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The Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country is regarded as one of the world's best annual cross country events and attracts the cream of world talent.
In 2005, reigning world 5000m champions, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge and Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba, sprinted to a pair of thrilling - and tantalisingly narrow - wins at the View From Great Edinburgh Cross Country. In a dazzling gun-to-tape performance, Kipchoge outsprinted Ethiopian Dejene Berhanu in the final 100 metres, while Dibaba upset Australia's world cross country champion Benita Johnson (now Willis) after a dramatic stride-for stride kick in the final 50 metres.
Despite a narrow one-second margin of victory, Kipchoge dominated the 9.2km race, leading virtually from the gun, and falling behind only once, and then only briefly, when Berhanu took a short-lived lead about 100 metres from the finish. The winning time was 27min 43sec. Running in wet and extremely muddy conditions, the 19-year-old Dibaba edged out Johnson by less than a second, covering the 6.3km course in 21:35. In the men's 4km race, a largely unheard of Nick McCormick held of his British rivals Mike Skinner and Andrew Baddeley to win.
Kenenisa Bekele, with a last gasp sprint for the line, thwarted the efforts of Saif Saaeed Shaheen to win the VisitScotland Great Edinburgh Cross Country title in 2006. Bekele, breathing hard and tiring, drew himself on to the shoulders of the world 3000m steeplechase champion and record holder before powering away from Shaheen, himself renowned for his own fast finish, to win in 26:08, Zersenay Tadesse third. Ethiopia's Gelete Burka produced an equally phenomenal performance against a world class women's field over the testing 6K kilometres course.
The 2005 IAAF world junior cross country champion again showed her vast potential when finishing ahead of Isabella Ochichi, the Olympic 5000m silver medallist, and fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba. McCormick, the defending champion, took a trip in the 4km race but quickly recovered to assert his authority and score a narrow victory. Bekele was back in 2007 to destroy the field at the EventScotland Great Edinburgh Cross Country with a superb performance in the 9.3km event. Ethiopia also celebrated a double as Burka claimed a similarly comfortable win in the women's race.
Bekele shrugged off gale force winds to break the field midway and stroll to a seemingly effortless 10-second win from Tadesse, the world road running champion, in 28:14. Kipchoge struggled in the conditions and crossed the line a forlorn third in 28:51. In the women's 6.7km race, Burka scorched to her second win in a row, skipping across the muddy surface to record a winning time of 23:25. In a close scrap for second the diminutive Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot came through strongly to edge out Johnson. The men's 4km race saw Ukraine's Sergiy Lebid exact revenge on Briton Mo Farah – the man who had taken his European cross country title the month before.
Bekele and Burka completed superb hat-tricks in 2008 when dominating their races at the Bupa-sponsored event. Bekele waited until the last 600m to make a tactical break on the final ascent of the course's last hill and quash the ambitions of close rivals Tadese and Kipchoge. Burka was again in a class of her own as she finished ahead of Linet Masai and Cheruiyot. The race was also noteworthy for Briton Stephanie Twell's brave run, though she ended up missing out on third to Cheruiyot. Andy Baddeley, in the men's 4km domestic event, came back from what looked likely to be a surprise defeat when excitingly tracking down Andy Vernon to win by two seconds in 12:52.
In 2009, Twell's learning curve continued when, despite producing one of the best displays of her career, she again found herself relegated to fourth place by her African rivals in the 5.6km race. Masai dominated the race to win easily by 11 seconds in 19:2, ahead of Ethiopian Mestawet Tufa and Viola Kibiwott (19:14) with Twell a further two seconds adrift. Baddeley defended his domestic 4km crown but it came at the cost of a badly spiked right ankle after he was caught by training partner Mick Skinner just before the final circuit. The international 8.9km race was won by Abebe Dinkesa in a time of 26:51 sec with Mangata Ndiwa of Kenya another surprise package in second sport three seconds in arrears. Tadese had to settle for third place.
There was a real shock in the snow and ice that greeted runners in 2010 as Bekele – twice a double champion at the Olympics - finished outside the medals in a remarkable turn of events. Triple winner Bekele never came to terms with the testing conditions in the men's 8.9km race and was beaten into fourth by the Kenyan trio of Joseph Ebuya, Titus Mbishei and Kipchoge. It proved a great day of sport all round with British duo Hayley Yelling and Twell putting on good shows in the women's 6km race - though they finished outside the places with past winner Dibaba leading the way. There was another shock when Britain's Mo Farah, the breakaway early leader, was pushed into third place in a time of 13:28 in the men's 4K race by Ricky Stevenson, who produced a storming finish to win in 13:20, with Steve Vernon second in 13:23.
The Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country format changed in 201, with a 4.2k men's race, a 5.7k women's run, and an 8k men's team event - though the event was again staged in snowy conditions. Mo Farah, captaining the GB and Ireland team, produced a great start to his New Year with an awesome performance to win the the International Men's Team Challenge - though his team could only place third overall. Farah won the 8k race in 25:41, ahead of the USA's Galen Rupp (25:50) and Spain's Ayad Lamsdassam (25:55), who was followed home by Sergey Lebid to give the Europe Select team victory with the USA third.
Kenya's Linet Masai continued her outstanding winter form to win the women's event for the second time in three years in a time of 20:24, six seconds ahead of Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba with Vivian Cheruiyot third in 20:36. Eliud Kipchoge, winner of the inaugural long course race six years ago, added to that success when cruising to the 4k title in 13:12, a healthy distance ahead of fellow Kenyans, Asbel Kiprop and Brimin Kipruto, respectively the Olympic 1500m and 3000m steeplechase champions, who clocked 13:18 and 13:19.
1, Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) 13 minutes 12 seconds, 2, Asbel Kiprop (Kenya) 13:18, 3, Brimin Kipruto (Kenya) 13:19.
1, Linet Masai (Kenya) 20:24, 2, Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) 20:32, 3, Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya) 20:36.
1, Mo Farah (GB) 25:41, 2, Galen Rupp (USA) 25:50, 3, Ayad Lamdassam (ES/Spain).
In 2012, Double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele will probably have preferred to have stayed in Ethiopia where it was Christmas Day rather than suffer the ignominy of a shock defeat at the Bupa Great Edinburgh XCountry on Saturday.
The world's greatest ever distance runner looked a shadow of his former self as he finished well down the field in 11th position in the International 3k race at the IAAF Permit event meeting in Holyrood Park.
There were no excuses from Bekele as he struggled in a race which included two other 2008 Olympic gold medallists, Kenyan's Asbel Kiprop, the 1500m champion and Brimin Kipruto, winner of the 3000m steeplechase in Beijing.
In 2013, Genzebe Dibaba showed magnificent composure and a speedy finishing kick over the final lap to win a star studded Women's International race over three kilometres at the Bupa Great Edinburgh XCountry.
Elsewhere Team Europe proved to be the stronger side in the International Team Match where their overall score of 154 points saw them win ahead of last year's champions GB & NI (175) and the United States (201).
The men's senior 8km turned into a nail-biting affair when the host nation's Tom Humphries, looking an inevitable winner, went into the final 2km circuit maintaining the lead of 25m he had built up at the 3km point. His rivals soon raised their game however, and caught him with the finish line in sight. In a terrific finish the USA's Bobby Mack, last year's runner up, edged his frame in the last 15m ahead of Europe's and Spain's two-time European Cross Country silver medallist Ayad Lamdassem to win by a second in 24:27.
Fionnuala Britton won the Edinburgh race for a second successive year. The Irishwoman who came under early pressure from Jessica Coulson, the Euro U23 gold medallist in Hungary, blew away the Briton and everyone else with a majestic last lap. Britton ploughing herself around on what still remained a fairly firm circuit caused a stir and some concern when slipping and falling at a brook around a half a mile from home.
Quickly recovering her balance, she dashed towards the line to win by 16sec in 20:40 from Team Europe colleague Adrienne Herzog, the Netherlander, who was third behind her at the continental championships in Budapest with the USA's team captain Mattie Suver third in 21:00.
G Dibaba (ETH) 9:46
B Mack (US) 24:27
A Lamdassem (EUR) 25:44
Mo Farah (GB) 25:41
Joseph Ebuya (KEN) 28:41
Abebe Dinkese (ETH) 26:51
Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 27:42
Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 28:14
Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 26:08
Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 27:43
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Ricky Stevenson (GB) 13:20
Andy Baddeley (GB) 12:17
Andy Baddeley (GB) 12:52
Sergey Lebid (UKR) 12:20
Nick McCormick (GB) 12:16
Nick McCormick (GB) 12:22
Linet Masai (KEN) 20:24
Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) 21:37
Linet Masai (KEN) 19:02
Gelete Burka (ETH) 19:58
Gelete Burka (ETH) 23:25
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The Natchez Trace is for those who enjoy a relaxed pace, sight seeing, history and getting away from it all. Don't hurry when traveling on the Natchez Trace Parkway. This is a lazy road. Speed limit is 50 mph but there is so much to see, and if you don't stop and see the sights it will be a wasted trip. Plan on 2-3 days to take it all in, with side trips. The Trace has abundant points of interest, and rest areas and there are 3 free camping areas along the route. If you don't like camping there are plenty of towns with lodging. It's a good trip for a new rider. The road is not challening and traffic is light. No commercial traffic is allowed, meaning no semis or large trucks,but a 50 MPH speed limit is enforced. The road is relatively straight, with gradual hills and is predominately lined with trees, the road gets a bit curveyer in the Tennessee section. There are historical monuments that tell stories of the trail's past along the way.
When to ride? Spring or Fall. Summer is to hot and humid to enjoy it. In Spring Dogwoods & wisteria are in Bloom. October you get the fall colors. Natchez Trace Parkway sees pretty high levels of rainfall; the wettest month of the year is usually March, October is the driest month. Beware of the wildlife, deer and turkey are often spotted in very large groups along the roadside and crossing the road. Be on the alert for them, as they can necessitate a sudden stop on the roadway. The Natchez Trace Parkway is a "definite must ride at least once." It holds stories about famous heroes, leaders and outlaws. It invites you to stop and visit many interest sites along its 444-mile length from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee.
You can start your ride at either end. The Natchez Trace Parkway map is an excellent starting place when planning your trip. When using the map, you will notice that every place along the Parkway can be referenced by milepost. The milepost system starts in the south, at Natchez, being Milepost 0, and the north end of the Parkway, near Nashville is Milepost 444. For example, the Parkway Visitor Center in Tupelo is near the midway point at Milepost 266. Here is a map that you can print out http://natchez-trace.thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/natchez-trace-parkway-map.pdf you can also pick-up a map at stops along the Parkway.
Whether you are interested in nature, history, or recreation, knowing how to get food, gas, and lodging can make your trip much more enjoyable. You will not see many of these services from the Parkway, so planning is advisable. There is no food, gas, and lodging services "on" the Parkway. However, just behind the trees, in communities throughout the Parkway's 444-mile length, you can find everything that you need, plus many places worth exploring.
The Mississippi River town that lent its name to both the old trail and the modern parkway is one of the loveliest and most historic towns in the South. Established in 1716, Natchez was at that time the only port on the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and the mouth of the Ohio River. Back then steamboats ran goods up and down the river and the town's strategic location enriched so many of its citizens that more than half the millionaires in America lived here. Many of their lavish homes, like Natchez itself, went virtually untouched by the Civil War and are among the town's 500 carefully preserved antebellum structures. Some of these magnificent mansions are open to visitors year-round, including such favorites as Stanton Hall, a structure that covers an entire city block; Magnolia Hall, which was shelled by a Union gunboat in 1862; Longwood, the largest octagonal house in America; Rosalie, perched on a bluff beside the Mississippi; and Melrose, known for its unique Greek Revival style and distinctive outbuildings. Other homes may be visited only in the spring and fall, when the famed Natchez Pilgrimage Tours attract thousands of visitors, who stroll beneath live oaks draped with Spanish moss to relive the glory of a bygone era. You can take a carriage ride along narrow streets that take you back a hundred years or more , watch towboats move huge loads of cargo down the mighty Mississippi River, try your luck at a floating casino, and visit an ancient Indian village.
Heading northeast from Natchez, the drive follows Rte. 61, which joins the beginning of the parkway a few miles outside the city. Once on the Natchez Trace, the route winds through rolling hill country dense with oaks, pines, beeches, and magnolias. The first travelers along the original trace were wild buffalo seeking the easiest path south. Tracking their hoofprints, Indians blazed the trail farther, connecting villages with an intersecting series of game trails through the unbroken woodland.
Just about every mile along the Trace brings a new opportunity to pull over and experience history for yourself. Check out some of these roadside attractions:
Mile Post 10 - The Emerald Mound, it is a 35-foot tall earth structure that spans an incredible eight acres and is the second largest mound in all of America. This is an ancient Indian ceremonial site, built about 700 years ago. Nearby is the entrance to Natchez State Park, a good spot for camping and fishing.
Mile 15.5 - Mount Locust - This restored historic Inn offers tours and a glimpse into local Mississippi history. This used to be a stop on the trail for travelers and the riverboat men known as Kaintucks. These rough-and-ready entrepreneurs guided their flatboats and rafts down the Mississippi to deliver goods at Natchez or New Orleans. Once their business had been completed, they sold their boats for lumber and trekked home on foot rather than push upstream against the current. By 1810 as many as 10,000 Kaintucks a year were trudging northward toward Nashville on the trace. Before long, such heavy traffic had turned a crude, narrow wilderness trail into a clearly defined route. (In 1806 the trace was broadened to 12 feet by order of Thomas Jefferson to make it passable for wagons.) To serve the boatless boatmen who faced a long journey home, a series of inns, called stands, sprang up along the route, spaced about one day's walk apart. Of the 50 original stands, only Mt. Locust remains. Restored to its 1820 appearance, the simple wooden house is built on pilings to keep the interior cool during summer. It provided little more than a plate of cornmeal mush and a spot to sleep on a wooden floor, but to weary travelers making their way on a journey of nearly 500 miles, they must have seemed as inviting as any posh hotel.
Close by is the ghost town of Rodney. In the days of steamboating, cotton and slavery, it was the busiest river port between New Orleans and St. Louis. Other places in the area you might want to consider stopping at are Port Gibson and Grand Gulf Military Monument Park.
From Windsor Ruins the drive curves northeastward to rejoin the parkway, via Rte. 18, near milepost 40. Just before the junction, you pass through historic Port Gibson, the town General Ulysses S. Grant reportedly said was "too beautiful to burn" during his march to Vicksburg in 1863. Among the antebellum structures that inspired him are Oak Square, a 30-room Greek Revival mansion (now a bed-and-breakfast inn) and the 1859 First Presbyterian Church. Its soaring steeple is topped with a gilded 10-foot-tall metal hand pointing skyward, and its interior features chandeliers from the steamboat Robert E. Lee. The steamboat era, around 1812, marked the beginning of the end for the Natchez Trace: river travel was so much easier and safer than the overland journey that, by the 1820s, the pathway was virtually abandoned and forgotten. Not until the early 20th century were efforts made to locate and mark the historic route.
Mile 54.8 - Rocky Springs This is the southernmost free campground on the parkway. There are 22 campsites, picnic tables, and restrooms. A short trail from the parking area leads to the old townsite. There is a portion of the original trace you can walk to get a taste of what early travelers must have experienced.
Mile 60 - SIDE TRIP Vicksburg National Military Park Exit onto Hwy 27. The park commemorates the campaign, siege, and defense of Vicksburg. Surrender on July 4, 1863, coupled with the fall of Port Hudson, LA, split the South, giving control of the Mississippi River to the North. Over 1,340 monuments, a restored Union gunboat, and National Cemetery mark the 16-mile tour road.
Mile 102.4 - SIDE TRIP Mississippi Crafts Center The Mississippi Crafts center at offers demonstrations of traditional crafts and makes a good place to shop for souvenirs of your trip. All of the objects on display here were created by members of the Mississippi Craftsmen's Guild. On weekends from March through October, artisans demonstrate their homespun skills in pottery, quilting, basket weaving, and many other crafts, both traditional and contemporary.
Mile 105.6 - Ross Barnett Reservoir Overlook Great place to stop for a rest. You will ride along the Pearl River for 8 miles.
Mile 160 - SIDE TRIP Kosciusko distinguished as one of "America's 100 Best Small Towns", one of the "Top Sixty Prettiest Painted places in America" and the birthplace of Oprah Winfrey, offers much to do and see.
Mile 180 - French Camp Louis LeFleur, a French Canadian married to a Choctaw woman, established a stand serving Natchez Trace travelers here in 1812. Today visitors can browse over French and Indian artifacts in a restored 1840 log cabin and inspect a sorghum mill, where a favorite Southern treat, molasses, is made on weekends from late September through October.
Mile 193.1 - Jeff Busby Campground Picnic area, and campground also Little Mountain overlook.
Mile 259.7 - SIDE TRIP Tupelo exit for travelers who want to visit the Elvis Presley Birthplace, Tupelo National Battlefield, and other attractions in the city.
Mile 261.8 - Chickasaw Village Site, exhibits describe the daily life of these Native Americans at the former site of one of their villages. A self-guided trail has signs identifying plants used by the Chickasaw.
Mile 266 - The Tupelo Visitor Center is the Parkway headquarters, with exhibits, a 20 minute hike along a self-guided trail, information on the Parkway, and an orientation program. From here, you can take a side trip to Brices Crossroads National Battlefield.
Mile 269.4 - Confederate Gravesite - Follow a short trail down the to the final resting place of 13 unknown Confederate soldiers.
Mile 283 - Donivan Slough Nice picnic stop and 20 minute hike in the Spring to see the blooming tulip trees. Also enjoy the water oaks, sycamores, sweetgums, bald cypresses, beeches, and river birches.
Mile 317 - Freedom Hills Overlook After spending three-quarters of its journey in Mississippi, the drive crosses into Alabama for a brief visit of just 33 miles. At Freedom Hills Overlook, a short but steep 1/4 mile trail leads to Alabama's highest point on the parkway, 800 feet. See a view of tree-covered highlands along the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau.
Mile 320 - SIDE TRIP Shiloh National Military Park - At milepost 320 take Alabama Hwy 72. Visit the site of a bloody Civil War battle in 1862. Historical reenactments take place from April to October, with a major living-history demonstration each April to commemorate the event.
Mile 320 - SIDE TRIP The historic City of Tuscumbia, Alabama, offers visitors a glimpse into the early life of Helen Keller. The site includes Keller's birthplace, a museum and original structures including the main house, as well as the original famous well pump.
Mile 341.8 - The Trace enters Tennessee
Mile 370 - SIDE TRIP David Crockett State Park Just past milepost 370, Rte. 64 leads eastward from the Natchez Trace to David Crockett State Park, named for the legendary Tennessee pioneer who died at the siege of the Alamo in 1836. (Despite the words of a popular song about the "king of the wild frontier," he was known in his time as David, not Davy.) Crockett established a powder mill, gristmill, and distillery here on the bank of Shoal Creek in 1817; all were washed away by a flood in 1821. Today campers can catch a bass for supper on Lindsey Lake, and hikers on the park nature trail can pause to enjoy the delightful scene at Crockett Falls, a series of cascades on Shoal Creek.
Mile 375.8 - Old Trace Drive A 2.5 mile unpaved road follows the original trace route. It climbs a high ridgeline with overlooks of the surrounding hills and valleys.
Mile 386 - Meriweather Lewis Memorial - The final resting place of one half of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Meriwether Lewis Site, at the junction with Rte. 20, is one of the region's most popular recreation areas, with camping, hiking trails, and a section of the old trace leading down to Little Swan Creek. Lewis, co-leader of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest, was only 35 when he died of gunshot wounds at an inn here in 1809. Though believed to have been a suicide from the outset, murder and conspiracy theories have circulated since soon after his death. His gravesite is marked with a broken stone column, symbolic of a life cut short by tragedy.
Mile 404.7 - Jackson Falls The short but steep trail takes visitors to views of Jackson Falls, making it one of the most popular walks along the parkway. After dropping down 900 feet in elevation on a paved trail, you will find yourself in a small gorge. Your return trip will be a bit more strenuous, but well worth the effort. There are picnic tables at the trailhead, as well as a short trail to Baker Bluff Overlook. The falls are named for Andrew Jackson, the renowned general who became the seventh president of the United States. At the parkway's northern terminus in Nashville, you'll find the Hermitage, Jackson's white-columned home and the site of his tomb. About 20 miles past the falls, the Natchez Trace reaches its highest point -- 1,100 feet above sea level. This long ridge, the Tennessee Valley Divide, once marked the boundary between the United States and the Chickasaw Nation, its neighbor to the south.
Mile 427.6 - Garrison Creek Named for an army garrison that was established nearby in 1801, the parkway's northernmost picnic site is the trailhead for hiking and horse path that meanders across the Tennessee highlands. The old trace was designated an official postal route at the beginning of the 19th century. The post rider was adopted by the National Park Service as the official symbol of the Natchez Trace Parkway, and today you'll find the silhouette of a horse and rider adorns the signposts along the entire route, a recurring reminder of the roadway's frontier heritage.
Toward the end of the Natchez Trace Parkway there is a shell station where you can gas up. There is a BBQ restaurant at this location and the famous Loveless Cafe is also nearby,that has great food, also.
Highway 100 / McCrory Lane / Natchez Trace Parkway is the site of what is probably the second most-photographed bridge on the Natchez Trace.This bridge supports the northernmost tip of the Natchez Trace itself.
Camping Along The Parkway
There are 3 Parkway campgrounds which are free, primitive, and available on a first come, first serve basis. They do not offer electricity, or showers. They are spread out along the Parkway: Rocky Springs (Milepost 54), Jeff Busby (Milepost 193.1) and Meriwether Lewis (Milepost 385).
The State Parks along the Parkway are: Natchez State Park (in Mississippi) - located 1 mile east of the parkway on US 61. Grand Gulf State Park (in Mississippi) - located north of Port Gibson on US 61. Trace State Park (in Mississippi) - 7 miles from the parkway on Hwy 6, then 2 miles north. Tombigbee State Park (in Mississippi) - US Hwy 78 east towards Tupelo, second exit, follow signs. Tishomingo State Park (in Mississippi) - Adjacent to the Parkway David Crockett State Park (in Tennessee)- 14 miles east on US 64
Not into camping and looking for a bed and breakfast along the Parkway? Check out this site http://www.natcheztracetravel.com/
Rider Stories, Routes & Trips on the Natchez Trace Parkway

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Facebook's advertising matrix will be taken outside of the website itself and be placed on various external websites. There's no word yet as to which websites these will be, but Facebook owns quite a few pretty popular ones, such as the ubiquitous Instagram.
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Simple Methods To Test Your Body Fat Percentage
When losing fat, it is important to know not just how much weight you are losing, but how much of your body is muscle and how much is fat. You want to lose fat while maintaining or even building muscle. So, you need some way to keep track of your body fat percentage.
The following are two simple methods to determine current body fat percentage and lean mass percentage.
Method One
For this test you will need someone's help and a ruler that reads in millimeters (mm).
Step 1: Hang your right arm at your side, and have someone find the point halfway between your shoulder and elbow, on the rear (triceps side) of your arm.
Step 2: With his/her thumb and forefinger have him/her pinch a fold of skin and fat away from the muscle.
Step 3: Have him/her measure the thickness of the skin pinched. (Do not rest the ruler against the skin.)
Step 4: Have him/her do steps 2 and 3 several times and get the average reading.
Step 5: Find your body fat percentage by using the chart below.
Fat Percentage
|Skin Fold Thickness In mm
|Body Fat % Men
|Body Fat % Women
Method Two
This test requires a scale and a tape measure. Do the following calculations.
For Men
Lean body weight = 94.42 + 1.082 (nude weight in pounds) - 4.15 (waist girth around bellybutton in inches)
Body fat (%) = bodyweight - lean bodyweight x 100/bodyweight
Calculate your percentage of body fat
For Women
Lean body weight = 8.987 + 0.732 (weight in kilograms) + 3.786 (wrist diameter in centimeters) + 0.434 (forearm circumference in centimeters)
Body fat (%) = bodyweight - lean bodyweight x 100/bodyweight
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To convert inches to centimeters divide by 0.394
Divide circumference by 3.14 (pi) to get diameter.
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Excellent guide!
Is the first method close to the accuracy of body fat calipers?
I don't have a way to measure my body fat yet so method number#2 works for now 11%
I don't have a way to measure my body fat yet so method number#2 works for now 11%
The results of method no.2 and the body fat calculator do not match. I am 195.8lbs and 34.9in. When I use the calculator I get 16% bf but when I use the formula in method no. 2 I get 17.6%, why? (note: Bodyspace calculates 15.0% with the same data plus height, again a bit different).
Good calculators, thanks for sharing; Jesus Christ Bless you! :)
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On this week's CVG Classics we're diving through our dusty paper time portal all the way back to when putting ghastly, malformed monsters on the front of Britain's best selling computer magazine was A-ok. April 1989 to be precise.
Honestly, what the hell is that thing? Its eyes are filled with a psychopathic murderous intent and its lips look like they've been reddened by the blood of victims its consumed.
It doesn't have any arms but has long, frog-like legs, which means it probably bounds towards its victims, judging from the size of its mouth, while emitting a terrifying bellowing noise.
From the looks of that springy neck its head probably lashes back and forth as it moves. And the only way we can imagine it attacks is by stomping on victims until they're unable to put up a fight.
Oh god, this thing is going to be there when I close my eyes tonight isn't it?
Anyways, issue 90 features the advent of video games on CDs , reviews of games such as the thrillingly tiltled 'Federation of Free Traders' and a lot of love for something called the PC Engine. Hit up Wikipedia kids!
Above right: The stuff of nightmares a.k.a the cover of the April 1989 issue of CVG. Kill it with fire.
YESTERDAY'S NEWS: Warhammer Doubtful
Seems like team CVG weren't too fussed about Warhammer missing its release date and - disappointingly - the gang glossed over a juicy story that would likely eat up a multi-day new cycle in the current day.
"The hit fantasy role-playing board game from Games Work Shop was supposed to be converted by Activision - but no work has been carried out on the game and it looks like the Reading based company may have lost its license.
"Games Workshop spokesperson Andy Jones told C+VG 'The Activision chapter is now more or less closed' and said GW were in discussions with a number of other popular games - Bloodbowl and Dark Future."
And of course there's the PC Engine, hear it roar:
Other news: The mag also reported on the return of Zork with 'Zork Zero', which it excitedly wrote "has an extremely clever mapping system, displayed on a seperate page with the command MAP". It also caught eyes with the headline "Millenium - Sex Shocker", going on to describe an action game and strategy game hybrid.
"And the sex? There isn't any"
Well played, Computer and Video Gramps.
Other Scores
- Airborne Ranger (Atari ST) - 90%
- Wierd Dreams (Atari ST) - 59%
- Federation of Free Traders (Atari ST) - 44%
- Denaris (Amiga) - 85%
- Titan (Amiga) - 37%
- Vindicators (Amstrad) - 85%
- Swords of Sodan (Amiga) - 85%
- Chase (Atari ST) - 48%
- Space Harries (Amiga) - 85%
- Hybris (Amiga) - 90%
Old School Issues
Dead YOB,
After reading C+VG we thought that the PC Engine was a supermachine. So we went to see a friend who had one and we saw Galaga 88. We were really impressed, but he only had Galaga 88 so we decided to make a trip to Munich to see Games World where they sell PC engines. We arrived at Games World totally exhausted and asked the shop keeper to show us the Engine. After some problems with the voltage we started to play R-Type. We were not impressed. Because you said that it is exactly the same as the coin-op. But we didn't think it was.
Then we played a lot of awful games like Legendary Axe, Pinball, Chan and Chan, World Court Tennis and Dragon Spirit. Then we played Victory Run - and that was another disappointment. The only game that comes near the coin-op is Galaga 88. So we went home without a PC Engine. How much money did you get from NEC to print good reviews?
- Patrick Coolwijk, Holland.
Yob: Either you're blind or stupid. Any idiot can see that the PC Engine is by far the best games machine currently available. I honestly can't understand you saying that R-Type isn't like the original. I know for a fact that the arcade fiend Rignall practices the game at home on his Engine, then nips down to his local arcade in Brighton to knock up a highscore, and he says he uses exactly the same tactics. It's our opinion - and we're not along - that R-Type is 98% faithful to the original machine. If I was you I'd stick to tulip-picking and Edam-eating - you obviously don't know an amazing machine when you see one.
Dear Yob,
Please could you send me a list of C16/+4 POKEs and cheats
-Howard Black, Aberdeen.
Yob: No.
CRIMES AGAINST ADVERTISING: Operation Neptune
Two words: Crotch explosion.
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James R. SteeleJames Jimm Ryan Steele
SUDBURY James Jimm Ryan Steele, age 78, died Monday, August 11, 2014, at Rutland Regional Medical Center.
Jimm was born in Sudbury on November 24, 1935, the son of William and Beatrice Steele. He was a graduate of Brandon High School, class of 1953. He was owner/operator of Valley Custom Auto Body where his specialty was restoring vintage cars. He was a member of American Legion Post #55; RAVE and Pontiac Oakland International.
He won many trophies at car shows showing his 1965 Pontiac LeMans, which he and his son, Eric, restored piece by piece. Jimm enjoyed hunting, fishing, motorcycles, drag racing Corvettes and racing snowmobiles.
In his earlier years, he was employed at Bill Ryan Motor Sales in Brandon and logged with his good friend, Bernie Humiston.
He is survived by his wife, Judy; a son Eric (Laurie Abatiell) of Sudbury; a daughter Kimberly McDonnell; his grandchildren Kayleigh, Eric and Aiden McDonnell of Rutland; and his daughter Lori Steele (Cathy Partalis) of Rutland Town; special in-laws Nancy Zapf and Robert Crosby; sisters Beatrice Betty Steele of Orwell and Mary Parker of Sudbury; brother Robert of Sudbury; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, brother William Jr., and sister Catherine Howland.
At Jimms request there will be no visiting hours or memorial service.
A celebration of his life will be held at the convenience of his family at a later date.
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Last time I ordered from Dan Pipe (I live only 45 miles away, but it's a long drive, so when I go there I want to make a full day of it...hence, I mail-order a lot), I wanted to check out a few more of the old CAO blends, nowadays marketed as DTM's American History series. I like VA flakes, so this was a natural choice to order.Opening the tin, I get a good whiff of citrus and some grass, and lots and lots of sweetness. I'd say there is a light orange topping on this, but for me, that is a good choice to go with a sweet VA. The leaf is bright, the slices are rather widely-cut, and they are perfect to either fold-and-twist or rub out straight from the tin.Lighting is a one-char affair for me; once lit, Patriot Flake burns slowly for a VA and needs little maintenance. The taste is sweet from the outset, deepening a little in mid-bowl: lots of Mysore leaf in there, and some Tanzania.This is a mid-day candy blend for me; enough strength in there to make it interesting, but in the large range of VA flakes available, not standing out enough to make me drop everything to get another tin. Still very good, and I would highly recommend to lovers of straight, sweet VAs.
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Solid-state memory
Discussion of how developments in solid-state memory will affect database management. Related subjects include:
- Data warehouse appliances
- (in The Monash Report) The future of diskless PCs
Notes from a visit to Teradata
I spent a day with Teradata in Rancho Bernardo last week. Most of what we discussed is confidential, but I think the non-confidential parts and my general impressions add up to enough for a post.
First, let's catch up with some personnel gossip. So far as I can tell:
- Scott Gnau runs most of Teradata's development, product management, and product marketing, the big exception being that …
- … Darryl McDonald run the apps part (Aprimo and so on), and no longer is head of marketing.
- Oliver Ratzesberger runs Teradata's software development.
- Jeff Carter has returned to his roots and runs the hardware part, in place of Carson Schmidt.
- Aster founders Mayank Bawa and Tasso Argyros have left Teradata (perhaps some earn-out period ended).
- Carson is temporarily running Aster development (in place of Mayank), and has some sort of evangelism role waiting after that.
- With the acquisition of Hadapt, Teradata gets some attention from Dan Abadi. Also, they're retaining Justin Borgman.
The biggest change in my general impressions about Teradata is that they're having smart thoughts about the cloud. At least, Oliver is. All details are confidential, and I wouldn't necessarily expect them to become clear even in October (which once again is the month for Teradata's user conference). My main concern about all that is whether Teradata's engineering team can successfully execute on Oliver's directives. I'm optimistic, but I don't have a lot of detail to support my good feelings.
In some quick-and-dirty positioning and sales qualification notes, which crystallize what we already knew before:
- The Teradata 1xxx series is focused on cost-per-bit.
- The Teradata 2xxx series is focused on cost-per-query. It is commonly Teradata's "lead" product, at least for new customers.
- The Teradata 6xxx series is supposed to be able to do "everything".
- The Teradata Aster "Discovery Analytics" platform is sold mainly to customers who have a specific high-value problem to solve. (Randy Lea gave me a nice round dollar number, but I won't share it.) I like that approach, as it obviates much of the concern about "Wait — is this strategic for us long-term, given that we also have both Teradata database and Hadoop clusters?"
Also: Read more
|Categories: Aster Data, Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Hadapt, Hadoop, MapReduce, Solid-state memory, Teradata
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Notes and comments, May 6, 2014
After visiting California recently, I made a flurry of posts, several of which generated considerable discussion.
- My claim that Spark will replace Hadoop MapReduce got much Twitter attention — including some high-profile endorsements — and also some responses here.
- My MemSQL post led to a vigorous comparison of MemSQL vs. VoltDB.
- My post on hardware and storage spawned a lively discussion of Hadoop hardware pricing; even Cloudera wound up disagreeing with what I reported Cloudera as having said. Sadly, there was less response to the part about the partial (!) end of Moore's Law.
- My Cloudera/SQL/Impala/Hive apparently was well-balanced, in that it got attacked from multiple sides via Twitter & email. Apparently, I was too hard on Impala, I was too hard on Hive, and I was too hard on boxes full of cardboard file cards as well.
- My post on the Intel/Cloudera deal garnered a comment reminding us Dell had pushed the Intel distro.
- My CitusDB post picked up a few clarifying comments.
Here is a catch-all post to complete the set. Read more
Hardware and storage notes
My California trip last week focused mainly on software — duh! — but I had some interesting hardware/storage/architecture discussions as well, especially in the areas of:
- Rack- or data-center-scale systems.
- The real or imagined demise of Moore's Law.
- Flash.
I also got updated as to typical Hadoop hardware.
If systems are designed at the whole-rack level or higher, then there can be much more flexibility and efficiency in terms of mixing and connecting CPU, RAM and storage. The Google/Facebook/Amazon cool kids are widely understood to be following this approach, so others are naturally considering it as well. My most interesting of several mentions of that point was when I got the chance to talk with Berkeley computer architecture guru Dave Patterson, who's working on plans for 100-petabyte/terabit-networking kinds of systems, for usage after 2020 or so. (If you're interested, you might want to contact him; I'm sure he'd love more commercial sponsorship.)
One of Dave's design assumptions is that Moore's Law really will end soon (or at least greatly slow down), if by Moore's Law you mean that every 18 months or so one can get twice as many transistors onto a chip of the same area and cost than one could before. However, while he thinks that applies to CPU and RAM, Dave thinks flash is an exception. I gathered that he thinks the power/heat reasons for Moore's Law to end will be much harder to defeat than the other ones; note that flash, because of what it's used for, has vastly less power running through it than CPU or RAM do.
|Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Buying processes, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, Intel, Memory-centric data management, Pricing, Solid-state memory
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MemSQL 3.0
Memory-centric data management is confusing. And so I'm going to clarify a couple of things about MemSQL 3.0 even though I don't yet have a lot of details.* They are:
- MemSQL has historically been an in-memory row store, which as of last year scales out.
- It turns out that the MemSQL row store actually has two table types. One is scaled out. The other — called "reference" — is replicated on every node.
- MemSQL has now added a third table type, which is columnar and which resides in flash memory.
- If you want to keep data in, for example, both the scale-out row store and the column store, you'd have to copy/replicate it within MemSQL. And if you wanted to access data from both versions at once (e.g. because different copies cover different time periods), you'd likely have to do a UNION or something like that.
*MemSQL's first columnar offering sounds pretty basic; for example, there's no columnar compression yet. (Edit: Oops, that's not accurate. See comment below.) But at least they actually have one, which puts them ahead of many other row-based RDBMS vendors that come to mind.
And to hammer home the contrast:
- IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, which all sell row-based DBMS meant to run on disk or other persistent storage, have added or will add columnar options that run in RAM.
- MemSQL, which sells a row-based DBMS that runs in RAM, has added a columnar option that runs in persistent solid-state storage.
|Categories: Columnar database management, Database compression, In-memory DBMS, MemSQL, Solid-state memory
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Layering of database technology & DBMS with multiple DMLs
Two subjects in one post, because they were too hard to separate from each other
Any sufficiently complex software is developed in modules and subsystems. DBMS are no exception; the core trinity of parser, optimizer/planner, and execution engine merely starts the discussion. But increasingly, database technology is layered in a more fundamental way as well, to the extent that different parts of what would seem to be an integrated DBMS can sometimes be developed by separate vendors.
Major examples of this trend — where by "major" I mean "spanning a lot of different vendors or projects" — include:
- The object/relational, aka universal, extensibility features developed in the 1990s for Oracle, DB2, Informix, Illustra, and Postgres. The most successful extensions probably have been:
- Geospatial indexing via ESRI.
- Full-text indexing, notwithstanding questionable features and performance.
- MySQL storage engines.
- MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) analytic RDBMS relying on single-node PostgreSQL, Ingres, and/or Microsoft SQL Server — e.g. Greenplum (especially early on), Aster (ditto), DATAllegro, DATAllegro's offspring Microsoft PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse), or Hadapt.
- Splits in which a DBMS has serious processing both in a "database" layer and in a predicate-pushdown "storage" layer — most famously Oracle Exadata, but also MarkLogic, InfiniDB, and others.
- SQL-on-HDFS — Hive, Impala, Stinger, Shark and so on (including Hadapt).
Other examples on my mind include:
- Data manipulation APIs being added to key-value stores such as Couchbase and Aerospike.
- TokuMX, the Tokutek/MongoDB hybrid I just blogged about.
- NuoDB's willing reliance on third-party key-value stores (or HDFS in the role of one).
- FoundationDB's strategy, and specifically its acquisition of Akiban.
And there are several others I hope to blog about soon, e.g. current-day PostgreSQL.
In an overlapping trend, DBMS increasingly have multiple data manipulation APIs. Examples include: Read more
Hortonworks, Hadoop, Stinger and Hive
I chatted yesterday with the Hortonworks gang. The main subject was Hortonworks' approach to SQL-on-Hadoop — commonly called Stinger — but at my request we cycled through a bunch of other topics as well. Company-specific notes include:
- Hortonworks founder J. Eric "Eric14″ Baldeschwieler is no longer at Hortonworks, although I imagine he stays closely in touch. What he's doing next is unspecified, except by the general phrase "his own thing". (Derrick Harris has more on Eric's departure.)
- John Kreisa still is at Hortonworks, just not as marketing VP. Think instead of partnerships and projects.
- ~250 employees.
- ~70-75 subscription customers.
Our deployment and use case discussions were a little confused, because a key part of Hortonworks' strategy is to support and encourage the idea of combining use cases and workloads on a single cluster. But I did hear:
- 10ish nodes for a typical starting cluster.
- 100ish nodes for a typical "data lake" committed adoption.
- Teradata UDA (Unified Data Architecture)* customers sometimes (typically?) jumping straight to a data lake scenario.
- A few users in the 10s of 1000s of nodes. (Obviously Yahoo is one.)
- HBase used in >50% of installations.
- Hive probably even more than that.
- Hortonworks is seeing a fair amount of interest in Windows Hadoop deployments.
*By the way — Teradata seems serious about pushing the UDA as a core message.
Ecosystem notes, in Hortonworks' perception, included:
- Cloudera is obviously Hortonworks' biggest distro competitor. Next is IBM, presumably in its blue-forever installed base. MapR is barely on the radar screen; Pivotal's likely rise hasn't yet hit sales reports.
- Hortonworks evidently sees a lot of MicroStrategy and Tableau, and some Platfora and Datameer, the latter two at around the same level of interest.
- Accumulo is a big deal in the Federal government, and has gotten a few health care wins as well. Its success is all about security. (Note: That's all consistent with what I hear elsewhere.)
I also asked specifically about OpenStack. Hortonworks is a member of the OpenStack project, contributes nontrivially to Swift and other subprojects, and sees Rackspace as an important partner. But despite all that, I think strong Hadoop/OpenStack integration is something for the indefinite future.
Hortonworks' views about Hadoop 2.0 start from the premise that its goal is to support running a multitude of workloads on a single cluster. (See, for example, what I previously posted about Tez and YARN.) Timing notes for Hadoop 2.0 include:
- It's been in preview/release candidate/commercial beta mode for weeks.
- Q3 is the goal; H2 is the emphatic goal.
- Yahoo's been in production with YARN >8 months, and has no MapReduce 1 clusters left. (Yahoo has >35,000 Hadoop nodes.)
- The last months of delays have been mainly about sprucing up various APIs and protocols, which may need to serve for a similar multi-year period as Hadoop 1's have. But there also was some YARN stabilization into May.
Frankly, I think Cloudera's earlier and necessarily incremental Hadoop 2 rollout was a better choice than Hortonworks' later big bang, even though the core-mission aspect of Hadoop 2.0 is what was least ready. HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) performance, NameNode failover and so on were well worth having, and it's more than a year between Cloudera starting supporting them and when Hortonworks is offering Hadoop 2.0.
Hortonworks' approach to doing SQL-on-Hadoop can be summarized simply as "Make Hive into as good an analytic RDBMS as possible, all in open source". Key elements include: Read more
One database to rule them all?
Perhaps the single toughest question in all database technology is: Which different purposes can a single data store serve well? — or to phrase it more technically — Which different usage patterns can a single data store support efficiently? Ted Codd was on multiple sides of that issue, first suggesting that relational DBMS could do everything and then averring they could not. Mike Stonebraker too has been on multiple sides, first introducing universal DBMS attempts with Postgres and Illustra/Informix, then more recently suggesting the world needs 9 or so kinds of database technology. As for me — well, I agreed with Mike both times.
Since this is MUCH too big a subject for a single blog post, what I'll do in this one is simply race through some background material. To a first approximation, this whole discussion is mainly about data layouts — but only if we interpret that concept broadly enough to comprise:
- Every level of storage (disk, RAM, etc.).
- Indexes, aggregates and raw data alike.
To date, nobody has ever discovered a data layout that is efficient for all usage patterns. As a general rule, simpler data layouts are often faster to write, while fancier ones can boost query performance. Specific tradeoffs include, but hardly are limited to: Read more
Notes on Hadoop hardware
I talked with Cloudera yesterday about an unannounced technology, and took the opportunity to ask some non-embargoed questions as well. In particular, I requested an update to what I wrote last year about typical Hadoop hardware.
Cloudera thinks the picture now is:
- 2-socket servers, with 4- or 6-core chips.
- Increasing number of spindles, with 12 2-TB spindles being common.
- 48 gigs of RAM is most common, with 64-96 fairly frequent.
- A couple of 1GigE networking ports.
Discussion around that included:
- Enterprises had been running out of storage space; hence the increased amount of storage.
- Even more storage can be stuffed on a node, and at times is. But at a certain point there's so much data on a node that recovery from node failure is too forbidding.
- There are some experiments with 10 GigE.
|Categories: Cloudera, Data warehouse appliances, Hadoop, MapR, Solid-state memory, Storage
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Notes on analytic hardware
I took the opportunity of Teradata's Aster/Hadoop appliance announcement to catch up with Teradata hardware chief Carson Schmidt. I love talking with Carson, about both general design philosophy and his views on specific hardware component technologies.
From a hardware-requirements standpoint, Carson seems to view Aster and Hadoop as more similar to each other than either is to, say, a Teradata Active Data Warehouse. In particular, for Aster and Hadoop:
- I/O is more sequential.
- The CPU:I/O ratio is higher.
- Uptime is a little less crucial.
The most obvious implication is differences in the choice of parts, and of their ratio. Also, in the new Aster/Hadoop appliance, Carson is content to skate by with RAID 5 rather than RAID 1.
I think Carson's views about flash memory can be reasonably summarized as: Read more
|Categories: Aster Data, Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Hadoop, Solid-state memory, Storage, Teradata
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Notes on the Oracle OpenWorld Sunday keynote
I'm not at Oracle OpenWorld, but as usual that won't keep me from commenting. My bottom line on the first night's announcements is:
- At many large enterprises, Oracle has a lock on much of their IT efforts. (But not necessarily in the internet or investigative analytics areas.) Tonight's announcements serve to strengthen that.
- Tonight's announcements do little to help Oracle in other market segments.
In particular:
1. At the highest level, my view of Oracle's strategy is the same as it's been for several years:
Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Solution teaches us that Oracle should focus on selling a thick stack of technology to its highest-end customers, and that's exactly what Oracle does focus on.
2. Tonight's news is closely in line with what Oracle's Juan Loaiza told me three years ago, especially:
- Oracle thinks flash memory is the most important hardware technology of the decade, one that could lead to Oracle being "bumped off" if they don't get it right.
- Juan believes the "bulk" of Oracle's business will move over to Exadata-like technology over the next 5-10 years. Numbers-wise, this seems to be based more on Exadata being a platform for consolidating an enterprise's many Oracle databases than it is on Exadata running a few Especially Big Honking Database management tasks.
3. Oracle is confusing people with its comments on multi-tenancy. I suspect:
- What Oracle is talking about when it says "multi-tenancy" is more like consolidation than true multi-tenancy.
- Probably there are a couple of true multi-tenancy features as well.
4. SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors don't want to use Oracle, because they don't want to pay for it.* This limits the potential impact of Oracle's true multi-tenancy features. Even so: Read more
|Categories: Business intelligence, Cloud computing, Columnar database management, Data warehouse appliances, Data warehousing, Exadata, Memory-centric data management, Oracle, Software as a Service (SaaS), Solid-state memory, Storage
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UWEC Women's Rugby
What has been your favorite course?
My favorite course was Evolutionary Geology of the Andes taken during the TIES program in Mendoza, Argentina. I took part in the TIES program during the spring of 2011,where I was able to spend four exciting months in Mendoza, Argentina along with three professors from UWEC for a different, more hands on approach to learning.
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The Walking Dead Review: Another Two Bite The Dustby Sean McKenna at . Comments
If you thought Sophia's demise and Dale's gut-ripping demise would be the only deaths to take place on The Walking Dead, you clearly didn't heed T-Dog's favorite saying: "Aw, hell no!"
"Better Angels" appeared to be the calm before the eventual season finale storm, but it still garnered some huge game changing moments for Rick and the group, while giving us an idea of where the show is headed (yes, they might finally leave the farm.)
Dealing with Randall has been a significant debate, although for the most part the group has seemed pretty consistent in killing him. Or just following the leader, Rick.
And after the last Walking Dead episode Rick changed his mind and decided to go back to simply just dropping him off some odd miles out from the farm. Good idea? We'll never know because, in the end, Shane had a huge dose of crazy pills and took matters into his own hands.
To be honest, I almost wished that Shane had actually decided to go with Randall. It would have been an interesting turn of events that, down the road, might have led to bigger problems and a more emotional pull when he met back up with Rick and company in confrontation. I actually believed Shane when he suggested it.
Yet crazy Shane decided to break Randall's neck and just get it over with. He's such a nice guy.
I'm a little disappointed that Randall didn't get a lot of time to have his character explored. He was either getting beat up or pleading for his life. He may have had moments that could have been called into question, but we'll never know if he was really as bad as his associates.
Still, his death did reveal that you don't have to be bitten to turn into a walker. You just simply have to die.
Well... that changes everything, doesn't it? Was that the whispered secret Dr. Jenner told Rick at the end of season one?
I'm not so sure because when it came to Shane returning as a walker, he didn't seem to realize. Or maybe he was too distraught from killing his best friend to think about anything else. After all, despite Shane trying to murder him, there was still a brotherly relationship between them. And Rick has a harder time just pointing and shooting those closest to him.
Oh, that's right, Shane also bit the dust in a final showdown with his close friend. The confrontation was inevitable and as much as I uttered the same question about Shane agreeing to follow Rick and work with him again, it makes sense that Shane was so blinded by his desires that his survival of life got in the way of any sense of morality.
The ominous setting against the full moon was a great visual shot as the two men silhouetted against the backdrop. I felt bad for Rick being essentially forced into stabbing Shane. You could tell that he didn't want to, but he knew that there was no way out. Andrew Lincoln really brought out a raw emotion and distress in dealing with the situation. It's not often we see this quiet man break his feelings wall.
But was Carl actually pointing his gun at Rick? Was he confused? And why was no one watching him again?
Either way, he saved his broken father from the snarling walking dead that was Shane. A shot right to the head. So, Carl gets himself in numerous amounts of trouble but he turns out to be a good shot.
That particular moment is probably going to change Rick and Carl in a dramatic way. Hope seems to be fading into the show's background.
And whether it's a cheap plot device in getting a ton of zombies back onto the show, Carl's shot is going to lead a horde of them right to the farm. I know I've missed that sense of danger by having the safety of the farm, so even if it seems like an easy way to overrun the farm, especially when the walkers have been obviously absent for the most part from the location, I welcome it.
The show's dynamic is going to change, the character's are going to change, and the location is going to change. The movement of the show is picking itself back up and I love that we're finally progressing again. Tension and drama are high, walker threats are looking to be everywhere, and T-Dog finally got some more lines. Even if the episode was a bit slow in the beginning, and certain actions may have seemed a bit quick to push the plot forward, the final moments rolled so quickly and solidly that I can only imagine where the final episode of the season will place everything.
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Will someone step in to fill Shane's aggressive and antagonistic shoes? Will another character meet their untimely death? How can Rick and Carl recover from such a dramatic moment and will it end up bringing them closer together? Are you happy or upset with Shane and Randall's deaths? And what does it mean that you don't have to be bitten to turn into a walker?
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A list of reasons why Lori need's to be killed off.. because I hate this b**** so much. 1) She's a hypocrite.
2) She's a whore
3) She's an instigator -> Sending Shane over the edge with the "sorry speech"
4) She can't keep watch over her son, Carl. Her only goddamn important job.
5) She got in a car accident. Even when there's no other drivers on the road.
6) She's selfish. Sending my man Glenn for her damn ABORTION PILLS
7) She contributes nothing to the group besides unwanted drama
8) Oh and did I mention... SHES A HYPOCRTICAL POS
The writing is awful. The accents are horrible. I can't make out what they are saying because of the background noise. Shane has wet blood under his nose for hours??
I think shanes acting in walking dead was better than everybodys so the creators of walking dead show will expect the decrease in viewers due to that foolish choice in killing his character you dont always have to stick to the same story change is better but not without shane.Im very disappointed in amc and the creators for not thinking about the fans
This isn't much of a review, closer to a scant summary. I'm a big fan of the show, as I was introduced to the idea by AMC. Subsequently, I've read the comic that inspired the series, and, I have to say that the casting is absolutely racist in regards to the original characters. First off, Shane dies almost immediately. Carl is his killer, in the same situation depicted on AMC. Before the party arrives at the farm, they meet Tyrese who is with his daughter and her boyfriend. The family is black and the boy is white. There is no T-Dog in the comics. In the comics, Tyrese's role is the second-hand help of the group. He is essential to the their survival just as much as Shane was in the TV series, or Rick, saving his life even. There is no Tyrese in the TV series. There is only T-Dog, who, accomplishes all of bitching, fucking up, getting wounded, running away, and accruing little to no kills; the only black character in the show, besides the father and son from the beginning. Very tasteless, AMC. I'll keep my hopes up that, maybe, Tyrese will appear in season three.
@mar Lori did mention taking out two walkers to Andrea. Then Andrea pointed out that if she hadn't run off like a hothead after Rick and wrecked the car it never would have happened. It was an interesting argument about gender roles - Lori thinks the women's work should be confined to the house with men protecting them. Andrea basically gave her the finger. It's obvious you can get turned into a zombies by more than a bite. Of course; how did so many people get infected in the first place? Those left have some natural level of immunity to the initial plague which only breaks down when in a weakened state (death, bites, etc.) What I'm wondering is why NO ONE is getting infected through other means, like having zombie blood splattered on them during kills or suffering other traumas (broken bones, scrapes, colds/flu/viruses). That's inconsistent (even in the comic series).
Shane and and Daryl are/were the most interesting characters in the whole series. With Shane gone (no matter how crazy he is) there is nothing to see in this show now. Yes, he was a nutter, but it is only a show - entertainment - and he made it interesting. Now what? Without him, this Lori is useless as a character. She needs to go too. The whole intrigue is gone now. New people needed, new show.
I enjoyed the 1st season. The 2nd is a psychological character development that could have very well played out in a remote isolated island, or some African jungle. I do have one question: if you get attacked by the walkers and they chewed you up to pieces, how on earth can your body come back to life if you have no veins, tendons, or muscle left? To give you an idea of how disliked this show was, I found Downton Abbey far more fun, suspenseful, and enjoyable to watch - but then again only the British know how to make a low budget tv show entertaining.
Pardon if anyone has mentioned this ... I thought more highly of Lori because she has never once mentioned taking out two walkers on her own when she went on the wild-goose-chase ride into town. A drama queen would have. The only one who would know what she did is Shane, who saw the terminated walkers -- and she never said a word to him about them, either. To me, that indicates that Lori is made of strong stuff. She's a sort of Scarlett O'Hara -- she can be unlikeable, but she's no shrinking violet and she will do what it takes to live.
I really hope Carl & Lori get killed off soon because they are putting the group at risk. Carl needs his ass whooped for following everywhere the his dad goes even at night alone.
To my assumption everyone (or just about most people) have the virus already in them, the virus itself does not kill you, but brings you back as a zombie once you die. With this in mind if someone got bit or scratched by a walker i would assume it would spread an incredibly deadly infection that no one knows how to cure yet; (It causes fever hallucinations flu like symptoms just like the guy they left on the road from season 1). That would make sense as the infection from the zombie bite would kill you then the actual zombie virus would take over and bring you back as the walking dead. As for how the virus spreads im not really sure, i cant really say its airborne because there have been a lot of people who died without comming back, all the people on the highway, the people at the hospital in season 1, so it must be very contagious but not 100% that everyone has it.


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Quilters seem to have mixed feelings about binding. For some, it is a relaxing, pleasurable last step in completing a quilt, perhaps providing time to reflect on the person to whom the quilt is being given or how it will be used in the home for years to come. Others may find it a bothersome, time-consuming task keeping them from the next exciting quilt project.
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The left-hander went 3-1 with a 4.67 earned run average over 11 games, including a pair of starts, after being claimed off waivers by New York from Cleveland last May.
Huff owns a 21-27 record with a 5.32 ERA over 69 appearances (54 starts) in the majors, most of which came with the Indians.
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