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Five hikers reported lost in Eaton Canyon in Pasadena, Calif., were found safe late Friday morning and unaware a search-and-rescue effort was even in progress.
Abby Rodeo, 20, and four other hikers were found beyond the second waterfall, an elusive mountain-side destination that involves a treacherous and sometimes-deadly hike that Los Angeles County Parks Department warns visitors not to attempt.
Rodeo and her companions — who were described as experienced hikers — were in the area to practice rappelling. They stayed overnight, and when Rodeo's father visited the park Friday morning and found her car with his daughter's gear and cell phone in the trunk, he became worried and called 911.
"I started driving around looking for all the entrances to Eaton Canyon, and at 6 o'clock, I found her car here," Elvin Rodeo said.
Search teams were sent out about 8 a.m., and the group was found safe shortly before 11 a.m.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department led the rescue effort with support from its Altadena Search and Rescue, Sgt. Booker Hollis said.
The search effort comes on the heels of another high-profile rescue in in a Southern California forest. Kyndall Jack, 18, and Nicholas Cendoya, 19, were saved after a multi-day search.


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Some parents outraged after 40 PCHS seniors cited after school prank.
Deadline looms:
Those who wish to vote in November general election have until October 7 to register.
New man on board:
Veteran educator Charles Garrard appointed to school board.
On top:
Crosspointe Cavaliers on top of region standing after big win.
Labor of love:
Local family working to save eastern European girls and you can help.
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[Interview] Ohmay News : Ballet Star, Hye-Min Hwang, Jae-yong Ohm
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Universal Ballet's principal dancers, Hye-Min Hwang and Jae-yong Ohm had an interview with the famous Korean internet news channel, Ohmy News.
They got married last Tuesday and the wedding of two active ballet star is a first for Korea. Ohm joined Universal Ballet in 2000 and Hwang joined in 2002.


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NEW YORK - It will be December before the NHL returns to the ice, and that is a best-case scenario.
With no deal in place, and no plans to resume negotiations with the players' association, the NHL canceled its entire slate of games through the end of November.
Once a league deadline to reach a deal that would allow for a full regular season passed on Thursday, cuts to the schedule were inevitable. The NHL wasted little time in wiping out over a quarter of its games.
In all, 326 regular-season games from Oct. 11 through Nov. 30 were lost - amounting to 26.5 percent of the schedule.
"The National Hockey League deeply regrets having to take this action," deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement.
"By presenting a proposal to the NHLPA that contemplated a fair division of revenues and was responsive to player concerns regarding the value of their contracts, we had hoped to be able to forge a long-term collective bargaining agreement that would have preserved an 82-game regular season for our fans. Unfortunately, that did not occur.
"We acknowledge and accept that there is joint responsibility in collective bargaining and, though we are profoundly disappointed that a new agreement has not been attained to this point, we remain committed to achieving an agreement that is fair for the players and the clubs - one that will be good for the game and our fans."
The union attempted to get the league back to the bargaining table this week, but was rebuffed when it asked that talks take place without preconditions.
The NHL would only agree to meet again if the players' association used the league's previous proposal as a framework or offered a new one.
"The league officially informed us today that they have withdrawn their latest proposal and have cancelled another slate of regular-season games," union executive director Donald Fehr said in a statement. "This is deeply disappointing for all hockey fans and everyone who makes their living from hockey, including the players. But it comes as no surprise."
Fehr met with players on Friday night before they played in a charity game in Rosemont, Ill.
"The only thing I'll say about the conversation is, and we repeatedly get asked, 'What is there in the NHL offer that moved in our direction?'" Fehr said.
"My problem is all I can do is shrug my shoulders, because I don't know what it is.
"Nothing they've done over the several past weeks has been very much of a surprise. One thing sort of follows another.
"It looks like that's what's been done in the other disputes in the other sports. It's a shame.
"Hopefully we'll finally get down to serious negotiations one of these days."
The dispute is all too similar to the 2004-05 lockout that led to the cancellation of that entire hockey season - the first time a North American professional sports league lost a complete campaign to a labor dispute.
Reaching a new deal potentially became even tougher Friday, because of the NHL's removal of its offer - one that included a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenues and one Commissioner Gary Bettman called the league's best.
Whether any of the canceled games can be rescheduled in the event of a quick settlement remains to be seen. Daly told the AP in an email that if a deal is reached, the league will try to play as many games as possible.
"Having said that, once clubs begin releasing dates and rebooking their buildings, as they will be free to do for the month of November, the process will obviously get more difficult and complicated," he wrote.
The league had previously canceled games through Nov. 1 in two earlier rounds of cuts. A quick decision on the status of the New Year's Day outdoor Winter Classic and the All-Star game later in January isn't expected, Daly said.
"They're going to keep exercising the power that they have to be able to lock us out, and the thought that they can cancel games to try to sway us their way," Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "We'll see what happens in the next little while and see where it goes from there."
Last week, the NHL offered a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenues, which exceeded $3 billion last season, but that proposal was rejected by the union. The players responded with three counteroffers, all of which would get the sides to a 50-50 deal, but the league quickly turned them down.
The NHL proposal was contingent on the league playing a full 82-game season, beginning on Nov. 2, which now won't happen.
"To be honest with you, more than anything it seems like it's more of a scare tactic to us," Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane said. "The only reason why is they can cancel those games. I don't think it really means too much."
Players earned 57 percent of revenue in the recently expired contract, in which a salary cap was included for the first time. Owners originally sought to bring that number below 50 percent this time around before the most recent offer of 50-50.
Fehr said he spoke to the NHL on Friday and that the sides have conversations regularly, even though they haven't scheduled another time to meet.
"I believe it doesn't matter how much we try to reason with them or negotiate," Toews said. "I saw it in the meeting room last week, where we worked there. Don and everyone worked very hard in coming up with those three different proposals and they didn't even have the courtesy to look at it for more than five minutes or even to discuss it. There was no discussion.
"As has been proven over time, they're just on a timeline, and they're waiting to see how much they can squeeze us for. I don't know what's going to happen in the next week or so, but as players we've stood up. We've stayed together this whole time and we've worked very hard at trying to negotiate. That's as much as we can do at this point."
There is a major divide between the sides over how to deal with existing player contracts. The union wants to ensure that those are all paid in full without affecting future contracts between teams and players.
Bettman expressed a willingness to discuss the "make whole" provisions on existing contracts, but only if the economic portions of the league's offer are accepted first by the union.
"Last week the owners gave us what amounts to a 'take-it-or-leave-it' proposal," Fehr said. "We responded with the framework for three proposals on the players' share, each of which moved significantly, toward their stated desire for a 50-50 split of HRR, with the only condition being that they honor contracts they have already signed. Honoring contracts signed between owners and players is a reasonable request. Unfortunately, after considering them for only 10 minutes they rejected all of our proposals."
This lockout, the third of Bettman's tenure as commissioner, began Sept. 16.
"We have repeatedly advised the owners that the players are prepared to sit down and negotiate on any day, with no preconditions. The owners refused," Fehr said. "They apparently are only interested in meeting if we first agree to everything in their last offer, except for perhaps a few minor tweaks and discussion of their 'make whole' provision.
"The message from the owners seems to be: if you don't give us exactly what we want, there is no point in talking. They have shown they are very good at delivering deadlines and demands, but we need a willing partner to negotiate. We hope they return to the table in order to get the players back on the ice soon."


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Road re-opened to traffic at 10:45 p.m.; peanut cleanup will continue throughout the night and into Wednesday morning
An Ahoskie man will be charged with failing to maintain lane control after the tractor-trailer he was driving on N.C. 11 North overturned Tuesday at around 7:45 p.m.
Douglas Berry Joyner, 50, was driving an 18-wheeler with a load of peanuts for Burgess Trucking Company Inc. of Sedley, Va., when he overcorrected his rig and it ended up on its side. The truck slid for more than 100 feet before it came to a stop in front of State Electric Supply Company near the intersection of N.C. 11 and Dunn Road.
Joyner was fine after the accident, but his wife is suffering �evident� injuries said the investigating officer, Kinston Department of Public Safety Traffic Ofc. Travis Moore.
�An object falling onto her in the cab is what injured her,� Moore said. �It doesn�t appear to be anything life-threatening, but they�re not small injuries.�
An earlier report that Joyner was not wearing his seatbelt was incorrect; Moore said his seatbelt was still connected, leading preliminary investigators to believe he wasn�t wearing his seatbelt but merely sitting on it, a common practice for truck drivers.
However, the officer said Joyner had his belt on � the reason the truck driver was not injured in the accident.
�After further investigation, I was able to find out when the truck turned onto its side, he was stuck inside his seatbelt and was able to crawl outside the seatbelt,� Moore said. �That�s why he did not suffer any injuries.�
Both Joyner and his wife � whose name was not released � were taken to Lenoir Memorial Hospital to be treated. Joyner was treated and released and he remained at his wife�s side deep into the night.
Both lanes of N.C. 11 North were blocked for three hours; the lanes reopened to traffic at 10:45 p.m. However, cleanup of the load of peanuts will continue throughout the night and will probably continue throughout Wednesday morning, Moore said.
An 18-wheeler hauling a load of peanuts has overturned on N.C. 11, injuring two and blocking traffic in both northbound lanes of the highway until at least 11 p.m.
Kinston Department of Public Safety Traffic Ofc. Travis Moore, the investigating officer at the scene, said the tractor-trailer�s male driver wasn�t wearing a seatbelt when the accident occurred at around 7:45 p.m. in front of State Electric Supply Company near the intersection of N.C. 11 and Dunn Road.
The driver and his passenger, a female, were treated on the scene by Lenoir County EMS workers for about 15 minutes, then transported to Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Moore said he didn�t know if they would be sent to Vidant Medical Center. The names of the accident victims weren�t readily available, either.
The truck was traveling north in the left inside lane on N.C. 11 when Moore said it appeared the driver went to the shoulder of the right lane and attempted to overcorrect the vehicle. The truck landed on its right side and slid at least 100 feet before it came to a stop.
Moore said he was waiting on a State Highway Patrol trooper traveling from Beaufort County whose expertise is in motor carrier enforcement to conduct his investigation before the truck could be moved.
�He�ll perform an inspection on the vehicle to determine if there were any kinds of mechanical problems of that nature,� Moore said.
Moore estimated it could be 11 p.m. before the lanes of N.C. 11 were reopened.
Officers from KDPS and Lenoir County EMS were blocking a portion of N.C. 11 South to allow vehicles from the northbound lanes to use those lanes. Drivers on N.C. 11 South were being detoured around the accident on a side road.
A tractor-trailer hauling peanuts has overturned on N.C. 11 in front of State Electric Supply near the intersection of Dunn Road.
The two northbound lanes of N.C. 11 are completely blocked and will remain blocked one hour to 90 minutes, according to officials at the scene.
Two people in it were treated at the scene and are being taken to Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
More details coming.
Bryan C. Hanks can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @bchanks.


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Hello Scholars!
As we all know, academia is an environment in which you either publish or you perish. This is especially true as junior faculty members (which is a position in which we all may be after graduation). As scholars, we conduct research that has the potential to change the world! Personally, I believe the research (data collection, data analysis) is the most fun part. The less fun, yet extremely important, part of being a scholar is the writing and manuscript production. This month, let's discuss some writing tips and tricks. Specifically, what helps you get motivated to write? What are some of the biggest challenges you have when writing for publication?
Also have you ever been part of a writing group? What was that experience like for you? What suggestions do you have for developing and maintaining writing groups?


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Jones Falls Stream Walk 3/15
On March 15, 2014 The Maryland Chapter of Trout Unlimited (MDTU) will conduct a stream walk of the upper Jones Falls and its tributaries. While enjoying the last weekend of winter and anticipating the arrival of spring, MDTU volunteers will walk an assigned section of the watershed. During a 1 to 2 hour walk along the stream, volunteers will collect observations that will be valuable in determining the status and the overall health of the stream. This stream is of particular interest to MDTU because while being only minutes from downtown Baltimore, it is the home to one of the best wild brown trout populations in Maryland.
The Jones Falls is a wild trout stream just north of Baltimore City. The stream flows through Green Spring Valley before entering Lake Roland. Upon leaving Lake Roland it then flows south into Baltimore City to the Inner Harbor. The area above Lake Roland in the Green Spring Valley contains a healthy population of wild brown trout. The cold fertile springs of the Green Spring Valley provide enough cold water to keep the conditions ideal for trout for miles above Lake Roland. The Jones Falls is a productive but challenging fishery. There is good fishing even where it flows under the Baltimore Beltway. However its brown trout are wary and at times reclusive.
In an on-going effort to monitor and protect the Jones Falls, MDTU maintains a focus on the watershed. In cooperation with local landowners, MDTU conducts an annual watershed walk. This year on Saturday, March 15th, MDTU volunteers will meet the parking lot at Baltimore County's Meadowwood Park on Falls Road at 9:00am. The group of volunteers will be organized in teams of two. Each team will be assigned a section of the Jones Falls watershed or one of its tributaries. The teams will be made aware of any land owners that have not agreed to let MDTU volunteers on their property. The teams will be instructed to walk and collect observations relating to the stream's condition, appearance, and overall health. Survey forms will be provided as well as a brief training on what to look for in and around the stream.
The stream walk will take about two hours. Upon completion, we will meet again at Medowwood Park for lunch provided by MDTU. While the Jones Falls is in good health, the evidence being its thriving wild brown trout population, its location causes it to be subject to ongoing threats inherent to a stream so close to a large metropolitan area. The Jones Falls being only minutes from over a million residents in the Baltimore area is continually threatened by pollution, development, poor farming practices, invasive species and list of other potential problems.
MDTU's efforts to monitor and protect the Jones Falls will continue. A wild trout resource so close to a major east coast city is certainly unique and worth preserving. To ensure this stream and its wild trout are around for future generations will be a challenge. Unless an awareness and appreciation of the Jones Falls continues, the stream and its trout will be neglected. The threats to Jones Fall's health will go unchecked. The stream's fragile ecosystem will rapidly degrade and the trout will eventually perish. Without a persistent and focused effort such as MDTU's, this dismal truth could be realized in just a few years.
If you would like to participate in this year's stream walk, please contact Tom Starrs at 703-297-7407 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday
WHERE: Meet at Tobyhanna State Park office off Route 423.
DETAILS: Enjoy a guided hike at Tobyhanna Lake.
COST: Free
INFO: Registration not required but appreciated. Call 570-894-8336. Email email@example.com.
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: Monroe County Environmental Education Center, Running Valley Road, Bartonsville
DETAILS: A celebration of insects. Live critters, displays, games and take-home crafts. A puppet show about insects will be presented by the "Insects are Us" 4-H club at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Insect Olympics at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. New: an insect fashion show following each puppet show. Come dressed as your favorite bug and get a $1 discount on admission.
COST: $5 for children age 4-12. Parents, free.
INFO: 570-629-3061; mcconservation.org
WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: Outdoor amphitheater of Promised Land State Park, off Pickerel Point Road, Greentown
DETAILS: Why is the sun so hot? Does it ever change? Did you ever see a sunspot? What is a solar prominence or flare? Take a "safe" look at the sun through specially filtered telescopes. Program will be canceled if too cloudy or rainy. Sponsored by Snow Hill Astronomy Club.
COST: Free
WHEN: 1 to 4:30 p.m., July 7. Call to preregister.
WHERE: Meet at Kurmes Paradise Creek Nature Preserve parking area on Devil's Hole Road off Route 940 between Mount Pocono and Paradise Valley.
DETAILS: Join longtime local naturalist, educator and open space advocate Don Miller for exploration of the wildlife and wild landscapes of the Brodhead Creek and its tributaries along one of the Paradise Creek headwater tributaries. Be prepared to be outdoors for an extended time on level to moderate terrain, on and off trail.
COST: $3, Monroe County Environmental Education Center members; $5, nonmembers. Donations accepted to Pocono Heritage Land Trust and Brodhead Watershed Association.
INFO: 570-629-3061; mcconservation.org
WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., July 11. Preregistration required.
WHERE: Falls Pavilion of Promised Land State Park, Greentown
DETAILS: For ages 11 to 15. A day to discover new outdoor interests, including kayaking, fire starting, atlatl, archery and more. Campfire lunch included.
COST: $25 per child


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Ballot initiatives are supposed to be a tool of the people. In California, they are a tool only for rich people.
More than $84 million in donations of $100,000 or more has been raised for the nine state-wide initiatives on the November ballot, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission. That's nothing new: In 2006, more than two-thirds of the money donated to initiative campaigns came in amounts of $1 million or more.
One initiative consultant once admitted to me that he didn't bother processing donation checks for less than $10,000. They weren't worth the time.


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@ ocinside.deThe new Xigmatek Dark Knight SD1283 Night Hawk Edition, the flat Xigmatek Praeton LD964 and the big Xigmatek Prime SD1484 cooler were assembled with one and two fans and added with cooler sound samples to the interactive Fit for Fan guide.
Who never heard about the fit for fan guide may need more explanation.
In the year 2001 ocinside.de already followed the question, which CPU cooler can be used for which motherboard.
With this interactive fit for fan guide one can find out exactly this with a few clicks, by moving the desired CPU heatsink fan combination virtually on the selected motherboard.
You can not only see if CPU cooler fits on the motherboard and how much space is left for the remaining components, but also listen to the cooler sound, check the current price and read a review.
The interactive fit for fan guide contains some Intel LGA 1155, AMD Socket AM3/AM3+, Socket AM2/AM2+, Socket 939, Socket 754 and Socket A motherboards and some HSFs for each Socket.
Enjoy the new interactive fit for fan guide.
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Cooler Master Storm Skoprion Mouse Bungee and RX-L Mousepad @ DreamWare Computers
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Blu-ray Review
Football Manager 2013 Hands-on Preview
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>Behind the Scenes>Google bucks
Last year, I received enough donations from you, my loyal users to cover all expenses associated with operating the website. Thank you everyone that helped sustain RunningAHEAD.com. I was happy to donate my time because it beats running (just kidding!) I enjoyed the challenge and was thrilled that so many of you find it useful.
RunningAHEAD.com relies completely on its users to promote it. I cannot justify buying advertisements or hiring a marketing team to tell the world about how great its running log is. Sometimes I wondered what would happen if I ran ads…
A while ago, Uncle Google gave me some Google bucks to spend on AdWords, the ubiquitous Google ads that you're so familiar with. Since there is always a spike in people looking for a training log around the New Year, I took up Google's offer and ran some ads. Some of you may have seen it and rest assured that it was Google's dime.
As a quick background, the advertiser is charged for the ad only when someone clicks on it. The viewing of the ads is free. The placement of the ad depends on how much the advertiser is willing to pay. More money equates to higher in the display order.
As I was setting up the ads, there was an option to specify the amount of money I want to spend on each ad click. There is also an option to let Google decide the best amount. Since Google knows best, I turned control completely over to it. I also set a cap on the maximum spending each day to $10, which Google concluded as a fair amount.
When I checked the progress of my ad campaign on the first day at around noon, Google said that it stopped serving ads because it has reached its daily spending limit of $10. On the summary panel, there were a total of 5 clicks. One of the clicks cost $3.82! I immediately concluded that Google knows best how to take my money. I changed the maximum cost per click to $0.10 for the rest of the campaign.
The obvious goal of this ad campaign was to have more users, which can be tracked by the number of new user accounts. About two weeks into the campaign, Google offered a way to maximize the number of new account sign ups. I agreed to it and sure enough, the number of new accounts increased shortly after I enabled the service without costing more money. How does Google do that? It's all black magic to me.
At the end of the campaign, 3,044 people clicked on the ads, resulting in 282 new accounts. This number is very misleading because it does not equate to actual users. In my experience, only a small fraction of these accounts will be active a month, or even a week after their creation.
I learned that advertisement is not an effective method of gaining more users. Maybe creating a social network would provide a bigger draw but it seems to go against the solitude of our sport.
I will continue to rely on you to spread the word. Having someone vouch for a product is more effective than any ad. If you have a website or a blog, please give RunningAHEAD a plug. Place a link or two, or 10 with the text "running log" or "training log" so others looking for a better training log can end their search here. Thank you!
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Eric, I tend to share RA with only my running friends - which are few and far between. The successes I've had (I deem them successes in that the friends use the site, at least the running log portion of it) have been with friends who were at the point of starting a running program. My friends who have been running a while all seem to have their own ways of logging their runs that they are used to.
2014 Goal -- Run 5X per week, pain-free (relatively) by end of summer.
Sorry - got sidetracked. My point in saying this, is that if there were a way to concentrate efforts on runners who were just getting started - either through google or some other means, just making members aware might be enough, it might help in having RA "stick" with new users.
ive had several people ask me about my log after i post workouts on facebook, actually, it helped inspire a friend of mine to start running. one thing i noticed about the facebook app is that you dont have things posting in the news feed like many other apps tend to.
when i first found the site, what really drew me in was the forums and all the things i could learn. RA is a database for running knowledge. i had an idea that you could post the most recent topics from the forums in the facebook app news feed. i think if people saw these feeds, they could relate to it the same way they see magazine articles in the grocery line. right away you have a common interest with that person. thats pretty much it, ill leave you to do whatever you like with it!
You could always issue shirts to all of us that say, "Ask me about my log"...
"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
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Let me show you my log!
Let's compare logs!
Sorry, I keep my log private.
"During a marathon, I run about two-thirds of the time. That's plenty." - Margaret Davis, 85 Ed Whitlock regarding his 2:54:48 marathon at age 73, "That was a good day. It was never a struggle."
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I know at least 3 Facebook friends of mine have started using RA due to seeing runs posting my wall.
So bittersweet,This tragedyWon't ask for absolution;This melody,Inside of me,Still searches for solution.A twist of faith,A change of heart Cures my infatuation.A broken heart, Provides the sparkFor my determination.
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To my opinion, RA is pretty amazing experience in this day and age.
1. A great running log;2. A completely ad-free site; 3. Access to advice, support and information from runners who have experiences ranging from joggers to world champions;4. An hour or two (or more...more than I'd admit) of entertainment each day;5. An engaged, responsive site developer.
I can't think of any other web site that I use (and I touch a lot of sites between my professional and personal time) which has a value proposition anything close to RunningAHEAD.
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
Do you have a little script we can use to place a logo/link on our personal pages?
To my opinion, RA is pretty amazing experience in this day and age.
1. A great running log;2. A completely ad-free site; 3. Access to advice, support and information from runners who have experiences ranging from joggers to world champions;4. An hour or two (or more...more than I'd admit) of entertainment each day;5. An engaged, responsive site developer.
I can't think of any other web site that I use (and I touch a lot of sites between my professional and personal time) which has a value proposition anything close to RunningAHEAD.
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I know at least 3 Facebook friends of mine have started using RA due to seeing runs posting my wall.
I just started posting mine on my wall yesterday. We'll see if any of my friends come to check out this site.
Everytime I run with people I inform them about runningahead.com. However, maybe it would be worth the time to send out invitations to local running groups/stores/schools about using your site. The great thing about your site is that you can create a forum that only certain users can see your log or the forum. It really is awesome and you should branch it out more. You just need to get your product in front of the serious runner a little more. One of our local running groups "Bob Ronckers" has over 1200 people in it for the spring.
2014 Goals: (Yeah I suck)
Let me show you my log!
Let's compare logs!
This company really sucks, so I hate to plug them, but what about this idea?


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George Michael at the HP Pavilion in San Jose
Early on in Thursday night's show in San Jose, George Michael thanked the rapturous crowd for sticking with him for 25 years. "Lord knows it's not always easy being a George Michael fan," he admitted, a self-deprecating statement which could be taken a number of ways—as either a reference to repeated tabloid scandals, or to his lingering reputation as a boy-toy manufactured pop star, or to the fact that he hasn't toured in America since 1991. For me, the only thing hard about being a George Michael fan is the fact that the hands-down greatest singer-songwriter of my youth has made nothing but totally dull music in the last 15 years. Face it—after Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, it was all downhill.
But the stuff from that album and prior—including almost everything that Wham! did—represents, to me, a special pinnacle in pop music. Admittedly, my opinion is largely due to the fact that I was about 10 when Wham! was at their peak. I went to the Faith tour at the Shoreline Amphitheater in 1988, and as I grew up, George Michael was one of the first pop stars that I watched grow up, and get "mature," and assimilate other sounds and attitudes into their music. Witnessing the ceremonial torching of his pretty-boy image in the video to "Freedom '90" coincided perfectly with my discovery of the Dead Kennedys and the idea that the mainstream music industry was actually a completely corrupt system.
But ultimately, George Michael has written more perfectly constructed pop songs and conveyed more complex sorrow and joy than any pop star on the charts since his relative disappearance thereof in the early 1990s. In his day, George Michael's accomplishments put him in a category all his own; a star with an inimitable voice who brought a great deal of credibility to pop music.
So back to America Michael came roaring, and during a two-hour show, he gave his patient fans what they wanted. After opening appropriately with "Waiting (Reprise)," Michael tagged onto the end of "Fastlove" a brief portent of total and complete disappointment. By interweaving a murky techno version of his Wham! hit, "I'm Your Man," onto the end of the dance number "Fastlove"—and then ending it after the first verse—it seemed early on that we'd be treated to an all-too-common occurrence in concerts of has-beens who perform shittier versions of their old hits in medley form. It was worrisome.
But only for a second. "Just kidding!" laughed Michael, and with that, the enormous screens exploded with black & white images from old Wham! videos. The 10-piece band and six-member backup choir erupted into the original version of "I'm Your Man," and the packed arena became a huge party of huge, beautiful, ridiculous joy. I've never seen so many hella frumpy-ass Oprah fans losing their minds at once.
"Pretend it's 1984!" Michael shouted. "Look at the person next to you and imagine them with five times more hair!"
The extended version of "Everything She Wants" continued the arena-wide sing-along, and the back-to-back renditions of "One More Try" and "A Different Corner" were like a wrenching emotional slaughter. After a 20-minute break, "Faith" kicked off the second set, and against all odds, it's wasn't actually the most unnecessary song of the night—that dubious honor would go to a cover of the Police's "Roxanne," which no one in their right mind ever wants to hear again.
During the second set, Michael turned more towards his post-Listen Without Prejudice dance numbers. "How many people here are from San Francisco?" he asked, relating that the first day he landed in America, he'd turned on the TV and seen same-sex couples getting married. He then announced that "this song is for my partner, Kenny," and performed "Amazing," a dippy reminder of how contented happiness and artistic decline can go hand-in-hand.
But the dance numbers ebbed during the perfect encores, which included a stripped-down version of "Praying for Time," an obligingly true-to-form "Careless Whisper," and a rousing closer in "Freedom '90." Driving home the two hours back to Santa Rosa, it was hard to imagine being any more satisfied. We'll see if George Michael sticks with his promise to never perform in public again after this tour is over, but if it's actually the case, then his concert in San Jose was about a fine farewell as anyone of his fans could imagine.
The only way it could have been better?
If Deon Estes were there.
More photos and set list after the jump.
Set list:
Waiting (Reprise)
I'm Your Man
Father Figure
Hard Day
Everything She Wants
One More Try
A Different Corner
An Easier Affair
Too Funky
Spinning the Wheel
Feeling Good
Kissing a Fool
Flawless (Go to the City)
Praying for Time
Careless Whisper
Freedom '90
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The presented ideas are summarized at the next link: http://vixra.org/pdf/1904.0272v1.pdf, however I put everything in this thread.
It is a heuristic try to give the simplest possible description of nature based on classical physics while trying to avoid disputing QM nor relativity.
I do not presume that the presented ideas are a theory. The reasons that they cannot be a theory at this level are:
* the presented ideas are still not shown to be related to nature, it just aims at showing the possibility of such relation.
* they are bold guesses (not prooven)
* there is no option today to do the calculations to falsify/proove the ideas due to high computation power required (however it is reasonable that in the future it will be possible)
Despite that, the reasons why the presented ideas should be taken seriously are:
* Theoretically, every claim can be prooven/falsify using mathematical tools (although may not be possible today)
* I think that the presented ideas are not contradictory to current observational knowledge, at least there is no proofe of contradiction
* The presented ideas do not allow fine tunning ('epicycles'). There are just 2 dimensionfull scaling constants which is the bare minimum possible for any theory. each other constant should be calculatable.
In other worlds: either it is complete description or it is nonesense.
I believe that by presenting a very simple and specific set of axioms and in trying to generalize it as much as possible, a new unexamined thread is presented.
Some of the major merits of classical physics such as natural support of relativity and QM violation of Bell inequality are addressed by this manuscript.
In the generalization process many conjectures are presented without proof, however the question which should be asked at this scope is not if they are true but if they are possible.
The main motivation for introducing a model with many unproven conjectures is the rare chance to suggest a discussion that can lead to the calculation of all physical constants by using a very compact formulation.
Regardless of this the presented ideas can be used as a classical analogy to QM and they can help to refine the ongoing discussion about QM interpretations.
The Model
* 3-d euclidean space and classical simultaneous time are assumed
* There are numerous identical size-less dot particles
* Each dot particle is attracted to all other dot particles by inverse square law:
These axioms are the only ones, no other interactions are assumed, no other properties of the dot particles are assumed and no other particles are assumed.
Starting Conditions
Consider infinite sea of dot particles with exact statistical behavior everywhere, uniform density and the same velocities distribution.
The system is assumed to be in equilibrium.
The complete system may be finite but for current discussion it is better to ignore boundary conditions.
The timescales discussed are very large in compare to two dot particles close encounter timescale so the system is a collisional one with gaussian velocity distribution.
Wave Properties
In this collisional framework, waves are assumed to propagate non-dispersively with constant speed C which depends on the density and on the constant g, both are dimensionful scaling factors.
By scaling reasons C needs to be proportional to .
Stable Standing Waves
Consider a small deviation from .
Slow changes of density across long distances in compare to the average distance between the dot particles are assumed so the discretization of the dot particles can be neglected and smoothed.
In order to look for localized stable standing waves spherical symmetry is assumed.
Average density in infinite is .
The basic formula will treat the infinitesimal energy density change across infinitesimal length:
Consider the acceleration/force that act upon group of particles in infinitesimal volume.
If density would be constant everywhere than the average force would be zero.
The superposition principle can be used together with spherical symmetry assumption as follow:
spherical shell with lower than average density contributes opposite sign than higher than average density shell.
a(r) is independent on density at r > r similar to a well known fact that gravity inside spherical shell is zero.
a(r) for r < r for spherical shell is the same as all excess density is located in the center.
Considering all that, we get:
The average of the velocity squared is proportional to . Let the proportionality factor be k.
Numerical computation of the above formula under the starting conditions of:
ρ(0) = + dρ
ρ (0) = 0
gives the following spherical density graph
Within the calculation accuracy, the gaps of average density crossing are equidistant and are independent of dρ.
We will mark the average density crossing distance as D. D should depend on the density and on g as C does.
To be more specific, D should depend only on ρ ∞ as long as there are interactions, since if we change time scaling g will change but D shall not.
This can be obeyed if g is proportional to the average speed of the dot particles v squared as can be seen in the equations and should be expected by similar scaling reasons.
By the formula, the swaves seems to extend to infinity, however it cannot extend further than the area of density change of order of few dot particles.
Short-Range Interactions Between Standing Waves
To a first order approximation we can assume that the shapes of the standing waves do not get distorted by the interaction.
This approximation may be reasonable if the centers of the two standing waves are not so close to each other relative to the average density crossing distance D.
1. Two Standing Waves Interactions
It can be argued that two standing waves will have stable equilibrium positions at either aligned peaks along the line leading from one center to the other or anti aligned or both.
At each such equilibrium position if exists, we can consider small displacements along the line leading from one center to the other as harmonic oscillator like behavior.
The next graph describes numerical results of simulating two swaves under the rigid body approximation where each swave does not change its shape.
Positive force means attraction and negative force means repulsion.
If two standing waves are bound to each other, it is reasonable to claim that they are orbiting each other on a fixed plane in the center of mass frame similar to classical point particles.
It can be reasoned using the rigid body approximation by rotation symmetry around the axis connecting the two centers (z).
Because of this symmetry, no force can exist in the θ direction (considering cylindrical coordinate system) and any force in ρ direction will be accommodated by its inverse to be cancelled leaving only forces along the z axis.
Assuming two such standing waves are orbiting one another, since each standing wave is constructed from lower and higher densities than average and those deviations accelerate,
we can assume that propagating waves will radiate in general direction opposite of the accelerations which as assumed laid on a plane.
The propagating waves will be longitudinal and their net momentum may be zero. Moreover, the direction of the propagation of the waves in this scenario is assumed to be bounded to a plane.
For those reasons we will discuss bonds of three standing waves which are not restricted to a plane.
2. Three (or more) Standing Waves Interactions
Interactions between three bound standing waves are not limited to a plane and it involves more than centric interactions which may be very complicated to analyze,
however it can be argued that propagating waves with angular momentum can be sustainable.
This can happen if the standing waves centers trajectories have combined non zero average torsion.
From now on we will assume that this is the case.
Consider two groups where each group consists of three standing waves.
Assuming that those two groups are separated by distance much larger than the distance between standing waves within each group,
we can argue that the dominant interaction between the groups is via the hypothetical angular momentum waves generated by each group.
The propagating waves do not have spherical symmetry with regard to the group center because of the structure of the group,
however for general motion of the group if we average the propagation over time we can approximate it to have spherical symmetry.
The flux of the waves is proportional to the inverse square of the distance.
The groups can be tagged by the angular momentum sign along the propagation direction.
This can be related as stated before to the average torsion sign.
The propagated waves keep the same sign of torsion as that of the originating sources trajectories.
This can be seen easily if we take as example a helix source of which the waves are propagated as helix with changing radius but with the same orientation.
A repulsion force is expected to occur between two groups with same sign since there will be high correlation between the waves and the group trajectories and by that each group will act by the momentum transfer of the waves.
An attraction force is expected between two groups of opposite sign due to low correlation between the waves and the group trajectories which can cause each group to effectively feel unbalanced velocity distributions in the opposite direction of the wave propagation.
Special Relativity
In trying to give classical interpretation to the invariance property of the speed of light, Lorentz had an artificial argument that lengths are contracted in each direction to exactly compensate the speed relative to the absolute aether.
In the presented model this argument is naturally fulfilled if one assumes that the main forces are mediated by waves,
it is just that the only way to measure the speed of light is by using the speed of light.
Since there is no way to measure the absolute velocities distribution of the dot particles within this framework, both assumptions of Special Relativity are obeyed.
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Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen edged French rival Martin Fourcade to win the last individual biathlon gold in Sochi.
And we mean edged: both skiers times were exactly the same down to the tenth of a second. It was so close you have to look at this finish line photo of the two to see that Svendsen was only a fraction of a ski-tip in the lead.
Svendsen, in tears after capturing his third career Olympic gold medal but first of the Sochi Games, admitted he may have started his celebrations too early.
"But I actually had pretty good control even though it looked very, very close," Svendsen said. "It looked closer than it was for me."
Svendsen and Fourcade both finished in 42 minutes, 29.1 seconds. Ondrej Moravec of Czech Republic was 13.8 behind to take bronze for his second medal of the games after winning silver in the 12.5K pursuit.


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Greater Equity In Health Is A Progress Indicator
With a growing recognition that "blind faith in economic growth and gain as the be-all, end-all, cure-for-all has been misplaced," WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan today responded to leaders who have been calling for a redesign of international systems.
Speaking at the United Nations Headquarters in New York today, Dr Chan said that it is time to build policies based on fairness – using differences in the health status of populations within and between countries – as the "key measure of how we, as a civilized society, are making progress."
"The world is in such a great big mess," she said at the UN Secretary-General's Forum on Advancing Global Health in the Face of Crisis on Monday. The meeting was attended by senior government officials and experts in health and international development.
In the last year, this warming world has suffered a fuel crisis, a food crisis and a financial crisis. This list of challenges grew last week with the addition of pandemic influenza.
The impact of these crises is not felt equally. Pandemic influenza, for example, will hit hardest in developing countries, which have large vulnerable populations. With their weak health systems, these struggling countries will take longer to recover. In many ways, developing countries facing the pandemic are virtually empty-handed, said Dr Chan.
"Fairness, I believe, is at the heart of our ambitions for global health," she told the world's ambassadors. But fairness is in short supply. Differences in income, life expectancy, and opportunities are greater now than at any time in recent history. These extremes of privilege and misery, Dr Chan noted, are often "a precursor for social breakdown."
The soul-searching following the financial crisis has led to a questioning of "blind faith in economic growth." From this self-examination, leaders are calling for a restoration of other values, especially fairness, to a central role in policy formation.
"We hear clear calls, from leaders around the world, to give the international systems a moral dimension," said Dr Chan, "to redesign them to respond to social values and concerns... A focus on health as a worthy pursuit for its own sake is the surest route to the moral dimension, the surest route to a value system that puts the welfare of humanity at its heart. Greater equity in the health status of populations, within and between countries, should be regarded as key measure of how we, as a civilized society, are making progress."
One method for achieving fairness, she suggested, would be for more countries to embrace primary health care. As she noted, a primary health care approach introduces greater fairness as well as efficiency, and allows health systems to reach their potential as cohesive, stabilizing social institutions.


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When we moved to the South, the girls were less than thrilled to find out their new elementary school wore "dress code". Luckily dress code isn't as strict as full blown uniform, but they still feel like it is cramping their creative style. I promised them I would search high and low for things that felt a little more them and a little less dress code. They have been quite pleased with the result. If you're in a similar situation here are some items my girls are loving this school year.
best friends collar tee from Matilda Jane
Peter Pan Collar Zipper Dress from JCrew Factory
Tabitha Top from Mini Boden
cord skirt from JCrew Factory
bow skirt from JCrew Factory
The white converse have been one of my favorite additions this fall. The girls wear them with skirts and shorts and they look cute with everything.
The girls don't know these are coming (I'm saving them for Christmas), but I think they will love this fun and bright addition to their rainy season line-up... and they are a great price!
With Finn starting kindergarten, I was very nervous about the dress code. He is a boy through and through and does not like wearing "church clothes" as he has dubbed the dress code. I found him some things that have worked and we've had very little complaining.
The Volcom shorts are my very favorite. I love the way they fit, he had gray ones from long before dress code was on our radar so he feels like they are just "normal" shorts. These look a little more skater than your typical Old Navy/Gap chino short.
Volcom 'Modern' Chino Shorts from Nordstrom
With Finn being a t-shirt kind of kid, I knew the standard polo was going to be a struggle. At the anniversary sale I found this one quicksilver polo. Luckily it feels just like a t-shirt. Upon a little research I was able to find three more colors that work for our school on quicksilver.com and amazon. He wears them with no complaint (and they look good!). Success.
Quicksilver 'Core" Polo from Nordstrom
These Volcom polos also have a similar t-shirt type feel.
Volcom 'Wowzer' short sleeve polo from Nordstrom
We added these two shoes to Finn's collection this fall.
He looks pretty sharp every day as he heads out the door and I can't help but feel like we are making progress towards happy kids in dress code.


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When people think of brakes, they typically focus on their role in slowing a car down to a stop, but when it comes to performance driving, their main task is to make you faster. Yep, great brakes can knock heapin' chunks off your lap times if you decide to hit the autocross or road course. By having a brake system capable of quickly bleeding off speed repeatedly, a driver can drive deeper into a corner before having to hammer the binders. This ability to carry speed longer adds up over the course of a lap, and can turn an average car into track star.
There also needs to be a discussion about what makes a particular braking system great, which includes more than just their ability to stop a car on a dime. Also important when choosing a performance set of brakes, is to look at their ability to take the punishment inherent to being abused repeatedly over a short period of time. When they can't take the heat, they vacate the kitchen in a little dance we call fade. This is when either the pads exceed the temperature to provide adequate friction, or when heat is transferred into the brake fluid to the point where it boils. Neither of these things will happen when you're cruising around town, but when you hit the track, it's a whole other ballgame.
Baer has been building brakes for a long time now, and of their most popular brake packages has been their Track System. Consisting of a two-piston aluminum caliper and one-piece 13-inch rotor, it's leaps and bounds better than the stock stuff, but it does have limitations. One of these is related to the stiffness of the caliper. They were developed for the street, and under hard braking the bodies can flex, causing a loss of performance. They also feature aluminum pistons. The problem with aluminum is that it's a far better conductor of heat than the stainless steel found in most modern high-performance calipers. This is a bad thing since the last place you want brake heat transmitted is into your fluid. Baer saw these limitations and decided to develop a line of calipers with the performance driver in mind. Their new line of 6P calipers are extremely stiff, feature stainless pistons, and are more than capable of handing trips around any track while maintaining their streetability. Best of all, at $495 per caliper, they won't put you in permanent debt.
So, Baer has a sexy new caliper and scores of customers with Track Systems already on their rides. With this in mind, they developed a kit that would let Track System owners upgrade their rides without buying a whole new brake package. One such longtime Baer customer is autocross maven Mary Pozzi. She's been rockin' a Track System on her '73 Camaro for years now, and knows their good, bad, and ugly sides. With a pair of 6P calipers in hand, we went over to Pozzi Racing to see if we could make her Camaro faster by slowing it down quicker.
But Do They Stop Better? Steve Rupp from Camaro Performers magazine, graciously allowed me the opportunity to upgrade my existing Baer Brake Track front calipers with a set of Baer 6P calipers, and followed with instructions to go forth and then stop, a lot. With plans to autocross and take in a few track days, I'd purchased the Track system back in 2002 when starting the build on my '73 Camaro. Autocrossing never posed any problems for the Track system, but the track events sure did, as trying to get 3,600 lbs of forward motion slowed down is a huge job. Pad friction material upgrades and brake ducting, to keep the rotors cooler, helped get in a few more laps, but I rarely finished a session due to the inevitable brake fade and low pedal. When I heard Baer had an upgrade package, I jumped at it.
The actual install process was straightforward, uncomplicated, and took about two hours. Parts were simple, as the calipers and solid adapter brackets all came with the kit. The best part was that the Baer Track rotors can be reused for the new upgraded 6P calipers. The calipers come with pre-bedded pads, and I strongly recommend that you either have the rotors turned or replaced if they're not serviceable, as the 6P friction material sweep area is wider than that for the Track pad. Like the Track system (Corvette C4), the 6P calipers use standard Corvette pads (C5/C6, non-ZO6 or ZR1) which are available in a variety of friction materials. For my car's use, I plan to replace the existing Baer 6P pads with Hawk HP Plus, as those were used with the Track calipers, and I'm used to their performance. After replenishing the hydraulic system with fluid and checking for any leaks, then bleeding the system, I was done.
And as for the benefit, I had the opportunity to test the Camaro at two autocrosses, and after adjusting the brake bias, I immediately noticed a difference in the braking ability. The CliffNotes version is that stopping appeared easier for the car with the same amount of pedal effort. Where the stopping was really good with the Track system calipers, it was exceptional with the 6P's. The Baer 6P calipers are a huge improvement and should be a consideration for anyone looking to upgrade their existing Baer brake system or replace OEM. I can't wait until the next track day to see if they're as good hauling this tank down from 120 mph as they are slowing it from 60 mph autocross speeds.


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About artist
HBE are seven brothers from the south side of Chicago. They come from an extraordinary musical family. Other sisters and brothers are professional musicians, their mothers are singers, and Philip Cohran, their father, has roots running back to Mississippi, his time in the musical hothouse of 1940s St Louis, and his seminal role with Sun Ra in Chicago in the 1950s. When Ra left for the east coast in 1960, Phil stayed in Chicago. By the time the members of the HBE were growing up, Phil's work as a musical activist and educator had led to the establishment of a space called the Sun Ark in a warehouse behind the family home above a furniture shop. At night when they went to bed the children would hear their father rehearsing with his band the Circle Of Sound. They were wakened at 6 a.m. for several hours' music practice before going to school. From an early age they were a central part of their father's Youth Ensemble. Coinciding with this involvement in their father's ethos was a parallel passion. "At night we used to sneak under the covers and listen to NWA and Public Enemy. Ice Cube and Eazy-E were our heroes." Very young, they formed their first group, GWC (Gangsters With A Curfew), which morphed into Wolf Pak (War On Pigs And Klan). "We used to hum. We used to all hum the same way that we play our horns now, everybody on beat boxes or making harmonies, and we'd pass the mike around and rap."
By the end of the nineties, with everyone out of school, they brought together their musicianship, their jazz roots and their hip hop sensibility, and made a living busking on the streets of Chicago. They came up up with their name after an incident on the El: playing on the platform, a man in a suit watched them for hours, missing train after train, till in the end he walked up to them and said, "You guys just hypnotized me". Crucial to the mix was their burgeoning skills as composers, which meant the music they played really was their own. (They wrote all of the tracks on this album except Alyo, written by their father, and Rabbit Hop, written by Moondog.) Eventually the group transferred to New York City, and after playing out relentlessly, including gigs with Mos Def and Erykah Badu, and some particularly incendiary shows in Europe, they have come to be known as one of the hottest and most individual bands around.
This album is the result of a chance encounter in 2005. November, a cold market day in Portobello Road with all the customary Portobello ingredients: crowds snaking by the stalls selling flowers and fruit and vegetables, the Salvation Army on guard outside Woolworths, Italian tourists milling around looking for Julia Roberts' blue door. Only thing, the soundtrack was different. Instead of the panman in the Santa hat playing Christmas carols, there were strains of Ellington and the swagger of brassy funk cutting through the morning fog. Stationed on the corner of Talbot Road... eight horns and a drum kit are rocking Ladbroke Grove.
Since our initial meeting Honest Jon's and HBE have stayed close. We pretty much bought the entire runs of their first two ten-inches, and in 2007 they contributed a monster of a track — Sankofa — to our Tony Allen remix project, Lagos Shake. This made a stirring fanfare for our Chop Up shows last summer, and in London, Lyon and New York, HBE tore it up both as leaders and in support of artists as diverse as Victoria Williams and Candi Staton, rousing and tender in turns.
Recorded on the back of the Africa Express trip to Lagos last October, during a three-day stop-over in London, with the drummer's stool shared by Malcolm Catto from the The Heliocentrics, Sola Akingbola from Jamiroquai, and the one and only Tony Allen. Another friend from the Nigeria trip, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers turned up at the session: handed Paul Simenon's bass, parked up in the studio, he muttered, "Woah, so this is the thing that this was written on", hammering out Guns Of Brixton.
So here it is. Honest Jon's are proud to present the gorgeous, thrilling music of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.


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Weekly entertainment column by David Farr.
America got it right with Jordin Sparks when they voted her the next "American Idol."
America got it right with Jordin Sparks when they voted her the next "American Idol." She is living her show-winning single "This Is My Now." Sparks made her awards-show debut on the American Music Awards/American Idol Awards show. She was a presenter on the telecast, but all she needed to do was smile to win over the audience. I say "American Idol Awards Show" because "AI" alumni dominated the categories and acceptance speeches. Jordin should have taken notes because she may very well be up on that stage next year. Sparks' self-titled debut CD on Jive Records is exactly what it should be - a pure pop record. It's not flashy, nor out of her league. I would describe "Jordin Sparks" as the perfect teen/tween album. She definitely knows where she belongs in regards to her music. At just 17, Sparks shows such promise as a singer. This record showcases the power of her crystal-clear vocal prowess, something that made her an early contender on "AI." The only thing missing is her own "I (Who Have Nothing)," meaning I wanted to hear her send one out of the ballpark like she did that song on "AI." The CD opens with her current single, "Tattoo." The song was produced by Stargate, the same team responsible for Beyonce's "Irreplaceable," which is what I thought of the first moment I heard the song. It has the same familiar drum-line and acoustic guitar rhythm that helped "Irreplaceable" strike gold. "Tattoo" was the perfect song to introduce herself to the three people in America who didn't watch the sixth season of "American Idol." It's a great song, and Jordin would have hit big with it whether she won the title or not. It grows on you with every listen. On "No Air," Sparks is in duet with newfound R&B sensation Chris Brown. This song surprised me the most on the album. Sparks and Brown blend well together vocally. It's a beautiful song that captures the true talent these two young artists possess. Sparks and Brown could give Rihanna and NeYo a run for their money if "No Air" were to become a single. Rihanna and NeYo are currently on the charts for their duet of "I Hate That I Love You." The rest of "Jordin Sparks" covers a wide territory: dance, pop, balladry fused with hop-hop overtones, all pleasant to my eardrums. "Freeze," "Permanent Monday," "Now You Tell Me," and "Next To You" are clear stand outs and worth repeated listens. Hearing Jordin sing these songs made me smile and remember the gal who week after week proved why she deserved all the "AI" accolades. Sparks is on the same path as Kelly Clarkson, musically speaking. Both won me over from the get-go by singing their hearts out on "American Idol." Their music definitely strikes a chord with me. Sparks may have turned her "now" into forever with the release of "Jordin Sparks." David T. Farr is a Sturgis Journal correspondent. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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With 'SHAKE!', the long expected sequel of their successful debut album Autorama, the guys finish the album they have been missing for a long time in their record collection. A cocktail (shaken!, not stirred) made according to the reliable and unique Black Market Audio-recipe: Yeh-yeh beats, Hammond-driven grooves, kinky schlager melodies, topped with tropical fruits from Tiki-Bongo land with some surprising twists of homage to Dutch Pop history.
Meanwhile the Band has not been idle. Bert and Arjo were the initiators of the compilation CD 'Dutch Rare Groove', released in 2005. While searching for rare and special music in archives and cellars they found hardly known vintage soul and funk jewels in the Dutch pop history. Together with funkjournalist Sjeng Stokkink they compiled a CD with 23 originals. Labelpartners C-Mon & Kypski made an additional cd with 11 contemporary interpretations. This 2cd is still selling well worldwide.
It is no surprise that their music is also doing well in the movie world. The music appeared in the Disney film trailer of 'The Ice Princes' and was in the final pitch of Austin Powers 'Goldmember', 'Charlies Angels' and 'The Italian Job'.
Black Market Audio thinks making happy music is serious business. Whether it's funk, disco or skank, it swings, grooves and pops in every way. The duo describes their music as "dance-classics, lounge, pop, big beat, easy tune, jazz, exotica, rare groove, skank, psychedelica, mood music, triphop, soundtracks and top 40". Well, gimme another cocktail like that!
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03 Our Consumer World
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06 Do you like Oscar Harris?
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By Allison Rider, OPA April 2013 Student Extern
The OPA Annual Conference & Trade Show is a great opportunity for pharmacists and student pharmacists from across Ohio to come together and connect as members of the pharmacy profession. The exceptional continuing education, captivating speakers, and dynamic trade show are just a few of the much-anticipated events that continue to draw increasing numbers of attendees to the Annual Conference.
Throughout the years, the conference has steadily grown in the number and variety of programs offered, exhibitors present at the trade show, panel discussions, student activities, and overall attendance. This year was no exception; in fact, the 2013 OPA Annual Conference had a record attendance of over 1400 registrants including pharmacists, student pharmacists, speakers, and exhibitors! The overwhelming number of participants this year not only exceeded expectations, but also represented the importance of the Annual Conference to members of the pharmacy profession in Ohio.
The in-depth live CE lectures are one of the most popular aspects of the Annual Conference. This year featured a wide variety of topics, ranging from disease state reviews (including hypertension, COPD, and community-acquired pneumonia) to legislative updates to patient care opportunities (such as MTM and the innovative practice forum). One of the programs new to the 2013 conference was an entrepreneurial-focused panel discussion regarding how to open or sell a pharmacy, which featured wholesalers as well as a banker present to lend expertise to the aspiring independent pharmacist. Pharmacists and student pharmacists were highly satisfied with the more current and original topic discussions this year.
The speakers not only delivered excellent lectures, but also came from many different arenas to deliver new and important information to attendees. Bill G. Felkey, Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, delivered a lecture regarding how new technology and connectivity will be required in a patient-centered pharmacy. Heidi Ecker, the Director of Government Affairs and Grassroots Programs through the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, provided a legislative update with OPA Executive Director Ernie Boyd, along with a discussion on grassroots involvement in the policymaking process. Thomas Menighan, Executive Vice President & CEO of APhA, and Jenelle Sobotka, Professor and Endowed Chair at Ohio Northern University, spoke about the ongoing opportunities for pharmacy in the changing healthcare system. These are just a few of the outstanding speakers at the 2013 Annual Conference, although all of the speakers received impressive reviews from those in attendance.
The 2013 Annual Conference was also an exciting event for student pharmacists, who found an abundance of valuable opportunities open for their participation. These ranged from student panel participants at live CE lectures (such as The Journey of Addiction and Generation Rx Initiative) to the trade show to a multitude of student competitions. Findlay won the infamous OTC Challenge, Ohio Northern captured the Business Plan competition trophy, the Pharmacy Olympics were swept by Toledo, and the overall attendance champions were students of Cedarville College of Pharmacy. It was an fun-filled and energizing Annual Conference for Ohio student pharmacists, filled with a little good-hearted competition between schools that leaves some ambitions for redemption next year.
Exhibitors at the trade show were tremendous this year, and found a high volume of interested attendants at their booths. One exhibitor in particular stated, "You (OPA) treated the vendors as guests, which was appreciated. I particularly enjoyed attending the seminars during non-show hours. We accomplished our goal for increasing our recognition and did end up with several qualified leads." The Trade Show is an aspect of the Annual Conference that continues to grow and be a major success.
The House of Delegates also reconvened at this year's conference, and delegates were able to work together to amend bylaws to clarify that life members do not have to pay dues, the Immediate Past President remains an officer of the association, establish term limits for the Executive Committee Member-At-Large, and extend the term limits for District Trustees to three consecutive two-year terms. In addition, the House of Delegates defeated a bylaw amendment that would have charged the Immediate Past President with chairing the meetings of the Board of Trustees. All three resolutions were also adopted, which included OPA continuing to monitor the in-state CPE provider status, expressions of appreciation, as well as OPA supporting licensed pharmacists as Medicare providers.
Overall, the OPA 2013 Annual Conference was nothing short of an overwhelming success. Those in attendance expressed exceptionally positive feedback, as well as anticipation for the new and exciting opportunities next year's conference will provide. As always, the best way to stay involved and informed is to become a member of the Ohio Pharmacists Association. The Annual Conference is one of many benefits that come with being involved with OPA. Thank you to all who attended, and we hope to see registrants continue to increase in the future!
Join us next year in Columbus for the 136th OPA Annual Conference & Trade Show, April 4-6, 2014!
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London will get the chance to recreate the magic of 2012 after being chosen to host the 2017 Paralympic athletics world championships, Mayor Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.
The event will be held just a month before the Olympic Stadium hosts the IAAF world athletics championships, making London the first city to stage both events back-to-back.
This year's Paralympics athletics events attracted sell-out 80,000 crowds with the performances of British 100m runner Jonnie Peacock and wheelchair racer David Weir providing some of the most memorable moments of the Games.
"London just staged the best spectacle of sport the world has seen," Johnson said in a statement.
"By bringing the IPC athletics world championships to our wonderful Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park just a month before the world athletics championships, the capital is poised to recreate the magic of 2012.
"London's Paralympic Games were the first ever to sell out, and these Championships provide a perfect chance to build on that enthusiasm for disabled sport," he added.
Xavier Gonzalez, chief executive of the IPC, said London had helped raised the bar for Paralympic athletics.
"We cannot wait to see Great Britain embrace the Paralympic Movement once again with open arms," he said.
"The bar has been set high for the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships, and we are eager to see the worldwide media attention they attract."
The next edition of the championships is being held in Lyon, France in 2013.
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OT2010 Circus Watch
The Court today granted certiorari in Snyder v. Phelps, et al. Here's Lyle Denniston from SCOTUSBlog:
The Supreme Court, taking on the emotionally charged issue of picketing protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in wartime, agreed Monday to consider reinstating a $5 million damages verdict against a Kansas preacher and his anti-gay crusade. […]
The funeral picketing case (Snyder v. Phelps, et al., 09-751) focuses on a significant question of First Amendment law: the degree of constitutional protection given to private remarks made about a private person, occurring in a largely private setting.
If Lyle's description and the name "Phelps" didn't already set off your mental bells, let me put the question before the Court another way–with illustrative hyperlinks: is this speech by this preacher's congregation protected under the First Amendment?
In other words, I may have to dust off F1@1F next term for a special encore report from this case's line.
UPDATE: Back in 2006, Molly McDonough of the ABA Journal–she's now my overseer over there–wrote about the constitutionality of the state and federal laws enacted to keep Phelps's folk away from soldiers' funerals. Next term's case is based on a common law tort's damage award, not on any statutory command, but McDonough's story is still well-worth revisiting.
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WFO Success Weekend!
I have learned a lot about my oven this fall. One of the most important things I learned, though, I just confirmed this weekend with this bake. I have feared since I finished the insulation layer that my oven was too thin-walled to hold enough heat for multiple bakes. I also suspected that perhaps I just was not "charging the heat battery" fully enough to make it last. This weekend was a test of this theory.
This weekend I extended the high-fire burn from 1 3/4 hours to 2 1/2 hours. I did not burn it any harder than I have before, but I burned it that hard for longer. The finished temperature of the oven was not that much different from previous bakes. I could tell by other external observations, like steam coming from the insulation layer, that I had the heat deeper into the oven than before. The temperature drop during my soaking and equalization period was also quite a bit less. I figured that was a good thing. It did throw off my proofing schedule though! Just one of the joys of learning a WFO.
The plan was to again try to bake two loads in the oven, back to back. I've tried it before and ended up with undercooked second batches both times. For this test I prepared a first load of 30% Whole Wheat sourdough boulles (6 loaves @ 770 grams each) that I knew with confidence I could bake off. The second load was a lighter test of two loaves of "Old School" Deli Rye from the Inside the Jewish Bakery book. At only two loaves I could bake them in the kitchen if the wfo proved not up to it. In the end, the wfo proved up to the task.
It was a challenge trying to bring all the timings together, and I only pulled it off, sort of. I underestimated the soaking and equalization time I needed after the longer high-fire burn. While waiting for the oven to cool I over-proofed the sourdough, and ended up forcing the oven floor temperature down with repeated damp scuffling. It worked out though, and the sourdough baked off beautifully. Next time I will try loading just a few degrees hotter. Here they are, just ready to come out of the oven.
These finished at 208F after 28 minutes. The bottom crust was not as pronounced as I feared. I must have gotten the floor cool enough after all. As soon as I got these loaves out I loaded the rye loaves, even though the oven temperature was a bit higher than the recipe specified. Nonetheless, they baked off in roughly 30 minutes as well. Here is the whole bunch on the rack cooling.
I was very pleased with the crusts on these loaves. They all have that great thin, crisp crust that I think is characteristic of the WFO finish. Following are the crumb shots. The sourdough first:
Though quite acceptable and very tasty, there is obviously some tightness in the crumb from over proofing. As I learn to manage the oven timing better that will improve.
Here is the rye bread:
I was very pleased with this result. I have a short list of improvements to shoot for next time, but the patti-melt sandwiches yesterday were great! I also gave one of the sourdough loaves, still warm from the oven, to my neighbor and assistant oven builder. As it happened his newlywed daughter and her husband were visiting, so they enjoyed the loaf for dinner. Next day my friend said "Don't send that bread over when the kids are here! Now they're looking for a house in the neighborhood!". Too much fun!
What did I learn about my oven? It can bake two loads back to back with no trouble. I just have to charge it up accordingly. I need to allow more time in my timeline for oven soaking and equalization though. I have a big note in my oven management log to "Make the oven wait for the bread, not the reverse! Start the fire early!"
I also know that I must finish my oven door. I have been getting by with just a piece of 3/8" plywood held in place by a brick for an oven door, and it does not fit all that well. I know, therefore, where my heat is going! I have a 3" thick solid oak door in progress, but I still need to get the stainless steel heat shield made for it, and get my thermometer. I also have a little millwork to do to finish the woodwork up before I can do those things. With that door, though, my heat retention will improve a lot. As it was, the oven was at 545F (roughly) when I loaded the sourdough, and roughly 435F when I loaded the rye. It was still over 400 when the rye finished. I assume the temperature drop was less for the rye bake because it was only two loaves. Next time I'll prepare more loaves for the second load!
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11 February 2013 - Lucca, Italy
Tagetik Reports Outstanding 2012 Results Strengthening its Ascent in the CPM Market
Revenue growth, product innovation, and an expanding customer and partner network fuel strong 2012 performance and pave the way for continued growth in 2013
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Disclosure Management, Financial Governance and Business Intelligence, today announced its full-year financial and non-financial results as of December 31, 2012.
Tagetik delivered another year with strong double-digit growth including:
- 22% increase in total consolidated revenues,
- 40% increase in consolidated license revenues,
- 75% increase in revenues from international operations,
- Continued investments on product enhancements, support and market expansion.
According to Pierluigi Pierallini – President and CEO at Tagetik: "We are experiencing great momentum in the market, proving Tagetik is a solid and viable software vendor for medium companies and the largest global enterprises. We are highly-focused on investing, innovating, and excelling to drive financial process optimization for the Office of Finance and continuing our global growth in the Corporate Performance Management market."
"We are very proud of our accomplishments in 2012, it has been a great year for Tagetik," continues Manuel Vellutini – EVP, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. "We were able to add 100 new customers to the Tagetik family; embrace new technologies like cloud, in-memory, mobile, and analytics in ways that benefit our customers; and make finance processes easier and more powerful for Finance yet simple for IT to install and manage. Most importantly, we accomplished all of this while maintaining our great customer satisfaction ratings and are on track for an even greater year in 2013."
Key 2012 accomplishments include:
Company Mission and Focus
- Continued to extend its global reach adding customers in 35 countries while still delivering the 'boutique' experience that has helped establish Tagetik as the most innovative and leading-edge CPM specialist software vendor in the market
- Continued its intense focus squarely on the Office of Finance which resulted in outstanding customer satisfaction ratings in surveys by leading industry analyst firms
- Provided benchmarks to help finance organizations determine their best opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs
- Unveiled 'Performance with Passion' as the new foundation of its corporate identity to highlight its focus on strong customer satisfaction.
Global Reach
- Expanded operations into Asia via an exclusive distributorship with Fusionex, the '2012 Microsoft Global Business Intelligence Partner of the Year'
- Signed exclusive distribution agreement in Portugal with OnGlobal Solutions
- New distribution agreements with KPMG in Greece, Romania and Moldova
- Signed an exclusive distributorship in China to extend the Tagetik reach into this massive, and largely untapped, market in 2013.
Product Development and Innovation
- Tagetik launched a major release of its unified Performance Management solution, featuring a fully redesigned user experience, process-centric navigation, Edgarization capabilities for XBRL filings, and deeper integration with Microsoft Office including a new Microsoft PowerPoint Add-in
- As a strategic Microsoft Partner, Tagetik was part of the SQL Server 2012 launch taking advantage of in-memory analytics, new intuitive dashboard capabilities, and powerful self-service BI
- Released Tagetik Analytics to allow users in the Office of Finance to create engaging analytics and dynamic reports extending the reach and value of Tagetik deeper into its customers' user community
- Developed pre-packaged applications to support banks and insurance companies' regulatory reporting requirements including Solvency II, FINREP, COREP, and US and Canadian regulations.
Worldwide Customers
- Tagetik added over 100 new customers, across 22 geographies, in all industry sectors
- Added many new large multinational companies including Metro AG, Erste Group Bank AG, Rabobank Group (including North America, Netherlands, and International), Henkel Group and many others further demonstrating Tagetik's ability to support the scale and complexity of Global 500 corporations in a single solution with a lower TCO than its competitors
- Held the 2012 'Tagetik in Touch' global conference in Lucca, Italy with more than 600 attendees from more than 30 countries to share best practices with their peers and experience the Tuscan culture that makes 'Performance with Passion' part of Tagetik's DNA.
Industry and Analyst Validation
- Tagetik received a near perfect score of 4.8 out of 5.0 in BPM Partners' Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey and was highly ranked in the Gartner CPM Customer Survey (1)
- Tagetik is positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the 'Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management [CPM] Suites' (2).
Partner Network
- Tagetik and PwC unveiled a multinational Competence Center to support customers in half a dozen countries throughout Europe and in North America
- Grant Thornton LLP and Tagetik signed an agreement to deliver CPM services throughout the U.S.
- Tagetik and KPMG Advisory signed a collaboration agreement in Italy to deliver consulting services and in the Adriatic Region through its distributor CRMT
- Signed a distribution agreement with KPMG in Greece, Romania and Moldova, demonstrating Tagetik's strong focus on collaborative relationships with professional services firms which combines Tagetik's product knowledge and finance domain expertise with its partners' extensive industry experience
- Partnered with Avanade in Germany, West Monroe Partners in United States, Coins in United Kingdom, and extended its partnership with XLCubed, based in the UK, and established integration with CXO-Cockpit a popular tool for C-level dashboards specifically designed for CPM solutions.
"2012 was a great year for Tagetik and our achievements established a foundation for continued strong global growth in 2013," concludes Mr. Vellutini.
Notes:(1) Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.(2) Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management [CPM] Suites" by John E. Van Decker, Neil Chandler, Christopher Iervolino. 19 March 2012. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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