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4.6 RC2 Available, Last Chance to Test
KDE's release team has rolled another set of 4.6 tarballs for us all to test and report problems: 4.6 RC2 This is the last test release leading up to 4.6.0, which is planned for 26th January.
Unassigned regression in Dragon player, seemingly easy to fix
... for someone who knows to code:
(Dragon player does not prevent screen saver from kicking in)
By Mark at Wed, 2011/01/05 - 9:45pm
I agree that this is a "nice
I agree that this is a "nice to have" feature and that the infrastructure is there to implement it. However, I don't think that this is the place for individuals to promote their idiosyncratic wishes. Apart from that, it is way to late for a new feature in 4.6 due to the freezes.
By Mutlu Inek at Wed, 2011/01/05 - 10:36pm
Well, it is a bug, so it is
Well, it is a bug, so it is still possible to fix it in KDE 4.6.x. And I am awaiting Mark's patch, since it is so "easy to fix".
By christoph at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 12:58am
It is a bug and more specific
It is a bug and more specific a (annoying) regression due to a change in another part of KDE. I put it here, because it is on the list of unassigned bugs in the hope someone who is able to do this would change this 3 lines of code which is all what is to do according to a blog entry.
By Mark at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 8:57am
As a symptom of the wider
As a symptom of the wider issues showing in KDE, it is absolutely right to raise it here, as I said in the article :
By Tom Chiverton at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 7:23pm
I did not want to write it
I did not want to write it that way because I am happy that KDE is evolving. The problems are with those parts of KDE which have lost their maintainer. There does not seem to be a mechanism to really raise awareness when regressions happen through changes in other parts of KDE. I am not sure who reads unassigned bugs. If I would be able to code, I would do it for sure. If understand that blog entry right, the fix should be done in few minutes. I did not want to complain, but I hoped that someone, may be even new one could jump in.
By Mark at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 10:48pm
Just to avoid spreading FUD,
Just to avoid spreading FUD, as I already replied on my blog.
"hidden the option to recreate it" is something you made up and totally untrue: the location of the option for creating new profiles is the same since KDE 4.1.
The "horrible hoop" of creating a presentation profile is:
- Go to the profile editor
By default, every control is disabled: here's your new presentation profile.
The rationale of removing the presentation profile from the defaults is that the user should not care about these things in the first place - the developers should instead. Just allow some time for anybody else to pick it up, providing a default profile for that is just a way for preventing this change to happen. And I think people who need it badly can sustain doing 2 clicks for creating one.
By Dario Freddi at Fri, 2011/01/07 - 12:12am
I am sorry that is just such a GNOMEism. Trying to do the better design in a way that is less useful to users and makes it cumbersome to users to get actual real-life work done. At least we still have the option to add it, but seriously, this sucks.
By carewolf at Fri, 2011/01/07 - 3:53pm
I don't think so actually,
I don't think so actually, and I'll tell you why.
First of all, KDE was the only desktop environment providing such a setting, given that we still did not have a way for handling this situation properly.
More than that, we will try to push this specification out into freedesktop.org, so that other non-KDE applications can benefit from it.
If the above shall fail, application can still integrate this feature, as it is exposed through DBus as well - in this case, we will provide patches for major apps (such as OO.org) to fix that, in the hope they will be accepted.
This is just the first step in giving a better experience to users - we are just asking for some patience, because the only way for pushing a new feature is to show off that it works and it gives some benefits to developers.
And after all, from a user's point of view remember that:
1. You can create a presentation profile easily, as I told you before.
I hope this makes things clearer.
By Dario Freddi at Fri, 2011/01/07 - 6:31pm
Why not just keep the menu
Why not just keep the menu option till, at the very least, all KDE applications have adopted the new way of doing things ?
By Tom Chiverton at Sat, 2011/01/08 - 10:44pm
The point is that the
The point is that the *default* option was removed for new users. We did not wipe the possibility out, we are simply advising the user against doing that, but you are still able to create your profile and work the way you want - which is pretty much the KDE way.
By Dario Freddi at Sun, 2011/01/09 - 12:02pm
Small script to improve KDE
It kills all the processes started by KDE that nobody except their developers want:
SHIIT=(akonadi_control akonadiserver mysqld akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_maildispatcher_agent akonadi_nepomuk_calendar_feeder akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder nepomukserver)
for s in "${SHIIT[@]}"
exit 0
By trixl.. at Wed, 2011/01/05 - 11:11pm
Your life can be easier...
Simply execute "akonadictl stop". It will not kill nepomukserver, but Nepomuk can be easily disabled in System Settings.
Your other option is to compile kdebase without Akonadi support. Then Plasma will not start it in the first place (unless you want to use KDEPIM, of course).
By christoph at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 12:55am
That's a very good advice!
That's a very good advice! Btw. Nepomuk is disabled in the system settings (per default in suse), but somehow it's stubborn and starts anyway.
Do you think KDE would nicely compile without support for Akonadi and Nepomuk? That would be a reason to switch to Gentoo.
By trixl.. at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 1:07am
tweaked KDE builds
You could build your own KDE without Nepomuk or Akonadi in the openSUSE Build Service too. Use Gentoo if your bedroom is chilly at night.
We're enabling Nepomuk by default in 11.4 again.
By Will Stephenson at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 8:22am
Same issue with RC1
Currently have 4.4.3 installed. Does this mean I need phonon-4.4.4?
[ 62%] Building CXX object phonon/kded-module/CMakeFiles/kded_phononserver.dir/phononserver.o
By stumbles at Thu, 2011/01/06 - 10:59am
Moving window is jerky during for 1 second and w/ launch notif
Hi ! First, congrats for the great work !!!
Using Kubuntu 10.10 + nvidia 9800M GTX proprietary drivers.
In 4.6 RC1 the animations got very jerky.
- when moving a window, when the transparency plugin is enabled, the animation is very jerky during the first second (of half second) then it gets perfectly smooth again
- moving a window when launching an app at the same time makes the animation jerky as long as the icon is bouncing (launch notifier)
In 4.5.x there was no such issue.
By mahen at Sat, 2011/01/08 - 11:13am
Try this
By Simas at Sun, 2011/01/09 - 5:28pm
Thanks for the tip. It makes
Thanks for the tip. It makes no difference though. (I tried this under the latest Chakra liveCD with KDE 4.6rc2. -- by the way, contrary to my former Kubuntu install, animation is always very jerky while moving a windows ; under Kubuntu it used to be jerky during the first second of a move operation only).
Other animations like "scale / exposé" are very smooth on the other hand.
In 4.5.5 it's almost always perfectly smooth (although it's not always optimal).
By mahen at Wed, 2011/01/12 - 8:36am
MediaTomb (upnp) in places not working.
Just installed rc2 and noticed my MediaTomb (in same machine) as a folder in places. But clicking it does nothing.
Tried to submit a bug, but somehow my newly created kde account was not accepted...
By zaris at Sat, 2011/01/08 - 1:13pm
Nepomuk error
The nepomuk error continues to appear after login, and another error interrupts the logout process. I think those two errors should be resolved before the 4.6.0 release since they are pretty obvious and weren't present in 4.5.x.
By trixl.. at Sat, 2011/01/08 - 10:39pm
This is true. Especially as
This is true. Especially as it seems there is a patch ready -- as far as I understand from lurking on the nepomuk list.
And also because in 4.5, nepomuk worked for me very well, and I'd be sad to not have it for a couple (point) releases. And although I know it is not the main point of nepomuk, the search/indexing is extremely useful in combination with alt-F2.
Not, not just useful. Really cool actually.
Speaking of nepomuk: I expect that having this search part stable and working will yield more usage, and therefore more interest, and this is how the promise of nepomuk will be bootstrapped.
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Not so long back, I advocated dropping Trescothick, because his recent form has been so disappointing. He scored a fine hundred in his first match back, and since then I think he has only passed 50 once, and against Pakistan he averaged less than 20, the first time he has ever had such poor figures in a Test series.
However, I would not drop him for the Ashes, but for a long time I have heard and read people saying that Tresco should move down the order, as he has such a good player of spin. How good he is is somewhat debatable because he didn't exactly dominate Murali. However, Tresco dropping down would mean Strauss and Cook opening, which worked in Nagpur.
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On the other hand, though, it's hard to feel sorry for Strauss having to carry the burden of captaincy and opening, when you consider that Flintoff captained, opened the bowling and scored four fifties and a 41 in 5 innings in India. As well as that, he and Trescothick have a fine record opening together in Tests, and Strauss's recent form, when captaining and opening, has been excellent. It's also worth nothing that Tresco and Cook haven't really batted together very often, as more often that not this summer it's been Tresco's wicket that has fallen first, though I think they did put a few on together at Lord's against Sri Lanka.
The final option, is, of course, that status quo. England have won four Tests out of seven with Tresco-Strauss-Cook as the top order, even if one was by forefeit. Strauss and Cook have weighed in with a fine share of runs, and surely Tresco has runs up his sleeve?
Cook, despite being a natural opener, seems to have taken to the number three role, and let's be honest, there's not been a whole lot of difference between batting at 1 or 3 lately, in terms of when you come in. However, in spite of Cook's impressive start to Test Cricket - he averages 54.35 - he does appear to have a weakness against spin. This will sound bizarre to some, but if Tresco and Strauss where to make great starts, andCook was coming in at 100+ for one down, Warne would be on, and I don't think he would score that many.
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Biologists work to solve bat mystery in Western North Carolina mountains
In North Carolina, endangered Virginia big-eared bats are known from only two caves at Grandfather Mountain, where they hibernate. What has puzzled biologists for years is where these bats go in the summer to give birth. This spring a massive effort aims to answer that question.
About 12,000 Virginia big-eared bats are known to exist in four states and 400 of those hibernate in the Grandfather Mountain caves. This species typically hibernates in one place, and with warmer weather, the two sexes each migrate to different locations for the summer, with the females departing to give birth and rear their young in a maternity colony. This migration is limited, with bats usually moving less than 20 miles from their hibernation site. It's known that some males summer on a viaduct at Grandfather Mountain, and the females are expected to be somewhere in the rugged, remote, and sparsely populated areas surrounding Grandfather Mountain, though no one knows where.
"Finding those bats will not only solve a mystery, but will also get us a few steps closer to removing these bats from the endangered species list," said Joy O'Keefe, an assistant professor at Indiana State University who is heading the search.
Knowing where the endangered bats maintain their maternity colony would allow biologists to help conserve the sites.
"This will give people and organizations that are planning construction projects, like the North Carolina Department of Transportation, a clearer idea of special areas to keep in mind during project planning," said Sue Cameron, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). "At the same time, it'll tell wildlife biologists where to focus conservation efforts."
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In early spring, as the bats begin to emerge from hibernation, biologists will attach tiny transmitters to their backs. The challenge for the biologists is to keep track of the radio signal being transmitted from the bats across the area's rugged terrain. The signals can be blocked by rock, easily being lost should a bat duck into an unknown cave.
In recounting a previous effort to find the bats, O'Keefe remarked, "They never found a maternity roost. Bats seemed to just disappear on the landscape."
Tracking the signal this time will be a three-pronged effort. First, four temporary towers, each about 30 feet tall, will be strategically placed on high mountain peaks. The towers will be equipped with data loggers that will record information every time it picks up a transmission. Secondly, there will be teams of biologists on the ground with receivers, driving the area to pick up signals. The effort's third prong should really boost the chances of success – an airplane will fly the area picking up the transmitter signals from above, where they won't be hampered by signal blockages from rock outcrops or ridgelines. Signals picked up from the air will also help guide the ground crews.
The plane is provided by Copperhead Environmental Consulting, a Kentucky-based company starting to establish a reputation for tracking bats from the air. Last year they tracked a pair of endangered Indiana bats from Tennessee; one into Alabama, and one into Georgia, marking the first known occurrence of that species in Georgia in over 50 years.
This activity will be packed into a two-month period, after which the transmitters' batteries will go dead and the airwaves will go silent. Eventually the bats will shed the transmitters. Biologists plan to duplicate the effort in the spring of 2014, then use the collected data to deduce the locations of the maternity colonies. Another Virginia big-eared bat study is underway in Kentucky, and it's hoped information from both studies can be combined to provide a broader understanding of the ecology of the species.
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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
Exclusive new images featured in one of our articles for NK News Pro have revealed the construction of four 77 metres long corvettes is in an advanced stage, once again showing rearmament of the ill-equipped Korean People's Navy is continuing at an unexpected pace.
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A Navy reborn: New warships spotted in North Korea
Exclusive HD photos reveal secretive new class of large warships with advanced capabilities set to enter service
''Four new large naval combatants are being constructed in the DPRK, set to become the new centerpieces of a fleet that has seen a range of new projects slowly replace the obsolete equipment from the Cold War. Although progress on the new corvettes, two of which have been under assembly since 2011, has been slow and disorderly, new images show their entry into service may not take much longer. At a length of 77 meters each, the new vessels constitute the largest naval project undertaken by the Korean People's Navy (KPN) in decades, bringing new capabilities to the table that represent a tangible threat to opposing navies in the region.''
The full analysis of these vessels, which incorporate a variety of the latest technologies available to the KPN, can be found at the NK Pro website here: https://www.nknews.org/pro/a-navy-reborn-new-warships-spotted-in-north-korea/
A free NK News article featuring various experts in the field of North Korean weapon proliferation on the new corvettes can be read here: https://www.nknews.org/2016/11/exclusive-new-low-visibility-corvette-spotted-in-north-korea/
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KPA Navy flag ship undergoing radical modernization
North Korean Kh-35 anti-ship missiles shed light on a modernizing navy
First North Korean SLBM presents wholly novel threat
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- Spitfire18 November 2016 at 12:47
Do you think "North korea" is capable of building these new weapons on its own?
Design seems stealthy.
I will welcome a detailed comment from you. Thanks.Replies
Funny, they look like the latest Russian corvettes...Delete
- Anonymous8 December 2016 at 17:56
Actually they are quite different:ReplyDelete
apparently the North Koreans have created two different classes of new corvettesReplyDelete
This is the original photo, made probably Najin North Korea, a souvenir photo of this artifact and ..... looking at the photo left here are the two new NK corvettes classesReplyDelete
Two classes in this image,ReplyDelete
And another two corvette class in Nampho.
And new FAC - 45 mt. +/- 500 ton.ReplyDelete
Who is behind Oryx blog? Are you basically a Helion affiliate? I can't find any background information about the authors.ReplyDeleteReplies
What do you want to know?Delete
I saw your upcoming book on DPRK and my local hobby shop carries all of their titles - I was wondering if you're an adjunct of Helion or some other publishing group, whether you've published any other titles still in print, and/or host a commcial website. When you said "behind a paywall" I wondered where I go to pay and keep reading.Delete
LOVE your blog, by the way, it's excellent! ^_^
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After 2016, shipments of a trillion or more chips is expected to become the norm. The forecast is based on data published in the 2014 edition of "The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry." While the sheer number of semiconductor shipments is impressive, the report also takes the long view of the past four decades to show how far the industry has come.
For example, in 1978 semiconductor unit shipments totaled 32.6 billion. During the next 36 years, the average annual growth rate averaged 9.4% — a testament to the increasing reliance on semiconductors in different aspects of modern life. However, the market is not without its slumps. Between 2008 and 2013, the annual growth rate slowed to just about 5% as a result of a worldwide economic recession. Now that most of the global economy has recovered, the growth rate is expected to reach 8%, a sign that the industry has not suffered any long-term effects and that the desire for semiconductors is still strong, especially in the increasingly popular mobile market.
The report's historic information finds that semiconductors first topped the 100-billion shipment mark in 1987. From there, it took another 19 years, until 2006, for the market to reach 500 billion units. The next 100-billion unit mark was achieved the very next year, as the market topped 600 billion units in 2007. Thus the total of unit shipments of semiconductors has steadily increased at higher rates over time, bringing about each milestone at a quicker pace compared to the last. That is thanks in part of the consumer market and the explosive growth of items from smartphones to game consoles.
Since 1978, the percentage of ICs and OSD devices among total semiconductor shipments has remained about the same, in spite of various changes in the industry and advances in integrated circuit technology. ICs made up 21% of semiconductor units in 1978, whereas OSD devices accounted for 79% of total units. In 2016, OSD devices are expected to make up 74% of total semiconductor units compared to 26% for ICs.


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Isaac Todhunter
Born: 23 November 1820 in Rye, Sussex, England
Died: 1 March 1884 in Cambridge, England
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Isaac Todhunter's father, George Todhunter, was a minister at a church in Rye. He died when Isaac was six years old and this left the family in severe financial difficulties. Isaac's mother Mary Bower (1790-1860; the daughter of William Bower) moved to Hastings and opened a girls' school. Isaac Todhunter had an older brother George Todhunter born 27 May 1819.
Todhunter was sent to a school in Hastings but did not show any promise even being described as 'unusually backward'. However, after being sent to a new school set by J B Austin from London, Isaac made excellent progress.
After leaving school he became an assistant school master at a school in Peckham but attended evening classes at London University where he was taught by De Morgan. He passed the entrance examinations and won a scholarship to study mathematics at London University, where, in addition to De Morgan, he was taught by Sylvester. While taking his degree course Todhunter also worked as a mathematics teacher at a large school in Wimbledon. He obtained a BA from University College London in 1842 and then an MA in 1844 with a prize for the top mark in the examination.
He went to St John's College Cambridge, entering the College in 1844 and becoming senior wrangler and Smith's prizeman in 1848. He was elected a fellow of the college in 1849 and taught there for 15 years. He also undertook work as a private tutor and P G Tait and E J Routh were among his pupils. One of his pupils was Leslie Stephen, the father of the author Virginia Woolf, who studied mathematics at Cambridge with Todhunter as his tutor. Stephen gave a delightful description of Todhunter as follows:-
He lived in a perfect atmosphere of mathematics: his books, all ranged in the neatest order, and covered with uniform brown paper, were mathematical. His talk, to us at any rate, was one round mathematics. Even his chairs and tables strictly limited to the requirements of pupils, and the pattern on his carpet, seemed to breath mathematics. By what mysterious process it was that he accumulated stores of miscellaneous information and knew all about the events of the time (for such I afterwards discovered to be the fact) I have never been able to guess. Probably he imbibed it through the pores of his skin. Still less can I imagine how it came to pass that he published a whole series of excellent mathematical works. He probably wrote them in momentary interstices of time between one pupil's entering his sanctum and another leaving it.In [7] there is a description of Todhunter's interests which suggests that he had more interests outside mathematics than his students realised:-
Todhunter's life was mainly that of a studious recluse. His sustained industry and methodical distribution of his time enabled him to acquire a wide acquaintance with general and foreign literature; and besides being a sound Latin and Greek scholar, he was familiar with French, German, Spanish, Italian, and also Russian, Hebrew, and Sanscrit. He was well versed in the history of philosophy, and on three occasions acted as examiner for the moral sciences tripos. His habits and tastes were singularly simple; and to a gentle kindly disposition he united a high sense of honour, a warm sympathy with all that was calculated to advance the cause of genuinely scientific study in the university, and considerable humour.
Todhunter married Louisa Anna Maria Davies. They had four children Edward (born 1867), Arthur (born 1869), Agnes (born 1870),and Herbert (born 1875).
Todhunter progressed from fellow to principal mathematical lecturer at St John's College where he resisted all attempts to reduce the central role of Euclid in mathematics courses. Sylvester had said in his British Association address of 1869:-
I should rejoice to see ... Euclid honourably shelved or buried deeper than ever did plummet sound, out of the schoolboy's reach....Todhunter replied:-
Whatever may have produced the dislike to Euclid in the illustrious mathematician..., there is no ground for supposing that he would have been better pleased with the substitutes which are now offered and recommended in its place.Todhunter was always ready to respond to arguments and when Tait said:-
From the majority of the papers in our few mathematical journals, one would almost be led to fancy that British mathematicians have too much pride to use a simple method, while an unnecessarily complex one be had.Todhunter replied:-
I take down some of these volumes, and turning over the pages I find article after article by Profs Cayley, Salmon and Sylvester, not to mention many other highly distinguished names. The idea of amending the elaborate essays of these eminent mathematicians seems to me something like the audacity recorded in poetry with which a superhuman hero climbs to the summit of the Indian Olympus and overturns the thrones of Vishnu, Brahma and Siva.In 1864 Todhunter resigned his fellowship at St John's College, which he was forced to do as he wished to marry. His marriage to Louisa Anna Maria Davies took place on 13 August 1864. Todhunter had been elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He became a founding member of the London Mathematical Society in 1865 along with De Morgan.
In 1874 Todhunter was elected as an honorary fellow of St John's College but he was taken ill in 1880 and, from that time on, his health deteriorated. He became progressively more paralysed with an illness which led to his death.
Todhunter is best known for his textbooks and his writing on the history of mathematics. Among his textbooks are Analytic Statics (1853), Plane Coordinate Geometry (1855), Examples of Analytic geometry in Three Dimensions (1858). He also wrote some more elementary texts, for example Algebra (1858), Trigonometry (1859), Theory of Equations (1861), Euclid (1862), Mechanics (1867) and Mensuration (1869).
Among his books on the history of mathematics are A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to that of Laplace (1865, reprinted 1965) and History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction (1873).
The wide circulation of his books is described in [7]:-
No mathematical treatises on elementary subjects probably ever attained so wide a circulation; and, being adopted by the Indian government, they were translated into Urdu and other Oriental languages.Todhunter received many awards for his contributions to mathematics. In addition to the fellowship of the Royal Society he served on its Council in 1874, the same year in which he was awarded the Adams Prize for his work Researches on the calculus of variations.
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Every healthcare provider wants to get paid, of course. However, collecting the ever-growing portion of revenue that patients owe is tough, and getting tougher. That being said, the majority of providers recognize that they have a big problem and are working to boost the volume and speed of patient payments, a new study finds.
The study, which is sponsored by claims management and patient payments vendor Navicure in affiliation with Porter Research, connected with 300 of professionals, including practice administrators (36%), C-suite executives (25%) and billing managers (35%). Forty-one percent of organizations had 1 to 10 providers, 31% had 11 to 50 providers, 12% had 51 to 100 providers and 17% had more than 100 providers.
In responding to the survey, 63% of survey respondents said that patient payment processes were a high priority for their leadership teams. Their challenges in collecting from patients included patients' inability to pay (31%), difficulty educating patients about the financial responsibility (26%) and slow-paying patients (25%).
It's not surprising that collecting patient payments is a priority for many organizations. The study found that patient payment revenue made up 11% to 20% of total revenue for almost a third of organizations that responded. Twenty percent of organizations said patient payments accounted for 21% to 30% of total revenue, and for 23%, patient payments accounted for more than 31% of total revenue.
More than half (57%) of respondents said they educate patients about their financial responsibility, but only 42% said they always estimate the patient's cost at the time of service. What's more, few have implemented steps that might streamline payment. Sixty-two percent do not offer credit card on file programs, 52% don't have automated payment plans in place, and 57% don't send electronic statements to patients.
To address these issues, Navicure recommends that providers make several changes in their patient payment processes. These include viewing patients' eligibility information prior to or at the time of service, collecting copays and outstanding balances, creating care estimates and enrolling patients in any available payment plans.
While the survey doesn't address this issue directly, it also doesn't hurt to make bills more readable. I've read accounts of some hospital billing departments and medical office staffers spending hours on the phone with patients going over charges. Not only does this frustrate the patients, and undermine their relationship with your organization, it wastes a lot of time. Cleaning up bill formats can go a long way toward smoothing out routine payment issues.
On that note, it probably makes sense to roll out patient-friendly billing technologies. More than 70% of respondents who have replaced paper statements with online bill payment and e-statements would recommend this technology to a peer, and 42% of respondents using automated payment plans were very or completely satisfied.
Ultimately, however, collecting more from patients probably calls for changes in policy, the research suggests. While 35% ask for a partial deposit before service, and 26% collect all of what a patient owes before service, 18% of respondents said they didn't collect anything before prior to service, and 21% said they didn't charge until claims were processed.


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NPS said that Patton replaces former NPS CEO and president John Danner, who is leaving the company. Additionally, NPS announced the departure of Parthiv Amin, NPS president of distributed wind.
Patton has been with NPS since 2009 when he joined from Vestas where he was senior vice president of engineering and products. Before Vestas, Troy held roles in GE gas-turbine and wind-turbine businesses.
"We are very pleased to appoint Troy Patton as president and CEO of NPS," said John Simon, chairman of the board. "Over the past few years Troy has led the successful development of the NPS 2.3MW permanent magnet direct-drive wind turbine, and he is an industry veteran who has earned the respect of the board, our employees and our customers."
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his is a different gift idea for the one you call father. Perhaps he likes cigars but can't have them anymore, or can… This is a 4 piece set of different smelling cologne for men that is housed in what looks to be some fairly realistic looking cigars. The ends come off and reveal little mister spray caps that let you apply the cologne. The cologne contains notes of Bergamot, Lavender, Vetiver blended with Woods and Jasmine. It's a casual use cologne that goes for about $45 in department stores.
I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars, I'm not partial to most of the smells, but I'd use them if they were given to me. This is an incredibly subjective opinion because what smells one person likes is not good to another and so on. The container is original, it is a conversation piece, and it is certainly a manly gift for the 2013 Father's Day Gift list. You can pick this up at FragranceNet.


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|Blood, Mature Humor, Sexual Themes, Use of Drugs, Violence
The game also excels in the audio department. Having the show's voice cast really helps the game out, and the music includes orchestral numbers reminiscent of the show's many musical interludes. However, the sound effects for the enemies and environments are literally lifted directly from the show. While this is somewhat cool in the beginning, it gets incredibly boring and repetitive very quickly. In addition, the sound quality from these copy/pasted clips is nowhere near as good as the quality of the voices recorded specifically for the game. It gives the game a bit of a sloppy feel that just rubs me the wrong way.
The game features both co-op and competitive multiplayer, but both of these feel like an afterthought. In co-op, one of you controls Brian and the other controls Stewie, but the game really doesn't change more than that. Competitive multiplayer offers Family Guy variations on classic shooter modes like Death Match, Capture the Flag, and Horde Mode, but in offline mode only. In fact, there isn't any online component to this game at all, which is an absolutely criminal offense in this day and age.
However, you can ignore everything that I have said in the past few paragraphs because it's impossible to get past one simple fact: The game just isn't funny. Even if you remove gameplay from the equation, the story amounts to a below-average episode of the show at very best. By passing this game up, even diehard Family Guy fans aren't missing anything other than a few "Meg is ugly" jokes and a pirate remix of the knee-holding gag.
If you absolutely must experience everything with the Family Guy logo on it, rent the game with a couple buddies and play through the incredibly short single-player campaign in a few hours over some beers. Otherwise, I'd suggest purchasing a Family Guy DVD box set over this game for your Family Guy-obsessed friend or loved one this holiday season.
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text: I know that the world is currently inundated with MJ news. That said, I figured that since I made a church organ related post last week, I should follow it up with the footage from Robert Ridgell's tribute to Michael. Although the Trinity Wall Street Church's organ is an electric facsimile of a pipe organ, I'll give them a pass, as it seems their old pipe organ was taken out by 9-11 debris & fallout.


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But nearly after the last turn of the century, there was no fair chance for a comprehensive reformation of clothes or even for taking a light- or airbath. And the life-reformer of the past, which renounced to the corset and the stiff collar and who exposed their bodies in naturism to sun and air, got lenient smiled upon as they were madman or they got even prosecuted for being seen as vagabonds.
M.E.G. Gottlieb was a combative man and he wanted to do something against the nonsense of this extrinsic way of living. Because he was well read, he stroke on the idea, to reinstall unction, based upon the way it was done in the antiquity.
At that time, every bath was rounded off with unction – olive oil with aromatic essences was used. These recipes of the antiquity got expanded by Gottlieb with herbal extracts, which he mixed with the oils. Using this method, he wanted to animate the skin functions and affect the body directly through the skin (derma-oils). Therefore the brand name "Diaderma" (Greek = through the skin) with the antique darter as symbol and the label "skin-tonic oil" for the products.
As the years passed by, Gottlieb developed besides medication, a whole body care program that was based on the early skin-tonic oils. Throughout the two world wars the Production of the company got impeded, because vegetable oils were not available for the usage of body care. After Gottlieb died early in 1923 the tradition was kept still alive over decades, by Ms. Clara Schmalz, a long term employee and co-partner of Gottlieb.
1958 the company was rearranged into a limited partnership, in which Ms. Clara Schmalz affiliated her nephew and her assistants August and Rudi Schmalz plus the authorized representative Albert Hammer as limited partners. She passed away 1960 and the company became a partnership with these three men as equal partners. At the end of the Seventies, Rudi Schmalz and Albert Hammer retired. August Schmalz bought their shares and took his daughter Brigitte Bethke-Jaenicke and his son Dr. Wolf-Dieter Schmalz as limited partners into the company.
Today the company is a private limited company with a limited partnership including August Schmalz, Dr. Wolf-Dieter Schmalz and Ms. Brigitte Bethke-Jaenicke as partners. General Managers are Mr. August Schmalz, Dr. Wolf-Dieter Schmalz (Development and Production) and Klaus Bethke-Jaenicke (Distribution). The company ARYA LA VA, which foundation goes also back to the year 1905 was taken over by Diaderma in 1970, which gave the company the possibility for installing an exclusive brand in health food shops. The Diaderma program got built-in into the ARYA LAYA program.
Diaderma got distributed to pharmacies, drug-stores, hospitals, masseurs, bathhouses, sanatoriums and other speciality stores whereas from now on ARYA LA YA was only available at health food shops with the "neuform" seal.
The "neuform" seal assures the German Customer that its approved products are of the highest quality, contain ingredients "as natural as possible", have no ingredients from dead animals and were manufactured with the highest regard to the ecology and the environment. All products of ARYA LAYA are only clinically tested.
Simultaneously with the overtaking of the company ARYA LA YA, a wide spread cosmetic program – nurturing and even decorative cosmetic – was acquired and is still developed by its own development department and been hold up to date to the newest scientific standards of course following the "neuform" quality guidelines.
In the 70s, 80s and 90s the premise for producing pharmaceutical, health care and cosmetics according to GMP guidelines were made by building extension and alteration, that fit with the current law and to self-imposed claims to our quality standard. These quality standards and reforming ideas were used during the foundation time of Diaderma and they will always be our profound base upcoming times in the future.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Like the Ken and Ryu of WoW.....
If Ken and Ryu were mentally challenged and trying to sodomize each other with a pickle. That is the only way I can explain the most recent of my fail pugs. Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum is a more accurate description for these legends.
Let me set it up for you. It is me on my tree, my buddy TJ on his Warrior tank, and Aussie James on his Death Knight. We group up and queue for a random dungeon and get UP. East emblems. When we get there, we are greated by a Ret Pally and Deathknight that are from the same guild. They are also in the most craptastic gear you can imagine. Both of them were rocking several pieces of the blue pvp saronite gear.
The Retardin has a few Heirloom pieces including the sword. The DK is rocking an ilvl 174 green weapon. With their gear, it it wasnt a piece of pvp gear, it was a green item. No enchants. No gems. Well lets give them a chance shall we.
After the first pull, the DK is doing 1000 dps. The Paladin is doing 800.......yes as a ret paladin. I was doing more at level 70 with even crappier gear on my ret pally. And he handed out ghetto buffs.....no reagents is all aboard the failboat.
We clear all the way to the first boss. They are still sitting at around 1000 and 800 dps each. I send a vote out to kick the paladin. It fails.....then I notice that bot of the nublets are from the same guild. At this point, I decide that I should attempt to out dps both of them while healing.
I pass the ret paladin in total damage done on the next boss. By the end of the instance, I was very close to passing the DK as well. This despite not doing in damage on the several trash pulls on the way to the first boss.
On the last boss, the crit melee trinket drops......surely both of them will roll need right? No. I win the roll when I greed it. I am wondering if they just really didnt care to get upgrades? Or perhaps they didnt want it because there was not enought intellect or spellpower 0_0
This is just another example of terribad players. We literally could have three manned the instance with just about the same efficiency. Aussie James did more damage that both combined.....I think that TJ on his tank may have done the same.
6 comments:
- Vordan said...
I just did several instances on Mopars dk and thats using two different specs...his dps sets around 1000k in tank gear lol.
- December 18, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Arioch said...
My friend on a level 65 ret pally was pulling over 1k in Outlands instances. I imagine by our first NR dungeon he'll be at 2k.
- December 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Pangoria Fallstar said...
Of course the problem is that you can defeat most outside mobs while doing 800dps.
- December 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM
- Vordan said...
I know I was a ret noob I was doing 1200 dps when I hit 80 because I had no hit...I think my percentage was at .43 talk about embarrassing but I can say I did regs before I hit heroics. Maybe they were not hit capped?
- December 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Maybe they were just tourists...
- December 18, 2009 at 9:32 PM
- Heywood Djiblomi said...
"...by our first NR dungeon he'll be at 2k."
No. The curve from 65 to 68 (or 70) does not get that steep.
But he (or she) will be WAY ahead of the rest of the Retnoobs that give the spec a bad name.
- December 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM


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Another timely post given the weather here in the U.S. "Hotter 'n Hades" as my grandma used to say — makes you just want to jump in the nearest lake:
Hard to tell who the adult is in this photo, but I'm pretty confident it's our star sporting the swimming fashion of the time period (compare to two photos down).
I *think* this is the same youngster pictured in the boat scene above.
That's definitely our star on the left. I think that the older child has appeared before and I assume it's her son. Here's another photo of him (he's on the right).
It kills me that our star had kids, who presumably had kids, who ditched these photos. Phooey.
Difficult to know if these next photos are of the same waterway where the two boat scenes above occurred — maybe they were taken on the way home. Anyone recognize these scenes?
The above is a neat shot — I love how the photographer captured the car in the distance. It's kind of far away to try and figure out what type of vehicle it was, but here's a crop of it anyhow:


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Mulder ruptures Achilles during workout, needs surgery
Veteran left-hander's effort to come out of retirement with Angels takes serious hit
TEMPE, Ariz. -- For three and a half months, Mark Mulder trained like he never really had before, pushing his arm to new limits to prepare for Spring Training and the hopes of returning to the Majors after a five-year retirement.
A ruptured left Achilles tendon, suffered during a harmless agility drill Saturday morning, may have ended that pursuit before it could officially begin.
"I can handle this," Mulder wrote on his Twitter account, @markmulder20, shortly after receiving the MRI results. "But seeing my son in tears when he saw me in a boot and crutches and I told him I wasn't going to pitch - that was tough."
The injury -- the same one Ryan Howard suffered while making the last out of the 2011 National League Division Series -- will require surgery and typically takes months to recover from. Given Mulder's age (36), his no-strings-attached Minor League contract and his general acceptance of being away from the game, he'll probably opt for a return to retired life.
"My heart goes out to him," said Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto, who didn't want to speculate on what decision Mulder would make about his future. "I know how hard he worked, and we're all disappointed for him. Every one of us."
Mulder is expected to address the media from Angels camp on Sunday morning.
Prior to that, the left-hander talked openly about how good his arm felt and how ready he was to attempt a comeback few have ever completed.
It started in October, when Mulder was watching Dodgers reliever Paco Rodriguez pitch in the playoffs, stood up in his living room, mimicked a quicker, more fluent delivery, translated it to the pitching rubber and came away amazed by how much better it made him throw.
"I haven't had the ball come out of my hand like this in a very long time," Mulder said over the offseason, "and it's fun."
He dazzled in a late-November bullpen session and hooked on with the Angels on an incentive-laden contract that would pay him anywhere between $1 million and $6 million if he made the Major League roster. Then, shortly after the New Year, Mulder made sure his arm could stand up to the rigors of being a starting pitcher by engaging in two 100-plus-pitch simulated games, followed by 40-plus-pitch bullpen sessions twice a week leading up to Spring Training.
Mulder noticed gradual improvement, both with his stuff and his command, every time he stepped on the mound.
Eight days ago, everything clicked.
"That was the first day I really thought to myself, 'OK, I'm ready to start this,'" Mulder said Friday.
The following morning, he sustained what's probably a season-ending ankle injury during a change-of-direction warm-up drill at one of the back fields of the Tempe Diablo Stadium complex, minutes before throwing his first bullpen session in front of Angels coaches.
The Angels weren't necessarily counting on a Mulder comeback, so his injury isn't expected to intensify their pursuit of outside starting pitching help. Tyler Skaggs, 22, is still the favorite for the fifth spot in the rotation, but Joe Blanton's importance has suddenly heightened as a potential fallback option.
The Angels are still not expected to sign any starters to a Major League contract, especially guys like Ubaldo Jimenez and Ervin Santana, who are tied to Draft-pick compensation.
Mulder was the second overall pick by the A's in the 1998 First-Year Player Draft and established himself as one of the game's premier left-handers over a five-year period, averaging 18 wins and posting a 3.65 ERA from 2001-05. But he pitched only 12 2/3 innings with the Cardinals from 2007-08, a product of two rotator cuff surgeries, and moved on immediately thereafter, briefly trying his hand at professional golf before becoming an ESPN analyst.
His attempt at a comeback was the result of an epiphany, not the necessity to fill a void.
"I don't know what's going to come of it," Mulder said previously, "but I just know that I'm very confident in what I'm doing, and I'd like to think that when the Angels people see me throw, I'm going to hopefully turn some heads."
Mulder never got that chance.


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You can use it to display available API documentation (extracted from class/method comments) and to provide custom documentation in form of simple written text books. These informations are extracted from the image by two predefined help builder classes that convert the help contents to instances of "HelpTopic". These HelpTopics can be nested (book structure) and displayed in a HelpBrowser. Since help text is extracted/stored in classes and methods you can use the usual tools to maintain and package help contents together with your code.
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Three French Test rugby stars are rushed to hospital after a brutal machete attack at a Clermont training camp in the southern French city of Millau.
French rugby is reeling after three Test stars who play for glamour club Clermont were rushed to hospital after being attacked by thugs wielding machetes, knives and swords.
Benjamin Kayser, Julien Pierre and Aurélien Rougerie were set upon by up to 12 men in a street brawl after they had left a nightclub in the southern city of Millau. Clermont had been training in Millau ahead of the French club season.
The club said all three players were rushed to hospital, but none had life-threatening injuries.
Pierre, who with Rougerie was in the French team that lost the 2011 Rugby World Cup final to the All Blacks in Auckland, appeared to be the worst-affected, requiring surgery on "deep cuts" to his hip.
"As they walked back to their hotel overnight Saturday, a group of players was assaulted by a dozen people carrying weapons including machetes, sabres," the club said.
Local police reported the incident took place about 3am after the players went to a nightclub, where they may have argued with other revellers.
French newspapers suggested the players went to help a woman who was being harassed by some of the offenders on the dance floor.
"The whole club is both shocked and outraged by these incidents and is providing all the necessary support to the local authorities, who have opened an investigation into the attack to find and punish the perpetrators. In addition to helping the players involved, the club is also contemplating legal proceedings," the club's statement read.
The players were vastly experienced.
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And seeing this twice a day for all of the days I ride to work just doesn't really resonate with me. Except for the 'brown flip-flops' part because I love when my bike data tracking software lobs a diss at our Arlington friends. I'd like to think that if I've learned anything from writing up my daily commute for the past two (!) years (and I really haven't learned anything), it's that a bike ride can be so much more than a map and some squiggly lines and some numbers that don't mean anything and your rankings on "segments" against riders who were probably on mopeds anyway. I think that reducing your rides to those things is a great disservice. If I understood les lieux de memoire better, I'd probably even suggest that has something to do with it. But let's not stop my having no clue what he's talking about prevent me from quoting Nora at length:
Memory and history, far from being synonymous, appear now to be in fundamental opposition. Memory is life, borne by living societies, founded in its name. It remains in permanent evolution, open to the dialectic of remembering and forgetting, unconscious of its successive deformations, vulnerable to manipulation and appropriation, susceptible to being long dormant and periodically revived. History, on the other hand, is the reconstruction, always problematic and incomplete, of what is no longer. Memory is a perpetually actual phenomenon, a bond tying us to the eternal present; history is a representation of the past. Memory, insofar as it is affective and magical, only accommodates those facts that suit it; it nourishes recollections that may be out of focus or telescopic, global or detached, particular or symbolic- responsible to each avenue of conveyance or phenomenal screen, to every censorship or projection. History, because it is an intellectual and secular production, calls for analysis and criticism. Memory installs remembrance within the sacred; history, always prosaic, releases it again. Memory is blind to all but the group it binds- which is to say, as Maurice Halbswachs has said, that there are as many memories as there are groups, that memory is by nature multiple and yet specific; collective, plural and yet individual. History, on the other hand, belongs to everyone and to no one, whence its claim to universal authority. Memory takes root in the concrete, in spaces, gestures, images and objects; history binds itself strictly to temporal continuities, to progressions and to relations between things. Memory is absolute, while history can only conceive the relative.Yeah, that.
It was a quiet ride and I benefit from a clean chain an adjusted fenders and I was free of the noises that my bike makes when it isn't kept up well. I took the southerly route to work, riding down 14th to South Carolina to 11th to L, taking L to South Capitol Street before riding up the sidewalk for a block to wait for the light to change at M. Here's a picture of a church. Is it a lieu de memoire? Maybe? No? Hmm? Just an old-ish church? Is it? Is it really? (Yes).
|It's not called Our Lady of the Taxi Parking Lot
There's something about riding opposite the direction of a stream on onrushing car traffic that reminds me of a Star Wars hyperdrive jump. Except the streams of celestrial light are replaced by midsize sedans, which are, admittedly, less impressive.
I stayed on the Rock Creek Park Trail past K Street where I would normally turn, choosing the woods and trail through them over the bustle of the city or the other trail in the woods. I don't ride through Rock Creek very often. I rode past at least one cemetery. There was more bike traffic heading south than north. Near Calvert, where I climbed out of the park, I saw friend of the blog, Jon, also taking advantage of it being a Monday morning to take a longer, more bucolic, ride to work. He looked surprise. To be honest, I didn't expect to be there either.
My legs felt surprisingly good for how onerous the riding up various hills actually felt and I attribute this to my having eaten a biscuit for breakfast. On Garfield Street, someone had taped a handwritten note onto one of those movable flashing construction signs asking why the sign had been there for a month and to whom it belonged. Probably would be more effective to call 311, but snotty handwritten notes are the currency of the realm as far as complainy urban NIMBYs are concerned.
Capital Bikeshare is great, per Slate, which might mean it's not great because Slate is known for its counter-intuitive arguments. Either way, go #bikeDC.


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|Before : Guest Bedroom
As guests rooms seem to do, ours had filled itself with the 'extra' stuff that we didn't have a place for anywhere else it the house.
I had put some old bedding on the bed, without much consideration how it would go with the wall color, and the furniture consisted of a black desk and chair, and an old table that used to fit in our living room. I felt like the room was too dark and heavy. I wanted the room to feel like the room from our hotel in East Hampton - light and fresh.
I painted almost everything in the room white, except for the black iron bed and drapery rods. I think that too much white can seem blah. The black contrasts with the white and actually makes the room feel brighter.
For bedding, I like to keep the palate bright and white. Two large down euro pills, two standard pillows and one accent blue pillow with a hemp trim. I always use all white sheets and pillow cases (and towels!). Colored linens just don't feel as fresh to me. I dress the bed with a lightweight duvet in a white cover, then I put a heavier down comforter folded at the foot of the bed in case they get cold.
I painted this once black desk a fresh creamy white. I thought I was over my all white furniture phase from the shabby chic trends of 2000, but it was the only thing to do on a shoe-string budget to makeover the room and make it feel fresh.
The room completely changed when I added the white upholstered chair from our old dining room. It filled it and made it feel cozy almost instantly.
I got out my light grey/almond spray paint and gave this once black painted chair a new look and a stack of fresh towels.
The bedside table (also painted a creamy white) has a photo of Peaches, a handmade bowl we received for a wedding gift from Mike's parents, a framed sketch of Seaside where we got married, my gold engraved confirmation Bible and some hydrangeas from our yard. You might recognize the lamp - it was once brass in our old bedroom. I used the same paint as the chair - they sit in opposite corners of the room... talk about balance!


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Our beloved Clem Washburn, age 87, died in the early morning hours of November 10, 2010 at his home in Monticello, UT.
The fifth child of James D. and Sally McGee Washburn, he was born in St. George, UT on May 28, 1923.
He graduated from Jordan High School, where he earned the office of Student Body President his senior year. He took classes at Steven Henager Business College for a year and then joined the war effort by enlisting in the United States Merchant Marine.
On June 14, 1943 Clem married Betty Louise Davis. Less than a year later, he was gifted with a baby girl, Connie Louise. The marriage was short lived, ending four years later.
Clem moved back to Utah and on July 31, 1951, married the woman destined to be his partner for time and all eternity, Donna Adams. This union produced six children: Stephanie (Reid) Chapman, Denise Taylor, Jill (Paul) Johnson, Laurie (Barry) Simpson, Lisa (Wade) Jackson and Brian (Claudia).
Clem focused his attention on growing a thriving ranching enterprise.
He was awarded an Excellence in Range Land Award from the Colorado Society for Range Management in 1997 and was awarded Conversationalist of the Year by the San Juan Soil Conservation District in 2004.
Clem started out in the sheep business then turned to cattle. He prided himself in raising top quality beef. Clem was also a top notch gardener, an avid sportsman, an amateur geologist and an award winning golfer.
He had a fondness for acting and a passion for music and grew into an enthusiastic armchair sports activist and channel surfer extraordinar'. In his later years, Clem spent a great deal of time contentedly serving at the Manti and Monticello temples.
Clem had a zealous enthusiasm for his family. His sense of humor and openly loving nature is legendary with his 33 grand children and 40 great grand children. He was adored by all and will be greatly missed.
He is preceded in death by his mother and father, siblings Neta Washburn, Emily Redd, Mryl Hamilton, LaVar, Guy and Bruce and grandson Bret Jackson and grandson-in-law Kevin Jeffs.
He is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and sister Beverly (Herb) Hinds.


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|Larry is clearing some fallen branches from the trail entrance we visited the day before the race.
|From here to the Top of Alabama, with a couple deviations, is 31 miles.
|Don't let this nice soft trail fool you - it only lasted a couple of miles!
|All ready to go the morning of the race. Well, I did have a top and sleeves.
|My pace chart for 6:30 finish time.
|And this is what it looks like on profile.
|Start line.
and next screaming from the woods song "Sweet home, Alabama". That was a "go". The nice soft trail single-track us for couple of miles and slowly became more technical with hidden rocks. The small run-off's of water started immediately, and I didn't bother to protect my feet at all - the combination of Drymax trail socks and Sprotiva Crosslights is the best possible for wet feet, draining super-fast and keeping all protected somehow. We single-filed and latched into a pace that felt just right.
The fog came down and for 3 hrs or so we ran in it, and I hoped for it to break down so I could see some views - they were promising to be wonderful with spooky forest around and some "feeling" of mountains surrounding.
Photos below courtesy of Brooke Nicholls Nelson
The course marking was immaculate, with small red flagging always on the right side of the trail in the ground, since you should be keeping your eyes low. We rolled a bit and at the end of mile 3 popped on some dirt road a touch, came through first aid, rolled out for next 5-plus miles...and before even getting to the second AS I felt odd of sorts. First just off, then a twinge of cramp in my right calf. Weird...I don't cramp. I mean, seriously, unless I fall late in the race, then I can get a Charlie, but not just out of the blue at mile 10, you know. And I felt like slowing down in general was a good idea. I got down on myself, having bunches (literally) of people getting by me, and tried to figure out why I am so off, tired kind of. Even hiking up steep sections, my specialty, was more difficult than it should be. At mile 13.8 (Garmin is no joke) I tripped over a rock and planted - luckily on a flat rock - a bit downside the slope, with a bite-valve of my bladder flying down the side into the woods, hitting the knee and my hand. First real Charlie came quick, and as I tried to simultaneously tend to it and grab a streaming water tube close and search for the valve, I thought: uh-oh. Got up, shook off, slowed down even more (it was really technical here, rocks, wet, covered with moss, random sticking out and moving too). Exactly 0.2M later I came onto a group of guys over a man on the ground - with shattered patella. Put my fall into perspective and made me even more careful. The testament of how bad the trail was is that the man's injury happened 0.6M out of an AS, paramedics came and weren't able to carry him out and had to call air-lift. Yeah, stay on your feet, girl...
As I kept thinking about poor guy and trying to figure out may be I am not drinking enough (never raced with bladder in 10 years), I started sucking water in, and at mile ~15 AS grabbed a cup of coke. Somehow I also managed to shame myself into positive thinking. I kept repeating Larry's words from before the race: "It's going to be a great day". That, and the fact that I got some ultra-running related news the day before that first of all turned my spring season to a new meaning and a goal and excitement and just simply incredibly sweet feel too. I had to reason to beat myself down, no way. I had to adjust my day.
Next section went awesome. I still felt mild cramping accumulating in my both calves, but not coming strong yet, just there. At the same time I was generally feeling better and stronger and smoother, and hoping may be I was right, it's all about not hydrating properly, and I am turning around, plenty of time, piece of cake, not my first time running, you know. Smile came to me, and just like that, the sun started peaking up and lifting the fog. The trail was great, running through some low streams, crossing over a wooden bridge, on some rock-steps, next to beautiful waterfalls. There is nowhere I rather be than there right then...
First serious creek crossing came right after mile 18 AS, and I waded in cold refreshing water trying to keep my balance...and while at it, seizing both of my calves in rock-hard cramps. I held on, even though I very stupidly crossed below the big rocks in higher water and stronger stream (instead of above 2 feet up, yeah, I know, brain damage).
Next biggest one, thigh-deep, with a rope tied-up across and a female photographer on the other side, was fun...and more debilitating. Both legs went into Charlie Horse so hard, calves and quads same time, as I held onto rope with two hands, trying not to fall into the water all the way and protect my i-Pod. I screamed and apologized to a woman, and she smiled as she'd seen plenty of that. I half-set in the water a step away from the ground, collecting my bearings and waiting for the rock-hard ready-to hammer professional nails legs to be able to lift up.
Photos below courtesy of Brooke Nicholls Nelson
I stumbled, finally, on the other side, and hobbled to a short out-n-back to the AS. I still didn't need anything, had a potato chip just because and half-ran out.
The next section was very beautiful, rolling gently up and down, and I Frankenstein-ran it practically all. Yes, I felt strong, finally, somehow, but my legs felt that "verge of cramping bad" and actually cramping from time to time in shots on every uneven step and stiff. I needed the to last, but my attitude was great, the views around awesome, and I began passing a guy or few here and there. OK, we got it, honey.
There was one more "serious" creek crossing around mile 24, albeit no rope, and I took sweet time walking across trying not to freeze into "holes" while cramp waves hit and let go. Two guys on the other side (waiting for their friend) mentioned at least I didn't submerge. Come to find out later, Larry was the one that did:)
The ugly section of dirt road and then even black-top asphalt road that was flat to slight incline wasn't as welcome as I hoped to make time on - but I ran (eh, shuffled with straight legs, not pushing off my toes in fear) a good 80% of it, and yes, caught on a couple more groups of struggles. Never mind, girl, keep on shuffling.
We heard of last section, we read reports, and I used to live on East Coast where I hiked and backpacked aplenty. I knew, after AS at mile 28 we have a seriously crazy climbs which would use arms over rocks and roots, and the whole thing is up, and 1200 feet of it is squeezed in 0.5 miles. Yep, I just couldn't quite picture it, I am bad with numbers. At first, I even ran into an incline, then power-hiked first 3-4 minutes - and then all seized. Right as the climb begun. I screamed, grabbing one calf, as another went off. Damn it! Every time I tried to lift a leg - which I had to, no way around - the rock-Charlie would get worse - it kind of never let off, if you can imagine it, it was accelerating in pain and hardness and my swearing was non-stop. Twice I slammed my fist on the rock out of frustration and anger, because overall my body felt fine, but I could NOT, physically, lift a leg, I had to couple times resort to almost pulling up by arms, and when my quads were shooting cramps and pain, then my hamstrings, my feet, my butt muscles (!!), shins, top of my feet, then the inner thigh went so hard it was like a bunch of nerves we pulled out from the groin down (imagine me standing holding my thigh inside and having a distorted face)...3 guys came up on me. First tried to offer advice ("Salt?" - "Honey, this is my 86th ultra, if you think I haven't done something I should have" - I snapped). Second was a kid Eddie whom I ran with on and off since mile 13 (he was a bit scared seeing me screaming bloody mercy - and yes, I even yelled a prayer twice for the trail section to be over), and 3rd, Drew, had his own cramps he was dealing with. Somehow scaring Eddie and seeing Drew in pain made me feel better - at least the mind wondered off the fear "What the heck comes next when there is no way further to escalate the pain? Is my heart muscle going to cramp too? Is the leg muscle going to explode?" I know, it sounds funny now, but I really had no idea how much more painful it could get.
|Not doing the justice.
|Larry coming into last AS at mile 28, before Blue Hell climb.
Photo courtesy of Apryl Swafford - AS volunteer
|Larry rounding the corner. All finish photos courtesy of Hayley H. Long
|My honey finishing strong!
|I see the finish line!
|Sweet baby Jesus!
|Sharing experiences.
A side note - another awesome race in the middle of the country, kind of unknown to main stream yet fully filled fast, and having absolutely incredible local runners who are super-fast! Just amazing people and athletes!Such talent hiding there and not caring what the "country's ultra community" thinks. They ARE community. The food at the finish line was great too.
|Wow, that was quite a race!
My good friend and a co-worker Marta came to me today and said: "I read on FB short description how it went. I didn't understand a word - was it good or not - but regardless, what I did understand is that you enjoyed it, and I am somewhat jealous of you having this thing, this insanity, you can reach to, submerge into, find you happy place regardless...".
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First look: Richard Thieriot in off-Broadway's "Children"
Richard Thieriot, a National Theatre Conservatory grad and alum of both the Denver Center Theatre Company and Colorado Shakespeare Festival, made his off-Broadway debut on Friday in the TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of A.R. Gurney's "Children," playing through Nov. 18 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre.
The timeless story is loosely based on a short story by John Cheever, a Chekovian look at a privileged American family dealing with shocking surprises over the course of a July 4 weekend in 1970.
The play is getting mixed reviews, but critics have had kind things to say about Thieriot's portrayal of good-hearted but immature and sports-obsessed older brother Randy:
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Brian Lilley has the story:
Last June many of us who had been fighting to end Canada's ridiculous internet censorship law breathed a big sigh of relief. Conservative MP Brian Storseth's bill to remove section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act had passed third reading and was on its way to becoming law.
Mark Steyn
Yet here we are eight months after the bill was voted through the House of Commons and it is still not passed into law. Why?
Because the bill is stuck in the Senate, that upper chamber of sober second thought.
The bill was introduced in the Senate, and is supported, by Conservative Doug Finley. But since June when Finley introduced the bill two Conservatives have spoken out against C-304 and in favour of section 13 – Pierre Claude Nolin and Nancy Ruth.
This bill, which is a private members bill and therefore does not have the full endorsement of the government, is not assured of passing the Senate.
Those of us who want to see a balance restored in the area of free speech and who support this bill need to take steps now to ensure its passage. We need to write to our senators and let them know that this bill is important and has public support.
You can find a list of senators here, find one or two from your province and write them a well thought out and polite letter. No sense making them think only angry people support this bill.
I've been on this story from early on. This is how I met both Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn.
As the Wonder Twins of Canada's human rights systems were going through their respective ordeals, I was working as a reporter for Newstalk 1010 in Toronto and CJAD 800 in Montreal. I reached out to both of them and asked for interviews so that I could bring their stories to a wider audience.
Remarkably I was the first reporter to ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper about section 13 despite Macleans being part of Steyn's ordeal and the magazine having several reporters on the Hill.
But while I've brought people stories about this for the last half decade others have taken real lumps and continue to pay the price for standing up for free speech. It was the bloggers of Canada who really pushed this story and rallied the troops to the cause.
Right now two bloggers in particular, Five Feet of Fury and Blazing Cat Fur, are dealing with legal bills that ultimately stem from their fight for a return to Canada's longstanding legal tradition of free speech. They don't have the cash and could use your help. Even $5 or $20 will go a long way if enough people dip into their pockets and put cash in the hat.
You don't need to agree with everything that these two bloggers say in order to support them, that is part of the deal with free speech. They have long stood for your right to speak your mind, can you help them now that they need help?