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You know that flat feeling your legs get when you're running in dead sneakers? I had that feeling on Monday, so at the end of a 3-mile lollipop route instead of heading home, I hung a left and ran directly into Running Revolution. (This small shop just off the main drag of Downtown Campbell is definitely worth a stop if you're in the market for new shoes.)
In seconds, I went from "flat" to "fantastic." After trying several brands and styles, I walked out with a brand new pair of Brooks Glycerin 10. I practically hugged the box all the way home! (Running with a shoe box is awkward, so I was forced to walk.)
I was on such a shopping high that I went on a registration binge, too. I have now signed up for three upcoming races, and I couldn't be more psyched for each of them. They're all first-time courses for me, which means PRs are guaranteed. (Score!)
I'm saving the dates for:
Pretty Muddy 5K in Sacramento, Saturday Jun 29, 2013 This will be my first obstacle-laden mud run, and I'm really excited to participate. I've been going to boot camp fitness classes lately, so the competitive part of my brain is throbbing with the possibility of completely killing this course. (Hey, Rope Ladder, my arms will be ready for you!)
Sharks Fitness Faceoff 10K in San Jose, Sunday June 30, 2013 The Sharks are huge in San Jose—sunny Californian's are some of the toughest hockey fans, believe it or not. And I'm expecting a big turnout for this charity event. I'll be tackling the 10K (there's a 5K and a health walk, too) and plan to attack it like, well, like a Shark—fast and ferocious!
The Jungle Run Half-Marathon in Los Gatos, Sunday July 14, 2013 To be honest, I'm a little anxious about signing up for my first half-marathon in the great state of California. My last attempt at a 13.1-miler back in October resulted in a DNF, but my butt is feeling better and I think putting this race on the calendar will be good for my head—I'm a goal setter, after all. (And, again, it's a guaranteed PR!)
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My curves are not crazy. Henri Matisse(1869-1954)
© Photo: Riihele. All rights reserved.
Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret. Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
This is my entry on the Picture Perfect CURVES.
Take ye great care. Rii 🙂
This is the side entrance into the modern part of the Cardo which is covered and full of the most fancy shops. My favourite place for shopping in Jerusalem, actually. It is the modernized part of the Cardo and a very nice place to shop indeed.
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[Warning: This story reveals details of Monday night's episode of Chuck. Read at your own risk!]
We knew Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) was in serious danger once Shaw (Brandon Routh) discovered that she had killed his wife, but it was shocking that Chuck (Zachary Levi) had to kill him to save her. What's ahead for the Buy More nerd-turned-killer? TVGuide.com spoke with executive producer Chris Fedak to find out how the death will affect Chuck and how it will change how Sarah looks at him.
Chuck producer: Chuck is off to become the hero
TVGuide.com: Chuck went from being a fake killer to real killer!
Chris Fedak: I remember in Season 1, Zach asked when he would get to shoot someone and we said, "Never, because you're Chuck, you're not going to be comfortable doing that. You're a regular guy." We knew at some point it was going to be important for him to get to a point where he has to shoot someone. We built the first 13 episodes all to this point. It's the classic gunfighter decision: Sarah's life is in danger and he has to use a gun for the first time.
TVGuide.com: How will Chuck feel about having killed someone?
Fedak: It's a big thing for him, but when Chuck makes the decision to shoot Shaw, he's making the right decision. It's not morally ambiguous; he's saving Sarah's life. He knows there will be ramifications in his relationship with Sarah. This season has been about what Sarah thinks about Chuck becoming a spy and how it will change him. It's such a huge moment: To save her life he has to kill someone, and in doing so, will she still love him?
TVGuide.com: Christopher Lloyd will be guest-starring as a therapist. Will he help Chuck deal with his first kill?
Fedak: That's an important part of it, but just one of Chuck's many issues. Chuck is an emotional guy and he probably should've gotten a therapist many years ago.
TVGuide.com: Will killing people ever come more naturally for Chuck?
Fedak: For Chuck, it's very unnatural. He's never going to be a hardened killer; that's not Chuck Bartowski.
TVGuide.com: Will Chuck change or evolve from this death?
Fedak: Absolutely. Chuck's wanted to become a spy and this season is very much a part of that. As we head into the season finale, we'll realize there's so much more going on in Chuck's life that's going to affect his decision. Chuck wants to be a spy and everything he's doing is to become this super agent, but we're never going to lose sight of the fact that he's also a good guy at heart. It's the Chuck Bartowski show. He's not James Bond; he's not Jack Bauer.
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This isn't a blog about books. It's a blog about ideas. A festival of ideas, to be specific. I spent two days last week at Brisbane's Ideas Festival and, frankly, my mind is still reeling from all I saw and heard there.
It reminded me that I in some ways can't wait to be a retiree who can attend all the writers' and ideas festivals she can possibly fit into her calendar and hours her butt can stand sitting on hard, fold-up seats. I mean, there's something so incredibly inspiring sitting in a room listening to someone who's an expert in their field and whose ideas turn my own on their head.
For this reason I'm breaking out of my usual books-focused blog mould and giving you a small sense of what I encountered there. The first session I lobbed into was McMansion to Micro Mansion: How do you challenge the Great Australian Dream? I can't recount the session's brilliance in full, but some highlights include:
- the inverted sentiment that I want my next house to be more modest than my last one (do I hear an environmental sigh of relief?)
- our new houses are the largest in the world—even larger than the US's new houses (I actually emitted an audible sound of shame at hearing this one)
- we have on average houses that allocate a whopping 83 sqm per person (enough to swing more than a few proverbial cats without touching each other or the walls)
- by 2026, 60% of Queensland households will comprise just one or two people
- we have given over an inordinate amount of space to roads and freeways
- we seem to crave big, spacious homes, but when we're on holidays we happily camp in cosier, more cramped tents, caravans, and the like (does this tell us that we're actually good in and enjoy small, warm spaces?)
- we're having a 'Katrina moment' (as in, a rethink of our homes and practices post-natural disaster)
- many famous writers wrote in really small, modest spaces, including Martin Heidegger, Roald Dahl, and George Bernard Shaw.
The second session saw me go from not knowing who the speaker was to wanting to finding out as much as is humanly possible about him. Anthony Ryan has carved out an impressive (if that's the most apt description) career working with homeless and marginalised people, and is known particularly for setting up Eddie's Street Van. His insights?
- The key to working with the disempowered is presence: making it clear that when you're with them, there's no place you'd rather be.
- Stereotypes are wrong. We need to get past the romanticism of the poor.
- We need to develop that sense of carpe diem. All of us are going to be dead in the next 100 years. What are we going to leave as our legacy?
There were more points worthy of coverage, but I didn't write them down—Ryan reduced everyone in the room to tears with some knock-out stories and I, well, I was kind of distracted ferreting around in my bag for tissues and dabbing my eyes.
What followed him were two inspiring sessions with the creative directors of Ideo, a kind of design slash consulting agency that's doing some pretty mind-blowing work with regards to social change.
One session focused on crowdsourcing (although the Ideao guys said they hated that term—it sounds too much like a one-way transaction, when the reality of this action is that you too give something back). The second was on the theme that small multiplied by many equates something really large.
I have too many notes on these ones to include them all, but here's a wee snapshot:
- Netflix crowdsourced an improvement to their 'you might like this' algorithm by offering $1 million to the person who could improve it by just 10%. The entry that won merged everyone else's suggestions, effectively.
- Microsoft thought they had the market sewn up with Encarta '97. Then came Wikipedia, a crowdsourced site that doesn't pay its contributors. The result is that Microsoft went from being the cat who got the cream to the company plagued by the blank response: 'Encarta who?'
- Crowdsourcing and social media recently helped create a revolution in Iran.
- Companies have historically used a sort of one-way monologue to communicate with fans and users. These days it's a two-way conversation.
- Valuing the journey is as important as valuing the destination—sounds guffy, I know, but their point was that they learnt as much during their research as at the end of it.
- Everyone has access to ideas—the value is in the execution (said in response to the thousandth 'Oh I had that idea').
- Don't worry about the world ending today—it's already tomorrow in Australia (teehee, especially in light of the supposed rapture).
- Never waste a crisis (might have been espoused by Winston Churchill).
- The future can't be designed in Excel. In short: spreadsheets are the enemy.
- Small x many = big/(simple + tomorrow) = answer.
- The key is: how small and how quickly can you start?
- People need simple ways to engage. This could be as small and straightforward as applying a sticker that says 'fix this' in their neighbourhood.
- Connect the littles to become bigs.
- Somebody has to start leading a different conversation so everyone can point at it and say: 'That's what I want'.
- We're too often sticking together feathers and hoping to get a duck—you need to have a strategy; you need to know what the answer is.
- If you care about the solution, you don't care who comes up with it.
This wasn't a blog about books, but it was a randomly assembled blog about ideas that inspire books. The Ideas Festival has definitely given me plenty to think about in recent days as well as next year's festival to look forward to. I think this warrants attending as many festivals in the interim as possible, and commencing my hard-seat-sitting training now…


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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's President, celebrated the end of Ramadan today by calling Israel's existence an "insult to humanity" at Tehran University after nationwide pro-Palestinian rallies. Ahmadinejad said confronting Israel is an effort to "protect the dignity of all human beings."
Iran's media claimed millions would attend the rallies organized by the state to support Palesinians and the "liberation of their lands from the Zionist regime's occupation."
The last Friday of Ramadan is known as Quds (Jerusalem) Day.
Ayatollah Khamenei said Wednesday that the "fake Zionist regime would soon fade away from geography and every inch of the occupied territories be returned to Palestinians."
Mitt Romney came out strongly in support of Israel. "America must lead the world in stopping Iran's genocidal regime from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability," Romney said in a statement to reporters. "Ahmadinejad's latest outrageous remarks are just another reminder of what is at stake. As I said recently when visiting Jerusalem, 'We have seen the horrors of history. We will not stand by. We will not watch them play out again.'"
Hezbollah (an Iranian-backed Lebanese group) said today that it could kill tens of thousands of Israelis by striking specific targets in Israel with what it described as precision-guided rockets.
"I tell the Israelis that you have a number of targets, not a large number … that can be hit with precision rockets … which we have," Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said in a broadcast speech.
The threats came as Israel is considering the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities. It is a serious discussion.
Hearing the threats by Iran and Hezbollah and thinking Iran won't use the bomb against Israel is naive.
The Ayatollah said Iran is not and will not build the bomb. Of course they are and they will.
On Monday, the Ayatollah said this:
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"Europe's status quo, which will finally bring it down, stems not from tactical or strategic errors but from a fundamental flaw in worldview," the Leader added.
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The words Main Street can mean different things to Vancouverites. It can mean the blocks of trendy cafes and hip restaurants extending North from West Broadway. It can mean Chinatown and the rough and tumble area at the intersection of Hastings Street. Or it can mean somewhere in between; underdeveloped lower Main, steps away from Pacific Central bus and train station, and a stone's throw from the downtown core. The latter is the setting of one of Vancouver's newest restaurants, a casual Italian eatery run by the owners of Fuel. No matter how down-market the neighborhood, a hip new restaurant will attract diners. In 2008 Food & Wine magazine included Vancouver in its top ten list of restaurant cities in the world. If you build it, they will come. At least at first.
Stepping into the restaurant, I'm struck by the contrast of the warm, inviting atmosphere to the dingy cold outside. A friendly hostess approaches me immediately and offers to take my coat, which I happily part with. Although the decor is modern and streamlined, with concrete walls and sleek Scandinavian style furniture, the place still has a cozy feel to it, due in part to the cork floor and the original old growth fir beams.
Tim Pittman, one of the owners, comes over to our group to welcome us and explains that Campagnolo's interpretation of Italian dining encourages the sharing of several courses around the table. This is reflected in the menu, which offers a wide variety of antipasti, first and second courses, as well as pizza and side dishes. This sounds good to us, and we start with an appetizer of seared albacore tuna studded with salt-roasted onions and chives, served on a soft mound of cannellini beans. The tuna has a clean, mellow flavor, as if it has just been caught, prepared, and brought to our table with a minimum of fanfare. We follow with an order of chick peas with arugula and mint. The chick peas are fried; crunchy but incredibly light in texture, like popcorn, slightly spiced and without a trace of oil. For a moment I think they're roasted. So far, the chick peas are my favourite offering of the evening.
Before diving into our main courses, we try a sampling of Chef Robert Belcham's salumi and cured meats paired with a basket of fresh crostini. The pate di campagna is a country pate, slightly smoked and mild. A little too mild. The taste is not unlike that of cooked ham and lacks the intensity I have come to expect in a pate. The cured venison sausage, however, has a good balance of smoke and garlic, allowing the true flavor of the meat to shine through without tasting gamy.
Next come our pastas. In true Italian style, these dishes are served as a first course, with just enough on the plate to satisfy. We start with the tagliarini in a pork and beef ragu with basil and pecorino, followed by egg noodles with sausage, walnuts, and dandelion greens. Also in true Italian style, both of these pasta dishes are lightly sauced. To Italians, the delicate flavour of a pasta is just as important as the sauce. We North Americans, however, consider pasta a neutral canvas which allows the sauce to take center stage; thus, I find them a little on the bland side.
We decide to share a couple pizzas amongst us. We start with a pizza bianca topped with garlic, olive oil, and a generous shaving of grana padano cheese. What makes a great pizza is pretty subjective but I find the crust a little too chewy for my taste. I like that it's thin and not loaded down with heavy toppings. My favourite is the credenza, a simple pizza of anchovy, olive, and pickled leeks.
Finally we finish with dessert. Continuing in the spirit of sharing, we decide to sample a Nutella tart and an olive oil cake. The tart pastry has a delicate, flaky texture; the filling is a deep, dark chocolate underscored with hints of hazelnut and Frangelico. Oil cakes can be heavy, with a strong flavor, but this one is light yet rich at the same time, balanced by a garnish of spice-roasted pears and cinnamon cream. It's the perfect finale to our delightfully varied meal. When I'm ready to go the owner quickly produces my coat. A nice conclusion to an evening of attentive yet unobtrusive service.
Campagolo is open for lunch as well as dinner and also boasts a 25-seat wine bar with a wide selection of wines and beer. With many wine choices under the eight dollar mark and food prices that are reasonable for the quality, Campagnolo provides a much-needed venue for those living in or visiting the lower Main Street neighborhood.
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A man stands on the frozen roadway as he waits Wednesday for traffic to clear along Interstate 75 in Macon, Ga.
Thousands of drivers were hopelessly stuck for a second day Wednesday, many without food and water, on paralyzed interstates around Atlanta after a winter storm appeared to take the city by surprise.
State and local authorities had no estimate for how many people were stuck, but they said jackknifed 18-wheelers were causing a problem on freeways that were still slick with ice. Some people abandoned their cars altogether and walked to warmth and shelter.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal ordered the National Guard to clear the way for school buses that were carefully delivering schoolchildren back to their homes after thousands of them were marooned overnight. All of them were "home safe and sound" by late Wednesday afternoon, Deal said.
After snowfall and ice paralyzed Atlanta, some were left wondering whether the city is destined to quit functioning when bad weather strikes again. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
Churches, groceries and hardware superstores opened their doors to the stranded. Neighbors took in neighbors and strangers. At least one baby was born in a car, helped by a police officer.
Aerial pictures made the highways look like parking lots, and there was no indication of when or how the roads would be cleared. Twenty hours into the jam, one trucker, Joe Schmitz, told NBC News that drivers would probably be stuck for a second night.
"There are some people who are really kind of scared," he said. He added that truckers were taking drivers into their rigs to keep them warm as cars ran out of gas.
Authorities found themselves defending, and in some cases apologizing for, a slow response.
NBC's Al Roker says there was plenty of time to make adjustments for snow removal in Atlanta.
It wasn't close to the worst storm in Atlanta's history — only about 2½ inches of snow fell — but authorities said hundreds of thousands of people all at once tried to head home from work or school Tuesday afternoon, jamming the roads.
Deal said that state workers were ordered home on Tuesday afternoon but that he had had no control over what private businesses and schools decided to do.
"It's like someone blew a whistle and everyone left at the same time," he said.
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Deal apologized but added: "It's easy to make judgment calls after the fact, but I daresay there's not anybody in this room that could have predicted the degree and the magnitude of the problem that developed."
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said there had been no deaths on the Atlanta roads. He grew testy with reporters who asked him to grade the city's response and pointed out that the interstates were the responsibility of the state government, not the city.
Jennifer Wilkins was stranded in her car for more than 20 hours because of the snow and ice accumulating in the South. She tells NBC's Andrea Mitchell about it.
"I'm not going to do this with you today," he told one reporter. He told another: "With all due respect, your question ignores the facts."
"I've never seen anything like this," Tim Dougherty said from Interstate 285, north of the city, where he was stranded for more than a full day before he finally made it home late Wednesday afternoon.
"What took me 30 minutes yesterday morning took me 26 hours to get back," Dougherty told NBC News. Earlier, as he sat in a sea of taillights, he said, "I've got to say for a city this is an epic failure."
The baby born during the gridlock was a little girl, delivered by her father and a police officer on I-285. Paramedics got the family to a hospital.
"I pulled over to check on them, and I asked the dad, 'Are y'all broke down?'" the officer, Tim Sheffield of the Sandy Springs police, told TODAY. "He goes, 'No, we're having a baby.'"
Most of the storm's worst had passed by Wednesday morning, but a winter storm warning was still in effect from the Florida Panhandle to Ocean City, Md., and a hard-freeze warning stretched from Texas through Alabama.
Any ice that melted was refreezing Wednesday, meaning conditions "will be just as bad as yesterday in terms of the state of the roads," said Guy Walton, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.
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Icy bridges forced state troopers to close traffic down to one lane in Alabama, forcing hundreds of drivers to abandon their cars or endure sub-freezing temperatures. Jon Paepcke of NBC station WVTM of Birmingham reports.
Authorities in Alabama were also left red-faced after declaring a state of emergency only for the southern half of the state, leaving out hard-hit Birmingham and sending available equipment the other way.
All interstates and numbered roads were still rated "impassable" in Birmingham and surrounding Jefferson County on Wednesday morning, with thousands of drivers having been stranded for hours.
"No one knew exactly where the line of freezing rain and snow would take place," Gov. Robert Bentley said Wednesday. "Unfortunately, the predictions were not exactly what we thought they would be. No one has any control over that except the Lord."
State officials did have some good news: At 9:30 p.m. ET, the state Education Department said all 11,000 students who'd been stranded at school overnight were safely home.
But not all of the misery was on the roads: More than 4,000 flights were delayed across the U.S. by Wednesday evening, with almost 2,300 others canceled, according to FlightAware.
M. Alex Johnson, Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube, Gina Gentilesco and Polly DeFrank of NBC News contributed to this report.
A traffic map of Atlanta ... at midnight Tuesday.
- South blows the dust off snowplows for rare winter storm
- Aaaaugh! Hundreds of kids stranded at schools in Georgia, Alabama
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German Shepherd Dog
German Shepherd Dog
September 2012
Herding Dog
The German Shepherd Dog is a relatively young breed, developed almost single-handedly in the first half of the twentieth century by a German cavalry officer, Max von Stephanitz, president of the Verein far Deutsche Schaferhunde S.V. Using a variety of German sheepdogs as his foundation stock, von Stephanitz developed a distinctive breed in a very short period of time, due in large part to the authoritarian practices of the German dog fancy at that time. Von Stephanitz emphasized utility and intelligence in his breeding program, enabling the German Shepherd Dog to switch easily from herding duties to other fields of work, particularly military and police work. The breed was just gaining notice in the United States when World War I broke out. All things German were shunned and popularity slumped. After the war, however, movie star Rin-Tin-Tin stimulated interest in the breed again. The striking good looks of this breed, combined with its remarkable intelligence and loyalty, have made it a favorite working and companion dog. The German Shepherd Dog was recognized by the United Kennel Club in 1924.
Slightly long in comparison to height; of powerful, well muscled build with weather-resistant coat. Relation between height, length, position and structure of fore and hindquarters (angulation) producing far-reaching, enduring gait. Clear definition of masculinity and femininity essential, and working ability never sacrificed for mere beauty.
The German Shepherd Dog is a medium-sized, well-balanced, muscular dog, slightly longer than tall, with a medium length coat, erect ears, and a low-set natural tail that normally reaches to the hock and is carried in a slight curve like a saber. The outline of the German Shepherd Dog is made up of smooth curves rather than angles. The head is in proportion to the size of the body, strong without appearing coarse or fine. Gender differences are readily apparent. The German Shepherd Dog should be evaluated as an all-around working dog, and exaggerations or faults should be penalized in proportion to how much they interfere with the dog's ability to work.
Versatile working dog, balanced and free from exaggeration. Attentive, alert, resilient and tireless with keen scenting ability.
Steady of nerve, loyal, self-assured, courageous and tractable. Never nervous, over-aggressive or shy.
The German Shepherd Dog is confident and fearless, willing to be approached, yet a certain level of aloofness towards strangers is acceptable. When working, the German Shepherd is alert and eager, adapting well to new tasks. Lack of confidence is a serious defect in the character of a German Shepherd. The structure of this breed was designed for efficient locomotion, particularly at the trot, so poor movement is another serious fault.
Proportionate in size to body, never coarse, too fine or long. Clean cut; fairly broad between ears. Forehead slightly domed; little or no trace of central furrow. Cheeks forming softly rounded curve, never protruding. Skull from ears to bridge of nose tapering gradually and evenly, blending without too pronounced stop into wedge-shaped powerful muzzle. Skull approximately 50 per cent of overall length of head. Width of skull corresponding approximately to length, in males slightly greater, in females slightly less. Muzzle strong, lips firm, clean and closing tightly. Top of muzzle straight, almost parallel to forehead. Short, blunt, weak, pointed, overlong muzzle undesirable.
The head is proportional to the size of the dog, and cleanly chiseled. Males should appear masculine without coarseness; and females feminine without being overly fine. The skull and muzzle are of equal length, parallel to one another, and joined at a very slight stop. There is little or no median furrow.
The skull is broad and only very slightly domed. In males, the skull is slightly wider than it is long; in females, the skull is slightly narrower. Viewed from the front, the skull tapers evenly from the ears toward the muzzle. The cheeks are just slightly rounded but do not protrude.
The nose is always black. A "snow nose" is acceptable but not preferred.
Jaws strongly developed. With a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, i.e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set square to the jaws. Teeth healthy and strong. Full dentition of 42 teeth is desirable.
The muzzle is long and wedge-shaped, with strong, well-developed jaws. In profile, the bridge of the muzzle is straight and parallel to the topline of the skull. Lips are tight and darkly pigmented.
The German Shepherd Dog has a complete set of evenly spaced, white teeth meeting in a scissors bite.
Medium-sized, almond-shaped, never protruding. Dark brown preferred, lighter shade permissible, provided expression good and general harmony of head not destroyed. Expression lively, intelligent and self-assured.
The eyes are as dark as possible, of medium size, almond-shaped, and set slightly obliquely. Expression is alert, calm, and intelligent. Eye rims are dark.
Medium-sized, firm in texture, broad at base, set high, carried erect, almost parallel, never pulled inwards or tipped, tapering to a point, open at front. Never hanging. Folding back during movement permissible.
Ears are erect, moderately pointed, of medium size, broad at the base, and set high. Ear leather is firm. When the dog is alert, the centerlines of the ears, viewed from the front, are perpendicular to the ground and parallel to each other.
Fairly long, strong, with well developed muscles, free from throatiness. Carried at 45 degrees angle to horizontal, raised when excited, lowered at fast trot.
The neck is relatively long but strong and muscular. The skin is tight. The German Shepherd Dog normally carries the head just a little higher than the shoulders, particularly when moving.
Length measured from point of shoulder to point of buttock, slightly exceeding height at withers. Correct ratio 10 to 9 or 8 and a half. Undersized dogs, stunted growth, high-legged dogs, those too heavy or too light in build, over-loaded fronts, too short overall appearance, any feature detracting from reach or endurance of gait, undesirable. Chest deep (45-48 per cent) of height at shoulder, not too broad, brisket long, well developed. Ribs well formed and long; neither barrel-shaped nor too flat; allowing free movement of elbows when gaiting. Relatively short loin. Belly firm, only slightly drawn up. Back between withers and croup, straight, strongly developed, not too long. Overall length achieved by correct angle of well laid shoulders, correct length of croup and hindquarters. The topline runs without any visible break from the set on of the neck, over the well defined withers, falling away slightly in a straight line to the gently sloping croup. The back is firm, strong and well muscled. Loin broad, strong, well muscled. Weak, soft and roach backs undesirable and should be heavily penalised. Croup slightly sloping and without any break in the topline, merges imperceptibly with the set on of the tail. Short, steep or flat croups highly undesirable.
A properly proportioned German Shepherd Dog is longer (measured from prosternum to point of buttocks) than tall (measured from the withers to the ground) in a ratio of 10 to 9. The length is derived from proper construction of forequarters and hindquarters and not from length of back. The line of the back slopes downward from the withers into a straight, strongly developed, and relatively short back. Ribs are long and extend well back, resulting in a short, broad loin. The croup is long and slightly sloping. Viewed from the front, the chest is deep and well filled. From the side, the forechest extends in front of the forelegs and the brisket down to the elbows. Tuck-up is moderate.
Bushy-haired, reaches at least to hock – ideal length reaching to middle of metatarsus. At rest tail hangs in slight sabre-like curve; when moving raised and curve increased, ideally never above level of back. Short, rolled, curled, generally carried badly or stumpy from birth, undesirable.
The tail is set on low in a natural extension of the unexaggerated, slightly sloping croup. The tail extends at least to the hock joint. When the dog is relaxed, the tail hangs in a slight curve, like a saber. When the dog is excited or moving, the tail may be raised and the curve accentuated but the tail is never carried above a vertical line extending from its base. The coat on the tail stands outward, giving the tail a bushy appearance. Dogs with docked or altered tails resulting from working injuries are not to be penalized.
Shoulder blade and upper arms are equal in length, well muscled and firmly attached to the body. Shoulder blades set obliquely (approximately 45 degrees) laid flat to body. Upper arm strong, well muscled, joining shoulder blade at approximately 90 degrees. Seen from all sides, the forearms are straight and, seen from the front, absolutely parallel. Bone oval rather than round. The elbows must turn neither in nor out while standing or moving. Pasterns firm, supple, with a slight forward slope. An over long, weak pastern, which would affect a dog's working ability is to be heavily penalised. Length of foreleg slightly exceeds the depth of chest.
The shoulder blades are long, well muscled, well laid back, and laid flat to the body. The upper arms, also long and well muscled, join the shoulder blade at nearly a right angle. A straight line drawn from the withers to the ground should pass just behind the back of the foreleg.
From the pasterns to the elbows, the forelegs are straight and strong with oval-shaped bones. The pasterns are strong and supple, sloping no more than 25 degrees. The elbows are neither close to the body nor out, but are set on a plane parallel to the body. The length of the forelegs should be just slightly more than half the height of the dog, measured at the withers.
Rounded toes well closed and arched. Pads well cushioned and durable. Nails short, strong and dark in colour.
Feet are round and tight, with toes well arched. Pads are thick and hard. Nails are strong and dark. Front dewclaws may be removed but are normally left intact. Removal of rear dewclaws is preferred but not mandatory. The feet should recoil cleanly from each stride.
Overall strong, broad and well muscled, enabling effortless forward propulsion. Upper and lower thigh are approximately of equal length. Hind angulation sufficient if imaginary line dropped from point of buttocks cuts through lower thigh just in front of hock, continuing down slightly in front of hindfeet. Angulations corresponding approximately with front angulation, without over-angulation. Seen from rear, the hind legs are straight and parallel to each other. The hocks are strong and firm. The rear pasterns are vertical. Any tendency towards over-angulation of hindquarters, weak hocks, cow hocks or sickle hooks, is to be heavily penalised as this reduces firmness and endurance in movement.
Viewed from the side, the hindquarters are broad and muscular. The angulation of the hindquarters is in balance with the angulation of the forequarters. The rear pastern is short and strong, and should remain upright and functional. Powerful hindquarters are necessary to enable the effortless movement that is an essential feature of this breed. Rear pasterns should remain upright and functional.
Sequence of step follows diagonal pattern, moving foreleg and opposite hindleg forward simultaneously; hindfoot thrust forward to midpoint of body and having equally long reach with forefeet without any noticeable change in backline. Absolute soundness of movement essential.
Absolute soundness of movement is paramount. Correct gait is an essential feature of the German Shepherd Dog. When trotting, it moves with a long, effortless, efficient stride that is driven by a powerful forward thrust from the hindquarters. The rear leg, moving forward, swings under the foreleg and touches down in front of the point where the forefoot left an imprint. The result is that one rear leg passes outside its corresponding front leg and the other passes inside its corresponding front leg. This is a breed characteristic and should not be penalized as long as the body is straight in relationship to the direction of movement. As the rear leg moves backward, the body is propelled forward. The front and rear feet remain close to the ground throughout. When trotting, the back remains firm and level with no superfluous vertical movement. Hocks should be strong and straight, turning neither in nor out as the dog moves. There should be no visible "wobble" to the hock. Neither front nor rear pasterns should strike the ground; this is an unacceptable exaggeration and an indication of incorrect movement. As the speed of the trot increases, there is a tendency to single track. Correct movement and soundness must be evaluated from front and rear as well as the side.
Outer coat consisting of straight, hard, close-lying hair as dense as possible; thick undercoat. Hair on head, ears, front of legs, paws and toes short; on back, longer and thicker; in some males forming slight ruff. Hair longer on back of legs as far down as pasterns and stifles and forming fairly thick trousers on hindquarters. No hard and fast rule for length of hair; mole-type coats undesirable.
The German Shepherd Dog is double coated. The outer coat lies close to the body and is dense and straight with harsh texture. A slight wave is acceptable in a particularly harsh coat. The undercoat is short, dense, and fine-textured. The coat on the body is of medium length but not so long as to detract from the dog's ability to withstand bad weather conditions. The coat is shorter on the head (including the inside of the ear), the legs, and the feet. The coat on the neck is longer and thicker, forming a slight ruff, particularly on some males. The hair on the back of the legs is longer and thicker, forming trousers on the hindquarters, and extending to the pasterns in front and the hock joint behind.
Black or black saddle with tan, or gold to light grey markings. All black, all grey, with lighter or brown markings referred to as Sables. Bi-colour: Predominantly black, may have tan or gold markings on head, chest, legs and feet; black markings may be present on toes and rear pasterns. Nose black. Light markings on chest or very pale colour on inside of legs permissible but undesirable, as are whitish nails, red-tipped tails or wishy-washy faded colours defined as lacking in pigmentation. Blues, livers, albinos, whites (i.e. almost pure white dogs with black noses) and near whites highly undesirable. Undercoat, except in all black dogs, usually grey or fawn. Colour in itself is of secondary importance having no effect on character or fitness for work. Final colour of a young dog only ascertained when outer coat has developed.
The German Shepherd Dog comes in many colors and white. In evaluating colored dogs, strong, deep colors are preferred. Nose, lips, and eye rims must have dark pigment, regardless of coat color. Color faults are minor in comparison to defects of type and structure.
Ideal height (from withers and just touching elbows): dogs: 63 cms (25 ins); bitches: 58 cms (23 ins). 2.5 cms (1 in) either above or below ideal permissible.
Height at withers:
Desirable height at maturity for males is 24 to 26 inches; for females, 22 to 24 inches.
Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog and on the dog's ability to perform its traditional work.
Muzzle: Muzzle too short, blunt, weak, pointed, or overlong.
Teeth: Overshot or level mouth; missing first premolars.
Eyes: Protruding eyes.
Body: Barrel ribs; ribs too flat; long loin.
Feet: A slight hook in the tail to the extent it mars the dog's general appearance.
Teeth: Missing teeth other than first premolars.
Forelegs: Pasterns slanted more than 25 degrees. Pasterns so long and weak that proper movement is compromised.
Body: Any measure of a roached back. Shelly appearance.
Hindquarters: Over-angulated rear, with anything exaggerated beyond a mild slope. Rear pasterns so long and weak that proper movement is compromised.
Feet: Feet that drag along the ground on recoil.
Feet: Tail too short; ankylosis.
Coat: Short, mole type coat; long coat that stands away from the body; soft coat; absence of undercoat.
Color: Pale, washed-out colors; blue; liver.
Gait: Any fault that affects correct movement.
Unilateral or bilateral cryptorchid. Viciousness or extreme shyness. Albinism. Undershot. Wry mouth. Total lack of nose pigment. Cropped ears. Drop or tipped ears.
Appearance: Unilateral or bilateral cryptorchid.
Characteristics: Viciousness or extreme shyness.
Teeth: Undershot; wry mouth.
Nose: Total lack of nose pigment.
Ears: Cropped ears; drop or tipped ears.
Color: Albinism.
Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.


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We are the ultimate answer to your equestrian therapy questions in the Sherrelwood area! If you would like to learn more about Horse Therapy For Veterans then continue reading! Horses help with many different problems that we may face on a daily basis! There is even Ptsd Treatment With Horses!
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If you enlist a 1200-pound coaching partner for your next session, it's likely you'll achieve a remarkable change in the dynamic of the coaching relationship. No, it's not through intimidation; the method is equine-assisted coaching, working with horses to help clarify and resolve issues, heighten awareness of assumptions, develop trust and get results.
Horses are sentient beings with the capacity for independent thinking, social relationships, individual dispositions as well as physical abilities and limitations-and they make excellent partners to create powerful coaching. They have no investment in the outcome of the coaching relationship; they don't lie, they have no egos or agendas. Horses simply are who they are, clearly, purely, without any need for things to be right or wrong. That's why the information they give us about ourselves and our clients is so powerful. They are perfect mirrors for us to look at how we are creating our current reality.
If horses learn that they can trust you to do what you say you are going to do and ask clearly for what you want, they will almost always give you what you ask for. They are simple in this way. They show us how our relationship to them can give poor or wonderful results. Whatever your goal is around a horse-that he'll let you pet him, ride him or just walk alongside-if you have established the basics, you will achieve the results you want. Horses as partners in coaching show us the critical importance of relationship in learning and results. This type of clarity should form the basis of any human interaction, as well. When interpersonal relationships don't work or are less than optimal, so are business results.
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Equine Facilitated Learning & Coaching programs that can offer this experience will honor the horse for the teachings they provide for the client and offer addition support through a coaching conversation. An experienced trained coach has the conversation and communication skills and tools to help the client have a full understanding of their equine experience and how to apply that experience into their everyday life.


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As her name states, she is a very muscular princess. She is very large and tall, green skinned, and wears dark-blue boots decorated with some type of symbol. Originally, the boots had yellow stars. Afterwards, the boots have light-blue hearts, but in "Princess Monster Wife," the hearts are yellow. She has a small yellow crown on her head. She usually carries a dumbbell and works out her arms. In the episode "To Cut a Woman's Hair" it is revealed she has a deep masculine voice. Her hair is short with two heart-shaped buns on each side of her head; she claims she doesn't make her hair beautiful so people will notice her muscles instead. Her crown, skirt, hairstyle, boots, and lips were redesigned after her cameo in "What is Life?" and she no longer has visible veins, which were part of her original design.
Oh, I see. You want to take things slow.
Of course it looks bad! If I had beautiful shiny hair, no one would look at my muscles! Come back when you want to get serious about loving me!
- Her phone looks like a dumbbell with the tips twisted to shape like a real phone.
- According to Natasha Allegri, she has the biggest breasts of all the princesses.
- Muscle Princess's gender-swapped character is Muscle Prince.
- She is one of the princesses that Ice King finds beautiful, as shown in "Princess Monster Wife."
- In the episode "Princess Monster Wife," the hearts on Muscle Princess's boots were changed from light blue to yellow and the heart on her crown changed from gold to red. The blue skirt was also lightened to a lighter blue.
- She resembles Starla from Regular Show, as both are green-skinned, have two pigtails and are muscular.
- In the episode "To Cut a Woman's Hair," Finn called her "Princess Muscles" so she probably can be formally known as both "Muscle Princess" and "Princess Muscles."
- According to CN Latin America, her ideal prince has muscles and she plays the drums to pass the time.
- She appears in Rock Bandits and Fruit Salad Days as the drummer for the band Unacceptable.
- Jake states in Flute Spell that he thinks Finn and Muscle Princess would be perfect as a couple.
Episode appearances
Minor appearances
- "What is Life?" (debut)
- "Loyalty to the King"
- "To Cut a Woman's Hair"
- "Princess Monster Wife"
- "Princess Potluck"
- "Betty"
- "Breezy"
- "Princess Day"
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The majestic NORDKAPEREN visited Palau for a few months in 2008. Picture is NORDKAPEREN cruising through Palau's Rock Islands 9/11/2008.
The Royal Belau Yacht Club (RBYC), in Palau, Micronesia, is based at Sam's Tours, a popular local dive shop located on the west side of Malakal Island. RBYC warmly welcomes all cruising yachts and visiting pleasure craft to Palau.
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I have a piece on Inside Llewyn Davis over at Mostlyfilm.com this week in time for its UK release. And below is what I wrote about it for my best of the year list. It would have been my best film of the year if I hadn't seen the other great dark, romantic period piece of last year, The Immigrant. Though that won't see proper release for another few months. The thing about Llewyn Davis is that even having said all I've said, there's an inexhaustible quality to the film; you could write ten thousand words a day for a month and still it would reward repeat viewings. For instance I never got around to mentioning until right now that every single song in the film is about leaving and dying. That Llewyn's journey is toward annihilation. Toward a dark, uncertain tomorrow. It rejects the future. It rejects anyone else's notion of success. It rejects bullshit. No film has ever shown me how I, we, live today. If it can't say anything about the future it's because none of us know and we're all scared. The film's finest moment of reflection comes in a road-side diner. Llewyn sits opposite two strangers, miles from home or fortune, in a room echoing the sound of passing cars like the howls of rage and disappointment he's been hearing all his life, racing by like every single opportunity he's missed. And he's here. Three hours from Chicago, in the blinding dark.
"Guys, we can't ALL identify with Llewyn Davis." wrote Matt Prigge after a few weeks of everyone in the world walking out of Joel & Ethan Coen's latest dark night of the soul and feeling like they'd lived some part of it before. In defense of everyone else, if you're a man who's as used to failure as success, or more accurately, have gotten so used to failure that success must be taken in microscopic doses, you understand what it means to be Llewyn Davis. Who's Llewyn Davis? He's the wrong cat. He could have made it but the pool was too full of contenders just like him who knew how to play the game a little better, or didn't know there was a game to play. Davis knows only too well that the game is real and rigged to boot. Anyone else who ever figured this out and said "no" was going to get an extra barb in their heart whenever he slips and falls, whenever he realizes his loved ones are getting fucked over, whenever he pushes his family away, everytime he nails one of his songs to no applause, and especially when he sits at that lunch counter with no money to his name, taking his feet gently out of his sopping wet shoes hoping they'll dry faster. That particular close-up broke my heart in six places. I lost count of the injustices he suffered that I'd also lived through; when I left it was into pouring rain, feeling like there was lead in my shoes. If there's solace, and there is, it's that the Coen Brothers know how to render the struggle for acceptance and the cruelty of fate better than just about anyone. They've returned to the colour palette that made Hudsucker Proxy feel immortal; director of photography Bruno Delbonnel's humane camera turning even the worst demons on Llewyn's shoulder into angels. And then there's the music. I'm definitely someone who's had more than his fill of Marcus Mumford and have on occassion hoped he would pack up his guitar and leave me alone, but his voice works as the broken promise of achievement. That radio-ready voice could and may well have been Llewyn's ticket to fame, but he'll never know that world. All he has is the bittersweet sound of Mumford (or Mike Timlin) to taunt him. Nevermind that it's their saddest screenplay, their most breath-taking evocation of any time period and that in Oscar Isaac one of the greatest performances they've ever directed, the Coens made me understand and even come to appreciate Mumford's voice. If I didn't already think this was their best film, that fact alone would have pushed it into classic territory. Forget that, though, it's too personal. Inside Llewyn Davis combines the lovely Folkways-styled soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the often terrifying depths of human behavior, drive and solitude of No Country For Old Men, the Job-like suffering and hysterical dark humour that drove A Serious Man, the frustration and injustice at the heart of The Man Who Wasn't There and somehow manages to keep alive the romantic worldview that kept Hudsucker afloat, not to mention following just three years after that film's 1958 New York setting. It's like a greatest hits record, but every cut sounds brand new. Who doesn't wish they could achieve that. In the meantime, we can settle for feeling like Llewyn Davis, putting the guitar down to finish the last verse unaccompanied knowing that no matter how good we're doing, there's no money in it.


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Not everyone in the city celebrates Thanksgiving, and that should come as no surprise given our increasingly diverse tapestry of residents (something for which Eating Our Words is thankful). And not everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving does so with a big family dinner at home. Still others aren't up to all the cooking and dish-washing required to feed a group and would rather hand that task over to a restaurant. For these folks, it can be frustrating to seek out a good meal on a day when so many places are closed.
Below is a list of restaurants that will be open on Thanksgiving Day, as well as the menus that they're offering and contact information. Some of the restaurants are offering traditional menus, while some will have other dishes on display. Regardless, we strongly recommend calling ahead at most of these locations.
Harry's 318 Tuam, 713-528-0198
The popular Midtown steam table restaurant is offering special Thanksgiving breakfast and lunch menus. Breakfast features pumpkin spice waffles and banana nut hotcakes, while lunch features dishes like butternut squash bisque, rosemary turkey and dressing, pineapple-glazed baked ham, collard greens and more. $18 a person or $12 for children.
Haven 2502 Algerian Way, 713-581-6101
Have an organic, locavore-friendly Thanksgiving feast at Chef Randy Evans' table as Haven features lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For only $45 a person ($15 for children), stuff yourself silly with an amazing selection of choices such as house-made turducken terrine, Hill Country wild boar chili, free-range turkey, quail with jalapeno-sausage dressing and goat buttermilk pie with Railean rum ice cream.
Khun Kay Thai 1209 Montrose, 713-524-9614
The bright red Montrose stalwart is celebrating this year by offering a Thanksgiving "Thai-key" dinner that's delicious and affordable: $8.95 for spicy red curry with Thai pumpkin and chicken breast, served over white or brown rice. Don't want to leave the football game? Khun Kay also delivers -- for free! -- within a 15-mile radius.
Branch Water Tavern 510 Shepherd, 713-863-7777
A family-style Thanksgiving (with or without your family, your call) will be available at Chef David Grossman's restaurant from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at a low price of $40 per person ($20 for children) for a multi-course feast that features white bean soup with braised kale and pancetta, roasted organic free range turkey, suckling porchetta and favorites like green bean casserole and macaroni and cheese. For dessert? Try the pecan pie with housemade bourbon ice cream.
Ristorante Cavour 1080 Uptown Park Boulevard, 713-418-1104
The upscale Italian restaurant inside the Hotel Granduca near the Galleria is offering a prix-fixe menu on Thanksgiving day from noon to 8 p.m., a bit longer than most other restaurants. For $59 a person, you'll dine on lobster and pumpkin salad with pomegranate dressing, capon tortellini consomme and vegetable pearls, roasted wild turkey with polenta and pumpkin crème brulee for dessert.
Monarch at the Hotel Zaza 5701 Main, 713-526-1991
To welcome new chef Adam West, Monarch -- another great hotel restaurant -- is celebrating Thanksgiving in style. For just $35 a person, you can get a four-course meal with choices like cornbread-stuffed quail with candied yams, a Tex-Mex cocktail with a crab and poblano tamale, acorn squash soup with spicy pepitas and crème fraiche and a pan-roasted rack of lamb with stone-ground grits. The menu runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., after which the restaurant reverts to its regular menu.
Turquoise Grill 3701 Kirby, 713-526-3800
The Turkish favorite (just around the corner from Haven) is offering a menu of its patrons' favorites this Thanksgiving for only $20 a person. You'll get to choose from items such as fresh-baked shepherd's bread, red lentil stew, brick oven-baked turkey or lamb, green beans and -- of course -- baklava.
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Chef Greg Lowry will be cooking up an elegant three-course meal to go with the elegant and dramatic surroundings at this downtown restaurant. For $55 a person ($25 for children), enjoy a feast from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. that also includes a dazzling dessert display from pastry chef Audrey Sam.
Narin's Bombay Brasserie 3005 West Loop South, 713-622-2005
The Galleria-area Indian restaurant is offering a twist on Thanksgiving with a special Thanksgiving brunch that runs from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and features Indian classics alongside American favorites like turkey and all the trimmings.
For an even more comprehensive list of restaurants that are open on Thanksgiving, check out the compilation (with addresses and phone numbers) at B4-U-Eat. And for a list of all restaurants serving a special Thanksgiving menu on Turkey Day, check out B4-U-Eat's compilation, complete with course listings.


text: Affiliates discussed the issues in Internet forums and began to organize their efforts. They believed that the best way to address the problem was to discourage merchants from advertising via adware. Merchants that were either indifferent to or supportive of adware were exposed by affiliates, thus damaging those merchants' reputations and tarnishing their affiliate marketing efforts. Many affiliates either terminated the use of such merchants or switched to a competitor's affiliate program. Eventually, affiliate networks were also forced by merchants and affiliates to take a stand and ban certain adware publishers from their network. The result was Code of Conduct by Commission Junction/beFree and Performics,[35] LinkShare's Anti-Predatory Advertising Addendum,[36] and ShareASale's complete ban of software applications as a medium for affiliates to promote advertiser offers.[37] Regardless of the progress made, adware continues to be an issue, as demonstrated by the class action lawsuit against ValueClick and its daughter company Commission Junction filed on April 20, 2007.[38]


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Solicitors dealt with wills, land conveyances, trusts, marriage settlements, employment contracts, leases - and dealing with the bank. They were often retained as a family's man of business.
In many criminal cases, as well as civil suits, the injured party had to prosecute the case against the alleged perpetrator. Those who could afford it hired a solicitor who briefed a barrister to act for the plaintiff. Because of the cost, merchants banded together to share the cost of prosecuting shoplifters and those who charged for goods but did not deliver them.


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CINDY DAY: Storms with staying power
More than a week has passed since Dorian left Canadian waters. The deadly Category 5 hurricane captured the attention of the world when it slammed into Grand Bahamas then sat there for what seemed like an eternity.
While Dorian did make landfall in Atlantic Canada and some were – and still are – dealing with cleanup, I think we can say that, overall, we were quite lucky.
There were many questions in the days that followed the storm. Kevin Meade reached out on Facebook, wanting to know if Dorian was up there with the longest-lasting tropical cyclones of all time.
Most hurricanes follow a similar cycle of development, called a hurricane life cycle. These life cycles may run their course in as little as a couple of days or last as long as a month.
Dorian formed on Aug. 24 and dissipated on Sept. 10, for a total of 18 days. Now imagine a storm lasting a month; it has happened.
Hurricane John, also known as Typhoon John formed Aug. 11, 1994 and dissipated on Sept. 10 – four weeks and two days. Throughout its existence, John followed a 13,000-km path from the eastern Pacific to the western Pacific and back to the central Pacific, lasting 31 days in total. Because it existed in both the eastern and western Pacific, John was one of a small number of tropical cyclones to be designated as both a hurricane and a typhoon. Despite lasting a full month, John barely affected land at all, bringing only minimal effects to the Hawaiian Islands and the United States military base on Johnston Atoll. Its remnants eventually reached Alaska.
There you have it, Kevin. Hurricane John, also known as Typhoon John, was both the longest-lasting and the farthest-travelling tropical cyclone ever observed.
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Lifelong learner, and heart-centered journeyer.
In practice of communication, connection and adventure, both professionally and personally.
Working toward community, inquiry, engagement, and growth.
(Beauty lover, coffee sharer, yogi, beekeeper, storyteller, music maker, open-hearted, open-minded, dinner-table sharer. I'm working toward Growing Capacity For Personal and Community Wellbeing In A Thriving World)
I work here, and I help support online presence here, and behind the scenes in many other indie businesses and ventures. I'm a registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200).
I hang out at the intersection of the Sacred and the Everyday.
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Imagine for a moment that you want to hire chefs to prepare food at your chain of restaurants, but you don't want to pay those chefs. You want them to volunteer. And when asked why you believe that's a valid way to do business, this is what you tell people:
"If I was paying someone to cook something because I want to draw in customers, that's not a real authentic way of cooking. When somebody cooks something for us, we know it's real, we know they want to cook it. It's not been forced or paid for. I think that's something to be proud of."
You'd be laughed out of the room, and rightfully so. A few chefs might even be inclined to throat-punch you for trying to push such brazen bullshit on people.
Yet that's what Stephen Hull, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post UK, said to Radio 4 when about HuffPo's policy of not paying their writers. Here's his real quote:
"If I was paying someone to write something because I want it to get advertising, that's not a real authentic way of presenting copy. When somebody writes something for us, we know it's real, we know they want to write it. It's not been forced or paid for. I think that's something to be proud of."
The Huffington Post "employs" literally thousands of writers to provide content for its online media empire. You name the subject matter, they have a slew of people pumping out content for them, content that generates an enormous amount of traffic, some 214 million people a month.
And that traffic generates ad revenue. We're talking around $150 million a year here. Pocket change it ain't.
Despite this, HuffPo pays a very small number of full-time staffers (about 40 for HuffPo UK, not sure of the US number) and no one else. All those thousands of contributors do not get paid for their work. They provide the meals people come to eat and don't get a damn thing for it. Not even a small cut of the ad revenue they help generate.
And Stephen Hull considers that a point of pride.
It galls me that a professional can expect this of others, and that he could BRAG about it as if it's a matter of pride. How do you even respond to such garbage, especially when his logic makes no goddamn sense? Does Stephen Hull like getting paid for his work? Because if he does, then by his own logic his work isn't "authentic." It's not "real."
It's such a colossally stupid way of seeing things I can't believe this guy actually says this crap with a straight face. Was the Sistine Chapel ceiling less "real" and "authentic" because it was commissioned work? No, these people aren't creating high art, but they are creating the content around which HuffPo builds its business, and that has value. Without their efforts, the Huffington Post collapses and dies.
Here's an idea: Use his line next time you hire an electrician or auto mechanic. Tell them you want to know they're doing it for the love of the work. If they don't laugh you out of the room, they'll probably be kicking you in the neck. And you'll deserve it. Exposure doesn't pay your bills. Neither do clicks. Neither does praise. Neither does the warm fuzzy feeling you get from writing something.
Writers, journalists and creative people, DON'T TOLERATE THIS CRAP.
What you do is WORK. It has VALUE.
Get PAID for it.
Accept nothing less than what you're worth and tell people like Stephen Hull and the Huffington Post to screw off.
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But think about the exposure! Thousands of people may read any given article! These writers could be missing dozens of opportunities to write for free for other businesses!
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Parrotlets are, as you will guess, like little baby parrots, who need a lot of sleep – up to 12 hours a day! When they wake up, they're ready for play, so make sure you give them lots of space and toys to explore. The parrotlet comes in a diverse range of colors, most of them bright, baby-ish pastels.
Even as adults they never reach the size of other parrots. The largest variety of parrotlet maxes out at under 6 inches (15 cm). Like many parrots, they go through a "terrible twos" phase, and being such fragile babies most parrotlet fans recommend raising them alone or separately from one another.
Parrotlets like people and bustle but, being such little creatures, can feel overwhelmed, so always give them a spot to retreat to. Parrotlets can learn to speak, but it is reputedly much easier for male parrotlets to do so.


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PSMA: A Windfall for PET/CT Imaging
Hildegard Kaulen, PhD | Aug 23, 2017
Retrospective clinical data suggest PET/CT imaging using 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 will radically transform diagnostics, staging and operation planning of prostate cancer. A prospective multicenter trial is currently under way, offering a compelling example of translational medicine.
Affecting almost 420,000 people in Europe alone, prostate cancer is one of the most common carcinomas among men. Currently, diagnosis requires a biopsy, which also provides the data used for staging. With only one in seven prostate carcinomas requiring aggressive treatment, it would be very helpful to have a non-invasive diagnostic method that provides information on the status and the spread of the lesions. Many prostate carcinomas remain symptom-free and therefore do not have to be addressed at all. A target that helps to tell the difference and combines diagnosis and therapy on a theranostic basis is urgently needed.
The prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a protein that ticks a number of boxes, thus making it an excellent target candidate. It is very specific, occurring from a hundred up to a thousand times more frequently on prostate cancer cells than on the cells of normal organs. Its presence correlates with an unfavorable prognosis. It can bind small-molecule ligands that are quickly cleared from the blood with low background activity. Not only that, but PSMA is internalized by the prostate cancer cell after binding of the ligand resulting in an effective trapping. Coupled either with a diagnostic or a therapeutic radionuclide, a PSMA ligand is an ideal tracer for diagnostic PET/CT imaging, and treatments such as endoradiotherapy. 68Ga-labelled PSMA-111 and 177Lu-labelled PSMA-617 are a perfect theranostic duo.
68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 was developed by Professor Michael Eisenhut and Matthias Eder, MD at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany. Professor Uwe Haberkorn, who directs the nuclear medicine clinic in Heidelberg, first deployed the novel tracer in compassionate use four years ago. In the meantime, several hundred such instances worldwide have shown that 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 detects recurrent prostate cancer at a high level of sensitivity in PET/CT scans.2, 3, 4 Detection of lymph node metastases is below the threshold of other usual imaging methods. However, there is still a lack of prospective clinical data on 68Ga PSMA-11 imaging.
These data are now to be captured in an exclusively academically funded multicenter clinical trial under the umbrella of the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), or in short, the German Cancer Consortium. This makes the clinical trial a great milestone in translational medicine. Responsible for planning and organization are Professor Frederik Giesel at Heidelberg University Hospital and Professor Klaus Kopka at the DKFZ. Giesel is vice chair of the Nuclear Medicine department and the clinical trial director. Kopka is a chemist who heads the Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry at the DKFZ. He is responsible radiopharmaceutical coordinator of the prospective study. The two are an excellent tandem crew for this unique bridging of basic research and clinical practice.
On the way to being included in clinical guidelines
Why is this prospective phase I and II clinical trial so important? "The PET/CT imaging data gathered for prostate carcinoma with 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 so far are retrospective data, where the PSMA-PET/CT imaging was compared with the choline-PET/CT imaging that is usually used for the diagnosis of prostate carcinoma," explains Giesel. "While these results are groundbreaking to the extent they have shown that 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 is more sensitive than the choline tracer for diagnosing recurrent prostate cancer,2, 3, 4 only prospective trials count when it comes to inclusion in clinical guidelines and having the costs covered. So retrospective studies aren't really much use," continues Giesel.
They are not accepted as a basis for guidelines because they are not homogenized (harmonized) and are only based on individual cases of compassionate use. But the potential of the new diagnostic tracer is already underscored by the fact that due to the extraordinarily good results for PSMAPET/ CT imaging in retrospective studies, the method has already been included, even without prospective data, in the proposed amendments for the next revision of the German clinical guidelines. Which centers are behind the prospective clinical trial? "Seven of the eight DKTK centers will be involved, along with four other sites," says Kopka, "including one in Austria, and one in Switzerland." He explains the trial will be funded primarily by the German Cancer Consortium, and that it is already seen as a type of role model for translational clinical studies in nuclear medicine. "Our trial is a flagship project. In Germany, we're right at the forefront in terms of translation in cancer research."
Trial will be launched in 2017
What precisely are they planning? "The clinical trial will include 150 high-risk patients with prostate cancer before radical prostatectomy," says Giesel. "It will begin in quarter 2 of 2017. Patients with a high PSA value and a positive biopsy, and have not yet received therapy, are included. 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 PET/CT imaging will then be done prior to prostatectomy to check the extent to which the tracer correctly reflects the staging and the spread of the lesions determined in surgery," Giesel continues. To assure the comparability of data, the biopsy and the pathological examination of the tissue samples will be standardized. "The 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 PET/CT scan will be quantified by cross-calibrating with a phantom," explains Kopka.
But PSMA is not just an excellent candidate for imaging; together with a therapeutic radionuclide it can also be used for therapy. Did they consider the possibility of combining diagnosis and therapy from the outset? "It developed as things progressed," says Kopka. "Imaging allows you to get to the tumor and decide whether endoradiotherapy makes sense. Given the biodistribution of 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11, it was immediately clear that we should develop a therapeutic option. We then did precisely that with 177Lu-labelled PSMA-617." This therapeutic variant has already been licensed out to ABX advanced biochemical compounds.
"With this academically funded study we also want to give something back to the healthcare system and society. We have high expectations. Then we'll see what happens." Professor Klaus Kopka, MD, Head of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
18F instead of 68Ga
Kopka and his team are also pursuing a diagnostic option with fluorine-18, 18F-labelled PSMA-1007. "There are various reasons for this," explains the chemist. "Like gallium-68, the cyclotron-produced positron-emitter fluorine-18 can be also used all over the world. However, in some countries, such as in Japan, they don't use gallium-68 at all. Fluorine-18 also has a longer half-life than gallium-68: around 110 minutes versus only 68 minutes. Despite this, there will still be a place for gallium-68, because not every center has a cyclotron, and centers without a cyclotron will continue to work with generator-produced 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11," says Kopka. Initial results show that 18F-labelled PSMA-1007 and 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 are similar in terms of structure, biodistribution and uptake by prostate cancer cells. Just last year we introduced PSMA-1007 also successfully into the clinic also with very impressive tracer-characteristics (see Giesel et al., EJNMMI 2016).
What role will these therapies play in the future? Kopka believes it is time for nuclear medicine to leave behind the reputation of being only responsible for niche treatments. Therefore, the concept of theranostics should be developed further in oncology. This would also justify the personnel-intensive collaboration with radiochemistry and radiopharmacy. Giesel shares this view. While he concedes that nuclear medicine is a small discipline, he believes this will change once it gets involved in diagnosing and treating common cancers. "With almost 80,000 new cases a year in Germany, prostate carcinoma are highly relevant," says Giesel. "The retrospective data have shown that after a 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 PET/CT imaging
fifty percent of patients receive a different therapy in radio-oncology. That's a very important finding." The radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist participated in a meeting in Seoul, under the umbrella of the IAEA, which included discussion on how nuclear medicine could best develop in emerging countries. Giesel says the consensus was that this would only be possible by way of theranostics and prospective clinical trials. This is why 68Ga-labelled PSMA-11 is so important, because it could potentially help give PET/CT imaging high status in terms of diagnosing and therapeutic management.
Kopka also points to the other common cancers, for example melanoma, mammary, colon, pancreas, or bronchial carcinoma, that can be addressed with theranostics. He explains there is plenty of work in progress, also in his division. But first the prospective clinical trial on prostate carcinoma has to be driven forward. "With this academically funded study we also want to give something back to the healthcare system and society," he says. "We have high expectations. Then we'll see what happens."
About the Author
Hildegard Kaulen, PhD, is a molecular biologist. After sojourns at Rockefeller University in New York and Harvard Medical School in Boston, she has worked as a freelance science journalist since the mid-1990s, writing for prestigious daily newspapers and science magazines.
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168Ga-labelled PSMA-11 referenced herein is not currently recognized by the US FDA as being safe and effective, and Siemens does not make any claims regarding its use.
2Afshar-Oromieh, A. et al. Comparison of PET imaging with a 68Ga-labelled PSMA ligand and 18F-choline-based PET/CT for the diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol I 41, 11–20 (2014).
3Schwenck, J. et al. Comparison of 68Galabelled PSMA-11 and 11C-choline in the detection of prostate cancer metastases by PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol I 44, 92–101 (2016).
4Perera, M. et al. Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictors of Positive 68Ga–Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography in Advanced Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta.
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Pocket Stables
|My relatively organized horse farm thingy.
The first game on the list is a game from Kairosoft called Pocket Stables. It's out for both Android and iOS, and if you've played Kairosoft games, you know what this one is about. Basically, you start a Horse Racing... Farm? Stable? Company? I don't know. You have horses, you have jockeys, you unlock training stations, like a dirt track, or a swimming pool, and you get to choose what races you enter, and then watch your horse race. As your horses get older, you retire them, and can breed the next generation and so on. Basically it's a simulation game. Not my favourite of theirs, but I do love me some sim games (though I still think Game Dev Story is still their best work, and oh my god, you people need to translate Game Dev Story 2 already!)
|The game is pretty, and the UI mostly bug free, though sometimes I accidentally destroy the homes by misclicking, which is vexing.
So this is a God game, a lot like Populus from the days of yore. It's a indie game that's doing pre-Beta blah de blah pay to get access on Steam, and I figured, why not? It's relatively polished for both being indie and being an alpha.
You start with a couple followers, and your currency is their faith. The only thing you can do for the most part is modify the terrain. You can push it around, shrink it, grow it, and once you clear out space, your followers will build a home. Changing terrain costs Belief, and homes generate Belief (and you have to click the big pink bubble to get it). As you get more followers, more techs unlock, but to actually get the tech, you need to find resources, which is mostly a fun game of find the treasure chest inside the terrain. There's visual clues to where the chests are, but you have to dig them out yourself with your terrain modification powers.
The game clearly is missing features, but the first few hours were a lot of fun exploring how the game works, but it gets way too repetitive after about 8 hours. I have about 300 homes or so? And while you can make "towns" which will somewhat consolidate your Belief gathering, it's still incredibly tedious clicking all of the houses to get that currency.
Benefit of the doubt, though, I assume that's just because they've worked a lot on the beginning, but haven't gotten much complete on the mid-game or end-game. But constantly expanding your empire does get dull if there's no real conflict. It does have a pseudo-multiplayer, though, which are usually races to see who can grow the fastest, or dig out the most minerals. Definitely a lot of promise, but not quite there. It's missing something to be a game, and is rather just something to do than a game currently.
Bookworm Adventures
|Items, Potions, Levels, and Big Words. What else could I ask for?
An oldie, but a goodie. I love me some word games, and an RPG word game is even better. Nothing says awesome quite like spelling a word like "evolution" or "fortunes" and obliterating an enemy with it. Once I even managed "unnilennium" which was freaking epic. Seriously, Scrabble the RPG (or Boggle, I suppose), not to mention the writing is actually moderately witty. And full of delicious puns. I own v2 of the game, but haven't finished v1 yet. Soon!
The Wolf Among Us
|From the Telltale Games website. Our grumpy protagonist, Bigby Wolf, is in the middle. I love the art and storytelling in this game.
I have a weakness for werewolf stories, and while this game is technically not a werewolf story, I admit that mistake is what drew me in. I had never heard of the "Fables" series of comics before--for the uninitiated, the premise is a bunch of creatures/persons from Fables like Snow White to Little Red Riding Hood were driven from their homes and forced to reside and survive in the Real World. The Telltale Games story is basically a prequel to the comic series, and the storytelling in it is superb, as is the art style. I'm not as much a fan of the action sequences, though quick-time events work pretty well as a mechanic for what they're trying to achieve. The story follows one Bigby Wolf as he plays the role of Sheriff and Detective, keeping the Fable populace safe, from outsiders and each other.
My only complaint is Episode 2 hasn't been released yet, and it's apparently a pattern for the company to be extremely late on all of their episode releases. They want to aim for monthly, but they apparently mostly achieve every 2 - 3 months, and it may get worse now that they have 4 episodic games simultaneously. All of that could be bad. By then I may lose interest and not bother with more episodes. Gamers have notoriously short attention spans, myself included.
So that's what's on my playlist besides the games in my side-bar. What games are others playing or looking forward to?