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"We're on the 10th and 11th floor of a corporate high rise on Poydras Ave., right near St. Charles. We have generators and tons of food and water. It is five of us total. I am not sure how the Internet connection will be affected. I have a camera and my gun. Sustained winds are 175, gusts to 215. The real danger is not the wind, it's the storm surge the wind will be pushing into the city from the Gulf through the lake. The city might never recover. Honestly, this thing could be biblical"
That online diary, or weblog, entry was posted about noon on Sunday, Aug. 28, by Michael Barnett, a former Green Beret and business consultant to Intercosmos Media Group, the parent company of domain registrar DirectNIC and Zipa.com, a Web host. Barnett, a lifelong friend of Intercosmos chief executive officer Sigmund Solares, was holed up with his girlfriend Crystal Coleman in a data center in New Orleans' Central Business District, an alleged safe place to ride out Hurricane Katrina. Solares hired Barnett as crisis manager for the storm.
Barnett updated his blog during the nation's greatest natural disaster, as wind, rain, floods, looting and death engulfed one of America's most beloved cities. Research firm Economy.com expects economic losses of $125 billion.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, New Orleans is home to 30,262 businesses, including little-known companies like Intercosmos and well-known ones such as vacuum cleaner manufacturer Oreck Corp. The storm tested both companies' business continuity strategies.
Intercosmos' plan: Back up critical data from its New Orleans data center remotely, but, because of cost, gamble with half a terabyte of Web content from thousands of free hosting accounts bundled with DirectNIC.
Oreck's plan: Move operations from its headquarters and data center in New Orleans to its Long Beach, Miss., manufacturing and call center facility, and vice versa. These operations would be supplemented by a backup data center in Boulder, Colo., and a call center in Denver. Oreck didn't plan on both its New Orleans and Long Beach facilities taking a hit.
The lesson: Plan for a worst-case scenario, but remember that disasters have the potential to exceed expectations.
Here is an account of how these two companies struggled to keep their businesses, people and technology running before and after Katrina blew apart the Gulf Coast. The efforts stress the importance of backing up key data and people in dispersed locations, of being able to strip your company down to its essentials, and of having a staff that can improvise even as the best-laid plans go awry.
Aug. 27, 28: Katrina builds in the Gulf of Mexico and becomes a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 175 mph.
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Intercosmos moves some critical functions such as DirectNIC name servers, which are required to keep its clients' domain names functioning, to backup locations in Florida and Atlanta.
CEO Solares, however, keeps half a terabyte of customer and Web content data in New Orleans. That data—supporting the free, basic Web sites customers get with their $15 domain registration—could be restored from backup tapes, if necessary, but at the low prices DirectNIC charges, it can't afford full redundancy. Besides, these customers don't get the same guarantees as if they were paying for their sites through Zipa.com, the company's Web hosting subsidiary.
Still, to protect the company's reputation with its customers, he wants to keep sites online.
Meanwhile, Oreck backs up its last eight hours of activity—invoices, manufacturing requests and shipment information—on tapes to be loaded on its IBM AS/400 mainframes in Boulder. Oreck CEO Tom Oreck, the 54-year-old son of company founder David Oreck, takes the tapes to Houston and sends them to Boulder via Federal Express.
CEO Oreck then launches the company's contingency plan, which transfers the company's call center to Denver, a site that takes call overflow from its Long Beach call center. Oreck employees take all the data and documents—customer data, shipping destinations and inventory information—the company would need to restart later.
Story Guide:
Diary of Disaster: Riding Out Katrina in the Data Center
- Katrina Arrives
- Witnessing Chaos
- New Orleans Stabilizes; Temporary Refuge; Evacuations Continue
- Postscript: Preparing for Next Time
- Disaster Planning: How Much Makes Cents?
- When Evacuation's Not an Option
Aug. 29: Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans at 6 a.m. Central Daylight Time, packing Category 4 winds between 131 and 150 miles per hour.
"I'm no meteorologist, but it looks to me like this storm is falling apart fast as it hits land."
Barnett's post at 4:20 a.m. on the day Katrina makes landfall shows how the Big Easy exhaled as Katrina veered away from the heart of New Orleans. Barnett was optimistic. "When you look at the damage New Orleans sustained vs. what we were told to expect, you're left with the impression that they will never be able to talk anyone into evacuating again," he writes in his blog.
By 9:30 a.m., though, DirectNIC has lost power amid hurricane-shattered windows. With rain whipping through the windows, Solares uses
T-shirts from a failed business venture to keep water from seeping under the doors of the server room.
Over at Oreck, executives are operating out of a Houston hotel room. At the company's Boulder site, Oreck employees are loading backup tapes with the data that will be used to fulfill orders at the Long Beach site—assuming it is functional. The company's call center in Denver is also operational. Oreck gets early reports from Long Beach. "Long Beach was devastated all around the plant," Oreck says. "Whole neighborhoods were gone. There were propane tanks from houses in trees."
The destruction at Long Beach meant the linchpin of Oreck's disaster recover plan—the 76 miles between Long Beach and New Orleans—was gone. "I don't think any of us anticipated a single storm taking out both locations," Oreck says.
In hindsight, it's clear that Oreck's facilities weren't far enough apart, but companies have to balance the reality of getting workers to a location versus distance, says Dave Luce, president of the Society for Information Management, a national organization of chief information officers, and CIO of the Rockefeller Group, a real estate operating company based in New York. After Sept. 11, Luce's company created a co-location center 25 miles away in New Jersey. "We wanted it outside New York City but still be accessible to our workforce," Luce says. "You could argue 25 miles is too close, but disaster recovery isn't scientific."
Aug. 30: New Orleans' levees between the 17th Street Canal leading to Lake Pontchartrain break, flooding the southern and western parts of downtown.
"The infrastructure required to maintain a city is down," Barnett reports. "It could be a long time before it's back up. There will be too many people fighting for exceptionally scarce resources. It's one of those situations where you need A in order to fix B, but you can't do A until C happens and C can't happen until B is finished."
New Orleans is flooded. DirectNIC's data center is still dry, but so is the plumbing. With no running water, Barnett uses his Army training to institute water conservation and emergency hygiene measures. He admits he "never trained for the total collapse of civilization."
Barnett's biggest concern: stretching the capacity of the data center's diesel generators, which requires moving and dumping 55-gallon drums of diesel all day. DirectNIC has 10 days of fuel, but Barnett wonders if it will last. Another issue: safety. Just before midnight, the DirectNIC team blocks building entrances to deter looters.
In Houston, Tom Oreck sees New Orleans' levees break on television and knows a quick return to headquarters is unlikely. "We knew then it was not a matter of days, but a matter of months," he says.
The news from the Long Beach facility, about a mile and a half from the beach, was better. An employee got into the 375,000-square-foot plant to find it "damaged but intact and fixable," Oreck says. The sign on the front of the building is gone, but overall the factory shows few signs of damage. Across the railroad tracks toward the beach, homes were swept off their foundations.
This day required two tasks for Oreck.
First, find employees since 30% of Oreck's workers have lost their homes. The company has accounted for all but 100 of its 1,500 employees. To find the missing, Oreck sets up an 800 number and rudimentary Web site to collect employee locations. "Finding our people was the most important piece," Oreck says. "People need shelter, food, water and help with insurance claims to help them move toward normalcy. Good business, its systems and facilities are the result of good people."
Second, Oreck had to boil the company down to its most critical functions. "We had to look at this business from a fundamental 40,000-foot view," he explains. "What did we need to continue?"
The answer: Manufacturing capability, distribution, a call center and the back office operations, notably human resources, payroll and accounts payable and receivable. The computer systems given priority were the ones tied to those functions—call center operations in Denver, accounting and human resources in Dallas, and supply chain systems in Boulder. Project teams of three to five people were assigned to the categories.
Direct sales through Oreck's Web site were shut down in favor of support for the company's 450 retail stores. Point-of-sale systems in company-owned stores were shut down in favor of paper receipts, and a planned consolidation of those systems across company-owned and franchised stores was put off. And a move from a supply chain system installed in 1997 to SAP for Retail was delayed.
Story Guide:
Diary of Disaster: Riding Out Katrina in the Data Center
- Katrina Arrives
- Witnessing Chaos
- New Orleans Stabilizes; Temporary Refuge; Evacuations Continue
- Postscript: Preparing for Next Time
- Disaster Planning: How Much Makes Cents?
- When Evacuation's Not an Option
Aug. 31: Looting becomes rampant in New Orleans.
"Right now we're trying to show you all the looting," Barnett reports, providing some narration to go with the video he's broadcasting via Webcam. "Guys pushing shopping carts with 40 Nike boxes in them. People breaking into cars. Assaulting ATM machines. It's hard just to sit by and do nothing."
Barnett manages to reduce the draw on the generator from 30% capacity to 20%. The DirectNIC team answers a call for help from another nearby firm that wants to get access to the data on its servers. The data center team fetches the other company's servers, powers them up and assists with a 40-gigabyte download of corporate data. In return, they get 25 gallons of bottled water and assorted cleaning supplies.
Meanwhile, Oreck's project teams have to plan to start a Long Beach plant with no electricity, no generators and no infrastructure to distribute vacuum cleaners, air purifiers and cleaning products. First, Oreck corrals generators for power and trailers for employees, but still can't print out bar codes, track orders and ship its products without network connections.
To help with logistics, it calls United Parcel Service. Oreck, a longtime customer of UPS for shipping, needs help printing bar codes, picking order tickets and distributing products as if they came from the Long Beach plant.
After consulting with the company's UPS account representative, Richard Behrendt, and other UPS executives, Oreck agrees on a fix. The plan: Allow UPS to tap into Oreck's mainframe systems in Boulder to grab orders and serial numbers and print them out in Atlanta. This information would be attached to products manufactured in Long Beach. UPS would truck in food and water for employees and then leave with Oreck products from UPS' Atlanta facility.
Such an arrangement typically takes six to eight weeks, but Oreck wants to start the Long Beach site by Sept. 9, or five work days. UPS doesn't know Oreck's supply chain system and needs to find people internally who can navigate "green screens" and mainframes. Oreck's mainframe-based supply chain system lacks a manual and customized function keys. Two Oreck employees train the UPS teams on using special commands to hop from one screen, say, pick ticket, to another, such as shipping destination. Labor is taken from other UPS shifts and temporary workers.
Sept. 1: Conditions in the city unravel as police are overwhelmed.
"The coroner's office is shut down so bodies are being covered in leaves at best or left where they lie at worst. Until we get a military presence of significance in the city, the roving gangs of thugs own the streets."
An exhausted New Orleans police officer takes shelter in the DirectNIC offices. The police command and control structure is so shot that the officer didn't know New Orleans is under martial law.
At 9 a.m., Barnett reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the city will permit DirectNIC to get diesel shipped in if someone can deliver it. By 10:30 a.m., a fuel truck is waiting downstairs. The problem? The truck arrives before the data center team can get the fuel drums downstairs. The driver leaves.
At this juncture, DirectNIC 's high-speed Internet connections are failing as backup power for telecommunications substations around the city fades, making it necessary for DirectNIC to ditch some Web sites and services. One casualty: Something Awful, a humor Web site, which is hosted at rock-bottom rates and consumes too much bandwidth. When he took on the account, Solares cut a deal that allows for the site to be dropped in a crisis.
Outside, the situation worsens. Dead bodies in the streets and disorganized relief efforts prompt Barnett to send a distress signal: "In case anyone in national security is reading this, get the word to President Bush that we need the military in here NOW. The city is being lost .... We need the kind of logistical support and infrastructure only the Active Duty military can provide."
That afternoon, the diesel delivery succeeds on the second try. Solares tries to contact his company's telecommunications providers, BellSouth and TelCove, to revive connections. Meanwhile, Barnett and Solares wade through filthy water to supply City Hall with an Internet router for emergency communications.
That night, Solares tries to contact employees now working remotely to say he plans to pay them whatever they earned in their last pay period, whether they've worked or not. However, Solares can't reach the accounting staffers responsible for payroll.
For Oreck, the next four days are spent procuring trailers for homeless employees, lining up generators for its Long Beach plant and finding its workers. CEO Oreck commutes between his Houston hotel room and the company's temporary facility in Dallas.
Sept. 2: Military arrives in New Orleans to bring aid and restore order.
"This place is completely coming apart. The hopelessness on the street breaks the heart. The old, the tired, the sick seem resigned to their presumed fate. Death."
Looking down on New Orleans from the roof, 27 stories above the ground, Barnett senses the city will never be the same. He also doesn't like the way "stressed-out, trigger-ready police and military types" look at him while he's waiting for a fuel delivery.
Noah Lieske, a co-owner of Intercosmos, adds a blog post requesting a place for 55 people to work temporarily, ideally with 6,000 to 8,000 square feet of office space and a data center nearby.
Meanwhile, Oreck is on the move. With Oreck's New Orleans location inoperable for an undetermined time, executives and workers representing technology, payroll and human resources populate a 20,000-square-foot IBM disaster recovery site in Dallas with 100 workstations. CEO Tom Oreck, a longtime IBM customer, procured the space after the levees broke in New Orleans, but hopes the company's stay doesn't last too long.
"We're fully functional there, but it is close quarters and there's only so long we can do that," Oreck says. "If we can get back to our facility in the next 60 to 90 days, we'll be OK. If longer, we'll have to find other arrangements in Dallas or Houston—temporary sites for the longer term." 8
Story Guide:
Diary of Disaster: Riding Out Katrina in the Data Center
- Katrina Arrives
- Witnessing Chaos
- New Orleans Stabilizes; Temporary Refuge; Evacuations Continue
- Postscript: Preparing for Next Time
- Disaster Planning: How Much Makes Cents?
- When Evacuation's Not an Option
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Sept. 2 to 5: New Orleans stabilizes. Evacuations continue.
"The government is never equipped to handle a crisis like this. There's too much bureaucracy —initiative-stifling bureaucracy, which prevents swift, effective action."
It's Labor Day weekend, and DirectNIC is down to the last of its four high-speed Internet connections from TelCove, which isn't sure it can get enough diesel fuel to its generators before the connection drops.
With the help of Brian Acosta of I-55.com, DirectNIC's Internet service provider, the company helps TelCove get its fuel and restore two other Internet connections before the end of the day. Web sites that were temporarily dropped get brought back online.
Solares works with the city government and police to help those agencies communicate. The city has been using voice-over-Internet protocol phones, and he's offering equipment and expertise.
By Labor Day, all four of DirectNIC's Internet connections are online, putting the company solidly back in business, even though it's still running on generator power. Other buildings in the Central Business District are starting to get back power.
For Oreck, generators and trailers are secured as the company plans for a plant reopening on Sept. 9.
Sept. 6: Evacuations finish. Water in the city begins to recede.
"Man, it would be nice not to have to haul diesel anymore."
Barnett is making plans to pull servers from the Pan Am Life building across the street and get them online so Pan Am can download data to a backup location. DirectNIC's staff has already secured servers for other businesses in the area, bartering this service for water and other supplies.
Labor Day weekend is over, and the folks at Oreck and UPS are relieved. The long weekend stalled Oreck's efforts to truck its generators to its facilities, not to mention the trailers to house some of its homeless employees in Long Beach.
UPS managers go to Long Beach to get some of Oreck's equipment, notably the configured Zebra Technologies printers to create bar codes in the vacuum cleaner company's format. UPS also has to install electric wiring, network connections and lighting in a vacant area of the parcel company's Atlanta facility to absorb Oreck's shipments.
UPS delivers food and water to Oreck, which then fills the truck with orders that lack bar codes and serial numbers. UPS gets a pallet of products, say, air purifiers. From there, workers take apart the pallet and create a pick ticket or directions to bundle orders scheduled for a destination, such as Langhorne, Pa. An invoice is then recorded and shipped. Data is recorded manually into the Oreck mainframe in Boulder so customers can receive tracking information from call center representatives. "I've been the project manager for a lot of projects," says John Bunker, client solutions manager for the eastern district of UPS Supply Chain Solutions. "But this one was not much about planning, just executing."
Twenty-four to 30 trucks would make trips from Atlanta to Long Beach between Sept. 6 and 9, according to Behrendt.
Sept. 7 to 8: New Orleans calms, becomes a military town.
"If you want to play soldier with me, I will make you play it a lot longer than you had in mind."
Sometime after midnight on Sept. 8, a squad of 82nd Airborne soldiers accompanied by a U.S. Marshal bust into Intercosmos' data center, saying they're investigating lights and movement in the building. Annoyed at the intrusion, Barnett tells them that if they think there are intruders, they'd better check the building from top to bottom. His reward: Knowing that the building has been inspected, he gets his best sleep in weeks.
In the morning, Coleman leaves along with Solares and Donny Simonton, a senior vice president and technology manager. They're replaced by three fresh employees, while Solares scouts for new office locations.
Meanwhile, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has issued a mandatory evacuation order, but the DirectNIC people think they're exempt until told otherwise.
At Long Beach, Oreck ships products that were ordered before Katrina hit but never distributed. Employees reappear at the plant, which is gearing up for an opening ceremony with a cookout and appearance from Mississippi. Gov. Haley Barbour.
Sept. 9: New Orleans improves, but much of the city is still under water.
"I work well alone or in a group, I am self-motivated, I am an idea man, I pay attention to detail, and I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty."
Barnett, still working at the DirectNIC site, is looking for another gig. In the next few days, he hopes to stop hauling diesel and fretting about generator maintenance.
Oreck opens its Long Beach facility. Although the plant opens, it's not the same. The roof leaks. Information systems remain out due to a lack of communications infrastructure, and just two of five manufacturing lines are open. Oreck is manufacturing, shipping and receiving with pen and paper rather than computers driving processes. Power is back on but the phone lines are still down, leaving the factory cut off from its Dallas data center.
Electronic communication with the outside world has been reduced to executives calling suppliers from beneath the crumpled metal canopy of an outside break area, the spot where cell phone reception is best. Oreck supply chain director Candi Mauffray, however, says the factory is getting by, with 300 of 500 employees and 80% of the salaried staff back at work. "The one thing we don't have is systems," she says.
Indeed, at a Langhorne, Pa., company-owned Oreck outlet, the following sign sits at the checkout counter: "Please note our computer system is 'down' indefinitely. This is due to the fact that Oreck's corporate offices are located in New Orleans, La. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we provide written receipts."
Story Guide:
Diary of Disaster: Riding Out Katrina in the Data Center
- Katrina Arrives
- Witnessing Chaos
- New Orleans Stabilizes; Temporary Refuge; Evacuations Continue
- Postscript: Preparing for Next Time
- Disaster Planning: How Much Makes Cents?
- When Evacuation's Not an Option
"Our building got power right at noon central time, and we had to manually reset the generator and get power to switch from the batteries to the city grid. That took about 5 minutes. NO MORE DIESEL DUTY."
On Sept. 12, DirectNIC got its power back, but it remains to be seen what happens to the company's location. Solares plans to keep the New Orleans data center running with a skeleton crew because he has favorable lease terms. Whether the company headquarters will come back is another question, though. At the least, Solares says he'll need better backup capability elsewhere.
On Sept. 14, cleanup crews at Oreck's Long Beach plant battle mold from storm water. Oreck's Web site is now running again, but there are two- to three-week delays on Oreck.com orders. The main challenge for Oreck is communications. BellSouth cannot give a timeline on laying the lines it needs to restore communications.
CEO Oreck is looking at other temporary locations for his facilities in Dallas in case the company can't move back to New Orleans quickly. For Oreck, the company's return to New Orleans is a matter of when, not if. "The only reason we wouldn't go back is if New Orleans was a dead city," he says. "Short of that, New Orleans is our home and where our families are. I never seriously considered not coming back."
Meanwhile, New Orleans suffered additional flooding on Sept. 24 from Hurricane Rita, a Category 3 storm, that hit the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
Katrina and Rita didn't just wipe out data centers; they wiped out a lot of disaster plans, too. Check out:
Lessons Learned
No matter what the disaster, there are common items that shouldbe in business continuity plans.
Here are Katrina's lessons.
PEOPLE FIRST. The first effort should be focused on locating your employees and ensuring their safety.
DISTANCE MATTERS. Put your backup data center in a locale far enough away from your primary center to ensure continuity, but close enough to get employees there.
PRIORITIZE YOUR BUSINESS. Focus on the information systems that matter most, such as customer support and manufacturing.
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. No matter how well documented your business
Continuity plan, the disaster is likely to throw you an unexpected curveball. Account for the worst possible scenario.
While few companies have said they will permanently leave New Orleans, some firms, such as Ruth's Chris Steak House, won't return.
What to Consider:
Plans Already in the Works. On Sept. 6, Ruth's Chris Steak House, founded in 1965 by New Orleans native Ruth Fertel, said it was permanently relocating to Orlando, Fla., from Metairie, La., a New Orleans suburb. But in the company's Aug. 10 initial public offering prospectus, the company said it expected to relocate corporate headquarters to a new facility "within the next 24 months."
Replacing Workers Who Won't Move. Ruth's Chris CEO Craig Miller said 60% of
its workers at headquarters accepted relocation packages to Florida and 40%, mostly clerical and accounting workers, declined. Factor in whether you could replace skilled workers before making a move.
Incentives to Stay Put. To be sure, tax incentives are a big component of any decision.
New York City and the state of New York are still offering tax write-offs to companies that relocate to the World Trade Center area following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Calculate: How Much Would It Cost You to Move Your Data Center?
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Have not used it yet since it only works with snow! Will take to mountains soon and have a great time hurling snowballs at my friends! I am writing this for a friend, as it was a gift for him. He was thrilled when he received it for his 67th birthday.
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The shortest day of the year and the official start of winter, Winter Solstice is when the sun reaches its most southern point in the sky at noon. After that, the days start getting longer!
According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the earliest winter since 1896, arrived this morning with the solstice at 6:12, Dec. 21, 2012. The word solstice comes from the Latin words for "sun" and "to stand still," according to www.almanac.com.
Cultures throughout the Northern Hemisphere have long celebrated the solstice with festivals, gatherings or rituals - as a time for reflection, rebirth and feasting - not unlike some Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations.
Ancient peoples slaughtered cattle and feasted to save feeding them during the leanest months of the year, it's been reported.
The sparkling lights with which people decorate their homes during the Christmas holiday season, also had ancient roots, according to Huffington Post blogger Nancy Rubin Stuart.
"Primitive man reacted to winter's long nights by lighting bonfires in their villages and illuminating their homes with oil lamps."
Some people "maintained fires until the holiday was over, extinguishing them to symbolize the end of troubles from the old year," wrote Stuart.
Here's how a few local residents observe the winter solstice:
• Ramona Winkeller, operations manager at KAFM community radio, said she lights candles, and ceremonially reflects back on what she is grateful for.
"First, I celebrate all the wonderful things of the past year. Then, I write down on little pieces of paper, what I want to leave behind, and not carry into the new year."
She burns those papers in a fire, and blesses them for the lessons learned, she said.
"Then, I set intentions for what I want to create in the upcoming new year; and then I go back to gratitude."
• The winter solstice is doubly special for writer Sandy Dorr and her family, as it often falls on her daughter's birthday.
"We light candles throughout the house and make a French buche de noel - a delicate chocolate cake that looks like Yule logs for the big fires that were held on the solstice and Christmas in France," Dorr said.
• Art gallery owner Caole Lowry has celebrated the solstice for many years with a potluck supper and gathering around a bonfire at her home.
"It's really the end of the year for me. I like to welcome the sun, return of the light. As the longest night, it's a time for contemplation, a metaphor for the dark night of the soul.
"This year I've invited everyone to bring a candle we'll light by the fire. Guests are also invited to write down on a slip of paper something they want to let go, as well as something they wish to create in their life.
"We put it in the fire as a prayer," Lowry said.
• Grand Junction resident Scott Troy observes the solstice with a "cleaning ritual" taught to him years ago, he said.
He soaks in a bathtub or hot tub, and reflects on what's occurred - both good and bad over the past year, he said.
Then, he showers off what he wants to let go of. Then, it's time for another soak where he focuses on what he hopes to accomplish in the coming new year - and that seals it until the next solstice, Troy said.
• Each year the Unitarian Universalist Church holds a solstice ceremony, with rituals that differ each year. Last year Fruita astronomer Danny Rosen gave a multimedia presentation on the universe. The church gathering usually includes soup and baked goods.
• Wedding officiant Marc Foster said for many years the winter solstice was simply a good excuse to have a party. He'd light a big bonfire, serve chili, and there would be music and dancing.
"I'm a casual observer of the solstice," he said. "I always track it, celebrate in some way."
This year, Foster said he and his wife are going to Glade Park for some quiet time.
• Mesa County Libraries director Eve Tallman said: "I don't celebrate in a way that you'd notice...I just breathe a huge sigh of relief that the days will start to grow longer on the day after solstice! In this way, it's one of my favorite days of the year."


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A person or persons who wear Glasgow celtic tops, bum fluff mustaches and smell quite badly.
Hey mate did ya see that wee fenian?
od uživatele Anonymous 15. Květen 2003
Fenian: A word originally used to describe an Irish Warrior. However, it is now mainly used as a derogatory slang term to offend Catholics living in Northern Ireland. The word is used by the Protestant community in Northern Ireland mainly, however it is also common in the Protestant community of Scotland. The word is the Celtic word that was used to describe Warriors in Ireland and farmers.
Protestant: You're are a dirty little Fenian bastard!
Catholic: Thank you very much for calling me a warrior sir.
Catholic: Thank you very much for calling me a warrior sir.
od uživatele The self aggrandizing one 07. Prosinec 2013
a fenian is an Irish Catholic. loyal to the pope and disloyal to the queen and sovereign. decided to uprise in 1916 WHILST britain was at war with germany...what an honourable thing to do. also support celtic, because they think the times are changing for the club..infact until they can match over 50 titles they can keep trying because they have a good 20years left of the stuff. normally loyal to the IRA, responsible for killing man of our british citizens and young vulnerable children and pregant women as the Omagh bombing showed.
A: hey look theres a fenian coming towards
B: hide your rings and take cover
B: hide your rings and take cover
od uživatele Josh Bartholomew 17. Prosinec 2006
Derogatory term used to offend Roman Catholics.Normally used by protestants whom do not know enough about their own history to make a fair judgement . They will say that Catholics are smelly , ugly etc.They will blame them for he IRA etc terrorist groups .The IRA fought for Irish republicans against the British army who treated them as second class citizens merely because they are of a different faith. If you look close enough the faiths are practically the same the only main differences are that Catholics believe more of the books of the bible. All in all it was the British armies fault.If they had not attacked the republic of Ireland the IRA etc would not have started therefore no 600 year war resulting in thousands of deaths.
Man 1 :Dirty fenian Bastard
Man2: And proud i am to be
Man2: And proud i am to be
od uživatele Littlegirllookingforjustice 31. Březen 2010
The term originated in the US (1860s) and refers to the members of the American branch/chapter of the Irish Republican Brotherhood founded in Ireland. For Irish-Americans, the term signifies respect, loyalty and love for ones heritage. It is the highest honor for an Irish-American to be referred to as a Fenian or a "Fenian Son".
He's no Plastic Paddy, he's a real Fenian Son.
od uživatele JJ Smith 07. Únor 2008
Supporter of terrorism, hater of Protestants and anything British, supports Celtic, disrupts minutes silence to 9/11 by singing songs, racist, smelly and cowardly.
That man has planted a bomb!
He's probably a fenian trying to kill women and children!
He's probably a fenian trying to kill women and children!
od uživatele Sean O'Reilly 19. Duben 2005
blacknecks who swarm to the giro q at every given oppurtunity.
that wee fenian needs a wash
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After 5 minutes of use I heard "Thank you Grandma! This is the best gift ever!" I purchased two of these to be shared by my three younger grandchildren when they are at my house twice a week. Even the 5-year-old was very quickly proficient and was soon fearlessly flying down the hill, then hitting the brake so he would 'drift'. After just one day of endless fun, I ordered a third scooter so each child would have one. We've only used them on snow, so I can't speak to the wheel attachments, but the snow skis are really wonderful. It may be difficult to keep the adults off of them. You should make some for people over 140 pounds.
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Because of its versatility and being easily portable my grandchildren 12 and 8 will use it year round snow or sun. It can be brought to their weekend home in the mountains to use on the snow covered hills or on their driveway or sidewalks in town at home. It seemed to be a fun product which they were thrilled to receive.It was shipped quickly and I received all the items in good condition. The shipping charges were a bargain too.
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I bought 2 for twin grandsons for Christmas. Our snow has all melted so we put the wheels on. The first one took a while but the second one was a snapLooking forward to more snow and putting the skis back on.
Our 11 year old grandson loved the ski's
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To use the ski feature you need about 3" or more of snow because putting weight on the runners make it unusable on driveways. He loved the idea of changing into wheels in the summer. He enjoys using mechanics to work, ie. changing the sled feature to wheels.
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Multiblitz Profilux Backpack Kit: Monolights To Go
If you're looking for European build quality at a reasonable price, Multiblitz's series of Profilux monolights are a good place to start. Built in Germany, the two Profilux models—250 and 500 watt second versions—are the perfect tool for the serious amateur or established professional and feature fast recycling times, short flash durations, and consistent color temperatures. The Profilux 250 has a five-stop power range that's adjustable in 1/10-stop increments with a modeling lamp that delivers an expected service life of 2000 hours. The Profilux 500 delivers all of the same features as the 250 but with twice the output power.
For this test Multiblitz loaned me their Profilux Backpack Kit ($1299) that includes two Profilux 250 monolights along with a red sync cable, power cables, flash tubes, protection caps, and Pyrex protective flash tube covers. Also included are two 28" umbrellas, two air-cushioned light stands, and a backpack to carry it all. The umbrellas have a white reflective lining and black fabric backing to prevent light loss, making them more efficient but precluding the ability to use them in shoot-through mode.
The Multiblitz backpack is well made and has a pouch for storing the umbrellas and light stands and padded partitions for both monolights. Unlike cases included in some lighting kits, there are lots of extra pockets for accessories; it's built to a standard, not a price point. That standard is to provide the best engineered and lightweight components. When fully loaded with gear the whole megillah weighs less than 30 lbs.
The back of the monolights have a series of soft-touch control buttons with a big easy-to-spin power dial and a bright LED display showing the range of power selected in stops from one to five. Going clockwise from the upper right-hand side, there's a button—all are identical in size and shape—to turn on the optical slave. Next, there's one for power followed by the modeling light on/off control. The next button sets the modeling light in proportional mode or turns the light up to 100 percent, which can be important to the speed of your camera's autofocus if your studio has low ambient light, like mine.
Next, you'll find a button that allows you to either dim the modeling light for recycle or produce an audio beep. Because I am a belt-and-braces kind of shooter, I kept one Profilux set to "dim on recycle" and the other to beep. That way I get both audio and video cues for recycle, but the system gives you the flexibility to set it up however you prefer. The inevitable "test" button wraps up the Profilux's controls. Sync jack? It's not on the monolight's back. Instead you'll find it on the side of the Profilux near the light stand mount. Odd? Yes, but no more unusual than where Porsche places the ignition switch on its cars, so maybe it's the German design philosophy.
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Typically, the Profilux Backpack Kit includes two Profilux 250 monolights but to give me a feel for the two different models that are available Multiblitz USA provided the kit with a Profilux 250 and a Profilux 500. After all, Multiblitz offers the Profilux monolights à la carte as well as in kit form. Setting up the kit was the fastest of all recently tested lighting kits. Part of that speedy set up has to do with the use of umbrellas (instead of light banks) that just pop open, but the other part is how well all the components have been designed to work together. This is not just a bunch of gear dropped into a generic case; it was designed to fit in a custom backpack and work together easily after unpacking. And don't the Profilux 250 and 500 monolights look like something produced by the Porsche design studios? I think so.
That ease of set up carried over into actual use. Shortly after the Profilux Backpack Kit arrived on Daisy Hill, I had to photograph a product for an upcoming Shutterbug feature, so I figured "what the heck"; the Profilux 250 and Profilux 500, with umbrellas attached, were already set up so why not use them? Since I needed maximum depth of field I dialed the monolights near maximum—but nowhere near full—power and was able to achieve f/16 at ISO 100 and finished the shoot in about five minutes. This ease of use says a lot about everything I encountered when working and shooting with the Profilux units. Now it was on to working with a subject that I could talk to.
Multiblitz includes a nice (red) sync cable but I wanted to go wireless for my next shoots and decided to use the new PocketWizard Plus III (see the "PocketWizard to the Rescue" sidebar) to trip the Profilux monolights. The PocketWizard Plus III is a true plug-and-play wireless triggering solution and actual set up took literally a few seconds and I was ready for my shoot with model Stevie Weisbeck.
I wanted to keep it simple for the first session and used a basic 3:1 lighting ratio with the Profilux 250 placed at camera right and the Profilux 500 at camera left and near the left rear corner of my 11x15-foot home studio. Both monolights had the kit's 28" white umbrellas installed. With the monolights' fast recycle times of 1.7 (Profilux 500) and 0.9 seconds (Profilux 250) it was impossible to outshoot them, even when photographing an energetic, inner-directed model like Stevie.
To change up the lighting for the next series of images and because the Multiblitz umbrella's black cover is not removable, I grabbed one of my own white umbrellas to use in shoot-through mode to produce a different look. That's when I discovered that the Profilux's umbrella holder is designed for European standard 8mm diameter bumbershoots. The US umbrella standard is 9mm; so it wouldn't fit. Multiblitz offers only one 28" white "standard" umbrella and five different-sized softboxes along with a 12x48" strip light.
Instead I removed the umbrella from the Profilux 500's holder and used it to backlight the model by placing it behind her and at camera left. The main light with the Multiblitz umbrella was kept in its original location. (See lighting setup.) I tried several Photek umbrellas. Tip: Some fit and some didn't so make sure the shaft is the correct size before purchasing umbrellas from third parties.
The Multiblitz Profilux Backpack
Kit includes all the lighting gear necessary for a location shooter who wants to travel light and it all slips into a small backpack that can easily fit into the trunk of a Fiat 500! The combination of high-quality German engineering and construction along with intuitive controls makes it easy to set up and go, something wedding photographers will find useful and practical. It produces plenty of output for photographing large wedding or family groups, allowing you to minimize the lens aperture while maximizing depth of field to make sure everybody's face is sharp in the final portrait. But it all works as simply and easily as you please when shooting a basic headshot! The Multiblitz Profilux Backpack Kit represents good value, flexibility, and plenty of output power at a reasonably affordable price.
PocketWizard To The Rescue
I've used PocketWizards before at my friend Jack Dean's studio (www.jackdeanphotography.com) and was impressed then with their reliability but even more so with this new model. The PocketWizard Plus III (www.pocketwizard.com) features 32 channels and Selective Quad-Zone Triggering to trigger flash or cameras in groups or individually from hundreds of feet away.
All features, channels, and zones are set by using a soft-touch keypad and displayed on a backlit LCD. The device's sideways design reduces viewing obstructions while conveniently positioning controls and the antenna is housed inside the case for its protection. Long Range Mode doubles the unit's working range and is ideal for remote camera triggering. Two AA batteries power the Plus III for up to 50 hours and when used for remote camera triggering, an external battery can be used.
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Fifty Shades Of Grey panting
A new trailer for the Fifty Shades Of Grey movie, due out on Valentine's Day, was released last night. Well, it's definitely better than the first trailer, but I still wish they'd quit giving us a shot of him standing in front of that helicopter. Full Story
Jamie Dornan
Arguments for: -He's Christian Grey Arguments against: -He's Christian Grey. Fifty Shades Of Grey is a joke to a lot of people. -Right now, he doesn't have instant name recognition. If you don't live online and read the blogs, etc, you don't know who he is. Full Story
Jamie Dornan in British VOGUE
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Um. Yeah. I linked to one of these shots of Jamie Dornan in the November issue of British VOGUE yesterday. And I just saw a few more of them. Really, really, REALLY good photo shoot. The first image I attached? Sh-t, when I first looked at it I couldn't breathe. But he doesn't always do it for me. Full Story
My Obsession & Christian Grey
My Obsession! Two in a row! For the second straight night, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson were at Chiltern in London. What a great way to end a long ass week. This time they were more dressed up. It was a pre-Fashion Week party. Also there – Jamie Dornan aka Christian Grey. So sort of like a Fifty Shades reunion. Full Story
Heavy Breathing and Fifty Shades Of Beyonce
There's no doubt: Fifty Shades Of Grey, the movie, will be better than the book. How much better? Well, it depends on how far away Sam Taylor-Johnson was able to get from the author, EL James. James reportedly wanted total creative control…so if she put in all that sh-t about the inner goddess, it's going to seriously kill my erection. Full Story
Christian Grey Before and After
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Here's a carefree Charlie Hunnam in New York today. He's been in NY all week. The outfits don't really change a lot. Coat's the same, toque's the same, sometimes he wears sweats, other times he wears jeans. All the time he looks hot. And now we won't get to see him naked with Dakota Johnson because he pulled out of Fifty Shades Of Grey… Which is where we find Jamie Dornan, the official Christian Grey, on set in the Vancouver rain yesterday shooting a running scene. Full Story
Jamie Dornan: SO hot but…bad pants?
God, Jamie Dornan is hot. Am writing backstage at The Social and a group of us just gathered around the table to look at these shots of Jamie Dornan, on set of Fifty Shades Of Grey yesterday in Vancouver shooting a tender loving scene with Dakota Johnson. He's f-cking gorgeous. But… just because I'm that bitch who can't leave well enough alone… check him out from the back angle. Full Story
My Obsession > Christian & Anastasia
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It's an early Christmas present! Check out My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, kissing each other in Vancouver yesterday. Sam, as you know, is directing Fifty Shades Of Grey, and she was embraced by her husband who came to visit the set. I think maybe he tried to grab her ass? YASSSSSS…!!!!!!!! MORE!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently they've been booting around town when she's not working all like regular and un-celebrity with their kids, being sweet and unassuming, attracting almost no attention. Full Story
Robert Pattinson looks really good
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Principal photography on Fifty Shades Of Grey is now underway in Vancouver. Here's Jamie Dornan in character as Christian Grey, who's really just EL James's reimagining of Robert Pattinson eating her out. So…how does Dornan look as Pattinson? Well, he looks really good. Better than the original. Full Story
Fifty Shades of lip touching
Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan "in character" as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey, now pushed back 6 months to open in February for Valentine's Day 2015. As you can see, Johnson's Anastasia is all reticent and innocent sex. Full Story
Jamie Dornan's turn
Now that Jamie Dornan's been confirmed as Charlie Hunnam's replacement for Robert Pattinson in Fifty Shades Of Grey, the paps have a new target. Check out Jamie with his wife Amelia Warner in London this weekend. The look on his face is cracking me up. He's like, already? Oh yes already. Full Story
Jamie Dornan replaces Robert Pattinson's replacement
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Fifty Shades Of Grey was initially written as Twilight fan fiction. As I've said before, it was the author, with her hand between her legs, transferring that onto the page. Anyone who plays Christian Grey then is simply a replacement for Robert Pattinson. Would it be reasonable to ask Pattinson, for research purposes of course, to see his sex tape with Kristen Stewart, if one exists? I feel like this is a fair junket question for Jamie Dornan, because Variety Full Story
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Gosling, Garrett Hedlund, Aaron Johnson…none of them are interested. Charlie Hunnam isn't interested. Ian Somerhalder and Joe Manganiello ARE interested but EL James, the author of Fifty Shades Of Grey, who can't convince Robert Pattinson to give her more visuals to finger herself to, thinks she can do better. Full Story
So what if he's dumb?
Laura wants me removed from the building. Because for the last several minutes I have been panting and moaning about holy f-cking hot man sh-t Jamie Dornan's new CK ads with Eva Mendes. In her words: You need a towel and some time to yourself. Please. Do you know how many hours I have spent enduring her Robert Pattinson groans? Friendship is about fairness. Full Story


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YES! Recommends: ServiceSpace
posted Jan 30, 2012
- ServiceSpace is a movement for generosity on social and personal levels. The site features projects that inspire generous behavior and chronicle the acts of kindness of ServiceSpace volunteers.
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- What happens when students are given the honor and onus of writing a complete stranger's story in poetry form? Middle school students from rural and urban Oregon took the risk, transforming preconceived notions—from gangs to trailer trash, stuck up rich people to redneck hicks— into bridges.
Words That Inspire: Because
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- Instead of a letter, Terry Tempest Williams wrote a poem to nominate Lily Yeh as a YES! Breakthrough 15 Hero. The poem shared the many reasons why Lily Yeh is worthy of consideration. Who are the people students might be inspired to honor with a poem?
YES! Recommends: Americans Who Tell The Truth
posted Dec 21, 2011
- Americans Who Tell the Truth spotlights 170 portraits of truth tellers—people who fought for all people's rights with courage and determination—to teach students of all ages not only about their heritage, but also to stand up for what they believe in.
Visual Learning: To Dye For
posted Dec 21, 2011
- With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about where we get our clothes.
Curriculum & Resources: Maps That Stretch the Mind
posted Dec 21, 2011
- Like history, maps tell a story from the writer or creator's perspective. ODT Maps believes that there are many ways to see the world—including upside down. Explore the organization's many maps (with thoughtful explanations), videos, free downloads, quizzes, and more.
Curriculum & Resources: Civil Rights Curriculum
posted Dec 21, 2011
- In 1942, Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for refusing to go with other Japanese Americans to incarceration camps mandated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order No. 9066. The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education shares lesson plans, videos, and other classroom resources to teach students the importance of speaking up for civil rights for all.
Words That Inspire: We are the 1%
posted Nov 23, 2011
- Some members of the 1% have shared messages of solidarity with the 99%. What goes into a sign that makes a lasting impression? Explore an activity to help your students understand—and create their own—powerful signs.
YES! Recommends: Creative Change Educational Solutions
posted Nov 23, 2011
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Curriculum & Resources: Journey Into Dyslexia
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Visual Learning: We Are the 99%
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Words That Inspire: The Laughing Thrush
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Curriculum & Resources: ThinkB4YouSpeak
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YES! Recommends: The Legacy Project
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Nice video from Bayer's Science Making Sense program.
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Paula Allen-Meares, Vice President of the University of Illinois, makes the case for colleges and universities stepping up creatively to meet the challenge of graduating tomorrow's STEM professionals. Along the way, she notes the critical importance of elementary, middle, and high schools in influencing students' career paths.
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Contrary to popular belief, the reason that fewer women than men stick with engineering majors and enter engineering careers is not necessarily related to their ambitions to start a family. More likely, women's shaky "professional role confidence" is to blame, according to a study in this month's issue of the American Sociological Review. According to the study's lead author, Erin Cech, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, despite the fact that women perform comparably to men in engineering classes, subtle biases get in the way and undermine women's confidence. "What we found is that the women in our study developed less confidence in their engineering expertise than men did and they also developed less confidence that engineering is the career that fits them... Read More
How many middle and high school students that you know can describe what a biotechnology scientist does at her lab bench? How many of their parents could rattle off the kinds of tasks performed by an electrical engineer? Or the training required to design computer science tools such as Twitter or MMS? Such knowledge is the domain of the well-trained scientist, and these days, the demand for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills is at an all-time high... and growing.
Project Engage! is an initiative that aims to provide students with just that -- the skills they need to tackle scientific questions and invent solutions. It does so by putting students into the role of the scientist. The program is being modeled in Everett, where Engage Everett! launched officially this morning.
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Framingham State University, which partners with MSSEF through MSSEF's Curious Minds Initiative to offer the STEM Certificate in Inquiry, is positioned to become an invaluable resource to teachers of STEM subjects. As Massachusetts' first NASA Educator Resource Center, FSU will have access to a treasure trove of space-related materials for teachers.
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Here are links to some recent studies and articles that help frame the current state of STEM education in the US:
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STEM Learning in Afterschool: An Analysis of Impact and Outcomes
Reversing the Swing from Science: Implications from a Century of Research
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On a percentage basis, fewer African-Americans are earning degrees in STEM subjects today than at any other point in the last decade. What's behind the declining numbers? While the U.S. currently is not known for churning out as many STEM professionals as it used to, there is a particularly notable dearth of new mathematicians, engineers, and scientists among African-Americans.
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Despite battling back from sizable deficits a number of times, South Adams just couldn't find the finishing gear and dropped its first loss of the season Tuesday night in its third straight home game.
Muncie Burris had four players reach double figures scoring, led by the talented Trevor Woodgett with 24, and beat South Adams 75-74. The loss drops South Adams to 2-1, while Burris improves to 1-0.
South Adams held its last lead early in the fourth quarter after a Matt Alig lay in put the Starfires in front 55-54. That capped a steady comeback from an eight-point deficit early in the third period, but it wasn't long before Burris found itself back in front with a c...
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Such is McLaren's lack of pace that Jenson Button has billed his 10th place in qualifying as a 'strong' result for McLaren.
The Brit was clearly happy to have made it into the Q3 shoot-out for the Bahrain GP and was heard celebrating with his pit wall.
However, in the session Button opted not to run, which means he will start from 10th but can at least choose which compound he wants to start the race with on Sunday.
"It's been a very difficult weekend so far, but 10th is a strong result for us today," said Button.
"The team is used to fighting at the front, so it's the little things - like getting through into Q3 - that can make a positive difference. Of course, it's going to be a tough race tomorrow, though. I'll race as quickly as I can, but I don't want people to expect too much from us.
"However, there are positives to be drawn from today: we out-qualified a Lotus, which was a surprise, and I'll be driving the first car starting on new tyres tomorrow. As in China, that brings a slight strategic advantage, so I'm hoping we can have another decent outing."
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