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Devon Allman's Honeytribe, Space Age Blues
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The vulgarities first: yes, it's Gregg Allman's son; yes, he can karaoke his dad probably better than anyone else in the world; and no, he isn't some sort of Paris Hilton of the blues industry (he claims to have grown up playing soccer and eating Happy Meals like everyone else in the 'burbs), but let's not get carried away, because Huey Lewis blows harp on one of the tunes here (the very straightforward mid-tempo beer-bar-skeezer "Could Get Dangerous"). There's some sort of hare-brained scheme to front this as "the first sci-fi blues album," a notion that probably popped into his head when at some point he watched Star Wars on mute with BB King playing in the background; in fact there's very little about this that hasn't been attempted. That said, Allman's guitar soloing is full of feel — he's a one-man Zep in the title track, sounding like his dad futzing with a cover of "Since I've Been Loving You" on it — and, well, this is Greg Allman's DNA in full bloom, thus he can expect the Paris Hilton treatment from any reviewer who knows what that pedigree means. A — Eric W. Saeger
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A man who claims he was injured at a Bally Total Fitness club in the Houston area is suing the company and Brunswick Corp., the manufacturer of the equipment, on the grounds of negligence.
In a complaint filed in late March in Harris County (TX) District Court, Melvin Wiggins of Pearland, TX, south of Houston, claims he was injured at the Webster, TX, club in September 2010. Wiggins claims he was trying to perform an exercise on a weight bench while holding 45-pound dumbbells. The weight bench had no screws holding it together, Wiggins claims, causing him to fall to the floor. Wiggins underwent extensive medical care and continues to suffer from injuries, according to the complaint.
R. Keith Weber Jr., the attorney representing Wiggins, says Bally has filed an answer to the complaint and adds that Brunswick Corp. was granted a month's extension for a response. Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, IL, is the parent company of Life Fitness, Schiller Park, IL. (Life Fitness is not named in the complaint.)
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We arranged for Elegant Cakes and Party Dates to come into our office and facilitate a cupcake decorating activity. This was part of our annual Children's Day event. Elegant Cake and party Dates were able to cater for 22 boys and girls aged between 4-12 years of age. Children were able to follow Melissa's instructions and were so able to show off their own creativity. The event was well received by the children and the parents were very happy to take home some of their creations. kind regards, Jayne- Baker and McKenzie
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|This an old photo sent from Esther's kindergarten teacher. I don't think I ever posted it.
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In 2008, Bloomington High School South received an Alternative Power and Energy grant to install a 1.5 kW solar array on the school's roof. The school already boasts a solar racing team, and the high school students themselves helped to install the solar panels. Since September 30, 2009, the solar panels have generated 1,400 kWh, saving the school nearly $200 in electrical costs.
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Hilton Garden Inn
Hilton Garden Inn has installed 18 225-watt SunPower modules on the roof of its 16-story building. Through June 2009, the array has generated more than 1,700 kWh and has saved the hotel more than $125 in energy costs. The Hilton Garden Inn's Web site describes their other green practices, but also includes a link to their monitoring system so guests can track the amount of energy that has been generated.
City of Noblesville Wastewater Utility
The City of Noblesville was awarded an Alternative Power and Energy grant to replace its inefficient digest/natural gas boiler with a new hot water boiler burner. Through June 2009, it is estimated that this new system has offset approximately 318 MMBTU of natural gas and has saved the city more than $1,400 to date.
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In 2008, VPS Architecture received an Alternative Power and Energy grant to install a 7 kW solar array on their historic downtown building. Since September 2009, the panels have generated close to 5,000 kWh, saving the firm $1,220 in electricity costs.
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The Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis Installed a 3KW wind turbine, and two rest area awnings with solar roofs. The installations were completed in early spring, 2009 next to the Normandy Barn on the north side of the Fairgrounds. Monitoring equipment so visitors may see how much electricity is being generated is located inside the Barn.
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McCormick Motors installed 26 solar panels with a 5.8 KW rating. Prior to applying for funds from the Office of Energy Development, McCormick Motors partnered with Goshen Collge students who developmed an energy calculator to determine the feasibility of a solar or wind project at the dealership. From February through June, 2009, the dealership ha experienced more than $500.00 in energy cost savings.
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Hoover Farms Wind Project
Debbie Hoover was awarded a grant to install wind turbines at her Tipton Indiana Farm. Hoover wanted the turbines to power crop tunnels, where the family grows salad greens. The grant paid for about half the cost of the installation. The Hoover Farm is serviced by Duke Energy. When electricity is being generated by the wind turbines, the farm's electric usage (and their bill) is offset by that amount.
The five Skystream 1.8 Kilowatt wind turbines operate when wind speeds are between 8 and 140 mph. Wwind speeds and power generation will be tracked by computer.
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As Feared, Brazil's 'Anti-ACTA' Marco Civil Killed Off By Lobbyists
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A couple of weeks ago, we worried that Brazil's innovative "Marco Civil", a civil-rights based framework for the Internet, was being gradually subverted as it passed through the legislative process. Sadly, it looks like that subtle attack has been taken to its logical conclusion, as Rick Falkvinge reports:
Yesterday, the Brazilian parliament effectively killed the much-heralded Internet Bill of Rights, the Marco Civil, that had been praised by entrepreneurs and free-speech activists worldwide. This follows a ridiculous watering-down and dumbing-down of the bill, at the request of obsolete industry lobbies.
This is a salutary reminder of the power of lobbyists to attack and destroy even even the most carefully-prepared initiatives. As for the bill's future, Falkvinge is pessimistic:
Marco Civil was shelved indefinitely in yesterday's voting session, unlikely to be revived ever again.
I think it's probably too early to make any definitive pronouncements about what will happen next -- maybe something more can be done, or parts of the text can be salvaged. But if it is indeed the case that the Marco Civil is dead, it will be a real tragedy given the amount of work that went into drafting it, and the widespread hopes that had been riding on it.
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The Study Skills office is now located in the Counseling Center, room 102 in the Academic Technical building on the Cooper Campus. The Study Skills Services are offered to assist students with study strategies on an individual basis, in small group workshops, or in classroom settings. Assistance can be provided in the following areas:
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Lowe reports that in the past six months, San Juan Hospital in Monticello has had 800 patients from the northern San Juan County area, including Spanish Valley and La Sal. This includes 25 new OB patients for Dr. Curtis Black and Dr. Mahana Fisher.
The health district has identified a building and plans to open a clinic in Spanish Valley. Lowe reports that monthly rent for the building is $750. The building will require some refurbishing, but Lowe reports that potential revenue from the area may exceed $1 million per year.
Lowe also reported an increase in patients to San Juan Hospital from the Dove Creek area.
Overall, Lowe reports that visits to the emergency room at San Juan Hospital dropped by 55 percent in the past year. This is due, in large part, to the opening of Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding.


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Fox's Eric Bolling: Obama Is Hosting "Hoodlum[s]" In "The Hizzouse"
During the opening of Fox Business' Follow the Money on Friday, Eric Bolling teased a segment about the White House hosting the president of Gabon by saying, "Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa's kleptocrats. It's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse."
During the tease, an image appeared of Obama meeting with the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, at the White House:
As Bolling said that Obama had previously hosted "a hoodlum in the hizzouse," footage of the rapper Common aired:
The inclusion of Common may not make much sense to people who aren't regular viewers of Fox News -- it's a reference to the right-wing media's ginned-up smear [1] of him as a "'cop killer' rapper [2]" in the days before his recent performance at the White House.
Later in the show, Bolling teased the segment again: "Smile for the birdie. Our president's sitting with one of Africa's most wanted. It's not the first time he's had a hood in the big crib."
This time, an image of Bongo with a flashing tooth showed up as Bolling said, "Smile for the birdie":
Bolling began the segment itself by saying, in part, "So what's with all the hoods in the hizzy? A month after the White House hosted the rapper Common, who glorifies violence on cops, the president opened his doors to one of Africa's most evil dictators. Here's Ali Bongo, the Gabonese president, who's been accused of human rights violations and plundering billions of his country's dollars."
(For the record, it is true that Gabon and Bongo have a troubling human rights record [3], and Obama pressured [4] Bongo on the issue during their meeting.)
During the segment, Human Events editor Jason Mattera declared [5] that "Barack Obama likes to defecate on American allies," and Bolling had this exchange [6] with Fox Business reporter Sandra Smith:
REP. JOHN GARAMENDI (D-CA): There are good guys. There are bad guys out there. We've got to stay engaged.
SMITH: We don't have to have them at home, though.
BOLLING: Thank you, Smitty.
SMITH: We don't have to have them in our White House and entertaining them.
BOLLING: Where? Where? Where? Go ahead, say it. Where?
SMITH: In the hizzy.
BOLLING: In the hizzy. Thank you, Smitty.
SMITH: Do we really have to have them in the White Hizzy?
Another guest, Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill, told Bolling: "The president's not inviting [Bongo] over to the White House to eat s'mores and watch movies. They're talking, they're meeting." Bolling replied, "How do you know what they did, Hill? How do you know what they did? Maybe they did have s'mores and watch movies. Maybe they watched a basketball game."
This is familiar territory for Bolling. Last month, Bolling put a post [7] on his Facebook and Twitter accounts saying that Obama was "chugging 40's in IRE while tornadoes ravage MO." He repeated [8] the line on Follow the Money later that night, and then tried to amend [9] his attack by saying that he "took some heat for saying Obama should have delayed his bar crawl, or whatever he's doing over there."
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2017 Chevrolet Silverado is a luxury truck that has a high specification for heavy duty. Chevrolet Silverado is certainly well known in its credibility as a strong and powerful car. This car has a beautiful specification which should improve driving performance for both main roads and rough. has been addressed to make a big action for the next global auto market. The latest Chevrolet Silverado comes as four generations. Silverado series will be produced by GMC General Motors. GMC is the elite division of the Chevrolet Motors is believed to produce a high standard series cars. We will discuss the changes and advantages of the 2017 Chevrolet Silverado impressive for connoisseurs of luxury truck.
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The latest 2017 Chevrolet Silverado has undergone new improvements and revisions can be seen at a glance about the prospect. Chevrolet Silverado will look more luxurious and powerful that will make people amazed . 2017 Chevrolet Silverado exterior design on the front of the car's nose was redesigned to be macho and manly in a larger size. Body surface looks so luxurious in perfect metallic paint will make more luxurious and sporty. Thicker and bigger nose comes with a new grille and lights. While Chevrolet Silverado 2017 front grille looked so handsome with a rectangular shape double-major. This double grille looks so shiny silver chrome. The lights are also bigger in double concept. As a heavy duty truck, this car has been protected by a strong bumper made of cast aluminum. The new Silverado all come with a larger wheelbase. Wheelbase of each model brings a different dimension, Regular cab takes 3,023 mm and double cab crew runs with 3.645 mm.
The concept of style to the interior of the Chevrolet Silverado 2017 can not be ignored. Sporty and luxurious design that definitely applied in. The cabin looks so spacious and comfortable with all the black theme. The new edition of the 2017 Silverado is equipped with sport suspension named, Z60. It is a high performance suspension system which should be exceptional to deal with difficult terrain.
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2017 Chevrolet Silverado truck series is the all new high standards that have high technology and systems. All New Chevrolet Silverado equipped with more advanced features such as, 8-inch touch-screen display, rear seat entertainment, MyLink infotainment system, automatic climate control dual-zone, navigation, front-rear traffic warning, forward collision warning, automatic braking system , parking assist, and much more.
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2017 Chevrolet Silverado is a luxury truck that can be relied on to spell out the heavy duty. New Chevrolet Silverado will offer some powerful engine and has a good performance of the previous model. According to rumors 2017 Chevrolet Silverado will be released in 2017. As for the global information standard 2017 Chevrolet Silverado prices hover around $ 26.147- $ 49.987. 2017 Chevrolet Silverado will be all new for 2017 models.


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Five Paris hotels have launched a scheme allowing guests to "pay what you want" in an experiment that may be extended if successful.
(AFP) Five Paris hotels have launched a scheme allowing guests to "pay what you want" in an experiment that may be extended if successful.
The three- and four-star hotels taking part in the scheme are located in the city's 9th and 11th districts -- a little away from the city's tourist centres. The owners are bullish about the prospects and confident that clients will not abuse the scheme.
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Here is a photo we took in Chester, England. We took it on 2 July 2008 at Chester Cathedral. We visited Chester as it was a memorable site in England that I visited in December 1998 or January 1999 as a missionary.
A church has stood in this location pretty much since the 11th century from what I understand. As a missionary visiting in 1998-99, I just remember the influence it had on me to realize that this place was of importance with relation to Handel's Messiah, a piece I had learned to love in high school.
The scripture around the base is of John 4:14. "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
I quoted from the King James Version, but this writing ends with "up for everlasting life." Which I thought was an interesting variation of words.
Anyhow, we found it beautiful and I thought I would share. I know this cathedral is a tourist location, but I also know that many do not venture into the courtyard where this sculpture is located.


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I am currently enrolled at a highly regarded Tech school and taking courses for a major in Architecture. I have two questions regarding this. First, will the six years of Architecture classes plus three years of law school make me eligible for work as a corporate lawyer(assuming I do well on exams)? If so is it wise or even possible to enroll at two Universities simultaneously to avoid being in school for 9 years? After some research I'm getting the idea that your major prior to law school doesn't necessarily affect which field of law you enter however I would like to have a solid background for whatever field I do enter. Thank you for your time.


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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Strava Suffer Score decoded
Suffer score is a good move for Strava. Strava's market segment is informal competition. Other web sites have logged how far people ride, and where, but Strava really locked into the demand for competition: competition via social networking. To date these rankings have been based primarily on speed over "segments": routes defined by users, for example on roads or trails, typically up climbs. They then added contests for volume: most miles ridden in a week and most feet climbed, for example. But with Suffer Score, they combine the two: a metric combining both quantity and quantity.
Why's this important? Of course not everyone can climb fast enough to compete for KOMs on popular climbs. But a heartrate-based metric levels the playing field to a large extent. Anyone who's been riding regularly for long enough can go out with the goal of generating an "epic" suffer score for the day.
Suffer score is an obvious correlary with the Coggan "training stress score" (TSS). TSS is an attempt to quantify the training stress of a ride: it's effect on fatigue and its stimulus for physiological adaptation. That both of these can be captured with the same simple metric is far from obvious, but TSS is a blunt instrument, and its popularity among hardcore power meter fans proves people find it useful.
But Strava's focus isn't on hard-core training junkies. It's on the typical Mission Cycling or SF2G rider: people who like to ride, and when they ride like to ride quickly, and as a consequence of this quick riding tend to acquire fitness. However, the goal of every ride is still the joy of the ride, not strictly to improve fitness. So "suffer score" is a "don't take me quite so seriously" number by which long-hard-rides can be compared. "Pain is good", it suggests, not only for it's "training stress".
The big question, however, is how Suffer Score is calculated? To test this, I used a Perl script to generate ride data at constant heartrate. My "rides" consoisted of perfect 1 km radius circules in the Bonneville Salt Flats ridden at a perfect 10 meters per second. Each ride had a different heart rate, perfectly constant, or a different duration.
First I tried using the GPX file format for this purpose, but Strava wouldn't digest the heartrate numbers. So I switched to TCX. This worked nicely.
Here's one of my rides:
From a few tests, I was able to guess the following formula was used for Suffer Score:
Suffer score = K1 t1 + K2 t2 + K3 t3 + K4 t4 + K5 t5
t1 = time in hours in zone 1
t2 = time in hours in zone 2
t3 = time in hours in zone 3
t4 = time in hours in zone 4
t5 = time in hours in zone 5
With coefficient roughly equal to the following (may be off by 1/hr):
K1 = 12/hr
K2 = 24/hr
K3 = 45/hr
K4 = 100/hr
K5 = 120/hr
I like this approach, although I'd be tempted to increase K5, for example to 200. Time in Z5 is very, very painful. Of course this depends on having a good number for maximum heart rate, which may not be the case. In fact a geometric progression would have worked well here: 12, 24, 48, 96, 192. I think this would have helped the criticism I've been reading that it's too endurance-focused.
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- Andrew R. Coggan, Ph.D. said...
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- August 10, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- djconnel said...
Whoops -- I'll fix the blog (I don't know where "bias" came from -- doing too many semiconductor device simulations for the day job).
To be fair, then did mention TRIMP in the support forum. So they're not practicing active deception (benign neglect if anything). Not sure about the TSS descriptions.
I still need to check the formula against time gaps in the ride to see if they're doing any time averaging. So far I checked linearity only against rides of constant HR. Spent too much time debugging my ride data generation script.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Jason said...
Do you mind posting a link to your perl script that generates the TCX file?
I won't judge your coding, I just want to save myself time from doing fun experiments like these on my own with Strava.
- August 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Mark Shaw said...
Hi Andrew, this is Mark Shaw from Strava. You're absolutely right, we should make reference to TRIMP in our "What's this?" section, as it is correct to say we're using a modified TRIMP score. It wasn't our intention to hide this fact and it was an oversight not to mention it directly on the site. As Dan points out, our intention is to be open about this, as we do discuss it on support forums. We've been getting a lot of feedback from our users which we're using to help make adjustments to the score and the language around it. We'll add a mention of TRIMP to our site - thanks for the heads up.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Mark Shaw said...
Hi Andrew, this is Mark Shaw from Strava. You're absolutely right, we should make reference to TRIMP in our "What's this?" section, as it is correct to say we're using a modified TRIMP score. It wasn't our intention to hide this fact and it was an oversight not to mention it directly on the site. As Dan points out, our intention is to be open about this, as we do discuss it on support forums. We've been getting a lot of feedback from our users which we're using to help make adjustments to the score and the language around it. We'll add a mention of TRIMP to our site - thanks for the heads up.
- August 10, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- djconnel said...
Maybe I'd better not post the script publicly -- not really fair to Strava.
- August 10, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Péter I. Pápics said...
1st of all, very nice post, I was 100% sure that you would figure this formula out when I saw the SSS on the Strava website ;)
I completely agree with giving zone 5 a much higher score, and I like the idea of the geometric progression, so that's how I included it in my personal workout analyzer script:
k1...k5 is 12.5, 25, 50, 100, 200
while the categories are
leisurely 0-49
moderate 50-99
tough 100-199
very hard 200-399
mind-blowing 400-
It is really a pity that there are basically no Strava users in Europe... :(
- August 10, 2011 at 9:44 PM
- Péter I. Pápics said...
Ps.: what I wrote earlier might be good to rate the toughness of the ride, but it should not be mixed with TSS values. I did not mean that. Now that you wrote about it I read a bit into these things, and I have found lots of interesting stuff, thanks again!
- August 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- thehomme said...
Great post. Since going premium I've been confused by the suffer score. I do a very, very hard race of 1.5hrs with almost all my time in Z4 but I get a greater SS on a 4 hr club ride spent in z2 & z3. The race caused a lot more "suffering"
Why can't Strava just give us a TSS and IF score. And ideally all the analysis you get in WKO+ for a "super premium" membership fee?
- April 9, 2012 at 3:55 AM
- djconnel said...
The terms "TSS" and "TSB", etc, are trademarked, so they can't be used without license. But I think Strava views its market as different: not focused on power meters, but more the average rider who just likes to ride hard without formal metrology. So it's intended to be a "fun" number. They've upgraded their metrology to include a "red zone" score, which is the component of "suffer score" from Z4-Z5. Actually, it would make a good API project to extract a TSS-like statistic from Strava data. I've got a bunch of projects on my plate but that wouldn't be too hard.
- April 9, 2012 at 5:40 AM
- thehomme said...
There's no doubt Strava is a broad mainstream product. I can understand that as a business strategy at start up and beyond but there's a huge gap in the market for a single cohesive system.
There's currently very little you get from Strava premium. Most people I know pay cos they think they should rather than for what Strava provides. If they want to drive premium membership then they need to be looking to add significant functionality for the growing numbers of club cyclists. To my mind these are the people who will pay...if you just enjoy riding your bike then why go premium?
My ideal product would be trainer road, something akin to WKO+ all integrated with Strava.
Its funny the comment about no one being on Strava in Europe. It seems to be hitting a tipping point here in the UK.
- April 9, 2012 at 9:03 AM
- djconnel said...
Yes -- they've made a big marketing push for Europe!
GoldenCheetah has some Strava integration. I've not followed it, but I suspect it does what you want. Try that out...
Strava has a simple API which makes it easy for apps to upload or download rides to Strava accounts. This makes it fairly easy to implement alternative front-ends. It will become simpler when version 3 of the API comes out within the next few months.
For example, I'd like to do an app to extract critical power curves from Strava rides. It's easy to do for one ride, harder if you want some sort of global curve. But GoldenCheetah already offers this capability.
- April 9, 2012 at 9:10 AM
- Sourceminer said...
Awesome Post Dan, thanks for the reas up. Recently I have been perplexed with the idea of renewing my subscription of Strava as I love the Golden Cheetah program. The Suffer score I am sorry to see only works with a heart rate, they dont include it in a power meter which I believe should be. I hope to see more meaningful updates to Strava for the people that pay for a subscription.
Thanks for the great write-up!
- September 27, 2012 at 4:32 PM
- djconnel said...
I fully agree: there's no reason they couldn't do a suffer score with power meter data. Perhaps they wish to limit the computational burden, since they're dealing with their exponential increase in users as their user base has expanded from it's previous focus in the San Francisco Bay area. In running they use pace for analysis.
- September 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- Tina said...
Thanks for the INFO! Very few of us on STRAVA in Saigon, it helps with the motivation. I moved my max HR up by 2 beats, found that I am in much better shape, but get home from a 130km ride and I get a "tough".... would have been "extreme" (nearly 50 points more) for similar rides this time last year.
Any ideas about the Out and Back issues? I have emailed the company and there seems to be no fix in sight. Instead, people cut the course short and get outragous speeds. We really have about 80km or good riding in Ho Chi Minh City where we can really just let it out. So, this error is a bit of a shame!
- October 1, 2012 at 4:23 PM
- Tina said...
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- October 1, 2012 at 4:26 PM
- djconnel said...
Thanks, Tina! I have been to Saigon and really liked it. I didn't try cycling there, but other places in Vietnam, like De Lat 300 km to the north, seemed like excellent cycling locations.
On the out-and-back problem I have spoken to Strava in person about that and I expect it will be solved eventually. The problem is that the matching between the start and end point is relatively loose. So if you do an out-and-back, and match the start and finish (the same point), then if you have visited 80% of the points in between (80% of the route, cutting short 20%), then it might match you. What they need to do is to add in special checkpoints which must be matched in addition to the start and finish. For an out-and-back that would be the turn-around point. I had expected they would have done this by now but I think their priorities have been elsewhere, for example on handling the enormous number of new users.
I recently ran a 10 km race and it gave me credit for the 10 km race segment using only 8 km of my data: after 8 km I passed close to the finish line and it concluded I had matched the segment. So my time for that segment was extremely good... same problem.
- October 1, 2012 at 5:27 PM
- Joao Frazao said...
Suffer score = K1 t1 + K2 t2 + K3 t3 + K4 t4 + K5 t5
t1 = time in hours in zone 1
t2 = time in hours in zone 2
t3 = time in hours in zone 3
t4 = time in hours in zone 4
t5 = time in hours in zone 5
With coefficient roughly equal to the following (may be off by 1/hr):
K1 = 12/hr
K2 = 24/hr
K3 = 45/hr
K4 = 100/hr
K5 = 120/hr
ok... but hr means the total of hours spent in the exercise??
- April 16, 2013 at 3:56 AM
- djconnel said...
Total hours during which HR was in those particular zones and data were recording. So if it jumps from zone-to-zone, they estimate time in each zone.
- April 16, 2013 at 4:06 AM
- Joao Frazao said...
I still not understand!
so if k1= 12/hr
and hr means the time spent in the zone and then i multiply for t1 that is time spent in zone 1... the in the final i have just 12+24+... because the hr cut t and just leave the score for each zone??
I know that some of my cal is not correct, but what??? pls give an example!
K1 t1 + K2 t2 + K3 t3 + K4 t4 + K5 t5
t1 = time in hours in zone 1
t2 = time in hours in zone 2
t3 = time in hours in zone 3
t4 = time in hours in zone 4
t5 = time in hours in zone 5
With coefficient roughly equal to the following (may be off by 1/hr):
K1 = 12/hr
K2 = 24/hr
- April 19, 2013 at 2:55 AM
- Joao Frazao said...
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- April 19, 2013 at 2:55 AM
- djconnel said...
No: (12/hr) is a factor with units per hour. So if you multiply (12/hr) by (2.5 hr) then the hours cancel, and you get 30. If you multiply (12/hr) by (250 minutes) you need to multiply by (1 hr / 60 minutes) and now the hr, minutes both cancel and you are left again with 30. You do this separately for each HR zone, counting the number of individual seconds spent in each, and you end up with total suffer score.
- April 19, 2013 at 5:29 AM
- Unknown said...
Nice analysis! Have you delved into how they calculate power at all?
- April 26, 2013 at 10:14 PM
- djconnel said...
I am not certain how power is calculated, but unless rider weight + bike weight on Strava = the weight of everything together, including water bottles, water, food, clothes, helmet, shoes, tools, etc, the power calculation will be biased low. The issue here is I suspect most users use their bare bike mass and their naked body mass, so power estimates tend to be too low.
- April 30, 2013 at 4:44 PM
- philgo20 said...
thanks for this!
I agree with thehomme and yourself: time spent in z2 should have less incidence on suffer score and time spent in z4 and z5 should be even higher.
Some fairly easy endurance long runs get higher SSS than tempo runs and hill repeats.
- May 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM
- Joao Frazao said...
very work to find this power (watts) algoritm
the results are very close to strava em endomondo
calories =(((2,706*total weight in kg*Velocity kph*%elevation)+(1,247*10^(-2)*Cda*(velocity kph+wind kph)^2*velocity kph)+(2,706*Crr*total weight in kg*velocity kph))/0,95)*3.90265912226099*time hrs *2
Watts = Callories* 1000 / 3600
crr for mtb = 0,0046
Cda = 1 * 0.0293 * (Height in mts ^ 0.725) * (Pweight kg ^ 0.425) + 0.0604 + 0.2645
- May 2, 2013 at 7:29 AM
- Franz Kelsch said...
Have you written about the other new Strava premium features when you have a power meter, such as the fitness score, training load and fatigue?
- May 22, 2013 at 11:04 PM
- djconnel said...
Not much, Franz. TIme is limited for these projects, unfortunately. Most of my blog writing is done on crowded Caltrain commutes.
But the training score, fitness, and fatigue are very similar to CTL, TSB, and ATL from TrainingPeaks. Those parameter names are trademarked. GoldenCheetah has similar metrics. The issue is you need to use a power meter every ride. I didn't use one during the Berkeley Hills Road Race, a considerable physical stress, and so that shows up as a total rest day in my metrics. It takes months to flush that omission from my scores.
At GoldenCheetah I proposed an algorithm that a regression could be done on distance and climbing of existing rides to estimate these scores for riders without power data. Strava could also use estimated power. Anything is better than assigning zero score to a ride without power meter data, assuming there's no data from car or train rides, for example, contaminating these.
- May 23, 2013 at 5:44 AM
- oscar said...
Hi Dj,
I am confused. If T1 is equal to the number of hours in zone 1 and HR is equal to the number of hours in zone 1, then T1 = HR.
So, for axample (and examples are sorely needed), if I walk 30 minutes in zone 1 then T1 = .5 and K1 = 12/.5 so T1 * K1 = 12
- November 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM
- djconnel said...
"hr" is units "hours". So it's not a variable, but a unit constant.
- November 29, 2013 at 1:41 PM
- oscar said...
thanks for the quick reply, but HR hours in that particular zone and Tx hours in that particular zone?
- November 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM
- djconnel said...
t1 is the time in zone 1. I say "in hours" to be easier for people to understand, but really that's redundant. Time has units of "hours" but it can also have units of "minutes" or "seconds", etc. Suffer score has no units. So I need to multiply t1 by something which has units of 1/hours. Then the hours will cancel (one in numerator, one in denominator) and I'll be left with something with no units, which is what I want.
If I were to specify time in minutes instead of hours then I'd need to multiply by a unit conversion factor, for example (1 hour / 60 minutes).
This is common in physics. For example, if I have a velocity (units distance/time) and multiply it by a time (units time) the times cancel and I'm left with distance, which is what I want for riding a particular speed for a particular time. When I put the multiplier in units 1/hr, you're guaranteed to get the correct result.
It's always important to keep track of units. Suffer score, in order to be simple to understand, is presented without units: you can't say "my suffer score was 100 hours" or "my suffer score was just over 4 days" or "6000 minutes".... it's just 100.
- November 29, 2013 at 2:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Nice interesting article!
Your decoded SS formula seems to work well for bike rides (http://www.strava.com/activities/213873617/heartrate)
But I'd say Strava calculates SS differently for running, see for example this workout:
Only 25 minutes in Z4 and 15 in Z3 got me SS of 130.
Could You please also try to decode running SS?
- November 3, 2014 at 10:50 PM
- djconnel said...
Thanks for the comment! If I run the cycling calculation for your run I get 46.03, but Strava reports 129. So you're right -- it needs to be recalibrated! This could be done easily enough with several runs with different HR distributions. But that rate of inflation, which is a factor of 2.8 in your case (and this may be all there is to it: an inflation by a factor 2.8) seems high. Consider Ironman results: the average of the top 3 was 4:27 on the bike and 2:51 on the run, a ratio of 1.56. If Ironman is balanced then the ratio should be closer to this, assuming average heartrates are somewhat similar. I'd need to look at a few activities to isolate coefficients though (it's a simple algebra problem).
- November 4, 2014 at 4:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hi! I was wondering for some time, how I can get SS of over 200 in an hour when running (my best was 247/245pir in 51minutes in 10km race), but biking uphill and giving my best would only get me about 120/100pir in about two hours (of which about an hour was working at full going up).
I'm also pretty sure I have zones set about right. I'm estimating my 1 hour max HR(FTP HR) to about 161 in it is in the middle of Strava's Z4(156-167), and getting into Z5(>167) is very hard (on bike I've been there only few times). Getting over 170 for me is "suffer as hell" :)
- November 6, 2014 at 10:33 PM
- djconnel said...
I think "suffer score" is fairly arbitrary -- it's whatever Strava decided it should be based on their participants. I'm not sure comparing running to cycling is valid on any objective basis other than they took some sort of average of their cycling and running activities.
- November 19, 2014 at 5:01 AM
- Anonymous said...
Well the way I see it - suffer score is (or rather should/could be) an estimate of how hard You were working (whatever that might be) based on Your HR.
It doesn't really matter whether You were running or cycling or doing something else - You got Your "pump" (Your heart that is) working hard. In this regard different activities could potentially be compared in terms of how much stress they caused to You heart.
Unfortunately Strava obviously doesn't have the same view on SS, because it is a lot harder (in terms of heart stress) to get high SS in cycling then it is in running.
Some kind of normalized SS would be much more informative if You could (provided You have Your zones set correctly) only get SS of maximum around 100 in one hour - that would correlate with FTP power/Lactate Treshold.
You could get Your heart working harder for shorter time, of course, or maintain hours of less stress, but getting over 100 in an hour would mean, You got Your zones set too low...
In fact according to my experiences getting SS for Cycling over 100 in an hour is almost impossible for me, but for running i can get over 250 in less then an hour...
- November 19, 2014 at 6:20 AM
- Chris Papadopoulos said...
I have been running into a slightly different issue in relation to Suffer Score... If I do an exercise that has GPS enabled, for instance RUNNING, Suffer Score is based on "Moving Time" NOT total elapsed time (even if you manually change workout to RACE or WORKOUT)
I would like to be able to train and go for a run and do static exercises (e.g. Squat Jumps) and then continue running. However, currently my heart rate for the period of time spent doing squat jumps is not contributing to my suffer score :(
Any ideas?
- November 30, 2014 at 10:00 PM
- Michael Barnes said...
Sorry to come so late to this conversation, but I just noticed that my Strava suffer scores for long rides seem way higher than other riders I know on similar rides, and in searching for info, I found your blog.
My first thought about your analysis is that since heart rate is being averaged into five groups, the algorithm sure throws away a lot of information. Imagine a similar algorithm with an increasing number of zones. Loosely speaking, "in the limit" as the number of zones gets bigger, all we are really doing here is counting heart beats.
So why not just count heart beats, maybe with some clever transformations? For example, if you ride for an hour and your average heart rate is 150 bpm, your heart beat 9,000 times. If your resting heart rate is 60 bpm, that's 3,600 beats per hour, and you could subtract that to arrive at a figure of 5,400 excess beats per hour.
Better still, just count the gaps between heartbeats, since over any give time interval, the number of gaps is just one less than the number of beats. Beats are more or less instantaneous, while gaps vary--higher pulse rates mean shorter gaps.
You could even construct a stress score that counts gaps, and weights the shorter gaps more heavily (with some sort of continuous transformation). If your resting heart rate is 60 bpm, than the gap between beats is one second, and you could assign a weight of zero to any gap one second or longer. Of course, if you are dead, by definition your stress score would be zero. Just kidding.
All fancy math aside, the point I'm trying to make is that the Strava suffer score, underneath it all, is about counting heart beats, and just what you can do with that sort of information opens up some interesting questions.
- November 25, 2015 at 12:26 PM
- Aaron Day said...
I think i might have worked it out for running:
Zone 1 - 30
Zone 2 - 60
Zone 3 - 120
Zone 4 - 240
Zone 5 - 480
Let me know if you think its right!
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On April 12, 1843 Colton became the 27th town of St. Lawrence County. In 1842 Colton village was called Matildaville when Abel Brown and his son James moved from Parishville to the west side of the Racquette River. Colton is named for Jesse Colton Higley, a pioneer who settled on the east side of the Racquette River and was instrumental in the formation of the township, serving in every public office available. Colton was the site of many sawmills, a potato starch factory, and one of the largest tanneries in the state. This collection consists of an assessment roll for 1868, voting registers of general elections, a 1919 Ballot, mortgages, and receipts of paid bills.


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KITTERY, Maine — The Kittery Community Center at Frisbee Common will hold the first art exhibit opening at its newly inaugurated Vance and Anne Morgan Gallery with an opening reception of Captured in Fabric by award-winning fabric artist, Nancy Morgan (no relation). The opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2-4 p.m. with an informal artist talk by Nancy Morgan at 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibit will remain on view until March 30.
Award winning fabric artist, Nancy Morgan, has exhibited both locally and nationally. She's the recipient of the 2011 Honorable Mention of NH Art Association, and 2nd place winner of the York Art Association's Fabulous Fiber Exhibit, and was selected into Joan L. Dunfey Memorial Open Juried Exhibit, among others. As a member of the NH Art Association and Quilt Visions, Morgan's works are in permanent exhibit at the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection in Placentia, CA.
"Having grown up in Kittery and attended Frisbee Junior High — and this summer planning to attend my fortieth Traip Academy reunion — I'm thrilled that the town of Kittery is preserving and utilizing such a wonderful building. Having the opportunity to exhibit at what was my Junior High School would have special meaning for me," says Nancy Morgan.
Located at 120 Rogers Road (Old Frisbee School) in Kittery, the Vance and Anne Morgan Gallery is prominently located at the entrance to the state-of-the-art Star Theatre.
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The Vance and Anne Morgan Gallery, at the Kittery Community Center (KCC) at Frisbee Common, is made possible through a generous donation by Anne and Vance Morgan of Kittery. The gallery space is prominently located by the Star Theatre and provides a new venue for showcasing works by visual artists.
The KCC Arts & Culture Committee is responsible for curating the programming and plans to schedule an ongoing series of monthlong art exhibits to showcase visual artists. Professional artists are encouraged to submit works for review to Arts & Culture Committee member Jackie Abramian at firstname.lastname@example.com. All works are reviewed and juried by an ad hoc subcommittee of the Arts and Culture Committee.
For more information, contact the Kittery Community Center at Frisbee Common at 207-439-3800 or visit http://www.kitterycommunitycenter.org/.


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"I'm not going to retire. People should not retire. It keeps me alive."
The face of a groundbreaker can be a familiar one. You may have sat next to her in class, perhaps eaten lunch together or maybe she ran the movie projector for one of your class films to help put herself through school. Meet Betty Stagg Nuovo '53 (education), groundbreaker.
Nuovo has followed the road less traveled since her Bucknell days. She was among the legislators who first legalized gay marriage in Vermont, tried to pass an Equal Rights Amendment and helped write the state's child support law.
Nuovo cites a trip around the world and living in India for eight months with her husband and two young children in the 1960s as a key inspiration. "It expanded my horizons, was different than anything I'd seen before, including the grinding poverty of the people," she says.
After her Bucknell graduation and teaching work, Nuovo became involved in the League of Women Voters, which ultimately led to a career change. She bypassed law school and read the law on her own, "like Lincoln," she says, with her husband's encouragement and the help of a mentor lawyer in Vermont. Nuovo passed the bar in 1974, then went on to open her own law practice the same day she took her oath. Among her fondest memories from her lawyering years is meeting President Jimmy Carter in 1979 with the Democratic delegation from Vermont. "I had breakfast in the Senate dining room, had rice and beef stew for lunch and I actually touched the president," Nuovo remembers.
While running her own law practice, Nuovo went on to win a seat in the Vermont Legislature, where she has been for 25 years now, with a brief four-year hiatus when she went back to work in her law practice. "The whole place was Republican," she explains, so she decided to shake things up and run. She hasn't stopped since. "I'm not going to retire. People should not retire," she says. "It keeps me alive."
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Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old (or relatively limited) computer, console, graphing calculator and mobile phone video games are mostly pixel art.
The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982.[1] The concept, however, goes back about 10 years before that, for example in Richard Shoup's SuperPaint system in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.
Some traditional art forms, such as counted-thread embroidery (including cross-stitch) and some kinds of mosaic and beadwork, are very similar to pixel art. These art forms construct pictures out of small colored units similar to the pixels of modern digital computing. A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the North Korean Arirang Festival.
Image filters (such as blurring or alpha-blending) or tools with automatic anti-aliasing are considered not valid tools for pixel art, as such tools calculate new pixel values automatically, contrasting with the precise manual arrangement of pixels associated with pixel art.
Drawings usually start with what is called the line art, which is the basic line that defines the character, building or anything else the artist is intending to draw. Linearts are usually traced over scanned drawings and are often shared among other pixel artists. Other techniques, some resembling painting, also exist.
The limited palette often implemented in pixel art usually promotes dithering to achieve different shades and colors, but due to the nature of this form of art this is done completely by hand. Hand-made anti-aliasing is also used.
Here are a few parts of the above image of "The Gunk" in detail, depicting a few of the techniques involved:
1. The basic form of dithering, using two colors in a 2×2 checkerboard pattern. Changing the density of each color will lead to different subtones.
2. Stylized dithering with 2×2 pixel squares randomly scattered can produce interesting textures. Small circles are also frequent.
3. Anti-aliasing can be done, by hand, to smooth curves and transitions. Some artists only do this internally, to keep crisp outlines that can go over any background. The PNG alpha channel can be used to create external anti-aliasing for any background.
Pixel art is preferably stored in a file format utilizing lossless data compression, such as run-length encoding or an indexed color palette. GIF and PNG are two file formats commonly used for storing pixel art. The JPEG format is avoided because its lossy compression algorithm is designed for smooth continuous-tone images and introduces visible artifacts in the presence of dithering.
Pixel art is commonly divided in two subcategories: isometric and non-isometric. The isometric kind is drawn in a near-isometric dimetric projection. This is commonly seen in games to provide a three-dimensional view without using any real three-dimensional processing. Technically, an isometric angle would be of 30 degrees from the horizontal, but this is avoided since the pixels created by a line drawing algorithm would not follow a neat pattern. To fix this, lines with a 1:2 pixel ratio are picked, leading to an angle of about 26.57 degrees (arctan 0.5).
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Non-isometric pixel art is any pixel art that does not fall in the isometric category, such as views from the top, side, front, bottom or perspective views. These are also called Planometric views.
When pixel art is displayed at a higher resolution than the source image, it is often scaled using the nearest neighbor interpolation algorithm. This avoids blurring caused by other algorithms, such as bilinear and bicubic interpolation—which interpolate between adjacent pixels and work best on continuous tones, but not sharp edges or lines. Nearest-neighbor interpolation preserves these sharp edges, but it makes diagonal lines and curves look blocky, an effect called pixelation. Thus, hybrid algorithms have been devised to interpolate between continuous tones while preserving the sharpness of lines in the piece; such attempts include the 2xSaI, Super Eagle, and the high-quality hqx algorithms.
Pixel art was very often used in older computer and console video games. With the increasing use of 3D graphics in games, pixel art lost some of its use. Despite that, this is still a very active professional/amateur area, since mobile phones and other portable devices still have low resolution and therefore require skillful use of space and memory. Sometimes pixel art is used for advertising too. One such company that uses pixel art to advertise is Bell. The group eboy specializes in isometric pixel graphics for advertising[2] and has been featured in magazines such as Wired, Popular Science, and Fortune 500.
Icons for operating systems with limited graphics abilities are also pixel art. The limited number of colors and resolution presents a challenge when attempting to convey complicated concepts and ideas in an efficient way. On the Microsoft Windows desktop icons are raster images of various sizes, the smaller of which are not necessarily scaled from the larger ones and could be considered pixel art. On the GNOME and KDE desktops, icons are represented primarily by SVG images, but also with hand-optimized, pixel art PNGs for smaller sizes such as 16x16 and 24x24. Another use of pixel art on modern desktop computers is favicons.
Modern pixel art has been seen as a reaction to the 3D graphics industry by amateur game/graphic hobbyists.[3][4] Many retro enthusiasts often choose to mimic the style of the past. Some view the pixel art revival as restoring the golden age of second and third generation consoles, where it is argued graphics were more aesthetically pleasing. Pixel art still remains popular and has been used in social networking virtual worlds such as Citypixel and Habbo, as well as among hand-held devices such as the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PSP, PS Vita and Cellphones, and in modern indie games such as Hotline Miami and FTL: Faster Than Light.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Drew Brees passed to Jimmy Graham along the sideline. He found the tight end over the middle. They hooked up for long plays and short ones, all over the field.
That New Orleans connection was just too much for the Chicago Bears.
Brees threw two touchdown passes, Graham tied an NFL record with another 100-yard game and the Saints beat the Bears 26-18 on Sunday to remain unbeaten.
"We knew the formula coming into this game was to remain patient, to run the football effectively, to be very efficient in the passing game and to take care of the football, priority No. 1," Brees said, "and we were able to do all those things."
Brees was 29-of-35 passing for 288 yards in his first victory in four career games at Soldier Field. Garrett Hartley matched a career high with four field goals as New Orleans (5-0) picked up its first win in Chicago since a 31-10 victory on Oct. 8, 2000.
Graham continued his torrid start for the Saints, catching 10 balls for 135 yards in his fourth consecutive 100-yard game — matching an NFL record for a tight end. Tony Gonzalez was the first to accomplish the streak in 2000, and Graham matched the surge in 2011.
Graham and Brees said they spent more time together during the offseason, and it looks as if all that work is paying off.
"I'm just blessed to be with such a great quarterback and a guy who has so much trust in me," Graham said.
Graham helped the Saints hold onto the ball for 36 minutes, and Brees' team had no turnovers. The ball control was crucial with Alshon Jeffery putting together a career day for the Bears (3-2).
Jeffery had 10 receptions for a franchise-record 218 yards, breaking Harlon Hill's mark of 214 at San Francisco on Oct. 31, 1954. He also had a 3-yard touchdown grab in the second quarter.
"What I did out there, I'm more concerned about the 'W,' not about what I did," he said. "It's a team thing. It took 11 guys to get 200-plus yards or whatever I had."
Jeffery's 58-yard catch set up Jay Cutler's 2-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Marshall, and Matt Forte ran in the 2-point conversion to trim New Orleans' lead to 26-18 with 2:11 remaining.
The Bears got the ball back with 21 seconds left and no timeouts. Cutler then passed to Jeffery in the middle of the field for 21 yards, but time expired before they could run another play.
"It's just a few plays here and there," said Cutler, who was 24 of 33 for 358 yards and two touchdowns in Chicago's second straight loss. "Against a team like that, the way they played offensively and ate up the clock it's hard to rebound if you miss three or four plays in the game."
It took a while for Brees to get started, but New Orleans' defense made sure he had plenty of time to get warmed up.
The Saints sacked Cutler twice while limiting the Bears to one first down in the first quarter. Chicago had just 51 yards when it got the ball back with 5:57 left in the first half.
After two field goals by Hartley — including a 19-yard chip shot after Cutler fumbled on a sack by Malcolm Jenkins deep in Chicago territory — Brees started to find his rhythm. He connected with Graham on pass plays of 29 and 38 yards to get New Orleans to the 7 with 7:23 left in the half.
This time, the Saints got into the end zone.
Brees rolled out on second down and flipped the ball to Pierre Thomas, who fought through D.J. Williams' tackle attempt and extended his right arm over the goal line for the 2-yard touchdown that made it 13-0 with 6:02 remaining.
"When my name is called to do the job, I go out there and do my best," said Thomas, a Chicago native. "That's all I can really ask for. When my name is called, just go out there and perform."
The Bears responded with a seven-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Jeffery's TD. But they gave the ball back to Brees with 2:41 left in the half, plenty of time for the star QB to direct another scoring drive.
Thomas had a big 2-yard run on fourth-and-1 from the Chicago 27, and then went 25 yards for the score on a screen play with 32 seconds remaining.
Thomas' second TD reception made it 20-7 and was the result of a perfect call by Payton, who still has a deft touch when it comes to play-calling after missing last season as a result of the bounty scandal.
"It was a screen play away from the pressure," Brees said. "So you had everybody going one direction and here we are throwing a screen and getting linemen out. The key is your ability to get linemen out and down the field.
"That was a big play. Big momentum gainer going into halftime."
NOTES: The Saints also won a road game against the Bears in 2002, but that victory came in Champaign because Soldier Field was being renovated. ... Bears DT Nate Collins hurt his left knee in the third quarter and did not return. ... Bears DT Stephen Paea was inactive due to a toe injury. Landon Cohen got the start just 10 days after he was signed off waivers.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org
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The reference point, relative to the target widget, for the animation.
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Afghan forces take over, doubts loom
Afghan security forces are now officially in charge of protecting their country from the insurgents whom the U.S.-led coalition of foreign troops has been fighting here for more than 11 years, President Hamid Karzai announced during a ceremony Tuesday, even as news broke that the Taliban were opening a long-discussed political office in Qatar, clearing a potential path to peace talks.
"This is the beginning of a new journey, so that our country, like every other country in the world, can rely on its own forces for security, manned by its own youth," Karzai said of the security handover. He was speaking during a ceremony at the sprawling new national defense university – an Afghan West Point – which is still under construction on the edge of Kabul on ground that first had to be cleared of mines. Joining him was NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"As your forces step forward across the country, the main effort of our forces is shifting from combat to support," Rasmussen said. "We will continue to help Afghan troops in operations if needed, but we will no longer plan, execute or lead those operations. And by the end of 2014, our combat mission will be completed. At that time, Afghanistan will be fully secured by Afghans."
NATO would continue to support Afghanistan after next year with a new training, advising and assistance mission, he said.
Afterward, Karzai said he hoped the Taliban's new office would indeed lead to peace talks. Afghanistan would send negotiators to Qatar without preconditions, he said. Still, Karzai expects that any talks begun there would quickly move onto Afghan soil, would be conducted in such a way that they end the violence in Afghanistan and wouldn't be used by any other country to push its own interests.
The concerns of the United States and Pakistan should be considered, he said, but Afghanistan's needs would come first.
The security transition announced Tuesday is a major milestone in the lengthy war, but it has sharply different meanings for the Afghan troops, the foreigners, the insurgents and the civilians.
The role of American and other NATO troops in the war now will be to provide the Afghan security forces with support such as training, close air support and casualty evacuation by air. That will keep some combat troops here until the end of 2014, on call if the Afghans need them.
The number of foreign troops, though, will continue to drop, with the 66,000 U.S. forces here expected to be halved by December.
A smaller contingent of troops is expected to remain after next year solely for training and support pending an agreement between foreign forces and the Afghan government.
"Last week, I was responsible for security here in Afghanistan, and today as a result of that ceremony, the responsibility is with the MOD and the MOI on behalf of President Karzai, and that is a significant change from yesterday to today," said Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, referring to the Afghan Ministries of Defense and Interior, which control the national army and police forces.
For American troops, the war is now officially something most will experience mainly from inside massive bases, shielded from the fighting.
Their service here will look like it did during a visit by a reporter a few weeks ago to Helmand province. Helmand has been by far the most deadly place in the war for foreign troops, with more than 900 killed there, but now Afghans are almost fully in the lead for combat.
Hundreds of U.S. Marine outposts across the province, mainly small ones, had been closed, and the Marines were mainly staying on a handful of large, heavily secured bases, training Afghan troops and packing up equipment to ship home.
None of the conventional Marine units, officers there said, were performing the perilous combat patrols that for years had been part of the daily routine for many.
The modest number of troops going outside the bases included those manning supply convoys, clearing bombs from the roads, performing security patrols immediately outside the walls and in some cases accompanying Afghans on larger operations to call in air support or medical evacuation by air if needed. As a result, casualties had fallen sharply.
"For the Americans, what this is beginning to resemble more is the way the U.S. was involved in operations in the Philippines, or Colombia or El Salvador, and that is it's more training, more 'train-the-trainer' missions than anything else," said Seth Jones, who served on the staff of the U.S. Special Operations commander in Afghanistan and is now associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corp.
The Afghan army and police, meanwhile, began doing more of the fighting and the dying as they took the lead in more and more places across the country. About 3,400 soldiers and police officers were killed last year, a jump from about 1,950 the previous year, according to the Brookings Institution. That's more than the total losses for the entire NATO-led coalition for the history of the war.
Afghan casualty records are kept by different ministries and can be difficult to piece together, but in the period from March 22 to May 22, at least 523 members of the national army, national police and border police forces were killed. That doesn't include Afghan Local Police casualties, which also are substantial.
It compares with 64 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan for all of 2013 so far, according to icasualties.org, which tracks casualties in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's down from about 500 in 2010 and more than 400 in 2011. All told, more than 2,200 U.S. troops have been killed here since the war began in October 2001.
Now that Afghan government forces control the fight against the Taliban and the warm-months fighting season is well under way, it's unclear how the battle is going, analysts said.
British Lt. Gen. Nick Carter, the second in command of the NATO-led coalition, said he was confident that the Afghan security forces were able to handle the lead. The foreign forces, though, will have to help fill the gaps in the Afghans' capabilities.
Carter citied several recent operations by Afghan security forces that were successful with little or no help from the International Security Assistance Force as evidence that they're effective. He said it might be six to eight years, though, before the Afghan aviation forces reached their full capability.
Also, NATO, which helped build the Afghan national security forces to their full strength of more than 350,000, will have to help reduce the Afghan army's attrition rate of 3 to 4 percent a month, which requires recruiting and training about 50,000 new soldiers a year, an unsustainable rate. It's doing that by helping to introduce modern training and leave cycles for the Afghans troops and developing plans for cutting their heavy casualties.
Despite NATO leaders' confidence in the Afghan forces, the number of insurgent attacks soared as the Afghans took the lead in more and more places. It leapt 47 percent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, according to a report by the Afghan NGO Safety Office, which monitors violence in Afghanistan for nongovernmental organizations. And the pace of attacks hasn't slowed, said Kate Clark, a senior analyst with the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul.
That may not be because the insurgents have been getting stronger, but rather a sign that they're throwing as much as they can into the fight as the foreign forces drawn down, in part to make it easier to claim that they booted the foreigners out, she said.
There are mixed reports from across the country about security in the areas where the Afghan government forces have been in the lead awhile or have just taken it, Clark said. Her organization has received unconfirmed reports that the Afghan forces have ceded territory to the Taliban via mutual agreement in some places in the east and south. But in other places, the government troops are fighting fiercely, she said.
The withdrawal of foreign troops in some areas seems to have emboldened insurgents, who've been seen gathering in numbers that they never would have dared when NATO forces were around, she said.
Jones said it was true that the Afghan government forces had given away turf to the insurgents in some areas, including parts of Garmsir District in Helmand province. That's important, he said, but perhaps less a concern for the United States than the larger numbers of foreign recruits that have begun showing up recently among the insurgents. If the government forces aren't up to the task in key provinces in the east along the Pakistani border, significant numbers of terrorist training camps could be established there, he said.
"This should be an Afghan-led and Afghan-fought war, and I think that resonates and will increasingly resonate with Americans," Jones said.
"On the other hand, the reason the U.S. went to Afghanistan in the first place is the terrorism issue, and that is something to monitor closely."
It probably will be late fall, after the seasonal fighting has died down, before a proper assessment of how the Afghan national forces are doing is possible, Jones said.
All the talk of whether the government is holding its ground or the Taliban are gaining, Clark said, can be troubling.
A years-long standoff is hardly a victory for the civilians, she said, given that they probably would continue dying in large numbers.
Nearly 3,100 were killed or wounded in the first five months of this year, up 24 percent from the same period in 2012, Jan Kubis, the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, said last week.
"It's all fairly horrific if you're an Afghan civilian," Clark said. "I don't think it's good to indulge in this 'Is the Taliban winning, is the Afghan government winning?' That's sort of the wrong question, because war is just so disastrous for anyone on the ground."