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Fall is closing in. That Summer race you did a while ago is now a distant memory. Struggling with the motivation to keep running? If yes, you need to follow these 10 tips from pros, coaches and athletes to stay on the program.
Learning to be flexible and to change things up is the key to staying motivated.
Work on technique
"A lot of times, when you're training for a race, there isn't as much time to step back and work on technique," says running coach Nick White, from trainright.com. "The offseason is a great time to hire a coach or sign up for a weekend clinic on how to improve your running technique to increase your efficiency. Nearly everyone has a few small changes that could be made to their form, that will net big improvements in speed."
Join a running club
There's nothing like the power of peer pressure to keep you going through the winter months. It's more social, fun and a great way to monitor your progress and gauge how you're doing against other runners. "Joining a structured routine let's you off having to follow your own program," says White.
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Do a crazy challenge
"I need to have something out there in the diary to keep me going," says triathlon coach and ex pro Richard Hobson. "Set up a silly challenge. Last year I did the '30:30'. You have to run 30 minutes every day for 30 days. It's not long but it's amazing how you struggle when it's dark and cold, and doing something like this gets you out the door."
Patrick Sweeney onroute across America. © Patrick Sweeney
Don't run to run
"Engage yourself in other activities while running," says Patrick Sweeney, who probably knows quite a lot about motivation after recently running 5,000 km across America. "I live at the beach and I enjoy counting the different species of birds that I see, scanning the ocean for whales and dolphins and collecting discarded beach toys along the way.
Running provides so much opportunity to find the simple joys in life. Don't think of it as a run, think of it as an adventure."
Mix it up with some cross-training
"Running is a great mode of exercise, but it's not a perfectly well rounded exercise program in and of itself. Using your off-season to add other forms of exercise is a great way to remind your body that it can do more than just run," says White. He suggests taking up other ball, racket or outdoor sports like rock climbing to keep you active and fit while giving you a break from running. "Core work and weight training is a good thing to work on as well," he adds.
Gediminas Grinius is also an advocate of night running. © Gediminus Grinius
Ask yourself this:
"Do you want to lose your fitness, which you worked on for the last six months," Suunto ambassador Gediminas Grinius recommends asking yourself. "Do you want your neighbour to be faster? Do you want to gain weight? If you answer no, then your only option is to keep running."
Tips here for going the (ultra) distance from Ryan Sandes!
Run early (if you live in the city)
"Weekend morning runs are great for aromas," says Sweeney. "I'm vegan but I enjoy running around town taking in all the smells of bacon and eggs being cooked. Every block is full of new aromas to enjoy." And what better way to finish your run than in a bakery?
Go trail running
"Most runners do their training on treadmills, roads, sidewalks, and bike paths," says White. "There are many benefits to running on trails; better balance development, stability muscles get a workout that they don't get on flat pavement, there are often more hills to develop strength, softer surfaces usually that are easier on your muscles and joints. And those don't even mention the fact that trails often provide much better scenery!"
It's hard not to be motivated in scenery like this. © Droz Photo
Work on a weakness
If you're a marathon runner, and spend most of your time doing longer runs at lower intensity, the off-season is a great time to work on your speed, strength, and power. "Hill repeats and track intervals can be a great way to do something different, while still improving your running," says Trainright's Nick White. "Or if you're a 5k runner and did a lot of speedwork but not a lot of volume, the off-season can be a good time to back off a bit and do some higher mileage to improve your aerobic base."
Don't think: just hit play
Don't spend ages debating with yourself whether to go for a run or not as chances are, you'll only talk yourself out of it. Just grab your mp3 player or phone and hit play on that motivational track that works for you. Works every time.
What are your tips running when you don't feel like it? Let us know via our social channels with the hashtag #suuntorun


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I'm handling it well, bounced back, doing SEO training & consulting, and couldn't be any happier. Marie Claire talked about my experience and the challenges you face when laid off.
Things I've learned from my lay off:
• Layoffs today are quite different than they used to be thanks to the Internet, if you know how to use it. There was a guy who Twittered his layoff and he got great media attention for it. I was kicking myself for not having a twitter account… and now twitter at twitter.com/jessicabowman.
• Two days after D-Day I was masterminding a PR campaign (Public Relations, not PageRank) with the help of industry friend Leslie Carruthers with TheSearchGuru.com - it had Facebook, LinkedIn, blogger friends and my blog. I'm writing about it all, in you guessed it, a book on being laid off called "Laid Off Renegade", coming out later this summer and will talk about how to get excited about the layoff and what to do when it hits you. There was this little part of me that was excited about what was next, how I was going to blow $2k from my flex spending account in 30 days and more. How did I spend that $2k, let's just say I'll be sporting to die for eyewear all year! Plus, I learned a lot and wanted others to be slightly more prepared for what is to come.
• All the publicity from the PR campaign landed loads of interviews – about 15 in the first two weeks. I was hesitant to go public with the layoff news, but grateful that I did, and in the way that I did it. If you know someone getting laid off, be a good friend and put on the PR hat for a couple of hours and help the person figure out how to spin the layoff, how to get attention and what is the message that you'll convey when people ask, "What happened, why why were you laid off?".
• The PR Campaign continues to pay off with a mention in Motley Fool and a feature in the July 2008 issue of Marie Claire magazine.
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Very well.
It's been a whirlwind having just moved to San Francisco, starting a new job, loosing it, interviewing, starting a business, and moving (again) to downsize my life - all within 6 months – without knowing anyone in the city when I moved here.
Consulting is going extraordinarily well and I'm landing dream clients.
I moved to a new apartment, more centrally located and I love it more than the other one.
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This column is strictly for the birds
Animal lovers cannot help but talk about their pets. It's an inbred trait. I admit I'm guilty. I occasionally give my pets a little too much ink. Nonetheless, I have always loved parrots. They are not just entertaining; they are interesting. They are capable of cognitive thought that goes well beyond instinct. I think most parrot owners will support that belief.
I have an African Grey parrot named Kongo. African Greys are allegedly the most intelligent species of parrots. They have been domesticated for over 4,000 years and are capable of vocabularies amounting to hundreds of words. Some are even multi-lingual. Experts estimate the intelligence of a mature African Grey to be about that of a five-year-old child.
Most parrots are great mimics. However, the talent that sets African Greys apart from other species is their ability to speak in short sentences and phrases. They often respond appropriately and conversationally.
For instance, a lady I know who has an African Grey was sitting on her couch knitting. The bird was on her shoulder when he started chewing on the upholstery piping on the back of the couch. She said, "You better stop that or I'm going to put you to bed." The bird looked up and said, "So what!"
One of the drawbacks of their intellect is that they have a mind of their own. African Greys are known to be manipulative, stubborn, inventive, and practical jokers. Those who own them will attest to one common trait. You might think you are training your bird. Be careful, because it won't be long before you realize that your bird is training you. African Greys are famous for it.
Kongo responds to training when I try to teach him a word or phrase. However, he always learns on his terms. And he's very selective. In other words, he learns the words, phrases and sounds that he wants to learn, and the words might not be the ones I'm trying to teach him. He's designed a communication system that employs words, sound effects, and signals.
He figured out that I respond to the ding, ding, ding on my microwave oven, the signal that a cooking cycle has finished. Kongo noticed that whenever he heard the dinging, I responded by going to the microwave. Now, he just imitates the microwave when he wants me to come to him.
Whenever he does a trick, or does as he is told, I'll say, "Good boy!" and reward him with a small treat. Whenever he wants a nut, or a treat, he'll rock back and forth on his perch and sometimes give a wolf whistle. I've learned to understand his body language. When I do what he wants and give him a nut, he also says, "Good boy!" Hmmm . . . Who's training who here?
When he talks, he sounds exactly like me. It's unnerving. If he learns a word from another source, he sounds like the person who said it. He doesn't have a parrot voice. He sounds human.
This uncanny ability turned out to be a big drawback for my friend Michel, who owns an African Grey.
Michel had an African Grey named Mango. Michel got married and kept Mango's perch and big cage not far from the door to a small guest bedroom in the house he bought for his bride. When they had a baby a few years later, the room became a nursery.
Mango quickly learned that whenever the baby cried, both Michel and his wife would immediately run into the room. So Mango learned to cry. Sometimes the baby cried loudly. So Mango learned to cry loudly. And Michel and Karen always responded.
When Michel was offered a job on the other side of the country, he and his family had to move. After the moving truck picked up their belongings, they stayed with relatives for a few days and Karen flew to their new home with the baby. Michel left a few days later, and brought Mango with him.
Mango's travel carrier looked like a piece of luggage with backpack straps. The sides could be zipped so it was dark inside. When African Grey's are in the dark, they generally sleep, so Michel kept the sides zipped and Mango slept quietly until they went through security and into the waiting area where they had to spend an hour before departing.
With all the jostling and outside noise, Mango couldn't sleep, so he started talking quietly. Michel picked up the carrier and sat it in his lap and talked to Mango to keep him calm. Other passengers looked at Michel and they thought a crazy man was talking to his luggage.
Apparently, Mango wasn't happy and wanted to see what was going on, so he started crying. The other passengers in the waiting area started moving away from them because they thought Michel had a baby in the suitcase.
Of course, Michel wasn't paying attention until he realized that he was sitting alone with his suitcase and two airport security guards were standing in front of him looking very stern and not amused. Mango kept crying, louder and louder. A female security guard joined them and asked Michel to please give her the baby.
Michel realized he was in big trouble and tried to explain himself. The woman again said, "Please give me the suitcase and we won't hurt the child." Michel grabbed the zipper and opened the case to reveal Mango inside the bird carrier. As soon as Mango saw the woman, he let out a wolf whistle and said, "Hi, sweetie!" in a very loud voice that sounded just like Michel.
The security guards thought the incident was hilarious. The passengers who called the security guards were embarrassed. Michel was relieved. Mango was happy.
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Anze Kopitar recorded a hat trick, and Marian Gaborik added a goal for Pacific Division-leading Los Angeles, which has won three of its last five.
Peter Budaj made 24 saves in his season debut start. Budaj, who spent the season with the Kings' AHL farm team in Ontario, Calif., last played in the NHL on May 17, 2014, when he replaced injured Montreal Canadiens starting goaltender Carey Price in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final. Budaj allowed three goals on eight shots in that one, a 7-2 Rangers win.
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Fifteen Sports Clichés We Never Want to Hear Again
Is it clichéd to complain about sports clichés yet? We'll let you be the judge of that. All we know is that we'd be much happier sports fans if we never again heard any of the following sayings:
15) He always gives 110%.
We won't be pedantic and complain about the mathematical impossibility, but we will point out that announcers only seem to use this line when they can't think of anything else positive to say about a player but don't want to criticize him either. If somebody's not scoring any goals or contributing on defense, you can bet he's "giving 110%."
Should be replaced with: He rarely contributes in any tangible way.
14) We played our game.
You hear this one a lot in post-game interviews, as if it's supposed to be some sort of valuable insight into why a team did what they did. Of course you played your game, what other game is there for you to play? Half the time it's not even a good claim to make; we bet the Detroit Lions would much rather be playing the game of the Minnesota Vikings.
Should be replaced with: We did what our coach told us to do, just like every other athlete in history.
13) We'll take it one game at a time.
This is the biggest non-steroid related lie you'll hear from a manager or player. Do you really think the New York Yankees look at their schedule and place as much importance on an upcoming series against the Orioles as they do on a set of games at Fenway the week after?
Should be replaced with: We're really trying to focus on tomorrow's game with *insert good team*, because we know we'll be able to walk all over *insert crappy team* today without much trouble.
12) They just wanted it more.
Whenever there's a close game and it's not obvious why one team managed to win, you can guarantee that somebody will offer up this explanation. So not only is desire apparently quantifiable, it's also suddenly the deciding factor in sports, like some sort of manly version of "The Secret." Trust us, it's not true; we here at Gunaxin really, really want to win the Stanley Cup, but that won't change the fact that we'd struggle to compete against a junior high school girl's field hockey team.
Should be replaced with: We'll admit that they played just a tiny bit better than us, because we're athletes, not meta-physicians.
11) We control our own destiny.
If a team is on the brink of qualifying for the playoffs you'll hear at least one of its members make this useless remark. What they're trying to say is that they don't need to rely on results from other teams to qualify, but the message we're getting is that they have a terrible understanding of what destiny is. Hint: it's not something you can control.
Should be replaced with: We need to win games if we want to make the playoffs. That should be self-evident, but you're harassing me for a comment so I need to say something.
10) They're mathematically eliminated.
You'll never hear sportscasters say that a team's been eliminated from playoff contention; they're always mathematically eliminated. Yeah, thanks a lot for breaking out the high level calculus guys, it was really useful for clarifying the otherwise esoteric concept of "teams that win the most go to the playoffs."
Should be replaced with: Technically this team is still in contention, but they're clearly not good enough to qualify so we'll just stop talking about them now.
9) He came to play.
No shit? Of course he came to play, that's sort of what athletes get paid to do. Did you think he was going to just sit around, or maybe knit a sweater?
Should be replaced with: He came to fulfill his contractual obligations by performing in this sporting event.
8) Defense wins championships.
So what's the point of having an offense then? Yeah, we know, all announcers are really trying to say with this one is that defense is important, but again… no shit?
Should be replaced with: If a team sucks at one of a sport's two major components then they won't win very many games.
7) We've still got plenty of game left.
Announcers seem to be under the impression that those of us in the audience are incapable of looking at the clock and judging for ourselves how much time is left in a game. Maybe they're worried that we'll wander away halfway through the match, under the mistaken impression that the game has already ended. Or maybe we'll leave halfway through on purpose, because the game is a rout and no amount of banter will trick us into thinking otherwise.
Should be replaced with: Oops, I haven't said anything in a while. Let's read the clock to fill this dead air.
6) Final score is the only stat that matters.
Announcers use this line when one team is playing well but still losing, and players trot it out when they had a great personal performance while the rest of their team choked. In both cases we're stunned by their valuable insight, because we always thought that baseball games were won by accumulating errors and that hockey games came down to who racked up the most penalty minutes.
Should be replaced with: I hit for the cycle tonight but the rest of my loser teammates didn't do shit, so we lost. I hate them so much.
5) They have to generate some offense.
Oh, so that's how a losing team can turn a game around! Thanks for that insightful analysis; it wasn't clear why they were having problems before you chimed in. Every time an announcer uses this line we get suspicious about whether they're a real commentator or just some guy who wandered into the booth and decided to give announcing a try, despite knowing nothing about how sports are played.
Should be replaced with: Their star needs to score more points if they have any hope of triumphing in this event!
4) It is what it is.
This has become a catch-all for glossing over terrible mistakes by players or coaches. If a reporter asks a player why they threw into quadruple coverage or why they shot the puck into their own net, and the response they get is "it is what it is," then they know they're not going to get a real explanation.
Should be replaced with: I fucked up really bad. Seriously, I have no damn clue what I was thinking. Sorry about that.
3) Statistics can be misleading.
You'll hear this one from analysts when a team is doing much better or much worse than they were predicted to do. What you won't hear is any sort of useful explanation as to why that is.
Should be replaced with: I can't tell you why this team is playing poorly because my apparent credibility is misleading.
2) They know how to win.
Yeah, we know how to win too: score more points than the other team. Not a tricky concept. What announcers are really trying to say with this one is "they have experience winning" (usually in the context of the playoffs), and therefore they've presumably acquired some sort of mystic secret that will help them against the less experienced teams. That must be why we see so many repeat champions these days. Hey, wait a second…
Should be replaced with: This team has won championships in previous years, but that will have no effect on today's game because their roster has changed significantly since then.
1) We overcame a lot of adversity.
Unless you're an athlete like Jackie Robinson or Jim Abbott, you didn't overcome adversity. Cancer patients overcome adversity. War survivors overcome adversity. A team that had to put reserve players in the line-up because of injuries to their stars did not overcome adversity.
Should be replaced with: We won the game with our four million dollar backup quarterback in place of our eight million dollar starter, because he is also a talented athlete.
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In another few weeks, when you zip down the Animas River Trail behind the Durango Mall, try to take a minute, or at least a spare nanosecond, to appreciate the path youre on.
You might be trying to pedal faster to keep up with your 10-year-old, or you might be looking at the flowing Animas, or you might be thinking of all the wonderful goods available at Walmart.
Youre probably not wondering if the grade here is 5 or 6 percent, and youre not contemplating the suns angle on Dec. 21.
Thats all understandable.
But this new section of trail deserves a moment of your attention. Its been difficult and challenging, and it has taken a lot of time and money. Furthermore, its completion marks a huge milestone in the history of Durango.
Its the final link in what is now a seven-mile trail down the river corridor. This process, which began in the 1970s, has been at times maddening, at times seemingly impossible. But at the core, its truly been a labor of love, and Rich Vicks efforts exemplify that spirit.
Like many of us, he discovered Durango kind of by accident. Vick was a 21-year-old Californian on a motorcycle when he blew through here in 1975. In 1977, the Cal Poly grad came through again and spent a few hours. In 1978, he stayed for good.
He met his wife-to-be in the Piñon Heights condos on Avenida del Sol. Eventually he partnered in a two-man firm, Con-Struct Engineering, and constantly worked six-day weeks as building boomed in the 1990s.
In 1995, he worked on his first section of Animas River Trail, the link under the U.S. Highway 160 bridge behind what he and other longtimers refer to as the Red Lion Inn. (Its been the DoubleTree since 1997.) That started a long and, most in the know would say, hugely successful partnership with the city of Durango. And, to the general public, hidden behind the scenes.
Take the Main Avenue underpass, for example the crucial missing link that finally got pushed through in 2005. We grew impatient during lengthy negotiations with riverside landowners but gave little thought to the challenges of boring a hole, rerouting traffic, and rerouting a water main and other utility lines.
Its a role thats kind of invisible sometimes, says his friend Mark Smith, a businessman who has worked with many engineers. Thats the part you never really hear about.
Vick is describing this process as we walk from the swinging bridge (also one of his works) to the bridge over the Animas at Rotary Park (yes, Vick again).
For Vick, the Main Avenue underpass was the most technically challenging project hed ever done. And that remained true until 28 months ago.
To visit the work he began in 2010, we take a quick drive and park at the Durango Harley-Davidson store. Trucks and bulldozers and welders and painters are in motion as we stroll down the freshly poured concrete. I look down to be certain Im not leaving footprints.
Vick disbanded his company in 2003, but he hasnt stopped working.
People make fun of me being retired, he says with an easy smile. Really, Im semi-retired. And I will be until I die. I do these things as a hobby really.
Yeah, some hobby.
For this 1,010-foot-long section, half of it elevated along the hillside below the Durango Mall, he drew up 71 sheets of plans. That was after hed considered six or seven different alignments, drawing cross-sections of several to determine where the sun would hit on Dec. 21 the suns lowest trajectory of the year.
He determined that digging a trail into the hillside would have required a huge cut and a tall retaining wall. Furthermore, some spots wouldnt have seen sun for two or three months. The way its been done, sun will hit everywhere for at least a couple hours every day.
If I die tomorrow, I can say I dont want to do anything more challenging than this, Vick says. It was the most thorough set of plans Ive ever done. ...
It was the last section for a reason because it was difficult.
The section should open later this month or in early June, says Kevin Hall, Durangos director of natural lands, trails and sustainability. The cost will come in at just less than $1.9 million, says Scott McClain, the citys parks, open space and trails specialist.
Weve really appreciated his enthusiasm on the project, Hall says. It wasnt just a job for him.
It was Vicks idea to put the trail on piers rather than do the hillside cut, Hall says. His creativity and attention to detail has gone above and beyond.
Says Smith, He treats it like its his kids hes doing it for. He just pours his heart into it.
Its an illustration of what makes Durango special, Smith says. Its kind of cool to have people in town (like Vick) who work on it because they love it.
Vick says his hourly rate on the project is terrible. He just had to have the bid.
I wanted to do it so bad, I underbid everybody. Unfortunately, I was the winner.
The last crucial link of what will be a continuous paved path from Memorial Park at 29th Street and East Third Avenue to the Rivera Bridge next to Home Depot is nearly done. On a bicycle this might take you 30 minutes (assuming you slow down politely for the myriad walkers and dogs, leashed or not). From another perspective, this same journey took about 35 years.
Of course, theres more to come. Trail north of 32nd Street, trail out to Grandview. Vick has no plans to be involved, but ...
Never say never, the 58-year-old says as we gaze across the Animas to where the trail ends at Rivera Bridge. But Ive got a lot of other things to do.
No. 1 on the list: Sit on a boat with a martini.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Environmental advocates in Northern California plan to take photographs of some of the highest tides of the year to draw attention to what climate change could do decades from now.
The so-called king tides are expected to peak during the next several days, with surges over 9 feet in some areas. The phenomenon is caused by a unique alignment of the sun, moon and earth.
The tides already produced some minor flooding in low-lying areas.
The goal of the King Tides Initiative is to preview what rising sea levels could bring in 2070.


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Boss Up! 7 Artists Rick Ross Should Consider Signing to Maybach Music Group
The Artist: Game
What He Brings To MMG: A handful of strong albums and 5,762 songs that he's recorded since dropping L.A.X. in 2008
Why He Would Be A Good Fit: Take one listen to Game's Purp & Patron mixtape and it's pretty clear that the guy still knows how to rock the mic. His problem right now is that he doesn't have the marketability that he had when he first linked up with 50 Cent and Dr. Dre in the mid-2000s. Though he's actually been in the game for less time than Game, a Ross cosign would make Game relevant again and give Maybach Music Group a strong presence in the West. It would be a win/win situation for both artists.


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Earlier today, Lytro announced Lytro Illum, the company's second-generation light field camera which boasts professional-grade hardware.
Set to start shipping in July 2014, the camera is priced at 1,499 USD for pre-orders.
The official product page contains mostly introductory information, so we've dug through the knowledgebase articles to find some more details and additional information about the camera's hardware, features, controls, and international availability.
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Marlow man arrested on DWI charge after two crashes
October 25. 2013 8:04AM
STODDARD - A Marlow man is charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated after two accidents Friday morning, one in Roxbury and the other a head-on crash in Stoddard that seriously injured him and the other driver, state police said.
At 1:18 a.m. Friday, a hit-and-run was reported on Route 9 in Roxbury. Witnesses told investigators a vehicle hit a telephone pole and then left the scene.
While troopers were heading to that crash site, a two-car, head-on crash on Route 9 in Stoddard was reported.
State police said a preliminary investigation of that collision revealed Jay Smith, 50, of Marlow was driving east on Route 9 in Stoddard when he crossed over into the westbound lane and hit another car head-on, causing serious injuries to himself and the driver of the other vehicle.
State police said a preliminary investigation indicates the vehicle Smith was driving was the same one that hit the telephone pole in Roxbury.
Both drivers were transported to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene. Smith was arrested at the hospital for aggravated driving while intoxicated.
Anyone with information about the collision is asked to contact Trooper Thomas Byrne at 603-358-3333.


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Most of Friday's NHIAA tourney events still onStaff Report
March 08. 2013 1:33PM
Despite heavy snowfall throughout the southern part of the state, all but one of the NHIAA tournament games scheduled for Friday will be played tonight.
The Division I boys' basketball game pitting Bedford at top-seeded Trinity of Manchester - schools located less than seven miles from each other - was rescheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday. The other three quarterfinals remain scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m., however, as does the Division II girls' final between Lebanon and Portsmouth at Southern New Hampshire University.
Tonight's three boys' quarterfinals include seventh-seeded Bishop Guertin of Nashua at No. 2 Manchester Central, No. 4 Nashua South at No. 12 Dover and No. 11 Exeter at No. 3 Spaulding of Rochester.
Bedford is seeded eighth but is one of the hottest teams in the state, having won seven straight games and 10 of its last 11, including a 60-42 victory over Winnacunnet of Hampton in the first round of the tournament.


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WOODSTOCK – The fact that McHenry County is among the healthiest counties in Illinois doesn't surprise Patrick McNulty.
He's the public health administrator for the McHenry County Health Department and has seen many residents make early health evaluation and early prevention a priority, such as by taking part in programs offered by the department.
"We have a very well-educated population in McHenry County," McNulty said.
McHenry County is the 17th healthiest county in Illinois, according to a report that used a variety of health factors to evaluate counties across the United States.
The County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, conducted by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, gave McHenry County high marks in its "health behaviors" and "social and economic factors" categories, citing low levels of premature death, low levels of children in poverty, and a high percentage of high school graduates compared with the 101 other counties in Illinois.
"McHenry County looks like it's doing pretty well," said Angela Russell, an associate
researcher at the University of Wisconsin. "It's among the healthiest counties in Illinois."
Although McHenry County ranks as one of Illinois' healthiest counties, it fell out of the top five for the first time in the four years the rankings have been published.
It previously had ranked in fourth or fifth place.
Russell said McHenry County residents shouldn't be alarmed in the drop in rank, as it's likely the result of other counties doing well, rather than McHenry County underperforming.
The study found that, compared with the state average, McHenry County had higher rates of smoking and higher rates of people who could not see a doctor because of cost.
Other factors that hurt the county's ranking
include the fact that 46 percent of the restaurants in McHenry County are fast-food establishments, and one-quarter of county residents are obese, the report found.
But McNulty said residents should feel "pretty good" about their county's overall ranking.
"We've maintained our status at the upper end of the rankings compared to other counties in the state," he said.
McNulty said the county needs to continue to give attention to obesity and smoking rates, as well as access to transportation, such as biking, that leads to fit residents.
Russell credited low violent crime rates, a high rate of education and the fact that only 14 percent of adults are uninsured for the county's high ranking.
Russell also noted that McHenry County's premature death rate is one of the lowest in the nation.
The county rankings are particularly revealing because of the range of factors it evaluates, Russell said. The report examined the overall healthiness of counties by looking at more than just smoking and obesity rates.
Access to recreational facilities, violent crime rates and inadequate social support are among the factors in ranking the counties.
"This helps people think about county health not just in terms of disease or whether you go see a doctor," said Elissa Bassler, CEO of the Illinois Public Health Institute. "It looks at what else contributes to health."
Bassler said that community leaders across the county, from the health sector to education, should use the data to improve the health of McHenry County.
McHenry's surrounding counties also ranked high in the report. Lake County ranked 16th, Kane County ranked 12th and DuPage County ranked sixth, according to the report. Cook County ranked 78th.


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Hi folks, first time poster here with a stumper for y'all.
I've been looking for the original vocal/rhythm track for Prince Far I's "You I Love and Not Another," (track 3 on Under Heavy Manners). The few snatches of melody that Joe Gibbs cuts in have always made me want to seek it out, but I don't recognize the female singer at all.
From the lyrics, it seems like a cover of "Come to me softly," but not a version I can find on the usual sites (YouTube, discogs, Algoriddim, etc.)
Anyone know who or this is or if it was ever released?


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BAGHDAD - The line outside the Iraq passport documentation office stretches down the street. The people of Baghdad are fleeing an insurgency barely a dozen miles from the capital. "People panic. They watch the news and they think the armed groups are right here in Baghdad," said Ali Nejim, a 20-year-old shopkeeper across the street from the line.
The militant offensive, spearheaded by the puritanical Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in alliance with anti-government tribes, has seized majority Sunni areas across the north and west of the country.
The fighters' rapid advance has halted about an hour's drive north of the capital and even closer on its western outskirts, bringing renewed fear to a city of 7 million people where memories of a sectarian bloodbath are still fresh and daily suicide bombings are still as routine as the weather.
The Iraqi capital somehow functions as a city despite never healing from the intense street fighting of 2006-2007. It is mainly divided into Sunni and Shi'ite neighbourhoods, some still sealed off by razor wire and concrete blast walls.
Although outright war has not been fought in the capital for years now, Sunni militants regularly detonate bombs intended to kill Shi'ite civilians. The busy market street where Nejim's shop is a frequent target for car bomb attacks.
The insurgent advance of the past two weeks raises the prospect that the underlying violence could again erupt into outright sectarian war, with civilians the target. "Some of my neighbours sold their houses and left. I'm staying because if I don't, nobody will be left," Nejim said, in his shop that sells sweets, drinks and coffee. The restaurant next door was bombed earlier this year, he said.
Still, he said he was certain Baghdad would not quickly fall to insurgents, like Mosul and Tikrit two weeks ago. "Mosul fell because they are majority Sunni," said shopkeeper Nejim. "Baghdad is mixed and even the Sunnis here support the government," he added. Nejim's family is split. His father is Shi'ite and his mother is Sunni.
In mixed neighbourhoods where the threat of sectarian fighting is greatest, residents are taking no chances.
In the north Baghdad district of Ghazaliyah, a neighbourhood split between Sunnis and Shi'ites, there has been an exodus of families who fear their neighbourhood could become a focal point for sectarian attacks.
When ISIL took Mosul on June 10, Sunni and Shi'ite residents started to move to other parts of Baghdad. The main street is now close to empty, with only a few families remaining. "They are scared," said a resident who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. "The Shi'ites have retreated to Shi'ite areas and the Sunnis to Sunni areas. There are only six or seven families left on my street now," he said.
Residents of other districts say the same has happened in other mixed neighbourhoods.
The immediate fear in Baghdad is that Sunni sleeper cells loyal to ISIL will stage hit-and-run attacks and car bombings. These could be backed up by militants from outside the city who now have US-made armoured vehicles and heavy artillery.
Iraqi officials worry they could push into the city from Sunni suburbs on the outskirts.
Security has been beefed up. Soldiers in US Army-style desert camouflage stand on pavements. The past two weeks have seen traffic jams as vehicle checkpoints have increased.
The government has mobilised Shi'ites as volunteers for the front lines. Militia from the civil war days are reforming.
Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's black-clad Mehdi Army fighters, which once controlled swathes of Baghdad and southern Iraq but lay down arms in 2008, staged a "peace march" on Saturday, parading with trucks mounted with rockets. One group of fighters wore mock-explosive belts while another group carried improvised bombs. "(These fighters) are ready to sacrifice their souls and blood for the sake of defending Iraq and its generous people," a man on a podium said as the fighters marched by.
Some Baghdad residents are seeking refuge in the country's Kurdish north, which is relatively secure. "All my stuff is in boxes. I sold my apartment. I sold all my furniture," said a 54-year old restaurant manager who had just landed in the Kurdish capital Arbil. The number of flights from Baghdad to Arbil has tripled, yet tickets are sold out and trading at a premium on the black market.
But most Baghdad residents have nowhere to go and are staying put, waiting for the next wave of violence in a city where peace is barely a memory. In an Ottoman fort, now a public park on the bank of the Tigris, a collective of poets took it in turns to stand on a podium and read verses aloud.
Many focused on the conflict. One poet read out: "It's time for people to rest, "Grief has begotten nothing but grief, "When is it our time to rejoice?"


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Dee Gordon has barely played for the Dodgers since he was recalled from the minor leagues Sept. 1, but he could still figure into Manager Don Mattingly's postseason plans.
Mattingly said Gordon could be used the way base-stealing sensation Billy Hamilton is being used by the Cincinnati Reds — as a late-inning, pinch-running specialist.
If Matt Kemp fails to recover from a strained right hamstring, the Dodgers could have a place on their 25-man playoff roster for Gordon, who spent most of this season with triple-A Albuquerque. Although Gordon has been a shortstop for the overwhelming majority of his professional career, he has been taking ground balls at second base in recent days to increase his versatility.
Gordon played 20 games in triple A at second base and said he felt comfortable.
"I liked it," Gordon said. "I didn't have a problem with it. I love turning double plays."
As for pinch-running, Gordon has seen firsthand how it can influence a playoff series.
Gordon was at Fenway Park in 2004 when pinch-runner Dave Roberts of the Boston Red Sox stole second base in the ninth inning of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. Roberts then scored, sending the game into extra innings and preventing his team from being swept by the New York Yankees.
Gordon was also there for the next game of that series, when Roberts pinch-ran in the eighth inning and tormented Gordon's father, Yankees reliever Tom Gordon. The elder Gordon prevented Roberts from stealing a base, but, distracted, he threw three consecutive balls to Trot Nixon. The next pitch was down the middle. Nixon singled and advanced Roberts to third base, from where he would score on a sacrifice fly by Jason Varitek.
"He did everything he could," Gordon said of how his father threw to first base three times to hold Roberts.
The Red Sox went on to reverse the 3-0 deficit in the series and advanced to the World Series, which they swept.
Garcia called up
Paco Rodriguez went into Wednesday having appeared in 70 games. J.P. Howell had pitched in 58.
To alleviate the burden on the team's two left-handed relievers, the Dodgers called up left-hander Onelki Garcia.
Garcia, 24, defected from Cuba in 2010. Because of his uncertain residency status, there was confusion as to whether he was eligible for the 2011 draft. The league office ruled he was ineligible, then reversed course a year later. When the Dodgers selected him with their third-round pick in 2012, Garcia was playing in a Southern California beer league.
Wednesday was Garcia's first day in a major league clubhouse.
"From the day I came to this country, this is what I wanted the most, to be in the major leagues," Garcia said.
Garcia, 24, was a combined 2-4 with a 2.90 earned-run average between double-A Chattanooga and triple-A Albuquerque.
Since the end of the minor league season, Garcia has been at the Dodgers' spring-training complex in Arizona, throwing bullpen sessions and pitching live batting practice to Kemp.
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Kemp ran on an anti-gravity treadmill and didn't report any problems with his strained right hamstring. Kemp could run the bases later this week. … Shawn Tolleson was transferred to the 60-day disabled list to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Garcia.


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Commodity prices are treading water in European hours as markets digest two days of aggressive selling in the aftermath of a hawkish set of FOMC minutes. S&P 500 stock index futures point firmly lower however, pointing to renewed selling pressure as Wall Street comes online.
The sour mood seems to reflect renewed Eurozone debt crisis fears after yesterday's lackluster Spanish bond auction and mixed results at today's French sale of long-term paper. Spreads between debt-stricken countries' and benchmark German bond yields widened, with Portugal, Spain and Italy appearing the most afflicted.
Such an environment bodes ill for crude oil and copper, where prices remain closely correlated with equities and so would be directly vulnerable in the event of continued risk aversion. Gold and silver are likewise likely to decline as safe-haven inflows buoy the US dollar and apply de-facto selling pressure. The weekly set of US jobless claims figures headlines the economic calendar.
Spot Gold (NY Close): $1,620.77 // -25.35 // -1.54%
Prices took out 38.2% Fibonacci expansion support at 1634.76 to challenge the 50% level at 1,615.46. A break below this boundary targets the 61.8% Fib at 1,596.16. The 1,634.76 level is now acting as near-term resistance.
Spot Silver (NY Close): $31.39 // -1.25 // -3.82%
Prices continue to consolidate below resistance at 32.93, the former neckline of a Head and Shoulders (H&S) top carved out between late January and mid-March, and horizontal support at 31.04. A break blower exposes the first downside barrier at 29.79. The H&S setup broadly implies a measured downside target at 26.84.


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Danville man turns himself in on charges he fled accidentBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
October 18. 2013 9:34PM
EPPING — A Danville man turned himself in to police Friday on charges he took off after another man fell from the bed of his moving truck and suffered serious injuries.
Joseph "J.D." Bye, 21, of 6 Lorraines Place, faces charges in connection with the incident that allegedly happened Tuesday afternoon on Jenness Road.
Bye is charged with reckless conduct, conduct after an accident, and driving with a suspended license.
According to police, Bye and another individual met up with the victim, Steven Clark, shortly before the incident.
At some point, Bye allegedly began driving off in a 2001 Ford Ranger while Clark ran after him and grabbed the bed of the truck, Police Chief Michael Wallace said.
Clark was hanging onto the bed of the truck in the area of Fuller Lane when he fell off and landed on the road, Wallace said.
Clark suffered what police described as "serious" injuries. Bye is accused of failing to stop at the scene and failing to provide information to police.
Wallace said a neighbor who witnessed the accident ran over to assist Clark, who asked that his mother be called.
Clark's mother arrived and drove him to Exeter Hospital, where he was treated and later transferred to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has since been released from the hospital.
"The victim is recovering from his injuries," Wallace said Friday.The charges allege that Bye "recklessly engaged in conduct by driving a motor vehicle while Steven Clark was hanging on to the outside, which placed Steven Clark in danger of serious bodily injury, by continuing to drive on Jenness Road until Steven Clark fell from the moving vehicle."Bye was released on personal recognizance bail and will be arraigned Nov. 15.


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BOULDER, Colo.—Police are investigating after someone dropped off several containers filled with potential explosives at a hazardous materials collection site in east Boulder.
Sgt. Pat Wyton says police were called to the Hazardous Materials Management Facility at about 2 p.m. Saturday and found several 1970s-era containers filled with dangerous explosive materials that were likely meant for use during mine blasting.
The center was evacuated while a Boulder hazmat team loaded the containers into a trailer and transported them to another location where they will be stored until they can be properly disposed of.
The Daily Camera reports ( http://bit.ly/U5EPIo) explosives are among the types of waste not accepted by the facility.
Wyton says it's not clear who brought the containers to the site.
Information from: Daily Camera, http://www.dailycamera.com/


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I had heard that Pope Paul I was going to make ratical progressive changes so they offed him. But you would have thought that they might have known about him before electing him. Its not like any of them are new kids on the block.
When the last pope died and they were taking a long time elect, err, waiting for god to appoint a new one, I was using the name "Popeless" when registering on new web sites.
A nice little earner for an airline. Does anyone know who the official Papal Plane People will be? Might be worth a wee punt on their share price.
I'm hoping the new Pope is from the Planet Kolob.
This has not happened since 1415. That is 77 years before Columbus discovered America. Amazing if you like history.
I think it was the third pope back that died very shortly after taking office. Rumors that he had been knocked off by his own people for not being popish enough or something swirled around, but it was pre-internet, so things didn't swirl around as much back then. But that has me thinking that if they did indeed off that guy, they could off this one if he was being a bad boy. Maybe he just wants more time to surf the web.
Remember back a year or 2 when the pope's butler was charged with leaking private papers of the pope? I'm hearing now that his retirement might be tied to this. I guess this really affected the pope in a deep way. The pope pardoned they guy but that is not the whole story. There are many branches of power struggle within the church. One group, that has grown in influence and power, is The Society of St. Pius X. They are a very conservative group (like our Teabaggers would be here) who want the Church to return to the old ways before Vatican II. Latin masses, less regular people involved, etc. I guess the butler was in their hooks and did what he did so they could possibly get influence with the pope. So the pope finally said, "too hell with all of you, I quit". So political intrigue in the Vatican. Problem is they still have a lot of influence and of the 8 mentioned as possible new popes...all are pretty much conservative and would probably lean towards this group who wants to control things.
Doomsday fans have found ways to link each phrase to a corresponding pope through the centuries. That includes John Paul II, who is associated with phrase No. 110, "From the labor of the sun," because he was born on the day of a solar eclipse and was entombed on the day of a solar eclipse as well. Benedict XVI, No. 111, is supposedly "glory of the olive" because some members of a branch of the monastic order founded by St. Benedict are known as Olivetans.Then there's No. 112: "In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit ... Peter the Roman, who will nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The end."


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BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has canceled an event planned for Sunday in Pueblo, Colo., because of the crash of a small aircraft at the Pueblo airport.
Romney campaign spokesman Rick Gorka says the crash at Pueblo Memorial Airport is under investigation and the campaign did not want to interfere with the investigation or any emergency response efforts. The event was scheduled to be held at an aircraft museum near the airport.
Colorado is among a handful of battleground states being heavily courted by Romney and President Barack Obama.
Media reports in the state said that an experimental plane crashed at the airport Sunday morning, killing one person and closing two runways.


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I know there are others out there like me that desperately wanted to play some other point and click adventures on their PSP, and are anxiously awaiting something to pop up.
Well here you go, a coder named CrazyC who created the intital DOSBox for PSP back in 2005 is back and is back with a vengeance! I personally have tested a ton of old Sierra and other point and click adventures on this and I have to say I am EXTREMELY happy! Playing Quest for Glory 1 VGA on the go is an absolute dream come true!
It's still a little slow, and the audio hickups from time to time, but with this the PSP is well on its way to being an adventure gamers dream come true!
I dont reccomend playing any games that SCUMMVM can play on this, simply because they wont play as well. But for everything else give it a try!
This is a link to ready made EBOOTS (credit to Belthasar00): http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/139304/DosBox-psp-rar.html
Replace the .conf file in that rar with this one (credit to 100k at ps2dev.org): http://www.deardenboys.co.uk/dosbox.conf
CrazyC updates his binary in this forum: http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=3179&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60
(Everytime he updates simply rename the binary file EBOOT.PBP and put it in Dosbox_psp.)
ALSO, for ease of use I reccomend downloading this program also: http://www.ritlabs.com/download/dn/dn151.zip
This allows you to use the analog nub to scroll through and launch the different dos .exe files without having to type using a VERY difficult keyboard mapping system made for the PSP
Here are the steps for a noob: (I was one when I first stumbled across this, some very nice people at both of these forums helped me, I would like to pass it along)
1. Download the rar. Open it take out the folders.
2.Download CrazyC's latest binary at the second link, look for his post on that page. Rename it to "EBOOT.PBP" then place it in "Dosbox_psp" Folder
3. Download 100k dosbox.conf file and replace the .conf file in "dosbox_psp"
4. Download "Dos Navigator" (dn151) from ritlabs
5. Place the "Dosbox_psp" and "Dosbox_psp%" into the appropriate homebrew folder (whatever firmware your running, 310OE would be GAME150)
6. Make a folder on your mem stick under PSP called "dosbox" place the "Dos Navigator Folder" (dn151) in the "dosbox" folder on your mem stick, then place any Dosbox ready games unzipped in the dosbox folder.
7. Launch Dosbox_psp from your "game" menu on your psp, Dos Navigator will then boot. Double click the ".." in Dos Navigator to get to where your games are. Then simply double click the "dir" your game folder is called, then double click the .exe from within that games folder.
I personally have tested these WORKING games:
Space Quest 1 VGA Remake
Space Quest 4 CD version
Space Quest 5
King's Quest 5 CD version
King's Quest 6 CD version (some audio errors, unlike other CD versions)
Gabriel Knight CD version
Police Quest 1 VGA Remake
Police Quest 3
Quest for Glory VGA Remake
Quest for Glory 3
Leisure Suit Larry VGA Remake
Leisure Suit Larry 5
Conquest of the Longbow
Freddy Pharkus Frontier Pharmicist
Laura Bow - Colonels Bequest
Laura Bow - Dagger of Amon Ra
Rex Nebular
Sherlock Holmes - Case of the Serrated Scalpel
Eco Quest 1
Eco Quest 2
got it up and running. only game i had on me was QFG3. runs pretty good. not a 100%, more like 75-80%, but this is greatness. i never thought these SIERRA games would make it to the PSP. but it's up.
couple of questions.
- how do we get sound running on this?
- how can i input characters so i can name my character?
thats it for now.
EDIT...nevermind. got them up and running. still testing some games. yeah, there not at 100%, but it's still great. anything you can recommend to speed up gameplay?
Thanks for the tutorial.
Just tried with Gabriel Knight 1 (floppy version, French), and it works!!!
Not what I could call "playable", but I saw on ps2dev's forums that the developper is quite active, so let's hope !
And just having an old dos screen on my psp makes me warm inside !
I cannot follow the instructions about how too install Dosbox for PSP,, i tried a few times but i just dont know what a Binnary is? Also i cant follow where exactly place wich files? Also the downloads are not explained good enough,,, Can someone Explain it again mayby? Because this manual is not enough for me,,, too understand,,
Thanks allready,,,
hey all - i was just hoping someone with doxbox working on the PSP might be able to share a few new links, it seems i'm kinda late to this party, some links are dead and was hoping for a bit help - i've raided every site with the word dosbox on it and this site seems to have the 'latest' info
thanks guys i appreciate it
I've gotten DOSBox running and for those who may have issues, read www.dosbox.com/wiki/Psp_dosbox
It links to some better guides that I also used. Anyone know how to re-map the mouse keys and maybe F keys in a .BAT file?
I also have ran Eye of the Beholder 2 and 3 at very playable speeds. And almost Fallout. When I say almost, I mean almost in to the game. I doubt play-ability but want to make it to that point to test adjustments.
every time i go to boot the file, it tells me that its corrupted! i need help.. and if you could explain it simply it would be much appreciated, im a youngster and dont understand all of the lingo yet!
You'll have to be more specific, Sheep. What file are you trying to boot? The DOSbox shortcut from the PSP menu, or a game inside DOSbox? Unfortunately there isn't a very simple way to just explain it all, but I can try and help you out. Why don't you start by telling me what PSP firmware you're running, what version of DOSbox, and where you got it, and then if you made it into a game - which one and where is that from. This way I can attempt to run it myself and give better help.


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In the aftermath of Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of Scooter Libby, the estimable team of David Rivkin and Lee Casey makes the case for "no more special counsels." They do a good job of laying out the potential disadvantages of using such "special prosecutors." However, I think they give short shrift to the down-side of having regular Justice Department prosecutors investigate alleged wrongdoing by the president, vice president, or their top staffers. I doubt that the public would have much faith in the ability of the Reno Justice Department fairly and thoroughly to investigate Bill Clinton, or in the ability of the Gonzalez Justice Department to do so for Karl Rove. And, depending on the administration and the circumstances, the public's distrust might not be misguided.
Rivkin and Casey argue that special counsels inherently are prone to over-prosecute ("once the sword is drawn, it must taste blood"). They cite the fact that there was no crime when Fitzgerald began his investigation — the crime Libby allegedly committed occurred thereafter. It's too early to say whether Fitzgerald was over-zealous. We won't know for sure until he's called upon present his case against Libby in an adversarial setting. However, so far as appears now Fitzgerald would have been willing to return to Chicago without indicting anyone had he believed that no one had obstructed his investigation. And, if Rivkin and Casey are correct that regular Justice Department attorneys will investigate top-level wrongdoing properly, it follows that these prosecutors would indict those they believe obstruct their investigations.
Fitzgerald aside, Rivkin and Casey may be right that special prosecutors are more prone than non-special ones to engage in abuse (Casey Stengel speculated that designated hitters would bat irresponsibly because being "designated" would go to their heads). But the rationale for having special counsels also has force, and I don't think anyone has been able conclusively to show which approach is the least advantageous.


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FORTUNE — In what felt like a knockdown, drag out election season, we heard plenty about the problems in Washington and improving the lives of American women. As a foreign policy professor and a woman who has worked in Washington, Anne-Marie Slaughter knows these issues all too well.
Slaughter currently teaches at Princeton, but last year, she ended a two-year term as the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department. She was previously dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Slaughter also, suddenly, reignited the perennial debate among working women this past summer after she wrote an article in The Atlantic called "Why Women Still Can't Have it All." She spoke with Fortune about leadership in Washington and why women should not blame themselves if they are struggling to balance work and family.
An edited transcript is below.
Fortune: You've been a dean and you've worked in the State Department. How do you lead differently in academia versus in the government?
Anne-Marie Slaughter: Well, my one-liner is that in academia, you're rewarded for coming up with a really big idea that has only your name on it, but in Washington, you're rewarded for cutting big ideas into little ideas and getting other people to think they thought of them. It's an old adage in Washington that you can get anything done if you don't want to take credit for it, and it is true.
But the real difference is Washington is the politics. I don't know if the politics are fiercer but they're different. I had to watch my back a lot more.
People were out to get you?
They certainly are very happy to cut you out. It's just the way the town tends to work. It's not a place that rewards team collaboration very often.
But I had to send very different signals, and I did. I would actually tell my people, "look, success is not having defended our turf, success is having gotten our ideas adopted."
Were you rewarded for achieving your definition of success?
There are a number of projects that I am just enormously proud of having been part of, but my fingerprints are often not on them. It's just the way it has to be. You know and your team knows, and inside, the Secretary will give you credit if she can, but by and large, it's about a larger goal.
So how do you convince yourself to do major projects when your name isn't on the work?
That is where I think being an academic really helped. I knew at some point I was coming back here. I have an outside life and an outside identity that many people inside don't have.
I also made a choice early on that I wanted to be able to look back and have achieved one big thing. So I volunteered for this Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review which was a real bear because it had never been done before it involves putting state and aid agencies together and it was a huge process headache and a lot of people didn't want to get anywhere near it.
Did that work? Does it hold up?
Yeah, it does. In fact, I often get students who say they want to get a job with some initiative or office that the QDDR was part of and I feel just enormously proud. I feel like, "yeah we did that, and it's going to have a real impact."
How should people think about leadership if they truly want to work across agencies and cultures, like you did for that project?
I would say it's the difference between being at the top of the ladder or the center of the web. Power is whom you bring together and how you bring them together and what you enable. You are still exercising power, but it is a much more empowering kind of power.
And how, if at all, has your role as a female leader change after you wrote the article in the Atlantic?
Ah. Well, it certainly added an agenda to a life that was pretty full. Hanna Rosin has said I'm the woman who left the State Department to spend more time with my children and then I wrote an article about it, so it means I'll never see my children again. I did not, of course, expect it to take over my life.
But I felt a sense of responsibility that is just part of being a teacher, a mentor, a mother — just somebody who looks after other people. And people tell me every single day how much they've talked about it, what a difference it made.
When I read it, I just thought, "thank God I'm not crazy."
That's one of the things that makes it worth it for me — so many women were out there thinking it was their fault. Many have had to make compromises they didn't expect to make and they feel like failures and they're not failures, it's the system.
We have not enabled people to have children and be with those children and still stay on the career track in ways that allow them to rise over the course of a lifetime.
Somewhere along the line, we got to a place where saying, "I'm choosing not to accept the promotion because I want to spend more time with my children" is regarded as some kind of weakness or unprofessionalism, and that's very bad for society as a whole.
When I sort of ripped it open, everybody was like, "Whoa, I'm not alone."


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March 2008 Describes a study investigating the use of the antidepressant bupropion as a potential therapy for methamphetamine addiction.
October 2010 Reports on two studies showing a high prevalence of HIV infection and more rapid progression to disability and death among drug abusers.
September 2013 Dr. Marilyn Huestis of NIDA's Intramural Research Program talks about conducting research on drug effects with human subjects, developing tests to help law enforcement identify drugged drivers, and an assay to help identify children whose prenatal exposure to anti-HIV drugs may put them at risk for adverse developmental outcomes.
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Reports on 2009 data indicating a rise in drug abuse in the United States and the factors that may have contributed to this increase.
December 2008 Reports prevalence rates of illicit drug abuse among youths and young adults based on 2007 data from a national survey of drug use and health.
April 2014 Almost one-third (32 percent) of the roughly 42,000 Monitoring the Future survey respondents reported having used marijuana during their lifetime. However, abuse of many other drugs—methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and some prescription medications—declined.
February 2014 Teen mothers on three American Indian reservations improved on several measures of parenting after participating in Family Spirit, a home-visiting intervention developed with NIDA support. At 12 months postpartum, the women's children exhibited reduced rates of emotional difficulties predicting later drug abuse and other behavioral problems. Infants at highest risk—those whose mothers had histories of drug abuse—benefited the most.
December 2011 New results extend previous findings that some methamphetamine-induced neuronal damage resolves after a year of abstinence.
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A trader has defended plans for an artisan market in Buxton, after they came under fire last week.
Ben Brindley, of Brindley Garden Products, said it would be a welcome addition to the town and would help boost the economy.
Ben, of Tideswell, said: "I think it would have a positive impact.
"I used to trade at Buxton Market about six or seven years ago but I moved away because of the lack of footfall and support from the council. I think it was when I made £20 in a day.
The carpenter, who makes bird tables, planters and benches and has a shop in Chapel-en-le-Frith, added: "Now I use Wilmslow and Northwich artisan markets, Bakewell Farmers' Market and Macclesfield Treacle Market.
"I think if I hadn't had moved, I would be considering packing it in.
"Buxton could do with an artisan market. Buxton's living in the dark ages.
"The town is on a downward spiral, we need change."
As reported last week, High Peak Borough Council and Buxton Town Team are working in partnership with the Market Company on a trial for two artisan markets, in June along Spring Gardens and July on the Market Place.
The authority hopes the scheme will breathe new life into the rapidly declining market, but a long-standing trader believed it could have a negative impact on both the town's existing market, and local shops.
Proposals to relocate the market from Higher Buxton to another location in the town will also be considered as part of the review.


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Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea is unlikely to face disciplinary action for his criticisms of referee Llyr Apgeraint-Roberts following Quins' Aviva Premiership clash with London Welsh on Sunday.
O'Shea was furious with the referees' performance after Quins beat London Welsh 31-26 at the Kassam Stadium. He claimed it was the worst performance he had seen, saying: "Everything [was at fault]. To have some element of knowledge of the tackle, of the offside line, of the maul, to have some knowledge of the game. We're accountable, other people are not accountable."
O'Shea is unlikely to face disciplinary action but has been criticised by Rugby Football Union's head of referees, Ed Morrison, for expressing his anger in public.
Talking to Sky Sports News, Morrison said: "I think Conor has some points that are valid as you would expect from someone of his stature but I would have preferred him to have kept some of those views private. But - by his own admission - he felt he couldn't stay private any longer.
"If they don't believe the (complaints) process is working - or working well enough - then we should be sitting down and having a mature discussion about how we improve the process."
Morrison added: "We haven't got a queue of people who go out on a Saturday afternoon in front of 24,000 people at Welford Road on his own and say 'I'm going to control this game'. These people are very few and far between.
"We have to utilise that resource, improve that resource as best we possibly can."
However O'Shea was unrepentant over his outburst as he stood by his comments.
"The truth is a good defence and I said nothing out of line," O'Shea told The Daily Telegraph. "I knew what I was going to say and I brought along someone from the club to act as a witness.
"It would have been remiss of me to stay silent. You can't do that forever. If you're asked a question about the officiating then you have to give an answer.
"Look, a ref's job is a tough old thing to do, as tough as it gets and I wouldn't do it. But once you commit to doing it, that's it. You have to do it well."
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