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The two candidates' most recent campaign finance statements, filed with the Colorado Secretary of State on Oct. 16, show that Padgett has raised a total of $15,623.95 in her campaign, compared to Flowers' $14,675, for a combined total of $30,298.95 contributed as of that date in this race.
The previous filing on July 26 showed Flowers well in the lead, $5,677.33 to Padgett's $2,378.43.
In terms of numbers of individual donations, Padgett now leads Flowers with 118 compared to Flowers's 94 through the Oct. 16 filing date.
Contributions in the Padgett-Flowers race eclipse those in Ouray County's other BOCC race – between Don Batchelder (R) and Pat Willits (U) for District 3. These two candidates have raised $1,600 and $5,052 in contributions respectively.
Likewise, campaign contributions in the heated Padgett-Flowers contest far surpass those in the contentious 2010 battle for Ouray County Commissioner District 2. That race saw Republican challenger Mike Fedel rake in total contributions of $8,105, compared to incumbent Keith Meinert's $5,225. (Meinert lost the race by a margin of 34 votes: 1307-1273).
Flowers and Padgett appear to finding plenty of ways to spend their campaign contributions. Details from the Oct. 16 report of contributions and expenditures show that Padgett has spent a total of $9,641.13 thus far, and that Flowers has spent $8,087.76. But they are spending their funds quite differently, with Padgett committing more to newspaper advertising and print mailings, and Flowers spending more on political signs and radio ad spots.


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Photo by Jim Davis. This is all that is left of a sports utility vehicle after an accident that killed a 4-year-old boy and injured another child and two adults Thursday at Bladensburg Road and 37th Street in Cottage City.
Published on: Friday, May 10, 2013
By Jim Davis
A car crash killed a 4-year-old boy and injured another child and two adults Thursday night in Cottage City.
Gerson Lagos-Tobar, who lives near the crash site, said, "I heard a loud crash and someone screaming. I ran down the street to see what happened and saw a baby on the ground not moving and a lady on her knees coving up the baby with a coat."
The deadly accident occurred just before 8 p.m. at Bladensburg Road and 37th Street. When Prince George's County fire and police departments responded to the scene, they found a mangled sports utility vehicle with two adults and a young girl with non-life-threatening injuries standing outside the vehicle.
"This is the worst accident I have ever seen. I can't understand how the three are still living," said a Prince George's County police officer who has investigated motor vehicle accidents for seven years.
The three were transported to a local trauma center for treatment, officials said.
According to police officials on the scene, speed was a factor in the crash. The SUV was traveling southbound on Bladensburg Road when it clipped a car, causing the SUV to spin out of control and leave the roadway. It struck a telephone pole and a tree before coming to a stop.
A veteran Prince George's County firefighter also told The Sentinel, "I have been on a number of accidents. I have never seen a car in this type of condition. It's a miracle that all of them were not killed."
Part of Bladensburg Road was shut down for several hours as police investigated the accident.
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You will find everything you need to apply for the Master of Health Science in Communication Disorders program here. The program accepts a limited number of applicants and generally admits students only for the fall semester.
Applicants must have completed a bachelor's degree
in communication disorders, or its equivalent, at a university with regional
accreditation. Applicants without the prerequisite undergraduate background in
communication disorders will not be considered for admission to the graduate
In addition to meeting university criteria, the following minimum criteria
should be noted.
The Graduate Record Examination is not a
prerequisite for the program.
Step-by-step instructions for applying to the Graduate Program in
Communication Disorders are provided below.
All applicants must complete two applications:
NOTE: If you are reapplying to the graduate program at GSU from a
previous year, please be aware that ALL applicants will be
required to create a new application for the 2013-2014 application cycle and
have new references, personal statements, and transcripts sent to
Application to the graduate program in Communication Disorders
at Governors State University is now made through a centralized application
service: CSDCAS. This is a state-of-the art, web-based application that offers
applicants a convenient way to apply to multiple graduate programs in
communication disorders by completing one single application. The
online application was designed specifically for your ease and convenience. With
far less paperwork, streamlined processing, and ongoing communication with
applicants, CSDCAS offers you the ability to apply to multiple programs across
the country.
To apply to our program, you should access the Communication Sciences
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The CSDCAS application cycle for Fall 2014 enrollment opens on
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Begin the application process by clicking APPLY NOW.
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objectives. Specifically, you should focus on (1) why you want a
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Complete the GSU Supplemental Application.
The graduate program in Communication Disorders at GSU is
designed to serve both full- and part-time students. Students accepted to the
program on a full-time basis can be authorized for a maximum of three graduate
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is available at the link below:
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mail to Governors State University at the following address:
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information. Unsuccessful applicants may sometimes improve their chances for
admission in a subsequent year by improving their prerequisite GPA by retaking
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A year ago this morning, we woke up to the news that Lehman Brothers had collapsed. The overnight demise of the investment bank is an important milestone, but it is only one failure in a series of calamitous events in the last year that shook the financial world and changed it forever.
Entire markets essential for world commerce effectively shut down and some markets continue to remain moribund today. Last year at this time, the whole banking system was on the verge of collapse and the world economy was tanking. Now that the economy is stabilizing — even perhaps tentatively recovering — and the financial sector is healthier, it is easy to forget just how bad things were.
It is true that investors today are now more cautious and banking will (hopefully) become more boring. But the financial and economic landscape has been permanently altered. The single biggest change pre- and post- Lehman Brothers' failure is the role and the actions of the government and other financial authorities.
Before Lehman's fall, the government played a relatively small direct role in financial markets. Now, the most important player, and still in some cases the only player, in financial markets is the government. The government essentially chose Lehman's fate and allowed some of its peers to survive. Masses of money — tens of thousands of dollars per U.S. household — were injected by the United States Treasury to save the banking system from itself and bail out bankrupt industries. Unprecedented intervention by the Fed in markets, still continuing today, has slowly enticed investors back.
But now one year later, we can look back at how the government led us out, but the big question is: Where is it going to lead us next?
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I have been unable to get extension manager to work!
I installed it a long time ago, but never tried to use it until recently.
When I tried to run extension manager 2.0 nothing happened--just an hour glass symbol and then nothing.
I then installed the 2.1 patch. Same response on trying to launch.
Then I tried to uninstall it.
QUESTION: How do you uninstall it?!
I loaded up the Flash uninstall utility, but Extension manager is not listed.
I just want to clean it out and then try to install it again clean.
Sorry, I should include the following:
Windows XP SP3
Flash CS4
Dreamweaver CS4
Do no have the CS4 suite.
I'm having extension manager problems too.
Just installed Flash CS4 with Extension Manger CS4. (All other products, being Photoshop are CS3 on this box: WinXP, high-end DELL.)
If I launch EM from within Flash or via command line, it starts up and freezes.
It's unresponsive to clicks and the only way to shut it down is by killing the process.
What's going on here, and how do I work around this bug?
Hello Adobe,
It's been 5+ months and no one has responded to this thread.
Issue still happening.
Will someone please address our problem?
I've spent literally hours
and hours over the last three day talking with Adobe and phone support with the same problems. No one seems to have any idea what to do. This is incredible, but maybe seeing these posts is supposed to light a bulb for me: these problems are real and Adobe is ignoring them--they're not going to fix them. Adobe, if you're out there, you're losing a good customer.
Me too, brand new computer five days ago and EM worked for two days and then stopped.
I am also searching for the same issue from 1 month but did not find any solution. Why some one is not responding to these type of threads.
This is the answer I got on the Dreamweaver forums, so substitute Dreamweaver for Flash and you shohuld be good to go. Fixed me up and havn't had a problem since.
What I'd is to remove the Dreamweaver *user* configuration folder, and the Extension Manager user configuration folder. (this will for sure "uninstall" any extension you did have installed). On Windows 7, I'd guess they are the same on Vista:
C:\Users\{user name}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\{language folder}\Configuration\
C:\Users\{user name}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Extension Manager\Configuration\
Brad Lawryk
Same problem here. Adobe tech support is not at all helpful. Though one person did try to get back in touch with me by phone (impressive for any tech support), but her answer didn't do the trick.
I wonder if this problem happens when you have had previous versions of Maromedia products installed. Simply removing those apps doesn't fix the problem. I tried removing all the adobe and macromedia extensions, plists, etc. and reinstalled the entire suite. Still didn't fix the problem.
I have no idea why Adobe isn't more proactive about fixing this.
The extension manager is a great feature - when it works.
Excellent. Your post has ended a lot of questions for me. I have a Swedish Win7 with English CS4 and extension manager installed in a Swedish configuration folder while the applications were looking in the English config folders. I simply merged them and now I can access my extensions.
yeah thank you very much....
I have problem then remove path of user dreamweaver...
I will post thiis here to hopefully move toward a solution.
I am having the same issue. I cannot open the Extension Manager to manage or install new dreamweaver extensions. It runs in the processes but does not open a window. I have tried everything, except a uninstall and clean install of the entire creative suite (I want to avoid this b/c I have so much to set back up and it would litterally take me a week).
Well I kind of figured the issue out here, but still have not found the solution to get it to open in my user account. The issue is with the Wiindows user account.
I created a test user account called "test" and gave it administrative rights.
I logged in and clicked on adobe extension manager. It opened. The problem is that you cannot install or manage the extensions on one user to use with another windows user account. BOOOO!
Well does anyone know how I can compare my user settings to see what the heck is causing this issue. When I check my user account information within the control panel and user accounts it only gives little information that can be updated and the original user account where the extension manager is not working is set to administrator in all aspects.
Please any input would be great from anyone. It seems there are a lot of people with this issue.
Ernie T.
I've got exactly the same problem.
Extension Manager CS4 (v2.0 patched to v2.1) was working fine, has been since it was first installed a long time ago, then suddenly stopped working last week. It appears in the Task Manager but the UI won't fire up.
Wasted the best part of 3 days trying to fix it and trawling through dozens and dozens of forums of people having the same problem, and tried just about every potential fix that didn't involve having to start again completely from scratch with a new user account. I've even tried completely uninstalling every Adobe product, running the cleanup utility and only re-installing Dreamweaver CS4 and Extension Manager but it still refuses to work. If I login as the system administrator (using XP Home means 'run as administrator' option is not available) the UI fires up ok.
I've since given up and begrudgingly had to create another user with Admin privileges, but as Ernie T points out above the extensions available to one user are unavailable to all other users. I'm now in the process of transferring thousands of development files, site settings, FTP settings etc etc etc across from the other user to the new user and have started re-installing dozens of extensions with the relevant serial numbers.
From all the experiences of all the users on the other forums out there relating to this exact same problem, it appears Adobe are not interested in fixing this problem and spending hours on the phone with Adobe trying to resolve this critical problem is pointless and expensive, as the only thing they seem to come up with is to create a new user and waste more time transferring everything across to that new user and reinstalling all your extensions under that new user.
What I don't get is the statement on Adobe's home page that states 'Get back to work quickly with online quick-reference and community help.'??? This problem, lack of support and lack of a realistic working fix has had the opposite effect and has drastically slowed my work down!
Found the issue and here is the solution so stop transferring all your settings, etc.
Flash-based softwares installed on your machine conflict with Extension Manager. You can try to move all files under "C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedi a\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust" to somewhere, then launch Extension Manager. If it worked, You can move those files back one by one to isolate the software which causes this issue."
Specifically, my issue was fixed but deleting the flashfirebug.cfg then rebooting. Good luck.


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Google Search lead designer Jon Wiley about the process of designing Google's iconic interface. What goes on behind that white box? For the second part of my interview series with the people who make Google Search, I talked to Google Fellow Ben Gomes. He's one of the elite engineers addressing the never-ending array of challenges we users pose by asking ever-more-complicated questions of Google.Last week, I talked to
The first time I spoke to Ben, he was introducing me to a brand new Google concept called Search, plus Your World. This time, we were able to delve much deeper into the fundamentals of Web search. Computing power at Google's scale is awesome to behold, and I asked Ben to take us along for a search query's ride one step at a time.
The Index
ReadWriteWeb: Where does search begin?
Ben Gomes: The journey of a query begins well before the user has typed in the query or even thought about the query. The first step of that journey is crawling and indexing the Web's content.
We fetch tens to hundreds of billions of pages. When I first got here [in 1999], it was about 50 million pages, and that was the biggest index then. It's hard to imagine, but it's three orders of magnitude bigger today. We're used to this sort of growth in the tech world, I suppose, but three orders of magnitude is still a heck of a lot.
We're really quickly crawling the content that's changing fast. The content that doesn't change as fast, we don't crawl as often. And then, we've gotten really good at bringing that data from the Web to the user in a very short period of time.
When I joined Google, it would take us about a month to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. Today, with real-time search, that can happen in some cases in less than a minute.
It's like the index in the back of a book, but because its so large, it's a lot more complex than that. You can think of it like this: Suppose you had to assemble a whole bunch of widgets from parts, and you have to do this repeatedly in the course of a day. What you would do before that is set those parts up optimally, so that you could assemble those widgets as quickly as possible when the time came.
The Query
RWW: So what's the brain behind the system?
BG: Ranking is the brain behind the system. What it does is, it looks at over 200 signals to determine which are the most relevant pages to your particular query. So as the user starts typing in the query, what happens? As you start typing, you notice auto-completions. These are predictions of what you might want to type. And with Google Instant, we begin to provide you with actual results right then. This is enabling you to formulate your query on the fly.
So you start typing "owl," and in your mind "owl" is about the bird. But it turns out "owl" also refers to [the Online Writing Lab] at Purdue, it refers to other things on the Web that people talk about when they use the word "owl." So you [finish] typing "owl bird," and then you get what you want.
Google Instant enables you to formulate a better query by letting you see the results even as you're typing. It's providing you with that intimate feedback loop that allows you to understand what the Web is saying.
Understanding The Query
RWW: How does Google begin to understand the query?
- On average, a Google search query travels 750 miles each way, to and from the data center.
- 16 to 20% of queries that get asked every day have never been asked before.
- Google has answered 450 billion unique queries since 2003.
- Last year, Google made around 500 changes to search.
Behind that, all this work we've done setting up the index now comes into play. We parse the query, we understand what your intent was, we [may] personalize the results, and then we send it off to our giant index and get back the top results for your query.
In addition to the results themselves, we need to create the presentation of those results, the titles and what we call the "snippets," the two lines of text that you see. In order to do this, we look at the copy of the Web that we keep and find the most relevant parts of every page, bring up those two most relevant lines for your query and show those to you for each result.
This is also an enormous amount of computation. It's going from the few words that you typed in to the result pages that we found, to find where on those pages is the text most relevant to your query.
In the case of Instant, we're doing that as you're typing, so the whole process is compounded. So this complex process of ranking is happening in the middle of your typing. If we did this naïvely, we'd be ranking almost 20 sets of results for every query you type, but we are more sophisticated about it. We do a lot of caching and so on.
Then, at the end of that, you get back this beautifully presented result page.
Overall, we put a huge amount of effort into speeding up the connection between your brain and that information you're seeking.
RWW: How do searches get personalized for the user?
It actually happens at every stage of the pipeline. When you start typing your query, if you're signed in, the auto-completions will prefer queries that you've typed in before. If you're in a given metro area, we will prefer queries that make sense to you in that metro area.
The second level it happens at is, when we process your query, we also take into account your Web history and so on in order to guess at your intent. During ranking, the process of actually looking at the documents, we also take into account personal signals that make sense for you, and when we search for your personal content in Search, plus Your World, we take into account your personal signals over there.
Finally, when we have the full set of results assembled, we then customize them for you.
So personalization of your results is deeply embedded right through the search process. Some of that is giving you the right context for things like date and place, and some of it is personalization based on your previous queries and so on.
Changing Search
RWW: Obviously, Google has to change over time. How do you change a system this complex?
For more feature-oriented experiments where we're changing the interface in some ways, we do another 10,000 or so live user tests a year. Out of this, we launch about 500 changes to search a year, more than a change a day. So if you look at search like a complicated machine, like a giant jumbo jet - although it's probably, in some ways, more complex than that - this is sort of like changing the engines in flight before you land.
The Changing Web
RWW: The nature of the Web is changing. It's more dynamic and application-focused and less like a bunch of pages. How is Google adjusting to that change?
BG: There's a large class of information that remains as content on the Web. It may be embedded in a Flash application in some cases and so on, and we work very hard to extract information from Flash pages and PDFs and things like that. Some things are actually full-fledged applications, and it doesn't make sense to be indexing them in the traditional sense.
For instance, it doesn't make sense to index the random pages that we may find about flights. They're out of date. They're not particularly relevant. In those cases, we're going and understanding the data more fundamentally. We can get the equivalent data as feeds from those sites, and then we can index that data side by side.
In a few cases where we actually know the particular kind of knowledge that you want, for instance, you want the height of the Empire State Building, we will synthesize a response out of the results and show you the actual height. That's a direction we're moving to further in the future.
We've gone from data on the Web, to just presenting information, to actual knowledge that answers the question you are asking.
The guiding principle here is getting the user to the information they want as quickly as possible. We are providing an easy way for the user to get to those sorts of quick facts.
But by and large, the data that people are looking for in terms of their search needs is still available as text from the Web, today at least.
Future Challenges
RWW: What are the hardest problems for search right now?
BG: As we begin to answer a certain kind of query, people ask more of them. 16% to 20% of queries that get asked every day have never been asked before. We estimate that there have been about 450 billion unique queries asked of Google since 2003. It's a pretty staggering number.
What makes it really challenging are the things you've never seen before, and yet you have to be prepared to answer. And as we get good at answering those things, people will ask us yet new things that we've never seen before.
Queries get longer and more complex, and a lot of the ranking changes are handling that length and complexity. That progress happens relatively silently, right? A query that didn't work yesterday worked today, and a more complex query tomorrow won't work, and it will work the day after. So that's the nature of the progress.
We're also going down the path of understanding entities with things like Freebase [an open structured database of semantic information acquired by Google in 2010]. Understanding the relationships between things.
A primary goal of ours is to understand language. There's a lot of subtlety in that. Even between the singular and the plural of a word, there's a huge amount of complexity. "U.S. president" tends to refer to the current president. "U.S. presidents" tends to refer to the list of all of them. People have subtle differences in meaning when they change words even by small amounts.
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By spartanmt on 12-03-12 @ 11:15 am
this "ranch" stinks to high heaven
By window2hvn on 12-05-12 @ 2:26 pm
I find Joyce and Bill Sutley to be genuinely concerned about the kids at the ranch. I did
volunteer work at the Ranch for about a month and enjoyed the beauty of the mountains, it's
serinity and tranquility. I think this type of environment helps reduce stress in the kids live's
there. I do wish I could have had more interaction with the kids in their academics. I was a
licensed substitute teacher K-12 in my state of NM with a BA degree in criminology, law
enforcement and psycholgy. I also took numerous courses in religion in college and religious
rights of inmates working for the Dept. of Justice federal bureau of prisons. As a lab inspector
for the U.S. Dept. of Energy with Ames, Labs I did a few inspections of the ranch. I found a few
areas where improvement was needed and made several recommendations to the proprietiers'
of the ranch. Rather they followed up on any of them is unknown to me at this time as it was
late in the year and may now be slated for their 2013 agenda as many projects come to a halt
in MT. when winter approaches. My two years stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, MT.
taught me much about winters in MT. I am currently retired from the FBOP (federal bureau of
prisons) and have a deep passion and concern to see that these kids be given every
oppurtunity to succeed in their lives' and not fall into the pitfalls that so many inmates' have
with their lives and our current justice system. Put the government in charge of anything and
everything is not the answer. It's been said, "put the federal government in charge of the
Sahara Desert and in two years there will be no sand left." I fear if these kids are placed in a
government program they will just be ware-housed like inmates today. The state of MT.
should be an aid for these folks rather than an albatross around their necks.
By hotfishmt on 12-06-12 @ 4:12 am
Window2: you did a good job describing things at the "ranch", but with a degree in Crime seems
out of place for recovering kids? How is it that you lasted only 30 days? I still fail to see the
connection between troubled kids from Russia, now somehow transported to Eureka and who
pays the bills for the food, labor, staff etc…? You stated yourself, that you did not have much
interaction with the kids….what then did you do as a free worker??? Much to be found out about
the real goings on I feel.
By window2hvn on 12-06-12 @ 5:21 pm
I was there only a short time due to my wife's health back in NM. I am not sure nor was I really
privy to finances of the ranch. I was basically working on small engines like lawn mowers,
string trimmers, chainsaws. I did have a problem with no manuals or a computer to get part
numbers to be able to order parts or trouble shoot some problems. I did inform the boss of that
issue. Regardless of where the child is from Russia, Poland, Turkey or Timbucktu the courts
and the state should be concerned about the health and welfare of the child. None of the kids
were looking anemic, sick, or abused to me or I would have had a legal obligation to address
that issue with authorities. I am pretty sure some of these kids are elgibile under state law to
receive assistance for their care, food and housing. Just as other kids and their families are
elgible for assistance. I certainly don't see a need for the state to enact "parens-patriae," which
is what the state is trying to do in a round about way, .as the kids are being well cared for
where they are. They could be a lot worse off standing in a bread line in Russia or in the middle
of a war in other parts of the world. These kids are not a political basketball, but that is how the
state is trying to use them since the managers of the ranch have invoked their constitutional
rights. It is a shame these kids are becoming political pawns of the 2 major super powers.
Rather than the state spending it's resources (your tax dollars) more wisely they choose to
badger freedom of religion and the right of private property owners. They'll ask you to leave at
a private country club too. JMHO
By hotfishmt on 12-07-12 @ 9:36 am
Window2: in most schools there is oversight to make sure the "students" are getting proper
levels of learning. I fail to see how imported students could get any kind of aid? As, if they
did…what does the "school" do with any form of aid?
Given some facts of how the students are exposed to learning….the State does have a right to
make sure things are being done half way correct.
I can see one local family near the Old Costco store that built a very large addition to their house
and judging by the young people I see outside during the summer….gota be some form of
adoption or big city troubled kids home…..but, also its safe to say its a money maker$$$$. Are
people in this form of "schooling" there to help or make money ???


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This is an excerpt from my new book, Organizational Psychology for Managers
The trap of looking for the perfect candidate manifests in a few different ways.
The first manifestation is something I refer to as the Godot Effect, based on Estragon's line in Waiting for Godot: "Personally, I wouldn't even know him if I saw him."
All too often, a prospective hire becomes the repository of every hope and every need of the hiring organization. The fact that the person does not yet exist in the organization only makes this worse. I've seen this particular phenomenon happen in front of me more than once. In particular, I was sitting in a product design meeting while the team discussed the next few hires it needed to make.
They started by observing that they needed someone who could handle some specific piece of technology. So far, so good. Then things went downhill.
"We don't have anyone on the team who can handle […technology…] either."
"That'll be the next hire."
"Wasn't the next hire supposed to be […original problem…]?"
"We'll need someone who can do both."
From someone who could do "both," it quickly morphed into someone who could do three things, then four. After a while, it did become clear that things were getting just a bit ridiculous, but that didn't help. There still wasn't a serious return to reality; by the time the people in the room were finished, the only person who could have met their needs was Doctor Who. In other words, they were looking for a fictional, centuries old, omni-competent Time Lord. Alternately, if he wasn't available, they could have tried to hire the professor who teaches the most courses in a typical college catalog: a scholar known as Staff. Unfortunately, Professor Staff isn't usually available either. The net result is that they were so busy looking for someone with a highly improbable set of skills that they couldn't recognize a qualified person when they walked in the door.
Closely related to the Godot Effect is the idea that, to misquote the X-Files, the perfect person is Out There and is always the person who is Not Here.
In one training exercise I ran, participants were presented with a problem and were given the names of other people who might or might not be able to help them. The trick was that not everyone was present: some of the people listed weren't available. While some of the participants made do with the contacts that were available, many of them fixated on the people who weren't there. Just as Clint Eastwood, at the 2012 Republican Convention, imbued an empty chair with all the characteristics he disliked about President Barack Obama, participants in the exercise imbued the people who weren't there with all the characteristics of the person they were looking for, including the belief that this person would be eager to help them. This idealized mythical individual prevented them from recognizing the imperfect, but physically present, individuals who could have actually helped them!
The next form of the perfection paradox is a little more subtle. Ask any hiring manager if they'd hire someone who never takes decisive action, refuses to consider alternatives, and has never challenged themselves, and the usual answer is, "Of course not!" Despite the vehemence of their response, however, that's exactly what they are doing.
Naturally, it doesn't look that way.
It looks like they are hiring people with strong track records and consistent employment: People who have a history of successes, not failures, and who have never been responsible for something going wrong. The problem, though, is that they rarely take the time to understand why those people have those perfect records. At best, I've seen managers attempt to break down someone's record, in order to see if it was airbrushed.
While there is value to verifying that someone is being truthful on a resume, those managers are missing the point. The real problem is that the resume really is as perfect as it looks.
Basketball great Michael Jordan famously said, "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career; I've lost almost 300 games; 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot— and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan is so good exactly because of his willingness to take chances, to push himself, and to act without a guarantee of success. All too often, that perfect resume is really showing you someone who carefully burnished his image or selectively chose projects which would not risk that beautiful façade. When you focus on perfect resumes, you are quite often weeding out the people who are willing to seek out challenges and push the envelope. In other words, you are screening out the people who are most likely to be out of the box thinkers! Far more important than someone who has never failed is the person who can fail and get back up again: as one of my jujitsu instructors once said, "The fight's not over until you can't get up." The ability to fail and recover is a sign of optimism and resilience, critical attributes of developing a success driven mindset. Those attributes should be part of your definition of a qualified person.
The final aspect of the perfection paradox relates to the stages of team development that we discussed in chapter three.
Recall that teams in early developmental stages are very focused around conformity and appearances. There is a strong tendency toward a mentality of "what you see is what you get," or, in this case, "what you see is what you look for." A WYSIWYLF (pronounced wizzee wolf) may sound more dangerous than a WYSIWYG, and it is. Simply put, our image of the right person to hire is shaped by the people around us. We look for people who look like us or like our coworkers. A poor manager is unlikely to hire a good manager in large part because she doesn't know what a good manager looks like! This part of the interplay between organizational culture and recruiting; we'll go into that in more depth later in this chapter. Suffice it for the moment to say that even advanced teams can be trapped by what our organizational culture tells us is the image of the "right" person.
The net result of all these factors is a lack of faith that the hiring process will get the results we want.
Stephen Balzac is an expert on leadership and organizational development. A consultant, author, and professional speaker, he is president of 7 Steps Ahead, an organizational development firm focused on helping businesses get unstuck. Steve is the author of "The 36-Hour Course in Organizational Development," published by McGraw-Hill, and a contributing author to volume one of "Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play." Steve's latest book, "Organizational Psychology for Managers," is due out from Springer in late 2013. For more information, or to sign up for Steve's monthly newsletter, visit www.7stepsahead.com. You can also contact Steve at 978-298-5189 or email@example.com.


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If your teen suddenly becomes moody, is spending time with a different group of friends, or starts failing in school, you may wonder if drugs are to blame. While medically testing your teen for drug use may seem like a straightforward way to get an answer, it probably is not the best way.
Drug tests are not always reliable, and your teen may resent being tested. Other methods may be better. Through confidential interviews and questionnaires, your pediatrician can help assess whether your teen has a drug problem without resorting to lab tests.
If your teen does undergo a drug test, it should be voluntary. The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes involuntary drug tests. Consult your pediatrician if you believe your teen should be tested for drug use.
Drug tests most commonly analyze urine. However, many body tissues and fluids can be tested for drug use. Hair, saliva, nails, and sweat are among them. Some of these alternatives show promise. For example, hair tests are difficult to fool and may reveal drug use months after it occurs.
But hair tests are fairly new and do not detect recent drug use. Hair color and type or secondhand marijuana smoke also may skew hair test results. Saliva, nail, and sweat testing need to be refined as well.
A chemical analysis of urine—or urinalysis—is the most common drug test. But the test has limits and parents should consider the following pitfalls:
You can buy home drug testing kits at pharmacies or through the Internet. But home test kits also may give false or deceptive results.
Accurate or not, the test can create hard feelings. Your teen may resent what seems to be a clear sign of distrust and become less open with you. Or anger could turn to rebellion. At the least, a resentful teen is less likely to turn to you for the emotional support that helps deter drug use.
Your pediatrician may be able to identify drug use by interviewing your teen. Though you may want to participate, let the doctor talk to your teen alone and in strict confidence. Do not worry that you will be kept in the dark about a serious problem. Your pediatrician will tell you if your teen is at immediate risk.
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Registration discounts are available to early-bird Jamboree registrants (on
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45th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, Friday
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The theme of the 2014 Jamboree is Golden Memories: Discovering Your
Family History. Our heritage focus will be on European ancestors. Class
sessions are scheduled for German, Irish, English / UK, Scotland, Eastern Europe,
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Sessions: Fully half of the 150 sessions at Jamboree will directly
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Fairhurst: The 2013 Family History and DNA Conference was an unqualified
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Media Tour Voltic (GH) Limited Nyame Ani Plant
19 September 2012
Kumasi, Ghana. 13th September, 2012: Voltic (GH) Limited, producers of Voltic Natural Mineral Water, has today organised a media tour of its Nyame Ani Plant, Kumasi, in order for a selected group of the media to familiarise themselves with the production processes of the plant.
The exercise which was led by Mr. Raymond Mensah Gbetivi, Quality Assurance Manager of Voltic (GH) Limited, took the form of a guided tour of the plant.
Prior to embarking on the plant tour, the QA Manager explained to the team the processing stages from the boreholes, various filtration and purification stages, packaging and storage. He educated the journalists on the significant difference between purified municipal water and purified natural mineral water. He said, "Voltic Natural Mineral water belongs to the purified natural mineral water category. This is borne out of the fact that the product is naturally filtered and purified through processes without addition of chemicals or additives, from two borehole sources. The borehole sources are each 60 meters below ground level. The aquifer is rich in minerals such as Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Nitrate, Sulphate, Potassium etc. Mechanized boreholes are constructed to draw raw water from the aquifer for filtration, purification and packaging, making Voltic a real natural mineral water."
Mr. Gbetivi added that "It is wrongly believed that one can adopt a water treatment system used by one water producer for another. However, this is not the case; a good water treatment system is the one that considers and incorporates adequate controls to address the shortfalls of the source water quality to meet the unique needs of consumers."
During the tour a journalist said, "This is the first time I have had the opportunity to visit the Voltic (GH) Limited's Nyame Ani Plant and I have seen all the processes that they undertake to produce quality drinking water. I am therefore confident that whatever Voltic Mineral Water I drink is of the best quality."
Another member of the group also added that he is impressed, as the company ensures the right procedures are adhered to.
The media team expressed sincere gratitude towards the team from Voltic (GH) Limited for giving them the opportunity to acquire first-hand knowledge of the production of Ghana's premier natural mineral water.
Voltic (GH) Limited is currently the only packaged water company in Ghana issued with an HACCP Certificate by the Food and Drugs Board(FDB). A few other companies in Ghana have also been issued with HACCP Certificates by the FDB. The issue of the certificate to Voltic (GH) Limited was preceded by training organized through the Industrial Support Services Programme (ISSP) of the Food and Drugs Board. The programme also supported the installation and audit of the HACCP system. The voluntary adoption of HACCP by Voltic Ghana Limited has great potential to increase the local market share of products from the company as HACCP positions the company above all other packaged water producing companies and assures a safer and better-quality product from the company. The HACCP system also allows access to packaged water from Voltic (GH) Limited on the international market. HACCP builds confidence in product safety, which is translated into confidence of patrons and producers alike in the product. Less consumer complaints and reduced regulatory visits to production premises are also assured.
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About Voltic (GH) Limited (A subsidiary of SABMiller plc)
Voltic (GH) Limited, a business engaged in the bottling and distribution of Voltic Natural Mineral Water and other non-alcoholic beverages, was established in 1995 with one facility at Medie. The Company's aim was to compete with imported mineral waters which were predominant in the Ghanaian market at the time. With the company's commitment to quality and excellence, within three years after inception it went on to command a 65% market share in the Ghanaian mineral water market.
In 2008 Voltic installed another bottling facility at Nyame Ani in the Ashanti Region and another in Achimota for filling dispenser jars. Subsequently as part of its backward integration plans, a plant was installed in Nsawam to produce the plastic preforms that are used in Voltic's bottling plants. This brings the total number of Voltic's facilities to four in various locations in the country. In January 2009, Voltic (GH Ltd became a subsidiary of SABMiller Plc.
As a unique brand that has remained the market leader for the past 17 years, Voltic has become a generic name for mineral and bottled water in Ghana. It has acquired this profile by providing world-class products known for their good quality and pure natural freshness. Voltic aims to strengthen its market leadership by constantly enhancing the excellence of its products through a process of continuous reinvestment and innovative manufacturing and marketing strategies.
Voltic (GH) Limited recently sponsored the Best Reporting on Water Award at the just-ended 17th GJA Awards ceremony. The company also believes in improving the lives of the communities in which they operate. Voltic provides transport for 55 children to and from school in the Koforidua Ada and Aboabo communities in the Eastern region of Ghana. These children would otherwise have had to travel long distances on foot in order to attend school.
About SABMiller plc
SABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers with brewing interests and distribution agreements across six continents. The group's wide portfolio includes global brands Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Miller Genuine Draft and Grolsch, as well as leading local brands such as Aguila, Castle, Miller Lite, Snow Tyskie and Club. SABMiller is also one of the world's largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products.
In the year ended 31 March 2012 the group reported EBITA of US$5,634 million and group revenue of US$31,388 million. SABMiller plc is listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges.
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This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy or acquire securities of SABMiller plc (the "Company") or any of its affiliates in any jurisdiction or an inducement to enter into investment activity.
This document includes "forward-looking statements". These statements may contain the words "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate", "expect" and words of similar meaning. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this announcement, including, without limitation, those regarding the Company's financial position, business strategy, plans and objectives of management for future operations (including development plans and objectives relating to the Company's products and services) are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on numerous assumptions regarding the Company's present and future business strategies and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future. These forward-looking statements speak only as at the date of this announcement. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Any information contained in this announcement on the price at which the Company's securities have been bought or sold in the past, or on the yield on such securities, should not be relied upon as a guide to future performance.
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A lot of the buzz around Merion on Tuesday had to do with Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia, and their first meeting since Garcia's comments at the BMW Championship. See what they had to say in their press conferences.
One of golf's biggest feuds might be officially over.
According to online reports, Sergio Garcia left a handwritten apology letter in Tiger Woods' locker for his fried chicken dinner joke three weeks ago. Although Garcia had apologized publicly, this is the first direct apology to Tiger Woods.
"Hopefully he can take a look at it and it's a big week and I understand that it's difficult to meet up and stuff," Sergio Garcia told reporters at the U.S. Open. "So hopefully I'll be able to do it. If not, at least he has read the note and he's happy with that."
Good for Sergio Garcia. It's about time these two settle this silly feud.
The real question here is will Tiger Woods actually read the letter. Something tells me he is more interested in winning a golf championship than reading about emotions and feelings.
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The best advice any one can give you is to locate the ejector basin on an area you do not plan on finishing that part of the basement for future service of the pump. The pumps are very nasty and dirty when you need to replace them. Also do NOT install it in a small tiny ass closet. Make sure there is enough room for a full grown 200+ pound man can get to the pump pit area to work on the said pump.
I had one where they closed of the area under a set of stairs. the cubby had a 2½' x 2½' foot access panel that I had to crawl through, and the space was only 4' x 4' square with a ceiling height of no more than 3½' tall. needless to say working on that pump was no fun. Oh yes forgot to mention the thick snow white shag carpet at the access panel.


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Twenty-eight-year-old Record Falls on Day One of Indiana Relays
Aisha Praugh breaks 28-year-old ISU record in the mile.
Indoor: Ran season-best 2:00.57 in the 800-meter run at the Indiana Relays (Jan. 27) ... ran a leg on the distance-medley relay that took eighth at the same meet with a time of 10:26.95.
Outdoor: Posted a personal-best performance in the 1,500-meter run at the ISU vs. SIU Dual (April 7), finishing fifth with a time of 4:16.43 ... ran a 1:56.73, 800-meter run at the Sea Ray Relays (April 11), finishing 18th.
Beecher High School: (Cross Country): Four-year letter winner ... three-time all-state runner ... helped team win state championship his senior season ... voted athlete of the year after his junior season. (Track): Four-year starter and letter winner ... ran a 1:56 800-meter run to win the state title during his junior campaign ... named Northeast Indiana Times Male Athlete of the Year ... won back-to-back state titles as a member of the 3,200-meter relay team ... qualified for the state meet in the 800-meter run during his sophomore season ... ran personal best marks of 1:54 in the 800-meter run and 4:23 in the 1,600-meter run.
Personal: Born 12/20/1992 ... son of Henry and Mindy Nykaza ... siblings are Garrett and Grant.


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A memorial service will be held Wednesday morning for a San Antonio police officer who died nearly three weeks after being hurt in a traffic accident while on duty.
A memorial for Officer Edrees Mukhtar will be held at 9 a.m. at Porter Loring Mortuary at 1001 McCollough Ave.
Mukhtar died Saturday from injuries he suffered in a traffic crash Dec. 10.
San Antonio Police Department officials said Mukhtar was responding to a non-emergency call when he hit a wet patch and lost control and hit an oncoming truck in the opposite lane.
The accident report cited a failure to control speed and failure to drive in a single lane as factors in the wreck.
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The government reached its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit on Dec. 31, but began using bookkeeping maneuvers to keep from surpassing it. In a letter to congressional leaders on Monday, Geithner says Treasury expects to exhaust those measures by mid-February to early March.
Geithner said he would provide a more precise estimate of when the government will reach that threshold once it moves closer to the deadline.


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On Wednesday night, I went out to play ultimate frisbee with one of my reporters and her friends. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, it can best be described as frisbee football. The rules are simple: the team in possession of the frisbee attempts to pass the disc to teammates until reaching the other team's end zone to score a point. The the first team to five wins. The game starts with a "kick off" (really a "throw off") and the game begins. The person who is throwing the frisbee can only take one step but must otherwise rotate on one foot (similar to basketball) and if the frisbee touches the ground, the other team takes possession.
The long and the short of it is that the game is a non-stop back and forth of running, throwing and catching. In my case it started that way but ended up with a lot of light jogging, panting and falling down. We started at 9 p.m. and for the first half hour or so I was fine ... but that was just the warm-up. Then we actually broke into teams and started playing. Adrenaline kept me going pretty well for a while and I tried to pace myself and slurp down some water from time to time to keep myself hydrated. In truth, I was doomed from the start.
First it was the shortness of breath, which I tried to alleviate by not running so hard. It helped, but it also helped the other team score points, which was fine because I was playing with a group of Mormons so everyone was ridiculously nice and non-competitive. Once I got my breathing under control, I got a really bad cramp in my side. At that point I thought my heart might literally tear its way out of my chest, flip me the bird and walk away.
That, too, passed, and I was able to go pretty well for a while. It felt great to be out running around and working my muscles, especially in a game at which I am pretty good. I have a history with that particular sport: In third grade, my class had a student teacher who played ultimate frisbee for his college team. He got our whole class into it and we'd play at recess. I discovered I had a knack for tossing a frisbee and it's a skill that has stuck all my life. I won't deny that it made me feel good when the people I played with on Wednesday noticed this and made sure to keep an eye on me during the game. This was especially nice since I have been a fantastic failure at every other sport I have ever played.
As the game went on I felt my legs start to get progressively weaker, but I trudged on. At every chance I would stretch to try and minimize the pain I knew I'd be feeling later. The breaking point came when every time I'd do anything more than walk briskly I'd lose my balance and fall. Fortunately, this usually happened when the frisbee was coming my way, so I could disguise it as either a diving catch or at least an attempted catch. Finally, at about 10:45 p.m. everyone else seemed pretty beat and we all let sweet gravity have its way with us. We were a mass of crumpled human exhaustion.
As I laid there on the grass, it occurred to me that it had been nearly a full decade since I had partaken of such physical exertion. In the spring of 1998, my last semester of college, I took weight lifting, physical conditioning and swimming classes — all in a row, twice a week. In the decade since, I have always done some exercising, but never to any kind of extreme. And, boy, was I sure feeling it.
As I got up to leave, the muscles at the tops of my legs were quivering. I had to literally lift my legs to get into my car. Even though I got home at 11:15 (way past my normal bed time) I went and sat in my hot tub to give my aching body a fighting chance. The moment I stepped into the hot water was the moment I got my money's worth out of that hunk of fiberglass and wiring. Despite my soak, the next three days were pretty grueling. It wasn't until Saturday that I could get up and down my stairs with any sense of normalcy.
The lactic acid had no doubt spilled from my muscles to my brain, but as it receded I got to thinking. Before I went and played I knew I was going to hurt the next day (or should I say days?) but I did it anyway. Why on earth would a rational person do that? Assuming I am a rational person, there must be some benefit to the pain. Maybe it's like a molting snake, shedding its skin to make way for a fresh layer. For me, the pain has been physically unpleasant but mentally satisfying, serving as a good reminder that I need to let my muscles fly and my heart pound on a regular basis.
If this is the case with my body, what about emotional pain? Is it good to experience sadness and stress to build up inner strength? Maybe the psyche needs to get sore from time to time to build up a tolerance. I have always been one to avoid conflict and discomfort in my personal and work relationships. But maybe we need to feel the pain from time to time, not to become calloused but to toughen up a bit.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go work out.
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As some of you know, this past labor day I set forth on completing one of my first major goals in this long journey of wellness; I ran my first foot race. That race was a 5k and it was an absolute blast! The problem was; it was addicting. I think I was looking for another race shortly after getting back home that fateful day. After a bit of googling, I came across the Twilight Trail Run at Koteewi Park in Strawtown, IN. It was close to home at a mere 20 minutes away and it raised money for one of my favorite things; state and local parks!
Having never set foot in Koteewi park, I was a bit excited to see what they had to offer. My family enjoys hiking and partaking in the various state parks, so this was a good opportunity for some scouting of the area. Plus, the race was labeled as a 'trail run' which I've been dying to try out in earnest for some time. When I arrived, I felt quite at home to see the rolling prairies that made up the park as well as many well groomed foot paths that led deep into the surrounding woods. It seemed form the start that this would be a good introduction to trail running for me as it wasn't going to be too technical nor would it be too easy such as the foot paths back in my subdivision.
The race offered two categories; a 5 mile competitive run and a 2.25 mile fun run. This was a decision that I agonized over for a full week before registering. I've run up to 5.5 miles several times before, so I wasn't too worried about the 5 mile distance in and of itself. Here recently, I've started strength training three times a week which includes squats. At the same time, my running speeds have increased DRASTICALLY! All of sudden, I"m clocking 3.7 mile runs at 11:54 min/mile! This new found speed was untested at the 5 mile mark out however. The problem was that the race info stated specifically that this race was a competitive race with a minimum pace of 13 min/mile. My best 5 mile time was about 13:34. So, not knowing ahead of time how technical or hilly this trail was going to be, nor the consequences of dipping below the 13 minute pace, I opted to try out my new found speed and went with the sure bet of the 2.25 mile race.
At my first race on labor day, I was nothing but nerves, worrying if I was going to be able to run the whole course, would I set out too fast, would I look like an idiot. For this race, those first run jitters were gone and I was pretty calm and confident. I run a good 3 miles a day so 2.25 miles was nothing really. Plus, the course didn't look too daunting, so I was ready to go. The weather was cool and the sky was clear, so it was a perfect evening for a run. The pacemaker gathered the group and walked us into the woods a fair clip to the starting line and from there, gave us a simple 'ready, set, go' and we were on our way.
The trails were flat and relatively dry which was surprising after the pop up thunderstorms the night before, so the run started off well. I always drift to the back of the pack to avoid being in the way of any of the faster runners, so I started out with the walkers. I didn't remain there for long though. I found my pace and as we rounded the trail into the first stretch through the prairies, I was churning away and feeling good. The course was actually quite lovely, understated in the race literature. We wove in and out of the woods, through tall prairie grasses, back into the shade of overhanging trees and ran along the White River as well.
For the first mile, I round myself running with an older gentleman who shared in a few laughs with me as the younger kids would sprint past us and we would eventually pass them by panting on the edge of the course. The crowds were spread out well so there wasn't too much congestion to worry about, so we made good time. As we entered the woods at the half mile mark, he opted to walk to let his heart rate settled and I pressed on on my own. Soon, the water station at the 1 mile mark was upon us and the 5 mile runners set left and I was guided straight ahead, to where I ran the remainder of the race by myself.
The final 1.25 mile was a long looping course that spent the entirety of its time in the tall grasses. Towards the end, the 5 mile course converged again for a short while, and then veered off for their final leg up a long grassy hill. Myself, I proceeded on for a good quarter mile around one last stand woods to enter from the back side of the race. Up until this point, my experience at the Inaugural Twilight Trail Run was pretty stellar, but as I came to the end it became apparent that the race organizers didn't really give a crap about the out come of the fun run as we were pointed around one last bend and told 'run that way, watch out for truck'. We came out of the woods, up a small hill to face the back side of the finish line where nobody was there to tell us if we were done, where to go, good job or even 'get out of the way'. It was okay though, I crossed the finish line on my own accord and that was that.
The redeeming factor of this forgotten finish? When I looked at the finish time as I crossed, I had to do a double take. During my run I had felt like I was fighting for breath quite a few times and felt a bit more fatigued as usual. I figured it was because I was unaccustomed to evening runs and maybe the course was a bit hillier than I had originally thought. But now, I had finished my 2.25 fun run in 22 minutes which according to Runkeeper was a 9:47 pace. I've been struggling hitting a 12 minute pace for some time! A 9:47 pace was enough to make me not care at all about the sloppy finish line! To top it off, when I finished none of the 5 milers were back yet and I spotted one other person with a big on waiting for the race to end. Though not official by any means, judging from the sole runner at the finish and my time of 22 minutes? I think I may have actually finished second in that fun run!
In the end, I loved my time at the Koteewi Park Trail Run! It was a great evening for a run and once again, it was a blast getting out there with a lot of other people and getting caught up in the excitement of it all. Soon thereafter, I left to go out to dinner with the family as it was my scheduled cheat night on my diet and I just ran a race, so bring on the food! I'll be back for the 2nd annual Twilight Trail Run for sure and I'll just hope for a tighter run ship at the finish line. Then again, next time I'll be running the 5 mile race for sure, so it won't be quite the same problem by then.
In case you're wondering, I do indeed have the running bug. My next race is going to be the 4.5 mile Drumstick Dash in Broadripple, IN on Thanksgiving morning, should our family schedule allow it.


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I have never known what to do with this day. Taking it too seriously is a recipe for disappointment, but ignoring it completely smacks of bitterness. It's been a dilemma -– until now. Enter the WORN JOURNAL HEARTBREAK KARAOKE PARTY at the Cameron House.
This night promises some pretty good stuff. There are goodies and gift bags (early birds get the bags), contests, prizes. There's even a Valentine Card Delivery service – but best of all, there's a karaoke song list that's all about The Love.
Are you all out of love? Is there only pain by the dashboard light? Thought you were falling in love, but now you're only falling apart? Belt it out in front of a room full of tipsy strangers; you'll probably feel better. Or worse. Actually, sometimes feeling worse makes you feel better, too. If you're really terrible, you'll just make everyone else feel worse, which can be very satisfying as well…
Besides, if that day comes and you find you don't have anyone to kiss – just share a microphone with a hundred people. It'll be like kissing everybody.
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