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State leaders will join with childhood sexual abuse survivor and advocate Lauren Book to launch Florida's new sexual abuse prevention curriculum, Safer, Smarter Kids in elementary schools throughout the state on Sept. 27.
Multiple studies and research over the past 20 years continue to confirm that childhood sexual abuse puts children at significant risk for a wide range of medical, psychological, behavioral and sexual disorders that can persist into and throughout adulthood.
The 2009 National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence found:
- 6.1 percent of all children surveyed had been sexually victimized in the past year and nearly one in 10 (9.8 percent) over their lifetimes
- Adolescents ages 14‐17 were by far the most likely to be sexually victimized; nearly one in six (16.3 percent) was sexually victimized in the past year
- More than one in four adolescents (27.3 percent) had been sexually victimized during their lifetimes, most commonly by flashing/exposure by a peer, sexual harassment and sexual assault.
About Safer, Smarter Kids
The new curriculum, which has been delivered to every kindergarten class in Florida, helps children learn how to sidestep the traps predators set, without being in any way explicit or scary.
Florida becomes the first state to implement a sexual abuse prevention curriculum in schools, although other states have passed a mandate to develop such an education program.
According to the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, the students who received the Safer, Smarter Kids sexual abuse prevention curriculum last spring showed a 77 percent learning gain in their personal safety.
Safer, Smarter Kids is an abuse prevention education curriculum for kindergarteners created by Lauren's Kids in consultation with child psychologist, Tara Zuckerman. After years of implementation in the Miami-Dade school system, the 2011 Florida Legislature directed Lauren's Kids to develop and expand the curriculum to be sent to every public kindergarten classroom and guidance office in Florida.
The curriculum is divided into six, 30-minute micro-lessons and designed to fit easily into any classroom schedule. Each lesson includes a video component, in-classroom exercises and take-home materials to involve parents in this important education. The curriculum satisfies more than 22 Sunshine State Standards and numerous ESOL standards.
The topics covered include:
- Safety Awareness
- Respect for yourself and others
- Self-esteem development
- Body boundaries
- Listening to your Guiding Voice
- Accessing Help
- It's OK to Tell (secrets)
About Lauren's Kids
Book, a Florida resident, was a victim of childhood sexual abuse for six years at the hands of her nanny. Armed with the knowledge that 95 percent of sexual abuse is preventable through education, Book sought to turn her experience into a vehicle to prevent childhood sexual abuse and heal survivors.
In her memoir, "It's Okay to Tell," Book shares her personal journey from victim of abuse to the highly publicized trial that followed and her journey to become a national voice for legislative change and helping others heal.
Her organization, Lauren's Kids, educates adults and children about sexual abuse topics through in-school curriculum, a 24-hour crisis hotline and speaking engagements around the country. The organization also provides more than 4.5 million educational and awareness materials statewide through direct mail every year. The ultimate goal is to prevent sexual abuse through awareness and education, and to help survivors heal with guidance and support.


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Beverly Farms — Alice E. Malone, 89, died Wednesday, October 17, at Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers.
Born and raised in Beverly, she was the daughter of the late John J. and Nora (Shea) Malone. She received her education in the Beverly school system and had been a lifelong resident of Beverly Farms.
Alice was a loving aunt and friend who will be missed by all who knew her. She especially enjoyed the time she spent with the staff and friends of the P.A.C.E. Program in Beverly.
She is survived by many nieces, nephews and friends.
ARRANGEMENTS: A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Margaret's Church, 672 Hale St., Beverly Farms, Thursday, October 25, at 11 a.m. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Burial in the Beverly Farms Cemetery. As requested there will be no visiting hours. Arrangements by the Campbell–Lee, Moody, Russell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot Street, Beverly. Expressions of sympathy may be made in Alice's memory to the PACE Program, 100 Cummings Center, Suite 166D, Beverly, MA 01915. Information, directions and condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com.

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SOUTH ROYALTON, VT – Bruce Babbitt, chairman of the board of the World Wildlife Fund and former interior secretary under President Bill Clinton, will deliver the keynote address for the symposium, "Confronting Global Climate Change: Using the Law to Protect Future Generations." Babbitt's address, which will mark the start of the two-day symposium, will be delivered on Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at 4 p.m. at Vermont Law School's Jonathan B. Chase Community Center. His address will be followed by a panel discussion and reception. The event will be open to the public.
Organized by the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) and the Vermont Law Review, the symposium will host a delegation of attorneys and academics experienced in the fields of climate change and human rights. This symposium will explore the law's role in protecting future generations from the effects of climate change.
On Saturday, Feb. 23, panel discussions will begin at 9 a.m. in the Chase Community Center. These discussions will explore how the law is and should be applied to the rights of future generations that may be impacted by climate change. All panels on Saturday are free and open to the public. For more information on the panel topics and participants, please visit: http://ccfg.vermontlaw.edu/CCFG_Schedule.pdf.
The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Vermont Law review are student-run organizations at Vermont Law School. In addition to publishing scholarly articles online and in an annual series of books, VJEL and the Vermont Law Review arrange annual symposia on timely legal topics. For more information about the symposium, please call Carly Kruse or Brian Fredieu at (802) 831-1024, or visit the symposium's website at http://ccfg.vermontlaw.edu. For more information about VJEL, please call (802) 831-1024. For more information about Vermont Law Review, please call (802) 763-8303 ext. 1253.
This symposium is worth five hours of Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits. CLE credits for New Hampshire are still pending. For further information about CLE at Vermont Law School, contact Melissa Lewis at (802) 831-1259.
Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center and the Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI) are co-sponsors of the symposium. The CLI is a collaborative project between Vermont Law School and The University of Iowa. Its overall purpose is to research and promote legal doctrines, principles, and rules appropriate for recognition by the courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and private sector institutions to safeguard present and future generations from harms resulting from global climate change. The CLI takes as given that climate change exists and affirms that lawyers have a vital role to play in both public and private discourse and action relative to it.Vermont Law School––a private, independent institution––is ranked #1 in environmental law by U.S. News & World Report. VLS offers a Juris Doctor (JD) curriculum that emphasizes public service, a Master of Environmental Law and Policy (MELP) degree for lawyers and nonlawyers, and two post-JD degrees, the Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law and the LLM in American Legal Studies (for international students). The school also features innovative experiential programs and is home to the Environmental Law Center and the South Royalton Legal Clinic. For more information, visit www.vermontlaw.edu.


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Although lyrics on the band's new album, "True North," still focus on political grievance and societal ills, the generational conflict he once experienced as a suburban San Fernando Valley punk has now emerged between Graffin and his own son, now 21. He's learned to accept it.


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As announced Friday, Mia Couto has won this year's Neustadt International Prize for Literature:
Gabriella Ghermandi, who nominated Couto for the Neustadt Prize, said of him, "He is an author who addresses not just his country but the entire world, all human beings."
Couto is the first Mozambican author to be nominated for and to win the Neustadt Prize. He is considered to be one of the most important writers in Mozambique, and his works have been published in more than 20 languages.
Born in 1955 in Beira, Mozambique, Couto began his literary career in the struggle for Mozambique's independence, during which time he edited two journals. Raiz de Orvalho, Couto's first book of poetry, was published in 1983. His first novel and the novel that was the representative text for the Neustadt, Sleepwalking Land, was published in 1992 to great acclaim and is widely considered one of the best African books of the 20th century.
Couto is known for his use of magical realism as well as his creativity with language. In her nominating statement, Ghermandi wrote, "Some critics have called Mia Couto 'the smuggler writer,' a sort of Robin Hood of words who steals meanings to make them available in every tongue, forcing apparently separate worlds to communicate. Within his novels, each line is like a small poem."
This year, Couto also received the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature, a prestigious award given to Portuguese-language writers.
Sleepwalking Land is available from Serpent's Tail, and is definitely worth reading.
ALSO worth checking out though is The Tuner of Silences, which came out recently from Biblioasis.
Translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw, here's a synopsis:
Mwanito Vitalício was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears.
Mwanito's been living in a big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.
The eighth novel by The New York Times-acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanito's struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman's arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father's story and the world are heard once more.
Upon completing Albertine Sarrazin's Astragal I was left to wonder why it ever fell from print. Aside from the location, Astragal could pass as the great American novel. Its edginess and rawness capture the angst and desires we all had. . .
When my eyes first crossed the back cover of Fabio Genovesi's novel Live Bait, I was caught by a blurb nestled between accolades, a few words from a reviewer for La Repubblica stating that the novel was, however magically, "[b]eyond. . .
"I preferred the war to the plague," writes Curzio Malaparte in his 1949 novel, The Skin. He speaks of World War II and the destruction it has wrought on Italy, the city of Naples in particular. But the plague he. . .
With the steady rise of feminist scholarship and criticism in recent decades, it is little wonder that the work of Louise Labé should be attracting, as Richard Sieburth tells us in the Afterword to his translation, a "wide and thriving". . .
In Conversations, we find ourselves again in the protagonist's conscious and subconscious, which is mostly likely that of Mr. César Aira and consistent with prototypical Aira style. This style never fails because each time Aira is able to develop a. . .
You are not ashamed of what you do, but of what they see you do. Without realizing it, life can be an accumulation of secrets that permeates every last minute of our routine . . .
The narrative history of. . .
Literature in translation often comes with a certain pedigree. In this little corner of the world, with so few books making it into this comforting nook, it is often those of the highest quality that cross through, and attention is. . .


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A teddy bear is a thoughtful gift for Valentine's Day -- unless it gets you arrested on drug charges.
That's what authorities say happened to Lawrence Ligocki of Chelsea, Mass., who allegedly received a package containing not only several heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, but also a teddy bear stuffed with three bags of crystal meth valued at around $10,000, according to MyFoxBoston.com.
Authorities first suspected the possible drug violation on Feb. 5 when postal inspectors notified police of a suspicious package addressed to Ligocki, and the presence of drugs was confirmed by a drug-sniffing dog, WCVB.com reported.
The meth-stuffed teddy bear was delivered to Ligocki, 62, by a postal inspector posing as a mail carrier. By the inspector's account, Ligocki initially said he was expecting the package, but after the official handed him a warrant to search the house, he changed his story, The Boston Globe reported.
During the search of the house, investigators say they found an additional jar of meth on the premises, WBZ-TV.
Ligocki was charged with drug possession and trafficking and was freed on $150 bail after pleading not guilty, according to Boston.com.
Christie Harris
This Oklahoma woman was sentenced to 25 years after smuggling not only meth in her butt, but also a gun in her vagina. Read the whole story here.
Alexis Clancy
This Florida woman was allegedly caught with a hypodermic needle stowed away in her anus. Read the whole story here.
Cocaine Diapers
Priscilla Pena and Michelle Blassingale were arrested at JFK Airport after arriving from the Dominican Republic in late January. Drug-sniffing dogs allegedly detected something. Authorities said Pena had seven kilos of cocaine in silver plastic, wrapped around her butt like a disposable diaper.
Rasoul Speight
Rasoul Speight, 32, is facing a narcotics charge after New Jersey cops yesterday discovered a whopping 100 bags of heroin hidden in his anus.
Ashley Bellamy
Bellamy allegedly hid 36 vials of crack cocaine in her vagina to stay out of police custody. But officers noticed that the Philadelphia woman was walking funny, and she admitted to her hiding place. "The woman says, 'I have crack up in my vagina,' and she pushed out 36 vials of crack cocaine that were in a bag," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. "Thank God the lady didn't have a snake or a crocodile, or we'd really have been in trouble."
Pot Found In Frozen Carrots
42 packages of marijuana were found stashed inside boxes of carrots on the back of a truck trying to pass through the Otay Mesa cargo facility.
Crack, Pot Found In Man's Prosthetic Leg
Jose Santiago is accused of hiding 2.5 grams of crack cocaine and 2.8 grams of marijuana inside his prosthetic leg.
Kiana Howell and Makeeba Grahama
Kiana Howell (L) and Makeeba Graham (R) are accused of attempting to smuggle cocaine from Guyana into the U.S. in their hair.
Byron Harvey
Harvey is accused of stuffing clothes shoes and a watch worth a combined $450 in his pants. He also allegedly had several pills stuffed in his pants that he claimed were not his.
Cocaine Bricks In XBox
Carlos Valenzuela, 42, was pulled over by El Paso authorities for a traffic violation, but the routine stop led to the discovery of two large bricks of cocaine inside an XBox 360.
Man Allegedly Ties 89 Bags Of Drugs To Penis
A traffic violation by Ray Woods, 23, caught the attention of Pennsylvania police, who then discovered Woods was packing something quite large: 89 bags of heroin and cocaine tied to his penis.
Cocaine Found In Tampon Box
Cindy Davidson of Salt Lake City found quite a surprise when she opened a box of tampons she purchased: cocaine wrapped in cellophane.
Crack Found In Suspect's Butt
Florida police not afraid to get their hands dirty discovered crack in the butt of 28-year-old Ramon Blair.
Idaho Mechanic Finds $40,000 Of Cocaine In 82-Year-Old Woman's Car
An Idaho mechanic found 1.16 pounds of cocaine -- that's more than $40,000 worth on the street -- inside the engine compartment of a car belonging to an 82-year-old woman.


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The Bills were talking about their improved depth after their first spring practice of the year at the fieldhouse in Orchard Park.
Said QB Ryan Fitzpatrick: "I think one of the biggest differences across the board for us this year, not only on the defensive side, but I think at every position, is there's so much competition right now. Guys are competitive. That's just the nature of the professional athlete. But you just see it every day here. There's guys competing against other guys who are just as talented as they are. That's been something that has slowly been changing since I've been here, is the talent level from top to bottom I feel like has gotten better and is going to continue to get a lot better because the better you are on defense, the more challenged you are on offense, and vice versa."
Coach Chan Gailey on Day One: "A lot of energy. A lot of quickness. We felt bigger on the field and it felt bigger on the field. It felt quick on the field. We've got a lot of work to do, but initial observations were good."
Here's a look at how the depth sorted out by position on the practice field:
D-LINE: Working with the starting defensive line in individual drills were, left to right: Mario Williams, Marcell Dareus, Kyle Williams and Chris Kelsay. On the second team were, left to right, Spencer Johnson, Dwan Edwards, Kellen Heard and Mark Anderson. On the third team were Kyle Moore, Jarron Gilbert, Alex Carrington, Robert Eddins and Jay Ross were rotating on the third team. When the 11-on-11 team drills took place, Kyle Williams sat out. On the first team were Mario Williams, Dareus, Edwards and Kelsay. On the second team were, left to right, Spencer Johnson, Heard, Carrington and Anderson.
DBs: First-round draft pick Stephon Gilmore worked largely with the starters at one cornerback. He looks fluid in coverage and in breaking on the ball. The other starter in individual drills was Terrence McGee, but he's rehabilitating from knee surgery and he's pointing toward training camp for full-go work. Leodis McKelvin started at the other corner. McKelvin, Gilmore and Aaron Williams rotated with the starting unit. Second-year man Justin Rogers saw plenty of action in the nickel defense. He had one of the best pass break-ups of the day on an out route for Donald Jones.
WR: Stevie Johnson was not practicing due to offseason groin surgery. Starting from the first snap at wideout were Donald Jones and Derek Hagan. There was a lot of rotating at receiver. Third-year man Marcus Easley remains the most physically imposing of the group, at 6-foot-2 and a chiseled 217 pounds. He showed strong hands in catching during the workout. Rookie T.J. Graham caught the ball well, too, although he couldn't come down with a well-thrown long-ball from Fitzpatrick.
QBs: Just as expected the rotation went: Fitzpatrick, Tyler Thigpen, Vince Young, Brad Smith.
O-LINE: Center Eric Wood is six months into his knee rehabilitation. He was not practicing. Neither was right tackle Erik Pears. The first-team offensive line was: left tackle Cordy Glenn, left guard Andy Levitre, center Colin Brown, right guard Kraig Urbik, right tackle Chris Hairston.
RBs: It's obvious watching any Bills practice that Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller are two of the more talented players on the team. They always look good. Tashard Choice, the former Georgia Techster and Dallas Cowboy, was No. 3. Backing up fullback Corey McIntyre was ex-Pitt Panther Dorin Dickerson, who's more of a receiving-blitz-pickup fullback at 226 pounds.
LBs: Middle linebacker Kelvin Sheppard was flanked by Nick Barnett on the weak side and Kirk Morrison on the strong side. Working with the second team were middle man Scott McKillop, flanked by outside men Nigel Bradham and Danny Batten. Arthur Moats and Bryan Scott, a hybrid safety-linebacker, got a good amount of work in sub packages.
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Conservative Groups Rain on Capito's Senate Parade
Local groups urge conservatives in Washington to stay out of the Senate race in West Virginia.
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito celebrates winning re-election to West Virginia's Second Congressional District in 2008 in Charleston, W.Va.
West Virginia Rep. Shelley Moore Capito announced this week that she is throwing her hat in the ring for U.S. Senate in 2014, and a handful of conservative groups in Washington have said they won't back the Republican.
The Senate Conservative Fund, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint's Super PAC, immediately criticized Capito for what it called her "pro-government, pro-Washington voting record."
[2010: West Virginia GOP Shelley Moore Capito Won't Seek Byrd's Seat]
"Congresswoman Capito is not someone we can endorse because her spending record in the House is too liberal," said Senate Conservative Fund Executive Director Matt Hoskins. "If Republicans in West Virginia want to save their country, they need to find another candidate with the courage say 'no' to more spending and debt."
Hoskins criticized Capito for voting to raise the debt ceiling and supporting a $1 trillion spending bill. Club for Growth, another conservative PAC, released a statement echoing the sentiment that Capito wasn't right for the job.
"Her candidacy will undoubtedly be cheered by the GOP establishment, and dire warnings will be issued against any 'divisive' primary challenges, lest other candidates hurt Capito's chances of winning," said Chris Chocola, Club for Growth's president. "The problem is that Congresswoman Capito's record looks a whole lot like the establishment candidates who lost this year."
[Related: Top Up-and-Comers for Democrats and Republicans]
Both Club for Growth and the Senate Conservative Fund hinted that they may support a primary challenger against Capito.
But congressional experts warn that conservative groups need to let Senate primaries take their course or risk a wide range of losses in 2014 like the ones they suffered this year.
The reaction to Capito's announcement is further evidence that the Republican party is split on what went wrong in November when it lost a slew of red-state Senate races in Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, and Missouri. Some in the party say they lost because the GOP candidates were too extreme, while others say the Republican candidates were not conservative enough.
In Indiana, groups such as Club for Growth spent nearly $1 million in the state's Republican party primary to defeat three-decade incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar. Club for Growth threw its support behind Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock early, but he proved to be a liability. Right out of the gate, Mourdock gave Indiana's moderate Republicans pause and the infamous rape gaffe guaranteed the Democrats a win.
[Read: Why Republicans Are Abandoning the No-Tax Pledge]
And Club for Growth threw thousands behind primary challenger Mark Neumann in the Wisconsin primary, but Neumann attacked eventual GOP nominee Tommy Thompson so viciously that it may have cost Republicans in the end.
While conservative groups in Washington bash the first GOP candidate out of the gate for 2014, Capito is gaining momentum among conservatives in West Virginia.
Republicans in the state view the Senate race as a guarantee for them in 2014 if West Virginia Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller decides to retire. Local Republicans in the state have one warning for Washington's conservative groups: Stay out of the primary.
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"We like to take care of our own affairs here in the state. It is important for us to control our own destiny," says Roger Horton, chairman of a Coal Miners for Capito, a coalition of miners who support Capito. "She has always been able to work across party lines to get everything that we needed to try to stop the anti-coal coalitions from taking away our livelihood."
The powerful West Virginia Coal Association has also said it will throw its support behind Capito.
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Being a public servant sometimes requires difficult and complicated decisions. So I would like to share with you my thinking on the issue of the Congestion Relief Fee. I can tell you it would be easy to say NO at this point, but in six months when we are all sitting in gridlock with no bus options and thousands of more cars in front of us, would we be happy that I took the "easy" vote.
Here is the background of many weeks of thinking and reading and studying. I do not take my job lightly that you have given me and spent most of my vacation working on this issue.
Metro is funded by sales tax revenues mostly. In 2010 the revenue to pay for bus service was down $149 million as projected and $72.8 million below the 2008 level of funding. The difficult economic times affect so many aspects of life. So Metro has made $400 million in cuts over the last two years. For each of the last four years they have increased the fare box share of the ride so that the riders have had their fare increase by $500. This has increased the fare box recovery of riders paying directly for their rides to nearly 30% from 18% earlier (the policy target was 25%, so riders now pay more than the original target).
We have used reserves, stopped Cost of Living Increases, and worked very closely with the employees to find efficiencies and improve routes. But the gap between available and needed funds to run the bus system is still huge. To cover the gap would have required a 17% cut across the board in service.
In our area the funding gap would have been 43,000 hours of service and in Bellevue 86,000 hours. So the eastside would have had a decrease of over 120,000 hours. We are seeing overall a 5% increase in ridership countywide and an 11% increase in the Hwy. 520 corridor.
Car Tab Source from Olympia
SB 5457 and HB 1536 companion bills
The car tab source is not a source that would be my preference. Nor is it my preference to raise taxes. However, there are times when you have to make very difficult choices - some harder than others. This one is most difficult because we are in hard economic times and because of the car tabs are so unpopular. So let me tell you the "rest of the story" as Paul Harvey use to say.
The car tab revenue source was the only source the legislature gave the county to use to help keep the buses running. Three counties went in to Olympia to get help with their transportation system. The Senate Transportation Committee reviewed all the reductions and changes all three counties had made. Only King County came out as having made enough improvements and changes to be given this temporary (two year) funding source because the experts there felt that the next set of cuts would be too devastating to the transportation system. So we were stuck with that being the funding source.
Senate bill SB 5457 said that the council should try to find a solution to this problem collaboratively with six votes. That made it possible that no one group could dominate but it had to be an open fair process. Then SB 5457 said if they could not come up with a plan, then it was to go to a vote of the people. It is a temporary fee for two years. It also says that after June 30,2014 that if the fee is to continue it MUST go to a vote of the people. So increasing car tabs is not "to go against the will of the people," but to respond to the new law passed in Olympia.
This bill was supported in Olympia by Rep. Goodman, Rep. Springer, Rep. Judy Clibborn who is State Transportation Chair and many others and was passed into law (It is only three pages long so easy to read and the link is above.)
Then raising taxes during a recession is not a favored idea. However, the alternative has to be evaluated too. The alternative of 17% less buses and the greatest reduction being on the eastside as we have less density than most of the rest of the county was not a good idea either.
Transit Committee
The transit committee made up of about 26 citizens from across the county came up with a number of plans to improve Metro and to make it more efficient. That committee set the standard of productivity as one of the main goals. The less densely populated an area is the more difficulty you have meeting that target.
So the eastside would be the hardest hit in reductions. So we looked at another goal of regional equity to see how we could use that goal. They developed a plan called alternative sources which is now called "right sizing."
Right sizing establishes the right size bus, van, etc. to meet the needs of that community so they would not have empty large buses going through their community but right sized vehicles saving money to keep the bus hours of service to citizens. The productivity goal was being highly focused on in the earlier proposal.
Economic Situation
As the economy continues to falter many of our citizens are feeling the pinch of making ends meet. So, one way to reduce costs is to take the bus. In fact if you go 20 miles from the eastside by bus it costs you $1,296 a year, if you were to take that same ride by car it costs $5,100 per year. So there is a possibility of this being a way to save money.
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The state's chief economist Arun Raha was quoted in the Seattle Times on Aug. 12, 2011 as saying, "the past two weeks have drastically changed the outlook for the US economy." When we see a downward change like this, we see an upward change in ridership. In addition, in October when the state tolling begins on Hwy 520 we expect another increase in bus ridership. So the economy and tolling will both be pushing ridership up, and at the same time the economy will be pushing the dollars for bus hours dramatically down. That is a perfect storm of bad news.
So in the situation with lots of "bad news" what do we do?
We could continue to make the cuts that were proposed reducing about 120,000 hours of buses on the eastside. That would push all those riders back into their cars. 95% of bus riders own a car. So they have the cars to contribute to increased congestion. That would mean that there would be a situation like when a large event at the UW attracted 15,000 more cars and set up gridlock for hours. That would be what was projected for us on a regular basis.
At that point, with all of us in gridlock, cars idling costing more gas money and time, and people who need buses not having a way to get to work or home would be screaming why didn't their elected officials fix the problem. The projected costs for increased gas consumption were above the $20 fee proposed. It was a "no win" situation.
Easier to say NO
Yes, I can guarantee and my staff can tell you that it would be much easier to say NO to a new fee. But that is not looking ahead to what is before us and be proactive that the people need to get to work and home and to activities without gridlock. Transit riders need to be able to have their buses and drivers need to have roads that are free of gridlock. That can only happen if we can provide the most cost effective transit system to make both bus riders and car drivers have available service.
Either way people will be angry. They don't want a fee increase and they don't want gridlock. But one is going to happen. So which in the long run is best for the citizens, the economy and the environment?
The gridlock will cost more in gas consumption than $20 and more time in commuting and being away from family and leisure activities.
So some of us got to work to see what we could do to comply with the SB 5457 law.
Kathy Lambert represents Woodinville on the King County Council.


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By Rev. Dennis Gilbert
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---- — I grew up near a small town in northwest Iowa during the 1950s and 1960s. You would probably think not much was going on in the small community of 160 people. There was no theater, no bowling alley was available, nor was there a roller skating rink. Hardly any of the places that seemed exciting for young people to gather back then existed in Larrabee. It was deemed a virtue to make one's own entertainment. Aside from family, chores, school and church, social outings might have been rare. Fortunately the community was made up of an uncanny number of caring adults. I often wonder if those old people truly knew what a difference they made in my life. I didn't often take the time to say thank you.
Back in 1960, I had a personal crisis. You see, as a nine year old, I had plans to play professional baseball. I just knew that one day I would play second base for the Chicago White Sox. There was no organized or unorganized baseball activity near Larrabee. How could I ever be discovered by pro scouts if I was denied an arena to shine? I pled my case. I guess a whiny kid can have some impact. By June of 1960, adults in the community had met to organize a little league team that could travel. A ball field was constructed. Coaches and managers stepped forward to volunteer their time. Uniforms were ordered. Equipment was purchased. Nobody wanted to catch, so I stepped up even though I had my eye on second base. Through this I discovered by true position, backstop. Moreover, I discovered some great role models. The on field help, the organizers behind the scences and the support of all the folks that actually showed up to watch some of the worst baseball ever played. I am so thankful for the opportunity provided by caring adults.
I am thankful for the volunteers that led 4-H. Boy Scouts provided an opportunity for growth and adventure because of the adult leaders providing time that could easily have been spent elsewhere. The fine arts and access to knowledge were valued and shared without regard of social standing or income level. Indeed many of the best volunteers were people who did not have great sums of money, nice cars or large farms. Yes, opportunities abounded in the Larrabee area simply because of the generous service of caring adults. A large part of whatever is right in me today owes a debt to those adults.
I have been impressed with the volunteerism in Centerville. Since moving here less than a year ago, I have witnessed the passionate volunteers involved in this community. To all of you, I say thank you. You are among those who truly make a difference in our community. Others will grow because of your influence. Keep up the good work.
If you are not presently a volunteer, I encourage you to become involved. Be a positive difference maker in Centerville. I know you can be just that.
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The new contract Kyle Williams signed with the Bills averages $7.25 million a year, according to a News source. The deal includes a signing bonus of $4.75 million and his base salaries this year and the next two seasons are guaranteed. It's a little more than Casey Hampton (who is older) got from Pittsburgh, a shade less than Vince Wilfork ($8 million a year) makes from New England.
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Joyce Marie Taylor
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At the March 12 meeting of the White Springs Town Council, Attorney Fred Koberlein addressed four different complaints from resident Joe Griffin.
Three of the complaints were received on Jan. 4. They were directed toward Town Manager Bob Farley, Vice Mayor Walter McKenzie and Councilman Dennis Price. The fourth complaint was received on Feb. 19, and was against Attorney Koberlein.
Koberlein advised the council they had three options: Review the complaints and take no action; Review the complaints and launch an investigation; Refer the matter to the Commission on Ethics.
"I believe Mr. Griffin did mention that he would like time to present his side," said Koberlein. "You can even have a special meeting to allow Mr. Griffin to go past the five-minute allotted time or you can hold the individual to that allotted time."
The complaints against Farley and McKenzie have to do with a so called secretive "Camel Club" which is supposedly made up of town officials. Whether this secret Camel Club exists or not, is up to interpretation, but there is a sign in the center of town documenting it. Griffin's Internet blog began in May, 2012 and his first mention of the Camel Club was May 29, 2012, although it seems the Camel Club News e-mails had been circulating at least six months prior.
Griffin stated in his complaints that the Camel Club's sole purpose is to drive him out of town according to their individual writings.
The complaint against Farley states that he is "Super Camel" and has "violated Section VIII sub A of the town's standard operating guidelines. Mr. Farley has not denied being a member of the Camel Club and Mr. Farley has used profanity and obscene language in dealing with this citizen and his bride."
Farley had no response.
Griffin's complaint against McKenzie also states that McKenzie has never denied being a member of the Camel Club.
"The Camel Club and all of its members have used profanity and obscene language in dealing with this citizen and his bride," Griffin stated in the complaint against McKenzie.
In Griffin's complaint against Councilman Price, he states that Price "in an e-mail, called me mean," and that it was a violation of the town's standard operating guidelines.
The complaint against Koberlein states that he "undertook the negotiation with Sterling King Collection Agency and is doing the negotiation in the darkness." Griffin then referenced a section in the Sunshine Law manual about how to conduct public business. Griffin further stated on his complaint that a lawsuit is planned if the activity isn't stopped immediately and that he wanted access to all negotiations between Koberlein and Sterling King.
Koberlein said the matter went back to 2006 when the town was trying to collect a past due debt owed by Griffin. He said he believed Griffin was referring to a conversation he had with the collection agency as to whether or not they would accept 50 percent of the amount due.
Koberlein went on to say that Griffin cited certain cases in his complaints and that he only copies certain portions of the Sunshine Laws as reference. Koberlein said the town, in their negotiations with Sterling King, committed no wrongdoing.
After Koberlein listed all the complaints, McKenzie said he didn't want to feed the frenzy, but, "I do wish to state in front of the press and the public that I am not a member of the Camel Club. I have never been a member of the Camel Club. I do receive e-mails from the Camel Club. I have asked them in the past to take me off of their e-mail list. I've never contributed anything to the organization. I don't know who's in the organization, although that might be the subject of much conjecture. So, there's your public denial."
McKenzie said Griffin stated in his complaint that he and his wife Karin welcomed the opportunity to present their case to the council as a whole, sans McKenzie and Price, at any meeting so directed.
"If that should ever happen, I just want the public record (to say) that I have copies of all the e-mails that Joe has sent personally to my e-mail address," McKenzie said. "I also have copies of Joe's blog in which he has said things that I'm not going to characterize, but I will just read a couple to you and let Joe's words speak for themselves."
McKenzie read aloud some of Griffin's e-mails, several of which contained profanity. One e-mail stated that Griffin's purpose is to harangue the town and that he is good at it. Other statements were made against McKenzie's character and that he was a pig farmer.
"How long do we have to sit back and listen to this kind of stuff, and the sending of this stuff to multiple citizens of White Springs, and then have a guy come up and tell us we're the bad guys?" Mckenzie asked. "I'll tell you that I've never said or done anything ugly or profane to Mr. Griffin or his wife and I never will, but his words can speak for themselves. If you sit in judgment of any of my actions, just use that evidence to consider the source of the complaint."
McKenzie said Griffin reported him to the Florida Ethics Committee in the past for running a business without a license because he liked to listen to folk music at the Telford Hotel. A second time he reported him stating that he had the town's amphitheater built so that he could realize personal gain by hosting concerts there.
"Well, the amphitheater was built when I was not on the council," said McKenzie. "The activities that went on at the Telford were just a group of people that got together and liked to listen to music. The fellow that investigated it quickly saw that there was no substance for these allegations, just as there's no substance in the allegations that are brought up here tonight."
Councilman Price said he had no desire to have a meeting with Griffin.
"He attacked me personally and I've already e-mailed back to him and maybe I shouldn't have been so harsh," said Price.
Councilwoman Tonja Brown stated that when she first came on board as a council member, Griffin sent her flowers. She said she had them sent back and has not had any trouble from him since.
Mayor Helen Miller told the council that the complaints didn't warrant any further investigation since everyone refuted the allegations. McKenzie made a motion that the council take no action on the complaints and Price seconded the motion. Brown also agreed that no action needed to be taken. Councilman Richard Marshall was absent.


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Date: 06/23/2014 San Juan County, NM – On Sunday, June 1st at approximately 7:00 a.m. Aztec Police officers were dispatched to a residence off of Light Plant Road in reference
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The following is the text from their nomination form. In August 2013 Deputy Chad Langley and Deputy Josh Lynn were dispatched to the Giant Convenience store on Highway 64 in
Warrant Arrest CR3959 Joseph Untalan (28 yr old)
Date: July 10, 2014
San Juan County, NM –On July 9, 2014 at approximately 1247 hours, San Juan County Sheriff's Deputies responded to #14 CR 3959, in reference to Joseph Untalan, who was reported to be acting crazy and having an active felony warrant. It was reported that Joseph was possibly under the influence of an illegal drug as well. Responding deputies knew Mr. Untalan from previous calls where he had been armed with knives. Upon their arrival, Sergeant Wilcox observed Mr. Untalan on the front porch, and then enters the mobile home.
Deputy Mangan attempted to get Mr. Untalan to come to the front door when a family member who was in a camp trailer on the property advised that Joseph was the only one in the mobile home. Due to Mr. Untalan having a felony warrant and past contacts being armed, San Juan County Sheriff's Swat Team was called to the scene.
The Swat Team Negotiator arrived at approximately 1400 hours and immediately attempted to make contact with Mr. Untalan. After approximately 2 hours of no contact with Mr. Untalan, Detectives obtained a search warrant for the property and utilities were shut off to the residence.
Contact with Mr. Untalan was still not made by 1555 hours; the Sheriff's Office Swat Team made limited entrance into the residence and deployed a camera equipped robot. The robot cleared the residence and found a shut door to the master bedroom. Swat Team Members secured the rest of the residence and a negotiator continued to attempt contact.
When no contact was made with Mr. Untalan, entry was into the master bedroom. Mr. Untalan was located hiding behind a false wall in the closet. Negotiators were able to coax Mr. Untalan out of the closet and he was subsequently taken into custody without incident.
Mr. Untalan was transported to San Juan Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a medical condition and later booked into San Juan County Detention Center for the felony warrant and resisting an officer.


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Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2008 Barolo Arborina is gorgeous for the way it combines layers of fleshy dark fruit in the medium-bodied style of the year. Dark red cherries, flowers, spices and minerals are some of the notes that emerge from this beautiful, polished Barolo. The 2008 is all class and elegance. Layers of..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Chocolate, espresso roast, plum, fig, and black currant aromas are followed by a dense, rich, full-bodied Pomerol displaying superb purity, elegance, and noticeable but ripe tannin. There is not an astringent element to be found in this savory, layered, opulent 2006. It is ideal for drinking over..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Here is a generous, modern and bold expression of Sangiovese Grosso whose soft layers of chocolate and dark cherry fruit help soften the natural acidity and structure of the 2006 vintage. A polished mineral note adds attractive definition on the finish. Tight and very firm"
Cellar/Tasting Notes "An opulent, ripe wine from the ever-improving Beychevelle. It is rounded with new wood flavors along with just the right amount of tannin. Deceptively soft, with a solid, dry character behind the fruit."
Cellar/Tasting Notes " This is a bit more elegant though there are still noticeable sauvage elements to the plum, earth, underbrush and game scents. The supple, round and also delicious medium-bodied flavors possess a relatively refined mouth feel, all wrapped in a restrained, balanced, clean and mildly austere finish..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2009 Barolo Bric Del Fiasc is following a wonderful trajectory. Initially quite closed, the 2009 has begun to open up beautifully over the last few months. It is one of the most vibrant, nuanced wines of the year, with a level of crystalline purity that is unusual. Fresh and delineated, the..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "As I have consistently written in the past, this limited production cuvee, from a 12-acre site that contains a parcel of extremely old vines, 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, is meant to last three decades or more. Tasting like a liqueur of rocks interwoven with creme de cassis, espresso roast,..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "This is remarkably similar to the Beaux Monts except that there is a noticeable amount of menthol present. The suave, round and velvety middle weight flavors display an abundance of mouth coating dry extract along with fine complexity and very good if not truly striking length."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2008 Il Pino di Biserno is a rich wine endowed with considerable depth. Plums, blackberries, exotic spices, mocha and licorice are all woven together in this imposing, structured wine. The pedigree of the 2008 vintage comes through in spades. The 2008 is striking. I can't wait to see how this..
Cellar/Tasting Notes Keever's 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon bristles on the palate with explosive aromas and flavors that conquer all of the senses. Vibrant, floral aromatics meld seamlessly into a gracious core of fruit as the wine opens up in the class. At once structured yet delicate, the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon is pure..


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Rhode Island College was crowned the champion with 121 points and was closely followed by Johson & Wales with 116 points. Williams College finished with 105.5 points, while the Pride ended with 89 points.
Despite finishing second in the 184 pound weight class, senior Elliot Smith (Richville, N.Y.) was chosen as a wild card selection to the 2008 NCAA Division II Nationals. Teammate Jake Tyler (Gouverneur, N.Y.) was selected as an alternate to attend the Nationals. Tyler finished second in the 165 pound weight class.
Six wrestlers were tabbed as All-New England selections via placing in the top six in their weight class. Along with Smith and Tyler, Jamie Sgaglione (No. Massapequa, N.Y.) at 141, senior Chris DeBlock (Sparta, N.J.) at 149, senior Greg Dussol (Amston, Conn.) at 197, and junior Chris Brown (East Hartford, Conn.) at heavyweight were all recognized as All-New England.
Smith will move on to compete at the NCAA Division III Nationals at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 7-8.


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Fever vs. StormTamika Catchings and Marissa Coleman score 16 points apiece to lead the Fever to victory over the Storm 76-67.
Mercury vs. LynxMaya Moore scores 20 points to power the Lynx past Phoenix 75-67 on Thursday night, snapping the Mercury's franchise-record 16-game win streak.
Dream vs. ShockTiffany Hayes scores a career-high 27 points, Angel McCoughtry adds 21 and Erika DeSouza has 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Dream to a 85-75 victory over Tulsa.
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Challenged to make more efficient light bulbs — by a law that some in Congress want to repeal — American industry has responded with gusto.
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Challenged to make more efficient light bulbs — by a law that some in Congress want to repeal — American industry has responded with gusto.
Philips, Osram Sylvania and Cree have all said: Let there be light!
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I've seen several articles proclaiming "you can only absorb 30/40 g of protein per meal/hour" to be a myth, but none of them that I have seen have provided an actual helpful guide to go by.
Has there been any research done to actually determine how much protein one can absorb? What do you all use? I usually don't go above 50 per meal, but I have no idea if I can go higher or if that is too high.
Do a search. There is no limit.
Has that been confirmed via experiments, or has there just been no limit established?
I have tried searching, and I have read many articles/posts. None of them had much of a conclusion, other than 30/40 g is a myth.
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Squat - 595lbs -- 270kg -- Dec. 31, '09 (Provincial Record @100kg class)
Bench - 374lbs -- 170kg -- Dec 20, '08 (@100kg class)
Dead - 589lbs -- 267.5kg -- Dec 20, '08 (Provincial Record @100kg class)
Total: 1537lbs -- 697.5kg -- Dec 20, '08 (Provincial Record @ 100kg class)
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Bench Only -- 376lbs -- 171kg -- Jan. 26, '08 (Provincial Record @ 100kg class)
I want to know what is true (based on scientific experiment), not just what is false.
May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Surely someone could come up with an estimate, perhaps based on the LBM of the individual.
Plus, there's a huge discrepancy in what people think "absorbed" means.
I'm sure that some people are under the impression that all the protein is broken down into aminos which go straight into muscle.
Your body will absorb almost anything you eat unless you have some GI disorder that affects motility or maybe some sort of transporter deficiency (i.e. intrinsic factor autoantibodies would reduce the amount of Vit-B12 you absorb) or some other malabsorption issue.
I would say that you should eat protein at every meal and aim to make sure there are amino acids available all the time. However I wouldn't set an upper limit per meal because there are too many variables.
Personally i dont think you should stress it, a 12 oz steak alone has over 60 grams of protien and im certainly not eating half! bring on the 20!
2000 or bust
You want to know why there's no ballpark? Cool. Let's take an example.
For a given 180 pound, 15% bodyfat male, we'll say his BMR amounts to exactly 2100 calories to maintain weight. This is assuming low to no activity whatsoever. In a starved state, his gut would likely be somewhat atrophied, but we could still assume that were his GI tract devoid of all nutrients (which would likely require him to be long dead, since the bacteria in the gut provide some amino acids and other nutrients), he is in a state that allows maximum nutrient absorption. We'll also say he's completely healthy, and therefore has all the enzymes and bacteria needed to completely and quickly digest all protein that enters his gut at a constant rate. Again, impossible to determine since the enzyme levels and flora/fauna levels fluctuate so wildly depending on activity level, diet, overall health of the host (you), etc.
ANYWAY. So this dude could absorb simple amino acids at a rate of, say, number out of my ass, 2 grams a minute. Not bad. He takes 120 grams of amino acid pills, and absorbs them all in an hour. Sounds about right, given that those pills will probably take about five minutes to dissolve in solution, then another hour to interact with all the necessary enzymes.
Now, polypeptides found in, say, whey protein, are a little more complex, so these may take another hour or so to digest. However, in large amounts they will quickly start to overwhelm the digestive enzymes, so the process will become less efficient. 30 grams of whey could be completely digested in about an hour, then absorbed over 15 minutes. However, since the amino acids are absorbing while digesting, it'll all be over with in 65 minutes or so. However, 60-120 grams of whey might take three hours plus to digest because of enzyme bottlenecks, so we're talking close to 200 minutes for complete absorption. Again, caveat, numbers are out of my ass but likely proportionate.
Now, overly complex proteins like those found in casein, or any various complex enzymes or long functional proteins, may take hours to digest, even in small amounts, since they can agglomerate and need a lot of time to break down in layers. So 10 grams of casein may digest in 20 minutes, but 100 grams might take hours and hours to digest and absorb.
Throw in these variables:
1) There are other foods being consumed, further altering rate of digestion and rate of absorption through sheer volume of food digested, limited lining space for nutrient exchange, increased agglomerate of the food bolus, etc.
2) Activity levels can vary, altering rate of digestion and rate of nutrient absorption due to lowered gastric motility, decreased blood supply to gut, etc.
3) Hydration levels can vary, and lower water levels decrease the efficiency of nutrient exchange and enzyme activity.
4) Individual digestive enzyme levels are like fingerprints.... no two human beings are exactly alike.
5) Same goes for concentration of various GI flora and fauna.
6) Overall health can change, which, again, alters enzyme levels, blood concentrations of amino acids, gastric motility, etc., affecting protein breakdown, nutrient exchange, and speed of digestion respectively. (just for starters).
I'm sure I left some things off the list.
And this is for any 180 pound 15% bodyfat guy. Change any of those three descriptors, and you've just thrown all your calculations out the window. In fact, add in height and size of torso, because that can alter GI tract length.
So, if you want to try to make up some simple guidelines that can be used to calculate how much protein of which type you can/should eat at a single meal, go ahead. But chances are your calculations will be totally ****ed.
Everyone else, just eat your ****ing protein. If it's whey, eat less at a time, if it's steak, eat more. If you're big, eat a lot, if you're smaller, eat less.
There. There are some god damn guidelines for you.
"Except Belial. He knows everything. This isn't a sarcastic attack, either. He really knows everything." -----Organichu
"Alex is all knowing and perfect"-----Jane (loosely paraphrased)
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Current mile time: 4:23
Marathons: 3
Century races: 3
Ironmans: 1
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Belial just owned this thread
I love forklifts.
"Except Belial. He knows everything. This isn't a sarcastic attack, either. He really knows everything." -----Organichu
"Alex is all knowing and perfect"-----Jane (loosely paraphrased)
-515/745/700 bench/deadlift/squat
Current mile time: 4:23
Marathons: 3
Century races: 3
Ironmans: 1
Ultramarathons: 1
Current supps: http://www.atlargenutrition.com/prod...covery/results
If you want to absorb the most protein, the most important thing is to chew your food (and liquids!) VERY thoroughly to help digestion. And yes, I said even liquids. You "chew" them to activate the salivary glands, if I'm not mistaken.
You don't- saliva release is governed primarily by the nervous system. All that the chewing motion does is temporarily accelerate the release of saliva by squeezing out whatever is being stored.
The primary enzyme found in saliva (amylase) doesn't really do anything to protein at all- it's used to break down glycosidic bonds. i.e. it converts starches to sugars.
No need to chew your liquids- very few fluids contain long chain carbohydrates, and amylase is produced further down by the pancreas anyway.
Moving right along...
"Except Belial. He knows everything. This isn't a sarcastic attack, either. He really knows everything." -----Organichu
"Alex is all knowing and perfect"-----Jane (loosely paraphrased)
-515/745/700 bench/deadlift/squat
Current mile time: 4:23
Marathons: 3
Century races: 3
Ironmans: 1
Ultramarathons: 1
Current supps: http://www.atlargenutrition.com/prod...covery/results
lol, very hilarious and helpful thread....


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When Am I?
Funny how time slips away.
Three years after leaving the island, Jack is having a nervous breakdown, Hurley is institutionalized, Sayid is an assassin, Kate is raising Claire's child and Locke is dead.
If their dilemmas are different the solution to all their problems is a common one - get back to the island, where they were stranded after a plane crash. However this is easier said than done, since the island has disappeared and is apparently traveling through time.
Though the country, and the world, is rightly spending Tuesday celebrating Barack Obama's innaugural, a good number of people are also being cheered by the imminent return of "Lost."
When the ABC series returns Wednesday for its fifth season, it begins a 34 episode countdown to the 2010 finale of a show that, its creators have said, was always intended to have a beginning, middle and end. All, they say, will be revealed, unlike enigmatic cult shows like "The Prisoner" and "Twin Peaks."
If so, the fifth season premiere suggests they have a long way to go to make sense out of any of it.
No spoilers follow, just generalities.
What was once merely a mind scramble turns into a confluence of distress and dislocation bordering on the absurd. After a brief word from the Dharma Initiative, we learn of the return of the hatch, the Others and of at least one character, who is presumed dead but not named Locke
When Locke, laying in a pine box in one reality, but alive in another, asks "When am I?," we feel his pain. And share his confusion. But along the way we also learn, more or less, what purpose his death serves.
The premiere, basically two back-to-back one hour episodes, is Hugo-centric off the island and Daniel-centric on the island, with the latter (left) - a scientist who was introduced last season - privvy to secrets he is not revealing, no matter how much the shirtless Sawyer threatens him.
And while its good to see everyone back, the premiere has a cluttered and unfocused catch-up quality. What was merely dramatically elastic, returns with the instability of a Rube Goldberg contraption, that hopefully time will clarify. The problem is that anytime you invoke time travel, anything can happen.
And when all rules are broken the danger is that an imaginary place that was once just an island, can become a world so vast and winding that, like the characters, the audience won't know what's going on.
So enjoy. Just don't get lost.
"Lost" premiere trailer
"Back to the Island," Leon Russell
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How is it not Wednesday yet? I swear I stayed on heading 305 :( I need my fix!