/Swiss Safe Harbor certification; changed the company's address in two instances
Version 2.3 - Effective May 8, 2012
FreeYourID is committed to providing you with excellent service for all of our products and services. Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy practices for the entire FreeYourIDinc.com site and about special privacy practices related to our Safe Harbor Participation. This Privacy Statement is not applicable to any of our other privacy practices, including—without limitation—data collected from other FreeYourID sites (unless these sites direct the user to this Privacy Statement), FreeYourID.com (a website that is not controlled by FreeYourID, Inc.) or offline.
FreeYourID has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal, signifying that this Privacy Statement and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements, including transparency, accountability, and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. The TRUSTe program does not cover information that may be collected through downloadable software. TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Statement or practices, please . If you are not satisfied with our response you can also contact TRUSTe. In addition, if you have questions regarding this Privacy Statement, you can . Please specify "Privacy Statement" in the subject line of your email. You may also call us at .
FreeYourID adheres to the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Principles with respect to certain personal data that it receives about European Union residents in the course of providing certain services. Information about FreeYourID's participation in Safe Harbor can be found in the section below entitled "Safe Harbor Participation."
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Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We at FreeYourID are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of our subscribers and other visitors to our web site. You should be assured that we do not provide personal information about our customers or site visitors to vendors that are not involved in the provision of FreeYourID's services.
This Privacy Statement applies to the FreeYourIDinc.com site or any other site in which it is expressly displayed. Please note that our site contains links to other sites. FreeYourID is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites that do not include this Privacy Statement.
FreeYourID supports TRUSTe's comprehensive assurance process. In order to ensure compliance with its Privacy Program, TRUSTe monitors our site by conducting initial and periodic reviews and "seeding" (tracking unique identifiers in our site's database). TRUSTe also relies on online users to report violations of posted privacy statements or specific privacy concerns. If a TRUSTe participant is suspected of not conforming to the TRUSTe principles, TRUSTe will investigate the issue, which could result in penalties, additional audits, or revocation of the participant's right to use the TRUSTe trustmark. Extreme violations may even be escalated to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These enforcement measures are intended to provide some trusted assurances that you can rely on in this Privacy Statement. For more information on the TRUSTe assurance process, see TRUSTe's web site. If you feel that we are violating this Privacy Statement, please . Please specify "Privacy Statement" in the subject line of your email. You may also call us at . If you feel that we do not provide you with an appropriate response, you may file a report with TRUSTe.
There are a few ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information:
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We use "cookies" and other statistical and tracking technologies as described in this Section. A cookie is a piece of information that our web site sends to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. Other statistical and tracking technologies, such as web beacons, clear gifs, HTTP headers, also work in ways that collect information about your visit and use of FreeYourID's websites. We use these technologies in four ways:
To provide a service: A cookie may be used to provide you with a specific service. For instance, if you request our site to remember your login password or remember your profile in a response to a blog post, we deposit a cookie on your computer to facilitate that service. If you are logging into an access-controlled section of our site, we set a temporary session cookie to establish that you have been authenticated. The information contained in these cookies consists of random data that is used by the server to authenticate the browser requests to the server for that particular session. These cookies do not include any type of personally identifiable information. This bit of information is erased when you close your current browser window. If you choose not to accept a temporary cookie, you will not be able to navigate in these online applications.
We also use a cookie for when you visit our web site and request documentation or a response from us. When you are filling out a form, you may be given the option of having our Web site deliver a cookie to your local hard drive. You might choose to receive this type of cookie in order to save time in filling out forms and/or revisiting our web site. We only send this type of cookie to your browser when you have clicked on the box labeled "Please remember my information" or another box with an equivalent content when submitting information or communicating with us.
To facilitate website use: If a cookie is used, our web site will be able to remember information about your preferences and movement either until you exit your current browser window (if the cookie is temporary) or until you disable or delete the cookie. For instance, we may deposit a cookie to remember which of FreeYourID's regional websites you have selected to access. Many users prefer to use cookies in order to help them navigate a web site as seamlessly as possible. You should be aware that cookies are not able to "invade" your hard drive and return to the sender personal information from your computer. If you are accessing our services through one of our online applications our Web server may automatically send your browser a temporary cookie, which is used to help your browser navigate our site. The information contained in these temporary cookies is a direction value that lets our software determine which page to show when you hit the back button in your browser. This bit of information is erased when you close your current browser window.
To understand our visitors: When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics in aggregate about visitor behavior. We may monitor statistics and other data such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors come, which browsers people use and how they move about our website. We use this data about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us to understand our visitors' interests and improve the content and performance of our web site. If you come to our site from one of our business partners, our Web server may also send your browser a temporary cookie that reflects an origination code for that business partner. We use this information for statistical and marketing purposes.
We also use a cookie when we track traffic patterns on our site. Analysis of the collected information by our tracking technologies allows us to improve our web site and the user experience. In both instances of a persistent cookie, if you choose not to accept the cookie, you will still be able to use our web site. Even if you choose to receive this type of cookie, you can always set your browser to notify you when you receive any cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it in each situation in which one is sent. We may supplement this unidentified user data with other data to better understand our users. For instance, we may relate a user's IP address to the company to which it relates to better understand our visitors' interests.
To advertise: We may tailor our advertisements to certain users based on the unidentified user data and related information. Also, we may receive information on unidentified users' movements on other websites to tailor advertisements to them on our website and, likewise, provide unidentified user information to service providers, such as an ad agency, who places our advertisements on other websites to market to these users that visit them. You can opt out of this tracking by accessing the link below. You will need to invoke these opt-out procedures on each computer you use. If you opt out, you may still see FreeYourID advertisements on other websites you visit, but these ads are not user specific and are not placed because of your past website use. We will use commercially reasonable means not to set advertising cookies on the computers of users who appear to be located in the European Union and Switzerland at the time you access our website.
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We may use both temporary and permanent cookies based on the cookie's purpose. A permanent cookie remains on your system, although you can always delete or disable it through your browser preferences.
Third-party social media buttons displayed on our websites may record your IP address, browser type and language, access time and referring Web site addresses. When you are logged in to those social media sites, they also may link this collected information with your profile information on that site. We do not control these third party tracking technologies.
If you respond in a blog forum on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these blog forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. FreeYourID is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. You are also responsible for using these forums in a manner consistent with the Rules of Engagement or other terms and conditions set forth on the relevant forum site.
We assure you that the personal information we gather from you is used by us only as explained below.
A. Sending You Responses and Updates
We generally respond to any email questions, requests for product or service information, and other inquiries that we receive. We may also retain this correspondence to improve our products, services, and web site and for other disclosed purposes. Frequently we retain contact information so that we can send individuals updates or other important information about our services and products. Occasionally these updates or other important information may be sent out by third parties on our behalf. Please be assured that any third party who contacts you in this capacity has executed a confidentiality agreement with us that contains a provision ensuring the privacy and security of any transferred information and limits the third party's use of the shared information to sending updates or providing services on our behalf. Our subsidiary companies may also send you information about their services and products. In situations where you have supplied your information in connection with a question or request for information about a product or service offered by a FreeYourID business partner, we may also send the information you have supplied to the FreeYourID business partners that offer such products or services. Please be assured that these FreeYourID business partners have agreed to ensure the privacy and security of any transferred information and may only use the shared information to send you information about products or services about which you asked.
B. Facilitating the Support, Renewal, and Purchase of Our Products and Services
We may use the information you submit to contact you to discuss the support, renewal, and purchase of our products and services. We may provide our subsidiary companies with your information so that they may send you information about their services and products. We may also provide the information you have submitted to us to a FreeYourID subsidiary, business partner, or independent reseller (either within or outside the United States) so that the subsidiary, business partner, or independent reseller can contact you and facilitate the support, renewal, and purchase of FreeYourID products and services. You may receive a communication directly from one of our subsidiaries, business partners, or independent resellers. Please be assured that any subsidiary, business partner, or independent reseller who contacts you for one of these purposes has agreed to use the information we supply only in accordance with a confidentiality agreement. To find out the names and locations of the subsidiaries, business partners, and/or independent resellers to whom we have provided your information, please contact us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Statement.
C. Disclosure by Law and Protection of FreeYourID and Others
If we are required by law to disclose certain information to local, state, federal, national, or international government or law enforcement authorities, we will do so (for example, we may disclose the identity of purchasers of certain software products to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration, as required under the terms of our export licenses). We will also disclose information to third parties as necessary in order to comply with applicable laws and regulations. In addition, FreeYourID may share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud, or enforce or apply FreeYourID's agreements.
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In order to support security of the Internet, we are required to offer the WHOIS service with respect to the top-level domains (such as .com, .net, .tv, and .name) for which we are the registry. This service allows you or anyone else to determine the availability of domain names and the contact information for the registrar who registered a domain name on behalf of a registrant. In some instances, we are required to operate a "thick," or extensive, WHOIS service that typically contains the registrant's name, contact person's name, address, telephone number, email address, and/or IP address as provided to us by the registrar for the domain name. Via the WHOIS service, this information may be disclosed to unaffiliated third parties in order to determine the registrant or the registrar in case of (i) technical problems that might occur when accessing its domain; (ii) assisting law enforcement authorities in investigations, crime prevention, and matters of national security; (iii) helping to counter the infringement of third-party legal rights; and (iv) preventing fraud. However, FreeYourID publishes only that data necessary for the purposes described above or when the registrant has agreed to the publication.
E. Business Transitions
Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, FreeYourID decides to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize businesses or business units in some countries. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or the receipt of it from sellers. It is FreeYourID's practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions.
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From time to time, we may request information from customers via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this web site, and improving our customer service and product offerings.
From time to time, we notify our subscribers of new products, announcements, upgrades, and updates. If you would like to opt out of being notified, please contact us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Statement.
You can also change your preferences online. If you receive a marketing communication from our subsidiaries, business partners, or independent resellers, you should opt out with that entity directly. Please be aware that you may not opt out of receiving information regarding the security, initial use, expiration, product enhancement, or migration of our products or services.
We consider the protection of all personal information we receive from our web site visitors and subscribers as critical to our corporate mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any personal information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information. In order to try to minimize this risk, we encrypt all information that you submit in ordering one of our products or services using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Our security procedures are also subject to at least an annual SAS-70 Type II audit by an internationally recognized accounting firm.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at . We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
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If you use FreeYourID's "Email this page" feature to send one-time a copy of that page to someone else, your email address will appear as the sender of the email. Both your email address and the recipient's email address will not be used for any other purpose.
If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use our customers' personally identifiable information, then, with the prior written approval from TRUSTe, we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Statement and also on our home page.
Our mailing address is:
FreeYourID, Inc.
Attention: Customer Support
12061 Bluemont Way
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This Section of the Privacy Statement describes how FreeYourID, Inc., ("Verisign") handles personal data of representatives of certain customers from the European Union. Specifically, FreeYourID adheres to the US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor Privacy Principles (collectively "EU Safe Harbor") with respect to certain personally identifiable information that it receives from customers in the European Union, , European Economic Area and Switzerland (collectively "EU Personal Data"). FreeYourID has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view FreeYourID's certification, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Web site.
From its customers, FreeYourID may collect name, title, address, phone, fax, pager number, and other contact information for purposes of contacting customers as necessary or appropriate to provide or support its services. Where permitted by law, FreeYourID may also use this information to communicate regarding FreeYourID products or services, and disclose such data to subsidiaries, business partners and independent resellers of FreeYourID services for the same purposes.
With respect to any sharing of EU Personal Data for purposes of marketing FreeYourID products and services, FreeYourID will provide notice of choice where required and obtains promises from its subsidiaries, business partners, and resellers that such entities will use and disclose the EU Personal Data for purposes of marketing FreeYourID products and services only. Individuals may opt out of further disclosures of their EU Personal Data from FreeYourID to subsidiaries, business partners, and independent resellers, and further uses of their data by FreeYourID for marketing, by contacting FreeYourID. If you receive a marketing communication from one our subsidiaries, business partners, or independent resellers, you should opt out with that entity directly.
To the extent that in providing its services, FreeYourID collects passwords, user names, and other data from customer networks (excluding the customer contact data discussed above), it does so for the exclusive purposes of monitoring the customers' networks and systems, and otherwise performing the services to customers or complying with its legal obligations. At all times with respect to this data, FreeYourID acts as a mere "data processor" on behalf of its customers.
For information related to use of cookies and tracking technologies, see IV. USE OF COOKIES, OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND GATHERING OF STATISTICAL DATA above. If you access our website from a computer while in the U.S., know that you may receive a cookie that is allowable under U.S. law. You can delete this cookie using your web browser's privacy controls.
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If you have any questions about this EU Safe Harbor Privacy Statement, or if you would like to request access to EU Personal Data that FreeYourID may maintain about you, please contact us as follows:
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FreeYourID, Inc.
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Telephone: specify Safe Harbor)
Any questions regarding FreeYourID's EU Safe Harbor participation should first be directed to the FreeYourID contact above. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you may then contact TRUSTe for further information.


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A Tripel is a strong, spicy, golden beer developed at Belgian abbey breweries in the early twentieth century.
History of Tripel
The Westmalle abbey in Belgium, which had developed the first Dubbel in the 1860s, developed a new beer in 1934 that was even stronger, with a rich golden color. They initially named this their Superbier, but it was quickly renamed as a "tripel." As with the dubbel, the name and the style of beer quickly caught on in other abbey and, eventually, secular breweries in Belgium and beyond.
Brewing Tripel
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Competition Styles
Both the BJCP and the GABF recognize this style.
BJCP Style Guidelines
Belgian Tripel
GABF Style Listings
Belgian Style Tripel
|Tripels are often characterized by a complex, sometimes mild spicy character, but no clove-like phenolic flavor. Yeast-generated fruity banana esters are also common, but not necessary. These pale/light-colored ales may finish sweet, though any sweet finish should be light. The beer is characteristically medium bodied with a equalizing hop/malt balance. Traditional Belgian Tripels are often well attenuated and bottle conditioned beers aged for a long period may be very well attenuated. Brewing sugar may be used to lighten the perception of body. Its sweetness will come from very pale malts. There should not be character from any roasted or dark malts. Very low hop flavor is okay. Alcohol strength and flavor should be perceived as evident. Head retention is dense and mousse like. Chill haze is acceptable at low serving temperatures. Traditional Tripels are bottle conditioned and may exhibit slight yeast haze.

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text: Whether you are a prospective college student or a current undergraduate, this blog is for you. "What Can I Do With My Major?" will help you learn about college majors and what kind of careers you can pursue with them. You'll hear from Aggie alumni about their career paths, and we'll help you develop your own using our many academic programs.


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Bob Oatley's Rolex Sydney Hobart race record holder – and five time line honours winner – Wild Oats XI, today unveiled three significant additions to her armoury for this year's race, which starts on Boxing Day.
All three changes have been designed to improve Wild Oats XI's speed in light winds, and to provide an even better opportunity for her to break her race record time of 1 day, 18 hours, 40 mins, 10 seconds, which the 30-metre long supermaxi set in 2005.
The improvements have come as a consequence of the big boat missing line honours in last year's 628 nautical mile Hobart race by a mere three minutes after sailing for two days, 6 hours and 17 minutes.
Two of the changes have been made to the underwater configuration, and the third to Wild Oats XI's sail inventory.
Keel Winglets: The most interesting change underwater is to the keel where winglets have been added to the aft end of the yacht's 12-tonne lead ballast bulb. These are not dissimilar to the winglets seen on the wingtips of modern commercial jet aircraft.
At the same time, Wild Oats XI's winglets could be said to have a lineage which extends back to the 1983 America's Cup winner, Australia II, and her famous winged keel. Just as was the case with that yacht, and today's jet aircraft, Wild Oats XI's winglets have been designed to reduce drag by straightening out the flow of water coming off the trailing edge of the keel bulb: they minimise what are called tip vortices - speed-sapping turbulence in the form of small eddies. They have been designed by hydrodynamic and aerodynamic specialists, some of whom are involved with the latest America's Cup yachts.
Retractable Bow Centreboard: After watching his yacht miss line honours in the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart race, octogenarian Bob Oatley was convinced that one of the primary reasons for the yacht lacking speed in light winds was the drag caused by the two daggerboards which were fitted just prior to that race - and he was right.
After extensive testing back in Sydney, and three months of hull surgery, Wild Oats XI was relaunched carrying the same daggerboards, but with another retractable centreboard fitted on the centreline three metres aft of the bow. Mark Richards, the yacht's skipper, explained this modification: 'We weren't able to trial the two new daggerboards prior to the last Hobart race, so it was only during the race that we realised we had a speed problem in light winds.
When the yacht returned to Sydney we did a series of tests using extremely accurate GPS readings so we could analyse the yacht's performance, and that led to us designing a symmetrical and retractable centreboard to be fitted near the bow. We now use that centreboard when sailing upwind in winds of up to seven knots, then we go through a transition phase as the wind increases in strength to a point where the centreboard is eventually fully retracted and one of the two existing daggerboards is completely down. When sailing downwind all three appendages are retracted to reduce drag.'
Code Zero Headsail: If there was one thing missing in Wild Oats XI's sail arsenal last year it was the very latest and largest possible Code Zero light-weather headsail - but that will not be the case this year. Bob Oatley has had made especially for this year's race a headsail of gargantuan proportions - 535 square metres … larger than two tennis courts. It is so large that the foot (bottom) of the sail will extend from the tip of the bowsprit to a point that is three-quarters of the way along the deck of the 30-metre long yacht. The sail, from North Sails in Sydney, is made using the very latest technology. The ultra-lightweight 3DI fabric comprises carbon, aramid and Dyneema yarns.
Mark Richards, who has skippered Wild Oats XI to all five of her Rolex Sydney Hobart race victories, gave his overview on the changes to the yacht: 'Last year's line honours result confirmed that every second counts, even in a race over 628 nautical miles, so this year we have gone in search of where we can gain seconds as well as, possibly, hours.
'The winglets on the keel will make us just that little bit faster in all weather, and the new retractable centreboard will give us more speed in light winds, as will the huge Code Zero headsail. That sail is like replacing a rifle with a canon.
'As was all too evident for us last year, we can't control the weather, but we can go into the race knowing that we can do no more when it comes to having the fastest possible yacht, and that is the case this year. Thanks to Bob Oatley's commitment, Wild Oats XI has never been better prepared for a Rolex Sydney Hobart race. Now it's up to us - the crew - and the weather to decide the outcome.'
The critical nature of these improvements is seen in the fact that had Wild Oats XI been just one second per mile faster in last year's race she would have completed the course almost 11 minutes faster than she did - more than three times the difference between line honours and second place!
By Rob Mundle, Wild Oats XI media


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A couple of things: I want to shout amen and amen to a couple of post here earlier today. DougJ nailed it with his quote from Ron Brownstein — and even more so with his last line: "This is Jackie Robinson's country, not Pam Geller's." Fuck yeah.*
Bernard reminds us that the political reflex simply gets it wrong in the face of the immediate emotional pressure of tragedy. We're fighting folks who are fucked up already. If we transform ourselves into the defensive doppelganger to that offensive failure, we don't get safer; we get fucked up in our turn. (And yes, though it doesn't quite track in terms of sense, the sensibility of this poem is in my head as I write that line.)
And mistermix picks up on what I was going to write about in this post in re Lindsay Graham. I'll add just one thought. Speaking as a Boston guy, let me say that the last thing I want to do is honor this guy with anything like combatant status. He's not a warrior; he's got no soldier ethos or ethics. He's fucking murderer who takes down kids for … I don't know what. Soldiers fight folks who can fight back, at the orders of authority constructed in a legitimate chain of command. And yeah, I know that oversimplifies, and if the Brits had caught Adams and Jefferson and Washington they'd have dangled at the end of a rope as simple vandals and killers, but you get my drift. This murderous child is no more a soldier than is my cat, and has less moral capacity. He's a criminal, and I want him to face the full material and ceremonial weight of the law. Anything else in some measure validates a claim to some greater significance.
That was the bedrock of my loathing for the "War on Terror" and its apotheosis in the Iraq War, the first feeling experienced before any consideration of what a dumb idea it was or anything else. You don't elevate murderers to your level; they're criminals, and should be represented, pursued, and, when caught, treated as such. That Lindsay Graham hasn't figured this out yet shows nothing more than that he is hopelessly overmatched by the job he holds.
And now to the tone I want to bring to all this. I've been enjoying — no, revelling — in the face my town is putting on right now. Here's one example, via Boston.com:
It was clear amidst the chaos Friday which was the hometown coffee chain.
On block after block of the Boston's Financial District and Downtown Crossing, Starbucks shops went dark as the city locked down, spurred by a manhunt for the second marathon bombing suspect. Dunkin' Donuts stayed open.
Law enforcement asked the chain to keep some restaurants open in locked-down communities to provide hot coffee and food to police and other emergency workers, including in Watertown, the focus of the search for the bombing suspect. Dunkin' is providing its products to them for free.
"At the direction of authorities, select Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in the Boston area are open to take care of needs of law enforcement and first responders," spokeswoman Lindsay Harrington explained via email.
And here's another, from a brilliant blog post by Jim Dowd
Oh man, you screwed up, didn't you?
Yes, your little RadioShack experiment for evil hurt and killed some people and got you the attention you were obviously so desperately seeking. Point for you there, asshole. But I get the sense you really don't know what you've done here, do you? Are you from out of town? I have the strong sense that you are.
If that is the case, allow me tell you a little something about the city you screwed with. This town is not your run-of-the mill medium sized regional capital…
Do you have any idea what I'm talking about? This small city produced both Stephen J Gould and Whitey Bulger. This place gave us Leonard Nimoy and Mark Wahlberg. Southie and Cambridge. Brookline and Brockton. This place will kick the screaming piss out of you, come up with a cure for having the screaming piss kicked out of you, give it to you for free, then win a Nobel prize for it and then use the medallion to break your knuckles. See what I'm talking about?
Read the whole thing. Delicious. Righteous.
One more thing. I'm still thinking about my friends in my old place, trying to comfort their kids in the basement while bombs and guns were going off in earshot. I'm thinking about them while trying to figure out how to write something, anything even vaguely printable (a low bar in this day and age, I'll admit) in reaction to the deep thoughts of one Nate Bell, a Republican Arkansas state rep, who tweeted:
I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR 15 with a hi-capacity magazine.
Yo, Nate, you pathetic waste of carbon! Hey Nate, possessed of all the wit of my old pet rock!
Hey, Asshole! Call on me. I can answer…
And I do: None. No one. In Boston, we actually have enough sense to realize that all the armed men and women along the marathon route couldn't — and couldn't have been expected — to stop a murderer with a pressure cooker in a bag.
We recognize that when thugs take down a cop (armed) sitting in his car, that gun didn't help. And we know damn well, and are grateful, that we had some damn well trained and equipped first responders taking great personal risk to keep us safe from those thugs — and the last thing they needed was some idiot(s) with a rifle running around playing cowboy while they were on the job.
Oh — and we know too that the people most at risk from such a gun in the house are the folks who live in the house; that acts of vicious and inexplicable murder of strangers are rare — horrible, but uncommon — but suicides and accidents and domestic violence are much less so, and we'd like to keep the body count down in our neighborhoods thank you very much. And, by the way, that's what we do — as you'd know if you'd check out any gun violence map that correlates to states with even remotely reasonable gun control, you fatuous simulacrum of sentience.
In other words, you can hang on to your projected feelings of inadequacy in Arkansas. In Boston, we've got business to take care of.
Hell — I guess I'm rambling again. Time to stop. Night all. Thanks again for a great day on the threads.
*Y'all know that I have this habit of bowdlerizing my profanity. Take that as the measure of general pissed off-edness.
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7.32. ( MULTIPLE IPs - DMZ segments) - I have several EXTERNAL IP addresses that I want to PORTFW to several internal machines. How do I do this?
Though technically possible, DON'T do this with IP MASQ. There are far better solutions for this network design.
MASQ is a 1:Many NAT setup which is the incorrect tool to perform what you are looking for. You are looking for is either Many:Many NAT solution or a Briding setup.
NOTE: For users out there who are thinking about enabling multiple IP addresses on one internal NIC using "IP Alias" and then just PORTFWeding ALL of those ports (0-65535), and and finally use IPROUTE2 to maintain the proper source/destination IP pairs. This has been done SUCCESSFULLY on 2.0.x kernels and less successfully on 2.2.x kernels. Regardless of success, that isn't the proper way to do it, it's a total HACK, and it is not a supported MASQ configuration. Please, give IPTABLES on the 2.4.x kernels a serious look or to a much lesser extent, Section 7.30 IPROUTE2 look for 2.2.x kernels.
Anyway, for forwarding external IP address to internal hosts, you basically have three possibilites:
1. Route the external IPs (This does NOT involve IPMASQ at all but requires special WAN addressing and routing setup from your ISP): Internet -- Some public WAN -- Linux -- DMZ segment IP address Server PUBLIC IPs | +------ Internal net private IPs
2. 1:1 NAT (Most easily done via IPTABLES or with IPCHAINS and IPROUTE2 but still some protocols cannot deal with NAT) Internet -- Linux -- DMZ segment Server Private IPs natted to 1:1 PUBLIC IPs | +------ Internal net private IPs
3. Bridging or ProxyARP: The Bridging method is one of the more popular methods that many commercial firewalls do and it's very slick. Alternatively, you can use the ProxyARP method which works well without some of the complications (or benefits of bridging). With both solutions, all public IPs can transparently flow through the Linux server to the DMZ but via firewall inspection. Internet -- Linux -- DMZ segment Server PUBLIC IPs | +------ Internal net private IPs
Each of these solutions have pros and cons
Item #1: If you're lucky enough to have an ISP that will set this up for you (pretty rare), all you need to do is use basic 'route' commands to get this running. This is the most rebust solution and doesn't require any form of IPMASQ or NAT to work.
Item #2: 1:1 NAT isn't covered in this HOWTO yet but if you need a hand, just email me and I'll give you a hand.
Item #3: ProxyARP is pretty strait forward but only works in specific situations and only works with Ethernet networks. Bridging is more powerful but will probably require the re-compiling of the kernel and some advanced configuration. Ultimately, neither of these solutions are IPMASQ anymore and thus I can't help you set them up. Fortunately, there are other HOWTOs out there that cover this topic:
NOTE: If you have a bridged DSL or Cablemodem connection (not PPPoE), things are a little more difficult because your setup isn't routed. No worries though, check out the Bridge+Firewall Mini HOWTO and the Bridge+Firewall+DSL Mini HOWTO. These HOWTOs will teach you how to get your Linux box to support multiple IP addresses on a single interface!


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Lisa Brown: Ball Park Cell Tower Violates Land Use Code – August 3, 2012
Last Wednesday, July 25, the Arcata City Council voted 4–1 to direct staff to further discuss a proposal with Verizon Wireless to install a cellular tower at the site of most interest to the council, atop of the Arcata Ball Park light fixture closest to the Arcata Library. The council also directed staff to contact other cellular providers to explore the possibilities for co-location on the site and to then return to the council for further discussion.
I was one of about three people who showed up that night for the hearing, and the only one to speak out against the proposal. I was there because a friend who noticed that the proposal was on the agenda alerted me. I decided to attend to remind the council and staff that the site was prohibited under our Land Use Code due to its proximity to residences in the neighborhood. You see, the Telecommunications section of the Land Use Code prohibits the installation of cellular towers within 1,000 feet of residences.
I was unprepared for what happened that night and sat in the audience following public comment stunned to watch the majority of the council enthusiastically embrace the proposal and move it forward with staff's assistance.
Several years back I was involved with a community-working group responsible for augmenting the Telecommunications code for the City of Arcata. I became involved in the cellular tower issue years prior when a cell tower was proposed for the Arcata Bottom just west of the city limits of Arcata.
My interest in agricultural resources pulled me in to work with this group of citizens on the Arcata Bottom's western edge. We were successful in preventing the tower from being constructed on prime dairy land, adjacent to a residential neighborhood and within a geese migratory path through an appeal process that required lawyers and lots of research.
In that process, this group worked hard to learn all about appropriate cell tower placement and electromagnetic emissions from the towers and their affect on biological resources. Many of us regrouped years later to work on the code for the City with the assistance of then-Community Development Director Tom Conlon.
Key components of the code include appropriate zoning; encouragement of co-location; residential, school and historic district setbacks; and monitoring plan requirements for emissions of electromagnetic frequencies.
I was asked by the council following my public comment how the working group came upon the 1,000-foot setback and I did my best to explain that the setback was a compromised position intended to help the City find appropriate sites.
The code was designed to guide placement of telecommunications facilities to logical settings while facilitating a public process without controversy by maintaining appropriate setbacks and monitoring plans.
The 1,000-foot setback was the result of an investigation into numerous defensible codes and policies in progressive communities across the nation and world.
To reiterate, the code was intended to help the City find suitable sites for the co-location of telecommunications towers. This is contrary to the comment made by Larry Oetker, current director of Community Development, who suggested the code was designed to be prohibitive for cellular tower placement within the City of Arcata. This simply is not the case and is a highly irresponsible statement.
At the meeting on Wednesday, I learned that while the City's Community Development Department was aware of the 1,000-foot setback requirement, they were willing to suggest to the council that this non-negotiable setback could be circumvented under the Planned Development Permit process instead of using the Conditional Use Permit process intended for telecommunication facilities.
I was quite dismayed to see the council move towards further exploration of this idea with the intention of including multiple cell tower servers at the proposed site.
The Arcata Ball Park is an area that draws thousands of people of all ages to participate in all sorts of programs developed and supported by the City of Arcata and it's citizens.
Last year, the World Health Organization listed radio frequency microwave radiation as a possible carcinogen, now alongside lead and DDT. What would occur to this community hub, the Arcata Ball Park if, say, several years down the road cellular towers are determined to be proven areas of cancer clusters rather than just suspected?
What impact currently will a looming tower, concealed or not, have on participation in the City's recreational programs and sporting events? What about users of the library, or those who participate in city government at City Hall?
While many have personally discounted concerns of living or working under electromagnetic frequencies from cellular towers, the science is still out on this one. And for those who already have electromagnetic sensitivities, they don't have a choice.
Even the perception of possible health consequences related to exposure to electromagnetic frequencies from cellular towers is enough to deflate property values and alter human activity by avoidance of areas with cellular towers to help minimize exposures.
Placing a cellular tower in the central downtown business district close to residences, recreational, educational and governmental facilities is not sensible and was meant to be avoided by this responsibly designed code.
The 1,000-foot setback was meant to help and protect the city and its citizens. The Land Use Code was developed over years of diligent work on the part of consultants, staff, citizens and City committees, commissions and council. Several of the councilmembers were involved in this process including the approval of these policies and codes. The code went through a lengthy public hearing community process prior to being approved as a city directive. To suggest that the Planned Development process be utilized to circumvent all of this hard work and dedication is frustrating and should be challenged.
Lisa Brown is very interested in appropriate planning especially when it comes to agricultural land, historic resources and telecommunications towers.


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An ebay seller. The same one re-posted the listing after I bought it, so wasn't sure if it was real or not but it came today. I best-offered the seller 30 dollars and they accepted, the shipping was 7. I can link to the new listing if you want...Astrobricks said:
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That's about right. RRP made no sense at on this one. Don't know what Lego was thinking. $20 / 20€ maybe. Which would have made Walmart's regular price $16.Astrobricks said:Well, that brings #75199 down to what it should cost without the Disney tax :)
Always hold it in your hand while getting permission :)anisboy said:Just picked up Newts Suitcase (75952) from Sainsburys, reduced to clear £22.50 :) There were two on the shelf, by the time I got permission to get it, one had already gone :/ Only snag is I'm not allowed it til Fathers Day lol
What part of the world is that in? Google maps doesn't seem to have heard of it.jedivalkyrie said:At a local salvage store "Give Me $5" found #17101 Boost Creative Toolbox box crushed with all but one bag sealed for, you guessed it, $5! The all important power modules were still sealed. Not bad for a $170 set!
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Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome was having a great offseason as far as acquisitions and building the team, but the Ravens are embarrassed by linebacker Rolando McClain's announced retirement.
The old mantra about "In Ozzie We Trust" should be changed to "In Ozzie We Trust, Most Of The Time."
The Ravens blew it on this one. They went out and signed a knucklehead who remained a knucklehead. At this point, we don't know why McClain retired at age 23, and to be honest, I'm afraid to ask. I really don't want to know, and I'm just glad he is out of here.
Bye. See-ya. Adios. Peace.
And from now on, I don't want to hear the Ravens talk anymore about taking high character guys. In the NFL, most of these guys are just characters, period.
The Ravens signed McClain to a one-year contract as a free agent on April 12. Prior to joining Baltimore, he spent his first three NFL seasons (2010-12) with the Oakland Raiders after becoming the eighth overall selection in the 2010 Draft.
Trouble has followed McClain everywhere and shortly after he signed with the Ravens, he was in trouble again. I understand why the Ravens signed McClain. It was out of desperation with Ray Lewis retiring, Jameel McClain recovering from a spinal injury and Dannell Ellerbe signing with the Dolphins. The Ravens had big holes to fill in the middle of the defense.
I believe in giving every player a second chance, and no one was better at forgiving than former Ravens owner, the late Art Modell. I wouldn't have cared if the Ravens had kept McClain until training camp opened as long as he stayed out of trouble. But once the news surfaced that he retired Wednesday, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I believe in second chances, but not five, six or seven.
McClain is no longer Baltimore's problem, but the state of Alabama's. Sometimes, a person has to hit rock bottom before he rebounds. This is just a small blotch on the record of Newsome, but one that won't go away easily. He got sold on some bad advice from his Crimson Tide partners. But it is better to cut the ties with McClain now than to possibly wait for some major disaster.
We were all holding our breath waiting to see what McClain would do next, but we don't have to do that anymore. We're all just glad he is gone.


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The RPM Challenge – Get Involved!
We like a bit of a challenge at SoundCloud. And what better challenge than this, the RPM Challenge…?
Record an album in February that's 10 songs or 35 minutes long
Recording can only be done in the month of February – no prerecorded songs. All material must be previously unreleased, and we encourage you to write the material during February too.
What better way to spend your February. It's a perfect excuse to ignore the dark nights and crazy winter weather outside. Just stay inside and be inspired to create (or finish) your album! Read all about it here.
We know that SoundCloud users are a very creative bunch so stop what you're doing right now and sign up for the challenge. You've still just about got enough time left! And if you do take it up then please keep us posted with your thoughts and progress in comments below. There's a RPM Challenge group on SoundCloud too for posting your works in progress. What are you waiting for?


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I find that I've been mixing my breakfasts up quite a bit lately. If you've been reading for a while you'll remember that I ate oats every. single. morning for years. These days oats are reserved for weekend mornings. Not sure how that happened, but it did! Through the week I've been enjoying GF toast with PB & jam, waffles and this Nature's Path Coconut Chia Granola with Almond Breeze Coconut Almond milk:
I still hit the gym on my lunch hour, but that has switched up, too. I use to be all cardio, cardio and more cardio, but since I injured my back last May I've been focusing a bit more on stretching. My time in the gym is usually split like this; 25 mins either walking on the treadmill or the elliptical, 10 mins of light weights and 15 mins of stretches. My body appreciates the variety!
On this particular day I went out for lunch with my boss. On my plate was a roasted red pepper & goat cheese sandwich on GF bread with a side of the best ever sweet potato fries!
Stash coconut mango is a regular in my tea rotation:
Lastly, dinner! My kids love pasta so I'd say we eat it once a week for sure. I always make myself a gluten free noodle, but the sauce is the same for the four of us.
Those are all the photos I took although I can pretty much guarantee that I also ate either an Activia yogurt or a handful of corn tortilla chips before I went to bed!
So there you have my eats for a day! I'll been getting a post up soon about a little DIY that we tackled not too long ago. For now, here's a sneak peak:
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NBC6 Miami rolls in the fog machine and delivers a cryptic "explanation" that provokes more questions than it answers:
NBC6 Zimmerman Edit Explanation
On March 19 NBC6 ran a story on the phone call George Zimmerman made in connection with the Trayvon Martin case. In that story an error in editorial judgment was made in which a question from the operator was deleted which could have created the impression that Mr. Zimmerman's statement may have been singling out Trayvon Martin because of his race. We take this incident very seriously and apologize to our viewers. After conducting an extensive investigation, we are putting a more stringent editorial process in place to ensure this doesn't happen again.
First, why now? The incident took place more than a month ago, the media "watchdogs" are ignoring this - what prompted this explanation now? My *guess* is that Matthew Sheffield of NewsBusters scored a hit with his story earlier today naming names and blaming NBC6 for the misleading edit that eventually ran at the Today Show and, with no media mention, on NBC News.
Was the story in question on-air, on the website, or both? Critics have been flagging three NBC6 Miami stories from the website that contained the problematic edit. Was there also bad video? Matt Sheffield says there was.
The website articles with the misleading edit were "corrected" without explanation on April 9, after online critics pointed them out on April 8. Did it take another two weeks of careful investigation for NBC6 to realize they had in fact made these mysterious corrections?
And how in the world does this relate to the use of the same misleading edit twice on the 'Today Show', on March 22 (discovered by Blue Team truthseeker Jeralyn Merritt) and March 27? An NBC producer was fired for that - are we meant to believe that NBC6 independently had the same brain-lock? Or, if the misleading edit aired first in Miami and then went national, was it a Miami producer that took the fall?
The current "explanation" explains nothing. We look forward to the unmysterious incident of the media watchdogs in the night.
NAMING NAMES: Matt Sheffield pegs Jeff Burnside as the NBC6 fall guy. Mr. Burnside had a byline on one of the three misleading NBC6 stories and was named in the InstaPundit post from April 8.


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Hooded evil looking character 36 mm high. Wanted to create a cartoonish looking assassin type. Made of wire, polymer clay and green stuff.
So I bought this so many years ago it wasn't owned by GW or Monday Knight Productions. It is a nice resin piece, but I never liked the doors that came with the original. I am actually in construction, and I work quite a bit on military installations, so naturally I got the idea to make the doors more like the ones I have seen on large aircraft hangers.
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An uber small kitchen gets a makeover with a coat of turquoise blue paint and a bar area for cozy dining! (above)
Love this tiny kitchen makeover. So cute. Makes you realize that you don't need much space to make things work in a home!
The polka dot roman shade hanging over the nice window, the open shelving and the bright blue paint all work so well together!
Before, the kitchen was outdated, had no counter space and there was little room to move about. (above)
After, the open shelving allows for more storage space and for color coordinated kitchen accessories to lend to the overall decor. (above and below)
A nice way to start off Monday…don't you think?
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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity baseball team drew a number-three seed when the state 3A-East region brackets were released this week and could be on a collision course with season-long nemesis Bennett down the road.
The Seahawks lost to the Clippers, 3-2, in an extra inning nail biter in the penultimate regular season game last week before routing Indian River in the finale. Decatur earned a number three seed in the 3A-East tournament and will play the winner of the first round game between Annapolis and Centennial. Bennett, meanwhile, went on to win the Bayside title and earned the top seed in the 3A-East.
If the Clippers and Seahawks advance as expected, the two teams could meet again for a third time in the state playoffs. Bennett handed the Seahawks their first loss of the season, 4-0, back in mid-April and edged Decatur again, 3-2, last week.
Meanwhile, the Decatur varsity softball team earned a number-seven seed when the state 3A-East brackets were released this week and will face 10th-seeded Centennial in the first round at home. If the Seahawks get past Centennial, they will likely face second-seeded Reservoir in the second round.


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Please join us for a talk with special guest Luke You of Melbourne, Australia, brought to you by the Toronto Zine Library Collective.
Luke You makes a free weekly paper zine called 'You'. He has published a copy every week since November 2001. The zine usually takes the form of an anonymous hand written letter sealed with staples in a paper bag. The zine is produced in the city Luke You lives in – Melbourne,Australia. Luke has been publishing zines anonymously in Melbourne since 1994. Luke is also one of the coordinators and one of the founding members of the Melbourne zine store Sticky. Sticky is dedicated to promoting and distributing zines and artist-books and has been getting the zines
to the kids since April 2001. His talk will cover his involvement in the Australian zine scene, his own zine 'You" as well as his involvment in the Melbourne zine store Sticky. This is the final gig in his zine world tour which took in Melbourne, Chicago, Bloomington and Toronto.
Sunday, July 6th, 2008.
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Shakespeare Echoes In Today's Politics
Observing Washington politics close-up has given me a new appreciation of Shakespeare. Now I see where he got his ideas.
"Today, you could say that almost all of our political rhetoric, comes from two books from the 16th and 17th centuries: the King James Bible and Shakespeare's plays," Michael Witmore, director of Folger Shakespeare Library, told me last year.
I recently talked to Witmore again at the 71-year-old independent research library and theater, which sits only a block east of the Capitol.
What, I wondered, would Shakespeare say about today's era of government shutdowns, debt-ceiling showdowns and Obamacare website meltdowns? He wouldn't be surprised, Witmore said with a smile, "After all, he wrote the script."
Indeed, after perusing some of the Bard's most famous quotes, it is not hard for me to look at today's headlines and imagine, say, President Barack Obama confronting congressional Republicans with, "Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" (Hamlet).
Or Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reporting on job growth: "We have seen better days." (Timon of Athens)
Or House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) looking over his shoulder at Tea Party rivals: "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." (Julius Caesar).
Or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defending his ill-fated push into the partial government shutdown: "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." (Hamlet).
Or maybe Health and Human Services Secy. Kathleen Sebelius as Lady Macbeth dealing with Obamacare's website woes: "Out! Out, damn glitch…!"
But Witmore called my attention to As You Like It, a comedy that in Act 5, Scene 4, delivers "one of the great comic treatments of the politics of brinksmanship (that) we in the capital know well."
In the scene, a jester named Touchstone instructs us in the etiquette of giving "the Lie with Circumstance," a gesture to soften disputes — of which today's Capitol Hill has many.
To express disagreement, he recommends the little word "if" in a way that almost sounds like you are conceding agreement — as in, "If you said so, then I said so."
"Your If is the only peace-maker," Touchstone concludes. "Much virtue in If."
Brilliant. Cut through the Elizabethan English and one hears Shakespeare capturing what I call the essence of passive-resistant diplomacy. The "if" accepts the validity of the other person's judgment without closing the door on the possibility that the other person is wrong.
President Obama offered an excellent example, in my view, when he recently was confronted in an Associated Press interview with a controversy that he did not need, yet could not easily avoid: the long-building uproar over the racial slur that the Washington's pro football team, the Redskins, uses as their name.
In May, the current team owner Dan Snyder told USA Today, "We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER — you can use caps."
No matter how much some well-meaning fans try to sugarcoat it, the name is a slur and needs to go. But how does a president make that point without sounding like a hater of the team? How about a virtuous "if?"
"If I were the owner of the team," the president said in a fatherly tone, "and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizable group of people, I'd think about changing it."
That's about as forceful as anyone can call for banishing a racial slur without giving anyone a good reason to feel offended. Snyder responded with an open letter to fans that defended the name, although this time he didn't say "NEVER," all caps or not.
If the name's days are numbered, as I suspect they are, Obama helped move the ball down the field.
Germany's first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, called politics "the art of the possible." Such is the magic of the Shakespearean "if," I believe. Leaders need to think not only about how bad things are but also how good they could be.
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Good morning!
Check out some of the new Smiley faces that Eric hooked me up with…
:alien: :angel: :blush: :cwy: :biggrin: :kissing: :sleeping: :w00t: :wub:
Good times.
For breakfast, I craved one thing and one thing only.
In the Green Monster: 1 frozen banana, 3 cup spinach, 1 cup almond milk, 1 tbsp chia seeds, 1 tbsp peanut butter, 1/2 scoop Amazing Grass Wheatgrass powder, ice.
Engines are revved.
Losing Endurance and How To Get It Back
Last night, I headed out for a run. Since I had my groin pull back in April, I have not been on a long run since the end of March and I have only been on 2-3 runs during all of April. This does not bode well for half marathon training- My race is on May 30th!
However, I knew that I wasn't going to run as long as I felt pain in my groin area. It just isn't worth it to risk injury (groins are notorious for taking a long time to heal).
Now that my groin is finally feeling better, I need to get right back in the game for my half training. My last long run was at the end of March in Florida when I ran 12 miles. That was 5 weeks ago. :blush:
Yesterday, I headed out and decided to see where my body took me. Maybe it would be a long run or a short run, I really wasn't sure. I went out and the first mile, while tough, felt good. I settled into my normal 8:30 min/mile pace and was enjoying being able to run pain free. I finished my first mile, including a large hill, in 8:34 min/mile. I felt good!
However, the next couple miles were a complete struggle. My pace started to drop and I knew immediately that I had lost endurance since being off running for those few weeks.
The symptoms of lost endurance:
- More difficulty breathing
- Cannot maintain normal pace
- Cannot go long distances
- Did not feel as automatic or as relaxing
- Doesn't feel as fun as usual
My first thought was, OK now I believe the readers who said that swimming doesn't really help with running endurance! :lol: The thing that gets me is that I feel like I am in amazing shape, but all that work I have done on the bike and in the pool doesn't seem to translate into running endurance!
The splits:
Mile 1: 8:34 mile/min (ascent- 164 ft)
Mile 2: 9:10 mile/min (ascent- 95 ft)
Mile 3: 9:20 mile/min (ascent- 61 ft)
Mile 3-3.55: 5:06 mile/min (ascent- 57 ft)
As you can see each mile got slower, even though the ascent decreased.
My overall time was 32:11 mins. with an average pace of 9:11 min/mile, which is not a bad pace by any means, however what matters to me is how I felt while running it. It was a complete struggle and prior to April, I could have done that run in my sleep.
I am 19 days away from my half marathon on May 30th and I am going to try to re-build some of my lost endurance without over-doing it. I previously set a goal for myself to beat my last half marathon time (1:56:33), but in all honesty this race may not be the race to do that! And I am ok with that. Not every race that we sign up for will turn out like we hope. Things get in the way of training and there isn't much we can do about it sometimes. I have also been juggling my try-a-tri training (the race is June 6th) and in all honesty, training for two different events at the same time is not easy.
My goal for this week is to get in another shorter run and then attempt a long run this weekend. I am hoping with some consistency over the next couple weeks, I can get back some of that lost endurance. I may end up running the half with no goal time at all, it really just depends how the next two weeks go!
Today's question- Have you ever taken time off training (for an injury, travel, or to focus on another sport) and lost endurance? How did you get it back?


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I have long had a theory that bizarro conspiracy/time travel/mutant superpowers show The 4400 was partly about Scientology. There was the weird cult leader Jordan Collier, the sleekly expensive 4400 building, and the belief that everybody can become superpowered if they'd just donate money or time to the 4400 group. But were the references to Scientology just accidental, or intentional?
Vizio's Latest TVs Go All Quantum
At last I have my answer. I cornered 4400 co-creator Scott Peters at the Warner Bros. party at Comic-Con and asked him what he thought of my theory. He laughed and said with exaggerated understatement, "Oh yeah, it's about that just a little bit. The Scientologists never came after us, though."


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In this month's feature, we discuss the finer points of backsourcing. In the article, On the Outs with Outsourcing: Why and How Companies Are Opting to Backsource, we examine this upward trend as well as best practices and insights to avoiding its many pitfalls. Most importantly, we help readers pinpoint the key factors to consider in determining when it is the right solution — and when it simply isn't.
Meanwhile, this issue's installment of Business Insights takes an even more concrete approach to conquering the costly and complex process of backsourcing. In How to Win the Backsourcing Game: Challenges, Guidelines & Resources, we review the main challenges that backsourcing presents along with nine specific questions to ask yourself before you even begin. If you are considering repatriating IT, this is the issue for you.
Enjoy this month's newsletter, and please feel welcome to share your thoughts and questions! Best Regards,
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